Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1882 — THE PEOPLE SHALL RULE. [ARTICLE]

THE PEOPLE SHALL RULE.

The Repnblicans of Indiana, in Convention Assembled, Nominate a Ticket and Declare Their Principles. They Repose Trust in the People, and Will Submit the Amendments Unconditionally. 'A Hearty Indorsement of the Administration, Senator Harrison and the Party Record. A Stirring Address Delivered by Hon. Richard W. Thompson, President of the Convention. The Representatives of the Women’s Societies Express Their Approval of the Day’s Work. Speeches by the Nominees, Governor Porter, Jim Wood the Irish Miner, and Others. Toe Republican State convention held yesterday at Ebglish’s Opera-bonne was a magnificent success in every particular. Shortly alter 9 o'clock tbe delegates began assembling, and long before tbe honr announced for calling tbe convention to order every man was in bis seat. Tbe arrangement of tbe delegations was good and was satisfactory to all. Tbe convention was composed of 1,157 delegates, and was in every sense a representative gathering, the members being men of brains and ability. The enthusiasm and good feeling manifested throughout the deliberations was remarkable, and tbe proceedings really partook more of the nature of a love feast than of a political convention. Tbe unanimity with which the platform was adopted was most gratifying. Chairman Thompson only had to use bis gavel once during the day, and tbat was simply to "shut off” tbe enthusiasm after tbe adoption of tbe platform. THE PRESS.

The facilities accorded tbe members of the pres* were excellent George Allen." Terre Haute Express; Charles Bowen, Danville Republican; John F. Walleck, Associated Press; Chas. Maynard, Indianapolis Bentioel-, Fred Gregory, Craw fords ville Times; Geo. W. Lsngsdale. Green castle Banner, and representatives or all tbe leading country papers ofrheßtate. On the stage besides those were Hon. W. H. Calkins, Hon. Richard W. Thompson, Hon. Thomas Hanna, ex-Senntor W. B. F. Treat, of Bloomington; Judge J. H. Jordon, of Martinsville; State Senator Yancey, of Fortvllle; State Senator G. W. Grubbs, of Morgan county, Hon. N. P. Richmond, of Kokomo; Hon. J. W. Gordon, Hon. E. R. Hawn, Prof. J. M. Blosa, Judge D. P. Baldwin. W. W. Herod, Ferd. Winter, Hon. Will Oumbsck, “Jim” Wood. Col. E. H. Wolf. Hon. E. B. MartindabvHon. William Wallace, Governor Porter, Prof. 8. K. Hoshonr. Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, Mrs ZG. Wallace, Mrs. P. T. Merritt, Miss Nay lei, Mrs. Tayolr, Mrs. Haggart, lira Adkiuson and others. Work. The convention was called to order at 10:20, by Hon. James H- Jordan, acting secretary of the Btate oentral committee. The convention stood while Rev. Thomas H. Lynoh Invoked the divine blessing. DR. LT.vest’s PRATER. Oh Lord of all goodness, whose Wise providence is over all nations of the efrttb; let Thy blessing rest upon this convention. May these delegates, representing a large portion of the people of this (Hate, be endowed with wisdom from on high, so to deliberate slid so to act that the peace, prosperity and the happiness ot the people of this State may be thereby promoted. Let Thy blessing, we beseech Thee, rest upon the people of the United Btat« and upon the President of tbe United States, and all tbat are in authority, in tha administration of the general government. We pray Thy blessing upon the Governor of the State of Indiana, and all who are associated with him In the public service of the State. We Deseech Thee, Almighty God, tbat the voice of the people may be heard In the enactntffn(qof, and in tbe enforcement of good laws, whewiy virtue, morality and intelligence may be promoted among all the citizens or this State. And to Tbv name nnd the Redeemer be tbe praise forever. Amen. The roll of counties was then called by Cyras T. Nixon, acting for Secretary Terrell, all the connties responding to their calls with full delegations. The committee on permanent organization reported the permanent officers, rules and order of business, tbe report being unanimously adopted. The permanent officers reported were: President—Richard W. Thompson, of Vigo. Secretary—N. P. Richmond, of Howard. They reported, also, on recommendation of tbe district meetings, the following. Vice-presidents—First district. Dr. W. G. Ralston, Vunderliurg: Second, Robert G, Evans, Kncx; Third, A. M. Luke, Clark; Fourth, W. H. Jones, Franklin; Fiftb, J. B. Beam, Oweu; Bixth, Isaac Jenkluson, Wayne; Seventh, John Cobnrn, Marion; Eighth, T. C. Biintin, Vigo; Ninth, Capt. T. 11. Montgomery, Tipton; Tenth. John P. Carr, White; Eleventh, Gen. J. P. C. Shanks, Jay; Twelfth,W. L. Penfield. Deoalb; Thirteenth, Clew Stndeimker, St. Joseph. Assiatant Secretaries— First district, L. C. Embrec, Gibson; Second, O. M. Slie.ver, Greene; Third, C. W. McNary, Jaeltson; Fourth, T. P. Evans, Union; Fifth, W. L. Dunlap, Johnson; Sixth, John C. Eiler, Delaware: Seventh, W. J Sparks, Hancock; Eighth, John O. Hardesty .Vigo; Ninth, Robert Graham. IlamiluuH Tenth, J. G. Davis, Newton; Eleventh, John T. Owens, Wabash; Twelfth, Captain Bradford. Lagrange; Thirteenth, John T. Blakemore, Elkhart. colonel Thompson’s rpeech. Hon. Richard W. Thompson, permanent chairman, was Introduced by Mr. Jordun, and was received with prolonged applause on aasuiniug the ebair. He said: Gentlemen of the Convention—l esteem it to be an honor to any man to be elected to preside ever such a body of men as this, composed, as it Is, of representatives from every county in tbe Btate, assembled here to speak the will aud TOice of the great Republican party of the State. I thank yon in ah sincerity for the honor which yon have conferred upon me, and I should shrink somewhat from an attempt to perform tbe duty devolving upon me in view of the fact that I am rrqnired to administer legislative rule, for the reason that very many years bave passed since I waa a member of a legislative body; but I am emboldened to undertake the task from the fact tbat this is a Republican convention [applause], snd requires no sdsoUl enforcement of the rules *r parliamentary order. ~ we assemble here uuder very favorable circumstances indeed, ut a time when this country Is in the enjoyment of a higher degree of prosperity than has fallen to tho loud any nation of people upon the earth; when we possess everything that can make th* heart of man glad; ocoupylng a position amongst tbe nations of tbe earth far forward—in the very iront rank—enabled to send uni the influences of our free institutions In orery dirertfc*a» influence mankind

throughout tbe world in their straggle for tbe establishment of tbe right of self-government; and wben, in tbe midst of all the joy and consolation derived from this condition of things, we ask. How has it been brought aboutt—the answer of every intelligent man'ls, that it Is tbs result of twenty-odd years of Republican policy [applause]—that it has been produced despite of the opposition of the Democratic party. [Applauee.] That it is the result of that system in tbe administration of publlo affairs which recoguizea the right of tbe people of this country to control their own institutions [applause], and which denies to any Btate or body of tuen calling themselves by whatsoever name they please, to diotate to the people bow their will shall be expressed, and their Institutions sball be administered. Wben tbe Republican party obtained poeseaalon of this government it was without credit. Tbe machine bad run down. Our bonds were hawked about in tbe markers of tbe world with not tbe value attached to them tbat belongs to tbose of the brokers of well street. We were without money In the Treasury, with a destroyed trade, with everything to make tbe heart of an American freeman feel sad. Bat, more than that, we had in our midst an enemy resolved to pull down the fair fabrio which our fathers hud built by, a merciless, erne! and unhallowed civil war, which they Inaugurated for no reason In the world than to carry out that great Democratic Idea of Btste rights, which places the States of this Union higher and above the national authority. (Applause.) We took possession of tbe government in that condition of affairs. What have we done within tbat time! I often hear men say tbat tbe man who lives in these times sees more in a few years than our fathers would hove seen in a hundred. And that is true. Bat the man who undertakes to read and investiente and examine the history of the Repuhlit-an party will find within the twenty years-of Its existence more of history, more of grsffdiur, more that is calculated to make ns feel that we are upon tbe plane of elevated prosperity than is con cantered in a hundred years history of any part of tbe world. (Applanse.) Our fathers of the revolution laid tbe foundations of our Institutions tbrongh anguish and tribulation, hut wo have sustained them through tribulation more aggravating than tbsirs, and her« we are assembled to-day to decide for ourselves and for the people wbom we represent whether that great party that has made so much of history, that hns done nil these things, that has so permanently and firmly fixed ths foundations. of our institutions that no power upon earth shall ever be enabled to assail them successfully—whether tbat great party shall go out of power and permit tg be returned to power the very men who prodrired the calamitous consequences which created the necessity of our existence. [Applause.] And yet they are not done now talking about tbe rights of tbe Slates. They seem to bave Inflicted upon them the disease of State rights. [Applause.] They now ask the people of this country to return them to power for that reason alone—nothing else. What is there in their professions! What do they propose to do! Disturb the currency. Is not that right! Interfere with the domestic policy of the government in any of its forms. Is It not all right! Are we not going on as well, if not better, than any nation in the world! What, then, do they propoae to do! Simply to affirm the idea tbat the national government has taken away some of the rights of the Slates. One thing, lam sure, they have not taken sway, and that is the right of tbe people of Indiana to vote upon constitutional amendments. [l,oud and continued applause.] Now, if they bail taken that away, then I should subscribe to that part of the Democratic platform, bat having permitted us to exercise within the State all the rights that belong to us as such. filming.' n ouitbinatea m the rebellion; ana by

