The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-20


Stanton j. Peelle, Chairman. The COM
mlttee on resolutions, Colonel Dick
Thompson, Chairman, reported favorable
to calling State Constitutional Conven-
tom points with pride to Republican
history and endorses the Chicago plat
form and nominees. Reference to the
temperance question was conspicuously
absent For Governor, Colonel w. w.
Dudley, w. ii. Calkins and General j.
Z. C., Shanks were paced In nomination.
The Platform-Calklns Nominated.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, June l9.-The
/ Republican State Convention was called
to order at half past ten by Hon. John
Oyermeycr, Chairman Of the State Central
Committee. Prayer was offered by Rev.
DR.. Marine of the Central Avenue Metho-
dist Church. Hon. Stanton j. Peelle
was elected Permanent Pres ident, and
W. 4. b. Roberts, of Sullivan, Secre-
tary. Nomination for Governor was
made the first thing
The Committee on Resolutions not be-
ing ready Hon. VIM. H. Calkins, of La
| porte, Col. w. w. Dudley, of Wayne,
and General John 2. c. Shanks, of Jay,
were named. The name Of General
Gresham was not presented. Before
| the balloting commenced Hon. II. w.
Thompson from the committee, reported
the following platforms
THE PLATFORM.
The Republicans of Indiana in State
Convention assembled do ratify and adopt
| the platform of the recent National Re-
| publican Convention at Chicago as a COM
| prehensye and sufficient declaration OF
their faith and purposes in respect OF all
questions of National scope and charac-
ter, and they ratify and approve the
nomination OF James G. Blaine and John
A. Logan for the offices of President and
Vice. President of the United States and
pledge to them the united and earnest
support of the Republican party of In
diana.
|. We indorse with pride and satisfac.
ion the pure, able, dignitied and pa
'riotic administration of Governor Albert
u. Porter.
,, 2. We favor an appropriation by the
a. stature for the erection of a suitable
monument 10 the memory Of the loyal anC
brave sons or Indiana who gave their lives
to save the republic.
5. In the lapse of thirty-three years, by
the increase of population and by the
marvellous development of our material
resources and spread of intelligence our
| State has outgrown the constitu-
ton Of 1851, and we there
fore favor the calling Of a conven-
ton at as early day as possible, for the
purpose of framing new State Consti-
tuition adapted to the present circum-
stances of our great and growing com
| monwealth.
I. We favor such changes in the laws
| as shall take the administration of pris-
ons and reformatory, and the benevolent
institutions of the State out of the do
main OF party politics.
5. We regard the system of prison con-
tract labor as degrading competition of
| the labor of honest citizens and favor its
| abolition.
6. We favor the enactment and en-
forcement of laws for the Improvement
of the sanitary conditions of labor, and
| especially for the regulation and ventila-
ton of mines, under the supervision of
the police authority of the State.
I. We renew the pledge of our own de-
votion to free, unsectarian public schools,
| and will favor all measures tending to in-
crease their efficiency, and especially such
as Will promote usefulness as prepara-
| ton for the practical duties of life.
s. The amendment of the Constitution
of the State, which authorized and con-
tempated the revision of the laws relat-
ing to fees and salaries ought not to
remain a dead letter, and we favor the
enactment of such laws as will place the
labor of public officials upon basis of
fair compensation for the services rem
| dered.
8. Recognizing with gratitude the SER
vice OF the Union soldiers in defending
the Government against armed rebellion,
we favor a just equalization and adjust
ment OF bounties and pensions, and q
liberal construction and application Of
all laws granting pensions to the honor
ably discharged soldiers of the Union
army.
! 10. We denounce the action of
the Democratic majority in the
last General Assembly in enacting
| "No VI purely par tiSdu SudTuClcT,
whereby experienced, competent and
efficient officials were displaced and mere
politicians appointed, to the serious in
jury of the benevolent institutions of the
State; including those for the deaf and
dumb, insane, blind, the boys reforma-
tory and the Soldiers Orphan Home;
and in the passage of the Metropolitan
Police bill, by which, in cities of cer-
tain population, the control of municipal
affairs Is taken from the citizens con-
cerned and placed in the hands of par
tisan State Commissioner.
Hon. w. Cumback in brief speech
protested against the backward step or
the Republican party upon the temper
ance question, contenting himself with
that, inasmuch as the convention had
determined that no amendments or con-
stitutions could either be read or debated,
but must be referred at once to the COM
mittee. The platform was adopted, with
a number of scattering negative votes.
Mr.. Calkins was nominated on the first
ballot, receiving 594 votes; Dudley, 5l2;
Shanks, IS, and Thompson, L. His nomi-
nation was made unanimous on motion
Of Mr.. Wayne. Mr.. Dudley then up.
peared and was heartily greeted, making
I brief speech.
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Sulphuric Acid Explosion.
CLEVELAND, o., June l9.-The spon.