Birmingham age-herald., 1894-09-20
BRYCE VICTORIOUS. The State Convention at Colum-
 bus, O., Hot One. BURNING WORDS OF ABUSE Heaped Upon the Junior Sem
 ator to no Effect-The -e State Ticket.

COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 19.-By large majority the democracy of Ohio, in state convention assembled, today reversed the pronunciamentos of all previous state as well as national gatherings of the party in declaring unequivocally in favor of the free coinage of silver, and by vote almost as large indorsement was given through the medium of an indirect resolution to the attitude taken by Senator Calvin Brce in the recent tariff reform contest. The de- bate on these two issues occupied nearly four hours of the continuous session. h twelve minutes more the entire ticket had been nominated and the convention had adjourned sine die.
 Possibly no more dramatic scene has ever been witnessed in any state or national convention than that which occurred dur Ing the debate on the amendment to the platform providing for the future nomina- Lions of United States senators by vote of the state conventions. Up to the call of the convention today it had been understood by all but few of the uninitiated that the opposition to Senator Brics had been aban doned and that the majority report of the committee on resolutions would be allowed to go through without amendment or pro- test. This much, at least, was the under standing of the senator and his immediate a and the bearing of victor that Mir. Brice entered the wings and allowed himself to be escorted by Chairman Crites to a seat on the right of the chair and in full view of the audience.
 His appearance was recognized with a faint cheer and the convention having been called to order, everything went as merrily as marriage bell until the report of the committee on resolutions had been pre- sented. Then the storm clouds begun to fr0f hnr md hn r1nRn <xf fAA It., seemed to bring the form of the junior senator into bold relief. From his seat in the second row of the parquet Congressman Tom l.. Johnson arose aud, ignoring the vociferous demands that he should take the stage, submitted the minority resolu- tions instructing the incoming state com mittee to include in the business of the next convention the nomination of a United States senator.
 This was the formal announcement of hostillties. All eyes seemed to turn in- stinctively toward the junior senator. For moment his face flushed and he chewed nervously at the tooth pick between his teeth. Then he strengthened himself up and his demeanor indicated self possession and the utmost determination and resolu- tion. The representative from the Cleve- land district, however, had little to say in addition to the formal presentation of the minority report save the suggestion that election of senators by the people would briug the constituents and their represent atives in the upper house more closely to- gether, and that this was a consummation necessary and very much to be desired.
 It was the seconding speech of John H. Clark of Youngstown, one of the best ora tors In the state and an opponent of the Brice regime, that sent the excitement up to the fever notch. Standing beneath the platform, his silvery hair shining in the glare of the footlignts, with outstretched arm and with index finger quivering, hurl- ing lnvective after invectiye, while less than 10 feet away, with face pale and ex- and denunciation, the scene was we'll worthy the brush and canvas of the painter.
 "Who has claim on the United States senate for life?' he demanded, and the audience shouted in response "No one.'
 "No longer it is the question ;, contin- ued the speaker in impassioned tones, ''when senator is to be elected, what are ms lalents-what service has he done the state? The only issue is, how much is he WorthY In this republic is mans head to be measured by his le ngth of purse7 Is it not time that this question should arise aoove men and above party? Do you not know that the United States senate has be- come rich mans club; that it is the rest ing place of trusts and understandings and combines; that in it the sugar trust has ralsed its hydra head, and, in the name of a=communily of trusts, has seized the democracy by the throat and compelled it to stand and deliver?''
 .MAnd so to the accompaniment of cheers, plsses, cat-calls, yells and approbrious eplthets, the impassoned orator went on, protected time and again by the chairman, until he had concluded of his own free will.
 Meanwhile Senator Brice sat immovable. The accuser was quivering, the accused might be likened to block of marble. No direct reference to him had been made up to this