the power of tbe arms of the Atneiiean army we crushed ent secession; but we never orushed nullification, aud the State rights of the Democratic party of this State Is nothing but oldfashioned nullification revamped. It occurs to me that this is potent to every man who will read. , I remember nil my life to have beard or Jacksen Deinocruoy. [Applause.] There was a talismanio influence about the name of Jackeou that gave to tbe party tbat oalled Itself the Jackson Democracy wonderful power in this country. But Jackson crushed out nullification, and he serves bis party no longer. [Applause.] Onr Democratic friends in inis Btate have renhrlatened their party, and in their platform have declared that not Jackson but Thomas Jefferson is tbe father of it. Now, who is Thomas Jefferson! A very great man, undoubtedly. He wrote the Declaration of Independence before any parties were born. He became President by opposition to the administration of Washington. He passed embargo laws and originated a system of gnn-boats. and refused to reduce the duties upon imported articles, notwithstanding they produoed a surplus of money In the treasury. (Applause.] And he declared that, notwithstanding there was a surplus of mouey In tbe treasury, it was our first and foremost duly to protect Amerioan manufacturers and Amerioan labor, no matter how much money there was in tbe treasury. | Applanse. | But, more than that, he was tbe autboi of nullification—the only President of the United States from tbe beginning up to now who ever declared in any form whatsoever that a State of tills government had a right to nullify a law of Congress. Now, do our Demoeratic friends mean to call that Jeffersonian Democracy! I commend them to that history of the times which records the events when tbose great parties were formed, and I beg of them, ns an American citizen and a citizen of the State, that they shall not again inaugurate any political influences in this country which shall imperil tbe existence of this Union. [Applause.J Tbe people of this country do not intend that the Union shall be destroyed. [Applause.] They intend that tbe States of this Union shall exercise all tbe rights which belong to them, but they at the name time inrend that the national government shall exercise all its anperlorand sovereign rights within Hs own constitutional sphere. [Applause.] Now whnt have we got to do! We have got simply to declare to the people of tbe United Suites and to the people of our own State tbat we of the Republican party stand where we have been for twenty years [applause]; that we are the party of the people; that, whenever great questions whloh affect our fundamental law, and whloh do not pertain to tbe machinery of the party, have to be settled, the best, the only true mode of settling them is to submit them to the voice of the people (loud applause], and, when they have derided them, to recognize their verdict as final ami conclusive. [Continued applause.] That is tbe theory of oar government. Let men dispute and wrangle about these questions as they please, that feature of onr Institutions must not be impaired [Applause]. That I call State rights. This, however, It ssems to me, is not the oocaaiou for speechmaking. I am not a speech-maker. [Laughter and applanse.] I used to be so |luuzbter|,in the days of your fathers [applause |, but lam not so any longer. I can, therefore, only say that as tills is a business convention, composed of business meu who have something to do at home, thut we shall go to work in a plain and simple business way, execute our task snd return to our homes. [Applause.] The first business in srder Is the report of the committee on resolutions. Is the convention ready to hear that report! Mr. Thompson’s speech was greeted with vociferous applause. The report of the committee on resolutions being next in order, Hon. John Overmeysr, of Jennings county, chairman of the committee, was introduced, and read the platform. The Platform. The Republican party of Indiana, represented in delegate convention, recalls, as an incentive to further exertions for the pnblic welfare, the achievements of the party in restoring the national Union; in overthrowing slavery; in securing to disabled soldiers and to the widows and orphans of those who fell in battle, *r died from wounds or diseases contracted in ths service of the Union, laws providing for liberal bounties and pensions; in building up an unexampled credit upon the simple foundation of an unchangeable publio faith; in reducing the great debt neces-sariJy-tacjvred for tne suppression of the rebellion onfr-half, and the interest on the remainder to so low a rate that the national debt is no longer regarded as a burden; in establishing a currency equal to any in the world, based upon the convertibility of greenbacks and national bank notes into gold or silver at the option of the holders; in increasing the value of agricultural productions and the wagwi of labor, by building up home markets

on th« policy of reasonable protection to domestic industries; in exalting tbe value of our naturalization laws to our foreign-born fellow citizens, by securing to American naturalization everywhere the full rights of American citizenship; in founding American citizenship upon manhood, and not on complexion, and in declaring that citizenship and the ballot shall ever go hand-in-hand; in maintaining and cherishing as a chief safeguard of liberty our system of free schools, supported bx-a tax imposed upon all property for the education of all children; and in the submission, from time to time, in the respectful obedience to what has been deemed the popular will, of amendments to the national constitution and the constitution of the State. Animated by these recollections, it is resolved—1. That reposing trust in the people as the fountain of power, we demand that the pending amendments to the constitution shall be agreed to and submitted by the next Legislature to the voters of the Btate for their decision thereon. These amendments were not partisan in their origin, and are not so in character, and should not be made so in voting upon them. Recognizing the fact that the people are divided in sentiment in regard to the propriety of their adoption or rejection, and cherishing the right of private judgment, we favor the submission of these amendments at a special election, so that there may be an intelligent decision thereon, uninfluenced by partisan issues. 2. That we feel it due to the memory of President Garfield to express our sense of the treat loss suffered by the Nation in his eath. We recall with pride the fact that, springing from the humblest conditions in life, Lincoln and Garfield arose, step by step, without any help but the force of their abilities and exertion, to the front rank among Americans, and were chosen by the Repnbliean party to bear its banner in its struggles to maintain the supremacy and glory of the national Union. 3. That lapse of time cannot efface from the grateful recollection .of the Republican party its memory of the brave soldiers, from whatever section or party ranks they may have come, who offered their lives in support of its pojicy of restoring and maintaining the union of the States. 4. That a revenue greatly reduced in amount, being all that is now needed to pay the interest on our public debt and the expenses of the government, economically administered, the time has arrived for such a reduction of taxes and regulation of tariff duties as shall raise no more money than shall be necessary to pay such interest and expenses.. We therefore approve of the efforts now making to adjust this reduction, so that no unnecessary burdens upon the consumers of imported articles may exist, aiid that no injury be inflicted upon our domestic industries, or upon the industrial classes employed therein. 5. That we are gratified to observe that the laws for the protection of miners and securing. 6. That the relations between capital and labor should be so adjusted that the rights of laborers shall be fully protected. 7. That the fees of all State and county officers should be so regulated as to giveafair compensation to them, but not so great as to tempt applicants to corrupt methods to obtain the same, or to impose unjust burdens upon the people. 8. That we join with our Irish fellow-citi-zens in sincere sympathy with the efforts of their brethren in Ireland to break up, by means of just legislation, the large landed estates in that island, and to introduce upon these lands, for the general good of the people, peasant-proprietorship. We join with them, also, in the hope that efforts for home rule in all matters of local concern will prove successful.

