Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-27
NOMINATED JOHNSON
Democratic State Convention
at Columbus Unanimous.
ZIMMERMAN'S NAME NOT PRESENTED
Meeting Was with johnson on state
Issues as With Bryan ON National
QuestiOns-J. IL. Clarke Made
Mastery Speeches.

AueStIOuS-J. II. OtiFAP MsuG
Mastery Speeches.
COLUMBUS, o.. Aug. 27.-The John
son programme was carried out com
pletely in the Democratic state conven-
ton here. Although the opposition OBJ
| Structed the proceedings with minority
reports for some hours. the name OF
John l.. Zimmerman of Springfield was
not presented for the guDernatOrial
nomination, and every nomination on
the state ticket. including Mayor Tom
L. Johnson for governor, was made by
reclamation. Even after the chair an
nounced that the name of Mayor John
son was the only one before the con-
vention for governor there were some
dissenting Zimmerman votes on the
motion to make the nomination mani
nous. but the Zimmerman supporters
subsidized after the selections for gov
ernor and senator were made.
The following ticket was nominated:
Governor, Tom l.. Johnson Of Cleve-
land; lieutenant governor. Frank Il.
Niles of Toledo; attorney general,
Frank S. Monnett of Columbus; state
treasurer. V. J. Dahl of Washington
Courthouse: auditor, Charles A. kloeb
of Wapakoneta; commissioner of
schools. J. II. Secrist of Ottawa; mem
Der board of public works, w. b. Jones
of I|ronton; supreme judge. e. J. Demp-
sey of Cincinnati. John II. Clarke of
Cleveland was indorsed for United
States senator.
The opposition by various obstruc-
ton movements kept the convention in
continuous session for about eve
hours. While minority reports were
only fight that worried the Johnson
managers was on the se|natorship. The
only ballots forced on the dominant
element were in that contest. The mi
nority report on rules and order of
business. which was intended to omit
the Endorsement of a senatorial candi-,
date. was defeated by a vote of 2l1
yeas to 44S nays. which was consid-
cred a test vote between Johnson and
Zimmerman, after all the contested
seats had been decided in favor of the
former.
On naming the candidate for senator
the Johnson supporters were divided
among themselves. Mayor Johnson
and former Congressman John j.
Lentz have been very close personally
and politically for years, but 4 most
intensely bitter feeling existed be-
tween them in the convention, ut least
on the part of Lentz, who openly ac-
cused Johnson with favoring for sena-
tor a man who had voted against
Bryan.
John H. Clarke, who will canvass
the state with Mayor Johnson and 9th
er prominent Democrats. has been Il
leading attorney at Youngstown for
many years, but now he is located in
Cleveland, which city has four promi-
nent candidates, the Republican as we'll
as the Democratic candidates for sena-
tor and governor.
Next to the commanding presence of
Johnson was the part of Clarke in the
convention. He made two mastery
speeches, one presenting the name of
Johnson and the other in accepting the
senatorial nomination. Mr.. Clarke in
timated that he would ask Senator
Hanna for joint debates during the
campaign.
With the single exception of senate
rial Endorsement the Johnson men con
trolled the convention as fully as the
district and committee meetings of the
day previous. The convention was as
distinctly with Bryan on national as
with Johnson on state issues. The sup
porters of both Temporary Chairman
SaltZgaber and Permanent Chairman
Cooke insisted that if the Democratic
party is to change its policy to suit the
times the change must be made by the
friends of the party and not by its enc
mics"
The result of the convention leaves
the state committee eighteen to three in
the hands of the Bryan-Johnson ele-
ment for next year, when delegates to
the Democratic national convention are
to be selected.