The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-03
Notes and Incidents.

The music was all patriotic and the couven-
ton was attuned to it.
1t is 8 soldier ticket, Robertson. Elliott Noble
Carr and Lemcke. ali having done service in the
cause of the Union.
The ticket is made up Of young men. The
Oldest Of the nominees is ffty-four and the
youngest twenty eight.
There were faint murmurs of regret that the
meat portion of the sandwich was in a majority
OF cases little more than memory.
Major Grubbs who is one of the most eloquent
and persuasive speakers in Indiana, knows
when to cut nominating speech short
Two local Democratic statesmen, Samuel e.
Perkins and John Hoffman. were seated among
the delegates of the First district. They were
accommodating points for in to-morrow's me-
nagerie
The delegates meant business. Unlike the
Democratic State convention, there was no dimi-
mutton of delegates in the hail at meal tir1e
Nearly everybody remained until the last man
was nominated. But the consumption of sand
wiches and lemonade during roll-call was some
thing enormous.
The race for the attorney -generalship was
close Hon. john W. Lovett of Anderson, a
young man of the highest legal attainments, bnt
who has not been known in political matters
largely outside his own district, made splendid
run, as the vote he received shows. Mr. Lovett
will be heard from again.
There was as a matter of course, little of
the sting of defeat among the unsuccessful can
didates, but the smart was transitory. AS grace
full a withdrawal as ever was made in any con-
vention was that of Captain David BEEN.
while Mr.. Byrams Endorsement of his success
full competitor was warm and manly.
A telegram was received by the chairman of
the convention yesterday afternoon from the
Republicans of Fort Wayne, cengratulating the
party Colonel RoberEsons nomination. 1t
was signed by Fl. @. Hanna, Clark Fairbanks,
j. II. Keil, E. c. Burode, A. A. PIrman Geo.
W. Pxey and one hundred others
When Col. R. W. Thompson, that grand old
man from the Wabash (may he live to see the
Panama canal completed, and many years be-
yond), read his resolutions of sympathy for
Charleston's suffering people, the faces of his
listeners showed that he had struck responsive
chord Then would have been the time to have
taken up collection
II have heard Senator Harrison make a nun
Der of speeches." said Democratic politician,
'fbut never heard him do better clear and con-
else as he always is, than he did to-day. He
strikes the keynote on the gerrymander. a
measure of which | never approved, considering
such expedlents as of kind that return to
plague the inventor"
The Republican State committee last night
held conference with the newly nominated can
dldates, and it was agreed to open the campaign,
so far as the public speaking is concerned, on
about the 10Th or 18th of the present month.
l.. L. Kitchener was requested to continue to act
as secretary of the committee until the close of
the campaign, and he consented to do so, proms-
ing to devote the whole of his time to the work.
In addition to the large number Of Indiana
newspaper mon in attendance at the convention,
as noted in the JQDFnal, the following were
among the arrivals yesterday: w. A. Zellcr
and Ora Mohler, Huntington Herald; c. Rick
cts, Columbus Republican: John Chambers, In
diana Pocket; T. L. Lucas, Huntington News
tom A. S. Hayes Attica Ledger; r. D. Fisher,
Delphi Journal; w. H. Greene, Brookville
American; w. J. Howard. Rochester Tribune,
and George W. Campbell Rushville Graphic.