Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-26
A THOUSAND DELEGATES.
They Atte Id the Ohio Republican
State Cow ention.
The Contest for Chairman of the Cams
paign Committee Results In Defeat
for Hon. Charles L. Kurtz-
Proceedings of the First
Days Session.

Toledo, o., June 23.-The Ohio re-
publican state convention assembled
here Tuesday. The occasion has been
one of bitter factional fighting. There
is no opposition to the Endorsement of |
Senator Hanna for both the long and |
short terms as senator and there is no
opposition to the denomination of Gov. |
Bushnell and other state officers who |
have had only one term. The contest |
has been on the state campaign chair |
manship. Senator Hanna wanted |
Charles e. Dick, secretary of the ma
tional committee, for this place. Gov.
Bushnell and other state officers
wanted Charles L. Kurtz, who has
managed the past two campaigns, re-
was not here, but he supported Gov.
Bushnell and Chairman Kurtz as
strongly as possible by wire.
1t has been the custom for the head
of the state ticket in Ohio to name the
chairman of the state executive COM
mittee, but Senator Hanna had the
convention here in hand and he will
not perfect the party organization ac-
cording to precedent. Mr.. Dick arrived
Sunday and opened headquarters for
the contest Gov. Bushnell and Chair
man Kurtz arrived Monday and opened
headquarters. Gov. Bushnell had gone
so far as to say he could not accept a
denomination if Kurtz was defeated.
When Mr.. Hanna arrived yesterday he
held a conference with Mr.. Dick, Mr..
Grosvenor and others Then followed
conferences between Mr.. Hanna and
Gov Bushnell, with intermittent con-
ferences with their respective favorites
for chairman. At none of these con-
ferences could the contestants get to
an understanding. The contending
factions carried their claims into
the meetings of the delegates by con-
gressional districts in the afternoon
and Mr.. Hanna won by more than two
to one. He controlled the district
meetings and the convention more
firmly than the st. Louis convention
last year.
Mr.. Dick claims the committeeman
from Is of the 81 congressional dis
tricts, with two districts contested and
four districts conceded to Kurtz. The
Kurtz men concede their defeat, but
claim eight of the 81 committeeman.
While the governor regrets the de-
feat of Kurtz he will not decline the
denomination. Meantime the state
central committee will not select the
campaign chairman and the members
of the state executive committee now,
| but the central committee will meet at
an early date in Columbus for this pur-
pose. 1t is expected that Senator
| Hanna and Gov. Bushnell will get to-
~, la
campaign. 1t is understood now that
Mr.. Dick will be made chairman of the
executive committee and that Bush
| nell and other state candidates will
name the other members of the state
| executive committee. 1t is announced
that Mr.. Dick will appoint John R.
| Malloy, a strong Hanna man, as secre-
tary of the state executive committee.
The convention was called to order
in the elaborately decorated armory
shortly after p. m. All the $500
seats were occupied. AS Congressman
Grosvenor, ex-Secretary Charles Fos-
ter, Gov. Bushnell, Senator Hanna and
other leaders entered the hall they
We're given ovations After music,
prayer was offered by Rev. j. w. Hill,
of Fostoria. H. p. Grouse, chairman of
the state central committee, before an
nouncing the temporary officers of the
convention, reviewed the republican
triumphs in Ohio since 1898 and then
introduced c. II. Grosvenor as the TEN
porary chairman of the convention.
Gen. Grosvenor said he did not como to sound
keynote" The st. Louis platform was the
| keynote OF the party. He said that the plat
form had not promised prosperity until Q
| foundation therefor had been laid, and thai
foundtion would be found in the passage o
n protective tarin bill He said that prosperl
ty was coming. and could not be sdetracked
On the Cuban question he declared that Presi
dent Mckinley would not fail to respond to tht
cry OF the sufferers on the island, but that tn,
president would not plunge the country intc
war until all the arts of diplomacy had failed
to vindicate the nations honor Mr.. Grosveno
deared in vehement utterances against tn,
false cry OF civil service reform, and said tina
all republicans were disgusted with its work
ings. He said that the coming democrati
state convention would declare for the free anC
unlimited coinage of silver at 10 to and proph
esied that with an Endorsement OF the Chicago
platform by the democrats they would be de
feated at the polls in November.
When the congressional district!
were called, it was announced tha
there were contests in the Fourth anc
Eighth districts, so that the state com
mitteemen from those districts coulC
not be named until after the report OF
credentials was adopted. The conven
tion then adjourned until to-day.
MurderOus Conspiracy Alleged.
Vincennes, Ind, June 23.-The muir
der of Joseph Medlin, whose dead bod,
was found Sunday in fence corner il