The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-20
STATE PRESS AND POLITICS.

The White county Republican convention will
be held at Marion August g.
The Knox county Republican convention will
be held at yincennes, Aug. %; Boone county. at
Lebanon. Aug. Is; Decatur county. at Green's
burg, Aug. q.
A joint convention to nominate a Republican
candidate for Senator from the district composed
of the counties of jackson and Lawrence will be
held at Mitchell, Sept. 7.
Hon. Simpson Lowe Is the only candidate, and
he will doubtless be nominated for prosecuting
attorney of the tenth judicial district by accla-
nation at the convention to be held at Bedford
August 81.
The ensuing State election will occur on Tues
day, November g. Any voter who moves out of
one township and into another after September
2, out of precinct ward after October 9
will not have the right to vote
Judge Chase, of Logansport, is being generally
mentioned for the Republican nomination for
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. If Colonel Chase should
be given the nomination, he would prove
strong candidate and an acceptable officer if
elected.
The Republicans of the senatorial district
compo sed of the counties of Hancock and Rush
have nominated Hon. A. M Kennedy, of Rush
county, for Senator. Mr.. Kennedy is farmer,
and one of the leading Republicans of eastern
Indiana. He has twice represented his county
in the Legislature. and, In our opinion, he will
be the next Senator from his district. notwith-
standing he starts out with a Democratic major
ity of $50 to overcome.
Hon. Byron w. Langdon, of Lafayette. is
formally announced as a candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for Congress in the Ninth
district. The Lafayette Journal says of him
that 'in 1876 he was nominated By the Repub-
fNw Rav.n ,fokS n,,A he ar,A Nfh
Republican were the only two of his party the
Republican ticket elected He served with dis
tinction that and the following year in the Leg
islature, and in 1873 was nominated and most
triumphantly elected State Senator and served
full term of four years with honor to himself
and the most complete satisfaction to his constit-
uents."
A correspondent Of the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette says sDeWitt C. Hayes. the Repub-
lican candidate for joint Representative for the
counties Of Dearborn, Ohio and Switzerland. is
going to get there. At the breaking out of the
Rebellion he was beardless youth, and labored
on a farm in the vicinity of Eiizabethtown,
Hamilton county, Ohio He abandoned the
pillow at the call of his country volunteered
under the old flag, shouldered the musket and
buckled on the cartridge box He participated
in the West Virginia campaign and subsequent
ly through Georgia under Sherman, and was
with the boys on the famous march to the sea.
He earns the bread he eats by the sweat of his
face, and from life long experience as labor
ing man he knows the needs of the workingmen.
He is an intelligent gentleman, and in every nee
essary particular is admirably equipped for the
performance of legislative duties"
South Bend Register Democratic harmony is
something like Democratic reform. 1t is an I'M
known qusntity.
South Bend Tribune political prohibition
ist makes better deputy Democrat than
temperance man.
Monticello Herald The Democratic party is
with whisky as with everything else. 1t is all
things TO all men, and honest in nothing except
an intense desire to get votes
Madison Courier: The real leaders of the
Democracy have been men who would have let
the Union be discovered Mcclellan and Han
cock were nominated for their availability, but
received fewer votes than Tiden and Cleveland
Lafayette Journals The Hoosier Bourbors in
dorsed the State government in all its depart
ments as characterized by prudence economy
and wisdom, forgetful of the fact that they have
run it deeply in debt, with a prospect Of soon
borrowing more money to stop the leaks.
Warsaw Indianian Republican, The incentive
for every Republican to do his whole duty was
never brighter, and Republican victory in In
diana paves the way for surer victory in 1888.
Let every member of the party go to work earn
estly, vigorously. intelligently and actively
Columbus Republican: If the Republicans
Will nominate strong ticket, composed or men
known throughout the State for ability and in
tegrity, then work for it with determination to
win, the chances are in their favor. but bad
ticket or lukewarmness in the campaign will end
in defeat
Attica Ledger: 1t is impossible to favor
American labor and at the same time pronounce
in favor Of free trade, which means nothing if it
does not mean that the American dealer shall be
allowed to buy abroad, where possibly he can
buy more cheaply than he can Of the mills and
manufactures that employ American labor.
Bloomington Telephone: The great temper
ance element is in the Republican party; it be-
longs there; it will stay there for it is reason
able or sensible to suppose taat having been
faithful in many things it will prove false
in the great issue that is surely coming This is
a year for the Republicans to show their strength
and it is to be hoped none will be found wanting
Franklin Republican: The conviction is grow
ing in the minds of many Democrats that they
have been deceived by the promises of their
leaders and that the party does not keep pace
with the times When the responsibility of the
control of the government falls on 1t. it proves
itself the same old party that has done nothing
but pull back for twenty five years, without any
higher object than possession of the Offices This
does not satisfy the younger and better element
Of the party