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INDIANA. 



INDIAN MESSIAH. 



credit for partisan purposes by disseminating false 

 statements as to her financial condition and resources. 

 Indiana is not bankrupt. Her taxes are low, end her 

 debt is not oppressive, and for every dollar of it she 

 has more than value received in the great public insti- 

 tutions. 



We applaud the eight-hour law, and the law pro- 

 hibiting " blacklisting," the law prohibiting "pluck- 

 me " stores, the laws for the protection of coal miners, 

 the law prohibiting the importation of Pinkerton de- 

 tectives, and the repeal of the Republican intimida- 

 tion law of 1881. 



1 We are in favor of arbitration as the only just and 

 fair method of settling labor controversies, and we 

 demand of the next Legislature the passage ot a law 

 creating a permanent tribunal of arbitration for that 

 purpose. 



On Sept. 10 the Republican Convention met 

 at Indianapolis and made the following nomina- 

 tions : For Secretary of State, Milton Trusler ; 

 for Auditor, Ivan N. Walker ; for Treasurer, 

 George W. Pixley ; for Attorney-General, John 

 W. Lovett ; for Judge of the Supreme Court, 

 Robert W. McBride ; for Clerk of the Supreme 

 Court, William T. Noble ; for Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction, James H. Henry ; for Chief 

 of Bureau of Statistics, John Worrell ; for State 

 Geologist, John M. Coulter. The resolutions 

 treated of State issues at great length and in-, 

 eluded the following : 



We favor protection against every Ibrm of convict 

 or servile labor, prohibition of tte employment of 

 young children in factories and mines, protection of 

 railroad employes by requiring the adoption of a uni- 

 form coupler, protection of employes engaged in fac- 

 tories and mines or other hazardous occupations from 

 every danger that can be removed or diminished, the 

 adjustment of differences between employer and em- 

 ployed by arbitration, and such legislation as may be 

 needed to facilitate and protect organizations of farm- 

 ers and wage laborers for the proper and lawful pro- 

 motion of their mutual interests. 



We demand that our benevolent institutions be 

 placed above the level of partisan politics and that 

 they be controlled by boards composed of members of 

 different political parties, appointed by the Governor, 

 to the end that the cost of their maintenance mav be 

 reduced and the helpless and unfortunate wards of 

 the State may not be made the victims of unfit ap- 

 pointments dictated by the caucus and made as a re- 

 ward for party services. 



We denounce all attempts to correct supposed evils 

 by the lawless acts of mobs, commonly called White 

 Caps, as unworthy of a civilized State. We favor 

 such legislation as will aid the Executive and local au- 

 thorities in exterminating such evils. 



We believe that all State officers who serve the 

 whole people should be elected by them as soon as 

 appointments made by the Executive under the Con- 

 stitution expire, and tavor such an amendment to the 

 national Constitution as will extend the same method 

 to the election of United States Senators. 



We believe that the making of public improve- 

 ments and other purely business affairs of our larger 

 cities can be best and most economically managed by 

 non-partisan boards, and that such boards should be 

 appointed by the mayor of the city they are to serve. 



The better to secure the savings of our people so 

 largely invested in building associations, we favor 

 legislation _ requiring foreign associations, and those 

 organized in other States to make proper proof of 

 their solvency, furnish ample security, and pay a 

 reasonable license fee for the privilege of doing busi- 

 ness in the State. 



To the end that free schools may accomplish a 

 more perfect work and extend the inestimable bene- 

 fits of education still further, to free school houses 

 and free tuition we would add free text-books. 



We are opposed to a?iy interference with the rights 

 now conceded to citizens maintaining private and 

 parochial schools. 



On Sept. 30 a convention of delegates, repre- 

 senting the former Greenback-Labor party, the 

 Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association, the Farm- 

 ers' Alliance, the Grange, and other farmer or- 

 ganizations, political and otherwise, assembled 

 at Indianapolis to form a new party in the inter- 

 est of the agricultural classes. " The Peoples 

 party " was the name adopted. The following 

 ticket for State officers was nominated : For 

 Secretary of State, Leroy Templeton ; for Audi- 

 tor, James M. Johnson ; for Treasurer, Isaiah N. 

 Miller; for Attorney-General, William Patter- 

 son ; for Judge of the Supreme Court, John S. 

 Bender; for Clerk of the Supreme Court, Benja- 

 min F. Street ; for Superintendent of Public In- 

 struction, William Whitney ; for Chief of Bureau 

 of Statistics, John W. Shockley : for State Geolo- 

 gist, Edward S. Pope. The platform included 

 the following : 



We view with alarm the fact that, notwithstanding 

 the heavy burdens of the tax-payers, the debt of the 

 State is steadily increasing. 



We favor the issuing of a full legal-tender paper 

 money to meet the disbursements under these bills, 

 thereby enabling the Government to maintain its 

 honor and pav its debts, and at the same time aid the 

 people by giving them a sufficient volume of money 

 to meet the demand of the legitimate trade interests 

 of the country. Our Government paid the soldiers 

 in paper money during the war, and the veterans will 

 now gladly accept it in payment of their just de- 

 mands. 



We demand a just and equitable rcdistricting of the 

 State so as to secure to the people a fair representation 

 in the legislative halls of both State and nation, and 

 thus correct the flagrant infringement on the expressed 

 will of the people in previous fetate elections. 



We indorse the farmers' convention which met at 

 the State Capitol on June 19, 1890. 



We favor the repeal of the law now in force in this 

 State allowing counties, townships, and cities to vote 

 taxes on the people for building railroads for cor- 

 porations. 



We are opposed to the competition of the present 

 contract-labor law as now practiced. 



We are in favor of changing the law exempting 

 property from levy and sale upon execution, so that 

 when judgment is for unpaid wages no property shall 

 be exempt. 



In the ticket several changes were subse- 

 quently made, among others the name of Martin 

 V. Kindle being substituted for that of Leroy 

 Templeton. At the November election the 

 Democratic ticket received a considerable plu- 

 rality. For Secretary of State the vote was: 

 Matthews, 233,881; Trusler, 214,302; Kindle. 

 17,3o4; Blount, 12.106: a plurality of 19,579 for 

 Matthews. The pluralities of the other Demo- 

 cratic candidates varied from 16,501 for Treas- 

 urer to 21,252 for Justice of the Supreme Court. 

 Members of the Legislature were chosen at the 

 same time as follow: Senate, Democrats 35, 

 Republicans 15; House. Democrats 71. Repub- 

 licans 29. Of the 13 members of Congress, the 

 Republicans elected only 2. 



INDIAN MESSIAH. The special belief of a 

 divine Saviour sent to rescue humanity from its 

 oppressions repeats itself in the history of many 

 religions. Its latest manifestation is among the 

 Indians of North America. Suddenly has arisen 

 a confident belief, which is widespread and per- 



