Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1878 — National State Platform. [ARTICLE]

National State Platform.

The National Greenback Labor Party of Indiana, in convention assembled, declare: 1. We declare our fealty to tbe American monetary system—the abolition of all baukissnes, the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver, and the issuing by the government of full legal-tender paper money, receivable for all dnes and payable Tor debts, public ami private, in amount sufficient to meet the wants of 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 tbe slaves and drudges of the creditmongers of the world. 2. We declare our opposition to every measure looking to the resumption of specie payments, the monarchical system of finance which puts all the interests of industry, trade aud commerce in the hands of the few, and enforces a monopoly of wealth destructive of the highest material good of society. 3. We proclaim our uncompomising hostility to the perpetuation of the system of goverment bonded indebtedness which is intended tohiudunborn generations in chains, and we declare thut the government shonld use all the funds now hoarded for resumption purposes to pay and cancel outstanding bonds, and that it should makouew and liberal issues of money to be applied to the same pnrposa; and that tbe 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 bis own labor; ana we denounce all lawlessness, violence and fraud that refuses submission to tbe will of the people honestly expressed through the ballot. 5. We denounce the red flag communism imported from Europe, which asks forau equal division of property, aud we denounce the communism of the national banks, of the bond syndicates, and of the consolidated railroad corporations, which have secured and are enforcing au unequal division of property, having already divided among themselves ton thousand millions of the pioperty of the people by corrupting the representatives and servants of the people. The one system of communism ignores the inequalities of capacity which hnve been planted by nature iu the human family, and both systems are destructive of the rewards of toil and of the incentive to industry uud exertion.

6. We declare that until the American monetary system, which will result in the practical extinction of debt and usury is established the State should by all tbe powers that it can exert, limit aud reduce tbe rate of interest so that it shall iu no event exceed the average increase of wealth by productive industry. 7. We favor simple, plain aud economical government, us few laws as possible, and they rigidly enforced— as few officials as practicable, andphev held to a close accountability. To ihls end we demand the abolition of all useless offices, and the overthrow of the system by which offices are made to yield almost princely fortunes. It is the first duly ot the next general assembly of Indiana to secure such legislation as shall make it impossible for any local or State official to receive more than uduquute pay for his services; and when practicable tbe compensation should be fixed by a specific salary. 8. We denounce the conspiracy of the Democratic and Republican leaders of Indiana to build a costly and magnificent state house, which, as experience has proved in all similar cases, would result in the genera) plundering of the people.— We denounce the action of the governor hi calling a special session of the legislature for the purpose of fostering this scheme. We denounce the indecent haste with which the state house commissioners are proceeding to let u contract to bind the people of tne stute, and we demand that no contract shall be let until the voters of the state have iiad an opportunity to express their will upon the subject through the legislature to be chosen in October next.

9. We protest against the weak and ineffective election laws of Indiana, and we ask thut the next legislature shall enact statutes which shall secure fair elections in the state, and which shall provide severe aud udequate punishment for fraudulent voters, aud for those who bribe voters or procure fraudulent voteß. 10. We denounce the criminal and unfair apportionment of tho legislative and congressional districts of the state in the interest of the Republican party, and the equally unjust apportionments made iu the past by the Democratic party, and we pledge our members of the legislature to vote for a fair and equitable apportionment which shall secure a full and uutramiueled expression of the sen-' timents of the people. 11. The State shall enact laws which will abrogate the abuses aud protect the interests of men who work iu mines, by providing for the proper ventiiution of the mines; and the eurniugs of ail employees of corporations should be a first Hen upon the property of said corporations. 12. It it was wise and needful in 18t>7, when money was plenty and the country prosperous to enact a bankrupt law, it is certainly humane now to amend such law so to prevent frauds and to continue iu force this last escape of the oppressed debtor from the extortions ot the money power And we favor the exemption of not less thuu SI,OOO worth of properly to the householder from forced sale on execution. 13. The constitution should be so amended that the Prcsideui, Vice-President and Senators of the United States shall be elected by direct vote of the people.

14. We are unalterably opposed to adding to the burthens of the people by au increase of the standing army, believiug with Washington that “overgrown military establishments under any form of government arc inauspicious to liberty, and particularly hostile to lepublican liberty.”' 15. We indorse and reaffirm the platform of principles acopted at Toledo, February 22,1878, und we congratulate the country upon the union of the political interests subserving the useful ranks ot society, in one party which shall advance this decree to a higher and better civilization and this oldest gospel, that there shall be work for all and thut all shall work. New York Sun: Johu Sherman doe.B hot admire Eliza Pinkston at Drcsent so much for her beauty as for her silence.