The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-11
NAME OF BRYAN CAUSES
TURMOIL IN CONVENTION
Ohio Democrats Say Bitter Things About Him and
Trample His Picture Under Foot.
State Ticket Is Put in the Field and Platform Adopted After
Hard Fight.
The Ticket.

The Ticket.
Governor-Jsmes Kilbourne.
Lieutenant Recommendations How
ellis.
Judge of Supreme Court-Joseph
Hidy.
Clerk of Supreme Court-Harry R.
Young
Attorney General-M- B. Mccarthy.
Treasurer of Slater. P Alshire.
Member of Board OF Public Works
James B. Holman
Columbus, O., July 10.-The Demo
cratic state convention here today had
more prominent men as delegates than
any convention of Democrats in Ohio
for many years. 1t was otherwise dis
tinguished.
The nomination of Colonel KiIbourne
was appropriately called one of "spOn-
taneOus combustion" HOwelIs, Hidy
Alshire and Holman were favOrites at
great odds from the start. Young was
sprung as a surprise and nominated
over Shoots, who had been such a ia
vOTite that others would not previously
enter the race for clerk of the supreme
court. None of the delegates outside of
Cleveland knew Young, and he was
nominated because CuyahOga wanted
him. CuyahOga could get anything
it wanted, except the head of the state
ticket after the Johnson amendments
were migrated into the Mclean plat
FORM and that document, as amended.
was adopted with equanimity.
It was currently reported that John
son desired the nomination of Monnett
as attorney general, and the Mclean
men wanted MOnnett defeated. At any
rate the defeat of MOnnett was so de-
cisive as TO be feature of the con-
ventiOn. and he was not defeated by
l Mykrantz, who had been the favOTite.
but by Mccarthy, who was being called
an also ran" on the floor of the con-
vention until one of the MOnnett men
circulated the report that Mccarthy
was an attorney for the Standard Oil
company. When the reaction came on
this charge, Mykrantz withdrew dur
Ing the ballot in favor of Mccarthy,
and the latter got two-thirds of the
votes.
Monnett is Beaten.
MOnnett. as attorney general, had
brought suits against the Standard Oil
company and other corporations, to
cancel their charters under the anti
trust laws. He had sought a. third
term nomination from the Republicans
on the issue that he should be retained
in that Office to continue these prose
cutiOns. After his defeat for the third
nomination In 1899, he supported Bryan
in 1900 on the antitrust issue and can
vassed Ohio and other states with Rrv-
MOnnett's name. said he was known
from the Golden Gate Of San Francisco
to the Hell Gate of New York, as the
enemy of trusts
In the alleged stampede "for prin-
ciples rather than men, the most
striking turn of the convention was on
Bryan. The most bitter things were
said on his leadership this morning
when it was said that his name should
not be mentioned and that there should
be no reference to either OF the ma
tional platforms on which he made his
campaigns.
After this plan had been agreed on,
one Of the tWenty-One members of that
committee offered a minority report
reaffirning 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.
A few moments after the platform
was adopted one of these six dele
gates called attention to the fact that
| the pictures Of other Democrats were
displayed in the hall and none of Bry-
an, as heretofore. He started to carry
a small banner with Bryan's picture
on it to the platform. The aisIes were
ordered cleared and the picture did not
reach its destination 1t was trampled
under foot and spoiled during the wild
demonstration when KilbOurne was es-
cOrted into the hall
Fight on the Platform.
Members of the committee on reso-
buttons say that over one hour was
spent after last midnight in efforts to
strike the word "salable" out of the
plank on railway taxation, and several
hours in denOuncing the Chicago and
Kansas City platforms and the leader
who stood on them. The platform
caused much comment tonight over
what If does Al hot
it does say.
Unusual interest is being taken in
the selection of members of the state
executive committee by the state cen
! trail committee, which adjourned until
July 20 without selecting its chairman
or secretary. It is said that none of the
candidates for either of these places
can secure a majority of the twenty
one votes, and that Colonel KilbOurne
VIII be compelled to cooperate with
either the Mclean or the johnson men.
who are not talking friendly of each
committee. In the selection of this ex-
ecutive body the head of the ticket
has always been consulted
In this connection there are all sorts
of rumOrs about the senatorship for
which the convention endorsed no one
as the Democratic candidate to sue
coed Senator Foraker. The names of
John r. Mclean and Tom L. Johnson
are most prominently mentioned in this
! connection. No one is able to poll the
4 tWenty-one members Of this committee
to tell how it VIII stand with the Gin
I-cinnati and the Cleveland elements af-
! ter the November election if the Dem
/ OCrats should have majority of the
j legislature. The platform adopted by
I the convention was as follows:
The Platform.
THE Democrats of Ohio reaffirm
/ their belief in the equality of taxation
/ and other public burdens; their advo-
cacy Of the equal rights Of all people
/ with special privileges TO none; their
+ hostility to the monopolizaton of in
Gustry with tendency on the one hand
/ to crush out individual enterprise and
on the other to promote a sociahstic
spirit among the people as the only
/ refuge from oppression; and their faith
in that theory and practice OF consti-
I tutional government which brought the
/ nation into existence and has pre-
/ served it to the present generation.
! With those objects the Democratic par
/ ~ of Ohio makes the following declara-
/ ton OF principles and policies:
/ The government Of municipalities of
! the state should be radically reformed
/ and wise general laws be enacted to
/ correct abuses and prevent their recur
/ renee.
The Democratic party. therefore,