Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1912 — DEMOCRATS NOMINATED MEN FOR THE SLAUGHTER. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATS NOMINATED MEN FOR THE SLAUGHTER.

Follow Taggart-Fairbanks Program in Platform and Nominate Steam- : Roller Ticket. . . . Indiana democrats in convention Thursday unanimously pledged support to the candidacy of Gov. Thomas R. Marshall for the democratic presidential nomination. The platform adopted instructed the thirty delegates to the Baltimore convention to “present Governor Marshall’s name as the first and only choice of Indiana democracy for the nomination for president.” The platforms dealt briefly with national Issues, declaring for a tariff for revenue only and commending the Sherwood pension bill. A full state ticket was named with contests for few places. Samuel M. Ralston, of Lebanon, was nominated by acclamation for governor after Lieutenant Governor Frank J. Hall, of Rushville, had withdrawn from the race during the first ballot. W. P. O’Neill, of Mishawaka, in a field of six candidates for the nomination of lieutenant governor, won on the fourth ballot. The following state officials were nominated by acclamation: Secretary of state, Lew G. Eilingham, Decatur; auditor, W. H. O’Brien, Lawrenceburg; treasurer, W. H. Voltmer, Vincennes; attorney general, Thomas M. Honan, Seymore; superintendent of public instruction, Charles A. Greathouse, Indianapolis; statistician, T. W. Brolley, North Vernon. Others nominated are: Reporter supreme court, Philip Zoercher, Tell City; judge supreme court (First district), John W. Spencer, Evansville; judge supreme court (Second district), Richard K. Erwin, Fort Wayne; judge appellate court (First district), Joseph N. Shea, Seymour. Thomas Taggart was chosen to succeed himself as national committeeman. He had announced that he would retire from active politics but delegates would not listen to pleadings. Twice he refused the honor, but after being chosen third time accepted. Lincoln Dixon had been mentioned for place.