Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-06-17
OHIO REPUBLICANS.
GERMAN KSOlKED OUT IN THE FIRST ROUND
BY FORAKER,
Z 5. Nan IS Selected for Temporary Chairman.
ysvr Makes the Usual BuleOmbs Spe'eh.
geKlalsy Receives an 0vatsn-He
vii Be Nominated for Governor
By AeclanatOn.

-.l,rnr,, O., June 16.-The most
.-....l campaign in the history of Ohio
-.,-.., opened to-day when the gavel
I'll ar one Of the largest and most en-
..-.astic Republican State conventions
.., Buckeye commonwealth has ever
..,wn. The Importance of the result
of..is campaign not only to the State,
t.. -o the Nation, is fully realized by
-i. -vu.cal "Ohio Man" to-day, and all
., artifces and devices known to mod
s-. politics will doubtless be exerted by
t,- parties to win a favorable verdict
,-,n the people in November next.
Wrb the election of Governor Camp
... 90 the Gubernat0rial Chair TWO
wears ago the Democrats won most de-
..re victory in the Buckeye State;
,-i -na Struggle which the Republicans
t... now begun 10 redeem Ohio % their
-..r-v will oaly be eQualled by the hercu-
i,rear efforts which the Democracy of
Pho state aud Nation will exert % retain
r.0,a State of the union. 1t IS felt,
though no one knows why, that as Ohio
goes this year, so it will 90 in the PreSi-
Dental election of 1892; and it is this
feeling which, with many, amounts to
conviction that makes tO-day'S cOnven'
ton an event, as its temporary chairman
remarked. (which will make history in
this great commonwealth
The nomination of Wm. Mckinley,
congressman and author OF the tar
m law. for the high Office OF Governor
ms been a foregOne conclusion fol
some weeks and made the convention,
which opened to-day rather love
feast than one OF those contentious
uolitical gatherings, which engender
strife and ill-will so fatal TO party sue
cess. The denomination by the Demo
Gratis Of Governor Jas. L. Campbell, for
another term is also prediction safely
warranted by the signs in the political
SKY. and the chief contest for the next
f,r months will be between Mckinley
and Campbell, the candidates for the
other State officers being almost lost
from sight in the great interest which
ceuters in the leaders.
There we're three conspicuous hg-
4ra, To- tO-day'S cOnvention-Snermah'
Mckinley, and Foraker.
lt was arranged early this morning
that there should be no disputes over
The organization Of the convention. Fol
,ome DAYS many of his admirers have
5een insisting that the eminently proper
thing 10 do was 20 elect Senator JOIN
sherman as temporary chairman Of the
.onvention. Right here the first Seri
ous dispute arose. The ambition OF eN'
Governor Foraker TO succeed Sherman
I'M rbe nited States Senate, should the
next Legislature be Republican, is wei
known. and the Foraker men main
,stued that it would not be complying
with the conditions of neutrality or i'm
,,ied armistice to show this preference
:, senator sherman. IL all depended
upon the action of the committee
o1 organization to-day, and it seemed
Nfe'v that body would select Senator
Sherman. i'm spite of the mutteringS, un
tl the name OF A. :. Bushnell was sud
denly suggested by the Foraker men as
,omuromise. The Sherman men are
Matters were brought to climax by
Senator sherman asking his friends not
90 eresS his name for the permanent
CaarmanShip. This settled the dis
p.,e over the ChairmanShip, and that
honor was unanimously conferred on
Ge, Asa ). Bushnell, OF Springfield.
The Grand Opera House which ha:
-tfrrfpn npIifieoI con
Fe-,1as for years, and with whlcI
nearly every prominent citizen OF the
S'a'e Of both parties, associates re
urI>,enceS of both triumphS and de-
tats was 6ttingly decorated for tins
great aSSemblage.
d. order 10 MAKE the occasion one To
give FUN vent TO party eXhuberance as
ael rs 10 give the party managers
l5.ndant time in which 10 complete al
aggressive party organization Tor th'
coming campaign, il was arranged ma
he convention should occupy two days.
Thi, forenoon was 10 be devoted 10 the
meeting of various Congressional dele
cations and selection of new state
central committee and the committee
DO reSOlutiOnS.
The unusual spectacle OF 1000 mer
marching in line under a scorching sun
t9l ia the shade was witnessed at mid
i47. when Col. Mckinley arrived in the
c.y on a special train from Canton. He
Vas accompanied by all his old Repub
la friends and neighbOrs, and sew
--4o' the marching clubs of his section
cheering from the vaSt'crOwd at the
.. as the train rolled in and the
Nao'eonic features of Mckinley were
'cosuized by those in waiting There
We're a few cries for "a speech. q
speech" by the enthusiastic, but they
We're uugratifed Mckinley, after bow
1s right and left 10 the multitude and
S'a>piug the hands OF few old friends
.le march to TO the Neil House began.
j. VAS indeed triumphant march.