The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-09-27
BRICE KISSED.
His Friends Started the Applause
in the Ohio Convention,
But His Enemies Rallied and Kisses
Were Heard All Over the Hall.
The Phtform Blames All the MS Of the
American People on the Mckinley BiI
Free Coinage Wanted-A Plea for
Free Railroad Pas Prohibition.

american feOpNe on the Mckinney Bul
Free Coinage Wanted-A Plea for
Frse Railroad Peas Prohibition.
COLUMBUS, Sept. 19-Calvin 8. Brice
was hissed when he entered the con-
vcntion hall Wednesday morning. For
the first time in the history of the
state Of Ohio senator of the United
States was publicly scorned as he ap-
peared before convention of the party
which elected him. It was a thrilling
scene, intensely dramatic. The con-
vention had not been called to order,
although the time for doing so had
passed half hour since. Nearly all
the delegates were in the hall and the
stage was filled with prominent demo-
Gratis
Tom johnson had entered ten min
utes before, and was loudly applauded
as he marched down the central aisle
to where the Cuyahoga county dele
gates were seated.
Mr.. Brice did not enter the hall
through the front door, but came onto
the stage by side entrance. The mo-
ment his familiar features appeared
from behind the wings great chorus
of Kisses rent the air. There were
few cheers and q good deal of hand
clapping, but the shrill, odious kissing
sounded loudest of all. Mr.. Brice
seemed stunned. He instantly dropped
his eyes to the floor. put his hands in
his pockets and without noticing any
one around him stalked grimly to q
seat in the center of the stage. Both
applause and kissing continued for q
minute. Mr.. Brice has not yet spoken
to anyone. He sits silently and with
downcast eyes apart from the rest. He
is evidently intensely angered.
Forty minutes after 10 o'clock Chair
man Critics of the state central com.
mittee raped for order and called for
Rev. s. P. Long, of Columbus, for
prayer, which was ended by the entire
convention joining Rev. Long in re-
peating the Lords prayer. Mr.. Brice
did not participate in this.
Mr.. Critics then introduced Hon.
Frank Hurd, the temporary chairman,
who spoke in the main as follows:
My Fellow Democrats-I congratulate you
upon assembling In state convention in the
first 1ushes Of the dawn Of new day of pros
perity to the United States. Through Red
passed until hope began to fail and despair had
seized the managers Of nearly every enterprise
In the l8nd. For more than twenty years tariff
reformers had predicted that such condition
must inevitably result from protection. Re-
striction Of the market resulted in over
production OF domestic goods. Nor
for this condition was the democratic party In
any respect responsible. Whatever disturb
ance comes through reforms must be charged
against the wrongs which make reforms neces-
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The promise Of business revival has come,
partly because the element Of uncertainty a.
to what the tariff rates would be has been re-
moved. The new law 10 not likely to be modi-
fed for some time by q general revision. II
proclaims the doom Of protection in the United
States.
Coming to the division in the party on the
tarin question, Mr.. Hurd said; First and
foremost. give credit to Grover Cleveland and
John G. Carlisle. Free wool is worth more to
tariff reform than all other provisions of the
law put together To their credit be il said, the
Ohio democratic members in the house stood
firm, every one voting for free wool When by
one word he could have defeated free wool,
more credit Is due Senator Brice than to any
other influence, or to all other influences COM
bined.
Mr.. Hurd counseled harmony and further ef-
fort to agree. The different schedules will re-
quire farther adjustment, in the interest OF
free trade. The Chicago platform declares
that protection Is unconstitutional and rob-
berry. II that declaration be true, our mission
can not be ended while o protective statue re-
mains.
Mr.. Hurd closed by saying he was opposed to
the American Protective association because
il was secret political society such societies,
organized on religious lines, are unconstitu-
tional, organizations violative of the funda-
mental law both Of the United States and Of
this state. The A. P. A. gave Gov. Mckinley
his majority Of 81, 600 and the large republican
majority in Maine We must make IL plain
that no man can be q democrat and an A. p A.
At the conclusion of Hurd's speech
the committee reports were called for.
The report of the committee on rules
and order of business was read It
contained a clause providing that every
resolution offered shall be referred to
the committee on resolutions. A dele
gate from the Fifth district objected
to that, which he heatedly exclaimed
was un-democratic. The report was
adopted, although there was loud yell
of no.
Gen. E. B. Finley. of Bucyrus,
presented the report of the commit
tee on resolutions. 1t read as fol-
lows:
!. The democracy Of Ohio in convention
mendation Of the eficient, economical and hon.
est administration Of President Cleveland.
2. We adhere to the declaration of the demo-
cratic party in its national platform that pro-
lection is fraud and while we recognize the
benefits Of the reduction OF duties on imports
just made by congress, we favor such further
reductions as can be made having in view the
revenue necessary to be raised for the support
of the government, to the end that the injus-
tice Of purely protective duties be abolished.
We congratulate the country upon the repeal
of the Mckinley tariff and the enactment OF
tarin law in its stead under the operation OF
which trade and business are reviving and the
country again becoming prosperous.
The Mckinley tarin went into operation less
than four years ago, yet in that short period
the country changed from prosperity to a con-
dition Of financial and industrial depression
unparalleled in our history as nation.
Under its operation the revenues derived
from duties on exports decreased TO q sum
insufficient TO meet the expenses of the gov
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