The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-20
BRYCE WAS MADE NERVOUS.
ORATOR CLARK SCORES THE MIL
 LIOsAIRE SENATOR OF OHfo.

ORATOR CLARK SCORES THE MIL
 LI0SAIRE SENATOR OF OHI0. All Through it tho Senator Sat In Full View of the Audience at the Democratic Cony ntion Nsrvousiy Chewing a.Tooth- pick-A Silver Plank Put in the Plat form.
 Columbus, O.. Sept. 1s.-The demo- cratic state convention met this morn lnK at io:sO. Just before the convention was called to order Congressman Thom- as L. Johnson. the leader of the Briee opposition. marched In with the Second district delegation and was given an ovation. A moment later Senator Brice appeared in company with Chairman c. D. Critics and stepped slowly across the tage. His reception was rather cool, he applause being light and largely confined to the galleries.
 Chairman Critics dispensed with well coming speech and after prayer had oeen offered by Rev. s. P. Long, Hon. Frank H. Hurd was introduced as tenn porary chairman and received a rous- Ing welcome. He spoke for full hour. When he had concluded the platform was read.
 It expresses hearty commendation of the efficient, economic and honest ad- ministration of President Cleveland. It adheres to the declarations of the dem- ocratic party in It's national platform that protection is a fraud and recog- nizes the beneficial reductions of duties on imports just made by congress.
 The platform dissents from the pres ident's views, construction and treat ment of the silver question, and be- lieves that silver should be restored to the position it occupied as money prior to the demonetization by the republican party, and to that end 1t favors the un- limited free coinage of silver at the le- gal ratio of 16 to 1. with the legal ten der power.
 The following nominations were made Secretary of state, Milton Turner of Guernsey; supreme judge, James D. Ermstone of Hamilton; state school commissioner, James A. Leech of Franklin; member board Of ~public works, Henry B. Keller of Tuscarawas.
 J. H. Clark of Youngstown, one of the best orators of the party, said:
 (Which one of you looks upon the United States senate as displaying the bsst intelligence and manifestly the greatest patriotisma Nobody When senator of the United States is elected, the question is no longer what are his talents, what service has he done the state but how much is he worth"
 Pandemonium broke out when the speaker had gotten thus far. The ma jority of the delegates and spectators cheered themselves hoarse, while others missed.
 The speaker tried to raise his voice above the tumult and finally succeeding he continued:
 "In this republic should the length of a mans head be measured by the length of his purse? No, this question rises above man and above party. It Is a question of country. You all know that the senate of the United States has become a mere rich mans club. It is the resting place of trusts and combines to defeat the rights of the people. Great cheering) All of you know that in the senate of the United States the sugar trust has raised its hydra head and in the name of the community of trusts has seized the national democracy by the throat and compelled it to stand and deliver"
 Here the pandsmonium broke out afresh. There were cheers, misses, shouts of "rats," Ego on," "sit down." Twenty points of order were raised and on every one the chair ruled that the speaker was within his rights But the minority kept up its demonstration and finally MT. Clark resumed his seat.
 Meanwhile Senator Brice, his face flushed, sat in full view of the audi ence, now nervously chewing tooth- pick. again and again running his left hand through his long hair. It was ap- parent that he had not expected the opposition would fire such fusilade but that he did not propose to retreat while under attack.
 Jesse M. Lewis of Urbane appealed to the convention not to be led away by emotional insanity and was met with howls of derision.
 Wont you defer judgment for a year7" he asked, but the answer came in 8 mighty shout of "no" S.a
 Then General Finlay of Bucyrus, chairman of the committee on resoIu- tions, secured the floor to dramatically declare that the resolution was an in- direct slap in the face of the man and all men who in the senate of the United States had made tariff reform possi- biiity and who had stood between the people and the Mckinley law. The reso- lution, he said, was an insult to the democracy of Ohio.