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INDIANA. 



edness is greatly increased at the dictation of Wall 

 Street and the money lords of Europe." 



A resolution was adopted declaring that the mi- 

 nor parties should have representation on political 

 boards. 



Following is the ticket as finally arranged : For 

 Governor, James G. Kingsbury; Lieutenant Gov- 

 ernor, Sampson J. North ; Secretary of State, James 



E. Ellsworth; Auditor, Hans C. Hansen ; Treasurer, 

 Sylvester Johnson; Attorney-General, Helen M. 

 Gougar ; Reporter of the Supreme Court, Vincent P. 

 Kirk : Superintendent of Instruction, Cyrus Hodg- 

 en ; Statistician, John E. Woodard. 



There was afterward a division in the party, and 

 the " Narrow-gauge " Prohibitionists nominated 

 Leonard M. Christ for Governor, William Edgerton 

 for Lieutenant Governor, II. C. Pitts for Secretary, 

 S. M. Thompson for Auditor, Preston Ryder for 

 Treasurer, C. S. Dobbins for Attorney-General, W. 



F. Lenfesty for Reporter of the Supreme Court, 

 Elwood Haines for Statistician, and C. M. Lemon for 

 Superintendent of Instruction. 



The Republican State Convention met at Indian- 

 apolis May 7. Interest centered in the question 

 whether the delegates to the national convention 

 would be instructed. Many of the leaders who 

 were in favor of instructing for Mr. McKinley de- 

 clared that the delegation would support Harrison 

 if he at any time should appear to be a factor in 

 the convention, and that instructions for Mr. Mc- 

 Kinley would not be binding against Mr. Harrison. 

 The instruction to vote for Mr. McKinley was in- 

 corporated in the resolutions, which were voted 

 upon as a whole and adopted. They commended 

 the administration of Mr. Harrison, made a strong 

 declaration in favor of protection and reciprocity, 

 declared in favor of restricted immigration, con- 

 demned the pension policy of the Administration, 

 and said : "We favor the use of silver as currency, 

 but to the extent only and under such regulations 

 that its parity with gold can be maintained, and in 

 consequence are opposed to the free, unlimited, 

 and independent coinage of silver at a ratio of 

 16 to 1." 



Following is the resolution instructing : 



" Believing as we do in a protective tariff, the 

 leading issue before the people, we favor the nomi- 

 ation as President of the United States a man who 

 perfectly represents a protective tariff and the car- 

 dinal principles of the Republican party; a man 

 who has devoted his life to the defense of his country 

 in war and in peace ; one who at seventeen years of 

 age fought with Hayes and Crook and Sheridan at 

 Antietam and in the Shenandoah in defense of our 

 flag against foes within, and for fourteen years in 

 Congress contended against our country's foes from 

 without, beating back British free trade and aggres- 

 sion, which finally, under the present Democratic 

 administration, obtained possession of our markets 

 and had almost destroyed our industries; a man 

 who with the resistless shibboleth ' Protection and 

 Prosperity ' has challenged the attention of the 

 commercial world and won the support of every 

 patriotic workingman of our country ; whose life 

 and work, open as a book, are in themselves a plat- 

 form, whose very name is magic, that loyal Amer- 

 ican citizen, soldier, statesman, and Christian gen- 

 tleman, William McKinley, of Ohio ; and the dele- 

 gates to the Republican National Convention se- 

 lected by this body are directed to cast their vote 

 for William McKinley, as frequently and continu- 

 ously as there is any hope of his nomination." 



The State ticket nominated was : For Governor, 

 James A. Mount; Lieutenant Governor, W. S. 

 Haggard ; Secretary of State, W. D. Owen ; Auditor, 

 A. C. Dailey ; Treasurer, F. J. Scholz : Attorney- 

 General, W. A. Ketcham ; Reporter of the Supreme 



Court, Charles F. Reney ; Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction, D. M. Geeting; Statistician. S. J. 

 Thompson ; Judges of the Appellate Court, Woodfin 

 D. Robinson, William J. Henley, James B. Black, 

 D. W. Comstock, and U. Z. Wiley. 



The Democrats abandoned the old custom of 

 holding separate conventions for choosing delegates 

 to the national convention and for nominating 

 State officers, the free-coinage men desiring to 

 bring out a full vote at the primaries. The con- 

 vention was held at Indianapolis June 24. The 

 contests in the districts had resulted in a large ma- 

 jority in favor of free coinage, but as the minority 

 made determined opposition, the convention was 

 most exciting. The platform recommended Gov. 

 Matthews as the Democratic candidate for the 

 presidency, and instructed the delegates to vote for 

 him. The two Senators were commended ; it was 

 declared that belligerent rights should be accorded 

 to Cuba ; that Senators should be elected by direct 

 vote of the people ; subsidies and land grants to 

 corporations were opposed ; pensions favored ; a 

 policy favorable to organized labor and an act pro- 

 viding for jury trials in the Federal courts in 

 cases of contempt recommended ; and protest en- 

 lerod against "the increase of the public debt by 

 the issue of interest-bearing bonds or otherwise in 

 time of peace." 



On the tariff and the currency the following dec- 

 larations were made: 



" We reaffirm our adherence to and faith in the 

 Democratic doctrine of bimetallism, and therefore 

 we demand the immediate restoration of bimetal- 

 lism by the free and unrestricted coinage of both 

 silver and gold as primary money at the ratio of 

 16 to 1, without waiting the co-operation of Great 

 Britain or any other foreign power, all such coinage 

 to be full legal tender in the payment of all debts, 

 public and private. 



" We believe the existing tariff laws will be fully 

 equal to all demands for needed revenue for the ex- 

 penses of government economically administered, 

 under the conditions which will arise from the res- 

 toration of bimetallism." 



The ticket follows : For Governor, Benjamin F. 

 Shively ; Lieutenant Governor, John C. Lawler; 

 Secretary of State, Samuel M. Ralston : Auditor, 

 Joseph T. Fanning; Treasurer, Morgan Chandler; 

 Attorney-General, John G. McNutt ; Reporter of 

 Supreme Court, Henry Warrum ; Superintendent of 

 Instruction, William B. Sinclair : Statistician, Omer 

 H. Downey; Judges of the Appellate Court, Edwin 

 Taylor, Frank E. Gavin, Theodore P. Davis, Orlando 

 J. Lotz, and George E. Ross. 



; The candidate for Governor, Mr. Shively, re- 

 ceived 1,643 votes against 104 in favor of G. W. 

 Cooper, the nominee of the gold Democrats. 



The People's party met in convention at Indian- 

 apolis July 28, with about 350 delegates in attend- 

 ance. The platform declared for free coinage. 



Measures to effect fusion with the Democrjitic 

 party were defeated, but the Democratic candidates 

 for the offices of Auditor, Attorney-General, and 

 Reporter were afterward indoi-sed by the majority 

 of the party. 



Following is the Populist ticket : For Governor, 

 Thomas Wadsworth ; Lieutenant Governor, Adam 

 P. Hanna; Secretary of State, Silas M. llolcombe ; 

 Auditor, Nathan M.Jennings; Treasurer, F. J. S. 

 Robinson ; Attorney-General, D. II. Fernandcs : 

 Reporter of the Supreme Court, Thomas W. Force : 

 Statistician, James S. McKibben: Judges of the 

 Appellate Court, Adam Stockinger and John R. 

 Thornburger. 



The Socialist-Labor party nominated. Aug. 11, 

 Philip II. Moore for Governor, Harry C. Shoop for 

 Lieutenant Governor, Fred. Adams for Secretary of 



