Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1878 — THE DEMOCRATIC FLATFOR[?] [ARTICLE]

THE DEMOCRATIC FLATFOR[?]

The democracy of the state of In , duma assembled in delegate convention declare: That national bank notes shall be retired, an 1 in lieu thereof, there shall be issued by the government an equal amount of treasury notes with full legal tendei' quality. That we are in favor of irmkmg the United States notes, co.*.,monly called greenbacks, afull legal tciHlei’ in [ ivment of all debts, public anti private, except such obligations only as are by tlju terms of the original contracts uuder which they were issued, exoressly payable in coin. That the right to issue paper money as well as coin is the exclusive prerogative of the government, and such money’ should be issued in such amounts as the sound business interests of the country may froth time to time require. We arc in favor or such legislation by congress as will authorize the taxation by the slides of the United Slates notes in common with a.ll other Iqoney. That vve deem it unwise and inexpedient to enact any further leglsla-? lion for the funding of the national debt abroad, through the'means of home syndicates, or other metho-ls; am. we b. lieve the line policy of Hie government and tile best interest of Hie {) ?Q[>lc would he subserved by legislation so as to distribute said debt among our people at home—affording them the most favorable and practical opport uni ties for the iiiv’csimeijt of their savings .in the funded debtof tlm United States. That we are in favor of such legislation as shall fix the legal rate of interest at not exceeding six per centum per annum.

We demand the restoration of the silver dollar, of 112} grains, to the coin of the country, and with full legal tender quality in the payment of aii debts, both public ami pric.iie ; mid that the coinage th- roof shall be unlimited, and upon the same terms mid conditions as may' be provided for the coinage of gold. That we arc in favor of the imm-'di-atc and unconditional repeal of the resumption act. ’We arc in favor of the most rigid economy in public expenditures, a.id we declare that the fees and salaries of ail public officers should be reduced. That we arc 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 ami to protect the future public order and security we believe that the wages of corporations engaged in the business of mining, manufacturing ami tran portaii ui should be a first lieu upon the property, receipts and e.-iri inns of sai l corporations, and that such lieu -lio’d be declared, defined an«! enforced by app rop ri ati ■ legislation, That we favor the passage of a Law for the vimtii.nl ion of coal mines—cue that would be just, to the miner am! owner. Tile dem-jcratie party is the friend of the eomimm school system, and will in every legjHmute way labor for its sucucs.-. ami wiil oppose any attempt 1o diveilt any portion of lim common schooif’im.l to uhy.sectorhm purpose. Tlmt the last apportionment of tip: state far legisiu '. ■? purposes was gros.-.lj’ unju-i am! ■ i-mmor-ible, 5.11 i we dcmmid that the next leg; ■•!at u:• >, in appoitioning tlm m.uie for i n 1i ve purposes, as i'] be th■';■'. e• r ::tivo duty, shall Imve r- g;md ul m’• tn population end < ignity of t< rrit rv.

Tlia.l the iuri- diction claimed mid <X' icise.l by the ciivuit courts of lim United States over cu.-sthms of corporate and individual rioids ;;ri mg under the laws of I.lie states tends to oppress and burden litigant:; to such mi extent as to amount to a [practical denial of just <■ •in m;my eases; and we coiisim-r th ■ legi-Jalion which !m eo.'ih'iT'ed such juris fiction as i:;iv;s. ami hurtful to the time interests of the people. And \v.‘ i.-muiid sm-h h- ; gislmiOn ns will rc.--trict mid lim::. the jiiristfiction of such courts to -m.-h matters as are clearly contemplated by the coiistitutiou and expressed in the judicialy act of 17SJ. We arc oppo : c l to cl ■ ■?; lecislalicui, and. pro test against tlie grant 0.1 subsidies by t lie federal go ver Irm ent, cither in lands, bonds, money or by the’ pledge of the public ciediv. Tlmt we abhor and lmh.l up to public detestation the leaders in the republican ]>arty who semet.lv coimivcd, ami witli barefaced '.TiroiiLwy, carried out the sei eme, by mid through venal returning boards, whereby Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks, the people’s choice for presid-mt .mid vice president, were wrongfully kept out of tin' positions to which a- free peo pie had called them. We hold it up as the monster crime of the age, a crime againsi free governmemt a crime mminst the elective franchise, and a crime thateun only be condoned when the malefactors who seated a fraud in the presidential chair are driven from power ami consigned to everlasting infamy by the people whom they’ have outraged. And we deupunee the net of the president of the Unified States in appointing to high and lucrative positions the corrupt members of the rettiruing boards, and condemn the acts or federal officers in attempting to inteffi re 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 requested to secure the passage of a law giving to the soldiers of the Mex? lean war a pension similar to that now given to the soldiers of the war of 18J2.