Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1878 — INDIANA NATIONALS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NATIONALS.

Tlie State Convention at Indianapolis. The Convention of the National Greenback party, which assembled at Indianapolis on the 22d of May, was one of the most intelligent political gatherings that ever convened in the State of Indiana. The following ticket was nominated : Secretary of State— Henry James, of Grant county. He is Master of tho State Grange, a former Republican, aud will poll tho full vote of the party. Auditor —Jacob F. Bird, of Gibson county, formerly a school-teacher, now a dry-goods clerk. He is an old Democrat. Treasurer— lt. PI Main, of Floyd county, a wholesale grocer in New Albany. He was a Douglas Democrat, hut has since, until lately, acted with the Republicans. . Attorney General— David Mo -n, of Hamilton county. Ho is an old Democrat, a lawyer in Nohlesville, and attorney of tho Indianapolis, Peru and Chicago railroad. Superintendent of Public Instruction —Prof. John Young, of Marion county. Ho is well known in tnis State, having been connected tor many years with educational interests, and having served one term as Consul at Belfast. In 1858 he made the race for the same office on the Republican ticket. The platform adopted by the convention demands the abolition of all bank issues, the free coinage of gold and silver, and the issue of lull legal-tender paper money in sufficient quantities to do the business of the country ; is opposed to all measures looking to the resumption of specie payments ; proclaims uncompromising hostility to the system of Government bonded indebtedness, and calls on the Government to use the money now hoarded for resumption to pay and cancel bonds, and that it should make new and liberal issues of money to be applied to the same purpose, and that the issue of future interest-bearing bonds should be prohibited by a constitutional amendment; demands that all legislation should bo enacted and so administered as to secure to each man as nearly as possible tho just reward of his own labor; denounces all lawlessness, violence and fraud that refuses submission to the will of tho people honestly expressed through the ballot; denounces the red-flag Communism imported from Europe, which asks for an equal division of property, and the Communism of national banks, of bond syndicates, and of consolidated railroad corporations, which have secured and are enforcing an unequal division of property, having already divided among themselves $10,000,000,000 of the property of the people by corrupting the representatives and servants of the people; calls on the State to reduce the rate of interest until it shall not exceed an average increase of wealth by productive industry; favors tew laws and rigid enforcement; few officials and the payment of just compensation by a fixed salary wherever practicable; denounces as unfair and unjust the district apportionments in the past, and pledges its members of the Legislature to an apportionment that will secure a full and untrammeled expression of the political sentiments of the people.