The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-06-25
|MLEAN FOX PRESIDENT.
A MOVEMENT IN HIS INTEREST
AMONG OHIO DEMOCRATS.
The silver Men Have Almost 600 of
the 075 Delegates-Tayior Presides
-McLeaD, Bookwaitery Thur
man aud Holden the Big A.

COLUMBUS. June 24.-The Democratic
state convention is in session here to.
day.
Colonel w. A. Taylor presides as
temporary chairman.
The preliminary meetings show that
the silver men have almost 600 of the
675 delegates in the convention
At the district meetings the silver
men carried II the congressional dis
tricts and the gold men four. The com
mittee on resolutions and other com.
mittees, including the state central com.
mittee, stand II to 4i The Ohio dele.
CATION to Chicago, when the delegates
are all chosen, will probably stand 3S to
s for free silver, although the silver
men claim 40 to s. With their large
majority in this convention the silver
men intend to instruct the Ohio delega-
tion for free silver and to vote as q unit
so that the four gold districts, which
include the city Of Dayton, Hamilton,
Toledo and Cleveland, will be shut out.
While the instructions on free silver
will be ironclad, there will be no in
structions for president. Most of the
county conventions had endorsed ex-
Governor Campbell for president before
She tidal wave for silver set in and now
the silver leaders claim that Campbell
Is too conservative on the financial
question. Meantime John w. Book
walter, an original free silver man, who
was the Democratic candidate for gov
ernor against Charles Foster in 1881 :,
has worked up quite q sentiment in
favor of his endorsement for president.
Campbell and his friends openly oppose
Bookwalter. The fight between them
was stopped by the friends of John X.
Mclean, who said they would oppose
either instructions or the endorsement
of anyone for president.
1t is understood that this movement
is in the interest of Mclean for the ma
tional ticket. While Campbell, Nc
Lean and Bookwalter have their re-
spective followings as the Ohio favorite.
Colonel Joseph Hickey of Missouri has
been active in the interest of Bland for
president. General A. J. Warner, presi-
dent of the American Bimetallic league,
is also here taking an active part in the
interest of the fusion of all silver inter-
ests. The silver slate includes John r.
Mclean, John w. Bookwalter, Allen
w. Thurman and l.. l.. Holden for
uCltBdJOS-uu-ldIRt. libbl6 lllICTtSt
is being taken in the state ticket. The
leading candidates for secretary of state,
the head of the ticket, are A. A. Brown
of Cincinnati and x-Congressman S. S.
Yoder of Lima.
The committee on resolutions is as
follows First district, Wallace Birch
Second, d. S. Oliver; Third, j. @. Pat
terson; Fourth, George w. Moore
Fifth, J. w. Winn; Sixth, @. H. Col.
Inns; Seventh, T. II. Dever; Eighth,
Fred II. Bleshner; Ninth, Frank H.
Hurd Tenth, John Herman; Eleventh,
j. Vanmeter; Twelfth, Casper Loewen-
stein; Thirteenth, A. l.. Barron; Four
teent, II. L.. Stewart /; Fifteenth, David
Okey; Sixteenth, L. l.. Lynch; Seven.
teenth, Aquilla Wiley; Eighteenth,
Archibald McGregor; Nineteenth, S.
G.. Rogers; Twentieth, 7. d. Bremen
Twenty-hrst, Charles J. Estep.
When the state central committee
met about half the membere were alb
sent, but they were represented by
silver men to whom the gold members
had given proxies. Still there was O
fight. The silver men supported w
A. Taylor of Columbus, and the gold
men j. A. Norton of Tiffin for tenn.
porary chairman. Taylor was elected
receiving IA votes to for Norton