Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 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. DAVID* MOSS, of Hamilton. BUPBUNTniDENTOP PUBLIC INETRUCTIOW, JOHN YOUNG, of Marion county. REPRKSBNTATtVB IN CONORKBB. JOHN N. SKINNER, Porter county. JUDGE CIRCUIT COURT. EDWIN P. HAMMOND, Jasper county. Prosecuting Attorney. JOSHUA HEALEY, Newton county. STATE SENATOR, GEORGE MAJOR, of Benton county. REPRESENTATIVE, GEORGE H. BROWN,of Saspercounty. National County Ticket. For Clerk—CH .RLES H. PRICE. For Auditor—EZßA C. BOWELS. For Treasurer—M ILLIAM E. MOORB. For Sheriff—JAMES NICKELL. For Recorder—HOPE B. MILLER. For Surveyor—CHAßLES P. HOPKINS. For Coroner —SAMPSON ERWIN. Commissioner, Diet. 1.-BR. W. HARRINGTON “ “ B—K. 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'aud 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 ano private, in amount sufficient to meet the wants oi 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 few. and enforces a monopoly oi wealth destructive of the highest material good of society. 3. Vie proclaim our uncompomising 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 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 demand that all legislation should be so enacted and so administered.as to secure to each ntau, as nearly as practicable, the just reward oi his own labor; and we denounce all lawlessness, violence and truud 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 unequal division of property, having already divided among themselves ten thousand millions of the pioperty of the people by corrupting the representative',* and servants of the people. The one system oi 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 and exertion. t>. 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 by productive industry. 7. We favor simple, plain nnd economical gov erunicut. as few laws as possible, and they rigidly enforced—as few officials as practicable, audjlhey held to a close accountability. To this end we demand the abolition of all useless offices, and the overthrow oi the system by which offices are made to yield almost princely fortunes. It is the first duty oi the next general assembly of Indiana to secure such legislation as shall make it impossiole for any local or State official to receive more than adequate pay tor his services; aud 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 magnificent stale house, which, as experience has proved m all similar cases, would result in the general plundering of the people.— We denounce tlie 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 commissioners are proceeding to let a contract to bind the people ol tue state, aud we demand that no con ‘tract shall be let until the voters of the state have mid an opportunity to express their will upon the subject through the legislature to be chosen in October next.

9. We protest against the weak and ineffective election laws of Indiana, aud we ask that the next legislature shall enact statutes which shall secun .'..•r elections in the state, and which shall provid. severe and adequate punishment for fraudulent voters, and for those who bribe voters or procun. fraudulent votes. 10. We denounce the criminal and unfair apportionment of the legislative and congressional dis tricts of the state tn the interest ol the Republi can party, and the equally unjust apportioument.madeinThe past by the Democratic party, and w. pledge our members of the legislature to vote sot a fair aud equitable apportionment which shall secure a full and untraiiiiiielcd expression of the sentiments of the people. 11. The State shall enact laws which will abro gate the abuses and protect the interests of men who work In mines, by providing lor the propel ventilation of the mines; aud the earnings of all employees of corporations should be a first lien upon lite property of said corporations. 12. If it was wise and needful in 1807, 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 aud to continue in force this last escape of the oppressed debtor front the extortions ol the money power And we favor the exemption of not less than §I,OOO worth of property to the householder from forced sale on execution. 13. The constitution should be so amended tliau the President, Vice-President aud Senators of the United Slates shall be elected by direct vote of t he people. 14. We arc 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, aud particularly hostile to i epublican liberty.” 15. We indorse and reaffirm the platform of principles acopted at Toledo. February 22.1878, aim we congratulate the country upon the union of the political interests subserving the useful ranks ol 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 alishail work.