Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-06-25
Indiana Nominations.

INDIANAPOLIS, June 10. The Re-
publican State Convention to-day, was
in session without intermission from
10 a. m. until $50 p. m. The proceed
ings were characterized by immense
enthusiasm both for the national ticket
and ticket for state officers. Every ref
erence to Blaine and Logan in the
speeches of Permanent Chairman Stan
ton J. Peelle, of this city, Governor
Porter, Colonel r. w. Thompson, and
other speakers were received with the
most unbounded applause, indicating
Enthusiastically their popularity among
Indiana Republicans.
For Governor, Congressman W. II.
Calkins, Of Laporte, was nominatedl,
receiving 594 against 512 for Colonel W.
W. Dudley, Commissioner of Pensions,
and 4S for ex-Congressman Shanks.
The scene of enthusiasm in the con-
vention over the nomination of Cal
kins, who is immensely popular with
the young men of the party, was one
which has rarely been eXcelled in any
political gathering in the state. State
Senator Eugene Bundy, of Henry coun-
ty, was nominated on the second ballot
for Lieutenant Governor, receiving
1853 votes. The balance Of the ticket
is as follows: For Secretary of State,
Robert Mitchell, of Gibson; Auditor,
Bruce Carr, of Orange; Treasurer, R.
R. Shiel, of Marion; Attorney General,
W. c. Wilson, of Tippecanoe; Judge
Of the Supreme Court, E. ?. Hammond,
of Jasper; Reporter of Supreme Court,
William M. Hoggatt, of Warrick; Sup
erintendent of Public Instruction, Bar.
nabas G. Hobbs, of Parke. The ticket
represents all the elements Of the party
ND oil coofionc of tho ctoto
The platform ratifes the nomina-
| ton of Blaine and Logan and indorses
the platform of the Chicago conven-
ton. 1t indorses the administration of
Governor Porter. Favors an appropria-
ton for the erection of suitable mon
ument to the memory of the loyal SOL
diers of Indiana who fell in the war of
the rebellion. A convention to frame
new constitution is recommended.
Such change in the law as shall take
the administration of prisons and re-
formatory and benevolent institutions
of the state out of the domain of party
politics is recommended. Prison labor
Is denounced as degrading. Free and
unsectarian schools are approved. The
declaration is made that the amend
ment to the constitution of the state
which authorized and contemplated the
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and salaries ought not to remain dead
letter, and the enactment of such laws
rs will place the compensation of pub
lie officials upon basis of fair compen-
sation for services rendered is favored:
A just equalization and adjustment of
bounties and pensions, and a liberal
construction and application of all laws
granting pensions to honorably dis
charged soldiers of the Union army is
recommended. The action is denounced
Of the Democratic majority in the last
General Assembly in enacting laws of
purely partisan character, whereby
experienced, competent and efficient
officials were displaced, and mere poll
ticians appointed, to the serious injury
of the benevolent institutions of the
state, including those for the deaf and
dumb, insane, blind, the Boys Reform
atory and Soldiers Orphans Home, and
in the passage of the metropolitan po-
lice bill, by which, in cities of a certain
population, the control of municipal
affairs is taken from the citizens con-
cerned and placed in the hands of a
partisan state commission. No refer
ence was made to the temperance ques-
| lion