Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-04
OHIO REPUBLICANS.
Program of the Convention to Meet
at Columbus Tomorrow.

at COLUMBUS tomorrow.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star
COLUMBUS Ohio, June 4.-The program
of the republican state convention this
week is arranged to cover two days The
work will probably be concluded in that
time. The delegates will meet by congress
sional districts. in rooms in the state capitol
building, at p. m. tomorrow. Each dele
cation will then select one delegate to be
a member of the credentials committee one
for the permanent organization committee,
one for the committee on rules and order of
business, one for the committee on resolu-
tions and one to be a member of the state
central committee. At p. m. the conven-
ton will meet as one body in the Grand
Opera House. when the selections made in
the congressional delegatio meetings will
be announced, the set speeches by Col. J.
G. Bonner OF Toledo, chairman of the state
central committee, and Hon. Bellamy Stor-
er Of Cincinnati, temporary chairman of the
convention, made, and adjournment taken
until 10 o'clock on Wednesday. The COM
mittees will meet to organize and trans
act their business in the evening
and prepare their reports including
that of the resolutions committee, for pre-
sentation the next day. This will shut off
the presentation of undesirable resolutions
In the convention and their discussion up
on the floor. The platform will undoubt-
edly indorse the platform adopted by the
party in national convention at Minneapo-
lis, commend specially the Mckinley tar
If law, denounce the present national ad-
ministration and lay upon its shoulders the
blame for the industrial and commercial
depression now suffered, and commend the
administration of Gov. Mckinley. Possibly
clause indorsing the work of the legis-
lature which has just adjourned may be
inserted. but Ii is more likely that the leg
islature will be passed over in silence. Such
a plank would not look we'll published side
by side with severe criticisms made upon
the work of the legislature by many of the
leading republican newspapers in the state
recently.
j. f. Broaden of Greenville has been Sc
lected as temporary secretary of the con-
vention. and he has selected the following
assistants: Harry Miner Columbus; l.. r.
Davis. Piqua; John r. Malloy, Columbus;
Harry S. Griffith, Mt. Gilead Marcus Shoup
Xenia; Il. Il. Moore, Bowling Green, and w.
F. Penn, Rockford. II. II. Williams of
Crbana Will be the sergeant-at-arms.
1t is now certainty that Secretary of
State S. NJ. Taylor will be nominated by the
convention for second term; that Col. c.
Z. Grace will be nominated again for men,
ber of the board of public works. and that
mon schools will go to the present incum-
bent. Prof. o. 7. Corson. For the fourth
and remaining place on the ticket the
fight has now become a triangular one.
Judge John A. Shouck of Dayton, a member
of the circuit court bench for several years
is now a candidate for supreme judge, and
with Judge f. J. Dickman, the present in
cumbent. and Judge j. l.. Price of Bellefon-
taine, also after that nomination, the con-
test promises to be an interesting one-the
only interesting feature of the convention
no doubt. The advent of Judge Shouck, IL
Dickman's chances for the nomination as
1t will divide the opposition to him.