The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-25
OHIO ADOPTS THE UNIT RULE.
Democrats of the State True TO The
Cause of Silver.

Columbus, Ohio, June 24.-The Ohio
State Democratic convention was called
to order to-day at 10:30 o'clock by
Chairman Matt Smalley, who intro
duced Rev. DR.. Fishburn, of Columbus,
who invoked the blessing.
Hon. w A. Taylor, who was at the
head of the Democratic ticket as eau
didate for Secretary of State in 1892,
and came within less than a thousand
votes of election, was introduced as
temporary chairman.
In a lengthy keynote speech he did
not refer to anything except the silver
question. After giving history OF the
unsuccessful efforts for free silver at
former Democratic State conventions
in Ohio, and reviewing eloquently the
contest of the past few weeks in the
State, he closed as follows:
There is but one great issue be-
fore the American people, compared
with which all other issues are as a
mole-hill to a mountain, and that is the
issue between the American people and
the allied money powers of the world
whether the metallic basis of our cur
rency shall be SO compressed and con-
tracted that it may be held by the few
TO the detriment, debaSement and en-
slavement of the many. or whe
the products of our mines shall be used
to break the icy fetters that have closed
M the channels of commerce until our
harvests have become almost mock
cry, intensified by their plentitude.
Upon this question you are to make
deliverance, in plain, terse and unmis-
taxable terms. You have been i'm
structed thereto from every county,
from every city, from every town, from
every hamlet. from every cross
roads. and from the shadow of every
school house in Ohio. For weeks every
nv zephyr which has blown from every
corner of the State to this convention
has borne one unvarying message:
The free and unlimited coinage OF
gold and silver at the ratio of 10 to i,
without awaiting the action or concur
renee of any other nation on earth.
so shape your action as to send Ohio
10 Chicago as the leader for the peo-
ple1s rights, for what you declare here
to-day, will be declared at Chicago for
the whole country, and that in turn
wild be ratified by the people in No
yember."
Col. Taylor, in a speech for free COIN
age 16 to !, gave the silver advocates
their first opportunity to cheer, and
they did it vociferously.
After Col. Taylor had finished, Reu-
ben Turney, of Tuscarawas county, was
recognized. He threw the convention
into turmoil of Kisses and derisivc
shouts by saying: Looking down on
this convention is that arbitrator,
that Benedict Arnold of the Democrat
ic party, Grover Cleveland"
He wanted the portrait removed,
For some moments Mr.. Turney was
hissed so that he could not proceed
but he finally moved that A. w. Pat
rick, who represented the minority re-
port on resolutions for silver last year
and a well known silver advocate of
Tuscarawas, be invited to the stage.
This caught the silver men and the
motion was carried.
Judge Patrick made a free coinage
speech.
The gold men fought the report ON
rules because it referred all resolu-
tions without debate and claimed that
this rule had been injected after the
committee had agreed on its report.
The report was adopted after various
amendments and dilatory measures
were defeated. After the report of the
committee on permanent organization,
Gen. A. j. Warner was escorted to the
chair, as the presiding officer, and was
received with an ovation. Gen Warner
was introduced as an apostle OF 10 to i.
He urged all to sacifice personal pre-
ferences and all other matters for the
silver issue. The people had made the
issue and the st. Louis convention has
emphasized the issue by adopting a
single gold standard. The lines were
never so distinctly drawn. There was
no longer any doubt about what would
be done at Chicago on the issue. He
urged all the advocates of the bi-metal-
lie standard of the fathers and of the
Constitution to unite on one ticket as
we'll as one isuse.
When General Warner concluded,
Judge Patrick led in three rousing
cheers for the utterances of the chair