Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1878 — National State Ticket. [ARTICLE]

National State Ticket.

SECRETARY OF STATE, HENLY JAMES, of Grant county. TREASURER OF STATE, K. P. MAIN, of Floyd county. AUDITOR OF STATE, JACOB F. BURG, of Gibson county. ATTORN BY-GENERAT,. DAVID MOSS, of Hamilton. 6UFEKIXTEXDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, JOHN YOUNG, of Marion county. STATE SENATOR. GEORGE MAJOR, of Benton county. . REPRESENTATIVE. GEORGE K. BROWN, of Saapercounty. National County Ticket. For Clerk—CH RI.ES H. PRICE. For Auditor—EZßA C. NOWELB. For Treasurer—WlLLlAM E. MOORE. Sheriff—JAMES NICKELL. For Recorder—HOPE B. MILLER. For surveyor—CHAßLES P. HOPKINS. For Coroner—SAMPSON ERWIN. Commissioner, Dint. I.—BR. W. HARRINGTON 3.—E. fi. ROCKWOOD.

National State Platform.

The National Greenback Labor Par ty of Indiana. In convention assembled, declare: 1. Wu declare our fealty to the American monetary system—the abolition of all bank issues, the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver, and the issuing by the government of lull legal-tender paper money, receivable for all dues and pavable tor debts, public anu 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 the 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 and commerce in the hands of the lew, 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 govermeut bonded indebtedness whieb is intended terhind unborn generations in chains, and we declare that the government should use all'the funds now hoarded lor resumption purposes to pay and cancel outstanding bonds, and that it should makonew and liberal issues of 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, thu just reward of his own labor; and we denounce all lawlessness, violence and fraud that refuses submission to the 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, and we denounce the communism of the national banks, of the bond syndicates, ami of the consolidated railroad corporations, which have secured and are enforcing an unequal division of property, having already divided among themselves ten thousand millions of the piopertv of the people by corrupting the rapresentatives tnd servants of the people. The one system of communism ignores the inequalities of capacity which have been planted by nature in the htfmaii family, and both systems are destructive of the rewards, of toil and of .the incentive to iudustrv and exertion. ti. declare that until the American monetary ■lystein; which will result in the practical extinction of debt and usury is established the State should by all the powers that it can exert, limit and reduce the rate of interest so that it shall in no event exceed the average iucrease of wealth bv productive industry.

7. We favor simple, plain and economical gov •riynent. as few laws as possible, and they rigidly enforced— as few officials as practicable, andp hev held to a close accountability. To thisend 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 duty ol the next general assembly of Indiana to secure such legislation t>s shall make it impossible lor any local or State official to receive more than adequate pay for his services; and when practicable the compensation should be lixed by a spetilie salary. —ZB, I We denounce the conspiracy of the Democratic and Republican leaders of Indiana to build i costly and magnificent state house, which, as experience lias proved tn al) similar cases, would resuut in the general plundering of the people.— Ae denounce the action of the governor in calling a special session of the legislature for the purpose of fostering this scheme. We denounce the indecent haste with which the state house comniiss.oners are proceeding to let a contract to bind the people of 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 subject luro-.tgh the legislature to be chosen !■ October next. 9. \i e protest against the weak and ineffective election laws eq Indiana, and we ask that the next legislature s’.all statutes which shall secure air elections in the state, and which shall provide severe and adequate punishment for fraudulent voters, and lor luose win) bribe voters or procure fraudulent votes. 10. V, e denounce the criminal and unfair apportionment of the legislative and congressional districts of the state tn the interest ol the Republican party, and the equally unjust apportionments made in the past by the Democratic partv, and we pledge ottr members of the legislature to vote for a fair and equitable apportionment which shall secure a full ami untrannueled expression of the sentiments of the people. 11. The State shall enact laws which will abrogate the abuses and protect thu interests of men who work in mines, by providing lor the proper ventilation ol the mines; ami the earnings of all employees of corporations should be a first lieu upon the property of said corporations. 12. If it was wise and needful in 18b7, when money was plenty and the country prosperous to enact a bankrupt law, it is certainlv humane now to amend such law so to prevent trauds and to continue in force this last escape of the oppressed debtor from the extortions of the money power Ami we favor the exemption of not less than SI,OOO worth ot property to the householder from forced sale on execution. 13. The constitution should be so amended that the Presidani, Vice-President amt Senators of the I nited Slates shall be elected bv direct vote of the people. 14. We are unalterably opposed to adding to the burthens of the people by an increase of the standing army, believing with Washington that '-overgrown military establishments under any form of government are inauspicious to liberty, and particularly hostile to lepublican liberty."" 15. We indorse and reaffirm the platform of principles acopted at Toledo. February 22,1878, and we congratulate the country upon ths union of the political interests subserving the useful ranks of 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 that all shall work.