The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-02

Treasurer of State-F. ]. Scholz
Attorney-General-W A. Ketcham.
Supreme Court Reporter-Alexander
Hess.
Superintendent of Public Instruction
ID. NJ. Geeting.
State Statistician-S. ]. Thompson.
State Geologist-W. s. Blatchley.
Judge Supreme Court, First District
J. H. Jordan.
Judge Supreme Court, Fourth District
L. ]. Monks.
1t was the beginning Of an end, that
convention that assembled in Tomlinson
hall Wednesday morning.
1t was the beginning of the end of a
campaign of villification, backcapping,
hypocrisy and forgery.
1t was the windup Of a contest in
which the forty-one men who aspired to
stand as the candidates on the repub-
lican ticket for the ten state offices with
in the gift Of the voters Of this great
commonwealth sought not to gain the
coveted prizes upon their merits and
honesty of purpose, but by the most
vicious, underhanded and despicable
methods. 1t was one Of the noisest and
most unruly political assemblages that
has gathered in this city for many a day.
the presiding officer at times being abso-
lutely unable to enforce the rules laid
down for the government of its proceed
ings.
The vaporish resolutions adopted by
the convention, in accordance with the
expectations of many, embodied an in
dorsement of the fanatical A. p. A,
clumsily yelled, and that organization,
as was predicted, proved a potent factor
in the gathering.
The edict went forth early in the day
that the dark room workers" were de-
termined that no Hebrew should receive
any consideration at the hands Of the re-
publican party, and from that moment
the doom Of Marcus L. Sulzer. candidate
for secretary Of state, and Leopold Levy,
aspirant for treasurer, the only seekers
after nomination of that religious faith,
was sealed. Despite the fact that all
persons not delegates were supposed to
be rigidly barred from the lower floor
the members of this arrogant and i'm
pudent organization managed TO gain
access thereto without the slightest diff
Guilty, and they easily encompassed the
utltdL VI tic CdllQludlCS AAdAAANAs
That the convention was absolutely in
the hands Of the friends of eX-President
Harrison there is no doubt whatever.
The first man who captured a nomina-
ton, w. d. owen, candidate for secre-
tary Of state, is one Of the most ardent
Harrison men in Indiana, and served
under Harrison as his commissioner of
emigration during his term Of office. II
any of the men who fought so valiantly
for Gresham in the campaign of 1892
were in the convention as delegates they
must have felt very lonely when the
harpoon was thrust into G. w. Wilson
Of Ft Wayne. Wilson, however, was
not more cruelty slaughtered than was
John Coons, although the reasons were
not the same. That gentleman and his
friends were absolutely confident that
he would go into the convention with ITO
Of the 100 delegates from this county,
when he really came in with only S3 of
that number. Men who had sworn 10
support him first, last, and all the time,
traded him right and left in order to Sc
cure the nomination for Encouragement
for this county.
Long before the hour set for calling
the convention to order a steady stream
of badge -bedecked delegates ana poll
ticians began to throng the thorough
fares in the vicinity Of the hall. Upon
arriving at the objective point they
found the doors barred against them 9
o'clock having been fixed as the time
for the opening of, the hall They then
collected in groups and in an animated
manner discussed the prospects and
chances Of the various candidates.
When the doors were finally swung
nren there was a grand rush for the
entrances, and the doorkeepers were al
most carried away from their posts in
the mad scramble. When the mob
reached the hall the conrabs begun in
the street We're resumed, and the hum
of conversation swelled into a roar. Can
didates hustled hither and thither, MAX
ing and receiving all sorts of pledges.
The arrangements for seating the l.
us delegates were made early in the
week by Harry Mounts. sergeant-at-
arms. who had fifty assistants on his
staff. The delegates were seated by dis
tricts, those casting heavy votes being
we'll to the front Of the hall. The
Seventh. which included Marion's big
OeleBdIlOu oL low was ioeoNSu as near
the center as possible. Two rostrums
occupied positions in the main body of
the hall in a direct line with the chair
mans desk. from which callers could re-
peat the vote as received from the
chairman of the various delegations. A
section had been reserved for the alter
mates in the rear of the hall. they being
separated from the regular delegates by
| a railing.
In addition to the vast number Of
delegates and alternates on the lower
floor, the east balcony was overlooking
with ladies and their escorts and the