The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-26
PLATFORM WENT As IT WAS
GEN. GROSVENOR BROUGHT 1T
OVER FROM WASHINGTON IN
HIS POCKET
OF NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE
All That Was Done I'm the Cut-and-
Dried Columbus Proceedings
Feeble Protest Failed to
Rear Fruit

COLUMBUS, o., April 25.-The Repub-
hcan state convention here today was of
national significance. The delegates and
alternates at large represent close per-
sonal 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 Puerto Rican resolution.
The so-called Hanna slate on delegates
and alternates at large and the state tick
ct went through without any breaks
There was, however, opposition to Food
Commissioner Blackburn because he was
running for a third term and for other To-
cal reasons, and to Gen. Grosvenor, for
delegate, from the friends of ex-Gov
Bushnell. 1t was remembered that Gen.
GrosvenOr was a delegate at large four
years ago, and that he had been dis
rict delegate to national conventions ever
since the Republican party had existed.
AT this convention it was charged that
he was more than the chairman of the
committee on resOlutons-that he had
brought the platform with him and had
successfully resisted any material revi-
sion.
The efforts of the Bushnell men to sub
stitute some one in place of Grosvenor
made an unusually interesting scene,
which reached its climax when ]. Frank
McGraw, eX-representative and son-in-
law of former Gov. Bushnell, was speak
ing on his amendment to strike out Gros-
VenOr and insert Hanna. McGraw eulo-
gized Hanna, whom he has heretofore OPP
posed, and said the Democrats would
make capital out of the action Of the Re
pubncans of the presidents state if Sen
ator Hanna was not made one of 1.-The
big four"
MR.. HANNA DECLINES.
When Senator Hanna was finally called
to the front of the platform, the speech
Of eX-Representative McGraw caused the
senator to proclaim emphatically:
What do 1 care what the Democrats
say about be?"
In declining to be a delegate Senator
Hanna delivered a philippe against what
he termed "expediencies'
When Senator Hanna said he would not
serve as a delegate there was a motion
to strike out Grosvenor and insert eX-
Gov. Foster.
Mr. Foster stepped to the front of the
platform and declined, because he would
not want to break the excellent slate that
The resolution making Foraker, Nash,
Grosvenor and Dick the delegates at large
was offered by ex-senator Masse, of Sen
ator Foraker's congressional 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 alternates at
large were also selected in a bunch, with
out any Of the forms of presenting names
or balloting.
Gen. Dick and Gen. Grosvenor returned
10 Washington tonight. Gov. Nash left
for Boston, and Senator Hanna for Cleve-
land. The latter will not leave for Wash
,ngton until Saturday.
The convention was unanimously har-
nonious, with the exception of the per-
sonal fights made on Grosvenor and
Blackburn, both of whom won.
The ticket is: Secretary of state, Lewis
c. Laylin; supreme judge, John A.
Shauck; board of public works, Charles
A. Goddard; state school commissioner,
L. d. Bonebrake; dairy and food commits