Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-03
Indiana and Illinois Republicans.


Indiana and Illinois Republicans.
IxpIANAPoLIs, September 2d.-The Re
publican State Convention met at IL
o'clock Senator Harrison was chosen
Chairman The Committee on Resolu
tons reported the draft of the platform,
which was unanimously adopted. 1t de-
mands free ballot declares that work
ingmen should be protected against the
expressions Of corporate combinations and
monopolies, and against convict labor
fayors the reduction of the legal number
of working hours wherever practical; re-
affirms the tariff plank of the National
Republican party, and demands that the
circulating medium OF the country, coin
and paper alike, should be kept in equal
and permanent values the surplus in the
treasury should be applied toward the re-
ductiOn Of the public debt; the enforce
ment of the civil service law is demanded,
and the reservation of American lands for
American settlers. The platform declares
that the watering of corporate stock should
be prevented by law. The granting of
pensions 10 every honorably discharged
Union soldier and sailor is recommended,
and the Legislature is called upon 10 erect
State Soldiers Home.
Respecting the liquor traffic the plat
form declares in favor of legislative re
striction, and tavors such laws as will
permit the people, in their several locali-
ties, to invoke such measures of restriction
as they may deem wise, and TO compel the
! traffic 10 compensate for the burdens it I'M
| poses upon society" Sympathy with Ire
| land in her contest for home rule is ex-
pressed.
After reading and adopting the platform
| the Convention nominated p. S. Robertson
for Lieutenant-Goyernor and Charles L..
Griffin for Secretary of State.
SPRINGFIELD Mll September 2d.-The
Republican State Convention met yesterday
| and nominated candidates for State offices
| as follows: For State Treasurer, J. B. Tan
nerS; for Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton, Richard Edwards. The platform
adopted iavors the holding of the public
| domain for homesteads of actual settlers,
| the protection OF American labor and de-
| n0unces the doctrine of free trade, and as
| outrageous the importation of Chinese la
/ bOrers. 1t pronounces convict labor an in
| justice to the honest laborer, and demands
| the enactment Of such laws as viii prevent
| it. 1t also denouuces Sociallstic and An
| archlstic societies. arraigns the Democratic
| Administration for failing TO keep its
| pledges, denounces Cleyelands pension We
toes, calls attention to the failure of the
| in Canada when their rights were being in
| fringe1 by the British Government, while
| in its pretended efforts to protect an Amer
| lean citizen in a weak republic like Mexico
! it has made the American nation ridiculous
in the eyes of all nations.
Missouri Republicans and Prohibition.
SrDALIA, September 2d.-The Republican
Sta Convention adjourned sine die this
morning. The question of submitting a
prohibition amendment to the Constitution
over which an all-night wrangle was had,
was compromised, the plank in question:
as adopted, affirming that whenever any
large number of voters petition the LegiS-
lature for the submission of an amend
ment providing for change in the organic
law of the State it is the duty of that body
to grant the point.
Increasing Strength of the Prohibitionfsts.
NEW YORK, September 2d-A Suns edi-
| torial says From Blaine's successive
| speeches recently delivered in Maine it is
evident that he regards the Prohibition
movement as most alarming. No one can
read his speech at Sebago without being
impressed with the conviction that, how
| ever eloquently and passionately he dis
| cussed the conduct of the Administration
| for which his former antagonist is now re-
| sponsible, his thoughts were really dwelling
and with keenest anxiety-upon the
threats and Vaccinations of the Prohibi-
tionists. 1t would probably strike the
| members OF the Free Trade League as alb
surd to tell them that the power of the free
traders was as nothing compared to that of
the Prohibitionists, but by actual demon
stration in the past and by the promise of
the future, such is the fact. Whatever d.
version there may be from the Democracy
in 1883, it is not likely to be brought about
through the action Of the free traders.
Elected from Office.
SAVANNAH, September 2d.-Poatal In
spector Simpson, of Atlanta, to-day elected
A. y. Wilson from the postoilice, and
placed one Captain q. w. Lamar in pos
session. Wilson had positively refused to
turn over the Office unless force should be
used. and went out, saying: Il am still
Postmaster of Savannah. President Cleye-
land had no right to suspend me under the
| Constitution" Wilson was suspended for
offensive craftsmanship.
California Fruit.
CHICAGO, September 2d.-Since our last