The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-04
Ohio Democrats Boom Him for
President in 1904
STATE TICKET ANNOUNCED
Minister VIII Be Put Out as Secretary
of State-AcknowIedg AIIegi-
ance to Party and Kansas
City Platform.

Cedar Point. Via sandusly. Ohio Sep
tember 9.-The ticket:
Secretary of State-Rev. Herbert s.
Bigelow. Cincinnati
Supreme Judge-Michael Donnelly, Ma
poleon.
Food and Dairy Commissioner-Phillip
Il. Bruck. Columbus.
Member of State Board of Public
Works-Joseph ]. Pater, Hamilton
The democratic state convention here
today was principally the occasion OF
booming it's presiding officer. Mayor Tom
L. johnson. for the presidency, and. of
introducing into Ohio politics Rev. Her
bert S. Bigelow, pastor of the Vino Streel
Congregational 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 a speech
of acceptance that was received with
unusual enthusiasm. Bigelow is SO years
old, independent in his creed and has be-
come prominent as a lecturer as well as
a popular preacher.
The convention lasted less than three
hours, and had only one ballot, most of
the time being devoted to speeches, that
of the Rev. Bigelow being considered the
feature of the occasion. In presenting the
rap1es of candidates, and In seconding the
game over a score of orators were heard,
but none of them commanded more at
tention, not excepting the keynote speech
of Chairman Johnston, than the young
minister.
Belongs to johnson.
1t was a johnson convention through
out, although Mr. johnson himself was
more conciliatory today than at the pre-
liminary meetings Of the past two days.
The platform was adopted as 1t carrie
from him to the committee. The state
central and executive committees were
both organized as he suggested, and the
state ticket, with a single exception, WAS
nominated by acclamation, as stated by
the Johnson men. All the proceedings
were conducted with dispatch in accord
ance with what was known as ths John
son progrG.unne, and the chairman was
made the hero of The day in every pos
sible form of demonstr ation Men passed
through the audience and the commodious
lses full of buttons bearing ths picture
of the chairman of the convention ana
the inscription, Tom L. Johnson in 1904
There were bushels Of those prospective
souvenirs given away, some filing their
pockets, and everybody knew what they
Weant judging from the commenIs on
every hand
Previous to the assembling of the con-
vention, Mayor Johnson was called on
by delegation of those who had vainly
opposed him at the preliminary meet
ings last night and said they wanted to
cooperate with him. but that his mana
gers had been unfair in trying to unseat
certain members of the state central
committee. 1t was noticed that Lewis G.
Bernard, who is opposed to johnson, was
seated as member of the state central
committee without further opposition.
In the contest in the twelfth district
for state committeeman, Fred ]. Herr
was seated by vote of ten to seven over
C. c. Philbrick, the man for whom john
son made such strong personal appeal
yesterday. Four of the twenty-one men,
bers OF the committee did not vote and
some of them ten members who voted
for Herr was friendly to johnson, but
they insisted that Johnson had enough
and that Herr was entitled to his seat.
Only One Contest.
The only contest for nomination In
the nomination was for food commits
sioner Ex-Mayor Bruck of Columbus
was nominated over Senator Kraus of
Cleveland, the neighbor and personal
friend Of Johnson. The latter had been
told that he was going too far in urging
the nomination of a personal friend for
minor state office, but once com
mitted to Kraus he stuck to him to the
last During the ballet the Bruck men
objected to votes cast for Kraus by prox-
fpc of he al afao ~ Tot,
ties had left for home and johnson
ruled against his friend Kraus insisting
that no votes could be cast except by del
egates present in person.
Bruck got the support of all the Ger
man and ex-soldiers who were in the
convention and through an excellent or
ganization broke the Johnson state, thus
causing the only scene of old contests
that there was in the proceedings.
Mayor Johnson with his big tent opens
the campaign at Lorain next Saturday
and the convention to have delegations
present from as many counties as possi-
BILE. Chairman Frey stated that the
state committee had already arranged to
have Bigelow speak in every county and
that Johnson and Bigelow would now fill
engagements every day and night until
after the November election
Tom L. Johnston, chairman, was re-
ceived with loud applause and made the
1OllOWlil6 SptcOH.
Johnson's Speech.
''The principles of democracy always
old, but never obsolete confront us to-
eay both in local and In national ques-
osons. One of these national questions re-
fetes to trusts. For this evil our ad-
versaries advise publicity as the remedy
1.-THE money question is also national.
And let me tell you this is no dead is
sue. as some would have us believe.
h. In.
s alive In other and more radical forms.
So long as Wall street interests dictate
our financial policies, the money ques-
ZION cannot die. You know that l have
never accepted the doctrine commonly
known as 16 to l. l have worked with
those who accept 1t because 1 have be-
ueyed, as l believe yet, that the free
silver fight was the first great protests
NJ the American people against mon
opoly-the first great struggle here of