Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1878 — National State Ticket. [ARTICLE]

National State Ticket.

■KCHKTART OF «TAT«, HENLY JAMES, of Grant county. TBUIIBM OF «TATK, K. P. MAIN, of Floyd county. ACDITOB OF BTATB, JACOB F. BUKU, of Gibson county. ATTORXaT-OBXBRAL. DAVID MOSS, of Hamilton. SUFBKINTEXDEXT OF PUBLIC TXBTBUCTJON, JOHN YOUNG, of Marion county. ST4TB BEXAFOR, GEORGE MAJOR, of Benton county. RBPRBVBXTATIVB. GEORGE H. BROWN,of Sa.percounty. National County Tleket. For Clerk—CH IBLEB H. PRICE. For Auditor—EZßA C. NOWELS. For Treasurer—WlLLlAM B. MOORB. For Sheriff—JAMES NICKELL. For Recorder—HOPE B. MILLER. For Surveyor—CHAßLES P. HOPKINS. For Coroner—SAMPSON ERWIN. CoinuiUbiouer. DUt. I.—BR. W. HARRINGTON •• •• E. H. ROCKWOOD.

National State Platform.

The National Greenback Labor Party of Indiana, in convention assembled, declare: 1. We declare our fealty to the American monetary system —the abolition of all bank issues, the free aud unlimited coinage of gold and silver, and the tunning by the government of full legal-tender paper money, receivable for all dues and payable for debts, public ami private, tn amount sufficient to meet the wan tn 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 syufem which han made the industrial aud 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 few, and enforces <t monopoly of wealth destructive of the highest material good of society. 3. We proclaim our uneompnnrising hostility to the perpetuation of the system of goverment bonded indebtedness which is intended tohindunborn 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 makunew 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, th« just reward of his own labor; und we denounce ali lawlessness, violence and fraud that refuses submission to the will of the people honestlv expressed through the ballot. 5. We denounce the red flag communism imported from Europe, which asks for an 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 an unequal division of property, having already divided among themselves ten thousand tnillions*bf the piopertv of the people by corrupting the representative's and servants of the people. The one system of communism ignores the inequalities of capacity which have been planted by nature in the liunian family, and both systems are destructive of the rewards of toil and of the incentive to industrv and exertion.

(>. We declarethat until the American monetary system, 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 increase of wealth bv productive industry. 7. We favor simple, plain and economical government, as few laws as possible, and they rigidly enforced—as few officials as practicable, audithev held to a close accountability. To this 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 duty 01 the next genera) assembly of Indiana to secure such legislation as shall make it impossible for any local or State official to receive more than adequate pay fur his services: aud when practicable the compensation should be fixed bv a specific salary. 8. We denounce the conspiracy of the Democratic aud Republican leaders of Indiana to build a costly aud magnificent state house, which, as experience has proved 111 all similar cases, would result in the general plundering of the people.— We denounce the act ion 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 commissioners are proceeding tolet 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 through the legislature to be chosen in October next.

U. We protest against the weak and ineffective election laws of Indiana, and we ask that the next legislature shall enact statutes which shall secure fair elections in the state, and which shall provide severe aud adequate punishment for fraudulent voters, and for tiiose who bribe voters or procure (lifihlleHVlJHlfe legisiuuve anq congressional districts of the slate tu the interest of the Republican party, and the equally unjust apportionments made in 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 untrammeled expression of theseii* timents of the people. 11. The State shall enact laws which will abrogate the abuses aud protect the interests of men who work in mines, by providing for the proper ventilation of the mines; and the earnings of all employees of corporations should be a first lien upon the property of said corporations. 12. If it was wise and needful in 1867, 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 in force this last escape of the oppressed debtor from the extortions of the money power And we favor the exemption of not less than SI,OOO worth of property to the householder from forced sale on execution. 13. The constitution should be so amended that the President, 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 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 republican liberty.”’

l;j. W e indorse and reaffirm the platform of principles acoptcd at Toledo, February-22,1878. and 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 that all shall work.