9. That it is the duty of Congress to adopt laws to secure a thorough, radical and complete reform of the civil service, by which the subordinate positions of the government should no longer be considered rewards for their party zeal, q|)iich will abolish the evils of patronage, and establish a system making honesty, efficiency and fidelity the essential qualifications for public position. 10. That the industry, wisdom and firmness of President Chester A. Artur meets the cordial indorsement of the Republicans of Indiana. 11. That Senator Benjamin Harrison, by his able and faithful discharge of duty, and on account of his eminentabilities, challenges our admiration and conlhlence. 12. That Governor Albert G. Porter is a wise and honest executive officer, and we congratulate the State upon securing the services of so faithful a public servant. 13. Since the last meeting of the Republican convention of Indiana, ex-Senator Henry S. Lane, one of the gifted and everhonored founders and trusted leaders of the Republican party, has departed this life, and left a void in our ranks that fills us witli sadness. He was eloquent for the right, always moved by the highest impulses of patriotism, and his memory is enshrined in the hearts of the people of the State. After reading tbe resolutions, Mr. Overmeyer said: Mr. President, I am not instructed by your committee on resolutions to move tbe adoption of the platform just read as an entirety, nor to move the previous question, bat I am Instructed by that committee to present the resolutions Just read for the consideration ot tbls convention. [Applause.] The President -The question is on the adrtption of the resolutions. Are there any remarks! Those in favor of the motion will say aye. (The hearty aye which followed was tremenaons.) The President—l don’t see that there is any nse of putting the negative. [Cries of, "Call tbe negative.”] gerv well, tiieu; those opposed say “no.” There was a silence so profound that a pin dropped on tbe stage might have been heard in all parts of the house. President Thompson annonneed that the resolutions had been unanimously approved, the announcement being weioomed with rousing cheers. The Work of Nomination. The nomination of State officers being next in order, the roll of counties was called. Mr. Posey, of Pike county, tho First district being oalled, introduced a resolution renominating Hons. E. R. Hawn, Secretary of State; Edward H. Wolfe. Auditor of Btate; Roswell 8. Hill, Treasurer of State; D. P. Baldwin, Attorney-general; Jonathan W. Gordon, Clerk of the Supreme Court, and John M. Bloss, Superintendent of Publio Instruction, supplementing the resolution with a eulogistic reference to the gentlemen named. The resolution being read, was unanimously adopted, and the gentlemen pronounoed tbe nominees of tbe convention for the respective offices. Lend calls being made for MAJOR JONATHAN W. GORDON, that gentleman addressed the convention as follows; Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention—lt seems to mo that this is hardly decently done, or in order. My superiors iu rank on the ticket are overlooked for a very bumble individual m the rear, who should have fingers to write what others decide, and not voioe to speak what you should hear and what should guide you to-da.v. I know there are gentlemen here prepared to address you on tbls occasion, and I did not come for that purpose, but I do come to thank you with my entire heart for the nomination which yen have given iqe and the gAllant gentlemen with whom yon have associated me. Idotbuukyou with all my heart for myself, aod I thank you with all my heart for my

flriend, the Governor of the State, whoee nomination of me last summer yea have ratified today. | Applause. 1 I had some doubt about myself. bat I never had any doubt of him elnoe I knew him as a boy learning hts own education, no more than fifteen summers old. He was upright then before God and down right before men, nnd I esteem tbe indoreemeat of hie sot far more then I esteem the indorsement of myself. I was here the other dav—while I am up I will say it, then I will go away—l was here the other day, wben I beard my old friend English make that very wonderful speech from this platform, which be delivered as the retiring chairman of tbe Deanacratio central committee of tbe Btate—that wonderful speech—and I said then, and I have thought of It since, and I will say now that It Is only te be accounted for by the faot that he had been politically asleep In the mountains like Rip Vau Winkle for the last twenty-two years. There is one passage in It so simple it shows he would not recognize the village of Fnlliug Water if he would come Oack agaiu. [Applause.] Why, sirs, he tells you of a riot tbat took place, the Lord knows where, aud where nobody knows, unless it was away back in tho fifties, wbeu he was In ths dominant party to crush eut liberty and the rights of the people. He spoke of a little riot ana the firing of a cabin, cruel enough perhaps In Itself; but hs never saw the great conflagration that swept over this country, kindled by Democratic hands, in 1801. [Applause.] When you talk of riots, wheu you talk of bloodshed, whsn you talk of hunting men of native birth aud of American nativity and batohering them down like dogs and sheep, let me oall the gentleman's attention to that gap in bis memory that seems to tie uubridged—a very abyss anil dantnnss to his vision. Why, sirs I expeoted to hour him say wbeu he wus about to conclude. “If Rip Van Winkle be dead, and this Is not me, then wbuln the devil am I.” [Applause.] Now. my fellow-citizens, I have said more than I ought to say, hut I will say a great deal more this summer, but I will say uo more than I would have said, and I would have said just os ffiuoh without your call to this little position, which is only good in that lUgives uie something to live on. That mau (Gov. Porter) put a pillow under my head that let me sleep tho first night’s sound sleep I had for twenty vears, wben he gave me that plaoe; and you will u» the same tiling. [Applause.] You will give your beloved a rest. [Applause.J And, ray friends, we will have Rice for uinuer on tbe day of tho next November election, and a sheep-shearing at the close of the occasion. [Applause.J HON. D. P. BALDWIN, nominee for Attorney-general, was Introduced, aud said: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen—To have been three times nominated in succession without opposition, and by acclamation by three Republican conventions, composed each of over 1,000 delegates. Is certainly honor enough for any one man. All I can do to-day is to return yon thanks. Further on I hope to return to you both work and votes. Gentlemen, unsettled questions have no respeet for tbe repose of either individuals or parties. Tho Republican party was born under the shadow of a sword, and her peace is only to be found in the forefront of all battles for popular rights and human progress. [Applause.] There she always baa been, There she is to-day. There the always will be. | Applanse. J The Republican party hus never made a compromise with tbe devil upon any question whatever. [Applause.] Geutlamen, tbe approaching canvass has In It the old- lierolo inuslo of tbe canvass of 1860 and 1864. Tbe question is: Shsll tbose old registered the deoreee of ibe schools aud tbe ohurohes [applause], and next fall ws propose to give these two great social powers a fair, square ohance to try conclusions before the people of Indiana. The Republican party believes that those two sections of our St ate oonstttutlou which read, "the right of the people to alter aud reform their goverument shall be indefeasible,” nnd which Inhibits “the passage of any law prohibiting tbe people of this State from instructing their representatives,” mean something. We do not propose that these great constitutional rights shall be smuggled away in the Jugglery of a political platform made to please the warring faouona, and to commit itself neither for or against either. The Republican party propose this fall that tbe prohibition question and the female suffrage question shall be submitted to tbe unbiased aud calm judgment of tho people. [Applanse.] Our platform hus made thut submission as immediate and unconditional as the summons tbat Grant sect Lee at Appomattox court-house. We propose, gentlemen, that this question shall be settled by the hearthstones and the firesides of this Btate, by that calm level below the storm, by that source of all our political wisdom aud political power. More thaD that, the Republican party proposes that the appeals and arguments of the wives and danghters and mothers of this State sball have a fair, square hearing before the people. For a quarter of a century the Democratic party have pigeon-holed those appeals and tboss arguments, and then laughed at the applicants. Upon all these questions, however, the Republican party leaves each of Its followers nnd citizens untramroeled. “In the shoreless and stainless air of Republican liberty there is room enougli for every wing; upon the broad ocean of Republican free tliouirnt there Is room enough for every sail.” (Applause.] All this menus another phase of that Irrepressible conflict between the youthful party of Abraham Lincoln and James A. Garfield, the party that lias given this i<eopleia||iolltical trinity—equal States, equal rights and equal dollars; and the other party—the old party of slavery and secession and anti-resumption—the party of Tilden, and Tammany Hull, and Bowles, and Milligan, and Horsey.

