Birmingham state herald., 1897-07-01
CREEIMAN STILL, WITH ,EM.


 | the Ohio republicans are stampeded, and ! the possibilities are that the democrats are. going to carry the state election by an overwhelming majority. As Ohio is | the me of b tn P es.deat Mckinley and Senator Hanna, the chief leaders of the republican party the public are very much interested in the state contest now on.
 MT. Creelman is recaoned among the best news gatherers as well es writers in American journalism and he is digging deep down into the merits and damerits oil Ohio politics. In his letter of the 29th to the Jeournal he goes so far as to give the wording, in raFt, of the platform to be adopted by the democratic conven- ton. He says:
 There is a strange and almost incredi- ble harmony in this multitude of demo- cratic candidates for governor which babbles up and down the street and fills the shadowy corridors of the hotels with its murmurings. It is not the sort of peace which filled the St. Louis conYen- ti-r after it had been strangled by Han ma. It is the friendly accord of men who meet at a common object
 The battle of the standards has been fought and refought, and today the free silver men flve absolute mastery of the situation in Ohio. There will not be one protesting voice raised in the convention. And yet, in spite of this unanimity of opinion regarding the platform to be adopted, enc would expect to find bitter ness and secret stabbings among the thirty candidates for governor. But it is not so. The candidates meet and shake hands, compliment each other and talk of a certain victory over Han ma and the trusts. The scent of rye and bourbon is in the air everywhere Moth ing like it has ever been seen in the Ohio democracy before.
 THEDEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
 Hough and Chapman gain in strength every hour, and yet none of their op- porenbs has attempted to blaekgCard them. It is a most astounding contest, astounding because it is so free from ha.reds and petty bick rings The se- crct of it is perhaps 10 be found in the fact that ideas of the platform have been agreed upon thoroughly.
 The following is he advanced text of the platform is 1t has been frand by delegates who are. to be on the commit tee of rceolu lions. Other blanks have been prepared and will undoubtedly be pr scented, but this platform meets the approval of most of the leaders, and will probably be adop. ed-as it stands, with the exception of the tariff plank which may be remodeled or omitted altogether:
 ''The democracy of Oho in convention
 
 and it's national chairman, Marcus Alon- 20 Hanna, for having debauched and cor rupted the purity of the ballot by lavish use of money in last years presidential cleo ion, and we charge that the election of President McKinl;y was mainly se- cured through the nstrumentality of CO., ercion and the corrupt use of money un- der the direction of Senator Hanna as chairman of the republican national com mittee. now the indorsed candidate of ths
 h ptx of fo, Ty,,f fl St9uss senator.
 'In view of these facts, and in connec- ticn ntherewith, we invite the attention of the electors of Ohio who were deluded last year by false promises of sudden prosperity into a suppor- of the trust ridden republican party to the hopeless ness of the people and their interests
 while th@ government is administered by agpolitical organization devoted to the service of corrupt, corrupting and lawless combina.ions of corporate wealth, whose power already rivals and overshadows the power of congress.
 FOR FREE SILVER, IS TO 1. We declare that the continuance of the republican party in power menaces the permaneney of free institutions on this continent
 ''Wp renew our devo. ion to the immor- tai principles of democracy as expounded by Thomas Jefferson and embodied in the national democratic platform of 1896, and we especially emphasize our adherence to the enunciation of that platform in favor of tn free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the ratio of Is to 1 as legal tender money. without waiting for the consent of any other nation.
 ''lt is to our interest that American silver should command the highest com
 mercial prices in the markets of the world. and to that end the coinage ratio between silver and gold should not ex- eeed l6 to 1. We are therefore opposed to fixing a different coinage ratio by n- ternetional agreement with Europs n gold standard nations whose interest in that behalf are the reverse of ours. WHAT A SURPLUS MEANS. We are unchangeably opposed to the retirement of the non-interest bearing legal tender notes of the United States either by the substitution of the national bank notes or by the accumulation of a surplus in the treasury which will en- able the secretary of the treasury to im- pound them We declare that surplus is not only an evidence of an excessive and therefore unconstitutional taxation, but it is a self-evident contraction of the already insufficient volume of the cur
 -ncy.
 We demand the immediate recogni- ton of the belligerent rights of the peo- pie of Cuba IS an act of justice to an American nation struggling for liberty against foreign oppressors. and we de- nounce and protest against the action of Senator Hanna in voting to nullify the memorial presented to congress unani- mously by the legislature of Ohio in favor of the Cuban patriots.
 We deplore the>inability of the pres ent state government to uphold the civil authority in the city of Urbana and we arraign Governor Bushnell before the people for his failure to sustain the law and afford protection to all persons re- gardless of race or color.
 eve condemn the reckless extrava- gance of the republican party which seeks in time of general distress and suf- fering to add to the already great bur dens of Ohio taxpayers by spending mil Hops of dollars in uncalled for and use less additions to the state house. TARIFF BILLS DENOUNCED. "We favor tariff for revenue sufficient to meet the demands of the government economically administered. The existing dmocratic tariff laws, as has been dem onstrated, afford ample revenue to the government; therefore we denounce the increased taxation nrOposcd hY the sn-