Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1880 — Page 2

i*f |«wrofe official pafkb of jahfkbcoisty. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER ,3? 1880 *

Democratic National Ticket.

For President, WINFIELD S. HANCOCK, OF (’KNNSyLV.VNIA. For Vice President, WILLI AW H. ENGLISH, OF INDIANA. State Ticket. • For (iovoi i:;h', FRAN K L ANDERS. For Lioulciumt Governor, ISAAC P. G RAY . For S. enSiii y of St-iio, JOHN (’.SHANKLIN. For Auditor of State, MAFILON D. H ANSON. For Treasurer, WILLLAM FLEMIN(I. For Oleiic of the'Supreino Court, GABRIEL SCHMUCK. For Reporter of the Supremo Court. A. N. MARTIN. For Suo’t of I’uhlio Instruction. A. C. GOODWIN. For Judpreso'f the Supreme Cdurt, JAMES MITCHELL, JOHN T. SCOTT. For Aitornev General, T. W. WOOLLEN. For ltepiesoutat*ve in Congress, . JOHN. N. SKINNER, Fo Representative, JAMES A. BURNHAM. ForFroseeutor- - 30th Circuit, JAMES W. DOUTHIT. Courdy Ticket. For Treasurer, HENRY WELSH. For Sheriff, JAMES M. NICKEL!.. For Surveyor, ELLIS R. PIERCE. For Commissioner -3d District, JAMES T. RANDLE, For ( ovon or, SYTA T ESTER II ALLY.

Retail the Supplcincnt

Ail Ilaneov... 1 .English Campaign Cl ill,s laid ot’aer organizations which support the De.u >erat.ia .andidates arc requested to end to W. H. ICKXTM, Chair man Nat. 1 ■ ■i. ( .nimi* teo, 138 Fifth Ave., N«w York. I,‘ The name anrt loom mos their organization. •2d. \ statenieni of the number of members enrolled 3d. Tire names of officer*. • Mil. Account - A meetings held. r,th. Hepoim. every two weeks dining tlio campaign, of the number and increase ■' incmViersh’p, with the condition and prospects of tho eanvass. The National Democratic Committee are now prepared to supply a popular life of General Hancock*, beautifully illustrated, written under the direction of th Committee,hyFrank IT. Norton, ami publish d by Messrs. D Appleton &■. Co of Ne.v? YorkiMn a handsoni'i oetevo •!' 'll! pages, double column. It i iii-toricully accurate, aud perfectly reliable. To enable (Tubs to circulate it, orders of not 10-'s than fifty copies will be supplied by tnis Committee, atthe rate of. live cents per copy. Sample copies, six cents. Remittances may be sent in money, post-office orders, or postage stamps. Address, W.H.BAFvNUM, Chairman, 138 Fifth Avenue, New York.

MEMORABLE WORDS.

Lincoln's Opinion f Hancock “Some of the older generate have said to vie that he is rash, and I have said to them that I have watched General Hancock's conduct very carefully, and I have found that when he goes into action he achieves his purpose and comes out with a smaller list of casualties than any of them. _ If hm life and health is spared I believe General Hancock is destined to be one of the most distinguished men of the eke”

General Rosecrans, Garfield’s old commander, has issued a ringing circular to the Hancock Guards in California. Senator Gonkling says that he does not believe the Democracy of New York will be ilivided in the state con test in that state. The reconstructed rebel General Longetreet says he will not go for Hancock. He went for him at Cemctary Heights and it was no go. The New Haven Register says : “J—Ames A. Garfield is a suggestive way of writing the name of the Republican Candidate for President.” From all sections of Indiaha the outlook for Democratic success is exceedingly cheering and. encouraging. Landers will carry the State by a hoai y majority, Capt.H. Egan, Ex-Auditor of Noble, county, and a prominent Republican in that part of the State for many years has announced his intention to support Hancock. He lost'both legs in the army and wields a big influence with the soldiers in his part of the Stated

Tli 9-radicals were more blatant in their claims of Indiana in 1876 than they are to-day, but Benny missed it it all the same.

