The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-04-28
STATE TICKET.

Will. Cumback, Max F. A. Hoffman,
j. D. Evans, and Nathan Kimble, Re
publican candidates on the State Ticket.
FOR GovERNoR-CoLoNEL CONRAD BAKER.
| Colonel Conrad Baker, our nominee
for Governor, is the present incumbent
Of that office, acting in the vacancy oc-
casioned by the election of Governor
o. P. Morton to the United States Sen
ate. He was born in Franklin county,
Pennsylvania, February 18th, 1917, in
that period succeeding the close of the
second and last war with Great Britain.
He studied law at Gettysburg, and was
admitted to the bar in the spring of 1889,
when just past his 22d year. At that
time the opponents of the Democratic
party were divided into two parties, the
Wings and Anti-masons. Mr.. Baker
attaching himself to the former, pre-
ferring to base his political affliation
upon the score of principle rather than
upon the intense excitement caused by
the Morgan affair, based upon nothing
but personal and private rancor. Mr..
Baker was supporter of Henry Clay,
and was chosen as Wing delegate from
Adams county to the Whig State Con-
vention, which was held at Chambers
burg in the summer of 1889, where res
olutions we're passed favoring Mr.. Clay
for the Presidency. Mr.. Baker prac-
ticed law in Gettysburg two years, and
in 1841 removed to Evansville, in this
State, of which city he remand citi-
zen until his official duties required
his removal to the capitol. 1 .
In the year .1845, he was elected a
member of the House of Representa-
tives from Indiana, from the county of
Vanderburg, serving his constituents
| and the whole State faithfully for one
mon Pleas Judge, but resigned after
serving one year. AT the first State
Convention held under the party organ
ization known as the Republican, Mr..
Lieutenant Governor, with Oliver p.
Morton as the standard bearer of the
new and untried party which dared to
enter the political arena, and upon the
question of principle to fight the we'll
organized and thoroughly drilled De-
mocracy. The gallant fight made by
the Republicans in 1856 is well known,
but its young hosts were not quite
naJ> Jaf I.
his opponent, Abram A. Hammond
Four years of experience On the one
hand, and four of quasi treason on the
other, served to place the party with
which MIR. Baker was identified, in pow
err succeeding which, the rebellion in
the South was commenced in the inter-
ests of the defeated Democracy.
Among the foremost in civil life, the
for whatever duty, was assigned him.
He entered the military service in July,
1861, and remained until the end of SER
vice, being mustered out in September,
1864. He was in the field from August,
1861, to April, 1863, at which date he
was ordered by the War Department to
report for duty at Indianapolis, to or
ganize the Provost Marshal Generals
Bureau for the State, from May l, 1868,
to August 20, 1864, just preceding his
muster out.
Colonel Baker was selected as the Re-
publican candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor in 1864, after General Kimball
had declined the position to which he
was nominated by the Convention. He
entered into the canvass with ardor, and
after eight years of most eventful peace
and still more eventiul war, the whirl-
gig of time saw the defeated ticket in
1856-Morton and dBaker-triumphantl
elected by majority of over twenty
thousand of the popular votes.
OF Colonel Bakers military career it
is not necessary to speak. The brief
mention made calls to mind the glories
and disasters, the successes and the de- |
feats, of the first three years of the re
bellion. In common with hundreds of
thousands of names, Bakers stands in |
that honored scroll of national defend !
ers, while his opponent, Thomas A. |
Hendricks, was in the United States
Senate, with his arms folded, doing
nothing for or nothing against his coun-
try, in the hour of its most deadly need.
Colonel Bakers political record is
briefly this : fs .....ssz,o., .-
He voted for Gen. Harrison in 1S4O.
He voted for Henry Clay in 1874.
He voted for Zachary Taylor in 1848. |
He voted for General Scott in 1852
He voted for Jno. c. Fremont in 1856.
He voted for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 |
and 1864.