Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1878 — Naiional State Ticket. [ARTICLE]

Naiional State Ticket.

SECRETARY OF STATE, HENLY JAMES, of Grant county. TREASURER OF STATE, K. P. MAIN, of Floyd county. AUDITOR OF STATE, JACOB F. BUKO, of Gibson county. attorney-general, DAA ID MOSS, of Hamilton. SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, JOHN YOUNG, of Marion county. National State Platform. The National Greenback Labor Party of Indiana in convention assembled, declare* I. We declare our fealty to the American monetaiy svstem—ilie abolition of all bank s -ues, the roe and unlimited coinage of gold and silver, and tne issuing by the government of full legal-tender paper money, receivable for all dues au3 payable ioi debts, public auu private, in amount sufficient to meet tne wants oi trade, to give employment to all labor, and to enable the people to do a cash business, and to relieve them from the debt system which has made the industrial and commercial classes tae slaves and drudges of the creditmongers of the world. 1001-Aw , tle Vl are our to every measure looktug to the icsumpUou oi specie payments, the mouarcnical system of finance which puts all the industry, trade and commerce in the ws«ii h u s he I , < l W ’ ant } enforces a monopoly of society d tl ’ UCtlVe 01 b material good of th!'n! V l P !! i: ! aira °. u ' uncompomieing hostility to the pu pel nation of the system of goverment bonded indebtedness which is intended to hind unborn \ n c * l ! liue ’ a “d we declare that the government should use all the funds now boarded ior resumption purposes to pay and cancel outstanding bonds, and that it snould make new and liberal issues ol money to be applied to the same purposa; and that the issue of future interestbearing bonds should be prohibited by constitutional amendment. 4. We demand that all legislation should be so enacted and so administered as to secure to each man. as nearly as practicable, the just reward of ull d we denounce all lawlessness. >iolence and fraud that refuses submission to the hallo 1 ! thC people hone,it b' expressed through the b * denounce the red flag communism imported from Europe, which asks for an equal divismu ol properly, and we denounce the communmm of the national banks, of tne bond syndicates, and of tne consolidated railroad corporations wuich have secured and are enforcing an unequal division of property, having already divided aniong themselves ten thousand millions of the pioportv ol the people by corrupting the representatives and servants ol the people. The one system of communism ignores the inequalities of capacity which have been planted by nature in the human lamin', and both syatema are destructive ol‘ the rewards ol toil and of the incentiye to industrv and exertion. J ti. We declare that until the American monetary system, which will result in the practical extiucUon ot debt and usury is established the State should by all the powers that it cau exert, limit aud reduce the rate of interest so that it shall in no event exceed the average increase of wealth bv productive industry. 1 7. We favor simple, plain and economical gov ernment, as few laws as possible, and they rigidly enforced—as few otHmale as practicable, andithey held to a close accountability. To this end we demand the abolition ol all useless offices, and the overthrow of the system by which offices are made to yield almost princely lortuues. It is the first duty ot the next general assembly of Indiana to secure such legislation as shall make it impossible loi any local or State official to receive more than adequate pay lor his services; aud when specific* sa?uVy 6 co ‘ u P onttation should be fixed by a 8. We denounce the conspiracy of the Democratic and Republican leaders of fiidiana rebuild a eostlyjaud magniheeut state house, which, as S'rth.“ prove s la all similar cases, would wl th general plundering of the people.— We denounce th • action of the governor in calling SfCiStt 11 °‘ h tliu le f=islature for tfiepurpoJ BC J I , e ? e * We denounce the indecent haste witn which the state house commis- „‘?' e t h P e l °r? dlng ,et a CODtracUo b?£ube people ol the state, and we demand that no contract shall be let until the voters of the state have had an opportunity to express their will upon the 9. We protest against the weak and ineffective faction laws of Indiana, and we ask that the next legislature shall enact statutes which shall secure lau elections in the state, and which shall provido seteie and adequate punishment for fraudulent fraudulent votes e WU ° bl ' lbe VOtCrs ° r pro Cure 10. We denounce the criminal and unfair apportionment oi the legislative and congressional districts oi the state in tne interest of the Republican pai tv, and the equally unjust apportionments made m the past by the Democratic party, and we pledge our members of the legislature to vote for a lau- and equitable apportionment which shall secure a lull aud untrammeled expression of the set •< timeuts ol the people. 11. ilie State shall enact laws which will abrogate the abuses and protect, the interests of men i m mmes. bv providing for the proper \ eutiluiion ol tne mines; and the earnings of ail employees oi c vporations should be a first lien upon the property of said corporations. IJ. 11 it was w.se and needful in 18f>7, when money was plenty and the country prosperous to eua t a bankrupt law, it is certainly humane now lo amend such law so to prevent frauds and to continue in lorce this last escape of the oppressed d -btor from the extortions of the money now. r And we favor the exemption of not less than 31,000 worth of property to the householder from forced sale on execution. n la b T^.c I co *? B Ji! at -Gn should be so amended that iiiiMof? 1 ’ Yice-I resident and Senators of the people latCß Hba be elccte( l by direct vote of the ar . e ' lna >tcrably opposed to adding to the burthens of the people by an increase of the staudI lg army, believing with Washington that “overgio aii military estabJißhimiiits under Any form of government are iuanspieious to liberty, aud particularly hostile to i epublican liberty.* - ' 15. We indorse and reaffirm the platform of Drinciples acopted at Toledo, February £l. 1878 and we “El'! 1 ! 6 “W "Ron t?e union of the political interests subserving the useful ranks of n*hi°f 8 party which shall advance this decue to a higher and belter evaluation and (his tbai/alfshall w^'k. 1 * Ol e Bluiii "mk for all and

i The Rev. Jesse H. Moere, pastor of ; a Methodist church in Decatur, 111-, | announced from his puipit that for ' twenty years he l ad been preaching d ic.rines that ht d no believe. Mr. Moore has been u .Brigadier-General and a member of Congress. The crime confessed by McLin and I his accomplices is the greatest pcliti- | cal crime known to the history of this | country, a crime so heinous in itself , and so far reaching in its effects that ! there is no greater of its kind. Phil- ! adelphia Times.