The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-30

nominations. Anybody. whether dele
gate or not. was permitted 10 harangue
the convention for any candidate. one
man accused Cohen of being an Office
holder In the democratic party HIS
friends admitted this. but insisted that
all populists came from one OF the old
parties. a. b. kceport was accused OF
the terrible onense Of being a banker
This his friends denied and stated that
he was a 'lime-kiln" man. a friend OF
Cohen then hobhed up and denounced
Motsinger as a horrid banker He WAS
declared out OF order, but not until he
had his say.
The result Of the vote was as follows;
Report ..-...............-...... 1,446h
MotSlhgeT s-s..s.s-....ss....s.s.s WI
bopeh .......................... asa
The Chairman MuddIcd.
The chairman ruled that there was no
nomination, declaring that Il required
1.477 votes TO nominate. This was a
majority necessary n all votes entitled
% representation were cast, but the rul8
adopted was that "a majority OF all votes
cast. and but 2.S52 votes were cast. Mr.
Keeport was therefore nominated. A
new ballot was. however. ordered by the
chairman and was about 10 be taken
when some one saw the mistake, but
even the chairman was unwilling 90
take the responsibility Of deciding the
complication His weakness was piu.
ful, but Mr. Motslnger came 20 his rescue
by moving that the nomination OF Mn
keeport be made unanimous. The mo-
ton prevailed and Mr. keepOrt was
lifted upon the stage and made his first
speech. lie was ably assisted by ths
delegates on the floor and acquitted hims
self pretty well.
Acknowledgement.
David W. Chambers Of New Castle and
silas NJ. Holcomb OF Upton were candi-
dates for the nomination Of attorney
general. The ballot resulted as follows:
Holcomb .-...--.-..-..--..--....-- 1,644H
NhdlhpeFS ssss...........s....s.s. 4,zStn
Supreme Court Clerk.
Two names. those Of John r. Thorn,
burg Of Madison county and J. Harry
Mont gomery of Lawrence county. were
mentioned as candidates for clerk of ths
supreme court. The former. however, re.
fused 10 accept the honor and Mont
g0mery was nominated by reclamation
state Superintendent
The same course was pursued in this
nomination Of 4. J. Allen OF Vigo couns
~. for superintendent of public instrucs
tion. ]. j. Johnson was nominated but
withdrew in favor Of Mr.. Allen.
state Statistician.
w. p. Smith of indianapolis was noni.
mated by reclamation as the populist cans
didate for state statistician The name
of John RUNNER was presented but with
drawn before ballot was necessary.
state GeOIOgist.
The roll was called for nominations fol
state geolOgist but no name was pre-
scented TO the convention. The chairman
no member Of the party smart enough
TO classify the rocks and a man from the
First district nominated Edward kindle.
who Is an instructor in the state uni
versity at Bloomington. He was nomi-
mated by reclamation.
Supreme Court Judges.
"Billy' Patterson wanted to allow the
state central committee TO name candi-
dates for the supreme court. He made
the statement that if the matter were
deferred it might be possible to get full
fiedged pOpulists on the supreme bench.
His scheme while not stated, was 10
wait until after the democratic conven-
ton and then if Judge Daley should be
defeated to offer the nomination 10 him
and Judge Coffey. The latter was de-
feated by the recent republican cOnven-
ton. This would be a good thing for the
party if the men could be induced, but
the scheme was most impractical as
neither of the men would leave his party
and would not probably accept If the
election was guaranteed Nominations
We're finally called for and d. w. Cham
bers of New Castle was nominated from
the Fourth district. There was no nomi-
nation from the First district BILLY"
Patterson sprung his scheme by boldly
nominating COffey. The nomination was
recorded and debated warmly. 1t was
shown that he had declared just after
his defeat that IL was a republican Vet
and would continue to be republican
should he live a thousand years. That
cooked his goose and the motion was not
put to the convention until after an
iron-grey bewhiskered man had explained
that a lawyer was not needed Tor the
supreme bench Another man declared
that all republicans were id scOundrels
and the men who came 70 the conVens
ton TO talk for republicans were no bet
ter The motion to nominate Judge COZ
fey was laid upon the table for an in
definite period and the nomination Of
Judge for the First district was referred
To the state central committee DaVid
w. Chambers was nominated for tho
Fourth district by reclamation.
There was quite debate over the
adoption OF the name to head the ticket,
! A motion was made TO call ii the 'Peo.
pies Ticket" and an amendment was OF
fered TO insert the word Party. DE.
bate was finally shut off by Billy" Pat
terson calling attention TO the fact that
| the amendment was necessary 10 make
the ticket legally the same as the ma
tional ticket. The whole thing was fnal-
| " referred to the state central commits
| tee The plow and hammer was adopted
as the emblem.
An effort was made before adjourn>
ment to pass a resolution giving the exc
! cutive committee power 10 remove any
| candidate who should attempt fusion
| with either Of the old parties, but il was
i 81 nN frrr1r 1s1H
/ at o'clock.
POPULIST PLATFORM.