Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1894 — INDIANA PROHIBITIONISTS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INDIANA PROHIBITIONISTS

Meeting of the State Convention at Indianapolis. Platform Adopted and Ticket Nominated. The Indiana State Prohibition convention assembled at Masonic Hall, Indianapolis, Thursday, at 10 o’clock. Five hundred delegates were present S. A. Haines, as temporary chairman, called the convention to order. Rev. Aaron Worth delivered the Invocation. F. T. McWhirter, chairman of the State central committee, spoke at length, claiming that the whole question of wages depended upon the settlement of the liquor problem. The committee on permanent organization reported the name of the Rev. W. W. Hickman as chairman and Samuel M. Sayler, of Huntington, as secretary. On account of Mr. Hickman having to leave for his home the temporary organization, so far as the chairman was concerned, was made permanent, and S.

A. Haines wielded the gavel during the day. A telegram of congratulation was sent to Neal Dow, the “father of prohibition;” SSOO was raised for campaign purposes by the counties. Nominations for Strte officers were then made as follows: Secretary of State—W- M. Taylor, of Dana. Vermillion county. Auditor -of- State—John B. Hann, of Mariqn. State Treasurer—Addison Hadley, of Hendricks. Attorney-General—Clarence Kessinger, of Knox county. Superintendent of Public InstructionProf. E. A. Devore, of Merom. .Clerk of the ,Supreme Court—William M. Ross, of Randolph. State Statistician—Wflltaip F. Little, of Shelby, State Geologist—Prof. Elwood Kemp, of Terre Haute. G’ ' —'pheplatformadoptcddeclarestbe liquor trafic to be a crime; favors coinage of gold and silver on basis existing prior to 1873; favors equal rights for both sexes; -demands that the tariff; question bta raised above .party politics and regulated according to the needs of the' Government; faan Ineorhe tax. and Government savthe convict ‘oentract system; usksfior an amehdment to. election laws allowing J wMl4hihdni:fctK'tW<polls WittfUrparties; ‘WE

JOHN B. HANN.