The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-03-12
Meet and Boost B00mlets for
FavOrite Sons
0HIO'S Mckinley RALLY
Discloses Almost Unprecedented Sups
plies of Unanimity
The Republicans Of Iowa are Equally Enthosls
astic in Booming Allison and Sound
1oney-Convention Notes

Associated Press Special Wire.
COLUMBUS, o., March 1.-THE Republ1s
can state convention which concluded this
afternoon it's session of two days, was
more of a Mckinley rally than the usual
party business assembly. 1t was held two
or three months earlier than usual, IN
order to proclaim to the country the senti-
ment of McKinley's state. Not since tho
endorsement of r. Il. Hayes for the
presidency at the Republican state con.
vention in 1875 has there been such Z
harmonious meeting of representative
Republicans in Ohio. When Senator
Sherman was endorsed for president ~
the state conventions of 1880, 1854 and
1887, there were bitter contests and it re-
quired considerable effort in 1892 to pre-
vent open opposition in the Ohio state
convention to Harrison for second term.
At that time Charles Foster was SECRETARY
of the treasury. and is credited with hav.
ing controlled the convention. While tho
slate was carried out for delegates-at-largs
and alternates to the st. Louis convention
without scratch or dissenting vote, it waA
broken on the state ticket. Sherman and
Foraker will sit in the senate together. but
for several years the Republicans of Ohio
have had what is known as 'sthe Sherman
faction and 1.-THE Foraker faction" In the
senatorial contest of 1892 the Foraker
men claimed that their favorite would
have defeated Senator Sherman for re-
election but for the help given 1.-THE Sher-
man faction by the Mckinley state ad.
ministration. At that time Charles Kim
ney was one of the most aggressive Sher-
man men, and has always been a most
enthusiastic Mckinley man. s. He was
chief clerk in the office of secretary of state
under Daniel B. Ryan from 1889 to 1898.
and has occupied the same position ever
since under Secretary of State S. M. lay
nation was E. w. Doty. 1t was claimed
yesterday that the old fractional lines were
being drawn in the contest between Kinney
and Doty. Accordingly a confere nee of
leaders was held last night, at
tended by all the delegates-at-laree
decided to bring out Gen. A. N. Wykoff,
who had often been chairman of the state
convention and had great record as a har.
monizer as we'll as a campaign manager.
Gen. WykoM was secretary of state when
II. b. Hayes was governor and was the
manager of the Hayes interest at The Re.
publican convention in Cincinnati in 1870
when Hayes was nominated over Blaine
Conking, Morton, Logan and others.
WykoH was the pension agent for Ohio
under Hayes. As Kinney and Doty had
made the canvass it was the plan to give
them both a good complimentary vote and
have enough votes to go to Wykoff to pre-
vent a nomination on the first ballot and
then nominate Wykoff on the second bal-
lot. But Kinney went in against the field
and got one vote more than he needed
with all the old wheelhorses working for
what they called "a bigger man,
Kinney is a young man. and his friends
appealed to the younger element to make
stand against the unfortunate daddies,
as they called them. While all the men
on the ticket are Mckinley men, there was
no special significance in the selection OF
any of them except that of Kinney for the
head of the ticket. 1t is understood that
Mckinley wrote, or dictated, the tariff aud
financial planks and that the whole plat,
form is as he wanted it. HIS managers
are very judilant over the result in Ohio
as we'll as the state convention.
The Grand Opera house was unable again
today to give admission to more than half
those holding tickets. Some delegates to
the convention. even, were crowded out.
AtlO:l5 Senator-elect Foraker called the
convention to order.
The temporary organization was unani-
mously made permanent. Chairman For