INDIANA. 



355 



gins and the cornering of grain, money, and pnxl- 

 huiild In- prohibited ; ihal contract convict 

 labor .-Inuild be abolished, and that every honor- 

 alily discharged I'liion soldier and sailor of tin- 

 war merits an. I should have a pension, hased np- 



on 0ervioe and disability, without regard in rank. 



The following ticket was put in nomination : 

 iM-riKir, Ii!e\. Aanui Wirth: for Lieiiten- 

 ent-Govrriior. ( '. \V. ( 'nlliertson ; for Secretary, 

 .lames McCormick : for Auditor, Frank Taggarl : 

 lor TivasimT. II. II. Moore; for Supcriiiteiid- 

 t-nt of Public Instruction, K. A. Devon-; for 

 Attorney-General, C. S. Dobbins; for Statisti- 

 cian. M. ]']. Shiel; for Supreme Judge. Robert 

 Denny ; for Appellate Judges. John Baker, John 

 |). (louder, and John B. Joyce; for Reporter of 

 the Supreme Court, John W. Bair. 



The convention of the People's party met in 

 May. The more important portions of the ma- 

 jority report of the Committee on Resolutions, 

 which was adopted, follow: 



We demand the free and unlimited coinage of sil- 

 ver. 



We demand that the amount of the- circulating 

 medium ho speedily increased to not less than $50 per 

 MMH&X. 



We demand a graduated income tax. 



Alien ownership of land should be prohibited; all 



hinds n<>\v held by railroads and other corporations in 



'!' their actual needs, and all lands now owned 



by aliens, should be reclaimed by the Government 



and held for actual settlers only. 



We demand that the State be redistricted with ab- 

 solute fairness. 



We demand that county superintendents be elected 

 by a vote of the people. 



We demand that the office of county assessor be 

 abolished. 



We demand such revision of the law for the listing 

 of property for taxation that shall compel all prop- 

 erty , both real and personal, to be listed at u fair cash 

 value. 



We demand that the Government issue legal-tender 

 notes, and pay the Union soldiers the difference be- 

 tween the price of the depreciated money in which 

 tlu-v were paid and gold. 



That we favor the enactment of laws under which 

 the people m;,\ vote periodically upon doctrine and 

 policies without the intervention of parties or candi- 

 dates, the result* of these elections to be considered 

 as instructions to our legislative servants, and to be 

 cut. nved by impeachment when such instructions are 

 disregarded. 



The riirht to vote is inherent in citizenship, without 

 regard bo 



The following was the ticket selected : For 

 Governor. Lemy Templeton; Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor. J. A. Mouser: Secretary of State, Jesse 

 L. Ilo'ison; Auditor, Louis C. Kasten; Treas- 

 urer, Townsend Cope; State Statistician,*'. II. 

 Bliss ; Reporter of Supreme Court, W. II. Dcwey ; 

 Supreme Judges, Adam Stockington, Silas M. 

 Sheppanl. and M. J. Bosnrt; for Appellate 

 Judges. I. X. Pearce, Joseph Daily. II. C. Harm-it, 

 David W. Chambers, and John S. Bender. 



The Republicans met in convention at Port 

 Wayne, on June 28. The resolutions approved 

 the nominations of the national convention at 

 Minneapolis, condemned the Democratic man- 

 agement of State affairs as incompetent, waste- 

 fid, and in the interest of party managers, and 

 as having burdened the State with a debt of 

 $9,000,000, and said further: 



We arraign the Democratic party of Indiana for 



enacting un unequal und unjust tax law. It . 

 upon the farmer, laborer, and householder un CXC6M- 

 i\e and unjust share of thcpul.lie burden. It creates* 

 great numi.cr'>f unnee, hitherto unknow n 



to law. To the burden of taxation, already *>* 

 it acids more than $100.000 for the tec*, salaries, and 

 cxiK-nscs <iflhe.se i.iljec.- and officers. We demand iU 

 radical revision. We pledge ourselves to cnn> I 

 amendments to the present tax luw as shall relieve 

 the farm and the home from the unju.-t taxation MOW 

 borne bv them; which shall place a ji -t share of the 

 public burden on capital, and incorj>orute projx-rty 

 and provide a more simple and le.-s expensive incth<l 

 of assessment. We condemn the action of tin- \u>-t 

 Democratic Legislature in largely incn ;; 

 and salaries of the State and county offices. It made 

 many public olliccs sinecures bv providing tor the- per 

 formaiice of official duties by deputies paid out of the 

 public fu i n Is. 



The law passed by the lost Democratic Assembly, 

 apportioning the State for legislative and congres- 

 sional purposes, was designedly and wickedly framed 

 so as to deny to many counties and localities fair and 

 equal representation 'in the legislative department of 

 the State and nation, to place and retain under 

 ocratic control in this State all its public institutions 

 and affairs, and to give that party an increased und 

 unfair representation in Congress and the Legislature. 

 Such a policy is dangerous, and destructive of all good 

 government, and merits the condemnation of all patri- 

 otic people. And we now pledge the Republican 

 party to continue the warfare against this <fish"iiest 

 iioliey of the Democratic party, until the State shall 

 oe honestly apportioned by giving to each county 

 and locality it* fair and equitable representation in 

 proportion to its numbers. 



\\ < denounce the purpose of the Democratic party, 

 clearly avowed in the national platform, to repeal tl'ic 

 law imposing a 10-per-cent. tax on State hank issm s. 

 and thus removing the only barrier to a return of the 

 system of "wild cat" money, which once disgraced 

 our State and largely impoverished our people. 



We favor amending the law concerning the con- 

 struction and maintenance of public highways, so as 

 to utilize to the best advantage the large sums yearly 

 expended thereon, and thus [nit the tanner in close 

 and easy communication with the market at all sea- 

 sons of the year. 



The Democratic party deserves the emphatic con- 

 demnation of every citizen of the State for its refusal 

 to place our benevolent institutions upon a nonpurti- 

 san basis, when murder, cruelty, debauchery, fraud, 

 and incompi ti-ncy mark that party's management of 

 many of these institutions, ana for still persisting in 

 retaining partisan control of the asylums of the help- 

 less and unfortunate that they may be made the coin 

 in i>a\ meiit for party services. 



\\ c favor the enactment by Congress of a law, 

 thrice recommended by President Harrison, comjH-1- 

 lintr the use of standard safety car couplers for tin- 

 protection of the I'.ves and limbs of employees engaged 

 in interstate commerce. 



We also favor a law governing convict lal>or in the 

 penal institutions of the State that will work the lcu*t 

 possible injury to free labor. 



We most heartily indorse the generous pension 

 laws enacted by Republicans in Congress, and con- 

 gratulate the co'untry that during the administration 

 of President Harrison no pension bill has been vetoed. 



Following is the ticket nominated : (Jovernor. 

 Ira J. Chase; I,ieiitenant-Governor, Theodore 

 Shockney: Secretary of State. Aaron Jones; Au- 

 ditor, John \V. Coons; Treasurer. F. J. Scholz; 

 Attorney-General, J. D. Ferrall : Supreme Court 

 Reporter, George P. H ay wood : Superintendent 

 of Public Instruction. James H. Renrj; State 

 Statistician. Simeon J. Thompson: Judges of the 

 Supreme Court, John D. Miller, Hymn K. Elli- 