Take, for instance, says the Hills*, borough, Ohio, Gazette, this fact: In the llscol year of 1867 over one" hundred millions of gallons of distilled spirits were manufactored in the United States. The twe was $2 per gallon. The revenue fcotiaitbut source should have been tivo hundred mu'* lions of dollars. The revenue collected from that source was only seventeen millions of dollars. Where I has the money gone?}

The nows from Pennsylvania is that Republicans continue to tumble out of their party into the Democratic rauks. John W. Forney is reporting soores of men, heretofore prominent radicals, weekly, and tho Philadelphia Times tells of as many more. Cos. John S. McOnlmot, of -Venango, Pa., has written to tho editor of the Venango Spectator, announcing his intention to support Huncock, Col. Me. has been a prominent Republican for many years. He was a mernbur of the Legislature in 1859.'and Speaker, and President. Judge in Venango, from 1853 to 1881, when ho resigned from the oonch to take command of the Tenth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves.

What Do the Signs Portend?

We write not in the strain of the soothsayer,-nor in sympathy with the superstitious oracle, .A political canvass of great moment is pending. It so happens that to Indiana is given the opportunity to point the way to a great triumph for civil libetty, and the re establishment of this government upon the original sufe basis planted by its founders, where, rest ing, it will be perpetual. The great heart of Indiana throbs in unison with the patriotic aspiration for such un achievement. A mighty struggle is being made by many of her misguided sons to divert her voice against the heroic struggle to get the ship of State back to her original moorings. All tho appliances which cunning and intrigue can suggest aud employ will be enlisted and recklessly thrown into the scale to warp the minds and mislead the judgments of many whose avocations give them scant occasion to fully consider the immense interest at stake. Official patronage, covering a multitude, an immense army of over one hundred thousand retainers, whose money, with their time and their influence, are aii embarked in perpetuating the grip they have held upon executive power for twenty years. For nearly Tour years they have been in possession through.the boldest fraud over oerpetrated in the history of govern merit, and that needs the most signal rebuke. One of the active and most •unscrupulous a'gents in effecting this usurpation is seeking to b the successor of the man who is now rioting in possession as the receiver of the stolen property. The rings which made the country a stench are by common consent all fed to tho forces

which seek to maintain and perpetuate this oligarchy. They have, by hook or crook, so long maintained their hold upon the administration of the government that they' have come to regard it’as their peculiar property, and exercised its functions to enrich their own coteries. Ail the corruptionists of the past two decades are combined to maintain in perpetuity the party committing these high crimes. This is no exaggeration. It is only too ’jjildly painted. It is no slander upon the chosen chief of this horde of political vultures, for it is out of their own mouths ho is condemned—their words when they were in their right minds, and had no contemplation they would ever bo marshalled under James A. Garileid, whoso corruption they then so vigorously exposed—whose venality they so vividly denounced. Indiana, not alone because her power should be exercised for the right--her voice should be heard in no uncertain tones uttcied for justice, conciliation, peace and prosperity, but for the common countiy and for mankind, now that she holds the key to the position, from her relation to the canvass, should relax no exertions to make for these ends. “Eternal vigilance is the price as liberty,” and liberty, as contemplated under our benignly formed institutions, is a jewel whose preservation secures and protects all the rest of the blessings of good government. The tendency of the few to grasp power and hold it for selfish ends. has been intensified by the success that the republican party

has been allowed, largely from want of reflection by many who aided it. How they have abused it has grown more familiar than a ihrice-told tale. We certainly do not need to illustrate it anew. Less than two months remains for the great work which is to be done. There should be no laggards —no lukewarmness in a struggle so momentous in its consequences.— The skies look bright—are positively cerulean, and they invite that confidence of success that tempts to relaxation of effort. Then comes the enemy, always on the alert, to undo the work you have done. Re not deceived in that manuer, even though it be at some sacrifice. Your reward will come in the triumph your vigilanoe and zeal will surely ac complish, and it will be enduring. The secret of success, said Demosthenes, is action, action. Victory is in the air, but it will not come through inaction and neglect of the means to accomplish. Work, only another name for Action. will achieve it. Let it be ceaseless’ untiring, earnest work from now un- i til the hoar for closing the ballot boxes arrives. “They who would be free themselves i must strike the blow.”

THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.

Wiiy They sere Rejected—Qnestiens es Law- * Thflk seems to be no a series discussion of tho decision of tfcrlsupreme Court on the constiamendments, but as radieal cro3e-iK>nd politicians, such as Mosey Dunn, who spoke his piece at this place Wednesday evening, set themseivs up as legal critics, we present below a brief review of the decision cf the court and the reasons for the 1 conclusions reached, for the informa- | tion of those who may feol I eat in the matter:

In June lust our Supreme Court dc- : cided that the first amendment to the j constitution, voted upon at the elecj tion held upon thGSth of April, was not properly adopted, aud, therefore, ■ nor a part of our Stpte Constitution | The decision has eaused considerable ; argument, both in aud without the J fstate. Is not the decision of the < court not only good law but also goo! common sense? It was in evidence j in the ease in the Circuit Court, and i is in evidence in the bill of exceptions in the Supreme Court, that an election was held in the State on the sth of April, 1880, and that votes were cast other than those for or -against the amendment; that the total number of voters voting at said election were 380,AT1; that the amendment to the constitution iri question received 100,488 votes and no more; that the last enumeration of legal voter’s in he State showed 451,028, taken by the State; in 1877 according to art. 4, sec. i. of the constitution. It will be seen, that the amendment in question fail* I ed to receive the votes ot either of a majority of the, electors of the State I or of the electors, voting at the election, but it did receive a majority of i those voting thereon, Considering the question in acommon sense view, , have 169,000 electors the right to j make laws for 450,000? It is to be presumed that the people of the State | understood what they were doing when they refused to vojo at all upon | the constitutional amendments.— • Three hundred and eighty thousand j electors voted at the election at which I the amendment was submitted, but ! only 321.000 voted on the amendment itself, 169,000 for and 152,000 against. I A majority of the electors certainly I means a majority voting at the election and notu majority voting on any one question, and if those electors, voting at the election but not upon ! Tie amendments, had wished tho amendments to become a pajt of ?our , constitution, it is reasonable to suppose that they would have so express ! ed their intention by voting for them; and hence, the law says that tliev i shall be counted in the negative and j not as a part of. the majority. If this j is true as to those voting at the elecj tion, it is also true ns to those not voting at all. The electors oT the | State knew that if the amendments ! were to become a part of our consti- ; tut ion that they must receive the votes i of a majority of the electors of the ■ State, and not desiring that they sho’d be adopted, they, by their silence, re fused to give their assent. ■'lf a proposed change of govern-ment-is not of sufficient public interest to command the approval of at least one half of the voters, the ne 4 cessity for its adoption cannot be

I very pressing. 14 In not the decision of the court good ! law? Probably, the great majority of : tiie people who criticise tho decision i most, know the least abbut it. The j decision of tho court simply is “that requires a majority of the electors iof tho State to ratify an amendment ! to'the constitution, but that the whole i number of votes cast at the election At which the amendment is submit- ; led may be taken as the number of | electors in the State; that as there . were votes east at the election other j than for the amendments, aud as the ! aw provides uo way for ascertaining | Lie whole number of votes cast at the

j i lection, it is impossible to tell wheth- ! er the amendments have received a I majority of the votes cast at the eleci ! ion or not, and this not appearing asI tirmatively, they were not adopted.” I Three hundred and eighty thousI and votes were cast at the election, — j The amendment in question received 169,000, not a majority. This is the inch but the law provided no way for a; ertaining that 380,000 votes had neon cast.at the election, and therein it was defective. If the amendment submitted at a special election’for that purpose alone, and had received 109,000 votes to 152,000 against it, it would have been adopt cd, because 321,000 would betaken as the number of votes in the State. Rut it is claimed that, because it is a fact that_ there was a township elec tion held in the State at the same time and place that the amendments were voted upon, can have no bearing on the other question, because the township election was not a general elec-

