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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Evening Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1896
Page
3
In Indianapolis on June 25 the Indiana Democratic state convention endorsed free silver and Governor Matthews for president. The event featured the first fully accredited female delegate, Antoinette D. Leach, and adopted a platform stressing bimetallism with 16 to 1 coinage, while preserving tariff support and party unity.
In a legislative session, Mle attempts an amendment to the free silver declaration. Bynum proposes aligning with the 1892 Democratic platform by endorsing a standard of both gold and silver and coinage without bias. The move faces strong opposition and is described as a stern test of Democratic unity.
At the Ohio Democratic state convention in Columbus delegate Reuben Turney tried to remove a picture of President Cleveland but was hissed down. The party adopted a two plank platform favoring immediate return to gold and silver coinage at 16 to 1 with silver as legal tender. Free silver won 542 to 128, signaling stronger silver support than honest money. Delegates to Chicago named Thurman Finley Holden McLean. McLean led in the presidential race, with Campbell and Bookwalter as other Ohio mentions. McLean, owner of the Cincinnati Enquirer, has long backed free silver.
At Saratoga the Democratic state convention praised figures like Hill and Whitney. Delegates-at-large were named for Chicago with alternates listed. The platform reaffirms bimetallism with gold and silver, opposes mono metallic gold or silver standards, supports international cooperation, and pledges to maintain gold parity and public credit while enabling bond issuance.
INDIANAPOLIS June 25 Representatives of Indiana's old Prohibition party wing met to fill vacancies created by bolting nominees after the Pittsburg convention. T. McWhorter was chosen state chairman with L. M. Crist as governor candidate, W. Edgerton as lieutenant governor, S. M. Thompson auditor, Preston Ryder treasurer, Elwood Hynes statistician, and W. N. Lenfest reporter of the supreme court.
Milwaukee silver delegation declares they will defy the unit rule at the national convention if not upheld by the national body. They cite county-level refusals and say the larger convention must follow the same stance or face similar defiance.
Chicago reports state aged statesman and jurist Judge Lyman Trumbull died at his home on Lake Avenue after several weeks of illness. He was 83. The obituary notes a long career and his retirement from public life.
A report from Sullivan notes two people killed near a cabin on the Evansville and Terre Haute railroad line. A seventeen year old girl survived as attackers Dennin Shepard and Ennis fled toward Illinois after shooting the family. Separate items include a $800 burglary at Dan Murphy's home in Rushville and a minister robbed in Staunton.
A cyclone swept across Texas leaving extensive devastation over a two hundred mile stretch. Reports indicate widespread damage to farms towns and infrastructure with crews assessing impacts along the affected areas. No causalities or precise casualty figures are provided in the readable text.
Notice to the public outlines ticket restrictions effective July 1 1896 including limited validity for single and round trip passes on Nickel Plate and other lines. Also advertising home seekers excursions and cheap farms with rail rates and a Rome City hotel for sale or trade.
The Pennsylvania Company offers one fare round trip excursion tickets every Sunday to Valparaiso and Chicago, valid for return on the sale date. Nickel Plate No 6 departs Fort Wayne at 6 25 p m daily and reaches Cleveland 11 36 p m Buffalo 6 00 a m Rochester 8 05 Syracuse 10 38 New York 6 30 p m Boston 8 45 p m with no car changes.
Sufferers from rupture varicocele piles spinal and deformity issues plus disturbances of lungs digestion and nerves may find relief by consulting Dr. Banning of Cleveland at the Aveline Hotel for a brief period.
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