Gentlemen. In many respects tbe canvass of 1882 Is the Gettysburg of Indiana politics. We propose to see whether the Btate shall follow the Bourbonism of Kentuoky. or whether it shall keep pace with the free schools and free thought of the North. (Applause.) Let us tight this fight as Frederick the Great fought the seven rears' war in Germany—with bread and with lead. Let us give our soldiers the bread of enthusiasm for, and taith in. Republican ideas. Let us give the eueuiy the lead of facts and argument. Let all our bayonets In this campaign be thinking bayonets. Let all our swords hs swords of spirit. Gentlemen, tbe unfinished work of the Republican partv is upon us, tbe second generation of its sons. Our fathers have grandly wrought and we grandly honor them, and of those fathers whose benediction is now upon us, none do we honor more than the heioofa hundred bnttles who to-day presides over our deliberations. [Applanse loud and long-cou-tiuued.] I say unto him, gentlemen, as Tennyson said of tbe Iron Duke: “O, good gray head, tbat all men knew, O, silver votes, from whloh *ll man their omen* drew, O, Iron nerves, to true oocaslon true.” And may tbe year be far distant when a sorrowing people shall complete the couplet with—“O, fallen at length that tower of strength, That stood four-square to all the winds that blew.” Gentlemen, one word more—there Is s set of searhetio statesmen with sunflowers in their but-ton-holes and presidential and senatorial bees in their coat-taile, that toll us that the work ot the Republican party is over, that all we have to do now Is to prepare to die with decency; that we have had onr day, Recall the resolutions that have been read in your bearing, is the work of the Republican party overt There stands lipless Labor with bleeding back. There stands slick and smooth Monopoly. There stands patient Womanhood, her white bosom torn and soared by licensed wrong. [Applause.] There stauds patient Ireland, stretohlnzloiit her shriveled and starved bands to the Republican party for help. [Applause.] There stands the Chinaman praying for another soul as grand and Just as tbe soul or Oliver P. Morton. fGreat applause. | In tbe name of our great leader and In hi* language, “With malice toward none, but with charity for all, with faith in th* right as God gives us to see the right,” let us, tbe second generation es tbe eons of the Republican party, march on and work on until every wrong is righted and every chain 1* broken. Let u* thus prspare ourselves, my biothers, for another lustrum of duly, and so prepare ourselves that we accomplish another lustrum ofgloryand victory. [Applause.] ■OR. E. B. HAWN, nominee for Secretary ot Btate, responded aa follows, to loud calls: Mr. President end Gentlemen of the Convention—l desire to return you my sincere thanks forth* distinguished honor which you have conferred upon me In this renomtnotlon. Of course, gentlemen, it may bave been observed by some of you that I am not built upou the finest model for speed lauDiauaa and laugbterj, hut I hope to

b« able to travel fast enongb to saa many of you at your homes this fall, and to keep up with ths Democratic funeral, which I am sure is going to take plaoe in that beautiful seasdn of tns year wben, as the Boone county poet says. “The frost Is on ths pnnkin. And tbe I'pdder's in tbe shoek.” It would be a piece of oruelty foams to Infliet upon this convection one of my speeches, after the eloquent efforts which you nave heard from my friends Uordon and Baldwin. I shall only again thank yon, and assure yon that I Will make the best time possible forward. COLONEL EDWARD H. WOLF* came next In order, aud said: Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention—lt seems to me you huve converted this convention into a picnic with your present State officers. I have uot words to adequately express my thanks to you for the honor you have conferred upon me In designating me with the other present Stats officers for the office to which I have again been nominated. Although this result was not unexpected by me. I assure you it Is none the less appreciated. Two years ago wben I successfully sought to obtain tbe nomination for Auditor of State, I believed that not only tbe Republican party as a national organisation would Continue to coutrol and manage the government and the Union, but I believed that the time had come when tbe administration of the affairs of tbe great State of Indiana wae to be transferred to that tame Republican party, and I.with other members on that ticket, and with all of them from tbs day of the adjournment of that memorable convention until they day of the elections in October and November, contributed what I ooald lu every honorable way to brlug aud assure tbat result. The administration of tbs present Republlcau State officers is. before the people, and to that record and that administration vre Invite the most rigid scrutiny and the most searching inquiry. [Applause.] As an officer in oLarge of the public accounts of the State, made and required by law to take groat responsibility in enduing sad following many olalms presented against the State, ami involving inrge sums of money. I have been governed solely by the law and by the interests of the people. [Applause.] I have no doubt that sometime during tbls campaign you will hear something of some of my official acts. I may possibly—and I regret it if it is so—l may possibly reoelve tbe personal opposition of some very dear friends in tbls State beouuse I am to-day, as Auditor of your State, oooupytng the position of defendant ip tbe courts ot your State resisting the paymeut out. of your State treasury ot thousands of dollars of your money. I have no compromise to make upon that question. I have endeavored to discharge my duties honestly and faithfully. I bave given the office my oouatunt attention, and I have mude its duties my constant study, nnd I expect to continue to discharge those duties in tbe same way for the (wo years to come. I have kloked out of your State, aud I shall continue to kick out of your Skate, the fraudulent oorporatiou aud dUlioneet organizations that fleece the people of tbe State out of tbclr money, (Applause.J I believe they are swindles, and I huve so denounced them, and if you will give uie the law I will kick them every one out. (Applause.) Now, fellow-Republlcans, I have no speech to make. I expect, like these other geutlenieii, to contribute wnat I can In ray feeble way to the success of the ticket. I think every Democrat will And out before this campaign is over that they have something else to do besides undertaking to accomplish the impossible feat of carrying a keg of whisky on one shoulder and a glass of water on tbe other. [Applause.] As I earns into the oonveutlou I was presented Gillil SiJSJiTdeft iff lb* great TlgUTs or the liemooratio party, the eminent men of that organization; bow they attempted to formulate public opinion on this question, and how they thought they bad the platform about settled, aod I read Mr. English's speech, and It ocourred to mo that his construction of the platform end the position of tbe Democrat io party could best be Illustrated by a story tbat General Grant used to tell. I saw tbe story republished In the Indianapolis Sentinel a few days ago. General Grant once told about a blacksmith who undertook to make out of a bilge pleoe of iron a clevis. He worked on it faithfully, but failed, lie then concluded be would make out of wbst was left a horseshoe. He worked at that faithfully, and failed again. He than concluded he would make out of what was left a horseshoe nail, nnd failed again; and finally, in bis disgust, he threw the redbot mass into the water that usually stauds by tbe blacksmith’s anvil, and says: "I will make a d— big flzz out of you an way,” [Applause.] HON. ROSWELL B. HILL, candidate for Treasurer of State, being intro-

duoed, said: Mr, President and gentlemen of the convention—l am again brought before the people of Indiana as a candidate for Treasurer or State. For this great honor lam very thankful to you, one and all. I shall, If elected to that office for a second term, try and fill It In a manner that will be acceptable to every member, not only of tbe Republican party, but of every citizen of the Slate of Indiana. [ Applause ] As the custodian of the cash In the treasury of the State of Indiana, I will guard it with a Jealous eye, and whether I turn over my trust uext February, or whether utter four years 1 shall then he called upon to turn it over, I will pledge you that every dollar of the money will he there to turn over. The State of Indiana has been very kind to me. She has always treated ine in such a way that 1 am under obligations to tbe State aud the old county tbat came up so favorably for me two years ago. I thauk you, gentiemru, for this nomination. FBOF. JOHN M. BLOB* said: Mr. President and gentlemen of the convention, to have received tills confirmation, tilts unanimous support, this renewal of your confldence to-day lifter-two years of trial, is indeed to me exceedingly gratifying, and I return to you iny most heartfelt thanks for tills honor. It hits been the purpose of my administration to so conduct the work of my office as to do equal and exact Justloe to all, regardle-s of sex or party, race or color; snd If lu this I have failed, It bus been an error of tbe head, and pot of the heart. My predeoessors have, together with the people of this State, established a grand system of public schools—grand, and known not only ut home but abroad. It hus been my endeavor to maintain tbe standard which has been already attained, and together with the 13,000 teachers of this StAte and the 1,500 school officers, to add to that ronown and distinction for our Stale. I have one other ambition, and tbat is this: That every dollar of ptiblie school fund shall be kept Inviolate; that every dollar of tax assessed upou the people of the Btate, nnd every dollar of Interest coming from our grand school fund sball be not only honestly apportioned and distributed, hut thut It shall he honestly and faithfully uooounted for. (Applause.] This was my ambition during tbe past two years of work, .and It sball be during the next two year*. [Applause.] An Olio of Speeches. Governor Porter responded to repeated calls, as follows; I thank you, fellow-cltizeus, for the compliment that you have paid to the administration of the Btate since I bave been honored with the office of its eblef executive; but I think tbe resolution ought to bave Included tbe able coadjutors whom you have nominated here to-day, who have assisted me during the entire execution or my work. Even the Democratic State convention In it* arratguments bas not arraigned the eonduot of the State goverument under the officers whom you bave nominated here to-day, and why they should bave met a week ago to nominate other men to execute these Important trusts is something that will he singular to tbe people. Who are these men tbat bave been nominated here to-day! Oue a soldier who bas hobbled here on bis crutch to address you, having burled one leg upon th* battle field. iApplauee.] Colonel Wolfe here, almost tha youngest oolonel In the Union army, who not only was a gallant soldier himself, bin his father fell on the field of battle. [Applanse.] My friend Dr. Hawn, her*, a soldier id two wars, fighting In the service of hie country. They dare not say anything against him. He Is a mau of weight, and would sit down on them. [Laughter and applause.) And there is my friend Major Gordon, my old school-boy friend, aud never In my life did my bosom palpitate with more delight than on the day When I was able to repay him tor kindness which I bad experienced from him from my boyhood up. He is a soldier of two wars, also, whose eon was shot dead on tbe field of battle by a rebel bullet. Professor Bloss, here, a soldier In tbe Tweutyseventh regimrnt'of Indiana Volunteers. Every nominee but one a soldier In the Union army [applause], end tbat one—Judge Baldwin—a wan whose word* pierce like bullets. [Applause.] Why, my Meads, when I hear these

