The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-29

Columbus, o.. June 2S-The candi-
dates and delegates are here in force
today for the Democratic state convent
ton. which meets tomorrow and Wed
nesday. The delegates meet by con-
! gressional districts tomorrow afternoon,
and the committees tomorrow night,
while the. convention proper does not
/ assemble till Wednesday morning.
John r. Mclean, proprietor of the
/ Cincinnati Enquirer. has secured such
] large majority of delegates that there
is no more opposition to him for sena-
tor than there was TO Senator Hanna at
the Republican state convention last
week
McLaan's friends do not want anv
senatorial endorsement attached to the
Platform in the form of a resolution.
They are simply keeping clear the right
of way. No Democrats have held state
offices since Mckinley was governor
and new class of aspirants is in the
for each place on the state ticket, and
the-' are all here today and their
headquarters open.
Nominations will be made for gov
ernor. acknowledgements. supreme
judge and member of the board OF pub
lie works.
Among the candidates for governor
are Robert T. Hough, Paul J. Sorg,
John c. Welty, D. d. Donavan. r. \.
Smalley, J. NJ. Van Meter, s. NJ. Hun
ter, a. Patrick, Horace L. Chapman,
A. w. Thurman, John ]. Lentz. c. P.
Noble, John F. VIM, z. 3. Finley, F.
c. Layton, F. NJ. Marriott. John G.
Reeves and Frank Southland. Today
Hough is the favorite, but the field is
making hard fight on him. His friends
claim that he is such a strong silver
man that he resigned as solicitor of the
internal revenue DEPARTMENT. His op-
ponents say his resignation was asked
for and that he wore a Carlisle gold
button.
The convention is almost unit for
free silver. and no candidate is con-
sidered whose record is not clear on
that issue.
An effort is being made TO have moth
ing in the platform except the one sill
yer plank. This viii avoid endorsing
the Chicago platform as whole, and
other questions on which there are diff
ferences of opinion. Owing TO Senator
Hanna voting against the Cuban reso-
luton, there are some who insist on a
stronger Cuban resolution than that
ado-ted a . Toledo.
With the unusually large number of
night, the ante-convention contests
We're very animated. The field has con-
centrated against r. T. Hough as the
favOrite for governor, and viii fight him
TO decisive ballot. There We're veTv
many reports circulated against him
tonight. The Press Post, the central
Democratic organ, in a leading editorial
tonight. questioned his orthodoxy on
the silver question, and the DISPATCH, |
an independent paper, produced articles
from the Hillsboro Gazette, in which
Judge Hough is interested, and of
which his brother is editor, to show
that Hough was not an original silver
man. Numerous statements have been |
published about Hough wearing a Car /
Isle badge during the contest between |
Blackburn and Hunter for senator in |
Kentucky and previous to the Chicago |
Ex-Congressman S. S. Yorder pub
lished a statement of Hough being an !
original Bryan man at Chicago and |
a free silver plank in the |
state platform three years ago, when
Senator Brice controlled the Demo-
cratic state convention. With the
bitter fight made on Hough today
there has been considerable rise in the
oooms of other candidates. notably &C
John c. Welty and OF Horace L. Chap
nan, both of whom are also friendly 90
Mclean for senator. While the fight
ne for the head of the state ticket is
very animated, there is no visible OPP
position TO Mclean. Even the gold
Democrats who are in attendance.
avor him for senator. notably Law
ence T. Neal. who was McKinleys
pponent for governor. ex-Mayor John
Farley, who heads the delegation from
Cleveland. and several leaders from
Cincinnati and other cities who are not
liver men.
While many Of the leaders are oppos-
ne what is being termed McLean's
late for the state ticket. with Hough
II the head of the list, none of them
2pose Mclean for senator.
All efforts today 10 get Mclean to
ttend the convention failed. Ex-Sen-
tor Brice viii not be here. His private
George Gillian, and other !
riends are here as interested sDecta-
ors.
There was recently organized state
"a que of silver Republicans in opposi-
ion to what is known as the Palmer
'uckner Democrats This organiza-
ion has its representatives here de-
handing that the nomination for lieu
anant- governor be given silver Re {
ublican. but ii is not likely that the
econd place on the state ticket viii {
c 10 an. Republican who may have !
oted for Bryan and Sewall.
BANK RAIDED.