Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-29
WILL BE A LIVELY MEETING
Hot Fight Expe;tsl at the OH, Dam ,cratis
Convention.
No Hope In the Eiecs ipns-'rhe Cover
nor ON the Dicn.ipi Lesisla-
tWrc Question.
Special Correspondence OF The Evening Star.

cOLCMBES. ONO Angus, q, 1904. >
Everybody expects to see some OF the
hottest fights ct the comm: democratic
state convention that has ever been se.a
on similar occasioa in this state The
several factions have hal e number of
grievances on hand for some time, AMI the
present Is generally recognized as a good
time to fight them Cut. There has never
te IN time when II could be Gone with as
little danger Of loss to the party Every
thing is generally conceded to ne lost be-
yond recovery. anyhow. for this year
Alien w. Thurn IN will be there WITH his
free silver plank. which he says must 20 in
this time or he will know the reason why.
The Campbell mea will be there In force
to resist this. They will probably have the
support OF Senat Or Brice
The Cleveland men will be there. demand
ing a plank indorsing the Presidsnt in his
tariff policy. and. of course. densunciny the
aorman-Erice combination In the Senate
1t will be impossible to avert a clash D,
this point. with the party excited over 1t
as 1t nov ia. The principal fight OF the con-
vention viii be over this matter
The Brice men would. nj d..ubt, Ic salts
fed to have a plank simply iadocs.ug bo.a
the President for his 'eoura yeous'' stani
in favOi OF tariff reform and the action of
the Senate. which resulted In securing the
''c<ceiient" tarin law that vas finally Sc
cured. Erice democrat suggested to The
Star correspondent that the proper hin;
to do would be to simply Insert a PLANK
consratulating the President and Con r.ss
upon the fact that they have followed ont
the Chicago platform and securel he r."
peal OF the Mckinley law. This, he
thought would do Justice to all ami offend
no enc.
1t Is almost certain that 4 resolution viii
tective Association. similar to that inserted
In the piatfor,a Of, the democrats in In
diana and other STATES. Rut the demo-
cratic party: az we'll as the republican
party. tn Ohio. Is thoroughly honey-comSe I'd
with the A. p. A. org anization and IL win
be opposed. no doubt. Perhaps the unwIll-
ingness OF the members to show their con-
nection with 1t In pl6iic way may pre-
vent an open fight being made on 1t. but
the resolution will not have smooth slillny
Ii the democrats In state convention do
adopt an anita p. A. resolution 1t will
have damaging effect in the county ami
consre ssional elections upon their cand.-
dates. In many cases these candidates are
depending upon the A. Z. A. votes to elect
them.
Gov. Mckinley and the Lrsislnture.
Gov. Mckinley won a signal victory over
strong opposition in his party in the lesis-
lature last winter on the question of annual
or biennial sessions. The governor COM
in his annual message 10 the legislature
When the legislature met the conditions
had changed somewhat. and were not 50
favorable for the chsngesfrom the old sys-
TEN to the new one of only one session in
two years. The governor was strongly i'm
pOrtunei to withdraw his Recommendation
or, at least. not press It, This he woulI
not do. urging that the parry hal prom
tsed In the campaign lth,t they would
establish the biennial system If put In
IL a
platform.
The need of a thorough change in the
state system of taxation. and the fact that
II was about to be begun, seemed also to
be good argument in favor of having
session this. winter. Sat least. Many were
won over on this argument. and ii lookei
ior time as though the governor would
lose the proposition. but he did not. 1t n NV
looks as though he would have a hard
fight. after all, to keep the legislature away
from Columbus this winter. A strong
movement has been started at Cincinnati
to have the legislature meet this winter in
extraordinary session to devise ways and
provide means to give labor to the ureni-
ployel. 1t is generally conceded that the
coming winter Is going to be severer on
the unemployed mechanics than last winter
was. for the reason that many of them will
go into the winter with almost nothing to
live upon. People who were interested last
winter In the city organizations for the re-
lief OF the unemployed are joining in the
request for an extra session of the lesisla-
ture.
On Saturday a committee from the Asso-
citation of the Unemployed Mechanics of
Cincinnati came here to see the govern )r
In regard to this matter. They had sup
posed that a law passed two years ago ap.
plying to Cincinnati was still in effect and
would enable that city to issue bonds to
relieve the unemployed. as the city might
see lit But the corporation counsel has
held that this cannot b" done. Gov. McKin-
ley was not In the city. hut the committee
was directed to the attorney general. He
dc .lned to give opinion in tho matter
unless the governor would Guest 1t. This
the governor will probably do when he re-
turns to the city next week.
Pressure for a session of the general as
semby this winter Is also coming from an
other direction. The state finances are
running low. and are likely to get into such
condition before 1896 as to make 1t pinch
pretty hard. When n large number of the
state institutions get out of the stuff that
moves the wheels the cry is likely to go up
that cannot well be ignored by the powers
that be.
FORGOT Labor Dny.
Gov. Mckinley came very near offending
the union labor men of the state in the
matter of issuing the usual labor day proc
lamation. 1t is quite evident that the gov
ernor forgot it. but that is not admitted.
The time was getting short, and the COM
mittee on arrangements for Labor day cell
ebration here heard that the governor had
gone to Pennsylvania to be gone a week
or ten days. So they sent a committee to
wait upon the governor. to find out whether
he intended to issce proclamation or not
They happened to call on a day when the
governors private secretary vas away
also. and so got little satisfaction. Private
Secretary Boyle returned the next day.
however. and saw that Immediate action
was urgent. and at once issued a proclama-
ton; and 1t Is said to be about as good a
proclamation as the governor could have
issued himself. The governor is still in
Pennsylvania.
Suits for Flooded Land.
A scandal of no small proportions. arising
out of the closing work of the last session
of the legislature. has just come to light.
On last Wednesday Attorney General
Richards was ctifed that three suits for
damages had been brought against the state
in the Auglaize county courts. under a spe-
cial act of last winter. This turned atten-
ton for the first time to the act cited. 1t
was found to have been rushed through on
the last day of the session Is a local meas
ure. 1t. in fact. gave three men power to
sue the state In that county to secure al
legged damages for the overflow of their
land by water from the Mercer reservoir.
The act provides that the finding of this