The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-23


state convention assembled here today
and will continue tomorrow. The occa-
sion has been one of bitter fractional
fighting for two days.
There is no opposition to the indorse-
ment of Senator NJ. \. Hanna for both
the long and short terms for senator,
and there is no opposition to the re
nomination of Governor Bushnell and
other state officers who have had only
one term.
The contest has been on the state
campaign Craftsmanship.
Senator Hanna wanted Major Charles
F. w. Dick, secretary of the national
committee, for this place. Governor
Bushnell and other state officers
wanted Chairman Charles L. Kurtz.
VINO has managed the past two cam
paigns. retained in that place.
Senator Foraker was not here, but il
is known that he supported Governor
Bushnell and Chairman KurtZ as
strongly as possible by wire. 1t has
been the custom for the head of the
state ticket in Ohio to name the chair
man Of the state executive committee.
but Senator Hanna has the convention
in hand today and he viii not perfect
the party OlSdnlZdllOI dCCOIuiuS u
precedent.
Governor Bushnell had gone so far
last night as to say he could not ac-
cept a denomination if Chairman Kurtz
was defeated.
When Mr.. Hanna arrived this morn
ing he held a conference with Major
Dick. General Grosvenor and others.
Then followed conferences between
Senator Hanna and Governor Bushnell,
with intermittent conferences with
their respective favorites for chairman.
AT none of these conferences could the
contestants get to an amicable under
standing. Senator Hanna proposed to
have Major Dick withdraw. and the lat
ter consented TO retire from the race
if Chairman kurtz would also do SO.
The proposition was not accepted
Governor Bushnell insisted on his
right by precedent TO name executive
chairman and Mr. .Kurtz said, since the
fight had been made on him, he could
stand defeat, but he could not COM
promise.
The contending factions carried their
claims into the meetings Of delegates
by congressional districts this after
noon and Mr.. Hanna won, by more
than to l. He controlled the district
meetings and the convention more
firmly than the St. Louis convention
last wear.
Major Dick claims the committeeman
from 10 of the y congressional districts.
with two districts contested and four
districts conceded to Mr.. Kurtz. The
Kurtz men cOncede their defeat, but
claim eight out OF the q committeeman.
Senator Hanna and Governor Bushnell
have had conferences again tonight.
While the governor regrets the defeat
of Chairman Kurtz. he will not decline
denomination tomorrow. Meantime the
state central committee will not select
the campaign chairman and the mem
bers of the state executive committee
now. but the central committee will
meet al an early date in Columbus for
this purpose. 1t is expected that Sena-
tor Hanna and Governor Bushnell Will
get together soon for cooperation in
the campaign. 1t is understood now
that Major Dick will be cnade chairman
of the executive committee and Gov
ernOr Bushnell and other state candi-
dates viii name the other members of
the state executive committee. Ii is
announced that Major Dick will an
point John r. Mailoy. a strong Hanna
man. as secretary of the state exec
utive committee.
The convention was called to order
in the deliberately decorated armory
shortly after 4 p. m. All the 300 seats
were occupied and standing room was
in demand. As Congressman GrosvenOr,
ex-Secretary Charles Foster. Governor
Bushnell, Senator Hanna and other
leaders entered The hall they were given
ovations.
Hon. II. p. Grouse. chairman of the
state central committee. before an
nouncing the temporary officers of the
convention. reviewed the Republican
triumphs in Ohio SINCE 1855. and then
introduced General C. H. Grcsvenor as
the temporary chairman of the cOnven
tio-.
Me Grosvenor said in part:
Il am not here to sound a KEYNOTE.
That duty has been assigned by the
comments of the Democratic press. but
Republicans do not need key notes.
The St. Louis platform is the charter
of the Republican party. It stands I'M
repealed and no KEY note is necessary
to enforce its binding obligation upon
Republicans. and We are a unit TODAY
in defense of any suggestion of that
platform.
Our Democratic friends are shouting
upon every stump and in every news
paper and all over the country. de-
handing TO. know where is the pros
perity that you promised
I'VE never promised prosperity. This
is the language Of our platform upon
that subject We emphasize our al
legiance to the policy of protection as
the bulwark of American Importance
and the foundation of nation and
prosperity
Anybody who knows anything
knows there must first be a fOunda-
ton for the future prosperity and then
a DEVELOPMENT upon the foundation. \
Democrat is never happy when the
country is prosperous: that is the one
plank in the Democratic platform of
principles which never changes When
the country is suffering. the Demo-
cratic party is happy. When there is
bankruptcy the Democratic party is
shouting triumphantly and they
enumerate the number of failures in
the country and roll this as a sweet
morsel under their tongues.
They forget that il was the Demo-
cratic party that struck down the
greatest development of prosperity
that this country ever saw and brought
humiliation, suffering. bankruptcy and
practical beggary upon the people OF
the United States.
There is not an intelligent person
in the United States who does not know
and who did not know when Mckinley
was elected that the road to prosperity
was a road of sorrow. road of per-
severance, wisdom and hardship and