The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-27
OHIO REPUBLICANS.
State Convention dominates a Ticket
and Chooses Delegates to National
Convention-The Platform

Columbus, Ohio, April 25.-The re-
publican state convention here today
was of national Importance. The del
egates and alternates at large are
close personal, as we'll as political,
friends of the president and the plat
form is just as it came from Washing
ton, with the addition of the anti
trust resolution and the omission of
the Porto Rican resolution.
The so-called Hanna slate on del
egates and alternates at large and the
state ticket went through without any
breaks. There was, however, opposi-
tion to Food Commissioner Blackburn,
because he was running for a third
term and for other reasons and to
Gen. GroSvenOr for delegate from the
friends of Ex-Governor Bushnell, who
among other things said that he was
more than the chairman of the COM
mittee on resolutions, that h had
brought the platform with him and
had successfully resisted any material
revision.
j. Frank McGrew ex-representative
and son-in-law of former Governor
Bushnell, speaking on his amendment
to strike out Grosvenor and insert
Hanna. eulogiZed Hanna whom he has
heretofore opposed and said the DEM
ocrats would make capital out of the
action of the republicans of the presi-
dents state if Senator Hanna was not
made one of 1.-The big four
Senator Hanna was finally called
to the front of the platform and pro-
claimed emphatically: What do 1 care
He said he would not serve as a dele
gate.
The resolution making Foraker,
Nash, Grosvenor 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, General Gros-
venor offered a resolution just like it,
by which the alternates at large were
also selected in a bunch without any
| of the forms Of presenting names or
balloting.
The platform adopted re-affirms the
st. Louis platform, declares the repub-
| lican administration has restored pros
| perity to the country and that the
| United States is outstripping all the
| nations of the world in foreign trade
The resolutions in the highest terms
ministration of President Mckinley
whose signal achievements in wal
| and peace, in craftsmanship and dip
| lomacy, mark an epoch in the history
! of the nation
The administration is declared to
have fixed the gold standard upon firm
| foundations of law and made the ma
| tional currency larger in volume and
sure in value, and lifted the national
credit to the highest plane any ma
| ton has ever reached
| The platform continues:
"In the broader field of world duty
| and influence it has met an unavoida-
BILE war for humanity with unequale6
vigor and success, has crowned the
| matchless triumph of our arms on sea
and land with the courageous accep-
| tance of its high and solemn obliga-
tions; has faithfully studded and
| sought equally the true honor of the
nation and the greatest good of the
| peoples who have come under our flag
and has through the wise use of ex.
| pended opportunity led our country OF
| pathways of greatness and renown.
I'VE re-affirm the principle in which
the republican party had it's birth an6
| on which Abraham Lincoln was elect.
| ed president; that the representatives
| Of the people have full power over ter.
/ ritory belonging to the United States
| in harmony with and subject to the
| fundamental safe guards Of our free
institutions for liberty justice ant
personal rights"
It ds declared that sovereignty ovel
| the new possessions must not be re-
| pudiated.
| It opposes trusts, calling for thei]
| regulation from time to time and re.
strfctien to guarantee immunity from
hurtful monopoly and assuring fail
| treatment to all competing industries