We denounce the last Legislature as corrupt and unworthy of the confidence of the people. A minority report substituted for the currency plank a resolution calling for the free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1. Also that the United States wait for neither England nor any other foreign nation to enter into an agreement respecting the coinage of silver. heavy a load to carry, and he went down in disastrous defeat. Both he and Governor Bushnell made several tours through the State, the latter speaking from a special train which had been secured by the Republican State Committee. For the third time all the Republican candidates for State office were elected by overwhelming pluralThe official vote as certified by the State Supervisor of Elections was as follows: ities. The resolutions presented by a minority of the Committee on Resolutions were defeated, receiving but 270 affirmative votes to 533 in the negative. This additional resolution, offered in open Convention after the regular platform was agreed to, was unanimously adopted after some confusing motions and speeches: We view with alarm the armed invasion by Great Britain of one of the Republics of this Continent under a claim of right for the collection of petty debt by force in claiming ownership and exercising jurisdiction over American soil belonging to our sister Republic of Venezuela. The British Government has contemptuously disregarded and defied the policy of this Government as announced by President MONROE in 1823, and ever since adhered to, which should create the gravest apprehension in the minds of all patriotic Americans and call for the prompt and emphatic demand on the part of our Government that the Monroe Doctrine must and shall be respected and observed. A new political organization known as the Socialist-Labor party met at Dayton in September and nominated candidates for only a part of the offices to be filled. William Watkins, of Montgomery, was the nominee for Governor. Contrary to expectations, Governor Campbell made a spirited campaign and inspired the Democratic press of the State with a hope of his election and to predictions that the result would be at least close. He attracted attention by the vehemence. and seeming recklessness of his assertions, but the National Administration was too For Governor: Asa S. Bushnell, Rep.. 427,141 James E. Campbell, Dem....... 334,519 Jacob S. Coxey, Pop 52,675 21,264 1,867 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. David L. Sleeper, Speaker. Charles H. Bosler, Speaker pro tem. John R. Malloy, Clerk. Andrew Jackson, Sergeant-at-Arms. Adams and Pike-Andrew C. Smith, of Adams. Ashland-George W. Brubaker. Auglaize-William G. Brorein. Belmont-Joseph E. Blackburn and Charles J. Howard. Brown--Emmons B. Stivers. Butler-Samuel C. Landis. Champaign-William M. Gehman. Clarke-George Elder and Chase Stewart. Clermont-Josiah Quincy Bass. Clinton-James A. Spear. Columbiana-Philip M. Ashford and William C. Hutcheson. Coshocton-James Glenn. Crawford-Andrew J. Hazlett. Cuyahoga Joseph H. Breck, Joseph C. Bloch, M. F. Bramley, Martin Dodge, Harry C. Mason, John F. McVean, J. Dwight Palmer, Harry C. Smith and Charles W. Snider. Darke-William E. Ludwick. Defiance-William H. McCauley. Delaware-Samuel Lewis. Erie-Uri L. Ward. Fairfield-George W. Lamb. Fayette Charles W. Gray. Franklin-Charles Q. Davis (contested seat given to James M. Merryman), Benjamin F. Gayman and James R. Kilbourne. Fulton-William A. Scott, Jr. Gallia-Rufus D. Jacobs. Guernsey James Joyce. Hamilton-Henry Busching, Philip C. Fosdick, Levi C. Goodale, George Hafer, Theodore Mayer, William H. Parham, Charles C. Richardson, Charles M. Robinson, William C. Rogers and William Ruehr Marion and Morrow James L. Hensley, of Marion. Medina-Roldon O. Hinsdale. Meigs-Evans W. Rutherford. Mercer-Byron M. Clen Dening. Miami-Van Shears Deaton. Monroe-John Moore. Union-John E. Griffith. Van Wert-Frank A. Huffman. Asahel W. Jones, Lieutenant Governor, was born at Johnstonville, Trumbull County, Ohio, September 18, 1838. He was raised upon a farm and educated in the common and academic schools, read law in Warren and was admitted to the bar in 1859. In 1864 he removed to Youngstown, where he has since resided. In 1869 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Mahoning County In 1880 he and was reelected in 1871. was a delegate to the Republican National Convention. During Governor Foraker's two terms Mr. Jones was honored by the Governor in being selected as an officer on his staff, with the title of Judge Advocate General. In December, 1884, he was elected President of the Ohio State Bar Association, In 1895, although not a candidate before reaching Zanesville, he was nominated by acclamation at the Republican State Convention for Lieutenant Governor and received an overwhelming plurality at the election. Montgomery-Charles H. Bosler, George M. Leo- serving one year. pold and