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INDIANA. 



Eesolved, That we especially commend and approve 

 the action of the last General Assembly in prohibit- 

 ing the importation of foreigners and aliens under 

 contract to perform labor within the State of Indiana. 

 We demand such further legislation by Congress as 

 may be necessary to prevent such importation of for- 

 eign laborers into this country, and we declare our- 

 selves in favor of the strictest enforcement of the acts 

 prohibiting Chinese immigration. Further, that we 

 demand the abrogation of ail laws which do not bear 

 equally upon capital and labor ; the passage of strin- 

 gent laws to promote the health and enhance the 

 saiety of employes of railways, manufacturing estab- 

 lishments, and mining operations, and to compel the 

 employers to make prompt payment of wages of those 

 in their employ ; the enactment of laws prohibiting 

 the hiring out of convict-labor in competition with 

 the honest laborers of the country ; prohibiting^ the 

 employment of children under fourteen years of age 

 in the mines and factories of the State ; and, finally, 

 that the importation of foreign laborers under contract 

 be forever prohibited by stringent penal statutes. 



The Eepublican State Convention was held 

 at Indianapolis on September 2, and the fol- 

 lowing is the ticket nominated : For Lieuten- 

 ant-Governor, R. S. Robertson ; Secretary of 

 State, Charles L. Griffin ; Auditor of State, 

 Bruce Carr ; Treasurer of State, J. A. Lemcke ; 

 Judge of the Supreme Court, Byron K. Elliott ; 

 Attorney-General, Louis T. Michener; Clerk 

 of the Supreme Court, William T. Noble ; Su- 

 perintendent of Public Instruction, Harvey M. 

 La Follette. 



The essential features of the platform were 

 as follow : 



The security of government rests upon an equal, 

 intelligent, and honest ballot, and we renew our dec- 

 laration against crimes of fraud and violence, wher- 

 ever practiced and under whatever form, whereby the 

 right of every man to cast one vote, and have that 

 vote counted and returned, is imperiled or ^abridged. 

 We especially protest against the flagrant crime of the 

 Democratic party of Indiana against free suffrage in 

 the passage of an infamous gerrymander. We de- 

 mand that, man for man, the votes of members of all 

 parties shall be given equal force and effect. 



Freedom of labor is essential to the contentment 

 and prosperity of the people. Workingmen should 

 be protected against the oppressions of corporate com- 

 binations and monopolies. We are opposed to the 

 importation of contracted and ill-paid labor from 

 abroad ; the unfair competition of convict-labor with 

 free labor; the competition of "assisted" emigrants 

 and the vicious classes of Europe with American 

 workingmen ; the employment of young children in 

 factories and mines ; and we recommend to the next 

 General Assembly the passage of such laws as will 

 guarantee to workingmen the most favorable condi- 

 tions for their labor especially in the proper ventila- 

 tion and safeguards for life and health in mines and 

 factories and the sure and prompt payment of wages. 

 We favor the reduction of the legal number of work- 

 ing-hours wherever practicable, and the submission 

 of all matters of controversy between employe and 

 employer, under just regulation, to impartial arbitra- 

 tion. The right of all men to associate for the pro- 

 motion of their mutual good and protection, without 

 interfering with the rights of others, can not be ques- 

 tioned, 



We favor the maintenance of the principle of pro- 

 tection, under which the resources of the State and 

 nation have been, and are being, developed, and 

 whereby the wages of workingmen are from 15 to 30 

 per cent, higher than under the revenue tariff in force 

 before the Republican party came into power. Favor- 

 ing the reduction and readjustment of the tariff from 

 time to time as circumstances may require, upon the 



basis of affording protection to the products and re- 

 sults of American skill and industry, in our opinion 

 the duties should be reduced as low as will be allowed 

 by a wise observance of the necessity to protect that 

 portion of our manufacturers and labor whose pros- 

 perity is essential to our national safety and independ- 

 ence. We at the same time condemn the declara- 

 tion of the Democratic party of Indiana in favor of 

 practical free trade, as a menace to the prosperity of 

 the State and to the welfare and advancement of 

 workingmen. 



The wisdom and honesty of the Eepublican party 

 secured sound money to the people. Qold and silver 

 should be maintained in friendly relation in the com 

 circulation of the country, and all the circulating me- 

 dium coin and paper alike should be kept of equal 

 and permanent value. The surplus in the treasury 

 should be steadily applied to the reduction of the na- 

 tional debt. 



We favor a thorough and honest enforcement of the 

 civil-service law, and the extension of its principles 

 to the State administration wherever it can be made 

 practicable. 



The Republican party carried into effect the home- 

 stead policy, under which the Western States and 

 Territories have been made populous and prosperous. 

 We favor the reservation of public lands for small 

 holdings by actual settlers, and are opposed to the ac- 

 quisition of large tracts or the public domain by cor- 

 porations and non-resident aliens. American 'lands 

 should be preserved for American settlers. 



The watering of corporate ?tock should be pre- 

 vented by law. We favor the creation of a Bureau of 

 Labor and Statistics. 



The constitutional provision that all taxation shall 

 be equal and uniform, should be made effective by 

 such revision of the assessment and taxation laws as 

 will remedy the injustice whereby certain localities 

 have been made to bear more than their clue share of 

 the public burdens. 



We renew the pledge of our devotion to the free, 

 unsectarian school system, and favor measures tend- 

 ing to increase its practical value to the people. We 

 are opposed to any movement, however insidious, 

 whether local or State ; whereby a sacred fund may be 

 diverted from its legitimate use, or the administration 

 of the schools made less impartial or efficient. 



The attempted domination by the Liquor League of 

 political parties and legislation is a menace to free in- 

 stitutions which must be met and defeated. The 

 traffic in intoxicating liquors has always been under 

 legislative restraint ; and, believing that the evils re- 

 sulting therefrom should be rigidly repressedj we favor 

 such laws as will permit the people in their several 

 localities to invoke such measures of restriction as 

 they may deem wise, and to compel the traffic to com- 

 pensate for the burdens it imposes on society and re- 

 lieve the oppressions of local taxation. 



The Prohibition candidates were: Lieuten- 

 ant-Governor, J. M. Gale ; Secretary of State, 

 J. S. Hughes; Auditor, Sylvester Johnson; 

 Treasurer, A. G. Tubbs; 'Attorney-General, 

 William M. Land; Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction, Cyrus Hodgin ; Supreme Judge, R. 

 S. Dwiggins; Cierk of Supreme Court, L. D. 

 Ratliff. The following was the Greenback 

 ticket : Lieutenant-Governor, E. S. Pope ; Sec- 

 retary of State, J. B. Milroy ; Auditor, Pressly 

 Gregg; Treasurer, Benjamin Perkins; Attor- 

 ney-General, J. S. Bender; Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction, George Bass; Supreme 

 Judge, J. L. Miller; Clerk of Supreme Court, 

 S. D. Douglass. 



On November 2 the Republican ticket wj 

 elected. The vote for Lieutenant-Governor 

 was: Republican, 232,916; Democratic, 229,- 



