Omaha daily bee., 1890-08-29
INDIANA DEMOCR4TS.
They Meet and Nomi &c N Complete
State Ticket.

State Ticket.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Angus { 2S. The demo.
cratic state convention was cal led to order
this morning with Ex-Governor Gray as
chairman. The platform which is very long,
declares s'that the cleo ctorial vote Of Indiana
was obtained for Harrison and Morton by
the most fragrant crimes against the
ballot box ever perpetHted in
the American commonwealth; that
these crimes were committed under
the direct auspices of William Wade Dudley,
treasurer of the national republican commit
tee, and by the procurement and convisan,e
of the republican leaders in this state and
nation; that the administration of b EN- amin
Harrison has made itself accessory after the
fact to those crimes by shielding the
criminal from punishment and even by
rewarding them for their knavery,
and that the brazeu prostitution of the ma
chinery OF the federal court for the diStriCtof
Indiana by its Judge am attorney, to the SER
vice and protection OF those conSpirat0rS
against the suffrage, constitutes one of the
most infamous chapters in the Judicial an nails
OF the republic,
1--WE 1enounce that the silver BILL 50 called,
recently enacted, as an ign0miniouS surren-
der to the money power it perpetuates the
demonetization Of Silveran the single gold
standard, whereas the interests of the people
require complete demonetzation of silver
and its restoration to perfect equally with
gold in our coinage; we demand free and
unrestricted coinage OF silver upon
the basis existing prior to 1873:
we are in favor, as we always4ave been, of
just and liberal pension systeh: we demo ounce
the repu blican party for NAMING pledges in
1888 which have N OF been redeemed and not
intended to be redeemed, and we warn them
against further attempts at deception from
the same quarter; we rejoice at the evidences
of theawakening of farmers of the country
to the necesSit ty for organized efforts TO better
their own condition and protect themselves
against unius legislation and oppressive ad-
ministration; we demand legislation prohib-
iting aliens from acquiring lands in America
and forfeiture OF titles to 20, 142 600 acres of
our public lands now held 10y them; we favor
the election OF United States senators by the
people.
"We applaud the eight hour law; law to
prevent blacklisting; law prohibiting
'plu k-me stores /; laws for the protection OF
coal miners, and a law preventing the iInpor-
tation OF Pinkerton detectives, and a
repeal = OF the republican intimidation
law Of 1881, as manifestations Of steadfast
friendship of the democratic party to work
ingmen; we point to these laws as evidence
that our friendship to American labor is not
confined to words alone; we denounce the
employment Of Pinkertons by the railroad
| corporations Of New York in the pending
| cont test with employees and hold it TO be the
| duty of state and local Off GERS everywhere to
| prevent such an usurpation by capital of the
| police power of the state; we are
| in favor of arbitration as the only
| just and fair means OF settling labor
| controve ersies, and we demand of the next
| legislature the passage OF a law creating q
permanent tribunal Of arbitration for that
| purpose; we insist that labor has as good a
| right to organize in protection as capita
| and that la Dor organizations should be placed
on aperfect equality before the law with or
CARNATIONS of capital known as corpora
| tions'
Governor Gray on taking the chair
spoke for over an hour, dealing principally
with state issues. His reference to Cleveland
| was received with tremendous applause,
Claude Matthews was nominated for secre-
tary of state on the second ballot. He is the
most extensive farmer in the state and his
nomination is something Of tribute to the
farmers alliance,
The ticket completed is as follows: j. o.
Henderson, Kokomo, auditor of state; Albert
Gall, Indianapolis, treasurer; A. Greene
Smith, North Vernon, attorney general; A.
NJ. Sweeney, Dubois, clerk of the supreme
court; II. ID, Worries, Johnson county, super
intcndent of public instruction.; $, S. CARLY,
state geologist; W. A. Peele, j., statisticisn.
| The cOpVpn tOn then adjourned.