William Shuler. Morgan-Benjamin F. Dutton. Muskingum-Benjamin F. Swingle. Sandusky-George F. Aldrich. Scioto Charles E. Hard. Seneca Charles Flumerfelt. Shelby Charles R. Hess. Stark-Thomas Austin (resigned; John H. Willams, successor) and George W. Wilhelm. Summit-Eli Conn and Francis W. Myers. Walter D. Guilbert, Auditor of State, was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, is of French-Irish lineage and was raised on a farm. He was educated in the public schools and at Wenona Academy, Illinois. He was twice elected Auditor of Noble County and proved himself a popular official. In 1888 he became chief clerk in the Auditor of State's office under Ebenezer W. Poe, and in 1896 succeeded him in the position. In 1895 he was chosen as the Republican candidate for Auditor of State and elected by the largest plurality ever given in Ohio for a candidate to that office. Samuel B. Campbell, Treasurer of State, is a native of Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, where he was born July 2, 1846. He attended the public schools until, at the age of eleven, he was thrown upon his own resources. He first became a newsboy and then a clerk, and as soon as he was old enough enlisted in the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment. At the close of the war he returned to Steubenville and became connected with the Miners' and Mechanics' Bank. In 1879 he was elected County Treasurer and reelected in 1881. In 1886 he was appointed by John C. Brown as cashier in the State Treasury, remaining until 1892, when he be came chief clerk under Secretary of State Christian L. Poorman. In 1895 he was elected Treasurer of State, and was reelected in 1897. Frank S. Monnett is a native of Hardin County, Ohio, born near Kenton, March 19, 1857. The family removed to Bucyrus, Crawford County, where Frank attended the public school and spent two years at a select school. He graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, in 1880, and in 1882 graduated from the National Law School at Washington, D. C. He began practice in Bucyrus and was elected City Solicitor in 1892 and again in 1894, being the first Republican ever to hold this office in that Democratic stronghold. He was reelected Attorney General in 1897. CHAPTER XLIII. THE THE CAMPAIGN OF 1896. previously had been but one occasion on which the party in control of the Government had made nominations later than that of its chief political opponent. When The selection of delegates began early in the year. In New England those chosen. were generally favorable to Speaker Reed, in New York a large proportion were for Levi P. Morton and in Pennsylvania nearly all were pledged to Matthew S. Quay. the delegates from the Mississippi Valley, the mining States of the West and the Pacific Slope were selected, it became apparent to all that the drift of sentiment was overwhelmingly for Major McKinley. It was so even in Iowa, which, as a matter of State pride, had endorsed Mr. Allison. HE Presidential campaign began in 1895. Early in that year the friends of William McKinley, of Ohio, Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, Levi P. Morton, of New York, and William B. Allison, of Iowa, started to organize in their behalf. At that time there was but the one issue, the tariff, engaging the attention of the people and the drift of sentiment was so strongly in favor of the Republicans that it was believed there would be no active aspirants for the Democratic nomination. The Republican National Committee met in the city of Washington, December 10th, and after several ballots selected St. Louis as the place for holding the National Convention, fixing the date for its first meeting on June 16, 1896. A short time afterward the formal call was issued through the public press. A few weeks later the Democratic National Committee also met at Washington and selected July 7, 1896, as the date and Chicago as the place for holding their National Convention. This was remarked as being unusual, because the custom for many years had been for the party in power to give its opponents whatever advantage there might be in a later Convention. However, it was only a custom and its non-observance was but the forerunner of many violations of precedent this year. But since the formation of the Republican party there 27th, with an adjournment without day, and The Seventy-second Ohio General Assembly met for organization on Monday, January 6th. Eight days later, in accordance with the resolution adopted the previous year at Zanesville, Joseph B. Foraker was elected to the United States Senate for the term beginning March 4, 1897, as the successor of Calvin S. Brice. Brice was the choice of the Democratic caucus, though a few of the small Democratic minority refused to vote for him, but could not agree on any one candidate, and followed their individual inclinations in voting for his sucThe session closed Monday, April cessor. |