The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-04
PERSONAL NOTES,

| Lieutenantgovern Hanna will speak at
Gosport on Sept 10; Delphi, Sept IL and Column
bus. Sept 90
Colonel James H Rice. the Barnum Of the In
diana Democracy, will deliver his first speech in
the campaign before the Rice Guards, of this
| city.
| Senator Logan has been invited to attend the
soldiers reunions at Mishawaka and Frankfort,
and it is expected that he win visit the State to
| speak early in October.
Senator Wiley, who is, in the language of the
cultured a Republican from way back was in
the city yesterday. The meeting which will be
addressed at Fowler to-day by Governor Porter
promises, he says, to be the largest ever held in
Benton county.
VIM. S. Silver, the chairman of the Wells
county Republican committee, and one of the
most promising young Republicans in the State,
was In attendance at the meeting Of county
chairmen yesterday. He renorts an encourag-
ing prospect for Republican gains in his section.
John B. Cockrum and DR. W. Wilson, repre-
senting the Warrick county Republican commit
tee, were in the city yesterday They bring the
report that among the Democrats in Warrick
who have announced that they will support the
Republican ticket this year is James w. Cab
bage, the representative in the Legislature in
1881 and 1889.
A, F. Phillips, of the Kokomo Gazette Trib-
Republican committee, was in attendance at the
meeting last night He knows enough about the
political affairs of his district to reduce his
knowledge to mathematical certainties, and he
says that tho Republican majority there this
year will be 1900.
Additional appointments which have been
made for Oliver T. Morton during this month
are: at Cambridge City, Sept 10; New Castle,
Sept. IT, Muncie, Sept. IL; Anderson, Sept Is;
Kokomo, Sept 10; Logansport Sept 90 Wilma
MOI KANT OF Cs,,1&- ~. yEyolnno
Sept. "a; Fort Wayne Sept %; Goshen Sept.
26; and South Bend, Sept. ~
James H McNeely, of the Evansville Journal,
! came up yesterday to attend the meeting of
Republicans, and win remain in the city a day
| or twoSon business In the First district he says
that the Republicans are well organized, and are
/ doing very effective work. He says that Will
lam ii. Gudgel. the Republican candidate for
| Congress, is making strong canvass, and will
ity. - -''''0i
| Thad Huston, who was candidate before
the Republican convention for the nomination
i for Secretary of State, represented the Wash
/ ington county Republicans in the city yester-
| day. The Democratic party In his county is
divided against ITSELF he says, and. although the
majority has heretofore been from 800 to 600 he
thinks there is good chance for the election Of
1 Republican representative and part of the
| Republican county ticket.
A. K Stills, the Republican candidate for rep
/ reSentatlVe from WnlGe ana Benton cOuntleS,
was in the city, yesterday, and he expressed the
| opinion that there will be an unprecedented Re
! publican gain in his section this year. The
Irish, who have heretofore furnished the most Of
the Democratic enthusiasm, are taking no part
whatever in the Cleveland and Hendricks
1 meetings. There are no Prohibitionists in
his county although the candidate for
| Governor lives in a neighboring town, and the
| Republicans will gain many German votes. At
Republican meeting held in Carroll county
| last Saturday night John Conner, conductor,
and an Irishman Of influence, announced that he
! would support Blaine and Logan, and promised
to bring out next Saturday night twenty more
of his nationality who would join him in his OPP
| position to Cleveland.
LOCAL NOTES.
Col Samuel Merrill will speak at Bridgeport,
Friday, Sept. 5, at 7:3O P. NJ
John D. Griffith will speak at Lawrence,
Friday, Sept. 5, at $50 P. NJ
Hon. Thaddeus s Rollins will speak at Bel
mont, Friday evening, Sept. 5, at 7:3O.
| Hon. Ferd. Winter will address the citizens Of
| Southport, Friday, Sept 5, at 1880 P. NJ