tion. This is just where the law is lame. If the election had been one for State officers it would have appeared, without any further laws on thejsubject, what the whole vote of the State was; but as the laws of the State do not provtde any way for ascertaining the whole nember of those who vote at a general township election, the law submitting the amendments to the people should have made a provision for that purpose," 3 that it might be officially known whether or not the number of votes given for the amendments was a majority of the whole number voting at said election. As this wa3 not done, it is not known now, except by evidence, which may or may not be competent, It is contended that the decision of the court in holding the act of March 10, 1879, defective, is wrong. The court is sustained by the decision or the Court of Appeals of New York in the case of Barto vs. Himrod, 8, N. Y., 487.

In that case, the court says in speaking of a law of that State: Ihe act of 1849 does not prescribe the evidence by which it is to be known, whether the act took effect or not it was imperfect in its provisions, and there seems to be no mode of ascertaining by legal evidence the result ol the vote upon it except by the examination of the returns of the township inspectors of election. These |offieers were only empowered to make out the certificates. In the present case the result of the popular vote was neither admitted in the pleadings nor estab ished by the evidence and'there was a total defect in the proof that the act had been adoptthe people.” * .* It is contended that the vote cast on the amendments alone should determine whether or not they were adopted by a majority of the electors without regard to the other votes cast This is not good law. Tayior vs. Tayloi, 10, Minn., relied on, was a special el lotion and was not in point in our case. The case in 20th Wisconsin is not like ours and is commented on in Bayard vs. Klinge, 16, Minn., 249. In the last case the court says; * “This case would be

relevant in support of the respond- « mt’s position, if the act before us had been submitted at a special election held for that Durpnse; obviously ithas no application to such a caso as the one before us, for if the ballot-box be the test, the ballot-box at a general election may show, as the law itself implies that it will, a greater number eutitled-to vote than actually Voting on this particular question. As to the Supreme Cour t of Illinois, it decides in so many words that the majority of the legal votes cast—not a majority o? those voting on any particular questit u—is a constitutional majority or thf of the country, thus counting tffose who do not vote in the negative instead of with the

is the law is with our Supreme C’ouit. Tire l-allot-box is the test as to the numberof voters in a State, but i't. is the whole number of ballots and not the ballots on any one particular subject. It is the duty of a court to decide a case according to law and not according to the wishes of any man or any party. The e nly question presented in the ease w as whether the amendments were lawfully ratified or not, and not what the consequence would be if they were not ratified. It may be inconvenient to follow’ aconstitution as it is written, but such a consideration should have no weight with a court. If, upon color of construction or other ground, a court may depart from ti nt which is plainly declared, the people may well despair of ever being a.do to set a boundary to the poweis of government; written constitutions will be worse than useless.

There is always some plausible rea son for the iaiitmlimirian constructions for :he purpose of regaining power—som-' evi! to be avoided or some goc Jtol> • attained. But it is by yieldi) g iiJJ-ueb influences that constitutions am fnally undermined and overthrown. Our court has refused to place a construction upon our constitution other than the one intended by its framers, and is entitled to the gratitude of the feople for so doing. [LaPorte Argus,

“What we want is to nominate and elect a stalwart President who will divide the offices amoug us. What else aft we here for.”—Lt. Gov. Flanagan, iu National Republican Convention, Juno 4, 1880.

Says the Boston Globe: “Whata history is condensed in the names of Garfield, Belknap, Blaine, Robeson Colfax and Orth! The bribery, per jury and official corruption of the Republican party have the strongest representatives in these. •’

Gen. Garfield was in Congress all the time the public lands and the public moneys wer'e being voted away by Republican Congresses to railroad, sleamship and telegraphic corporations. Will some Republican paper oe kind enough to ell us of a single vote, that Mr. Garfield cast against these rascalities and devices to swindle the people? They can’t do it.

The Watertown Morning Dispatch says: “Some of the Republicans, who are not aware of the wickedness of their leaders, are astonished at the plain talk which is indulged in on the Democratic side. . They will be still more astonished when we get hold of the books of the departments, and lay bare the frauds, robberies and corruptions of Republican administrations.”

