Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-25
HEARST TURNED
DOWN N OHIO
Contested Delegations Given to
Conservatives and Minority
Report Is Rejected
PLEA BY CHAIRMAN
Declares the Party Has Been De-
Defeated Not by Republicans, but by
Their Own Dissensions and intoler-
ant Spirit Toward Each other-The
Platform.


the assembling of the denoer tlc
state convention today the coi,ssrva-
tives had won in preliminary meet
ings. The committee on credent.: Is
early today gave all the 20, contest
ed seats to the conservatives. The
radicals insisted they would present
the minority reports and II defeated IN
the convention today, would catiy the
contests to st. Louis. There was some
anxiety among the conservatives last
night because of the decision to make
the temporary organization permanent,
but Chairman r. l.. Starr and other
temporary officers We're vouched for by
the leading conservatives SO the con-
vention was organized without oppo-
'sition. Prayer was offered by Rev.
Il. L. Rexford. W. L. Finley, rs chair
man OF the state central COMMITTEES.
introduced Chairman Starr. who ar,
raigned republican rule in Ohio and
the nation and held that 1t was toll
Grated by spirit of unreconcilable dis
sion In the democratic party.
Where is the democrat" he said.
whose cheek has not burned with
anger or whose head has not hung IN
shame, as he reads or listens TO the
words OF yituperative villification or
libel and slander banded between the
warning factions, whether they be Tor
Hearst, Parker, Cleveland, Bryan or
Others Is the mere preference OF Il
man crime? Is it greater crime
for q democrat to have a preference
for Parker, for Hearst, for Cleveland.
for Bryan, than 1t is for United States
senators to sell influence Of oTica fer
gain, or for the administration to
suppress investigation of postoffice
scandals lest it should injure the par
ty, or for the president OF the United
States to disrupt the Republic OF Col
umbia in the interest of the Panama
canal grafters?"
1--WE want the yeoman service OF
Parker and his friends in the coming
campaigns; We want the energy and
dash of Hearst and his friends in the
coming battle; we want the oratory OF
Bryan and Cochran. the political man
agement of Hill and German, and the
mature Judgment of Cleveland In the
impending struggle.
'Democats. cease your envying and
contention and stand shoulder to
shoulder in our common cause against
this fearful stupendous and appalling
state OF public debauchery and corrup-
ton. Democrats, let us here highly res
solve that by the aid of Cleveland,
Bryan Hill, Gorman. Parker. Hearst,
Johnson and Mclean, without
reference to previous conditions
of political belief, financial doc
trines or tariff dogma that re-
publican misrule shall cease, that the
rascals in high and low places shall be
turned out. and that the government of,
for and by the people be restored"
There were majority and minority re-
ports from the credentials committee.
During the discussion which followed,
several alterations occurred and as.
Col. w. A. Taylor concluded his speech
in favor OF the majority report Former
Congressman Lentz took exceptions to
what Taylor had said, and personal
encounter in words followed, until both
men were put down The lie was
passed repeatedly. The majority report
was adopted. $50 to 307
The Platform.
while firmly adherng to all liv-
ing democratic principles. as time
and again declared by democratic
conventions. this convention recon-
mends that formal annunciation of
purely national questions be referred
to the national convention at St
Louis The Ohio delegation Is direct
ed TO cast its entire 46 votes in the ma
tdonal convention as the majority of
those present and voting shall decide
when such majority shall determine
that course to be available. The re-
mafnder of the platform is devoted to
state issues and arraignment of the
republican state administration which
is pronounced: Arrogant, reckless,
and corrupt"
The platform was adopted after an
effort to strike out the clause relating
to the unit rule had been defeated.
The resolution was adopted for a g
cent railway fare.
The following nominations We're
then made:
Secretary of State--A. p Sandles,
Ottawa.
Judge Supreme Court--Phillip ].
Rennes.
Clerk Supreme Court-Perry H.
Mehatfy.
Dairy Commissioner-Que NJ
Graxatt.
Member Board of Public Works
William H. Ferguson.
ILLINOIS PRoHlBlTloNlsTs.
The Largest State Convention Ever
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