The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-30
A CROSS OF GOLD
Ornamented With a Crown of
ThOrns and a Clock
Marking the Hour 16 to 1 at
Columbus,
SETS DEMOCRATS WILD
Chairman Uric Sloane Sounds
the Campaign Hey Note.
Restoration of the "DOllar of
Our Daddies."
He Declares to Be Great Issue
Before the Country.
SETS DEMOCRATS WILD

Columbus, O., June 3O.-The Demo-
cratic state convention here today was
the most largely attended of any such
occasion since the civil war. While
this convention was in some respects a
mass meeting of free siIverites, the
large attendance was partly due to the
fact that a complete new ticket was to
be nominated and there was an unusu-
ally large number of candidates for
each place. These candidates had
their respective troops of workers here
in addition to the delegates and they
aggregated several thousand enthuSl-
astic hustlerS.
over one thousand of such shouters
came from the home counties OF some
of the candidates for governor, while
there were many here for the candl-
dates for minor places. The new Col
umbus auditorium, with a seating ca
pacity of 5000, had just been cOmplet-
ed for the convention and its capacity
was not equal to the demand for ad-
mission. There was a profusiOn of
portraits of Democratic leaders about
the walls, but that of President CleVe-
land was not in the collection The
Ohio state convention last year was not
as strongly for free silver as the con-
VentiOn of today, and in the conVen-
ton of one year ago there was some
disturbance because of a motion to turn
the picture of Cleveland toward the
wall
The picture of Senator Brice as we'll
as of other gold Democrats was miss
ing from the galaxy of heroes. The
familiar portrait of w. ]. Bryan was
the center of attraction and that of
the late Allen G. 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 commit
tee and he was reelected last night by
Influence
McCOnville was also reelected chair
man of the state executive committee.
When the convention was called to
order at 10 a. m. by Chairman Durbin
he congratulated the party on the
signs of the times and the enthusiastic
condition of the party. He made e.
speech for free silver.
Prayer was offered by Rev. E. L.
ReXfOrd, pastor of the UniverSalist
church in this city, and then Uric
Sloane was introduced as the tempor-
airy chairman of the convention.
Mr.. Sloane said in part: THE people
of Ohio and. indeed, of the Union, are
to be congratulated upon this large as
semblage, for it is a convention of rep
resent ntatives of the whole people, the
masses and not of bosses of trusts, of
syndicates, or of the hired tools of the
deSpOtism of Wall and Lombard street
greed. This convention comes from
the common people and owes it's allie
glance alone to them, and is not here
to record the edict of any self-cOnsti-
tuted boss ruling not because of dis
tfnguished services to the country as
a statesman, patriot or soldier. nor by
force of great intellectual attainments,
but by the sheer brute force of wealth
In these respects what a contrast it
offers to the late convention at Toledo.
1 do not say the late Republican con-
ventiOn at Toledo for that convention
was not called, organized or controlled
along the lines of what the fathers of
the Republican party taught. but
mo n1v 70 r.Flr H.,
the viii of Mark Hanna, ruling by as
veritably brute force as did any rob
ber baron of the middle ages As
sembled at Toledo were men, all bear
ing the ear tag of either Hanna or For
aker, rival bosses and representing
the victory for one or the other such
boss in ever county of the state
And such body hypocriticaIly assumed
to be acting for the country's well
fare.
TT is expected that your temporary
chairman shall strike the keynote of
the coming campaign. Well. that key
note shall be sounded on a silver chord.
It will be no new note, but prolonga-
ton of that sounded by the national
convention at Chicago last summer and
one that has grown in power and vol
ume since carried in grand diapasOn
of over six million voices to the polls
last NOVem beT. There may be some in
this convention, though I doubt it. who
hoped that silver note was silent. There
were many in the land who Immediate
Iy after the last November election
both hoped and believed So But to all
such Republicans. Mckinley Democrats
or followers of the dudes and dotards
who met at indianapolis the renewal of
the slogan of free silver here and in
Kentucky, will be a warning that the
fiery cross is speeding over mountain
and valley, over hill and dale, over
field and forest, summOning the silver
clansmen to fight the great battle for
the people and receiving no weak or
uncertain response.
who doubts that the rich men are
'despots,' who that looks calmly ahead
but knows that unless prevailing cOndi-
tions are soon changed the poor will
become 'banditti' Five millions of men
are begging for leave to toll All class
es cry to the Mckinley administration
for bread and are offered stone. The
people ask for money and Charley
GrOsVenOr pitches them a sugar beet
The panacea for all the ills attempt
ed to be applied by the present admin
istration is higher taxes. The duties
provided fer in the DinSley bill are laid
expressly for the sO-called protection of
certain Industries, which must be so IA
vOred because of an anti-election con-
tract to that effect, made by Mark Han
ma fer valuable consideration. It is q
bill such as James G. Blaine denounced
as not des gned to furnish market for
a barrel of flour, or a pound of pork
which viii bring prosperity generally to
the country and it furnishes no remedy
to put a stop to raids on the gold re-
serve whenever it may suit the policy
or greed of the PierpOnt MOrgans and
the Rot hSchildS to make them