Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-27
NOMINATED JOHNSON
Democratic State Convention
 at Columbus Unanimous.
kINNERMAN'S NAME NOT PRESENTED
Meeting Was With Johnson on State Issues as With Bryan on National
 QuestiOns-J. HI. Clarke Made ! Master1y Speeches..

COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 27.-The John son programme was carried out com pleteIy in the Democratic state conven- tion here. Although the opposition ob- structed the proceedings with minority reports for some hours, the name of John l.. Zimmerman of Springfield was not presented for the gubernator 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 unani- nous, but the Zimmerman supporters subsided 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 B. Niles of Toledo; attorney general, Frank s. Monnett of Columbus; state treasurer, V. J. Dahl of Washington Courthouse; auditor Charles A. Kloeb O1 VaPLAOACtd9 COHAAAlSoAOACE O1 schools, J. H. Secrist of Ottawa; mem Der board of public works, W. B. Jones of Ironton; supreme judge, E. J. Demp- sey of Cincinnati John Fl. Clarke of Cleveland was indorsed for United States senator
 The opposition by various obstruc- ], ton movements kept the convention in continuous session for about seven hours. While minority reports were presented from the committees, the only fight that worried the Johnson 1 managers was on the sena torship. The only ballots forced on the dominant element were in that contest. The mi 1 nority report on rules and order of business, which was intended to omit l the indorsement of a senatorial candi- date, was defeated by vote of 211 l yeas to AS nays, which was consid- cred a test vote between Johnson and l Zimmerman, after all the contested seats had been decided in favor of the ! former.
 l On naming the candidate for senator I the Johnson supporters were divided among themselves. Mayor Johnson and former Congressman John j.. LenZ have been very close personally and politically for years, but a most Intensely bitter feeling existed be- tween them in the convention, at least on the part of Lentz, who openly ac- cused Johnson with favoring for sena- tor a man who had voted against i Bryan.
 John Fl. Clarke, who will canvass : the state with Mayor Johnson and oth- er prominent Democrats, has been a leading attorney at Youngstown for ! many years, but now he is located in Cleveland, which city has four promi- nept 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 masterly speeches, one. presenting the name of Johnson and the other in accepting the sena toriaI nomination. Mr.. Clarke in- 6mated that he would ask Senator Hanna for joint debates during the campaign.
 With the single exception of senate rial indorsement the Jo.-nson 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 it's policy to suit the times the change must be made by the friends of the party and not by it's enc. mics"
 The result of the convention leaves the state committee eighteen to three in the hands of the Bryan-Joh11son ele- ment for next year, when delegates to the Democratic national convention are to be selected.