The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-06
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS.
Hon. James I. Johnston, of the Eighth Dis
trict, Renominated at Terre Haute
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Hon. James Il. Johnston, of the Eighth Dis
trict, Renominated at Terre Haute.
Special to the Indianapolis journal
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Aug. 5.-The Eighth
district Republican congressional convention
met here at 10 o'clock this morning. 1t was
called to order by Mr. j. a. Burford. Of Mont
gomery county. the district committeeman. and
Mr. w, Fl. Ridpath, of Clay county was elected
chairman. Mr.. r. 81. Catlin, of vigo was
chosen as secretary. with the Republican editors
of the district as assistants. The roll call
showed full representation, with no contests
Mr.. F. NJ. Dice. as chairman of the committee
on resolutions, reported two resolutions, one
indorsing the course of Senator Harrison, and
the other acknowledging the services of Mr..
Johnston as the Representative of this district
in Congress Capt. W. Fl. Armstrong OF this
city, offered resolution, asking the next Legis-
lature to appropriate $4,000 for monument
to the soldiers of Indiana who gave their lives
for their country. 1t was adopted with hearty
unanimous vote. The counties were then called
for nominations. Montgomery. through Mr..
Humphreys. of Charlottesville, placed in nomi-
nation the Hon. Michael D. White, who it was
said, had time and again overcome Democratic
majorities, and had never been defeated
Rockville, put in nomination Mr.. Johnston. in
short speech Mason Duncan, of Clay county,
seconded the nomination of Johnston, as did
John O'Reilly, of Vigo; George /. Watson, of
Vermilion, and delegate from Sullivan. In
the call of the roll, Montgomery cast 81 votes for
White and of Sullivan's votes went to him,
Johnston getting the remaining 1853. Before the
result was announced Mr.. Humphreys moved
that the nomination be made unanimous This
was done, and Mr.. Johnston wac called to the
stage the delegates and large audience of spec
made his way to the front
Mr.. Johnston said that the nomination, coming
ing to him unsoueht. directly or indirectly. was
most pleasing to him as an Endorsement of his
course in Congress. He apologized for not be-
ing able to make set speech, because of ill
health. In the eight months Congress had been
in session he had been absent but one week, and
out OF $50 ollcalls he had missed but one.
Briefly stating his views, he said he believed the
government should be administered in the inter
est Of the laboring men and the farmers in the
interest of the West against the interest of the
East He read from Congressman Hewitt's
speech opposingsthe Morrison surplus resolution,
city all the financial intelligence of the country,
and pointed ont the fact that MIR. Cleveland had
made up his Cabinet on that idea, and that his
Secretary OF the Treasury had. in obedience to
Wall street. increased the surplus in the Treas
ury by nearly $40, 600, 600. He MR. Johnstonl
had voted for the Morrison resolution to make
that Secretary do as the Republican Secretaries
had done in calling in the bonds. Mr.. Johnston
reviewed the promises made by the Democrats
in 1884, and showed how the party In power had
Had fn fn1H He cat1 ha
was in favor of FORGETTING all unearned land
grants, giving to actual settlers the public
lands and denying aliens the right to
own lard. As one who had been
a workinaman, working for wages, until he at
tanned his majority. he would be found voting
for the men who, by the sweat of their faces, eat
bread. He believed the labor troubles came
from the oppression OF dishonest corporations,
which, to pay s per cent dividend on so per
cent. stock, cut down the wages of the employed
He is in favor of giving to the men who saved
the Nation decent and respectable pension.
The money paid out in that direction, he
claimed, does not make nation poor
The Hon. Nj. D. White was called to the front,
and made a most felicitous speech, pedging the
cordial support of Montgomery county, after
which the convention adjourned.
There were about two hundred excursionsts
here from Rockville, accompanied by band.
There had been considerable talk to the effect
that Clay county would present the name of W.
II. Ridpath, and that Sullivan county would put
in nomination Judge Buff put the signs of the
morning showed that Johnston would be nomi-
mated on the first ballot. and the names of these
gentlemen did not go before the convention
The joint Representative convention for Yer
million Vigo and Sullivan counties was held inn
mediately after the congressional convention ad-
journed, and Mr. Decatur Downing, the nomi-
nee of the Nationalist. was indorsed
The indorsement OF Downing for Joint Repre-
sentative will help Johnston with the National
lists, who cast L. 700 votes for Butler in this dis
trict in 1884, and who Endorsed Lamb that year,
giving him at least 1000 or /. 400 votes which he
will not get this year.