Evening star., 1901-07-06
Its Interest Now Centered in Question
of a PLATFORM
fOM JOHNSON cHIEf BUILDER
Conservative Element Disposed to
Yield to His Ideas
EXCEPT ON SINGLE TAx
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star:


generally conceded now to Col. James XIII
bourne, interest in the democratic state
convention, which meets here next week.
is mainly centered in the platform to be
adopted and the candidates for the minor
places on the ticket. The convention will
be held In the City Auditorium next Tues
day and Wednesday. The state central
committee has selected Charles P. Salen of
Cleveland to be the temporary chairman
and Negley D. Cochran of Toledo to be the
temporary secretary There viii be but a
single session Of the convention proper, and
that will begin at 10 a. July 10. The del
egates will meet at pm. on the first day,
by congressional districts, for the selection
of vice presidents of the convention, mem
bers of the state central, committee
and members of convention committees.
Excepting only the nomination for gov
ernor, the field in each case Is large. The
single session is therefore likely to be
long drawn out with the baIloting. Repre-
sentative John ]. Lentz, who seemed to be
about the only prominent democrat In the
state who was opposing Col. kilbourne's s
nomination last week, gives int1nation Of
a desire to get on the band wagon" as
they say here, and friend has negotiated
for the privilege Tor him of presenting Col
kiibourne's name to the convention. J. l..
Zimmerman of Springfield is the only op-
posing candidate for the nomination for
governor who has not now withdrawn from
the contest. He seems to be counting sup
port from Mayor Tom l.. johnson.
Candidates for Other Places.
The candidates for the other positions
on the ticket are the following
For lieutenant governor-Senator W. G.
Brorein, Auglaize county; Anthony Howells,
Stark county; c. E. Peoples, Meigst county:
William Denman, Williams county, and
Mayor John Cassidy Of Bellefontaine. Lo-
gan county.
For judges Of the supreme court-General
E. B. Finley of Crawford county, Judge
Joseph Hidy, Washington c. H. Judge
Samuel w. Courtright Pickaway county;
Judge G. NJ. Salzgaber Van Vert county;
Frank H. southard. GAINESVILLE. and Judge
Edward Dempsey Of Hamilton county.
For attorney general-A. H. Mykrantz,
Ashland; Frank s. Monnett, Bucyrus,
Crawford county; NJ. B. Mccarthy, Lucas
county, and M. C. Burns, Hamilton county.
For state treasurer-P. Page. Aleshire,
and j. H. Morris, Youngstown
For clerk of the supreme court-Jastus d.
Smoots, Knox county; Franklin P. Edison,
Van Vert, and David Fisher. Sandusky.
For member of the state board Of public
works-James Holman, Brown county !;
Fred Leete Ironton and T. D. Paul. Sum
nit county.
Interest i'm the candidacy Of these gentle
men Is mainly local except in the case Of
Mr.. Monnett. candidate for the nomination
for attorney general. He Is the man. who
as attorney general, brought SO many suits
against the Standard Oil Company and
other trusts several years ago. He was twice
elected as a republican to that office. and
desired a third nomination for the sake OF
prosecuting the cases, but failed to secure
1t. He then joined the democratic party.
There is opposition to him in many quarters
of the state for the reason that he has
not yet given true test of his democracy.
Monnett stated few days ago that Mayor
Tom Johnson had written him urging him
to stay In the race for attorney general;
that he was just the kind ofHa man he
should adopt the kind of a platform he
would present.
KflbOurne Opposed to Monnett.
1t is understood, however, that Colonel
Kilbourne does not want Mr.. Monnett on
the ticket with him. His favorite is Ny
krantz of Ashland. He Is also believed to
favor Howells for lieutenant governor
Hidy for supreme judge, Aleshire for treas
urer, Smoot for clerk Of supreme court and
Holman for the board Of public works.
There is an inclination manifested ON the
part Of the kilbourne organization to COM
promise with Tom Johnson on the plat
form. They believe it would put the party
in a bad light to oppose Johnson's PROPOSE
ton to appraise railroad property on the
same basis as farm property They see no
harm in the adoption of that plank, but
they Will not permit the insertion In the
platform of anything that looks to ward the
single tax theory, to the advocacy of
which Mayor Johnson has devoted himself.
Republicans in a WrangIe.
At the very outset of the campaign, the
republicans have fallen into an unpleasant
wrangle that may have a serious effect
upon the election result The republican
organization of Hamilton county has not
been kindly disposed toward the state ad-
ministration and Colonel Dick, and the
break is in great danger of being made
larger. Chairman Durr of the new central
committee declined to call a meeting of
his committee to choose state executive
committee at the time of the state conven-
tion. Representative Dick was anxious to
have the committee chosen at once AS
soon as Chairman Durr left 1.-THE city John
r. Malloy, at Dicks suggestion, secured
the privilege OF using the name of Mark
Slater, the secretary Of the central COM
mittee, to a call for q meeting of the state
central committee here last Friday. The
committee met without the chairman, who
sent word that he had been tricked, and
that the meeting was not regularly called.
The committee called Malloy and Slater
before 1t. and after some hesitation pro-
ceeded to select state executive commit
tee. 1t turns out that the selections made
are very Objectionable to the Cincinnati
organization and Chairman Durrannounces
that he will ignore the action of last
week and call another meeting Of the COM
mittee.