The age-herald., 1901-07-10
.THE MILAN.
 MELBOURNE
 COMBINATION t VIII Control the Ohio Dem OCratic Convention Which
 Meets Today FREE SILVER 10 BE OMITTED 1t Will Have No Place in the Plat form-Mayor Johnson lnstructs
 Hie Friends fn Einhf for
FREE SILVER TO BE OMITTED
1t Will Have No Place in the Plat form-Mayor Johnson Instructs His Friends to Fight for
 cuyahoga Platform.

Columbus, O., July 9.-The McLean-Kil- bourne element at the district meetings this afternoon secured control of all the committees and will accordingly have everything their way at the Democratic State Convention tomorrow.
 They were so strongly in the majority that there was no friction.
 In the Twentieth and Twenty-first dis tricts, which include Cleveland, the John son men had their way as much as the Mclean men in the First and Second dis tricts, which include Cincinnati But in the rural districts the latter element got almost everything. The controlling ele- ment did not ride rough shod'' over mi norities in any of the districts, but when names were proposed for places on the committees there were inquiries as to how they stood, and If the replies were not satisfactory they were excused, In some cases as quietly as jurors and in others with ballots"
 The McLean-Kilbourne element, while unusually courteous, made no concessions. The old State committee met previous to
 the district meetings and gave the tickets of he McLean-Kilbourne men wherr fere
 were contestng delegations and the. ook all the districts except those which in- clude Cleveland, in which, under the unit
 rule, they could not control a vote. But the Johnson men, after the result
 of the district meetings promptly an- | nounced that they would carry the fight | into committee on resolutions for an all- | night fight, then into the convention to- | morrow for "finish.'
 | They have two strong men and vigorous
 members of Mayor Johnsons cabinet at | Cleveland, on the committee of resolu- tions
 The Contests.
 | As the Montgomery contest, and proba- | bly the Butler contest. will be carried
 by minority reports on credentials into | the convention for final action, 1t is pre-
 dicted that the convention will not reach
 the order of nominations till late to-
 morrow afternoon that the proceedings
 may be protracted into the night.
 Ex-Governor Campbell is with the
 Schwab delegation from Butler county
 and the Mason-Gray delegation from | that county was today given the tickets
 by the old state committee.
 Mayor Tom L.. Johnson. who is still in | Brooklyn, called Charles P. Salen on the | long distance telephone today and had a
 talk with him regarding the plank on a | revision of the taxation laws of the State | When Salen informed the Mayor as to the situation here and that the Mclean | Kilbourne men controlled the committee
 on resolutions as well as other parts of | the convention, Johnson advised Salen | never to surrender, but to insist, both | before the committee on resolutions and | in the convention for the incorporation | of the Cuyahoga plank which specifically mentions railroads and other corporations | as not bearing their full portions of the | burden of taxation. Soon after the talk | over the telephone with Johnson MT. | Salen called at Colonel Kilbourne's head | quarters and these two with M. A. | Daugherty of Lancaster and E. M. | Heisley of Cleveland, went into confer | ence In Colonel Kilbournes rooms | where they remained behind locked and | gaurded doors for more than an hour. | The taxation plank was under consid- | eration. At joint meeting of the | CuyahoRa delegation this afternoon | when members of the committees were | selected Mir Salen told his colleagues | from Cleveland of his talk by telephone | with Mayor Johnson and urged them to | stand by the Cuyahoga platform to the | last. He said Cuyahoga county had no | candidate and was not represented here | in the interest of any one.
 To Expedite Business. Tn order to expedite business tomorrow the committee on permanent, organization voted unanimously to make the entire | temporary organization permanent. There | were only 13 of the 21 members present and the absentees say the meeting was l called for [ o'clock and adjourned before | eight of the members arrived.
 Some members of the new committed | also attempted to proceed at o'clock in- | st cad of 8 O clock, but the other members | dropped in before they were expected and then that committee adjourned till o'clock without organizing.
 The Mclean Kilbourne men found three or four of their element wanting to suc- ceed Lewis B. Fucker as chairman, and as many candidates for secretary and de- cided to adjourn for further considera- tion.
 The committee on resolutions stood 17 to 4 against special mention of free silver in the platform in addition to endorsing the Kansas City platform; 15 to against endorsment of the Kansas City platform without any further declaration on sil- yer: 14 to 2 against reaff1rming the Kansas City platform, with the Johnson plank on street taxation. There were some who favored the tally on preferences being secured from the speeches as each one was called on for his views