People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — Prohibitionists at Indianapolis. [ARTICLE]

Prohibitionists a t Indianapolis.

Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 26.—The prohibitionists who are here for the state convention to-day and to-morrow, are elated over the report circulated here that Francis Murphy has anouncedthat thereafter he will act with the prohibition party. The Rev. W. H. Hickman of Terre Haute will be the temporary chariman of the state convention. John G. Woolley of New York, who will insist that the convention shall make a platform declaring for prohibition and nothing else, is here, and John P. St. John of Kansas, who will advocate the broad-gauge plan, will arrive to-day. This afternoon the convention elects delegates to the national convention and will nominate presidential electors. The state ticket will be nominated Thursday.