Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1878 — National State Ticket. [ARTICLE]

National State Ticket.

SECRETARY OF STATE, , lIENLY JAMES, of Grant county. TREASURER OF STATE, ,K. P. MAIN, of Floyd county. AUDITOR OF STATE, JACOB F. BURG, of Gibson county. ATTORNEY-GENERAL. DAVID MOSS, of Hamilton. SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, JOHN YOUNG, of Marion county. REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGBESS. JOHN N. SKINNER. Porter county. JUDGE CIRCUIT COURT, EDWIN P. HAMMOND. Jasper connty. PROSECUTING ATTORNEY, JOSHUA HEALEY, Newton connty. STATE SENATOR. GEORGE MAJOR, of Benton county. REPRESENTATIVE, GEORGE B. BROWN,of Sasperconuty. National County Ticket. For Clerk—CH RLES 11. PRICE. For Auditor—EZßA C. NOWELS. For Treasurer—WlLLlAM E. MOORE. For Sheriff— JAMES NICKELL. For Recorder—HOPE B. MILLER. For Surveyor—CHAßLES P. HOPKINS. For Coroner—SAMPSON ERWIN. Commissioner, Dist. I.—BR. W. HARRINGTON “ “ a.—K. E. ROCKWOOD.

National State Platform.

The National Greenback Labor Party ofTttdiana. iu 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 full legal-tender paper money, receivable for all dues and payable for debts, public ana private, iu amount sntticieut to meet the wauls of trade, to give employment to all labor, aqd 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 liuance which puts all the interests of industry, trade and commerce iu 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 I lie perpet nation of the system of goverment bonded indebtedness which is intended tohind unborn generations in chains, and we declare that the government should use all the funds now hoarded tor resumption purposes to pay and cancel outstanding bonds, and that it should make new 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 demaud that all legislation should be so enacted and so administered as to secure to eacli ntau, 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 front Europe, which asks for an equal division of property, and we denounce the communism of tlie 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 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 have been planted by nature in the human family, and both systems are destructive of the rewards of toil and of the incentive to industry aud exertion. 6. We declarethat until the American monetary system, which will result in the practical extinction of debt and usury is established the Slate should by all the powers that it can exert, limit and reduce the rate of interest so that it shall iu no event exceed the average increase of wealth by productive industry. 7. Wc favor simple, plain and economical gov eminent, as few laws us possible,and they rigidly enforced—as few officials as practicable, and,they held to a close accountability. To this end wc demand the abolition o! all useless offices, and the overthrow of the sy stem 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 as shall make it impossible for any local or State official to receive more than adequate pay for his services; and when practicable the compensation should be fixed by 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 nas proved tn all similar cases, would result in the general plundering of the people.— We denounce the action of the governor in calling a special session of the legislature for the purpose jf 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 .in opportunity to express their will upon the •■abject through the legislature to be chosen in October next. 9. We protest against the weak and ineffective election laws of Indiana, and we ask that the next legislature shall enact statutes wnicii snail secure tail- elections in the state, and which shall provide severe aud adequate punishment for fraudulent voters, and lor those who bribe voters or procure fraudulent votes. 10. We denounce the criminal and unfair apportionment of the legislative and congressional districts of the state in the interest ol the Republi- ! can parly, and the equally unjust apportionments i made in the past by tlie Democratic party, and we pledge our members of the legislature to vote for a fair and equitable apportionment which shall secure a full and iiiiirammeled expression of the sentiments of the people. 11. The State shall enact laws which will abrogate the abuses aud protect tne interests of men who work iu mines, by providing for the proper ventilation of the mines; and the earnings of ail employees of corporations should be a first lien upon tlie property of said corporations. 12. If it was wise and needful in 1887, 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 con- i tinue in force this last escape of the oppressed ( debtor from the extortions ol the money power And we favor tile exemption of not less than SI,OOO worth of property to the householder from forced sale on execution. I 13. The constitution should be so amended that I the President Vice-President aud Senators of the i 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 ol tne standing army, believing with Washington that “overgrown milila-y establishments under any form of government are inauspicious to liberty, and particularly hostile to i epublicau liberty.” I."). We indorse and reaffirm the platform of principles ncopted at Toledo. February 22.1878. and we congratulate the country upon the union of the political interests subserving the useful ranks of society, iu one party which shall advance this decree to a higher and better civilization and this oldest gospel, that there shall be workfor all and that all shall work.