Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1912 — INDIANA FOR MARSHALL [ARTICLE]

INDIANA FOR MARSHALL

Democratic Delegates Instructed to Present His Name. Samuel M. Ralston of Lebanon Is Nominated as Candidate for Governor. • Indianapolis, March 22. —The thirty delegates from Indiana to the Democratic national convention were instructed in the platform adopted by the state convention to present to that body name of Governor Thomas R. Marshall as the “first and only choice of the Democracy of Indiana for the nomination for president.” In adopting the report of the committee on organization the convention chose as delegates at large to the national convention United States Senators Johp W. Kern and Benjamin F. Shively, , National Committeeman Thomas Taggart and G. V. Menzies. Governor Marshall called the convention to order as temporary chairman and was wildly cheered. Senator John W. Kern was permanent chairman. „ Samuel M. Ralston, Lebanon, wai nominated for governor by acclamation. < The platform "in its leading plknk denounces the “protective tariff system, as inflicted on the * country by the Payne-Aldrich acL which has, through the artificial prices it fosters, carried deprivation into millions of hpmes and tended to produce conditions of unmerited opulence and undeserved poverty.” 1 In his speech before the convention Governor Marshall rediculed the recall and said be would not fly to changes like the initiative and referendum.