Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1878 — National State Ticket. [ARTICLE]

National State Ticket.

■BCBBTABT or ST ATI, HRMLY JAMKS, of Grant county. TBBABUKES or UTATX, M. P- MAIN, of Floyd county. AUDITOR or ST ATX, JACOB F. BURG, of Gibson county. ATTORNKT-OKNX*AL. DAVID MOSS, of Hamilton. ItrtMKtBKDE!(T or PUBLIC INTTBUCTIOX, JOHN YOUNG, of Marion county. BEPHKSXNTATIVX IM COKOBKSB, JOHN N. SKINNER, Porter county. JUDGE CXBCUTT COCBT, EDWIN P. HAMMOND, Jasper county. PBOSBCUTINO ATTOBNBT, JOSHUA HEALEY, Nuwton county. STATU SEMATOB. GEORGE MAJOR,of Benton county. RBPBESEMTATIVE, GEORGE H. BROWN, of Sasper county. National County Tiukot. For CIerk—CHARLES H. PRICE. For Auditor—EZßA C. NOWELB. ForTreasurer—WlLLlAM E. MOORE. For Sheriff—JAMES NICKELL. For Recorder—HOPE B. MILLER. For Surveyor—CHAßLES P. HOPKINS. For Coroner—SAMPSON ERWIN. Commissioner, Diet. L—BR. W. HARRINGTON “ ” >.—E. B. ROCKWOOD.

Nation*! 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 and payable for debts, public auu 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 few. and enforces a monopoly of wealth destructive of the highest material good of society. 3. Me proclaim our uucompomising hostility to th v perpetuation of the system of goverment bonded indebtedness which is intended to hind 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 make new and liberal issues of money to be applied to the same purpose; 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 administereilae to secure to each mau, as nearly as practicable, the 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 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 arc enforcing an unequal division of property, having already divided among themselves ten thousand millions of the piopcrty of the people by corrupting the rapreseutativee 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. 6. We declaretbat 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. Wc favor simple, plain and economical government, as few laws us possible, and they rigidly enforced—as few officials as practicable, and jthey 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 duly 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 and Republican leaders of Indiana to build a costly and magnificent state house, which, as experience has proved in 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 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 of the state, audwc demand that no contract shall be let until the voters of the state have naa an opportunity to express their will upon the subject through the legislature to be chosen iu October next.

9. We protest ugaiust the weak and ineffective election laws of Indiana, and we ask that the next legislature shall enact statutes which shall secure fair elections in thestale, and which shall provide severe and adequate punishment for fraudulent voters, and for 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 tn 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 se cure a full and untrammeledexpression 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 tor the propel ventilation of themines; and the eurniugs of all employees of corporations should be a first lieu upon the property of said corporations. 12. If it was wise and needful in 18t»7, 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 Presideni, Vice-President and Senators of the United States shall be elected by direct vote of the people. 14. W'e are unalterably opposed to adding to the burthens of the people by an increase of the standing army, believing with’Washiugtou that -‘overgrown military establishments under any form of government are inauspicious to liberty, and particularly hostile to i epublican liberty.’’ 15. We 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 of society, in one party which shall advance this decree to a higher and better civilization and'thia oldest gospel, that there shall be workfor all and that all shall work.