The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-29
The Methods by Which Harrison
Carried Indiana Fittingly
Characterized.
He Is Accessory to the Crime and
Has Rewarded the
Criminals.
Michigan Republicans Refuse to Endorse
the Force Bill-several Tickets Put
in the Field.

OcratlC state convention met to-day, ex-
Governor Gray presiding. A platform was
adopted denouncing Col. Dudley and al
leging that Harrison, and Morton carried
the state in 1883 by fraud. It says the
electoral vote of Indiana was obtained for
Harrison and Morton by the most fragrant
crime against the ballot box ever perpe-
trated in an American commonwealth.
These crimes wers committed under the
direct auspices of William Wade Dudley.
then and now treasurer of the national re-
publican committee, and by the procure-
ment and connivance of the republican
leaders in the state. and the national ad-
ministration of Benjamin Harrison has
made itself an accessory after the fact to
those Grimes by shielding the criminals
from punishment, and even by rewarding
them for their knavery, and that the brazeE
prostitution of the machinery of the federal
court for tho district of Indiana, by its
judge and attorney, to the service and pro-
lection Of consplrators against the suffrage,
constitute the most infamous chapter in
the judicial annals Of the republic. We
denounce the tariff. rnonopolists for their
efforts to perpetuate themselves in power
by measures inconsistent with free institu-
tions and contrary to good morals. We
find in the force election bill-the bill cre-
ating rotten borough states-and the Nc
Kinley tariff bill the open manifestation of
gigantic conspiracy of the minority to
oppress groaning people with additional
burdens Of taxation for private benefits.
| We denounce the silver bill, so-called, re-
Gently enacted, as an ignominious surren-
der to the money power. 1t perpetuates
| the decentralization of silver and the sin
| gle gold standard, whereas the interests of
| the people require the complete remonetiza-
tion of silver and its restoration to perfect
equality with gold in our coinage. We de-
mand the free and unrestricted coinage of
silver upon the hasis existing prior to 1873.
| We are in favor, as we always have been.
of just and liberal pension system. We
denonnce the republican party for making
been redeemed and We're not in
tended to be redeemed, and we
warn them against further attempts at
deception from the same quarter. We
rejoice at the evidences of an awakening
of the farmers of the country to the neces
ganized efforts to better their condition
and protect themselves against unjust leg
islation and an oppressive administration.
We demand legislation prohibiting aliens
from acquiring lands in America. and for
the forfeiture Of titles to 2O,742, coo acres of
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favor the election of United States senators
by the people. The other resolutions are
as follows:
We applaud the eight hour law; law to
prevent "blacklisting;' law prohibiting
'spluck-me' stores; laws for the protection
of coal miners, and law preventing the
importation of Pinkerton detectives, and the
repeal of the republican intimidation
law of 1881. As manifestation of the stead
fast friendship of the democratic party to
workingman, we point to these laws as evi-
dence that our friendship to American
labor is not confined to words alone. We
denounce the employment of Pinkertone
by the railroad corporation of New York in
the pending contest with employees, and
hold it to be the duty of state and local
officers every where to prevent such a usur.
patton by capital of the police power of the
state. We are in favor of arbitration as the
only Just and fair method of settling labor
controversies, and we demand of the mex,
ing permanent tribunal of arbi-
| tration for that purpose. We insist
that labor has as good a right to
organize in behalf of protection as capital
and that labor organizations should be
placed on perfect equality before the Law
with the organizations of capital known al
corporations.
On the second ballot, Claude Matthews
a farmer of Vermillion county; was nomi-
mated for secretary of state. James Mitchell
was chosen by acclamation to succeed him
self as justice of the supreme court Th,
ticket was completed MS follows: j. q
Henderson. of the Kokoma Dispatch, audi
tor; Albert Call, of Indianapolis, treasurer
A. Green Smith, of North Vernon, attorne,
general. A. NJ. Sweeney, of Dubois, clerk O.
the supreme court.