The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-29
FIELD AGAINST HOUGH
WARM CONTEST FOR DEMOCRATIC
NOMINATION FOR GOVERNOR.
Many Stories Circulated by Ohio Sill
verites Against the Leading Cam
didate-,The Mclean Slate.

COLUMBUS, o., June 2S.-The candidates
and delegates are here in force to-day for
the Democratic State convention. which
meets tomorrow and Wednesday. The dele
gates meet by congressional districts to-
morrow afternoon. the committees to-mor-
row night, while the convention proper does
not assemble till Wednesday morning. In
addition to a full State ticket members of
the Legislature are elected this year. There
have been several aspirants for the Senate
but John r. Mclean, of Cincinnati, has
secured such large majority of delegates
to the State convention that there is no
more opposition to him here than there was
to Senator Hanna at the Republican State
convention in Toledo last week Nominal
tons will be made for Governor Lieuten-
ant Governor supreme judge, attorney
general, state treasurer, school commits
sioner and member of the Board of Public
Works.
Among the candidates for Governor are
Robert T. Hough, Paul J. Sorg John c.
Welty, D. d. Donovan r. A. Smalley, j.
M. Van Meter S. NJ Hunter A. W. Pat
rick, Horace L. Chapman, A. W. Thurman
John j. LentZ, c. P. Noble John w. Win
neke, B. Finley, F. c. Layton, f. M Mar
riott, John G. Reeves, Frank Southland
The field has concentrated against Hough
as the favorite for Governor and will fight
him to decisive ballot. There were many
reports circulated against him tonight
The Press-Post, the central Democratic
organ, in an editorial tonight questioned
his orthodoxy on the silver question, and
the Dispatch, an independent paper, pro-
duced articles from the Hillsboro Gazette
in which Judge Hough is interested and
that Hough was not an original silver man.
NUMEROUS statements have been published
about Hough wearing a Carlisle badge dur
ing the contest between Blackburn and
Hunter for senator in Kentucky, and pre-
vious to the Chicago convention. Exon
gresham S. S. Yorder published a state
ment of Hough being an original Bryan
man at Chicago and wanting free-silver
plank In the State platform three years ago,
when Senator Brice controlled the Demo-
cratic state convention SO as to adopt res
buttons in accord with President Cleve-
lands financial policy. With the bitter
fight made on Hough to-day there has been
considerable rise in the boom of the other
candidates, notably of John c. Welty and
OF Horace l.. Chapman, both of whom are
also friendly to Mclean for senator.
While the fighting for the head of the
State ticket is very animated, there is no
visible opposition to Mclean. Even the
gold Democrats who are in attendance at
the convention favor him for SENATOR
notably Lawrence T. Neal who was Nc
kinley's opponent for Governor; ex-Mayor
Cleveland, and several leaders from Gin
cinnati and other cities who are not silver
men. Ex-Governor Campbell who is here
managing the canvass of eX-Congressman
Paul j. Sorg for Governor, is not unfriendly
to Mclean. EX-Congressman Beriah Will
kins, publisher of the Washington Post
who was McLean's manager AT Chicago
for the presidential nomination, rs here In
the interest Of Mclean as we'll as for Judge
A. w. Patrick for Governor. Congressman
j. A. Norton, who is favoring Judge Small
ley for Governor, is for Mclean for sena-.
tor.
While many of the leaders are opposing
what is being termed McLean's slate for
the State ticket, with Hough at the head of
the list, none of them oppose Mclean
for senator All efforts to-day to get Nc
Lean to attend the convention failed. Ex-
Senator Brice will not be here. His pri-
vate secretary, George Gillian, and other
friends are here as interested spectators
There was recently organized a State
league of silver Republicans in opposition to
what known as the Palmer Buckner
Democrats. This organization has it's rep
resentatives here demanding that the nomi-
nation for Lieutenant Governor be given to
a silver Republican, but it is not likely
that the second place on the State ticket
will go to any Republicans who may have
opposition to Daniel McConnvile as chair
it is understood that McCOnnville perfected
the organization for Mclean which Sc
cured such large majority of the dele
gates to the State convention and that he
will be retained as the manager of the
camnaipn