obeers that salute these gallant me*, who on fields of blood bave offered their lives for the service of tbe country, I feel as If ths old Republican bugle was blowing again foe a grand victory in November. lApplause.] To tbe Republican party bus been assigned, a* Judge Raid win bas said, tbe great respousloilty. under Dlvlue Providence, of taking up now questions that concern the public welfare, ukl going through unpopularity, and debate, and 1 struggle, until. In the end, they bring them np la i triumph. [Applause.] Aud there bas never been a measure siuoe tbe Repnbliean party war organized, from the beginning to tbe end, h* which It has not ultimately triumphed. |A» pluuee.J Wbv, is it possible that the time atn come—after the achievements of eorcetdtetwfi preserving the Uuton of theseptate*— has Mr time come when fetters are to he phi ipoa tfet people, and it shall be declared that when th* body of tbe Nation destn* tbat a chan** shall be made In tbe coneUtDtion, tar people sball not buve free right te express their voice! The Demoo ratio party bus not been fortunate in the way el amehr> mcma [miplause], and when that queattra comes up they always say, with Maobeth—“Take any other shape than this.” Who does uot remember—lt was but a fair years ago in tbe history of a nation—who doer not remember tbat wben, after the war. tha Itepubliqaii party In Congress presented thr amendment to the State* for the abolition of slavery that a Republican party ot Indiana passed the amendment through both branches of the Legislature, and that when the next Legislature met the Democratic party passed a bill through both bouses of tha Legislature recalling that amendment. Who does not remember tha* when the rlglitof oitUeushlp was oonterredupen colored meu or was proposed to be conferred upon colored men by tbe ilfteeuth umeuduieut to tha constitution, and when there was a clause liter* that no part of the debt contracted lu tha service of tho rebellion should he paid, that the Democratic Legislature of ludlana attempted to break up a quorum bv every Democratic member resigning. [Applause.) Thank God. at that time, Oliver P. Mortou |great applause], a greet lawyer, ns ho was great In every other way, wts tbe head ot tbe State. He called Into counsel great lawyers, aud they said that the lo.val luoii that remained at their posts were tbe legislature of ludluua [applause|, and tbat the only things that tha fugitives who had left their posts had gained was everlasting dtagraoo on their names. That whs the drat undertaking lu Indlaua of the Duuiourutlu party on the surisot of amendment*. Well, I ibiuk you have some slight recolluolloa of some amendment* about two years ago. [Applause and laughter.] How tnaoy strange tiling* happened. It happened that down as New Aibuuy two men, oite as plaintiff and tha other us defendant, both began a suit by agreement, and both deslroil the same result. It hsppeued thut that little onse wus tiled, and was takeu promptly to the Supreme Court. It happened that it that little onse wae derided In one way, Indiana, which wus understood t* be a November State, would beoonie aa October State. It happened mat wneu the ones earn* to the Supreme Court It whs deemed -eo plain, till* great constitutional question In whies the peopie were so vitally interested, that th* caae waa argued on* any amt decided th* other against the people. | Applause.J It happened (hat th* day on which me doulsuMi wae made wite about one or two day* befog* the DcmouraUe IkatiHMt convention It happened that eh IfflMwKHi was a candidate for tbe nomination f*t th* NNWt deucy before that convention, aud it WiMltnflnt It would l'» a great tiling it Indiana eltdflPE* changed from a November to *n OutMffmli, Weil, how the nappy uopdttlon . at'WuuMUkiiwin tile great presidential battle, eo that th* wickedness of meu i* ottwn turned te account fog the good of tile people. [Applause] Well, the*, what has happened now! A few month* ago a proposition was made tbat upou this question ot the fireside, this questlou of the faintly, till* question In wbieh every wife has u great deal better right to say what ought io be done taaa Tnoms* A. Hendricks or Joseph E. McDonald lapplanie], It happened that wheu It waa proposed to submit an amendment upon the question whether intoxicating liquors should be prohibited in this State, merely to ask that tbe daulslon of the peoplJ might be taken.upou it, that the whole Dcinooratlo party mil itself In apparition to It, and it wos an overwhelming surprise to tbe Democratic party leaders when they saw that accumulation of opinion among the peopie tbat the oonetituilouul eiueudinenta should be submitted. They lied ho idea when the convention met that there would be any such result, hut the Republlcau party, alway* lu favor of the rights of the people (upplausej, alwuys being hi the forefront, tbe peoplu’a banner (applause), tbe Kepublluun party uad made tbe submission of that question so popular with the Democratic masses that iis convention was afraid to decide that those amendments should not be submitted. They got up a sort of Juggle, by which, if possible, they limy disappoint tha people in tbe Interest of rings; but they were compelled to make the appearance to the people of being lu favor of me tiibmlselon ot the amendments. And, to show Iblcr uniatrness to the people, they put toiwurd a platform with this seeming, aud then put up a statesman who uiinecessarily said that lie was then retiring from public life (laughter), a uiun who fired a shot that ban proven much more efreotlve In the breach than It was lu tbe muzzlo. [Laughter and applause.) Aud Mr. English, here, has gone hook twenty-five years or such a matter to prove, not that the Republican party bas not always been the friend of every foreignborn citizen, but that twenty-five rears ego tha Democratic party was. He don't briug It down to a lower date. Now, my friends, I oan go ban* in memory to a few of the tiling* that happened in those past days. For one, by public sueeoh and private controversy I bave fought Kiiownotblngtsm from its rise tolls fall. [Applanse.] I remember, too, tbat It wus uot many year* ago when our foreign-born citizens,naturalized under our naturalization laws, when they went back to their old homos, were impressed Into tho unities of the country from which they hud emigrated. One of the dearest frtcuds that 1 bavo lu tbls clty--one of the most respected Hermans in this city—wont back to his old I'russiun home and was uu(tressed into tbe Prussian army. Now, uinler Republican rule we have treaties with every nation In Europe by wbiAi the full right* of American citizenship are granted to every foreigner who |l* naturalised on our soil. [ApClause.) They talk about tbe Republican party elug lu any way opposed to our Ueriuuu fellowcitizens, The greatest honors tbat ever have been conferred upon a public iuhu In this country were conferred by the Kepublluun natty upon u Uermun statesman. That man who Is regarded by them us the representative German, Carl Sburz [applause], wus elected by a Keimoltoun legislature a United States senator from th* State of Missouri, aud after having tbls and other honors neaped upou him, he was appointed a member of tbe cabinet of a Republican President. Let the Democratic party show an Instance In which they bars loaded with publlo honurs any Germau or Irishman In Hint way. And here, to-day, we have declared, not sumo little thing about suspects, for there Is no Atticilean-Irishmen in British prisons, but w* have declared the giout principle in favor of Irishmen; that we are for breaking up rh« great rented estates In that Island and eatahiiabmg there Instead peasaut proprietorship; and that we bone to see the day when Abe priori pie that prevails among us shsll preVWl 111 that island; that tbe local government of Ireland shall be in the bands or the people. lAppMuae.] There t* something substantial about tll*l. which Irishmen at least can understand. Welt, our friend* on the otuer aide have talked to us about tariff. What a discovery they have made. They are I* favor of a revenue tariff, with incidental protection and discrimination In favor of American Industry. It is the first time sine* the organization of tbe DemuoFatlo party that they have ever declared that doctrine. Iu 1856, in the year when ths Republican party was organized, tbe resolutions of the Demoeratio party in tbe nattonul convention were that they ware In favor ol free trade. What is free trade! It is tbat oustoms duties shall aot be levied, but that lustead of tbat the ezpenses of tbe government shall b* paid by adlreot taxon tbe property of tbs people. Well, tbe Republican party combatted that doctrine, and from 1856 to 1868 tbs Democratic platform* were silent on th* subject of ths tariff. Id. 1862 they dsolarsd they were In favor of a revenue tariff only, but In 1872 they got afraid of that declaration, and, at the time tbat Horace Greeley was nominated they said that as there waa a difference or opinion In the Democratic party they were In favor of leaving tbe question to th* congressional district*. Well, now, that la th* way tbat General Huncoak got at sea, aod tnonght It was a local question, and that It had come np In the town oonnril sf Bis native town. In 1880, though. Instead of saying that there was a dtfferenoe of opinion, snd it ought to be submlttod to th* people, they eame back and arid they were in favor of a revenue tariff duly. What la a ravenua tariff only! yis a tariff that dots sot'

