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tion taxes of seaboard States ; approve of the 

 exposures " of corrupt officials, and denounce 



independe 



tion," and declare that the Republican party 

 is the only party that will help them ; and in- 

 struct the delegates to the National Conven- 

 tion to vote for Grant and Colfax. 



The Democratic Convention was held at 

 Indianapolis on the 12th of June. The State 

 officers nominated were as follows : For Gov- 

 ernor, Thomas A. Hendricks ; Lieutenant- 

 Governor, "W. 0. Depauw; Congressmen at 

 large, John S. Williams, Michael C. Kerr; 

 Secretary of State, Owen "W. Eddy; Auditor, 

 John 13. Stoll; Treasurer, James B. Ryan; 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, M. B. 

 Hopkins; Attorney-General, Bayless W. Ban- 

 na ; Clerk of Supreme Court, Ed. Price ; Re- 

 porter of Supreme Court, John 0. Robinson. 



The following platform was adopted : 



Resolved, By the Democracy of Indiana in conven- 

 tion assembled: 



That the principles of the Cincinnati Liberal Re- 

 publican Convention, taken in connection with the 

 propositions contained in Horace Greeley's letter 

 accepting the nomination of that convention, con- 

 stitute a platform on which all the elements of oppo- 

 sition to the present corrupt Administration of tho 

 Federal Government can stand. 



Resolved, That we regard it as unwise and imprudent 

 to placs two tickets in nomination for the office of 

 President and Vice-President as the representatives 

 of these principles, as the division of its friends 

 would insure the defeat of both, and it is therefore 

 the fixed conviction of this convention that tho 

 Democratic Convention to assemble in Baltimore in 

 July_ should adopt the nominees of the Liberal Re- 

 publican Convention instead of making other nomi- 

 nations for the presidency and vice-presidency of 

 the United States. 



Unsolved, That the delegates appointed from thj 

 State to^the Baltimore Convention be, and they are 

 hereby, instructed to vote as a unit upon all ques- 

 tions, iii accordance with the opinion of a majority 

 of the delegation. 



Resolved, That all drainage and other laws, by 

 which_ the owners of property may be divested of 

 their title by arbitrary assessments or summary pro- 

 cess, should be carefully guarded, so as to protect 

 the people from undue oppression, and their prop- 

 erty from being taken without just compensation 

 and due process of law ; and that all laws contra- 

 vening these principles should be promptly repealed, 

 or modified so as to conform thereto. 



Whereas, The Union soldiers and sailors, by their 

 patriotism and courage in the great rebellion of 1881, 

 preserved the life of the nation and made our public 

 domain valuable : therefore 



liis-Jved, That we demand for each of tho livino- 

 who was honorably discharged, and for the widows 

 or orphans of the dead, one hundred and sixty acres 

 of the public lands not heretofore entered, or given 

 away by a Republican Congress to railroad corpora- 

 tions to be theirs absolutely, without requiring 

 them to become actual settlers thereon. 



Resolved, That justice and equality demand that 

 all soldiers who enlisted in tbe military service of 

 the country during the war of the late rebellion, and 

 who have been honorably discharged therefrom, 

 shall have a bounty granted to them'by Congress in 

 proportion to the time they may have served, 

 whether that time shall have been for three months 

 or a longer period. 



A "straight-out" Democratic Convention 

 was held at Indianapolis on the 19th of Sep- 

 tember, at which a full State ticket was put 

 in nomination, and resolutions unanimously 

 adopted indorsing the action of the National 

 Convention at Louisville. 



On the 28th of February a convention of 

 those favoring a prohibition of the sale of in- 

 toxicating liquors was held at the Capitol, at 

 which the following resolutions were adopted: 



Resolved, That " we hold these truths to be self- 

 evident, that all men are created equal ; that they 

 are endowed by their Creator with certain inalien- 

 able rights ; that among these are life, liberty, and 

 the pursuit of happiness ; that to secure these rights 

 governments are instituted among men, deriving 

 their just powers from the consent of the governed ; '* 

 that whenever any law, custom, institution, or busi- 

 ness, becomes destructive of these ends, it is the 

 right and duty of the people, by the enactment and 

 execution of all necessary, just, and constitutional 

 laws, to abolish it. 



Resolved, That on this basis of fundamental truth, 

 we hold it to be the right and duty of the people to 

 abolish and forever prohibit the manufacture of and 

 traffic in intoxicating liquors, as a beverage, and their 

 importation from foreign countries. 



Resolved, _That every such evil being malum in se, 

 a crime against God and man, is beyond the power 

 of Government to remedy by any provisions but 

 total prohibition and by any process but utter extir- 

 pation ; and that all laws to license or sanctify, by 

 pretending to regulate such crime, are insane and 

 infamous. 



Resolved, That we favor all measures that will 

 effect a reform in the financial affairs of our munici- 

 pal, State and national Governments, and favor the 

 abolition of the offices of State Agent and State 

 Printer. 



Resolved, That we call upon all the good citizens 

 of Indiana, whether total abstainers or not, who 

 recognize the terrible injuries inflicted by the liquor- 

 traffic, to unite with us for its overthrow, and to se- 

 cure thereby peace, order, and the protection of per- 

 sons and property. 



At an adjourned session of this convention 

 on the 3d of April, a full ticket of State of- 

 ficers was nominated. 



The State election took place on the 8th of 

 October. The whole vote cast for Governor 

 numbered 377,917, of which Hendricks, Demo- 

 crat, received 189,424; Browne, Republican, 

 188,276; Edgerton, "straight-out" Democrat, 

 189; Falkenburg, Temperance candidate, 28 ; 

 making Hendricks's majority over all, 531. 

 The remainder of the officers elected were the 

 Republican nominees, with the exception of the 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, Milton 

 B. Hopkins, who was the Democratic candi- 

 date. At the presidential election on the 5th 

 of November, 351,198 votes were cast, of 

 which the Grant and Wilson electors received 

 186,144; Greeley and Brown, 165,637; O'Conor 

 and Adams, 1,417; Grant and Wilson's major- 

 ity over all, 21,090. The State Legislature of 

 1873 contains 27 Republicans and 23 Demo- 

 crats in the Senate, and 54 Republicans and 

 46 Democrats in the House of Representatives. 

 Republican majority on joint ballot, 12. 



A special session of the Legislature was 

 opened at the capital on the 14th of Novem- 

 ber, at which considerable miscellaneous busi- 



