Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1890 — DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.

Judge of the Supreme Court, JOSEPH A* S. MITCHELL. Secretary of State, CLATDE MATTHEWS. Auditor of Stato, J. OSCAR HENDERSON. Treasurer of State, ALBERT GALL. Attorney General, A. GREEN SMITH. Clerk of Supreme Court, ANDREW M. SWEENEY. Superintendent Public Instruction, H. D. VOOHIES. State Geologist, S. S. GORBY. Chief of Statistics, W. A. HEELE, 'Jr.

CONGKESSIONAL CONVENTION. The Democratic nominating convention for the 10th congressional district will be held at Menon, Ind., next Wednesday, fciept 10th. Delegates to Congressional Convention. Congressional—M. J. Gastello, C. G‘ Austin, Jas. W. Doutfait, Henry Eigles. bach, gm th Novell, S. i>. Clark, P. E Davis. Bound-trip tickets from Kensselaer to Monon ahd return, 65 cents. The State Convention adopted a ringing platform. Will appear next week. Billy Owen loves the soldier, but not to the extent of stepping aside for a soldier candidate. The Democratic State Convention nominated a splendid ticket. The Indialiapolis Sun, an independent paper, says of it: “Taken as a whole, the ticket is one of the strongest ever put up for puqlic discussion and consideration in the state of Indiana."

Billy Owen is a preacher, but in order to quicken the zeal and hopes of his supporters, he said in his speech before the convention here, “We will bury the Democrats so deep, face down, that the more they scratch the nearer home (hell,'they’ll get!” Billy has been kc,eping|bad company too long, and is becomiu HfWill have to be remanded to the pulpit. The Ilepublican Congressional Convention which met at this place Thursday of last week was organized by the e!eclion of T. P. Palmer, of Monficello. chairman, and C. B. Landis, of the Delphi Journal, secretary. The resolutions adopted endorsed Dictator Heed’s tyrauical record as presiding officer of the lower House; the administration of Benjamin Harrison;jthe panper pension bill; the Force bill; the McKinley tariff bill; the demonetization silver bill. After the adoption of the resolutions, in the absence of rules governing the convention, a delegate moved that the convention proceed to nominate a candidate for|congress. On a call of the roll of counties Cass nominated W. D. Owen, at which the excursionists from Cass and Carroll, in accordance with the program, yelled themselves hoarse. However, a chill felllupohjthe proceedings when a soldier delegate from Porter county demand, ed fair treatment for the soldier from a republican convention, saying that Porter county had a candidate who went to the front to defend the old flag when the first call was made by the great Emancipator and never left the field until the smoke of battle had cleared away and peace reigned supreme over our fair land, and named Nelson J. Bozarth. It was plainly evident that the old veterans were to be disregarded in the convention, bnt, as an old soldier from Porter expressed himself to a comerade from White, “Owen and the ringsters might manipulate a convention, but the'boys who wore the blue would get their whack at him in November by voting for a Democrat. ” Owen received 84 5.16 and the soldier candidate but 811.16. On a motion to make the nomination unanimous the ‘noes" were heard coming from several delegations. A committee was appointed by the chair to conduct the candidate to the stand, who, on presentation commenced by saying that the republican party bad performed nearly every pledge made by the Cnicago convention. He defended Dictator Heed; praised the McKinley bill, said it left half of the manufactured articles on the freelist, but failed to state why, if it was a good thing to bave half on the free list, itjwould not be better to bave it enlarged by adding salt, lumber, twine and other necessaries. He complimented the republican party on the introduction ofllotteiyjbill, but neglected to add that if present laws were enforead they are ample to crush ont the evil; he neglected to state, also, that Bussell Harrison’s Montana j paper woe the largest adv*ni»arof lotteries tu the Unite* States m asserted that the republican party s»v-

I ed the Union by fighting her battles from '6l to sis, but forgot the conspicuous part j taken in that great struggle by puch Dem- | ocruts as McClellan, Hancock, Kosecrans j and the many many thousands of Demo. : crutic officers and men who offored their ! lives ns a sacrafice on the alter of their j country. He touched lightly the misera- | bit apology for a silver bill; he forgot to ] mention the bankrupt bill and that he was the only member of the entire Indiana delegation with sufficient gall to vote for : it. The latter part of his speech was de- ' voted to southern outrages, manufactured bv unscrupulous demagogues for the occasion. He did not mention the fact that only a few Meeks since a republican candidate for clerk in Kentucky was vavlaid and shot by the friends of his republican opponent for the nomination, or that Col. Goodloe and another equally prominent southern republican killed each othler a few months since. His forgetfulj ness reminds one of S. W. Dorsey’s short momory when on the witness stand during the progress of trial of the Star Route frauds. **