di»orlmin*te In favor of tlemesUo Industries. but in collecting revenue arranges it so that they may collect the most revenue without resnect to the things off of which U Is oolteeted; but the Republican party, alive to the Industrial interest* of the oouutry. took issue with Uiemon that question, and in the onnyass of 1380 we compelled them to have General Hancock declare that the platform that they had adopted was no: expressive of the sense of the Deraor.raMe masses, hut that, on the contrary, they favored the same doctrine that was advocated by the Republican party. Jfow.my friends,our Democratic fellow-citizens have told ua that they are in favor of the maintenance of the law pasacd by the Democratic Legislature la favor of miners and the securing as their wages. That law was passed without a party division in the Legislature, and when Gov. Williams came to appoint a Mine Inapector he appointed a Republican, and after that Republican had realgned he appointed another Republican, and the administration of that law -being in the hands of tha Mine Inspector, no Democrat bus evar held the place. (Applause.) The Republican party has a Mine Inspector now appointed by myself, the same man, by the way, that Gov. Williams ouoo appotnied because he thought him so competent a Republican, and that mat) baa made suggestions for the benefit of miners and for the better securing of their pay that are so important that I shall take pains to bring theta to the attention of the next Legislature. [Applause] And they are in favor of otvll service. Why. my rriende, "everybody here knows that the only time we ever had a Democratic civil-service platform In Indianapolis was about eight or ten years ago. when the Democrats elected officers for the control of the city government, and those officers served one year, and the Demoe.ratic party put them out Itself. Thera were thousands of Democrats iu this city (and, if the truth was told at the time, Mr. English was one) who voted to put the parly out of power on that question. [Applause.] And, when we bear them proclaiming bore to-day that that party la in favor of elvil-servioe reform, it looks to me like an old abrtinken-elianked man of ninety •tresned up In a pair of Dr. Hawn’s pantaloons. [(.Slighter and applause ] They have never, n the whole history of the party, been practically ia favor of civil-service reform, but, in every Instance in wliloli they have been In power, they have used their offices as mere means of psrty patronage and party reward. Now. ray friends. In concluding, there ia one tiling that is mors important than to discuss these public measures. How are we to he organized) Are we to huve the sort of organization that we had in 1380 f Is every man feeling in this contest as he felt in that oonteat, that be hns some power to effect the result! It is when every man In the Republican party feels that he possesses some power to effect the result that we win our great successes. (Applause | I have no faith at all in a contest of noise and uiaplsy. I have no faith at all in a contest of large county meeting's. My faith is In a contest in which Id every school district there is perfect local organization, and where every intelligent Republican can tell not only how every other Republican ia going to vote, hut what Democrats, if any, are going to vote our ticket, it is a contest in which the laboringman. the mechanic, the merchant, every class is interested in securing one or more voters for the ticket. When we are organized in tuat way, with heart, ami Intelligence, and energy, aud discipline, we always achieve success; but when we urn organized on the principle of display and great conventions, with flaunting banners, and hope runs high., that is the time when we lose the victory. Now. wo have a great, question this year. As Judge Baldwin said, there is always being thrust upon the Republican party some new issue. Why? The conservative party never lius a new issue thrust upon it. The dead party has no issues. It is the living party —the progressive party | applause]—the party that Is seeking truth, no matter how unpopular It may he. It is that party that has hew issues thrust upon it; aud when such a party lias new issues thrust upon it. and the masses are amused, it carries those new issues on to victory. Then let the motto he, fellow-Republlo-luis; Every man can do a part—work Is viotory. [ Applause. 1

JKOTT. W. H. CALKINS tion— It Ht-eiiiH to mo other business ought to intcrvene before anything further ia said on the polm.-al of the day to the convention, but allow me now to return to yon my sincere than Its for the call you have given me, and say to you that either to-day or in the future, and <1 firing tlio entire campaign. I will appear before tlie,peo|)le carry Inn the banner of the old Repute! lean party. [Applause.] It has been part and parcel of the oreed of the Republican majority tliut the majority should rule, and tlie majority is one more than half, and when that Is legally ascertained, it is as potent and binding as ibnuirh it were multiplied by a rail lion. [Applause.] It has been the policy of the Republican party to sar that there should be a free ballot and a fair count |applause],and this Republican Congress, though hampered by filibustering and by nil the obstructions which ingenuity could improving, comes to the country to-day saying that they have righted and purged the elections of fraud so far as was in their power. W'e have stamped upon the tissue ballot, and we have put the seal of condemnation upon the perversions of the law. We have said that the whipping and scourging and Intimidation should cease. The mission of the Republican party has just begun, and will never cease until, from oue end of the land to the ether, one man shall vote one ticket, and have that ticket honestly and fairly couuted. [Applause.] Mr. President, a remarkable spectacle took place in the hulls of Congress this winter, when Mr. I.yncli, from Mississippi, a man of dusky hue, but an orator, and a man of ability, stood in the arena aud forunt of this republic and plead, not for any privileges for hie race, but plead that the republic might be true to itself and protect the purtly of the ballot box. The world moves, and, notwithstanding twenty-five yearn ago the master shook his shackle in the nostril of the slave, one of those slaves stood up in the halls of Congress pleading that the Democracy might not strangle the country. I thank you, Mr. President, and gentlemen of the convention for being permitted to look in your faces. Hod bless a Booster convention. We will go on to victory this year. It is here. It is in every man’e face and countenance, and, as Governor Porter said, whenever a convention undertakes to stifle the voice of the. people, the people will •trike back with such blows tbat the men who stand in front will not remain there long. It takes a greater straddler than even the remarkable chairman of the Democratic p'alform committee to carry water ou both shoulders and fool the neopie. If the people like anything it. is honesty, and I did not begin ray political course in chioaoery aud I will not end it there. Again thanking you for the honor of being called upon to address you, I close. [Applause. ]

The Ticket Completed. The convention demanded the regular order of business, and the nomination of Supreme Judges was called for. Hon. George W. Friedley placed in nomination as the candidate of the First judicial district, Judge William P. Edson, of Posey county, and Warrick and Vanderburg counties moved that the nomination be made by acclamation. and it was so made. Judge Edson was declared the nominee. Judge J. G. Berkshire was nominated from the Second district, by Hon. J. J. Spann, Tills nomination was also made by acclamation. From tha Fifth district. Judge Jonn F. Kibbey, of Wayne, and Judge John M. Haynes, aKfav. were nominated. The call of the mil was then made, and, it being evident efbat Judge Kibbey had received a large majority of the rotea, the name of Judge Haynes was withdrawn and tho nomination of Judge Kibbey made unanimous. AN OUTBUKBT Or ENTHUSIASM. Although the convention was quiet, dignified, earnest and refleotive. an outburst of enthusiasm occurred at this 1 point In the proceedings thut defies an adequate portrayal. At tho conclusion of the ballot for Supreme Judge, and . pending the announcement of its result, the band struck up a medley of those soul-stirring airs, "Tramp, tramp, trump, the Boys are Matching,” and "John Brown's Body." With the first strains of those Inspiring airs, the delegates, a majority of whom had marched to their music from Atlanta to the sea, or had heard their beautirul harmonies at Bhllob, Gettysburg, and on other fields of battle, felt a resistless impulse to welcome them with a cheer, and by the time the conclusion of the first verse had been reached, tbs reeling was too strong to be longer curbed, and tbe entire convention, ss with one voice, burst forth Into a majestlo chorus of "Tramp, tramp, tramp, tbe Boys are Marching,” (hatlajrly shook the walls and caused the thrill b? patriotism to ooorso through tbe system of every delegate. Tho sonnd of the band was drowned completely, and when It finally ceased playing tba cheers that arose in welcome to the air* were deafening. Delegates leaped to their *eot. swung their hstt and cheered, aad when jit last, on order being' partially restored, a dele-

