Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-06-29
INDIANA REPUBLICANS
Nominate q State Ticket and Adopt
Strong Platform.

Nominate q State Ticket and Adopt q
Strong Platform.
FoRr WAYNE, June 2s.-The republi
ccans nominated Ira Chase for governor,
Theodore Stickney for lieutenant governor
and Aaron Jones for secretary of state, and
adopted the following platform:
The platform approves the declaration
adopted by the republican national con-
vention at Minneapolis, aud congratu-
lates the people of the state upon
the nomination for president of the
United States of Benjamin Harrison.
The administration of the national govern
ment under his leadership has been marked
by such wisdom and patriotism as to i'm
assurance that it's continuance will add
lustre to the American name and increase
the comfort of the American home. Ii
commends the candidates of the republican
party of the nation as eminently worthy OF
the suffrage of an intelligent and patriotic
people.
The platform condemns the management
of the state affairs as incompetent, waste
full and in the interest of party managers
and holds that the current expenses of the
state government have been radically in
creased by reckless management. 1t ar
raigns the democratic party of Indiana for
enacting an unequal and unjust tax law
and demands its radical revision.
The law passed by the last democratic
assembly: apportioning the state for legis-
lative and congressional purposes was
designedly and wickedly framed 80 as to
deny to many counties and localities fair
and equal representation in the Legislative
department of the state and nation; to
place and return under democratic control
in this state all it's public institutions and
affairs; and to give that party an increased
unfair representation in congress and the
legislature. Such q policy is dangerous
and destructive of all good government
and merits tie condemnation of al
patriotic people.
Pledges the republican party to con,
tinue the war against this dishonest policy
of the democratic party until the state
shall be honestly apportloned by giving to
each county and locality its fair and
equitable representation in proportion &c
its numbers.
Denounces the purpose of the demo
cratic party, clearly avowed in the ma
tional platform, to repeal the law i'm.
poRing 10 per cent tax on state bank is.
sues and thus removing the only barrier
to a return of the system of "wild cat
money which once disgraced the state and
largely impoverished the people.
The platform favors the enactment by
congress of law thrice recommended by
President Harrison compelling the use OF
standard safety car couplers for the pro
teotion of the lives and limbs of employees
engaged in interstate commerce.
It is opposed to railways maintaining
insurance companies by coercing their EN-.
ployes to become members of them. The
employers of labor should be liable in dam
ages for injuries to persons or destruction
of life where the employer is more at fault
than the employe.
Favors law governing convict labor in
the penal institutions, and is in sympathy
with all well directed efforts of laborinl
men to improve their condition, united
action or otherwise, and pledges them sucf
legislation as will tend to advance the in
terests of wage-workers.
Heartily endorses the generous pension
laws enacted by republicans in congress
and congratulates the country that during
the administration of President Harrison
no pension bill has been vetoed.
Demands that suitable and proper pro
vision be made for the care and msinte
nance of INDECENT soldiers and their wives
and widows, to the end that no soldier OF
wife or widow of soldier shall ever be ar
inmate of poorhouss; and that such pro
visions be made that the soldier, wher
overtaken by poverty and adversely, shall
not, in his declining years, be separated
| from the wife of his youth.
The platform tenders to that eminen
republican leader, James G.. Blaine, snt
the members of his family sincere sympa
| thy and with them mourn the loss of thos,
who recently formed part of their famil,
circle, and closes with q resolution adopt
| ing the eagle as the emblem of the repub
ican party in the coming campaign.