The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-04-26
4 STATE CONVEN TONS
Pennsylvania, Indiana and Wisconsin
Follow the Buckeye State.
HANNA'S SLATE PUSHED THROUGH IN OHIO
The Platform Was Written in Washington, and
The Delegates to the National Conven-
ton Are Close Personal, Poll
tcal Friends of Mckinley.
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated Press)
Columbus, o., April 25.-The ticket:
Secretary of State-Lewis {. Laylin.
Supreme Judge-John A. Shauck.
Board of Public Works-Charles \.
Goddard.
State School COMMISSIONER. ID.
Bonebrake.
Dairy and Food Commissioner-J.
i. Blackburn.
Presidential Electors at Large
Colonel Myron T. Herrick, General
w. p. Orr.
Delegates at Large-Senator Joseph
b. Foraker. Governor George K. Nash,
General Charles Dick, General Charles
Grosvenor
Alternates at Large-Hon. Charles
Foster, Hon. Myron 0. Norris, Hon.
w. c. Brown. George \. Meyers.
The Republican State convention
here today was of national import
ance. The delegates and alternates
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 OmlS-
sion of the Porto Rican resolution.
/ The so-calIed Hanna slate on dele
gates and alternates at large and the
State ticket went through without
any breaks. There was. however. OPP
position to Food Commissioner Black
burn, because he was running for
third term and for other local reas-
ons. and to General GrosvenOr for
delegate from the friends of EX-GOv-
ernor Bushnell, who among other
things that he was more than the
Chairman of the Committee on Resolu
tions, that he lad brought the plat
form with him and had successfully
! resisted any material revision.
j. Frank McGrew. EX-Representa-
tive and son-in-law of former Govern
or Bushnell. speaking on his amend
ment to strike out Grosvenor and in
sert Hanna. eulogized Hanna, whom
! he has heretofore opposed and said
the Democrats would make capital
out of the action of the Republicans
of the Presidents State if Senator
Hanna was not made one of 'the big
four
Senator Hanna was finally called to
the front of the platform, and pro-
claimed emphatically, What do |
care what the Democrats say about
me?" The Senator's speech today was
on local State affairs. In declining
to be delegate he delivered a philip
pic against what he termed 'eXpedien-
cieS."
When Senator Hanna said he would
,, not serve as a delegate there was
motion to strike out Grosvenor and
insert Foster The Bushnell men for
merly had not been friendly to Chas.
Foster. Ex-Governor and EX-Secreta
~ of the Treasury, but today it was
anybody's 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
excellent slate that had been brought
to Ohio from Washington"
The resolution making Foraker,
Nash, Grosvenor and Dick the dele
gates at large was offered by EX-Sen-
ator 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
Grosvenor offered a resolution just
like it, by which the alternates at
large were also selected in a bunch
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names or balloting.
The convention was unusually har-
monious with the exception of the
personal fights made on Grosvenor
, and Blackburn, both of whom won.
The platform adopted reaffirms the
ST. Louis platform, declares the Re-
publican administration has restored
prosperity to the country and that
the United States is outstripping all
the nations of the world in foreign
trade. The resolutions endorse the
wise and patriotic administration of
President Mckinley whose signal
| achievements in war and peace, in
craftsmanship and diplomacy mark
an epoch in the history of the ma
ton, and whose brilliant success just
ifies and demands. in the highest in
terests of the country, the uninter-
rupted continuance through another
term of his great but tncompleted
work. Confronting unprecented re-
quirements at home and uneXampled
responsibilities abroad. he has met
them with a courage, fidelity and
strength which have ptven him IN
enduring place in the confidence and
affection of his countrymen.
Every pledge of his administration
has been faithfully redeemed.
! Universal confidence is declared to
have been re-awakened and prosperity