The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-04
Tom L. Looms Up as a Presi-
Dental Possibility
A PARSON IN POLITICS
Reverend Herbert Bigelow for secre-
tary Of State.
KANSAS CITY PLATFORM ENDORSED
Against Government by Injunction, for Home
Rule in municipalities. The People
Alone Should Have The Power
TO Grant Franchises.
10 Grant Franchises.
LBy the Associated Press.l


TO Grant Franchises.
(By the Associated Press.)
Cedar Point, via Sandusky, Ohio, Sept.
3,-The ticket
Secretary of State-Rev Herbert s.
BigelOw, Cincinnati.
Supreme Judge-Michael Donnelly, Ma
poleon.
Food and Dairy Commissioner-Philip
H. Bruck. Columbus.
Member of State Board of Public
Works-Joseph ]. Pater, Hamilton.
The Democratic State Convention today
was principally the occasion of booming
it's presiding officer, Mayor Tom L. John
son, for the Presidency. and of intro
ducing into Ohio politics Rev. Herbert S.
Bigelow, pastor of Vine Street Congre-
gational church at Cincinnati. The
former has been conspicuously before the
public as Congressman and delegate to
national and other conventions for years,
but the latter was not so well known
until he was today made the standard
bearer of his party and made speech
of acceptance that was received with
of age, independent in his creed and has
become prominent as a lecturer as we'll
as a popular preacher.
The session lasted less than three
hours and had only one ballot. most of
the time being devoted to speeches, and
that of Rev Bigelow was conceded to be
the feature of the occasion. In present
ing the names of candidates and in sec
onding the same and in accepting nomi
nations. over a score of orators were
heard, but none of them commanded
more attention, not excepting the key
note of Chairman Johnson, than the
young minister.
1t was a Johnson convention through
out, although MR.. Johnson himself was
more conciliatory than at the preliminary
meetings of the past two days. The plat
form was adopted as it came from him
throughout the committee.
The State central and executive COM
mittees were both organized as he sug
gested and the State ticket, with a single
exception, that Of Bruck, for Food Com
missioner, was nominated by acclamation
as slated by the Johnson men. All the
proceedings were conducted with dispatch
in accordance with what was knoAn as
the Johnson program, and the chairman
was made the hero of the day in every
possible form demonstration. Men
passed through the audience and the COM
modious grounds of the summer resort
with valises full of buttons barring the
picture of the chairman of the convention,
and the inscription, Tom l.. Johnson in
1904
Mayor Johnson, with his big tent, opens
the campaign at Lorrain next Saturday,
and the convention voted to have delega-
tions present from as many counties as
possible. Chairman Frey, stated that the
State committee already had arranged to
have Bgelow speak in every county, and
that Johnson and Bigelow would now fill
engagements every day and night until
after the November election.
The platform adopted reaffirms the
principles of the Kansas City platform
faithfully and ably represented in the
Presidential campaign of 1900 by William
Jennings Bryan" and condemns any
effort to repudiate those principles. 1t
then makes a specific statement of prin
ciples substantially as follows:
1. That in making assessments for
taxation all property should be appraised
at not less than its salable value.
2. That the present laws for assessing
the property of steam railroads and other
public service corporations should be so
changed as to compel the assessment of
those properties at not less than their
salable value as going concerns.
3. That to prevent evasion of State
taxes by discriminating valuations, a
separation of the sources of State and
local revenues should be made.
4. That all public service corporations
should be required by law to make sworn
public reports, and that the power of
visitation and examination over such cor
porations should be given to the proper
auditing officers, to the end that the true
value of the privileges had by such cor
porations may be made plain to the pco-
nle.
s. That the acceptance of free passes
or other fayors from railroads by public
officers or employees should be adequate
ground for their removal from office.
g. That the denial of the right of
peaceable persuasion in times of labor
disturbance is a denial of the right of
free speech, and that government by in
junction, if persisted in, will wreck the
liberties of the people.
T. That we demand the enactment of
a Code. which provides absolute home
rule for. municipalities, which shall in
clude the right to establish the merit
system
s. That we condemn the vicious and
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