Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1884 — A Candidate for Governor. [ARTICLE]

A Candidate for Governor.

Two Prohibitipn conventions j met at Indianapolis last Thursday. I One at English’s Opera Housed which was called by M. E. Shiel, editor of the Monitor Journal. The other met at the Grand Opera House, and was called by Mr. E. B. Reynolds, president of the State Temperance Organization. At the Reynoldds convention no nominations were made, but the Shiel convention plated a nearly complete state ticket in rhe field; its head, for Governor, being our townsman, Hon. Robert S. Dwiggins. Judge E. P. Hammond, of this place, the Republican candidate for Supreme Judge, was endorsed by the convention,’- * The Indianapolis Journal, in speaking of the convention and candidates, has the following in regard to Mr. Dwiggins; ‘•Hon. Robert S. Dwiggias; the candidate for Governor, b forty-nine years ot age, he b a native of Onio, and lo*

cated in Grant county in 1839, afterwards moving to Jasper county in 1859. He practiced law for several years, but is now engaged in the banking business. In 1868 he was one of the Grant electors, and served in the State Senate from 1870 to 1876. l/is advocacy of the Baxter bill gave him his prominence among the temperauqe people. He was a delegate to and ope of the vice-presi-dents of the Republican State convention here last mouth. The pnly other well known man op ,the ticket, besides Judge Hammond, who is the Republican nominee for Supreme Judge, is Dr. R. T. Brown, of this city, who has been prominent in temperance work /or many years, being the Prohibitionists’ candidate for Governor in 1876, and again in 1880. (JI the various gentlemen nominated, all a,re said to be Republicans, with the exception ot Mr. Taylor, of Alien county, who is a Democrat.”

In the Chicago (Convention Mr. George William Curtis said: ’ “We are confronted with the Democratic party, very hungry, and, as you may well believe, very thirsty; a party without a single definite principle; a party without any distinct national policy which it dares present to the country; a party which fell from power as a conspiracy against human rights, and now attempts to sneak back to pdwer as a conspiracy for plunder and spoils.” Mr. Thomas A. Hendricks says that at least 50,000 oilice-holders wall have to be displaced “because the party will demand it,” and yet Mr. George William Uuftis is aiding to put this party in power. Could self-stultification go further?— [lndianapolis Journal, • ' G ?