The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-30
TWAS TAME.
SECOND DAY AT THE OHIO RE-
PUBLICAN CONVENTION.
McKinIey's Presidential Boom in
Ohio Seems 10 Have Been Caught
in the Late Cold Snap.

GAINESVILLE, O., May 29.-The Republi-
can state convention was as tame to-
day as it was lively yesterday. After
being in session until midnight and
nominating the head of the ticket,
there was little life left in the dele
gates and only minor places on the
state ticket to be lively over.
Owing to the way in which the fac
tional lines had been drawn by the
Mckinley and the Foraker men in
nominating General Bushnell last
might for governor, it was evident the
slate, headed by Bushnell, would go
through and that candidates not on
the same slate would go down like
Nash, Hoyt, Poe, Kiefer, Harris, Bar
ger and Nevin had previously gone
down before the anti-administratio
combination. The administration men
did not surrender without a fight,
however. and held the convention IN
continuous session from a. nl., to 2:15
p. m. With a single exception, in
which little interest was taken, the
Bushnell slate went through complete,
for the eight places on the state
ticket secured a. majority of the men,
bers and all the officers of the state
committee and really made a clean
sweep of the old regime. Yet the most
material thing for the future is the
condition of things which confronts
Mckinley. His presidential boom in
Ohio is in the same embarrassment as
was Sherman'S candidacy under the
Foster administration, with Garfield's
senatorial annex in 1880. In 1884 Sher-
man had the Blaine element as well
as Foraker and Foster to-. contend
with. In 1888 Sherman had the same
be a Mckinley delegation from Ohio
to the Republican national convention.
but it will be selected by Foraker and
Bushnell. no matter what may be the
result of the state election next No
vember. The Foraker-Bushnell COM
bination has control of all the party
machinery and the present party or
ganization continues until after the
selection of the delegates to the next
Republican national convention. For
aker and Bushnell will be two of the
elegates-at-large themselves, and they
are not at all likely to grant Governor
Mckinley permission to name the other
two, although it is believed they will
consent to Sherman and Foster going
to the national convention as the
other delegateS-at-large OF course,
the machine in such strong hands will
control the selection of district dele
gates and there are some who think
Foraker may come out of it in 1896
as Garfield did in 1880, which would
mean that Mckinley would come out
as Sherman did at that time and in
succeeding years. If the Republicans
carry the state next November and
Bushnell becomes governor and For
alzer senator, there is no telling all
that will happen in Ohio in 1896 and
thereafter. Should Bushnell serve
four years as governor he would prob
ably succeed Sherman in the Senate
as well as Foraker succeed Brice, and
the old school of Republicans would be
retired. There never was a state con-
vention in Ohio that involved so many
radical changes for the future as the
one just closed with the Foraker
Bushnell men in the saddles for fur
ther conqueSts.