The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14
KANSAS REPUBLICANS.

The stase Convention at Topeka Puts .
 Ticket-n the Field-E. N. Morrill, for Gov.
 ernor.
 TOPEKA Kan, June z-The state re- publican convention met in this city yesterday with over 900 delegates in attendance. Hon. s. R. Peters was chosen temporary chairman, with Charles s. Martin, of Salina, secretary, and pending the appointment of com mittees & recess was taken until o'clock.
 Upon reassembling the chair an nounced the regular committees, and while they were out Mrs. Laura NJ. Johns addressed the convention in fla vor of woman suffrage. The tempo rary organization was then made per- manent. The rules were then sus- pended and Hon. A. P. Riddle nomi- mated JudgcW A. Johnson, of Ottawa county, for supreme judge and the nomination was made by exclamation.
 The rules were again suspended and nominations for governor called for, when Hon. Thomas Garvey, of Salina, placed Maj. E. N. Morrill,, of Brown county, in nomination, and Mr Stam- bough, of Dickinson, nominated George w. Martin, of Wyandette' county. The ballot resulted: Merrill, I'll; Martin, 122. The nomination of Mai. Morrill, was made unanimous, and the nominee briefly addressed the convention.
 The committee on resolutions not be- ing ready to report the convention ad- journed until morning.
 The convention assembled at 9:20 o'clock this morning and the platform committee reported as follows:
 We, your committee on resolutions, beg leave to make the following report:
 Reafrming the republican national platform Of 1892
 Resolved, The constant patriotism of our party is in itself a guaranty to the nation that the interest of its defenders, their widows and orphans will be literally cared for and we de- nounce their cruel and deliberate betrayal by the present democratic administration.
 Second-We adhere to the republican doc Urine of protection and believe that taritf laws should protect the products of the farms as well as of the factory.
 Third-The American people favor bimetal- lism and the republican party demands the use of both goS and silver as standard money, with such restrictions and under such provis- ions, to be determined by legislation, as will secure the maintenance Of the parity of values of the two metals and that the purchasing and debt-paying power of the dollar, whether Of gold, silver or paper, shall be at all times equal The interests of the producers of the country, its farmers and its working men demand that the hints be opened to the coinage of the silver of the mines of the United States and that congress should enact a law levying a tax on importations of foreign silver sufficient to fully protect tho products of our own mines.
 Fourth-We favor national and state legisla- tion for the encouragement of irrigation.
 The resolutions further arraigned the present state administration for it's revolutionary tendencies, its violation of the laws, contempt of courts and corrupt and incompetency of its of ficials.
 The ticket was completed by the nomination of J. A. Troutman, of To- pcka. for lieutenant-governor; w. c. Edwards, of Larned, for secretary of state; George E. Cole, of Crawford county, for auditor; Otis l.. Atherton, of Russell, for treasurer; F. B. Dawes, of Clay, for attorney-general; Edmund Stanley, of Douglas, for superintend- ent of public instruction, and R. w. Blue, of Linn, for congressman-at- larUe