Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-05
BUCKEYE POLITICS
The Annual Convention of the Ohio
Republicans.
HEN TO Be NAMED FOR TIE OFFICES
Address by BeIIamy Storer, Stat.
ing the Issues.
THE CLAIMS OF THE PARTY

COLUMBUS. Ohio, June 5.-The delegates
today to the republican state convention
held district meetings this afternoon, trans
acting routine business. This being the off
year but little interest is manifested in
routine affairs.
. The offices to be filled and the men who
will be renominated are:
Secretary Of state. Samuel NJ Taylor;
school commissioners. o. r. Corson; member
of the board of public works, Chas E.
Groce; being from Champaign. Guernsey
and Piekaway counties in the order named.
franklin J. Dickman Of Cuyahoga. for re-
nomination as supreme Judge. has opposi-
ton in Judge John A. Shanck Of the circuit
court. residing in Dayton. and Judge John
A. Price Of Bellefontaine.
The result as to Judge is In doubt. Dick
man filled almost full term by appoint
ment, and then was elected to one term
The convention was afterward called to
order by j. c. Bonner of Toledo, who Is
chairman OF the state central committee.
On account Of the eightyone thousand plu-
rality for Governor Mckinley last fall. the
convention has $50 delegates. This Is the
fortieth annral republican convention in
Ohio.
Chairman Bonner introduced the tenn
porary chairman. Bethany Storer.
Chairman StOrer's Address.
The republican party goes before Ohio
and the whole country not In penit ance
bit in confidence and in self respect Deep
has been the distress. but profoundly as
We feel the sufferings of a great reprblic
rernorse and shame are not thought of the
republican party. To our country In this
hour of gloom republicanism can utte~
With truth Thou canst not say l lid it.
Not In vain glory or party exultation, but
in sorrow and in sympathy We can show
that our hands are Clean How is It with
the democratic party?
Not only the distinguished light of
democracy In the seventh district Of Ken
lucky, but the democratic administration
In every congressional district In the
United States Is this year C, nducting a
campaign OF contrition, begging fo- condo
nation first and reelection afterward. 1t
has done nothing to be proud Of ard 1t
cannot make tine American people forget
and forgive what 1t has done to be ashamed
Of From the moment Of Cleveland's in
auguration, when democracy stepped into
full power, there has been but one idea
In which that chaotic mass of inco npe-
tency to govern, called the administrd-
ton. has been agreed upon.
They were to make an organized raid
on everything the republicans had done or
were charged with having done. The
coinage laws we're to be modified re-
pealed; election laws were TO be repealed.
the tariff law was to be repealed because
they were republican. The countrys pros
perity was doomed because IL had been
given by the hands ana brains of republic
cars. The democracy, owned by the south,
was to be the executioner of that pros
perity
First the coinage law was repealed.
Where are those glorious days Of demo-
cratic prosperity that we're waiting to
come at the moment the Sherman law was
out Of the way? Who has seen them?
THE republican law disappeared, but the
democratic party remained. That was the
cause: that was the nightmare that has
squeezed the breath and is squeezing the
life out of the capital and labor and bust
ness of the country.
Then the republican party had been
guilty of what was generally Known as a
foreign policy Cleveland and his secrc-
tary Of State took up Hawaii where the
matter had been left by Harrison. 1t had
been the most disgraceful episode of Amer
lean diplomacy.
Then the democratic party found pros
perity, and that must be destroyed because
Ii was republican. 1t was not hard to do.
Tarff tinkering was found efflcactous.
The country has weighed the democratic
party In the balance and found Il want
ing 1t is turning to the republican party
again, saying. Come back and help me
out'-out Of disaster into prosperity, out
of idleness into work out OF starvation into
plenty, out of lawlessneSs into peace.
And not in cont triton, but in self-con-
fidence: not in shame. but in triumph, will
march back into the control of the nation
well-being that mighty army Of repGbli-
canism; that army that fights for its own
people and its own home and not against
whole world. And. as aver at the head
will march Ohio. always the leader: Ohio,
the state where republica1ism WIS born
the state of Foraker, of Sherman and of