The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-29
HE IS FORAKER'S MAN
Bushnell Got Away With the Glory in
the Ohio State Convention.
SHERMAN'S TALK ON SILVER
He Tells His Party What's What
and Makes a Suggestion Under
Which Silver Couldn't Get
a Ghost of a Show.

lican state convention was called TO
order here to-day by Col. Joseph c.
Bonner, chairman of the state commit
tee. A half hour previous the hall was
packed to its full capacity. Senator
Sherman was given a stirring ovation
when he was escorted into the hall.
Among the working delegates were
Herman G. Dennison, son of the war
governor, and Harry Garfield, son Of
the murdered president. While Chair
man Bonner, who is member of Nc
Kinley's staff, was congratulating the
republicans on the result of the last
Ohio election and forecasting another
triumph for next November in his in
troductory speech, Ex-Governor Fora
ker entered the hall and a very bois-
| ferrous demonstration followed his ap-
| pearance.
After Chairman Bonner had made
| repeated efforts to secure order and
proceed with his Introductory re-
marks, Ex-Governor Foraker came to
the front of the platform and said
| Gentlemen of the Convention: I hope
you will not any longer disturb the de-
Iberations of the convention. There
will be time for us all to be heard be-
fore we leave GAINESVILLE. 1t is a good
| town to stay over night in and we will
| stay just as long as our business may
require. At the proper time, when that
| viii be in order, l will be very glad in
deed to exchange greetings with you.
but l beg for the present that you will
let the chairman proceed with his
| speech in order to expedite the busi-
ness of the convention"
Even after this appeal it was with
great difficulty that Colonel Bonner
concluded his remarks and introduced
Senator John Sherman as the tempo
rary chairman. Senator Sherman met
the demonstrations at first with the
remark that he hoped to see the repub-
licans of Ohio keep up such a pitch of
enthusiasm until the next November
election. The senator soon commanded
the closest attention and spoke as fol-
lows:
He said: Gentlemen of the Conven-
ton: l thank you for the honor you
have conferred upon me in selecting me
to preside over this great convention.
You have met to designate the next
governor of the state. You have a
good many candidates before you, but
each of them is worthy of the highest
honor you can confer. You have the
assurance that whoever you man NOM
mate will have the hearty support of
all the candidates and of each member
of the convention. You have also to
select several of the chief executive
officers of this state.
Il need not impress upon you the
Importance of selecting those who will
honestly and faithfully perform the du-
ties entrusted to them. You have a
still higher duty-to announce the prin-
ciples and policy of the republican par
ty in the state of Ohio and in the
United States. What you will say here
will have an important influence be-
yond the limits of your state, for the
intelligent action of the republicans of
Ohio will, as in the past, indicate the
opinions of republicans in all parts of
the United States. We have a common
faith and creed. We act together on
great matters of principle, on small
matters or discipline. The primary and
fundamental sentiments of the republic
an party is love for our country, our
whole country. We are for the nation.
one and indivisible and forever.
THE republicans of Ohio are not
provincial, but national. This is our
corner stone. planted in the first re-
publican convention in Ohio in 1855 We
stood by it in the storms of war when
Lincoln was our standard bearer. Our
soldiers fought from it under Grant.
Sherman and Sheridan. The soldiers
of Ohio carried our flag in every great
battle of the war for the preservation
of the union. Other patriotic citizens
and soldiers were equally deserving of
honor and praise. but they could not
carry their party with them. When !
Grant was in the Wilderness and Sher- !
man was before Atlanta, a great party !
declared the war a failure. Ours made ,
1t a success.
when the war was over we did not /
treat our enemies as conquered subjects /
but as erring brothers. We invited /
them back into the union with unabat- /
ed powers, prescribing only one condi- 1
tion-that there should be no slaves in
our country. We now meet them and
greet them as friends, and, turning
our backs on dead issues. we congratu-
late them on their prosperity. which /
they did not and could not have i'm
their condition prior to the war. When
the war was over the republican party
developed its civil policy. First of ali
it declared its purpose TO pay every
debt or obligation contracted during
or since the war. that the public faith
should be unblemished. This promise
has been performed. In spite of temp
ation and shrieks Of populists, we have
every obligation contracted
during the war, and especially the
highest and most sacred debt to the
soldiers Of the war. their
widows and orphans. The pension roll
IS a roll of honor. much higher in
amount than any pension roll before
provided by any nation. While the re-
publican party is in power it will only
be diminished by the death of the pen
sioners. a fate that awaits US all.
We are in favor OF the protective
tariff. While 1t was in force we had
good times and money
plenty. We had so diversified our do
nestle industries that American labor
and American capital supplied nearly
all the wants Of the American people I