The age-herald., 1897-09-10
.POOR MISGUIDED OHIOANS
Imagine Themselves the Only
 Simon Pure Democrats
AND NAME A STATE TICKET
Money Devir' Henry and John "GoOdy" Car sIe Write Letters to the SimIy Attended
 Convention of Nationals"

convention or HdliOnalS'
 Columbus. O., Sept. 9-The state con- vention of the national democrats was not as large as expected. the attend ance being limited to probably half a hundred delegates. The leaders of the party express themselves as well satis- fled, however, and attribute the small attendance to the fact that business men in general are less apprehensive on the money question than previously. They believe that the party has pursued a wise policy in nominating a state ticket. the only question in fact upon which difference of opinion developed among the delegates. Notwithstanding the ex- ecutivee committee decided last night that 1t was advisable to nominate a state ticket, the opposition succeeded in having a plank slipped into the plat form declaring 1t inexpedent to nofni- nate ticket. A lively discussion was precipitated by this coup of the minori- ty. and it developed that the question involved was whether the party organi- zation could be maintained more effect ually by nominating or not nominating 8 state ticket. The majority seemed to think that a ticket would give the party a prestige which it could not otherwise secure, and this plank of the platform was defeated by decisive vote. Next to the nomination of ticket, the most 1at nf aonuaOfior uaC in indorsing a candidate for United States senator. The proposition origi- mated with the Franklin county dele gates, and Hon. Joseph Outhwaite, of this city, was unanimously indorsed.
 Hon. W. D. Bynum. of Indiana, spoke on the money question, and letters were read from Hon. J. G. Carlisle and Hon. Henry Watterson. The latter regretted that he could not meet the true demo- crats of Ohio. He was laboring unceas- ingly and earnestly for the end they had in view. If the party is to live there must be a restoration of democratic principles. They demand the repudia- tion of misleading theories of finance. AAA AN~htoOhSJ bSN ooiu, We nave lHdQe d glorious beginning, and we have every reason to look for glorious result.
 Hon. J. G. Carlisle sent long letter, saying in effect that the democrats who had remained faithful to the true prin- ciples of the party as they were under stood prior to the revolutionary declar- ations of 1896, should preserve their organizations, nominate a candidate and prosecute vigorous contests in every state in the union. If we honestly be- lieve in the rectitude of the course we have heretofore pursued, it is our duty as loyal democrats and patriotic citi- zens to maintain by all the means at our command the independent and con- servative position we now hold, and to appeal to our old political associates who still entertain many opinions on public question in common with us which re- pudiate the new dangerous doctrines, and St. Louis, and return to the simple and honest faith of the fathers.
 The letter closed with reasons why populist and republican doctrines re- quire opposition by the democrats as they fought prior to 1896.
 The platform denounces the Dingley bill and condemns the proposed annexa- tion of the Hawaiian Islands. The finan- cial plank is as follows:
 We declare for the maintenance of the gold standard; for the retirement of the greenback, and for the extension of the civil service merit system, wherever possible, in the nation and in this state.
 The following state ticket was Hnomi- mated:
 For Governor-Julius Dexter, Cincin- nati.
 For Lieutenant t-Governor-Judge A. L. Merrill. Sandusky.
 Judge of the Supreme Court-Judge John H. Clark, Youngstown. Attorney y-General-Daniel Wilson, Cin- cinnai.
 State Treasurer-Samuel Stevens, Co., lumbus.
 State commissioner of schools, Prof. w. H. Johnson, Granville.
 For member of the state board of pub lie works, Henry D. Coffinberry Cleve- land.
 NO DECISION REACHED