The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-21
OHIO DEMOCRATS.
BRICE is MAKING THE BIG FIGHT
OF, HIS LIFE.
Convention That Meets Today Will
See a. Hot and a Bitter Contest
Carrying Things High Handed.

SPRINGFIELD, o., Aug. 20.-The
district and other preliminary meet
ings of the Democratic state conven-
ton were held here today preparatory
to the assembling Of the convention at
10 am. tomorrow.
Senator Brice is making the fight of
his life for a platform in harmony with
the views of President Cleveland. He
is not taking an aggressive part in the
fight over the nominations but is inter-
ested in organizing so as to control the
committees on credentials and reso-
buttons. He is believed to have ma
jority of the SOS delegates, but the tree
silver men claim 304 delegates, or
enough to make trouble if no conces-
sion is made them.
Today Senator Brice, ex-governor
Campbell and other deaders d1ned Win
John H. Thomas, and 1t IS unoerslooo
a compromise was outlined.
Senator Brice is temporary chairman
of the convention, and his speech is
sure to be for "honest money" I'M
mediately after its delivery tomorrow
reports from the committee on Gre
dentials will be received. The major
itv is for the seating of contestlng
Brfce men, the minority for seating the
free silver contestants.
Most of the day was spent by lhe
workers from each district IN the Sc
lection of members for the various
committees which are usually selected
the day preceding the meetlng oL ens
convention. The various clubs marched
to and from the different district
headquarters getting things in shape
for tomorrow's session.
This afternoon Senator Brice, ex-
Governor Campbell and other leaders
responded to calls for speeches as the
clubs paraded by the La Conda notei.
AT that time General Asa 5. Bushnell,
the Republican candidate, happened to
be calling on Brice, Campbell and
others. and he also responded, Welcom-
ing his political opponents to the city.
The silver men held meetings again
today to secure endorsements Tor tnelr
resolution, but while they were making
speeches the Brice men secured the
organization of the convention, carry
ing sixteen of the twenty-one districts
in the selection of members of the var
ious committees. - The committee on
resolutions is composed of business
men like President Ingalls, of the Big
Four. ex-CongresSmen MCMAHON,
Hurd, Vance and Achauer
The Brice men also secured a ma
iority of the state central committee,
which holds over till after the selec-
ton of presidential delegates next
year.
When the committee on resolutions
met tonight, ex-Congressman Frank
Hurd, who is as radical for gold
standard as for free trade, was made
chairman and it was found that j. S..
Lewis, Of the Eighth, A. w. Patrick,
of the Seventeenth and e. j. Blandin,
of the Twenty-first districts were the
only free silver men on that COM
mittee of twenty-one members. The
other committees were strongly Brice
organizations The strongest showing
! of opposition on any of them was
sixteen for Brice and the federal adj
ministration, to five for the opposi-
ton, including the free silver men
and other elements. The committee on
resolutions appointed a subcommittee
| of five to draw up a platform on
which the opposition was given a
representation and which was instruct
ed to reaffirm the national financial
plank of 1892, which Senator Brice
says the president and Secretary
Carlisle had interpreted to mean a
gold standard. It was also instructed
! to endorse the tariff bill passed by the
last Congress and the national ad-
ministration and the record Of Sen
ator Brice. Strong speeches were
made for the resolutions of the free
silver men, but it was not incorporat-
| ed in the instructions to the trainers
of the platform. 1t will be in
corporated in the minority report of
Blandin, Lewis and Patrick, and it is
| thought that the vote will be 500 for
the majority report and 200 for
the minority report. The plat
form will arraign Governor Nc
Kinleys state administration severely
and point to the revival of bust
ness as the. effect of Democratic
RUE ana o legislation and to the depres-
! vlous Republican legislation.
The Republican legislators were severely
arraigned on charges of extravaganza and
restrictive legislation. The Brice men
controlled the committees, but did moi
exercise their power in unseating oppo-
nents in the committee on credentials
! They made Senator Brice permanent as
well as temporary chairman of the con.
| vention and continued the temporary or
ganization throughout. So far as the
ticket is concerned the talk tonight is fol
nothing but the old tickets of 1883 and 1891
! which means Campbell for governor and
Marquis for lieutenant governor. and il
| IS undecstood tonight that Ex-Governor
| Campbell has been assured of such fiuan.
cial and other support as to secure his
acceptance.
At midnight the committee on creden.
tails by a vote of Is to 5, with three alb
sentees, unseated what is called the regu
lar Cuyahoga county delegation and
seated the Brice delegates, who were Sc
lected by what is known as the boiling
or rump convention at Cleveland last
Saturday. The so-called Cuyahoga
county delegates met to appeal to the
convention in a minority report.
In the contest in Butler county, the
Campbell delegation was seated, and
there is considerable feeling about Brice
and Campbell carrying things high
handed and about a programme having
been arranged. 1t is evident there will bt
contests in the convention on reports oil
credentials and resolutions. The sub
committee on resolutions was increased
to seven, so that the silver men had two
more representatives. This sub-commit
tee win report to the full committee a.
o'clock tomorrow morning, if it con.
cludes it's work by that time.