The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-27
NOMINATED FOR GOVERNOR
John H. Clarke Received Nomination for Senator.
Clarke Twice Set Convention in an Uproar With Two Eloquent
 speeches-Kansas City
 Platform Endorsed.

Columbus, O., Aug. 26.-The Johnson program was carried out completely to- day ins the Democratic State Convention. After the opposition obstructed the pro- ceedings with minority reports for some hours. the name of John l.. Zimmerman of Springfield. was not presented for the gubernatorial nomination and then every nomination on the State ticket was made by exclamation without opposition. Even after the chair announced that the name of Tom l.. Johnson was the only one before the Convention for Governor, there were some dissenting Zimmerman votes on the motion to make the nomination unammous but the zimmermen men quit after the selections for Governor and Senator were made. Still the opposition by various obstruction movements kept the Convention in continuous sessicn for . about seven hours. When the minority reports were presented from the com mittees. the only flight that worried the Johnson managers was on the Senator ship. The only ballots forced on the domlnant element were in that contest. The minority report on rules and order of business which was intended to omit the endorsement of Senatorial candi- date. was defeated by vote of 211 ayes to AS nays and that was considered a test vote between Johnson and Thinner man after all the contested seats had been decided in favor of the former. On naming the man for Senator, the John son men were divided among themselves. Mayor Johnson and ex-Congressnan Lentz have been very close personally tensely bitter feeling existed between them today. at least on the part of Lentz. who openly accused Johnson with favor ing for Senator a man who had voted against Bryan. The ZimnsFman men had intended voting foi' Clark. the Johnson candidate for Senator. as they said he accepted their conservative views, out when LentE opened light on Johnson on the Senatoieai candidate. the zin- merman men resumed thAir pl,etFuction tactics and voted for I.snts Tor Senator.
 The ultra-sflxer men szhn VleEe k,le most ardent gspp9rterF Qf J0Alls6tls they would sgpcrt no man who had voted against Bryan.
 John H Clark. who will cafVaas RhA State with Mayor Johnson; and otiler Democratic candidates. has been a prom inent attorney at Youngstown for many years, but now he is located in Cleve- land, which city has four prominent can didates the Republican as well as the Democratic candidates for Senator and Governor. Clark made two masterly speeches. one presenting the name of Johnson and the other In accepting the Senatorial nomination. After the con vention many delegates said his first speech nominated Clark as well as John son. In his second speech Clark intimated that he would ask Senator Hama for joint debates during the campaign. and that caused a great demonstration.
 The result of the convention leaves the party organization in Ohio IS to 8 in the hands of the Bryan-Johnson element for next year, when delegates to the Dem ocrstic National Convention is to be se- lected.
 The ticket Governor, Tom l.. Johnson of Cleveland; Lieutenant Governor, Frank B. Niles of Toledo; Supreme Judge, Ed- ward J. Dempsey of Cincinnati; Attor- ney General, Frank s. Monnett of Co., iumbus; Treasurer of State. V. J. Dahl of Washington Court House; Auditor of State, c. A. Kloebe of wapakoneta {; School Commissioner J. H. Secrest of Ottawa; Member of Board of Public Works, T. H. B. Jones of 1ronton: United States Senator. John H. Clark of Cleve- land.
 The salient features of the platform adopted were as follows:
 Assembled in convention at Columbus preparatory to the State election of 1908, we, the Democrats of Ohio, hereby renew our allegiance to the DenaocFatic party Of the nation. and again avow our devo- tion to the principles of its last platform We accordingly condemn coionialIsm and imperialism, denounce trusts and trust
 
 Injunction and oppose financial monopoly, together with every other legaIizsd mo- nopoly and special privilege; adherinR to the principles of the Kansas City plat form. we repeat our condemnation of all efforts to renounce or ignore them.''
 (The above opening paragraph is the only reference made to national issues.)
 Against Corporation Aggression.
 "By embodying In the new Ohio code g,,.N f.- ulation of street railroads, Republican n managers have rendered competition more difficult and street caS monopolies more secure. By reserving to the Governor the power to appoint municipal officers in cer- tain cases they have dangerously concen- tTated the police power and have ,compH- cated their meager concessions of home rule with tempting opportunities for in- terference Ey the State government in the local affairs of citie6 and villages.
 The corrupt union which the Republi- can managers of Ohio, tTeacherous alike to the rank and file of their own party and to the rest of the people have made with privileged corporations is shown by the recent history ot Ohio taxation.
 Shot at zimmermanp
 That the alliance of Republican leaders in Ohio with the privileged corporations has the aid of some Ohio Dsinocrats we freely concede But these Democrats arc not in control of the Democratic party of the Gtate: and that party, as now crsa- nized. is rebuking and disownfug them as fast as it finds them out. While conced- ing that some Ohio Democrats are cor ruptly allied with the privileged corpora lions, we ask the people Of the State {" oersrve an important Tact in that connec- ton. In the Democratic 2arty as now or Fenized Democrats wh9, serve ,sucn alli- ances are punished; whereas. in the Re pubIican rarty as now controlled. Repub- iieans who make such alliances arc r-- warded.
 -.aThe rresent laws for assessing the property of all public service corporations should be so changed as to compel the as- sessnient of those properties at not less than their assessable value. and 70 pre- vent their evasion of just taxation"
 Favors Home Rule.
 The platform farors home ruie for counties. assessing boards, the consttu-