The Indianapolis journal., 1900-06-07
DRUMMoND's SPEECH.

Mr.. Drummond came forward to ac-
knowledge the honor given him and made
quite extensive speech, in which he de-
nounced the Mckinley administration. In
the course of his remarks he said:
..Mr. Hanna. in "a recent speech. said:
we took this country into our hands
That is true. We admit every word of ii.
but we will undertake this fall to take this
magnificent country out Of the. hands of
Mr.. Hanna. [Applause.l The Republican
party in late years has undertaken to
monopolize oil, coal and everything else
of purchasable value. and they now claim
to have monopoly upon that flag. They
have several kinds of flags. Mr.. Mckinley.
who was elected by the grace of Mark
Hanna, and not by God laughter and ap-
plauSel, has said that commerce follows
the flag, and Mr.. Neely took him at his
word Ggreat laughter and applause1, and
why should not Mr.. Neely take him at his
word when all of the large, massive fellows
took him at his word? tApplause.1 Mr..
Mckinley has also said that where the flag
has once been unfurled ii shall never be
taken down, and Mr.. Mckinley and his
people have said that the flag does not fol-
low the Constitution. There is variegated
supply of flags, gentlemen; you may take
your choice. There is. however. but one
flag, and that is the flag OF the Constitu-
ton, the flag that throws its blessed folds
over the heads of freemen, guaranteeing
to freemen a constitutional government and
a government by their consent. IApplause1
army of Democrats 1t is an honor to be
with you. 1 need not say that every Demo
crat in Indiana will fight this fall for his
honors and his sires. 1t is fight between
the insatiate greed of money and the God
given liberty of man. lGreat applause.l
Gentlemen, If you are tired I am i
know that you don't want to hear anybody
talk, and l thank you once more from the
longed applause and cheers.
Mr.. Kollmeyer made a brief speech, in
which he thanked his friends and the other
candidates who had made honorable
race against him. Like Senator Drum
mond, he was unable to resist giving the
administration rap. He said the Repub-
Constitution, and he believed it was time
the Democratic party should put stop to
OTHER NOMINATIONS.
III. G. Yergin, of Henry county, was the
choice of the convention for reporter of the
Supreme Court. His opponent was Charles
L. Mace. of Clay county. The contest was
decided on the first ballot, Mace receiving
7441z votes and Yergin receiving 772h
1t required but one ballet 10 decide who
was to be the nominee for superintendent
of public instruction. This honor went to
Charles Greathouse, of Posey county
While the vote was being counted the band
played ION the Banks of the Wabash"
he was nominated carried him about on
their shoulders. His opponents were John
II. Reddick, of Winamac, and J. l.. Glass
cock, of Lafayette. The latter received 376
votes and Reddick got 1S1 votes. Great
houses vote amounted TO 952 many more
than enough to elect him. il only re-
quired 764 votes to elect. Mr.. Greathouse.
in addressing the convention, said he re-
garded a nomination from a Democratic
convention as the prize of a lifetime. and
he pledged himself, If elected, TO endeavor
to increase the reputation of the State of
Indiana as center Of education.
There were but two candidates for the
nomination of chief of the Bureau of Sta
tistics, and the contest was decided on the
first ballot. Edward III. Horuff, of Madi-
son, is the nominee. he having received
LIE votes James Guthrie, of Nashville,
received 352 votes. Mr.. Horuff was not
present when the ballot closed, having been
called away from the convention a few
minutes before. The presiding chairman
thanked the convention for him.
Ex-Judge CT. l.. Reinhard received the
nomination for judge of the Supreme Court
from the First district. There being no
clamation.
b. c. Moon, of Kokomo, and j. w. Adair,
of Columbia City, were candidates for Su-
preme judge from the Fourth judicial dis
trict. As the ballot closed Mr.. Moon asked
that MIR. Adair's nomination be made unan-
imous. The successful candidate made a
speech In which he declared that I'VE
come to you to get you TO help turn the
Neelys out The convention then ad-
journed and the band played "A Hot Time
In the Old Town Tonight "