The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1881-06-11

| nOnOred with denominations Dy ac-
clama ion. The following is the
complete ticket: Governor, Charles
Foster; Lieutenant Governor, R G.
Richards; Attorney General George
X. Nash; Treasurer, Joseph Turney;
Board of Public Works, George Paul;
Judge of Supreme Court, Nicholas
Longworth.
Resolutions were adopted strongly
endorsing the administrations of
General Garfield and Governor Fos-
ter. Hon. John Sherman, who was
made permanent Chairman of the
Convention, made one of his charac
teristic speeches on assuming the po
sition. His statement of the platform
and principles of the Republican
party and his cordial endorsement of
President Garfield are so ably and
eloquently put that we can not do
better than reproduce them. He
SAID:
"And now, fellow citizens, some
thing may be expected OF me to say
of the principles and platform, but
not much. The platform of the Re-
publican party is what it has DONE
[Cheers For twenty five years, the
party to which we claim to belong,
has been in the vanguard of liberty
and human progress. We commenced
at Convention like this, over which
| had the honor to preside, in Colum-
bus We commenced in 1855 the
work that has been going on since
We grappled with the institution of
slavery, and stayed its progress
[Applause. We marshaled in pro-
lection of the Union millions of men
and spent billions of treasure, freely
contributed by patriotic people to
put down a most unholy rebellion
We reconstructed the erevolting States.
We emancipated 100000 slaves, and
we have agreed to, and will give
to them all equal civil and political
rights. We lifted our country from
the throes of war, and destruction
and waste of war, into the most pros
porous country in the world. Our
credit is untarnished; as good as that
of any Nation. Our notes are now
better than gold or silver in or out of
the mines of any land applause],
and float everywhere where the sun
shines as the promise of an honorable
Nation, always faithful to its public
obligations. All of these and many
more things that I might mention,
are the work of the Republican party,
of which we are members, and it is
this work that is our platform. do
not care what platform is made for
us, we know what we believe in, and
that which we have done is the best
assurance of that which we intend to
do. We intend still further to ad-
vance public credit, and still more
rapidly pay off the public debt. We
intend to see, God helping us, that
every citizen of this broad land of
ours is protected in the rights which
our constitution gives to him, cost
what it will.
General CART eld has told us in his
inaugural address that all the powers
which he commands shall be used for
this purpose, and / believe him, and |
believe it will be done. This great
object Of Republican policy is now
more likely to be pursued than ever
before The times are auspicious for
it. The bitter feelings of the war in
the South are going down. The
freedmen are gradually getting lands,
homes and properties. Friends are
springing up around them and they
are now strong and independent men
who, while they may not agree upon
some things, | do say that they will
stand by the flag and the cause of
human rights. They have given us
their guarantee that the Constitu-
tional amendments shall be obeyed,
and they will be obeyed applause +
within our country, broad and beautiful
in extent and power, containing over
50,000,000 of people, expanding to
degree never before occurring in the
history of human kind. Our country
will then be Republic of freemen,
all equal before the law and of equal
rights. There are some other things,
my countrymen, about Ohio politics.
We have no room in this country for
a leader who commands and dictates. !"
[ Great applause.