The Albany Argus says: The Congressmen who were on Mr. Oakes Ames’s memorandum declare they meant no wrong. That is, their intentions were good. Good intentions constitute the pavement of the place to which Mr. Ames gave each of the recipient's of the Credit Mobilier stock a dead-liead ticket, of which they have, all availed themselves. That pavement and the DeGolyer pavement constitute the Republican platform this year.

The Republicans are doing a good deafof random talk about a majority of Democrats being in the Southern States. What are the facts, that any man may verify by a reference to any statistical almonac? Of the 4,284,567 votes cast in 1876, for Samuel J. Tiljlen 2,670,685 were cast in Northern States, and 1,613,982 were cast in Southern States. It will be seen that nearly two-thirds of the Democratic votes of the country are from the Northern States, and a large percentage of these voters served in the Union army as any man can prove for himself if he will but look around and count the men of his personal acquaintance who were in the army.

The Laporte Herald-Chronicle published recently the statement that Dr. Joel PomereDe, of Millersburg, Ohio, who was medical director of tue 13th army corps, and who is a prominent Democratic politician, has his support to Garfield. A friend of the doctor living in St. Jo county, wrote to him to ascertain the fact and his reply is printed in tne South Bend Herald. The letter closes with the following words: “Say to your friends and all others “that I am for Gen. Hancock first, last “and ali the time,and feel certain that “he will bo elected—not only elected “but inaugurated President of the “United States on the 4th of March, “1881, Put this in your hat and see “if I am not correct.”

Washington Post: There is not a newspaper printed in the United States nor a text book used in our public schools the cost of which is not increased by the duty on paper and pulp. Mr. Garfield prevented the reduction of that tax. This is one of the reasons w'hy he claims support as “th« friend of the people.”

At a recent Democratic meeting in Illinois. Ex-Governor John M. Palmer made the principal speech, referring with vigor and effecr to General Gar field’s military career, calling attention to how he mounted his horse jpst before the battle of Ohiokamauga and rode to the rear to take a seat in Congress, he knowing at the same time that a great battle wds pending. General Palmer said he was there himself, and witnessed tnis action of Garfield; saw him ride away from his comrades, He said it was the opinion generally expressed in army oir cles at that time that Garfield left the army at a time when no true soldier would have left.

The Democrat* of the United States In Cnn. vention assembled declare: 1. We pledge ourselves anew to the cemstitntional doctrines and traditions of the Democratic party aa illustrated by the teaching and example of a long line of the Democratic statesman and patriots, and embodied in the platform of the last National Convention of the party. 2- Opposition to centralization, and to that dangerous spirit of encroachment which tends to consolidate In one, and thus to create whatever the form of government a real despotism; no sumptuary laws; separation of ehnrch and state for the good of each; common schools (petered and protected. - 3. Home rale, honest money, consisting of gold and silver and paper convertible into coin on demand; the strict maintenance of the public faith. State and Narional. and a tariff for revenue only. 4 The snbordination of the military to the civil power, and a genuine and thorough reform of the civil service. The right to a tree iallot is a right preservative of all rights, and mast ai:d shall be maintained in every part of the United States.

