Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1880 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 6 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Form *f CoMtitution. and By-Uwi far Hancock Club* coxsTrrcnoii —him amd object. The n»e es this Club shall be the Hancock and English Club, and its object shall be the employment of all lawful and proper means for the advancement of Democratic principles and the election of all regularly nominated Democratic candidates for office. QUALIFICATIONS FOB MEMBERSHIP. The only qualification for membership shall be the determination of the applicant to vote for the Democratic nominees of the Cincinnati Convention. Those not electors, and who are eighteen years of age, may become meaabers of the Clab by expressing their intention to work for the Democratic National ticket as selected at Cincinnati, and signing the Constitution and by-laws. OFFICERS. The officers of tbe Club shall consist of a President, three Vice Presidenis, a Corresponding Secretary, Recording Secretary and Treasurer, and their duties shall be such as are usual to such offices. They shall be elected at the first regular meeting of the Club, and shall hold their respective offices during the campaign of 1880. AM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, to be composed of five members, shall be eleoted, of which the President of the Club shall be an exofficio member, who 9hall consider and determine all matters referred to them by the Club. Their action shall be taken and deemed to be the action of the Club, except in cases where they may be instructed to report to the Club for its action. MARSHAL AND AIDS. There shall also be elected a Marshal and a first and second aid, who shall have charge of the Club and direct its movements when it appears on parade. revenues. The Club shall, iu its own way, raise funds to defray its expenses, and also to meet any assessment that may bo made upon it by the State Central Committee. DUTIES. The duties of the Club shall be to hold meetings t especially in the evening, assist in out-door dem oustrations and in the dissemination of Democratic literature, and generally support the County Committee in all efforts to strengthen the party and advance its interest, It shall be subordinate to the County Committee, and shall do nothing to conflict with the Coramitttee’s plan of campaign.

BY LAWS. The Club shall procure a suitable room in which to hold its meetings, and shall hold regular meetings at such times as it may by by-law determine. ORDER OF EXERCISES. 1. Reading of minutes. 2. Reports of officers. 3. Reports of Committees. 4. Unfinished business. 5. New business. (i. Good of the Club addresses or lectures; readlug essays ou political or semi-political topics, debates, suggestions, etc. 7. Announcements of Club meetings or other meetings in which members of the Club may be interested. 8. Adjournment, followed by drill or informal interchange of news, etc. CONTROL OF MEMBERSHIP. The Club shall exercise control of its membership, and may expel any member, if, after careful investigation, it shall appear that such member has been guilty of conduct that is calculated to prove prejudicial to the interests ot the Club or the cause of Democracy. QUORUM. Twenty-five members shall constitute a quorum, for the transaction of business at any regular, adjourned or called meetings. REGULAR MEETINGS. The regular meetings of the Club shall be held on the Becond and fourth Saturdays ot ea< h month. CALLED MEETINGS. Meetings shall be called by the President, on the order of the Executive Committee. Ample notice of such meetings shall always be given.

DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. 1. We, the Democracy of Indiana, in Delegate Convention assembled, congratulate the Democracy of tho country upon the harmony prevailing within its organization, and upon its unanimity in the purposes to cast behind it every eccasion and sentiment of discord, and to stand as one man for success in 1880; and we give assurance to the Democracy of the country that, accepting the declaration of principles, and purposes, that may be made at Cincinnati, and the candidates who may be there chosen, we will give to them our earnest and undivided support. 2. We believe that laws should be enacted, executed and administered only for the public good, and all class 'legislation, and all favoritism in the affairs of Government, should be defeated and made odious: that, taxes should be levied justly, aiid the most rigid economy should control public expenditures: that the elections must be treed from the control of the army, and of partisan officials, in that they shall be fair and honest as they once were; that the rightful jurisdiction of the State Courts must he restored, in all cases where if has been usurped bv the Federal authority, so that justice may be administered cheaply and speedily. 3. The coin and paper money of the country should be of uniform value, and readily convertible, and should have as great purchasing power as the money of other first class commercial countries of the world, and the paper money, like the coin, should be furnished by the United States, and should not be in excess of such quantity as will be, and remain always, at par with com. ■l. Inasmuch ns the outstanding Treasury notes are no longer necessary to the Government in the use of its credit, and are useful only as money, they should be made subject to taxation, the same as other money. As tax payers, we declare our gratification at tho notion of the Democratic members of Congress in reducing public expenditure, and in cutting off the allowance aud payment of questionable and fraudulent cluims, resulting in a saving to tho Treasury of more than $100,000,000. We will stand with all onr might against the aggression of the Republican leaders upon the rights of the States, made for the purpose of building up a strong central power, dangerous to the liberty of the people. We will in all fidelity maintain the Constitutional rights and powers of the United States, and as faithfully we will maintain and vindicate tbe rights of the States as reserved to them intheCon •stitution. (I. The Legislature of 1879 is entitled to honorable mention for having redeemed the pledges of the Democratic Convention of 1876 to provide by law for I lie comfort and safety of laborers in the mines, and for securing their wages to the persons employed by corporations, and we are in favor of such further legislation in the premises as may be necessary and proper. . . We congratulate the people of the State that by the action of the Democrats of the last Legisla lure in basing representation on population and contiguity of territory only, the shame and taint ot fraud have been removed from the apportionment of representation, and that now the people will be oouallv and fairlv represented. 7. The people of Indiana are jnstlv proud of their system of free schools, and will maintain them in their fill! force and usefulness, and to that end" we must see to it that the management thereof does not become wasteful or extravagant, and that no part of the munificent fund which they have provided shall be used for sectarian or for any other purposes whatever than the support of common schools. 8. We are gratified that the Democrats in Congress have acted in respect to bounties and pensions for soldies and their families iu the spirit of justice aud liberality. , . 9. We hold up to public detestation the conduct of the lenders in the Republican party in placing Ilayes and Wheeler, by criminal practices shocking to every honest sentiment and damaging to our institutions, in offices to which they were not elected. It was an outrage upon free'government, and a crime against the elective franchise that can not be forgiven, and must not be repeated, and for which the guilty parties must be driven from power and consigned to infamy. Andwetaolditp to public detestation tte conduct of the President in rewarding the guilty parties by conferring upon them high and lucrative offices. To reward crime is itself criminal. 10. During the past few years onr country has been blessed in a high degree with favorable seasons. and the production of our valuable staples has been enormously in excess of onr own consumption. We have sold to foreign countries many hundred millions more than we have purchased' from them; gold and silver has come to us: business confidence has been restored, and we have the hope and promise of good times agair.. In all this we recognize the blessing of God upon our country, and we deuounce it as false and blasphemous when partisan leaders claim that this is the work of their hands, and that the people should be thankful to them and not grateful to Heaven for our returning piosperity. 11. We approve the sentiment expressed by Governor Hendricks in his letterof acceptance in lSTfi. rhat “the iniquitous coolie system which, through tho agency of wealthy companies imports Chinese bondsmen, establishes a species of slavery, and interferes with the just reward of labor on our Pacific Coast, should bo ntterly nbolished.” 12. Our State administration is entitled to the respect and support of the people. The governmen* of Indiana is efficiently administered, and more cheaply than that, of any other State. 13. That we recognize the right of colored citizens as well as white to immigrate into Indiana, but we condemn and denonnee tho action of the Republican party in importing into this State pauper negroes for the sole purpose of using them afl voters. 14. We herebv insarnct our delegates* to the National Convention at Cincinnati to present to that bodv the name of Thomas A. Hendricks as a candidate for President of the United States, one who has at all times faithfully maintained the cause of Democratic trnth and justice acceptably to the Democracy of the whole Union, thus assuring the election of a Democratic Legislature and United States Senator in 1881, and a fresh, pure and constitutional administration of the General Goveminent. . „ 15. We favor the contlnqanoe of the two-thirds rule in the National Convention, and the delegates this dav chosen are hereby instructed to vote for Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks as onr candL date for the Presidency, and to vote as a unit on all questions in said Convention,