People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

The Candidates Nominated and Platform Adopted tn Indiana. Indianapolis, Ind., April 28.—The republican state convention assembled here yesterday, 1,715 delegates being present Ex-Secretary of the Navy Richard VV. Thompson presided. The convention was addressed by ex-Presi-dent Harrison. The following ticket was nominated: Secretary of State—William D. Owen, of Logansport. Auditor— Americus D. Daily, of Lebanon. Treasurer—Fred J. Schoolz. of Evansville, Attorney General—William A Ketcham, of Indianapolis. I Superintendent of Public Instruction—D. M. Gcetinz, of Madison. Judge of Supreme Court (first district)— J- H. Jordan, of Martinsville. Clerk of Supreme Court—Alex Hess, of Wabash. State Statistician—S. J. Thompson, of Shelbyville. State Geologist—W. S. Blatchley, of Terre Haute. The committee on resolutions reported the following platform, which was adopted: We, the republicans of Indiana, in delegate convention assembled, reaffirm our faith in the progressive principles of the republican party. We believe its policies, past and present, best calculated to promote the happiness and prosperity of the people. The administration of President Haarison and the congressional legislation of that party were vise, pure and patriotic, and we point to the marked contrast between the home and foreign policies of that administration and the present travesty on government inflicted on the whole people. We believe in the republican doctrine of protection and reciprocity, which furnishes a home market for the productions of our factories and our farms and protects the American laborer against tho competition of the pauner labor of Europe. Wo denounce the unwise and unpatriotic action of the democratic party in attempting to eliminate the reciprocity principle from our tariff system, thereby closing a large foreign market to products of American farmers and depressing agricultural interests. We denounce the present attempt of a democratic congress to overthrow and destroy the American industrial system, a course that, with the general fear of a violent readjustment of the country's business to a free trade basts, has increased the national debt, and has plunged the country into the most disastrous business depression of its history; has closed large numbers of banks and factories throughout the country, has thrown an unprecedented number of American citizens out of employment, has compelled thousands of able-bodied and industrious men to humiliate themselves by asking for charity, and has tilled our broad land with free soup houses and food markets. We believe in currency composed of gold, silver and paper, readily convertible at a taxed standard of value and entirely under national control; and we favor the imposition of increased tariff duties upon the imports from ull countries which oppose the coinage of silver upon a basis to be determined by an international congress for such purpose. We denounce the avowed purpose of the democratic party to restore the era of ‘‘wild-cat” money. We believe in a liberal construction of our pension laws, and we condemn the unjust policy of the present administration of depriving ex-soldiers of their pensions without a hearing; any policy intended to cast odium upon loyalty and patriotism. We believe ft to be the duty of the state as well as the nation to make suitable provision for the care and maintenance of all indigent soldiers, their wives and widows. We. therefore. favor the establishment by the state of a suitable soldiers' home for the reception of such soldiers, their wives and widows, as may be overtaken by adversity. We demand a rigid enforcement of all existing immigration laws by the national government and demand such further legis'ation as will protect our people and institutions against the influx of the criminal and vicious classes. We denounce the unpatriotic action of the Cleveland administration in hauling down the American flag at Hawaii, and condemn the arrogant assumption of power displayed in the effort to restate a tyrannical queen over a free people, who had thrown off tho yoke of despotism. We condemn the outrageous bargain and sale of federal patronage by the C.eveland administration in its unblushing efforts to usurp the prerogative of the legislative branch of the government to enforce a favorite measure through congress and compel the confirmation of presidential appointments by the senate. We condemn the reckless and extravagant administration of the financial affairs of this state, whereby the people are subjected to unjust and unnecessary burdens of taxation, by an increased assessment of property and Increased rate of taxation, and by u multiplication of offices to be supported by the taxpayers Of the state. We believe that the benevolent, educational and correctional institutions of the state should I be placed under non partisan control. We believe in such legislation, state and national, as will protect the lives and limbs of employes of railways, mines and factories. We condemn the policies steadily pursued by the democratic legislature of Indiana in so gerrymandering the state as to deny the people a fair representation of their views in the state legislature and national congress, thus imperiling the foundations of our institutions.