Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-26


Senator Hanna Refused To Be a
Delegate.
Secretary of State-Lewis C. Laylin.
Supreme Judge-John A. Shauck.
Board of Public Works-Charles A.
Goddard.
State School Commissioners D.
Bonebrake.
Dairy and Food Commissioner. E.
Blackburn.
Presidential Electors at Large-Col.
Myron T. Herrick, Gen. w. P. Orr.
Delegates at Large-Senator Joseph
B. Foraker, Governor George X. Nash,
Gen. Charles Dick, Gen. Charles Gros-
venor.
Alternates at Large-Hon. Charles
Foster, Hon. Myron o. Norris, Hon. w.
c. Brown, George A. Meyers.
COLUMBUS, o., April 25.-The Re-
publican State convention here to-day
was of national Importance. The dele
gates and alternates at large are close
personal as we'll as political friends of
the President, and the platform is just
as it came from Washington, with the
addition of the antitrust resolution
and the omission of the Porto Rican
resolution.
Tho cn-ooI1aI sfIJo~~o cloko,J ~ laJ
egates and alternates at large and the
State ticket went through without any
breaks. There was, however, opposi-
ton to Food Commissioner Blackburn,
because he was running for a third
term and for other local reasons, and
to Gen. Grosvenor for delegate from
the friends of ex-Gov. Bushnell.
When former Gov. Bushnell opposed
the election of Hanna as Senator three
years ago, Gen. GroSvenor wrote a
letter to a former client, who was then
an applicant for a pardon, and that
letter was received at this convention.
Then there were others in the con-
vention to whom the Bushnell men
called attention to the fact that Gen.
Grosvenor was a delegate at large four
years ago and that he had been a dis
trict delegate to national conventions
ever since the Republican party had
existed. At this convention they
charged that he was more than the
chairman of the committee on resolu-
tions, that he had brought a platform
with him, and had successfully resisted
any material revision.
The effort of the Bushnell men to
substitute some one in place of Grosv-
enor made an unusually interesting
scene. 1t was opened by Judge Gilbert
H. Stewart, of Columbus, who had
spent the night opposing Gen. Grosv-
enor in the committee on resolutions.
of which they were both members, but
it reached its climax when J. Frank
McGrew, ex-Representative and son-in-
law of Former Governor Bushnell, was
speaking on his amendment to strike
out Grosvenor and insert Hanna. Nc
Grew eulogized Hanna, whom he has
heretofore opposed, and said the Demo-
Gratis would make c1pital out of the
action of the Republicans of the Presi-
dents State if Senator Hanna was not
made lone of the big four
When Senator Hanna was finally
called to the front of the platform, the
speech of ex-Representative McGrew
caused the Senator to proclaim emphat-
ically, What do care what the Demo-
Gratis say about me?"
While the Senator's speech to-day
was ON local State affairs, especially on
factional and personal preferences. it
was delivered with mor force and feel
ing than his address of yesterday. In
declining to be a delegate he delivered
a philippe against what he termed Eek
pediencies."
When Senator Hanna said he would
not serve as a delegate there was a
motion to strike out Grosveonor and
insert Foster. The Bushnell men for
merly had not been friendly to Char
les Foster, Ex-Governor and ex-Secre-
tary of the Treasury, but to-day it was
anybody to beat Grosvenor.. Foster
has in recent speeches made several
thrusts at Hanna and Grosvenor, and
when he stepped to the front of the
platform he said he declined because
he would not want to break the ex-
cellent slate that had been brought to
Ohio from Washington"
The resolution making Foraker,
Nash, G~rosvenor and Dick the dele
gates at large was offered by ex-Sena-
tor Massie, Of Grosvenor's Congress
sional district, and the Bushnell men
charged that it was the Grosvenor
plan to avoid balloting. As soon as
this resolution was adopted Gen.
Grosvenor offered a resolution just
like it, by which the four a~lternates
at large were also selected in a bunch
without any of the forms of present
ing names or balloting.
Gen. Dick and Gen. Grosvenor re-
turned to Washington tonight. Gov
ernor Nash left for Boston and Sena-
tor Hanna for Cleveland. The latter
will not leave for Washington until
Saturday. The convention was I'M
usually harmonious with the exception
of the personal fights made ON Gros-
venor and Blackburn, both of whom
won.
The platform reaffirms at the begin
ming the declaration of principles made
by the Republican party at st. Louis
in 1896; declares the Republican adj
ministration has restored prosperity to
the countr and that the TTnitad States