Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-04-26

COLUMBUS, April 26. The Republican
state convention here was of national
importance rtre delegates and altern-
ates-at- large are close personal, as well
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 Ric0a resolution.
The ticket named was as follows:
Secretary Of state-Lewis G. Lay1in.
i Supreme Judge John A. Sts. IL.
Board of Public Works-=Cha les A.
Goddard.
State School COMMISSIONER d.
Bonebrake.
Dairy and Food COMMISSIONER. E.
Blackburn.
Preside ntial Electors at -large-Colo-
mel Myron T. Herriek, General w. P.
Orr.
Delegates-at-large Senator Joseph B.
Foraker, Governor George K Nash,
General Charles Dick, General Charles
Grosyenor.
Alternates-at-l arge-Hon Charles Eos
ter, Hon. Myron O. Norris, Hon. w
". tolO0ily 1tOlS5C - WI bIS.
The above was the so-called 'sHanna
slate" on delegates aud alternates-at-
large, and it went through without any
breaks There was, however, opposi-
ton to Food Commissioner Blackburn
because he was running for third
term and for other local reasons, and to
General Grosyenor for delegate from the
friends of Ex-Governor Bushnell.
When former Governor Bushnell op-
posed the election of Hanna as senator
three years ago, General Grosvenor
wrote a letter to former client, who
was then an applicant for a pardon, and
that letter was revived at this eonven-
ton. Then there We're others III the
convention to whom the Bushnell men
called attention to the fact that General
Grosvenor was delegate-at-l large four
years ago and that he had been dis
triet delegate to national conventions
ever since the Republican party had OK
listed. At this convention they charged
that he was more than the chairman of
the committee on resolutions, that he
had brought the platform with him, and
had successfully resisted any material
revision.
The efforts of the Bushnell men to
substitute some one in place of Grosve-
nor made an unusually interesting
scene. 1t Was opened by Judge Gilbert
Ii. Stewart. OF Columbus, who had
spent the night opposing General Cfros-
yenor IL. the committee on resolutions,
OF which they were both members, but
1t reached its climax when J. Frank Nc
Grew, ex-representative and son-in law
of former Governor Bushnell, was
speaking on his amendment to strike out
Grosyenor and insert Hanna. McGrew
eulogized Hanna, whom he has hereto
fore opposed, and said the Democrats
would make capital out of the action OF
the Republicans of the presidents state
1t Senator Hanna was not made zone of
the big four
Whea Senator Hanna was finally
palled to the front of the platform, the
speech of ex Representative McGrew
caused the senator to proclaim emphat-
lcally, ''What do | care what the Demo
Gratis say about me?" While the seAa-
tors speech was on local state affairs,
especially ON factional and personal
preferences, it was delivered with more
force aud feeling than his address of the
day before. In declining to be dele
gate, he delivered a philippe against
what he termed 'eXpediencies. -
When Senator Hanna said he would
not serve as a delegate there was a mo-
ton to strike out Grosvenor and insert
Foster The Bushnell men formerly
had not been friendly to Charles Eos
ter, ex-governor and ex-secretary of the
treasury, but it was anybody to beat
Grosvenor. Foster has in recent
speeches made several thrusts at Hanna
and GrosveEor, and when he stepped to
the front OF the platform he said he de-
cllned because he would not want to
break the excellent slate that had been
brought to Ohio from Washington -
The resolution making Foraker, Nash,
Grosvenor and Dick the delegates-at-
large was offered by ex-senator Massie,
of Grosyenor' congressional district,
and the Bushnell men charged that it
was the Grosvenor plan to avoid ballot
ing. As soon as this resolution was
adopted, General Grosvenor offered
resolution just like it, by which the four
MISUNDERSTANDING were also selected in
bunch, without any of the forms of
presenting names or balloting.
General Dick and General GroSvenor
returned to Washington.
Governor Nash left for Boston and
Senator Hanna for Cleveland. The latter
Will not leave Tor Washington until sat
urday. The convention was unusually
harmonious, with the exception of the
personal fights made ON Grosvenor and
Blackburn, both of whom Won
Following is an abstract of the plat
form adopted:
The platform reaffirms at the beginning the
declaration Of principles made by the Republic
can party ut ST. Louis i'll 1896; declares that the
Republican administration has restored pros
perity to the country and that the United
States is outAfsipping all the nations of the
world in foreign trade. The resolutions en-
dorse the wise and patriotic administration of
President Mckinley, whose signal II ieve
ments in war and peace, in statesnla IN and
diplomacy, mark an epoch in the his, the
nation, and whose brilliant success y aes
and dclnands in the highest interest the
country, the uninterrupted contnuance
through another term of his great but uncom
pleted work.
Confronting unprecedented requirements
at home and unexampled responsibilities
, abroad he has met them with courage tidel
ity and strength which have given him an en-
during place N the confidence and affection of
his eountrymen.
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