5. The existingadmluUtration is the represent tative of conspiracy only, aud its claim of right to surround the ballot-boxes with troops and Deputy Marshals to intimidate and obstruct the electors, and the unprecedented use of the veto to maintain its corrupt and despotic power, insalts the people and imperils their institutions. 6. We execrate the course ot this administration in making places in the civil service a reward for political crime, and demand a reform by statute, which shall make lt forever impossible for a defeated Candidate to bribe his way to the seat of a usurper by billeting villains upon th# people. 7. The great fraud of 187* 7, by which, upon a false count of the electoral votes of two States, the candidate defeated at the polls was declared to be President, and for the first time in American history the will of the people was set aside under a threat of military violence, strnck a dead.y blow at our system of representaiive government. The Democratic partv, to preservo the country from the horrors of a civil war, subnfitted for the time in the firm and patriotic belief that the people would vanish this crime in 1880. This issue precedes and dwarfs every other. It imposes a more sacred duty upon the people of the Union than ever addressed the consciences of a Nation of freemen. 8. The resolution of'Samuel J. Tllden not again to be a candidate for the exalted place to which he was elceted by a majority of his conn trynicn. and from which he was excluded by the leaders, of the Republican party, is received by the Democrats of the United States with deep sensibility, uml they declare their confidence in his wisdom, patriotism aud integrity unshaken by the assaults of the common enemy; and they further assure hiin that he is followed into the retirement be has chosen for himself by the sympathy and respect of his fellow citizens, who regard him as one who, by elevating the standard of the public morality and adorning and purifying the public service, merits the lasting gratitude of his country and his party. IP- Free ships and a living chancs for American commerce upon the seas, on the land; no discrimi nation in favor of transportation linos, corparations or monopolies. 10. Amendment of the Burlingame treaty; no more Chinese immigration except for travel, education and foreign commerce, and therein carefully guarded. • 11. Public money and public credit for üblic purposes solely, ana public laud for actual settlers.

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m. FRI! ÜB, The next Governor of the State of Indiaana, will address the citizens of Jasper and adjoining comities at SIXSNSSZSIaAESR TUESDAY, SEPT. 28, 1880, in the afternoon. His competitor, Hon. Albert G. Porter, is respectfully challenged to participate in {joint discussion at the above time and place.

Hons. D. W. Voorhoes and B. Grata Brown, Will address the people at Delphi, September 9, 1880. Monticello, 46 10, 64 Goodland, w 11, “

Iff. As Democratic party Is the friend of labor and the laboring man, and pledges itself to protect him, dike against the eormorants and the Com. JHK. IS. We congratulate the country upon the honesty sad thrift of a Democratic Coagress, which has reduced the public expenditure $40,000.. 000 a year; upon the continuance of prosperity at hems and the National honor abroad, and, above •11, upon the premise of such a change in the admiafstratioh of the government as shall insure a genuine and lasting reform in every department or the public service?

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 occasion and sentiment of discord, and to stand as one man for success in 1880; and we give assurance to the Democracy of the country thpt, 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.

S. We believe that laws should be enacted, exc- j cutedand administered only for tho public good, ' •2?,#1l class legislalion, and all favoritism in the 1 ?? Government, should be defeated and made odious; that taxes should be revied justly, aoa the most rigid economy should control public < expenditures.; thst the elections must be freed from the control of the army, and of partisan officials, la thatthay shall be fair and honest as they onca ware; that the rightful jurisdiction of the State Courts must be restored, in all cases where *t haa baen usurped by the Federal authority, so thatjustlce may be administered cheaply and S. The com and paper money of the country should be of uniform value, and readily convertible, and should have aa great purchasing power as the money of other first class commercial countries of tbs world, aud the paper money, like thecein, 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 coin. 4. Inasmuch as the outstanding Treasury notes are no longer neeessary to the Government In the use of its credit, and arc useful only as money, they should be made subject to taxation, the sanie as other money. As/ tax payers, we declare our gratification at the action of the Democratic members of Congress in rodncingpublic expenditure, and iu cutting off the allowance and payment of questionable and fraudulent claims, resulting in a saving to the Treasury of more than $100,000,000. 5. We will stand with all our might against the aggression of the Republican lenders upon the rights of the States, made for the purpose of building up a strong central power, dangerous to the liberty of the pooplc.

We will in all fidelity maintain the Constitutional rightsand powers of the United States, and as faithfully we will maintain and vindicate the rights of the States as reserved to them iu the Con stitutien. 6. The Legislature of 1879 is entitled to honorable mention for. having redeemed the pledges of the Democratic Convention of 1878 to provide by law for the comfort and safety of laborers in the mines, and for »ecuring their wages to the persons employed by corporations, and we are in favor of such farther legislation in the premises as may be necessary end proper. We congratulate the people of the State that by the fiction of the Democrats of the last Legisla

tare in basing representation on population and contignity or territory only, the shame and taint i ot fraud nave been removed from the apportion- ; ment of representation, and that now The people will be equally and fairly represented. 7. The people of 1 ndiana are justly proud of j their system of free schools, and will maintain them In tbeirful! force and usefulm ss, and to that end we mu at sec to It that the management thereof does not become wasteful or ext uvagant, and that no part bf the munificent fund which they have provided shall be used for sectarian or for any other purposes'Whatever than tbe support of common schools.

