The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-01
CHAIRMAN SLOANE'S SPEECH
DEMAGOGY PERMITTED TO RUN
RIOT ALL THROUGH HIS REMARKS.
John R. McLean's Candidate for Gov
ernOr Slaughtered and Horace L.
Chapman Nominated.
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for the vituperation of it's chairman, Ulric
Sloane, who BANKED the rich to the best
of his ability; for the turning down of Rob-
ert I. Hough, who posed as John r. Nc
Leans candidate for Governor, and for it's
cross of gold and crown of thorns." One
thing Mr.. Sloane seemed to forget when
he was denouncing the rich as despots is
the fact that two of the richest men in Ohio
are Democrats--Calvin Brice and John R.
McLean-and that the latter was the power
behind the throne of the very convention
over which Mr.. Sloane was presiding. The
ticket nominated follows:
Governor--HORACE L. CHAPMAN.
= Lieutenant Governor - MELVILLE D.
Supreme Judge-J. p. sPRIGGs.
Attorney General-W. H. DORE
State Treasurer-JAMES +. WILSON.
Board of Public Works-PETER H.
School mmissioner-BYRoNH H. HURD
The convention took no recess, and was
in session continuously from 10 o'clock a.
m until almost that hour tonight. 1t was
free-silver convention throughout. Every
candidate whose name was presented was
announced as orthodox in silver doctrine as
the cardinal principle for his favorable con-
sideration While there were some differ
ences of opinion about adopting the anti
trust and the Cuban resolutions, there was
not a dissenting voice in the convention
to the declaration for the free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver at the ratio of l6 to l.,
without the cooperation of any other ma
ton. And the name OF William j. Bryan
was mentioned in some way by every
speaker as the only sure way of bringing g
out q chorus of applause.
While there was no place on the state
ticket accorded to either the silver Re-
publcans or TO the Populists, yet repre-
sentatives of both those elements cooper
ated in the convention and informal fusion
was perfected. The silver Republicans and
the Populists themselves responsible
for having no representatives on the ticket,
as they would not ask it, and stated that
they were more interested in the platform
than in the offices. Out OF the $50 votes
cast for supreme judge there were ninety
two for John j. Harper, a silver Repub-
lican
HOUGHS SLAUGHTER.
r. 7. Hough. the favqrite for Governor,
was slaughtered because of the opposition
of the rural districts to- the Mclean men
using the large delegations from Cincin-
natl, Cleveland, Toledo and other cities to
dictate the head Of the ticket. Those run
ming next were Chapman. Welty and Sorg.
Welty's name was not presented after his
friends learned that Chapman had been
agreed upon as the compromise candidate.
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. Although the Nc
Lean men had been in conference during
the nlght ana the morning and had agreed
TO go to Chapman, they scattered their vote
on the first ballot and did not concentrate
on Chapman on their second ballot any
more than necessary to nominate so as to
dlssipate as much as possible the report
that Mclean was raining the state ticket.
1t. is conceded that the Mclean men had
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his managers before the convention con-
Vened, and the vote of the strong Mclean
counties for Chapman bears out the report
Ia addition to the state ticket nominated
there is a. implied arrangement for John
K. Mclean for senator, with the state can
didates as well as the party organization
for him. Still it is reported that ex-Con-
gresham Paul J. Sorg will also be in the
field for senator. The Mclean men did not
name their first faVorite for Governor or
hold the resolutions as they fixed them last
night but these concessions We're made in
the interest of harmony. They wanted
nothing in the platform but the declara-
tion for free silver as the paramount issue
but they would not vote against antitrust
and Cuban resolutions when once presented
And they claim all the favor and co-opera-
tion with Mr.. Chapman that they could
have had with Judge Hough without en-
falling prejudice from the rural districts
for having arbitrarily used their power
When it became necessary for the Mclean
ballot in order to end the contest the solid
vote of Highland county, the home of
Hough, went with that Of the delegates
other cities that were strongly for what
ever Mclean wanted
The new Columbus Auditorium, with a
seating capacity of six thousand had just
been completed for the convention and its
capacity was not equal to the demands for
admission The new auditorium was beauti-
fully decorated with bunting and plants.
There was profusion of portraits of Dem
ocratic leaders about the walls, but that of
President Cleveland was not in the collec-
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was not as strongly for free silver the
convention of to-day, and in the convention
because of a motion to turn the picture of
Cleveland to the wall" The picture of
Senator Brice as well as of other gold
Democrats was missing from the galaxy of
heroes The familiar portrait of William j.
Bryan was the center of attraction, and
that Of the late Allen c. Thurman was
quite conspicuous. Last year when John
r. Mclean was selected to head the Ohio
delegation to Chicago, w. w. Durbin was
made chairman of the state central com
mittee, and he was reelected last night by
the Mclean influence, while Daniel Me-
Conville was also reelected chairman of
the state executive committee
ULRIC SLOANE'S SPEECH.
When the convention was called to order
at 10 a. m. by Chairman Durbin. he con-
graduated the party on the signs of the
times and the enthusiastic condition of the
party. He made a speech for free silver.
Prayer was offered by Rev. r. l.. ReXIord,
pastor of the Universalist Church in this
city, and the Hon. Uric Sloane was intro
duced as the temporary chairman OF the
convention. He said in part:
"Tis convention comes from the common
people, and owes its allegiance alone to
them, and is not here to record the edict
of any self-constituted boss, ruling, not be-
cause of distinguished services to the coun-
try as statesman patriot or soldier nor by
force of great intellectual attachments, but
by the sheer brute force of wealth. In
these respects what contrast it offers to
the late convention at Toledo. / do not say
the late Republican convention, for that
convention was not called, organized or
controlled along the lines of what the
fathers OF the Republican party taught, but
merely to obey the mandates and TO do the
win Of Mark Hanna, ruling by as veritably
brute force as did any robber baron of the
middle ages Assembled at Toledo We're
men all bearing the ear tag Of either Hanna
or Foraker rival bosses, and representing
the victory for one or the other such
bosses in every county of the. State. And
such body hypocrtically assumed to be act
Ing for the country's welfare.
III discussing the silver movement begun
at Chicago with the nomination of Bryan,
Mr.. Sloan said: There may be some in