gat* with an empty sleeve tailed for three cheers for tha eld flag, they were given with a degree of cordiality and warmth that admitted no doubt of the political complexion of the convention. The scene was in marked centra#* to the unsympathetic reception of the same air* by the Democretie convention of a week before. Indorsed by tbe Women. It was tben announced that representative* as two societies of ladles were present aaa desired to addreas tbe convention. Permission was freely granted, and Mrs. P. T. Merritt, representing tba equal suffrage eoeiettea, was introduced. HUe said: MBS. mbrbitt’s address. Gentlemen—l feel that as from a convention I can ask of you nothing more. I will say for myself, and for a large majority of those whom I represent, that I am perfectly satisfied with tbe result of your combined wisdom. All wo eon reasonably ask at this time is tbat oar smsadments shall oome before tbe voting people of tbe Htatn for tbeir decision, aud from my heart I thank you. I have still my appeal to make to you as Individual members of’this convention, if it is your pleasure that I should do so. Your decision that citizenship and the ballot shall go hand In band meets with our entire approval. On the 19th of May last a large and enthusiastic State mass-meeting of persens Interested In the political rights of women was convened in this city, and tbe Grand Opera-house was filled to overflowing with women and their friends, who bad come from all parts of the State to assert their readiness to take upon tnsmselves all the privileges of citizenship, as well as tbe responsibilities. Each woman In attendance there represented from one to five hundred others, and thousands of letter* were received from those unable to be present, nr to send representatives. By a careful estimate It has been ascertained that not less than 40,000 woman were represented at tbat meetlug. By an act of that convention. Mrs. M. E. M. Price, of Kokomo; Mrs. H. R. Kldpatb, of ;Greencastle, and myself, were appointed as delegates to the different political Btute conventions, and it Is by tbat adthonty that I am before you today. That women should have party preferences teems, under the circumstances, incongruous; yet sueh is the oaee, and while they feel bound by uo party which eoutitiuee to Ignore them, I think 1 mar claim tbe honor of repreeentiug a larger cumber of Republican citizens to-day than any other delegate present. I am not here to discuss the subject of ‘■Woman’s Suffrage.” The fact that women in Indiana are olttzeus has not been denied: that all citizens of a “republic,'' a government of the people, for the people, aud by the people, are equally entitled to a voice In tbat government Is undeniable. Tbe abstract right as the women or the United States to tile oallot Is almost universally conceded. When ths non-ex-erotse of a right has become a palpable obstacle to the proper performance of duty, there can be no question of expediency to consider. With respect to the question as to whether souimi themselves desire to exercise tbe right of franchise, I am here to answer that they do, and in snob vast cumbers that it seems to us unreason iinle to wail unlit nil are heard from before spine action is taken in our liehalf, especially since no citizen can be foroed to exercise this right against his or her will. There Is. then, but one all-important question before us at this time—shall women bo granted the privilege of exercislug this right! It would ha out oflthe present sphere of woman to attempt to auswere this question. It Is for the sovereign male citizen to decide whether we shall be put Into possession of our birthright as free-born American citizens. Therefore, In accordance with the spirit of the meeting of May 19, m behalf of 40,000 women there represented, and In behalf of the thousands of others who have, in various ways, expressed their wishes. I ask you, tnen of Indiana, that you give this subject of equal rights your conscientious consideration. In tbat ease, we do not fear your conclusions. We do not presume to urge or to dietate. We ask only for some expression from you tbat will hasten the day when we shall stand before the world clothed In the full dignity of freedom, fit

that “He who serves his country best, servos bis party best.” This government was instituted to promote the cause oT liberty and Justice. Whit higher service can one give to his country than to seek to establish the principles upon which it is founded? Those of us who are Republicans feel that we httve much to hope for from tUe great Republic*!! party. We already owe you much. We would be glad to, in a measure, canoel that debt by swelling the victories which must surely be yours, if you continue to adhere to true Republican priuoinles. But alaal we have no votes. Politically, women are Indeed but ciphers. We count for nothing. But gentlemen, although ciphers have iu themselves no value, their position with regard to values is important. Place us on the right side, and your power will increase ten, one huudred, or a thousandfold. Consign us to the left, and it will decrease in the same ratio. Fellow-citizens and delegates, my duty is done. What answer shall I lake back to my watting constituency? Chairman Thompson informed the convention that be had answered Mrs. Merritt’s closing interrogation by saying that she would receive her aaewer at the November election. MBS. HELEN M. GOUGAR, representing the W. C. T. U., was next Introduced, and addressed the oenventien as follows: Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Convention—l oan account for the enthusiasm and good nature that prevails in this convention but in one way, and that is because you kuow you have done right, and you are happy [applause]; and, on behalf of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Indiana, that is no unimportant factor in the great agitation of the State, I thank you; and, as you have given us no uncertain sound [applause], I, on this occasion, give you no uncertain sound in thaukingyou for your action this morning. You have done right. Howl First, yon have said that you would leare the question of these two amendments to a direct vote of the people; secondly, you have very wisclv and very properly, in accord with the wish or the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, left them entirely uutriiinmeled from partisan influence; thirdly, you have done the next fair thing—you have said that these amendments should go to the people at a special election. We cau stand upon thla platform with you, and work for the success of these two great amendments, because ws are not afraid of the voice of the people. They are always to be trusted, aud never to be distrusted. My friends, I wish I eould say tbut these great questions are to ne left to the voice of the w hole people, but I still maintain ooufldence in the male people who will settle this question. In time, "people” will mean the women of Indiana just the same as the men, but we are wllllug to trust your honor In tills matter.

The voice of the people is the voloe of G«l. If we do not falter, but preßent an unbroken front to our enemy, Indiana will write upon the statute-boolca, November the Bth, at oar next election day: “Bobrlety and equal rights for all.” I thank you, on behalf of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, for your honorable action this morning, aud pray for the success of our great causes. I thank you and trust you. [Applause.] ’ Concluding Features. Jim Wood, the Irish miner, was called for by a thousand voices, and made one of his characteristic, telling speeches. MR. wood’s address. I feel proud of being here to-day. This is the first Republican State conveutlon that I have ever been in, and, when l look upon tbe faces of the meu who compose this convention to-day, I aui convinced that it is far superior to uny convention that I have ever been in before, [Applause ] Gentlemen, if I was ten foot high and weighed a ton I feel like every inch of roe would be a Republican. [Applause.] Sometimes when I am going for the Democrats, they say to me, "Jim what made you stay so long with the Democratic party, knowing them to be guilty of so many wromrat” I answered tbatyoaestlon by saving this: “As long as I allowed Toni Hendrloks, Bill Knglish, Frank Landers and Dan Voorbees to do Jim’s thinking, Jim was a Democrat. [Laughter and applause. | But |UBt as soon as Jim began to do his own readiug and hla own thinking, he was a Republican.’’ [Applause.] I was amused over in Washington City to hear little Sam Cox and Robinson trying to flatter the Irishmen, my countrymen, and make them believe that the Democratic party was the friend to the Irish. They could not make me believe that. I know better. I have studied this thing out for myself. In the great Btate or New York the Democratic party would not amount to a corporal's guard without the Irish vote, and they never nave elected an Irishman to a State office on the Democratic tioket in that State yet. [Applause.] The preeent Secretary of State of New York, Joseph B. Carr, It an honorable man, a Catholic, and an Irishman, aad he has been elected twiee on the Republican ticket by rousing majorities. I Applause.] Ths Democrats will nominate an irishman, and then go baok on him; the Republicans will nominate one, and vote for him.

A Democrat said to ms Mt lo»r since, says he, "Jim, what baa the Republican party sver don# for tbn Irish!” Isays: “MiaWr. wkatdld tbs Irish over do for tbe Ropublloan party!” [Langhtor and applause.] I would thank people if they Mould be quiev [Applause. | I said to him, “What had tbe Irish aver done for the Republican party before 1880, lor I believe it did get agood many Irish votes tbenf” They brag abogt tbn Irishmen that bold offices under Democretie administration. I went to work myself, when I was in Washington City, and I teak tba official register, and I counted 2,321 people tbat were employed in the government department* at Washington who were born in Ireland. [Applsuse-l Tben never wen half tbat number under any Democratic administration. Mew, I will not detain yen longer. |Crtea of “Go ahead;” “don’t stop."l You must pardon my saying so much about the Irish, but this is a question I mu interested la more than anything else. Ac soon so an Irishman laada in tbts enuntry they do with bim what they did with me. When I got to Castle Garden the first thing that was urged open me was that the Re publican party was the well-spring of Kuownethingtsra, Now, I thought that was so until l got to doing ray own reading and my own thinking, and then I found out tbat in tbe year 1856 the Knownothing candidate got more votee in the South thou be did in the North. There were 44 per cent, of the votee that were cast in tbe South in thst year cast for the Kpownotbiag candidate, and only 13 per cent, of the votes that were cast m the Northern States cast for tbe Know-nothing candidate. I also found that the great Republican State of Ohio gave 28,000 Knownotblng votes, and the great Democratic State of Kentuoky, Just across the river, gave 67.000 Knownotblng votes: and I could name State after State to show that Knownothingtsm was hern and raised in tbe South. There was another thing that woke me up a little. I found that there were fiftyseven Irishmen murdered in tbe city of Louisville on the first Monday of August in 1856, aud only two Republican votes were cast there in 1860. [Applause ] Gentlemen, this is tbe argument they are making all the time to make tbe ignorant masses believe that the Republican party is against tbe foreigner, and it is all perfect burnbuf [Applause J They will do anything to get voles. TUey try by every means to catch votes. As it was expressed here a while ago, “They have a keg of whisky ou one shoulder and a glass of water on the other.” The funniest thing yet is the way

