Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-10

q convention of endurance as the dele
gates took no recess and were in ses-
sion continuously from ten a. IN. till
almost that hour at night.
r. L. Hough, the favorite for gov
ernor, was slaughtered because of the
opposition of the rural districts to the
Mclean men using the large delega-
tions from Cincinnati, Cleveland, To
lcdo and other cities to dictate the head
of the ticket. Those running next
were Chapman, Welty and Sorg. We'll
tvs name was not presented after his
friends learned that Chapman had been
agreed upon as the compromise candi-
date. Hough's name was withdrawn
before the balloting began and the
name of Sorg was withdrawn before the
result of the first ballot was announced
The senntOrship.
In addition to the state ticket nomi-
mated there is an implied arrangement
for John r. Mclean for senator with
the state candidates as we'll as the party
organization for him. Still it is report
ed that eX-Congressman Paul ]. Sorg
will also be in the field for senator.
When the convention was called to
order at ten a. m. by Chairman Durbin,
he congratulated the party on the signs
the times and the enthusiastic con-
! uition of the party. He made a speech
for free silver.
Prayer was offered by Rev. E. L. Rex
| ford, pastor of the Universalist church
in this city. and then Hon. Uric Sloane
was introduced as the temporary chair
man of the convention.
Keynote Was silver.
The speech OF Chairman Sloane was
frequently interrupted with the wild
est demonstrations of applause, espe-
| cially in his references to silver. The
keynote of everything was silver.
The greatest demonstration of the
convention followed that part of Chair
man Sloane's speech in which he re-
| ferred to William j. Bryan as the lead
er of the silver cause for 1900, and it
was with this climax that the speaker
closed his keynote speech.
| Fusion Voted Down.
The committee on rules and order
of business made the usual report, with
the exception of a supplemental re-
port on the question of leaving one
vacancy on the state ticket to be filled
| ny lHC Vi
licans. The report referred the ques-
| ton back to the convention without
| recommendation.
| communication was then present
ed from the populist state committee
also asking for a place on the demo
cratic state ticket, with a view to fu-
sion, the place to be filled by the state
committee of the peoples party.
The special report and the commune
cation to give the silver republicans
and the populists each a place on the
state ticket were laid on the table, after
heated discussion.
The Platform.
Gen. A. j. Warner, as chairman of the
committee on resolutions, reported the
platform, which was loudly cheered
and adopted. A synopsis follows:
1t opens with an unqualified Endorsement
of the Chicago platform and declares that
| the money question Is paramount to all
others. 1t refers to tho demonetization act
of 1873 and recites long list OF attendant
evils resulting thersfrom. 1t denounces
| monometallism as follows:
| Against MOnOmetaIIism.
I'VE are unalterably opposed to mono
metallism. which has locked fast the pros
| perity of an industrial people in the paraly'
sis OF hard times. Gold monometallism 1:
British policy, and its adoption has
brought other nations into financial servi
tude TO London. 1t is not only un-Ameri
can, but anti-Amercan. and 1t can be fas
tened on the United States only by th'
sitting of that spirit and love of liberty
which proclaimed our political independ
ence in 1776 and won 1t in the war of th'
revolution.
1--WE demand the free and unlimited coin
age of both silver and gold at the presen
legal ratio of sixteen to one. without walt
ing for the aid or consent of any other ma
tion. We demand that the standard silve
dollar shall be a full legal tender, equal!
with gold, for all debts, public and private
and we favor such legislation as will pre-
vent for the future the decentralization o
any kind of legal tender money by privat
contract.
1--WE are opposed TO the policy and prac
tice of surrendering to the holders OF tn
obligations of the United States the optio
reserved by law to the government OF re
deeming such obligations in either silve
| coin or gold coin.
1--WE are opposed to the issuing OF inter
| est-bearing bonds of the United States l
| times of peace, and condemn the traffick
ing with banking syndicates which, in ex
change for bonds at an enormous profit
themselves, supply the federal treasur