The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-25

COLUMBUS, O., June 24.-Delegates
at large-John r. Mclean. Allen w.
Thurman, L. E. Holden, E. B. Finley.
Alternates at large-W. E. Decker,
A. T. Hopple, P. H. Dagnon, John w.
Conwell.
Electors at Target. E. Howell,
Charles S. Fleischheimer.
Secretary of state-Chilton A. White.
Judge of supreme court-E. J. Blai-
din.
Dairy and food commissioner-Pat-
rick McKeown.
Member board of public works-WI-
liam Beaumont.
The Democratic state convention
concluded tonight after being in ses-
sion continuously all day. 1t was pri-
marily silver convention, and sec
ondarily the
BUDDING OF A BOOM
for John r. Mclean for the presiden-
tial nomination at Chicago. Of the
673 delegates, 542 voted for free silver
and els for Mclean. Three men We're
mentioned by the delegates as Ohio s
favorite for the Chicago nomination
Mclean, Campbell and Boollwalter.
Ex-Governor Campbell had been a ia
vorite until the silver tidal wave struck
the state, but he was considered too
conservative on the silver question.
When Ex-Governor Campbell and his
friends arrived here and found the
sentiment drifting for Mclean and
BookwaIter, they supported the for
mer, defeating BookWalter in a hot
fight for delegate and thus ending the
Bookwaher boom for president and
4 10a vii soo Eai6 N a q l.
cerned,. to Mclean, with the unit rule
annexed. There were at first
TWO OPPOSING MOVEMENTS,
enc to instruct for Campbell and the
other to instruct for Bookwalter. The
Mclean men worked hard to prevent
instructions for anyone and their next
movement was to keep rival delegates
from being selected as delegates. They
had their own way in the preliminary
work Of the district and committee
meetings yesterday and today in the
cow ention. They named all the dele
gates and state candidates and dictat-
ed the platform. Tonight the Mclean
boom for president is no longer under
cover. 1t is currently reported that
Senator Blackburn OF Kentucky and
others outside the state are in the Nc
Lean movement.
John R. Mclean is proprietor of the
| Cincinnati Enquirer and has been adj
vocating free silver for years in his
! paper.
L. E. Holden IS proprietor of the
Morning Plain Dealer and the Evening
Post at Cleveland, and has also been
! an ardent advocate of free silver.
| General E. B. Finley, while in con-
gress, was an ardent silver man. as
was General A. J. Warner, who pre-
sided over the convention. The cham
| pion Of free silver in the state in re-
cent years has been Allen W. Thur
man, who kept up a silver organiza-
ton in Ohio when that element was in
the minority at Democratic conven-
tons. He is a son of
THE LATE ALLEN G. THURMAN
who ran on the ticket with President
Cleveland in 1888, and was for twelve
years senator from Ohio. The fathers
of Thurman and Mclean were bitter
political enemies during their lives, ant
the sons never got together until the
! present silver campaign. Chiffon A
| White, who heads the ticket for Sec
! rotary of state, served in congress dur.
! ing Lincoln's administration and was
a close political friend of Clement l.
Vallandingham.
He has not participated in politics
since the civil war till recently, wiler
| he took an active part in advocating
| free silver. The keynote of the con.
vention was silver. On that issue al
the nominations were based Neither
the temporary nor the permanent
chairman nor any others referred tt
anything else in their Speeches, anC
the platform covers only that one is
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