Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-11
BUCKEYE DEMOCRACY
State Convention Nominates a
Ticket and Decides on a
Platform Declaration.
KILBoURNG AT THE TICKETS TOP
Nor the Issues He Made
Dominant.

Columbus, o., July 1.-THE Demo
cratic state convention here yesterday
had more prominent men as delegates
than any convention of Democrats in
Ohio for many years. 1t was also OH
erwise distinguished. 1t had no slate
to break on the state ticket, or il
would have been smashed in the So
called contest for principles rather
tina for men, The ticket nominated
is as follows: Governor. James Kill
bourne: lieutenant governor. Anthony
HowellS; judge of the supreme court.
Joseph Hidy: clerk of the supreme
court. Harry Il. Young; attorney gen.
eral. NJ. b. Mccarthy; treasurer OF
state. Il. +. Alshire: member of board
of public works. James Il. Holman.
How They Were Nominated.
The nomination of Colonel Kill
bourne was appropriately called one Of
Spontaneous combustion" HOwellS,
Hidy. Alshire and Holman were favor
ties at great odds from the start.
Young was sprung as surprise and
nominated over Smoots. who had been
such favorite that others would not
previously enter the race for clerk of
the supreme court. None of the dele
gates outside of Cleveland knew Young,
and he was nominated because Cuya-
hoga wanted him-CuyahOga. could get
anything il wanted except the head
of the state ticket after the Johnson
amendments were ingrafted into the
Mclean platform and that document
as amended was adopted with unanim-
ity.
Antitrust Man Defeated.
1t was currently reported that John
son desired the nomination Of Mon
nett Il sattorney general. and that the
Mclean men wanted MOnnette defeat
ed. At any rate the defeat of Mon
nette was so decisive as to he a fea-
ture of the convention. and he was
not defeated by MykrantZ. who had
been the favOrite. but Dy Mccarthy.
who WAS being called an also ram
on the floor of the convention. Mon
nette as attorney general had brought
suits against the Standard Oil COM
pany and other corporations to cancel
their charters under the antitrust
laws. He had sought Il third-term
nomination from the Republicans on
this issue. After his uefeat he sup
ported Bryan i'm 1900 on the antitrust
issue and canvassed Ohio and other
states with Bryan.
Bryan Not FaqorIte.
In the stampede for principles
rather than men" the most striking
turn of the convention was on Bryan.
In the committee on resolutions il was
insisted that his name should not he
and that there should he no
reference TO either of the national plat
forms on which he made his cam
paignS. After this plan had been
agreed upon one of the twenty-one
members Of the committee offered
report in the convention. re-
a ffirming the Kansas City platform
and expressing confidence in Bryan,
and he received only six votes out OF
$50 delegates on his substitute for the
platform preamble.
Salient Points of the Platform
The platfrom adopted declares
against mOnopOlieS and trusts and for
the referendum when licenses are
wanted in cities and towns by corpora
tions: denounces free passes for pub
lie officials: demands taxation of pub
lie franchises: declares for tariff for
revenue; denOunces the administra-
tion's policy regarding annexation. de-
claring il the true policy of the United
States to anaeX no peoples who are not
to he made. fun citizens. and that
when any people is not tit for that it
should he permitted to work out its