they try to get the darky vote. It used to be tbe “nigger,” or that "old darky;” now It is the “colored gentleman.” I tell you tbat the “old darky” has got a better memory about bim than the Demoorata give him credit for. He Is not going to forget the dsy when the white Democrat could go Into hts log-cabin, and take liberties there, and, when he went to court to get Justice, all tbe Justice begot was the whip across his back and shoulders. The darkles are not going to forget those times, The darkies are still acquainted with the fact that it was tbe Republican party tbat out the shackles off four millions of slaves, and made them human beings, and told them to take their plaoes in the world’s humanity. The thirteenth, tbe fourteenth and the fifteenth amendments were passed by tbe Republieans against every Dower, against every prayer, and the supplication of every Democrat in this whole country. I should like a man to show me a Democrat, to point out a single Demoorat, who was a Democrat at that, time, that was Lo favor of any one of those amendments. It cannot be done. Another thing they ere trying to do is to blindfold us on the tariff; but they cannot do that With the laboring man. He it too well posted. He knows where his friends are. The Republican party stands united upon protection. The New England Democrats are in favor of protection, and tbe Western Democrats don’t know what they want. In the last campaign I saw a Demoorat take bis bat off his head and hold it up, and, says he, ‘‘Gentlemen, there’s a hat that Republican protection makes oost me $4; but, under Democratic free trade, It would ouly cost $2.” Some fellow got up then and asked the question Just this way: “But suppose tbe man didn’t hsve the s2l” [Laughter and applause.] I telUqftJt ?s. a ZtVsss. ip*? ooun * r f; his musket, and take tha first vessel tbat would sail for that oountry, and enroll himself under her flag and fight her battles, ihaa by voting tn favor of tbe Democracy and tkelr free-trade principles, , Wben be does It, he votes to* lake the bread and meat out of his own children's mouths, to take the schoolbooks out of their bands, and to throw hlmselt out of employment, and make a tramp of himself and vagabonds of his family. I say that we laborlngmeH in this oountry cannot do anything more for Great Britain than te vote In favor of these free-trade principles; neoause, if you do, they would shut up our machine shops, stop our own industries, aud open up a market where they can sell their goods. Everybody knows that where goods are manufactured tor the same market, and one man has to pay $3 a day for labor und another man has only to pay $1 a day for labor, aud those two men go Into tha same market to sell their goods, it is understood by everybody that tha man who gets labor for fll a day oan undersell the man tbat has to pay $3. Now, we don’t want to work as they do in those old countries. Some Democrats tall me we ought to work as ohsap as they do over there. Gentlemen, a poor man cannot educate his family over there, but he can in this country of freedom ana liberty, which is the horns of the oppressed from every nstiou. We have a good chance to educate our boys and girls here, aud to make something out of them, even if we

are poor laboring people. Now, I will say Jnst one word mors upon the amendments and then I will quit. I will tell you a little tale tnat occurs to ms. It was supposed that Johnny Bull and Brother Jonathan got into a little social chat, and were bragging about their countries, and Johnuy Bull said to Brother Jonathan, “You have got no Royal family in your country;” and Brother Jonathan says to Johnny Bull: “You are mistaken, sir; every man in tbe United States belongs to the royal family.” Now, we propose that every laboring-man, and every man in this country or in this State, shall have a chance to express his opinion upon these amendments. That Is what we want. We want no more, and no less. It is true ws may differ in our opinion in regard to them, but we have a right to express that opinion, and we demand that right of the next Legislature, that we shall have a vote upon them untramineled by any political organisations that may exist in the State. [Applause.] Gentlemen, it is growing late, and perhaps a great many of you want to go borne on a train, and I don’t want to take any more time: but I wilt tell yon one thing. When tbe battle oomes, I expect to be on the picket-line. [Applause.] And if there are any of the enemy’s gnns to be spiked, I am ready to make the charge and try to spike them. The lady said, when site spoke, that the Republican party was right upon this qoestlon. That is true. Tbe Republican party is right upon every question. [Applause.] Tlie Republican party does not desire to plot one word or on* letter out of its past history. They stand to-day upon tbe pinnacle of fame, looking down upon the mighty changes that have taken plaee stnoe tbe government hae been in tbeir hands. The Democrats don’t want to look further baok than two years. Bat look at it all tbe way through. The Democrats are always opposing everything tbe Republicans are doing, aud as soon as the Republicans bave accomplished it, then they turn around and claim all tbe credit. [Applause.] Is not that so? Iu tbe last canvass I ueard some of their big guns get up and talk for two honrs. Tbe first hour they would take up telling what tbe Democratic party had done for the country in tbe wav of finances, and the next hour they would oocupy, telling whatacoundrels were upon tbe Republican ticket, who, if they got their dues, would all be in tbe penitentiary. Tbsy claim the credit for the finances of the country. Now, Just one went about, that. You alii know how this country was when the Republican party took hold of it. Bonds bringing 10 per cent. Interest were sold at 85 oents. Now, under Republican rule. a government bond bearing 4 per cent, interest brings a premium of 16 cents. That is all tbe history the Republican party wants in relation to tbe finances. Now, let us go to our homes and go to work earnestly, and not sl£ down and talk. Let every nmn pat his shoulder to the wheel and push it right along. I thank you for your attention. At the close of Mr. Wood’s speech the convention adjourned sine die. Convention Notes. The ladies ware enthusiastically received. Major Calkins out his remarks short long before the convention had beard enongh of him. Governor Co in baok, with bis accustomed gallantry, appeared as the champion of the ladles. The gag law was not applied. Still, there was not a single "no” in response to ths call for the negative wheu the resolutions were read. Jim Wood, "The Irish Miner,” gallantly gave way to the ladles, and awaited his opportunity, Jim was loudly cheered when be appeared. Mr. Overmeyer was “not instructed by the committee to move the previous question” when the resolutions were offered for the approval of the convention. Jim Wood says that as long as ho allowed ‘'Bill EngjUsh, Dan Voorhoes, Frnuk Landtra and Tom

Hendricks to do Jim's thinking, Jim wss a Democrat, but so soen as bo hex an to think for hlmSelf.Jlm became a Republican.” Jamas Wood, the Irish miner, who was among tbe delegates t» attendance at the convention yesterday, was received with » hearty handshake all touad, and hla presentation of tbs Irish qnestlon, in his own peculiar style, was highly complimented. Considerable pressure is being brought to bear apon him te tndnos him te enter tha canvass. having already received requests from sll parts of tha State, aad be will doubtless comply. Mr. Overmeyer’s take-off on Mr. Hendricks’s remarks te the Democretie eoeventiea wae particularly happy. Mr. Headricks stated that he “had been instructed by tbs committee on resolutions te move the adoption of tbo platform in in its entirety, and te move the previous question." Mr, Ovsraseyar stated tbat he had not been instructed to move the previous question, bathed been requested te piece the resolutions before the convention for Its consideration. The gag law was not applied. A Democrat’s ftoilloquy. I was thinking on the present and thinking on tbe pant, Of our Democratic meeting; tha latest, yes, the lasts When our great man met again at tbe oapital of State, To fund again tbeir wiedom, and In the platform it relate. ’Tie well to have some wise man us “ruralers” to guide. . Or where would go the ship of state, out on the stormy tide! Was tbinkiug on the English speech, and what ws did resolve; ’Tie wonderful tha wisdom tba minds of some evolve. To allow ths people to vote to prohibit selling whisky Is to their liberties wonderfully, O wonderfully, risky; To keep tue people’s honor, and yet preserve them free. They must be allowed only a vote on certain things, you see. Now, if this matter’s muddled, quite hard to understand, Remember the convention had the wisdom of the laud; Surely ’tis very plain, there is no error, flaw— The people must not vote on a “sumptuary” law. Owen, Gosport, Ind.