The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27

better times and we look forward eagerly
to the evening Of Nov. TO near unofficially
that William Mckinley has been elected.
(Applause) we believe in 2 sound cur,
rency tappause) and in that other great
principle of the Republlcan ,party-protec,
r. E. Goodrich. of Shelby county, was
made Secretary, with John W. Bowlus of
Marion, and c. FL. Campbell, of Hancock
| assistants.
Upon motions by various delegates the
the members having been selected by the
county delegations:
Resolutions-A; ]. ,WhetseI; Hancock:
Charles Bookwalter Marion; 7. c. Kenne-
Credentials-E E. stoner, Hancock; W.
N. Harding, Marions j. x. Blanchard
RuIes-A. c. Fullerton Hancock; David
Wallace, Marion; J. R. Stewart Shelby.
luton insuucting the nominees for Mr.
Fairbanks for United States Senator, but
before he read it it was declared out of
rules was the first to report. 1t favored the
rules governing the last similar convention.
limited nominating speeches to five min.
utes and declared that all resolutions should
he referred to the committee unread. Its
report was adopted without objection. The
credentials committee reported no contests
from either Hancock or Shelby counties
and recommended the adoption of the Ma
rion county contest committees report upon
all contests in this county. This report
was adopted by general consent Mr.. Ad-
ans then offered his resolution and it was
referred to the resolutions committee un-
read.
INSTRUCTED FOR FAIRBANKS.
The two members of the committee from
the other counties opposed this resolution,
and after awaiting the report for some
minutes. the convention proceeded with the
nominations of a joint Representative. Aft
er this nomination was made Mr.. Book
walter brought in two reports from the
committee on resolutions. The majority re-
cicr hxyM naHx and
sci, simply reafhrmed the St. Louis plat
form The minority report, signed by Mr..
Bookwalter, contained the additional reso~
luton instructing for Fairbanks It's read
ing was received with loud applause. H.
c. Adams moved the adoption of the mi
nority report. Robert Smith moved to table
this motion, but got no second tie then
demanded call of the wards on the adop-
ton of the minority report, but still GOV
no second, and the minority report was put
by a viva voce vote and carried oVerWhel I'M
ingly. The resolutions as adopted read as
follows:
.,The Republicans of Marion, Hancock
and Shelby counties, in convention assem-
bled, reaffirm their allegiance to the prln-
ciples of the Republican party as e%pressec
in the platform adopted by the st. Louis
convention.
Resolved, That the nominees Of this con-
vention for joint Senator and Joint Repre-
sentative between the counties OF Marion,
Shelby and Hancock be and they are mere
by instructed to vote FOR Hon: mares fr w,
Indiana, as the successor to Daniel w.
Voorhees,.
When nominations for joint Representa-
tive were called for, Mr.. Stoner, OF han
cock, moved that the order of the can De
changed so that Marion county should be
called first Shelby next and then Hancock.
and this order was assented to- MI Noel
placed in nomination the name of Frank
L. Littleton of this county, and Shelby
county put forward the name of W: Il
Blakely. Marion county was called py
wards and townships and it was soon APP
parent that Littleton had the nominate ton
hands down. The only Marion county votes
his opponent got were three,in the Seventh
ward one in the Ninth, two in the Tenth
and three in the Thirteenth. Shelby coun-
ty gave Blakeiy twelve and Littleton three,
while Hancock gave her ten votes to Lat
Teton. He was thus nominated by vote
of 100 to q for Blakely. Upon the an
nouncement of the vote, there were loud
calls for Littleton and he appeared upon
the stage and enthusiastically re-
ceived. He thanked the convention heart
lily for the nomination and said he had no