Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1912 — DUBBIN FOB GOVERNOR NAMED BY REPUBLICANS. [ARTICLE]

DUBBIN FOB GOVERNOR NAMED BY REPUBLICANS.

Qualified Business Man of Proven Action, Wot Theory, Warned to Lead Party In This State. 7,. r> -J ™~ 4 ’’ " .■ ";T’, Winfield T. Durbin, of Anderson, a veteran of the Civil and SpanishAmerican wars, a businessman of capacity and integrity, and a man of action, was named by republicans .at Indianapolis Tuesday to lead the party in the coming state campaign. Mr. Durbin was governor from 1901 to 1905 and the period was characterized by economic administration and by the discharge of a large amount of state indebtedness. One ballot was taken, Durbin receiving 606% Votes, Shank 283 and Carlisle 260%. Ma?or Shank then moved that the nomination of Mr. Durbin be made unanimous. The complete ticket is as follows: • GOVERNOR. Winfield T. Durbin, Anderson, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. Thomas T. Moore, of Greeneastle. SECRETARY OP STATE. Fred I. King, of Wabash. STATE TREASURER. Job Freeman, of Terre Haute. AUDITOR OF STATE. I.’ Newt Brown, of Franklin. ATTORNEY GENERAL. F. H. Wurzer, of South Bend. SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. Samuel C. Ferrell, of Fort Wayne. STATE STATISTICIAN, j. L. Peetz, of Indianapolis. _ REPORTER OF SUPREME COURT. Warwick H. Ripley, of Indianapolis. SUPREME JUDGE, FIRST DISTRICT Woodfin D. Robinson, of Evansville. SUPREME JUDGE, FOURTH DISTRICT. Judge Leander J. Monks, Winchester. '(lncumbent). APPELLATE JUDGE, SOUTHERN. DISTRICT. David A. Myers, of Greensburg. The ticket is regarded a strong one in all respects. The platform is especially substantial in its declarations. Tt meets the requirements of the time without effort to secure votes by making promises that can not he carried out. The platform favors the continuance of the unbroken usage of giving hut two terms to a president until a law that provides one term of six years is enacted. It favors the amendment of the anti-trust law to meet present conditions. Regulations of rates of all public service corporations, the same as of railroads is pledged. The Taft administration is endorsed. The democratic state administration is scored for its extravagance. A non-partisan administration of state institutions is urged. An amendment (p the registration act by, which its operation can be made less expensive and to apply to certain large communities is urged. Other planks are: Restoration of labor commission in the department of inspection. Eradication of child labor. Enactment of a just workmen’s compensation act. Optional commission form of government. A constitutional convention. State supervision, state aid and scientific construction of roads. Legislation to promote conservation, including forestry. Celebration of the centennial by the erection of a memorial building. An amendment to the state constitution providing foj the enfranchisement of women. The following primary law plank was dictated by Judge Hanley in committee: This convention indorses and opproves the enactment of a law providing for the primary election of all local and cpunty candidates and the primary election of all delegates to congressi&nal, state and national conventions, the same to be safeguarded by the Australian baUot system and the corrupt practices act. The most liberal provisions for the soldiers of the republic is advocated. The following is the wording of the county option plank: For more than a generation the re-, publican party of Indiana has responded to advancing public sentiment with respect to the saloon question. It has always- recognized it as a moral question which touches ■- the home in a very vital way. A Republican legislature, responding to what it rightly believed wa< the popular wish and the platform pledge of a republican convention, enacted a local option law. The people promptly availed themselves of its provisions and sixty-nine counties voted against the saloons. A democratic legislature,

responding to powerful brewery influences and betraying the great majority of the people, repealed the law and saloons were forcel back in fiftythree counties from which they had been excluded under the republican law. We demand the re-enactment of the local option law by the next legislature and insist that every republican candidate for a seat in that body shall stand pledged to carry out the will of this convention. James E. Watson spoke for two ■hours and a half after being made temporary chairman. His speech was a level-headed discussion of the issues, with occasional digs at the bull moose party. He hit the democrats and their tariff plank with many hard blows and said: / ‘Things never were so cheap, as when the democrats put their tariff platform into law, and yet we never bought so little because we did not have the money with which to buy. We learned then that a thing was dear at any price if we did not have the price. High prices with good wages and prosperity are better than cheapness and poverty.” He talked at considerable length about the expense of democratic state control in Indiana. He told of salaries that were raised, of new offices created, of extravagance on all hands, of the borrowing of one fund to meet the expenses of another and of the failure to reduce the state debt while drawing constantly on the state sinking fund and reducing it to S4OO after using over a million dollars from the fund to pay the running expenses of the state. This money should have gone to reduce the s£ate indebtedness. When two-thirds through his prepared speech Mr. Watson threw away his manuscript and went rough shod into a discussion of the policies advocated in the democratic and bull moose platforms. He was roundly applauded. He reviewed with pride the history of the republican party and of the government. He praised the provisions of the constitution and urged that we take a new oath of allegiance to it. He said “we know there is no safe course in the life of men or of nations except to establish and to follow safe r\jles of conduct There is a sdivine principle of justice which Is above all governments, above all legislatures, above all majorities. Conformity to it is a condition of national life. The American people have set up this eternal law as a guide for their national action. They have formulated and expressed it in praotical rules of conduct when no interest or impulse was present to sway their judgment, and as we love our country and hope for the continuance of Its peace and liberty to our children’s children we should humbly and reverently seek for strength and wisdom to abide by the principles of the constitution against the days of weakness and temptation. With this vow on oar lips, with this resolve in our hearts, let ns, alike tn sunshine and in storm, in peril and in peace, stand erect and do the right as God gives us to see the right”