Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1878 — THE PLATFORM. [ARTICLE]

THE PLATFORM.

Butter 12 cents per lb. Eggs 8 cents per dozen. Clear side 124 dents fee lb. Bacon and Hanis 12| to 15. Shoulders 10 to 12, Potatoes 25c. per bushel, Green apples 1 60. Beans $2 to $2 40 per bushel. Flour (winter wheat) $1 60 to $1 60 per quarter bbl. If you wish to buy a tract of land in Jasper county consult Thompson & Bro. They h»4I at owners’ prices, and have a large list from which to select.

Oranges and lemons at A. S. La Rue's. Mrs Obed Allen, of Rochester, is visiting her son Dan’l B. Miller. Teas, cofee, und sugar a specialty »t La Rue’s. Will Clark will please accept our thanks for favors. The best flour at La Rue’s grocery at bottom prices. Ex-Treasurer Janes’and other families left for Kansas during the present week. Dried currants 3 pounds for 25 cents at L. Rue’s. Mr. Charles Boroughs and family, accompanied by others, left for Kansas last. Monday. The good wishes of many friends go with them. Sei vices will be held in the Christian Church, this place, Saturday evening and Sunday morning and evening. Eld. H. V. Reed is expected. We are requested to announce that Divine services are expected to be held in the Presbyterian Church, Rensselaer, on Sunday, March 17, 1878, Rev. Gilbert Small, of White county, to officiate. The public are invited to attend. On Wednesday the train on the Narrow Gtigue when about three and half miles west of Bradford, by some unaccountable and unavoi lable accident, was ditched. The accident will interfere with the running operations until another engine is put upon the track. One of the employes was badly hurt. Canned peaches both table and pie at A. S. La Rue’s. The “Narrow Gauge” One Price Clothing Store will be in complete running order by about March 13th. Mr. I. Lowman called on us this morning, stating that his goods will be here as soon as the wreck is cleared off the railroad track. Anything you wish to purchase in his line it will well pay you to wait for the arrival of his flue stock, and at the same time save you from 15 to 40 cents on every dollars' worth you purchase. Dried apples 8| cents per pound at La RuE’s.

ante “Ait. Ifcwl’E] ." wc ujiderwtaiid, is again on the track and will fire tip for rc-umpiion of Ltusi. new to-morrow. Now that the Ctmaty Central Committee is appointed let it meet soon and prepare the work, go at It with a will sad the ancceaa of correct prineiptes la certain. The erection of tenement buneer in Remotelaer, by those tavwnr the means to engage in it, might prove a paying Investment, and would add to the growth sue prosperity of the town. Who will do Ist Oar old and esteemed friend. Pap Hughes, of Monticel! baa a standing invitation out for 10.000 of the people of Jasper county to attend the Barbecue at that place on the occasion of the completion of the “Marrow Gauge" to that point.— We understand the “Old 13" meet thia evening to c« nsider the proposition.

The democracy of the state of In diana assembled in delegate convention declare: That national bank notes shall be retired, and in lieu thereof, there shall be issued by the government an equal amount of treasury notes with full legal tender quality. That we are in favor of making the United States notos, commonly called greenbacks, a full legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except such obligations only as are by the terms of the original contracts under which they were issued, expressly payable in coin. That the right to issue paper money as well as coin is the exclusive prerogative of ihe government, and such money should be issued in such amounts as the sound business interests of the country may from time to time require. We are in favor or such legislation by congress as will authorize the taxation by the states of the United States notes in common with all other money. That we deem it unwise and inexpedient to enact any further legislation for the funding of the national debt abroad, through the means of home syndicates, or other methods; and we believe the true policy of the government and the best interests of the people would be subserved by legislating so as to distribute said debt among our people at home —affording them the most favorable and practical opportunities for the investment of-tlieir savings in the funded debt of the United Spates. That we are in favor of such legislation which shall fix the legal rate of interest at not exceeding six per centum per annum. We demand the restoration of the silver dollar, of 4121 grains, to the coin of the country, and with full legal tender quality in the payment of all debts, both public and private; and that the coinage thereof shall be un limited, and upon the same terms and conditions as may be arovided for the coinage of gold. That we are in favor of the immediate and unconditional repeal of the resumption act. We are in favor of the most rigid economy in public expenditures, and we declare that the fees and salaries of all nublic officers should be reduced. That we are in favor of the repeal of the bankrupt act. That we'sincerely deplore the recent violent collision between labor and capital, and to prevent the recurrence thereof and to protect the future public order und security we believe that the wages of corporations engaged in the business of mining, manufacturing and transportation should be a first lien upon the property, receipts and earnings of said corporations, and that such lien sho’d be declared, defined and enforced by uppropi at • legislation. That we favor the passage of a law for the ventilation of coal mines—one that would be just to the miner and owner. The democratic party is the friend of the eommon school system, and will in every’ legitima e way labor for its success, and will oppose any attempt to divert any portion of the common school fund to any sectarian purpose. That the last apportionment of the state for legislative rurposes was grossly unjust and dishonorable, snd we demand that the next legislature, in.apportioning the state for legiala' live purposes, as will be their imperative duty, shall have regard alone to population and contiguity of territory.

that the jurisdiction claimed and exercised by the circuit courts of the United States over questions of corporate and individual rights arising under the laws of the states tends to oppress and burden litigants to such an extent as to amount to a practical denial of justice in many cases; and we consider the legislation which has conferred such jurisdiction as unwise and hurtful to the true Interests of che people. And we demand such legislation as will restrict and limit the jurisdiction of such courts to such matters as are clearly eontemplat d by the constitution and expressed in the judiciary act of 1789. We are opposed to class legislation, and protest against the grant of subsidies by the federal government, either in lands, bonds, money or by the pledge of the public credit. That we abhor and hold up to public detestation the leaders in the republican party who secretly connived, and with barefaeed effrontery, carried out the scheme, by and through venal returning boards, whereby Samuel J. Tilderi and Thomas A. Hendricks, the people’s choice for president and vice president, were wrongfully kept out of the positions to which a free people had called them. We hold it up as the monster crime of the age, a crime against free government a crime against the elective franchise, and a crime that can only be condoned when the malefactors who seated a fraud in the presidential chair are driven from power and consigned to everlasting infamy by the people whom they have outraged. And we denounce the act of the president of the United States in appointing to high and lucrative positions the corrupt members of the returning boards, and condemn the acts or federal officers in attempting to interfere with the rights and powers of the state courts in the prosecution of these criminals. That our senators and representatives in congress be and are hereby J oqu 2 B !. ecl to Becura the passage of a iaw giving to the soldiers of the Mexican war a pension similar to that now given to the soldiers of the war of 1819.