8. We are gratified that the Democrats in Congress have acted in respect to bounties and pen sions forsoldies and their families in the spirit of justice and liberality. 9. We hold np to public detestation the conduct of the leaders in the Republican party in placing Hayes 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 outragenpon freCyov rnment, land a crime against the elective franc uise th'at can not be forgiven, and must not be -repeated, and for which the guilty parties must be driven from I power and consigned to infamy. And we hold up j to public detestation tte conduct of the Prcsij dent in rewarding the guilty parties by conferring npon them high and lucrative offices." To reward : crime is itself criminal. j. 10. During the past few years our country has been blessed in a high degree with favorable seasons, and the production of our valuable staples has been enormously in excess of our own consumption. We have sold to foreign countries many hundred millions more than we have purchased from them; gold and silver lias come to us; business confidence has been restored, and we have the hope and promise of good times again. In all this werecopMze the blessing of God upon our country, and we denounce u 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 Goyernor Hendricks in his letter of acceptance in 1871), rhat “the iniquitous coolie system which, through theagency of wealthy companies imports Chinese bondsmen, establishes a species of slavery, and interferes with the just reward -if labor on our Pacific Coast, should be utterly abolished." 12. Our State administration is entitled tit the respect and support of the people. The government of Indiana is efficiently administered, and more cheaply than that of any other State.

13. That we recognize the right of colored eiti" sens as well as white to immigrate into Indiana, but we condemn and denounce the action of the Republican party in importing into this State paupernegroes for the sole purpose of using them as voters. 14. We hereby iusaruct our delegates to the National Convention at Cincinnati to present to that body the name of Thomas A. Hendricks as a candidate for President of the United States, one who has at all times faithfully maintained tin- cause of Democratic truth and justice acceptably to Uie Democracy of the whole Union, thus assuring the election of a Democratic Legislature and United States Senator in 1881. and a fresh, pure and ton stitutionnl administration of the General Government. 15. We favor the continuance of the two-thirds rule in the National Convention, and tlie delegates this day chosen are hereby instructed to vote for Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks as our candidate for the Presidency, and to vote ns a unit on a 1 questions in said Convention.

Uemooratic Central Committaellannng Urwye -Dayiu Gray, John Leller, Loroy b.. Noland. . • Gillam—Johlt 11. Pruitt, Joseph G. Hunt. John Til.eti. Walker—Michael Zlcfc, JoerP.•Spriggs. Frank Howhmaa. 51 • £«ffccr, John G. Culp, William JM . ‘Dili i?I *;v. L ,!^X-ww ! ' " XV: '" : 1 nos. J. McCoy, J. 11. Marion—c. D. .. we:,», *. K. Yeoman, George Hqov k-. • W'.V iA burn. Robert ■M '. ..'UIHUK . , L ■' l - -Lucius s-’.ri-yi. i.xes Yeotnan. 1. K. Y i o:n:.:i, v -V* 1 * ■:'* -Janie • ■: -Aubert Brooks. Art. hattk.-.-:. - i. ' • «i Glanebrook. G. It . (’: Iv t v.. . U, :—t, - !?«..•) ' .dm Ilell, James E. ■' •• V Plauk. ;t K-d.W.'Cttlp. Wm. Jh.rn. ... . Greene. lie;.• . 15.Mie, Marlon («. Traugll, Renner r DPshi -rim' *><■*'' * o. Owens. Chas. I nion—o. o. . Carey, h. P. t . tner. Michael Brusnaha' Ja-.w. it--. ■ tTetfsSPlnef, honorary member. , *!• -V- BARKLEY. Chairman. Dan it! B Mat,i, eh iecretarv-

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