The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-31
M'LEAN NOMINATED
First Ballot Named 0hio's Democratic
Standard Bearer.
HAVE WELL ORGANIZED FORCES
The Nominee Red Hot Bryan and
Silver Democrat.
THE PLATFORM A VERY STRONG ONE.
Favors Bryan for President and the Un-
limited Coinage Of Silver.
IMPERIALISM WAS STRONGLY DENOUNCED
The Speech of Temporary Chairman
3avors Bryan for President and the Un-
limited Coinage Of Silver.
WAS STRONGLY DENOUNCED
The Speech of Temporary Chairman
Mooney Reflects the Democracy
of the buckeye state.

GAINESVILLE, Ohio, August 3o.--The dem
ocratic State convention closed tonight
after day of dramatic plays. While
there were half dozen other candidates
for governor. the Mclean, men have
claimed everything with such confidence
that they undertook to be magnanimous
in minor parts, though they were careful
at the same time that the star candidate
was not eclpsed. They stated early in
the day that the first ballot would have
none of "the second choice" for Mclean;
none of the reserves would be called out
until the second ballot and that all the
candidates would have their respective
votes on the first ballot. In this play
Mclean was nominated on the first ballot
by half vote and the figuring was so
close that the scenes of changes on the
second ballot with second choice" re-
serves fiocking to McLeans standard did
not take place. 1t is claimed that Nc
Lean could have had AIS out of the 500
on the first ballot, instead of i02 IL and
that he would have had over 500 on the
second ballot. AT any rate the delega; IS
all voted for their favorites on the first
ballot and thus the programme of COM
plimenting them was carried out without
the leader drawing from any of his COM
pettors.
After the adoption of the majority re-
port on credentials the Mclean men felt
that they could make any play on the
balloting that they desired. The vote OF
$50 to S41 in defeating the minority report
on credentials was the hardest fight the
Mclean men had during the day, as they
were then without the fifty-four conteste
votes from Cuyahoga county, and on that
vote they could not have made nomina-
ton. Even without the Cuyahoga vote
they had S95 votes on the adoption OF the
majority report on credentials and that
was only seven short of enough to nom
mate.
Among the shrewdest plays in the drama
was the motion to amend the report on
permanent organization so as to continue
the temporary organization and this cor
rected the only slip that the Mclean men
made last night at the meeting of the
T,,Jn made ciiph
good impression that all wanted him for
permanent chairman and the amended re-
port also contained as secretary Hon.
and shut off the anti Mclean man who
had been named in the report for ser
geant arms.
The convention much of the time was
beyond control of the sergeant arms
and his assistants.
The convention was properly represented
in its platform in the keynote speech OF
Judge Mooney.
The name OF Bryan was cheered when
ever II was mentioned The convention
showed demonstrations In favor of free
silver.
Fer the second place, after the recess,
there were attempts to nominate Colonel
Kilbourne, Notwithstanding his repeated
name as fast as the Mclean men presented
1t.
Memorial hall was packed when Hon.
w. S. Thomas, chairman Of the democratic
State committee, today called the con-
yention to order Many were unable TO
gain admission. The decorations were
elaborate with Bryan portraits In evidence
everywhere. On the stage was a life size
strait of the favorite for the presidency.
In the opening prayer Very Rev, l.. +.
Kearney, Catholic, prayed most earnestly
for deliverance of the Filipinos from the
brute force" now being inflicted upon
them
The Hon. William T. Mooney. the tenn
porary chairman, was introduced and spoke
as follows:
There will be today no contest as to the
pIatform declarations which our party shall
make. There is no difference OF opinion.
The democratic party OF Ohio stands
souarely upon every plank of the Chicago
platform of 1896. We believed 1t then and
we believe 1t now.
1.-THE people who sent us here do NOT
believe in a double standard OF democ-
racy. In 1896 the test was, Are you ioyai
10 the PLATFORM and that is the ohso test
today
"The party in Ohio is too thoroughly
honest too completely convinced, too des-
nerately in earnest to desire to be misun-
derstood. The reafiirmation of the Ma
tional platform does. not eliminate ana
does not fail to both recognize and em-
nhasize that we demand the free and UNI
limited coinage of both gold and silver, at
tha ratio of 16 TO /. without waiting Tor
the consent or assistance of any nation on
1--WE believe that the decentralization OF
silver In this country in 1873 was accom-
plished by fraud and crime; that the ac-
ton was taken without any demand from
or consent by the people OF the United