Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1896-04-25
POLITICAL
]. L. Pharr Elected Gov
ernOr of Luisiana
Yesterday.
CONNECTICUT REPUBLICANS
Pledged to a Single Gold Stand
ard-Nebraska Democrats
Favor Free Silver.

New ORLEANS, Pa, April 22-An
item on the bulletin board contains the
following: Pharr has been elected
governor. The item will prove this
fact by the evidence of 270 Pinkerton
detectives present yesterday at the polls
I where the fraud was carried out.
BoRwICK, La, April 22-"I hsve been
elected governor by votes that were
put in the ballot boxes and / will be
Inaugurated the second Tuesday in
May" il. PHaRR.
A despatch, from st. John Baptist
parish, says crowd of negroes attempt
ed to steal the parish ballot boxes. Five
whites are arrested, shooting followed
and several people were killed. The
governor has ordered company of the
Louisiana field artillery to the scene of
trouble.
NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, April 22-Ex-
Congressman Williams f. Simmons was
made permanent chairman OF the re-
publican state convention today. Ex-
Governor Morgan G. Bulklsy, Jno /.
Hutchinson, Arthur Brewer and Samuel
Fessenden were elected delegates-at-
large. The platform opens with the
declaration in favor OF protective tariff
and reciprocity plank. Upon the cur
rency question the convention says:
"We are unalterably opposed to the
issue of unsecured paper currency
either by the government or banks and
the free coinsge of silver, at any ratio,
and favor q single standard of value and
that standard is gold. We believe this
policy, with sound and stable currency
upon gold basis, will furnish sufficient
revenue to meet all requirements of the
government and properly support it.
The electoral vote of Connecticut 10
pledged to whoever may be the rspub-
llcan nominee for the presidency.
LINCOLN, Neb., April 22-The free
silver democrats Of Nebraska met in
state convention today to elect four
delegates-at-lsrge to the national demo-
cratic convention. Every county is
represented with no opposition from
other faction Of the party, which holds
q convention in Lincoln week hence.
W. j. Bryan and G. j. Smith are slated
for two delegstes-at-large, Ex-Governor
Boyd was urged to accept place on
the state nomination, but positively
declined having his name go before the
convention. Boyd is a sound money
man but opposed to the administration.
WASHINGTON, April 22-The president
today sent his vetoes of two pension bills.
The first was in the case Of Chss. E.
Jones, photographer who was injured
while taking photographs where no bat
tie was in actual progress. "He was not
enlisted and not in the military service
o. the United States. Aside from the
question as to whether his present con-
dition is attributable to the injury sus-
tained it seems to me that an extension
of pension relief to such cases would
open the door to legislation hard to iusti-
fy and impossible to restrain from
abuse" says the president. The other
vete was in the case. of the widow Of
Peter III. Alabach, who served in both
the Mexican and war of the rebellion.
sit is proposed" says the president, "by
a special act under consideration, to give
this widow pension Of $50 month.
without the least suggestion of death or
disability of her husband having been
caused by his military service and sole
ly, so far as discovered, upon the ground
that she is poor and needs money"