Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-02-17
OHIO REPUBLICAN LEAGUE.

Its Annual Convention was Turbulent and
Exciting - Recognition OF Cuban Inde-
pendence Demanded - Bushnell Eulo-
gized.
Columbus. o., Feb. 12.-The Ohio Re-
publican League convention which was
held in this city Friday, was one of the
stormiest in the history of the league.
About 200 delegates, representing -
clubs, were in attendance. The fac
tional feeling which marked the late
senatorial contest cropped out. There
were strenuous efforts to restore har-
mony. however. both the retiring pres
ident and the president-elect advising
the members of the league to lay aside
factiOnal differences. senator Foraker
in his telegram to the league also made
IA plea for harmony. The Foraker and
Bushnell element were dominant in
the convention, however, and carried
all their points.
Trouble was started early in the
proceedings. President John j. Sui
livan, in his opening address to the
convention, referred to the great serv-
ice which had been rendered the party
in the last campaign by Gov. Bushnell,
Hon. Clay Drinklc, of Lancaster, criti-
cised Mr.. Sullivan's omission of Sena-
tor Foraker's name quite sharply. say
ing that one would not infer from Mr..
Sullivan's speech that Ohio had a
senior senator.
While there was contest on some
of the officers, the big fight of the con-
vention was on the resolutions. The
chairman of the committee on resolu-
tions was Charles Griffin, of Toledo,
and he drafted the report presented to
the convention. The last three sections
of the report precipitated the fight, led
by A. 5. Bicllham of Dayton. Despite
the opposition, however, the original
resolutions were adopted with the fol-
lowing addition: I'VE send greetings
to President Mckinley and Senators
Hanna and Foraker and assure them
of our heartiest support"
The sections objected to by the Nc
Kinley and Hanna adherents are as
follows:
We indorSe the Cuban resolution introduced
and discussed February by Senator Mason in
the United States senate and hope that it will
be promptly approved by the committee on
foreign affairs, passed by the senate, and ener-
getically carried into effect by our honored
president. to the end that Cuban independe nee
may quickly become an accomplished fact
without being loaded down by an iniquitous
bonded debt.
We cordially indorse every department Of
our state administration particularly that Of
our beloved, level-headed and efficient COVER
nor Gen. Asa 5. Bushnell
We indorse and approve the energetic and
efficient efforts undertaken by Attorney Cen
eral Monnett and the state senate to uncover
and destroy unlawful and hurtful trusts, syn
dicates and combinations We hope such effort
will continue until all such hurtful trusts and
combinations are uncovered and destroyed and
that the general assembly will supplement
such efforts by appropriate legislation.
The following officers were elected:
President, w. L. Bundy, Cincinnati.
Vice presidents John +. Golden
bogen, Cleveland: George w. Playford
Zanesville; Charles f. Gordon, Toledo,
and John j. Williams. Portsmouth.
Secretary, George T. Crawford, Co
lumbus.
Treasurer, John L. Means, Steuben
Vile.
elegates-at-large to the National
league conventions: John j. Sullivan,
Warren; Charles Case, Columbus; c. b.
Calderwood, Darke county: John Hop
ley, Bucyrus; George A. Myers, Cleve-
land; John 5. Goodwin, East Liverpool.
The 11th annual Lincoln day banquet
of the Ohio Republican league was
held at the Chittenden hotel last night.
1t was not as large as previous gather
ings of the kind.