Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1904 — CONVENTION OF FUSION POPULISTS [ARTICLE]

CONVENTION OF FUSION POPULISTS

They Nominate a Ticket Which Duplicates ThSt of the Middle-of-the-Koad Faction of the Party. Indianapolis. Sept. 16. The fusion Populists of Indiana met in convention here and nominated the following candidates for state officers: Governor, Leroy Templeton, Indianapolis; lieutenant governor, William B. Gill, of Ladoga; secretary of state, Adam P. Hanna, of Waveland. These are the same nominations made by the middle-of-the-roaders at their state convention. Gill Is a middle-of-the-roader and Templeton and Hanna are fusionists. The platform denounces the Democratic party, which it is declared Is dominated by plutocrats and Wall street. The platform declares for the Initiative and referendum, for an eighthour day on public works, and declares against government by injunction.