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Historical. A meeting was held at the State- 

 house, July 4, in observance of the one hundredth 

 anniversary of the establishment of Territorial 

 government in Indiana. Gov. Mount presided, and 

 papers were read by Amos Hanway, Ignatius 

 Brown, and Calvin Fletcher. Other papers on the 

 early history of the State, which for lack of time 

 were not read, were prepared by D. M. Bradbury, 

 T. A. Goodwin, C. T. Dalton, J. R. Wilson, W. H. 

 Smith, Miss Lydia Blaich, W. N. Jackson, G. U. 

 Bingham, W. W. Woollen, and S. N. Chambers. 



A commission has been formed to raise $25,000 

 for a monument to the memory of Gen. Henry W. 

 Lawton, who was a citizen of the State. 



Requisitions on the Governor. In April the 

 Governor issued a requisition for a prisoner in the 

 Kentucky Penitentiary, which was honored by 

 Gov. Taylor; but the prison officials, not recog- 

 nizing him as Governor, declined to obey the order, 

 and the officer serving the requisition went to 

 Gov. Beckham, who offered to honor the requisi- 

 tion if Gov. Mount would agree to honor any 

 requisition from him. This the Governor declined 

 to do, regarding Mr. Beckham as a contestant until 

 the final decision of the courts, and, moreover, 

 deeming such a compact unlawful even were there 

 no question of Mr. Beckham's title. Later, requi- 

 sitions were made on Gov. Mount for the surrender 

 of Charles Finley and ex-Gov. Taylor, accused of 

 complicity in the murder of Senator Goebel, but 

 they were refused on the ground that in the exist- 

 ing state of feeling in Kentucky a fair trial would 

 be impossible. 



Lawlessness. A dispatch from Rockport, Dec. 

 16, says that two negroes who waylaid, brutally 

 murdered, and robbed a white barber in the morn- 

 ing were lynched in the jail yard at night by a 

 mob of 1,000 citizens. The next day a third negro 

 implicated in the murder was taken from" a cell 

 at Booneville and hanged by a mob. Militia or- 

 dered from Evansville by the Governor arrived at 

 Booneville fifteen minutes after the hanging. 



Auburn. A special election was held in this 

 place, March 26, to determine whether it should 

 continue under town or city government. The 

 result showed a majority of 150 for the change to 

 city government. 



Political. State officers were elected Nov. 6. 

 Seven tickets were in the field Republican, Demo- 

 cratic, Prohibition, Populist, Social Democratic, 

 Socialist-Labor, and Union Reform. 



The Populist convention was held at Indian- 

 apolis, Feb. 22. The resolutions reaffirmed the 

 principles of the party on national issues, and on 

 State matters said: " Resolved, That we view with 

 alarm the enormous increase in the assessed values 

 of the property for the purpose of taxation and 

 the increased rate of taxation in Indiana, and we 

 demand more rigid economy in the management 

 of State, county, and municipal affairs; that we 

 favor a State law compelling the letting of all 

 legal advertisements to the lowest bidder ; that we 

 favor the election of the county superintendents 

 by the vote of the people; that we demand a 

 stricter enforcement of the State factory and eight- 

 hour-day laws ; that the People's party of Indiana, 

 believing that no man can rightfully govern an- 

 other without the consent of the governed, favors 

 local self-government for the Philippines." 



A. G. Burkhart was nominated for Governor, 

 and Messrs. C. M. Walter, W. T. Carmichael, J. W. 

 Wales, W. H. Kunse, G. F. Boyer, C. E. Hoffman, 

 W. P. Beasley, A. L. D. Grindle, Silas M. Holcomb, 

 and Bull were the candidates for the offices of 

 Lieutenant Governor, Secretary, Auditor, Treas- 

 urer, Attorney-General .Reporter of the Supreme 

 Court, Superintendent of Instruction, Chief of the 





Bureau of Statistics, and judges of the Supreme 

 Court, respectively. 



The Republican convention met at Indianapolis, 

 April 25. The resolutions approved the policy of 

 the national administration on every issue, and 

 favored the Nicaragua Canal, just and liberal pen- 

 sions, restricted immigration, and legal control of 

 trusts. On State affairs, they approved the admin- 

 istration, especially commending the management 

 of the finances in the reduction of the debt and 

 of the State levy; the " emancipation of the penal 

 and benevolent institutions from partisan control 

 and the provision, through ample appropriation by 

 the last Legislature, for new buildings and appro- 

 priate maintenance to accommodate the unfortu- 

 nate wards of the State many of whom have been 

 compelled to be quartered in county almshouses " ; 

 the establishment of a labor commission; the pas- 

 sage of the mortgage exemption law ; and " the 

 fulfillment of the pledge of the Republican party 

 for reform in county and township government, 

 whereby in the first year of the operation of the 

 reform laws over $1,000,000 will be saved to the 

 taxpayers of the State." The Governor's treat- 

 ment of unemployed miners was praised, the sol- 

 diers of the State were commended, and an ade- 

 quate primary election law was promised. The 

 ticket follows: For Governor, Winfield T. Durbin; 

 Lieutenant Governor, Newton W. Gilbert; Secre- 

 tary of State, Union B. Hunt; Auditor, William 

 H. Hart; Treasurer, Leopold Levy; Attorney- 

 General, William L. Taylor; Reporter of the Su- 

 preme Court, Charles F. Remy; State Statistician. 

 Benjamin F. Johnson; Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction, Frank L. Jones; Judge of the Su- 

 preme Court, First District, James H. Jordan; 

 Judge of the Supreme Court, Fourth District, 

 Leander J. Monks. 



At Indianapolis, May 2, the Prohibitionists 

 charged the President with " moral cowardice in 

 refusing to exercise his authority as commander 

 in chief of the army to abolish the sale of liquor 

 in the army canteen, and to prohibit its importa- 

 tion into our newly acquired territory." The fol- 

 lowing ticket was nominated: For Governor, 

 Charles N. Eckhart; Lieutenant Governor, Rev. 

 Robert H. Clark; Secretary of State, Dr. R. E. 

 Pretlow; Auditor, Rev. M. B. McKinsey; Treas- 

 urer, Edwin Hiatt; Attorney-General, Mahlon H. 

 Krauss; Reporter of Supreme Court, Isaac S. 

 Wade ; State Statistician, Henry S. Bonsib ; Super- 

 intendent of Public Instruction, B. W. Ayres; 

 Judge of Supreme Court, First District, C. B. 

 Kessinger; Judge of Supreme Court, Fourth Dis- 

 trict, James E. Graham. 



The Democrats, in State convention at the cap- 

 ital, June 6, declared allegiance to the Chicago 

 platform, instructed delegates for Mr. Bryan, cen- 

 sured the administration policy in the new posses- 

 sions, demanded repeal of the stamp tax, declared 

 for the election of United States Senators by di- 

 rect vote of the people, opposed a large standing 

 army, extended sympathy to the Boer republics, 

 demanded the strict enforcement of the Monroe 

 doctrine and the construction of the Nicaragua 

 Canal, and denounced the Hay-Panncefote treaty 

 as an abject surrender to England ; denounced the 

 Dingley tariff law and declared opposition to the 

 protective tariff, saying trusts spring from the 

 tariff, and declaring that the Republican admin- 

 istration has made no effort to abolish them. 



On State matters the platform called attention 

 " to the reform legislation which the Democratic 

 party has given the people of this State, the school- 

 book law, the tax laws, the Australian ballot, the 

 fee and salary reform, and the many statutes for 

 the protection of labor," and said further: 



