The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-06-19
M'KINLE1 is THE MAN
WHO WILL BE NOMINATED FOR
GOVERNOR OF OHIO.

Great Enthusiasm Manifest ed at tn,
First Days Session-Foraker Booming
for the senatorship.
COLUMBUS, o., June 1.-THE most i'm
portant campaign in the history of Ohio
politics opened yesterday when the gavel
fell op one of the largest and most enthu-
siastH Republican state conventions the
Buckeye commonwealth has ever known.
The Importance of the result of this cam
paign, not only to the state but to Ae ma
tion, is fully realized by the typical "Ohio
man" to-day, and all the artifices and de-
vices known to modern politics will
doubtless be exerted by both parties to
win favorable verdict from the people in
November next.
The Grand opera house was fittingly
decorated for this great assembage. The
national colors were conspicuous every
where about the stage and large picture
OF Mckinley was supended in an oxydized
silver frame over the stage just above the
chairman's place. In order to make the
occasion one to give full vent to party ex-
uberance as we'll as to give the party man.
ayers abundant time in which to COM
plete an aggressive party organization for
the coming campaign, it was arranged that
the convention should occupy two days.
Tho Nomination of william Mckinley,
ex-congressman and author Of the tariff
law, to the high Office of governor. has
been fOregone conclusion for some weeks,
and made the convention which opened
with so much enthusiasm rather love
feast than contentious political gathering.
It was arranged that there should be no
disputes over the organization of the con-
vention. For some days many of his ad-
mirers have been insisting that the
eminently proper thing to do was to select
Senator John Sherman as permanent
chairman of the convention. Right here
the first serious dispute arose. The am
bition of Ex-Governor Foraker to succeed
Sherman in the United States senate should |
the next legislature be Republican is well |
known, and the Foraker men maintained |
that it would not be complying with the
conditions of neutrality or implied arm
istice to show this preference to Senator
Sherman. 1t all depended upon the action
of the committee on organizationI and it
seemed likely that that body woNld select
Senator Sherman i'll spite Of the mutter-
ngs until the name of
Gen. Asa s. BUSHNELL I
was suddenly suggested by the Foraker
men as a compromise. Senator Sherman,
however, asked his friends not to press his
name for the permanent chairmanship,
and as result the honor was unanimously
conferred upon Gen. Bushnell of Spring
field.
At 2:45, L. w. King, chairman of the
state central committee, called the conven-
Jon to order. In the course of brief ad-
lress he congratulated the convention on
,he success of the administration of the
'level-headed President of the United
States" on the fact that in the campaign
Just opening the Republican party in Ohio !
will have the support of the illustrious
John Sherman and of the undaunted ora
or of Ohio, J. B. Foraker. The mention
If Foraker's name provoked the most en- G
husiastic scene of the day. Delegates
ose from their seats, and. as they waived
heir hats and umbrellas and cheered i,
themselves hoarse, it was evident that the
Foraker senatorial boom
Was No Longer an Infant.
Paying a closing tribute to William Nc )
Linley, which was loudly applauded,
;hairman King introduced as the tempo +
ary presiding officer of the convention !.
Col. Bob Nevin of Dayton" who made :. :"
sngthy address. i,
After the appointment of committees =, !,
he convention adjourned till to-day. The =;
vening was devoted to receptions, music - =,
nd speech-making. The Lincoln club !,
sndered reception to Mckinley, which ~ ~
7as attended by an immense crowd, in - ~
luding the leading Republicans of the =, ~
tate. Speeches were made by Senator ~ =,
herman, Maj. Mckinley and Ex-Governor ~
oraker. T,
The committee on resolutions was in ses- ~
on until late last night drafting the y. y,
latform for the convention, but no ma =, ~
,rial progress was made. There were two -, p,
lbjects of dispute, the money question ,u' ,''
nd the tariff question, and there will w
robably be compromise on both. The ''
1thusiastic Mckinley men were in favor
{ a resolution indorsing in emphatic
rms the mckinley law" but others
lought the safer plan was to merely in ~ ~
orse the principle of protection to Ameri- AZ
an labor ~ fEf "i