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INDIANA. 



Howk; Third District, Allen Zollars. A plat- 

 form was adopted, commanding the adminis- 

 tration of President Cleveland, demanding a 

 reduction of the tariff as recommended in the 

 President's message, favoring liberal pensions, 

 and approving Gov. Gray's administration and 

 his candidacy for the vice-presidential nomin- 

 ation. Its other declarations were as follow : 



The Democratic party, being of the people and for 

 the people, favors such legislation as will guarantee 

 the broadest protection to the interests and welfare of 

 the industrial masses ; it recognizes the fact that labor 

 is the producer of the wealth of a nation, and that 

 laws should be so framed as to encourage and pro- 

 mote the interest, progress, and prosperity of all 

 classes, and especially of all laboring people. 



We recognize the 'right of all men to organize for 

 social or material advancement ; the right of wage- 

 workers to use all lawful means to protect themselves 

 against the encroachments of moneyed monopolists, 

 and the right to fix a price for their labor commensur- 

 ate with the work required of them, and we hold that 

 every man has the right to dispose of his own labor 

 upon such terms as he may think will best promote 

 his interests. In relations between capital and labor 

 the Democratic party favors such measures and poli- 

 cies as will promote harmony between them, and will 

 adequately protect the rights and interests of both. 

 We freely indorse and approve the laws passed pur- 

 suant to the demands of former Democratic conven- 

 tions making provision for the safety and protection 

 of laborers and miners, and providing for the collec- 

 tion of their wages, and are in favor of all other 

 enactments to that end which may be necessary and 

 proper. 



It is provided by the Constitution of this State that 

 the liberty of the people should be protected, and 

 that their private property should not be taken with- 

 out just compensation, and we are opposed to any 

 change in the Constitution tending to weaken these 

 safeguards, or to any legislation which asserts the 

 power to take or destroy the private property of any 

 portion of the people of this State without compensa- 

 tion or which unjustly interferes with their personal 

 liberty as to what they shall eat or drink, or as to the 

 kind of clothing they' shall wear, believing that the 

 government should be administered in that way best 

 calculated to confer the greatest good upon the great- 

 est number, without sacrificing the rights of person or 

 of property, and leaving the innocent creeds, habits, 

 customs, and business of the people unfettered by 

 sumptuary laws, class legislation, or extortionate mo- 

 nopolies. While standing faithfully by the rights of 

 property and personal liberty guaranteed to the peo- 

 ple by the Constitution, we distinctly declare that we 

 are in favor of sobriety and temperance, and all 

 proper means for the promotion of these virtues, but 

 we believe that a well-regulated license system and 

 reasonable and just laws upon the subject, faithfully 

 enforced, would be better than extreme measures, 

 which, being subversive of personal liberty and in 

 conflict with public sentiment, would never be effect- 

 ively executed, thus bringing law into disrepute and 

 tending to make sneaks and hypocrites of our people. 



The Republican State Convention met on 

 August 8, at Indianapolis. Strenuous efforts 

 were made to induce Ex-Gov. Albert G. Por- 

 ter to accept the gubernational nomination, 

 but upon being assured of his absolute refusal, 

 the convention nominated Congressman Alvin 

 P. Hovey, on the second ballot. The remain- 

 der of the ticket was completed as follows: 

 Lieutenant-Governor, Ira J. Chase ; Secretary 

 of State, Charles P. Griffin; Auditor, Bruce 

 Carr ; Treasurer, Julius A. Lemcke ; Superin- 



tendent of Public Instruction, R. M. La Fol- 

 lette ; Judges of the Supreme Court, First Dis- 

 trict, S. D. Coffey ; Second District, John G. 

 Berkshire ; Fourth District, Walter Olds ; Re- 

 porter of the Supreme Court, John L. Griffiths. 

 The resolutions commend the work of the Na- 

 tional Convention, especially the nomination of 

 Gen. Harrison, and treat at length of State and 

 local issues as follows: 



Crimes against an equal ballot and equal represen- 

 tation are destructive of free government. The ini- 

 quitous and unfair apportionment for congressional 

 and legislative purposes, made at the behest of the 

 liquor league of Indiana, followed by conspiracv and 

 forgery upon the election returns of 1886, in Marion 

 County, for which a number of prominent Democratic 

 leaders were indicted and tried, two of whom are now 

 suffering the deserved penalty of their acts, demand 

 the rebuke of every patriotic citizen. The gerry- 

 mander, bv which more than half of the people of the 

 State are sliorn of their just rights, must be repealed 

 and constitutional apportionments made, whereby 

 the votes of members of all political parties shall be 

 given equal force and effect, equal political rights to 

 be the only basis of a truly democratic and republican 

 form of government. 



The action of the Democrats in the last General As- 

 sembly was revolutionary and criminal. The will of 

 the people expressed in a peaceable and lawful elec- 

 tion, advised and participated in by the Democratic 

 party, was set at defiance, and the Constitution and 

 laws' as expounded by the Supreme Court of the 

 United States disregarded and nullified. Public and 

 private rights were subverted and destroyed, and the 

 Capitol of the State disgraced by violence and brutal- 

 ity. The alleged election of a United States Senator 

 was accomplished by fraud and forced by high- 

 handed usurpation of power, the overthrow of con- 

 stitutional and legal forms, the setting aside of the 

 results of a popular election, and the theft of the pre- 

 rogatives of duly elected and qualified members of the 

 Legislature. That stolen senatorship is part of the 

 Democratic administration at Washington, now in 

 power by virtue of public crimes and the nullifica- 

 tion of Constitution and laws. 



We favor placing all public institutions under a 

 wisely conceived and honestly administered civil- 

 service law. 



In the interests of labor we favor the establishment 

 and permanent maintenance of a bureau of labor sta- 

 tistics. We favor the passage and strict enforcement 

 of laws which will absolutely prevent the competi- 

 tion of imported servile, convict, or contract labor of 

 all kinds with free labor ; prohibit the employment 

 of young children in factories and mines ; guarantee 

 to workingmen the most favorable conditions for 

 their service, especially proper safeguards for life and 

 comfort in mines and factories, on railways and in all 

 hazardous occupations ; to secure which the duties 

 and powers of the State Mine-Inspector should be en- 

 larged, and provision made whereby only skilled and 

 competent men can be placed in positions where they 

 may be in control of the lives and safety of others ; 

 enforce the certain and frequent payment of wages : 

 abridge the hours of labor wherever practicable ; and 

 provide for the submission to just and impartial arbi- 

 tration, under regulations that will make the arbitra- 

 tion effective, all controversies between workingmen 

 and their employers. The right of wage-workers to 

 organize for the legitimate promotion of their mutual 

 good can not be questioned. 



The amendments to the State Constitution making 

 the terms of county officers four years, and striking 

 out the word " white " from section 1, Article XII, so 

 that colored men may become a part of the regular 

 militia force for the de'fense of the State, should be re- 

 newed. 



Politics and legislation should be kept free from tlia 



