Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-27

INDIANAPOLIS, April 27.-The Democratic
State Convention was called to order yester-
day by +. p. Richardson, who called foT
the polling of the votes by counties. The
committee on permanent organization then
repogted recommending Charles |. levitt,
OF Floyd, for Chairman, and William A.
Peele, jr., of Marion, for secretary; Daniel
w. Voorhees,, of Terre Haute; David Tur-
pie, of indianapolis; John G. Shanklin, of
Evansville, and John II. Bass, of Fort
Wayne. for delegate-at-large to the national
convention; presidential electorsat-large
Thomas +. Cobb. of Vincinnes,
and John +. Lamb, of Terre
Haute The district delegates are: First
liam Rain, jr., of Vanderburg; Second, J.
NJ. 0glin, of Washington, l.. B. MuIlenix,
of Green; Third, Q. o. Steady, of Clark.
Wayne Cook, of Harrison; Fourth, Frank
r. Dorman, of Dearborn, James X Ewing,
OF Decatur; Fifth, John c. Robinson, OF
Owen, John ". Ragsdale, of Johnson;
Sixth, Thomas J. Newkirk, of Rush, Will
liam N. Harris, of Randolph; Sew
enth, Allen W. COndnit, of Marion,
Charles e. 0ffuL, of Hancock; Eighth,
Maurice Thompson, of Montgomery,
Perry Ii. Blue, of Sullivan; Ninth, ]. D.
Sanderson, of Howard. Charles B. Stuart,
- 1thAAs .hiShdCl tl
Cass, ID. +. Skinner, OF Porter; Eleventh,
Z. 7. Cole, of Jay, L. B. Fullenwider, of
Miami; Twelfth, Charles McCulloch, of
Allen, Andrew Baxter, of DeKalb; Thir-
teenth. Garland +. Rose, of ST. Joseph, w.
{. Wilson, Laporte. The various commit
tees were then announced, as selected by
the district meetings. The report was
unanimously adopted.
Mr.. Jewett, the chairman, was then
called upon and addressed the convention.
In the course of his remarks, he paid glow
ing tribute TO the administration of Presi-
dent Cleveland, and when he suggested that
the next ticket might be Cleveland and
Gray, he was greeted with wild cheering
and continued applause. The same was
the case when the name of Mr.. Hendricks
was mentioned.
Nominations for judges of the Supreme
Court were called for. W. 4. Niblack, of
Nincennes. was nominated from the first
district without opposition; George n.
Howk, of Floyd county, and Hugh McMul-
len, OF Dearborn county, were nominated
from the second district The ballot resulted:
Mr.. Howk, 922 votes; McMullen, 309 Mr..
HOwk was declared the nominee For the
Fourth district, Allen Zollers, of Fort
Wayne. and William II. Caswell, of Grant
county, were placed in nomination. ar.
Zollers received an overwhelming majority.
William X. Myers, of Madison county.
COurtland c. MatSon, of Putnam county,
W. ID. Bynum, of Marion county, and Will
liam Holman, of Lawrenceburg, were
placed in nomination for Governor. At
the close of all the call of counties Mr..
Myers gained the floor and moved that the
nomination OF Mr.. MatSon be made nnan-
imous. This was done amid loud cheering
William X. Myers was nominated for Lieu
tenant Governor.
The platform was then adopted. The
tariff plank reads:
We are opposed 10 taking money from
the pockets of the people and boarding it
in the Treasury of the United States beyond
the needs OF proper administration of the
government, thus converting it into dead
capital at the expense of the business of
the country, and encouraging eItravagant
and corrupt expenditures. To the end
that these cruel burdens be removed from
the tax payers and that such expenditures
shall cease, We insist that the taxes on i'm
ports be reduced to the lowest point con-
sistent with the efficiency in the public SER
vice, and We demand a revision and reform
of the present unjust tariff as recommended
in the late message of the President.
The last section, after complimeEting
President ClevelaEd's administration closes
as follows: We heartily indorse the pure
and able administration of Governor Isaac
7. Gray and commend him to the Demo-
cratic National Convention as the choice of
Democrats OF Indiana for Vice President,
and hereby instruct our delegates to pre-
sent his name to the convention for that
high office. and to cast their votes for him
as unit, while his name is before Ma
tional Convention as q candidate
The resolutions were unanimously adopt