Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-06-27
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


At the republican national convention
in st. Louis on the 18th Senator j. NJ.
Thurston, of Nebraska, was made per-
manent chairman. and Charles w.
Jones, of Minnesota, secretary. Sena-
tor Thurston made brief address. after
which the report of the committee on
credentials was adopted and the con-
vention adjourned for the day. AT a
meeting of the committee on resolu-
tons gold plank was adopted, after
which Senator'S Teller, Dubois and Can
non and Congressman Hartman an
uounccd their withdrawal from the
party.
Maine democrats in convention at
Portland nominated Edward B. Will
liams, of that city, for governor, and
elected delegates to the national con-
vention on a gold standard platform.
The democrats of the Fifth congress
sional district OF California nominated
Nj. j. Maddux for congress.
Vermont republicans in convention
at Burlington nominated state ticket
headed by Mayor Josiah Grout, of
Derby, for governor, and adopted a
platform favoring protection and the
gold standard.
The democratic state convention at
Little Rock, Ark, nominated John w.
Jones for governor.
At a conference of silver men in ST.
Louis propositions were favorably
passed upon for the organization of a
republican silver party in the United
States and the candidacy of Senator
NJ T.ll nf rnlnra1n fAr
ident.
Rev. LIE Roy Jones Halsey, D. D.,
founder of the Mccormick theological
seminary and one of the foremost men
in the Presbyterian church, died ut his
residence in Chicago, aged 81 years.
The democrats in the Fourth Ohio
district nominated George A. Marshall
for congress.
Maj. William Mckinley, of Ohio, was
nominated for president in the repub-
lican national convention at st. Louis
on the 18th on the first ballot, the vote
being as follows: Mckinley, 6G1h;
Reed, say; Quay, Gig; Morton, So;
Allison, 35k; Don Cameron, /. For
vice president Garrett A. Hobart, of
New Jersey, was chosen on the tirst bal
lot, as follows: Hobart, 553R; Evans,
277H; Bulkeley, 80; Walker, "a: Lip
pitt, 8; Reed, 2; Depew, 3; Grant, 2;
Thurston, 2; Morton, l. The platform
declares for protection to American in
dustries; reciprocity; the maintenance
of the existing gold standard and OPP
position to free coinage of silver except
by international agreement; pensions
and preferences for veterans OF the
union army; firm, vigorous and cigni-
fled foreign policy; reassertion or the
Monroe doctrine; exclusion of illituratc
and immoral immigrants; rcapproval of
the civil service law; condemnation of
lynching; approval of national arbttra-
tion; approval of a free homestead
law, and sympathy with legitimate
efforts to lessen intemperance. Upon
the adoption of the platform Senator
Teller and some 20 other silver leaders
left the hall. At 1851 p. m. the conven-
ton adjourned sine die.
The democrats in the Twentieth dis
tiict of Illinois nominated James p.
Campbell, of Hamilton county, for can
Eress.
The Arkansas democratic convention
at Little Rock instructed its delegates
10 Chicago to vote for Bland for presi-
dent.
The Florida democratic convention at
Ocala nominated w. b. Bloxham for gov
erpor.
The republican national committee in
session in ST. Lons elected Mark A..
Hanna, of Cleveland, o., chairman.
The boiling silver men at the repub-
lican national convention held n com
ference in st. I.omis and decided to or
Panize new party and to put forward
Senator Teller, of Colorado. for presi-
dent.
Byron G. Stout, who was member
of congress in 1865 and in 1890. died at
his home in Pontiac. Mich, aged 07
years.