The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-03
He is HANNA'S FAVOR|TE.
Geo. z. Nash Nominated by the
Republicans.
THE SLATE WENT THROUGH
1t Was AL Settled at the Hanna-Cox
Conference-An the Delegates Had
to Do Was to Deliver
the Goods.

lite of George B. Cox, for lieutenant
governor with the other five nomina-
tions distributed among those of less
distinct party affiliations.
What was generally called the Han
na-Cox combination controlled large
majority of the delegates, but it did
not exercise it's power beyond the nom
nations of Nash and Caldwell. The
conference, at which Senator Hanna,
Mr.. Cox and others reached mutually
satisfactory unders tanding, did not
conclude till a. M, an hour before the
convention assembled
1t was all over then with Mr.. Daugh-
erty and other candidates, and it was
known that the convention would con-
clude its work without any such pro-
tracted session as had been anticipated
Guilbert and Huffman were nomi-
mated for second terms without oppo-
sition. When some of the delegates
raised the cry of SLATE" George B. Cox
himself was the first to break the slate
by changing the Sc votes of Hamilton,
which he had cast on the first and sec
ond ballots for Judge Hull for attorney
general, to James M. Sheets. Judge Hull
had been generally considered as sure
winner as he had been slated. In this
case tie dHli-lIuSl dS well aS tHe anti
slate element cut quite a figure. The
proceedings had been quiet and order
ly till the order for the nomina ton of
attorney general was reached. There
were nine names presented for this
nomination., among them being Judge
M. L. Hull of Sandusky, whose name
had been presented earlier in the ses-
sion for the nomination for governor.
The first ballot was proceeding in such
manner as indicated the nomination of
Judge Hull, when an apparently organ
lied chorus began the yell of SLATE"
slate" and the proceedings were in
terrupted by the cries of "slate' every
time votes were announced for Hull.
Both the first and second ballots were
without result. When the third ballot
began the cries of SLATE were renewed
in deafening chorus, and it was then
that George Cox changed the sc votes
of Hamilton county from Judge Hull to
James H. Sheets. This caused a staln-
pede and the rules were suspended and
Sheets was nominated by acclamation
before the call Of counties was com
pleted '''
This was the first break in the So
called Hanna-Cox slate and it caused
the convention to go wild. The dele
gates continued to yell "slate" when the
order of supreme judge was reached
The names of j. 2. Bradbury of Pome-
roy. w. z. Davis of Marion and C. c.
Shearer of Xenia We're presented.
Judge Bradbury has served two
terms of six years each on the supreme
bench and the third term idea had pre-
viously been donated in the cases of
State Treasurer S. B. Campbell and At
torney General Frank, Monnett. The
cries of third term and of SLATE" were
set up against Judge Bradbury and on
the third ballot W. z. Davis was nomi.
mated
Isaac B. Cameron, the successful can
didate for state treasurer, was general
ly credited with being on the slate, and
he secured the Hanna-Cox vote.
Outside of the unusually animated
contests on the nominations, the feature
of the convention was it's Universal in
dorsement of President Mckinley
When the plank commencing the pres
ident for judicious modification of the
civil service rules, recently promulgat-
ed" was read there was very enthusi-
aStic demonstration.
In presenting the name of Mr. Daugh-
erty, Mr.. Holcomb of Cleveland said
he hoped the convention would tolerate
no dictation And when Mr.. Daugherty
was called out after the nomination of
Judge Nash, the defeated candidate
said, among other things, that he hoped
he would at least be allowed to live as
a private citizen in the republican
ranks. Outside of these utterances
there were to-day none of the stings
that are common at conventions and
that were frequently heard on pre-
vious days
The following platform was adopted:
THE republican party of Ohio reaf-
firms the principles declared by the st.
Louis platform.
I'VE earnestly indorse the great ad-
ministration of President Mckinley. 1t
is distinguished to a remarkable degree
in the history of national administra-
tions. Under the last democratic ad-
ministration and as result of the
democratic principles and policy our in
dustries were destroyed, capital and Ia
Dor were unemployed, the poor suffered
as never before in our history; agricul-
tural products could not be sold be-
cause consumers could not earn money
with which to buy and every branch
of trade felt the blighting influence of
the democratic tariff reform hard
times: the treasury of the United States
was depleted and the gold reserve dis
appeared The government borrowed
money to pay current expenses. in
creasing the public debt in times of
peace by hundreds of millions of dol |
lars
THE democratic party proposed to
the people as a remedy for all these
democratic evils a deprecated and dis |
honest currency which intensified every |
evil.
During all that period of depression
the republican party stood fast for the !
principles and policies under which |
American industries had been built up
and flourished beyond example-the |
principles and policies under which the |
people had prospered and the nation
had grown great for generation; stood |
fast Tor sound and honest currency, |
and, in 1896. elected to the presidency |
william Mckinley, the best exponent |
OF republicanism and true American |
IDEAS and policies, the friend of every |
American industry and the wise and |
patriotic defender and advocate of hon
est money. Under his splendid republi-
pn n Spt.