Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1878 — National State Ticket. [ARTICLE]

National State Ticket.

SgCUBTAKY OF STATE, lIENLY JAMES, of Grant county. TKKASUBKR OF BTATK, K. P. MAIN, of Floyd county. AUDITOR OF STATE, JACOB F. BURG, of Gibson county. ATTOitNSY-GKNKRAL. DAVID MOSS, of Hamilton. StTBIUNTEXIIF.NT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, JOHN YOUNG, of Marion county. I'-EPHKSHNTATIVE IN CONG RUSS. JOHN N. SKINNER, Porter county. JUDOB CIRCUIT COURT. EDWIN P. HAMMOND, Jasper county. PROSECUTING ATTORNEY, JOSHUA HEALEY, Newton county. STATE SENATOR, GEORGE MAJOR, of Beaton county. REPRESENTATIVE, GEORGE M. BROWN, of Saspercounty. National County Ticket. For Clerk—CH.-.RLES H. PRICE, For Auditor—EZßA C. NOWELS. For Treasurer—WlLLlAM E. MOORB. For Sheriff—JAMES NICKELL. For Recorder—HOPE B. MILLER, For Surveyor—CHAßLES P. HOPKINS. For Coroner —SAMPSON ERWIN. Commissioner, Diet. L—BR. W. HARRINGTON B.—E. E. 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 and unlimited coinage of gold and silver, and the issuing by the government of full legal-tender paper money, receivable for all dues nnd payable for debts, public and private, in amount sufficient r.<> moot in. wHiirs of trade, to eive employment to all labor, ana to enable the people tu Uo » co .,u 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 iiuance which puts all the interests of industry, trade and commerce in the hands of the few, and enforces a monopoly oi wealth destructive of the highest material good oi society. 3. We proclaim our uucompomising hostility to , the perpetuation of the system of goverment bonded indebtedness which is intended tohindunborn generations in chains, and we deciare that the government should use all the funds now hoarded tor resumption purposes to pay and cancel outstanding bonds, and that it should mak® new and liberal issues of money Co 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 ol 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 for an equal division of property, and 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 imcqiia, division of property, having already divided among themselves ten thousand millions of the pioperty of the people by corruptjug the representatives and servants of the people. The one system o, communism ignores the inequalities of capacity which have been planted by nature in the human family, and both systems are destructive oi the rewards of toil and of the incentive to iudustrv and exert ion. (5. We declare that until the American monetary system, which will result in the practical extiuc- ’ ion of debt and usury is established the State slivuld 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 by productive industry. 7. A c favor simple, plain and economical gov eminent, as few laws as possible, and they rigidly enforced —as few officials as practicable, and,they held to a close accountability. To this end we demand the abolition of ail useless offices, and the overthrow of t he system by which office.- are made to yield almost princely fortunes. It is the tirst duty ot the next general assembly of Indiana to secure such legislation us shall make it impossible for any local or State official to receive mure than adequate pay tor his services; and when practicable the 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 magnificeni state house, which, as experience has proved in all similar eases, would result in the general plundering of the people.— We denounce me action of the governor in calling a special ses don of t he legislature for the put posh of fostering this scheme. We denounce ti;e indecent haste with which the state house commissioners are proceeding to let a contract to bind the people of the state, and we demand that no contract shall bo lei until the voters of ihe state have had an opportunity lo express their will upon the subject through the legislature to be chosen in October next.. I

9. We protest against the weak and ineffective eleclion laws of Indiana, uml we ask that the next legislature snail enact statutes which shall secure fair elections in tiiestate, and which shall provide severe and adequate punishment lor fraudulent voters, and for those who brii.e voters or procure, fraudulent voter. 10. We denounce the criminal and unfair apportionment ol the legislative and congressional dis* tricts of Hie slate in the interest, of the Republican party, andtdic equally unjust apportionments made in the past by the Dcmucratie party, and we pledge our members of the legislature to vote for a fair ami equitable apportionment which shall secure a full and mt trammeled expression of the Ken* timents of the people. 11. The State shall enact laws which will abrogate the abuses and 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 iniv lasi escape of the oppressed debtor from the extortions of the money power And we favor the exemption of not less than §I,OOO wort h oi property to the householder from forced sale on execution. 13- The constitution should be so amended that the Presideni, Vice-President and Senators of the United States shall be elected by direct vole 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 > epublican liberty." 15. We indorse and reaffirm the platform of principles acopted at Toledo, February 22.1878, and we c ..... . _. ~ ... .. olitical interests subserving the useful ranks i . ociety, in one party which shall advance this de ree to a higher and be. civilization and tin >ldest gospel, that there shall be work for ail am, bat ail shall work.