Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1880 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 7 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Na ional Democratic PlatformThe Democrats of the United States in Con—vention assembled declare: 1. We pledge ourselves anew to the constitutional doctrines and traditions of the Democratic party as illustrated by the teaching and example of a long line of the Democratic statesman and Satriots, and embodied in the platform of the last, 'ational Convention of the party. 2. Opposition to centralization, and to that dangerous spirit of encroachment which tends to consolidate in one, aud thus to create whatever the form of government a real despotism; no sumptuary laws; separation of church aud state for the good of each; common schools fostered and protected. 3. Home rule, 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 subordination of the military to the civil power, and a genuine and thorough reform of the eivll service." The right to a tree '.allot is a right preservative of all rights, and must and shall be maintained in every part of the United States. 5. Theexistingadministration is the represen. tative of conspiracy onl v, and its claim of right to surround the ballot-boxes with troops and Deputy Marshals to intimidate and obstruct the alectors, and the unprecedented use of the veto to maintain its corrupt and despotic power, insults the people and imperils their institutions. 6. We execrate the course ot this administration in making places in the civil services reward for political crime, and demand a reform by statute, which shall make it forever impossible for a defeated candidate to bribe his way to the seat of a usurper by billeting villains upon the people. 7. The great fraud of 1876 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 forthe first time in American history the will of the people was set aside under t» threat of military violence, struck a dead y blow at our system of representative government. The Democratic party, to preserve the country from the horrors of a civil w.ir, submitted for the time in the firm and patriotic belief that the people would punish 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. Tilden not again to be a candidate for the exalte ! place to which he was elected by a majority of his eottu trymen, aud from which he was excluded by '.he leaders of the Republican party, is received by the Democrats of the United States with deep , sensibility, and they declare their confidence in his wisdom, patriotism aud integrity unshaken by the assaults of the common enemy: aud they further assure him 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 aud adorning and purifying the public service, merits the lasting gratitude of his country and his party. 9. Free ships aud a living chance for American commerce upon the seas, on the land: nodiscrimi nation in favor of transportation lines, corpara- . tions or monopolies. I 10. Amendment of the Burliugaine treaty; no more Chinese immigration except for travel, education and foreign commerce, aud therein carefully guarded. 11. Public money and public credit for üblic purposes solely, and public, land for actual set tiers. 12. The Democratic party is the friend of labor aud the laboring man, aud pledges it sell to protect him, alike against the cormorants and the Com., niune. 13. We congratulate the country upon the honesty and thrift of a Democratic Congress, which lias reduced the.public expenditure sl6 000,_ (XX) a year; upon Itie. continuant e of prosperity at home and the National honor abroad, and, above all, upon the promise of aueli a change in the administration of the. government as shall inutre a genuine aud lasting reform in every department of t’.. e public sei vice.

DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. 1. We, the Democracy of Indiana, m Delegate Convention assembled, congratulate the Democracy of tlio country upon th.- harmony prevailing within its organization, and upon its unanimity in the purposes to east behind it every occasion and sentiment of discord, and to stand tts one man for success in 1880; and we give assure !>•:«.• 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 forthe public good, and all class legislalion, and all favoritism in the affaire of Government, should be defeated and made odious; that taxes should be levied justly, slid the most rigid economy should control public expenditures; that the elections inirst be freed from the control of the army, and of partisan officials, in that they shall be Durand honest as they I once were; that tin' rightful jut isdiction of the State Courts must be rc.-tored. in -.11 cases where it hasjieon usurped by the Federal authority, so„ that justice may be administered cheaply and speedily. 3. The com and paper money of the country should be of uniform value, and readily convertible, and should have ns great purchasing pi. wer -as the money <jf other first, class commercial countries of t’he world, and the paper money, like the coin, should be furnished by the United States, and should not he in excess of such quantity as will be, amt remain always, at par with coin. 4. Inasmuch as 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 taxpayers, we declare our gratification at. the action of the Democratic members of Congress in reducingpublic expenditure, and in cutting off the allowance and payment of questionable and fraudulent claim:-, 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 le ■ders upon the rights of the St tit cs. made for the purpose of building up a strong central powe; - , dangerous to the . liberty of the people. We will in all fidelity maintain the Constitutional rights and power’s of the United States, and as faithfully we will maintain mu! vindicate the rights of the States as reserved to them in the Gon stitution. 6. The Legislature of 187!) is entitled to honorablcanentiou for having redeemed the pledges of the Democratic Convention of 1876 to provide by law for the comfort and safety of laborers in the mines, and for securing t heir wages to the persons employed by corporations, and we arc in favor of such further legislation in the premises as may j be necessary and proper. We congratulate the people of the State that by the action of the Democrats of the last Legisla ture in basing representation on population and contiguity of territory only, the shame and taint ol fraud have been removed from the apportionment of representation, and that now the people will be equally and fairly represented. 7. The people of Indiana are justly proud of their system of free schools, and will maintain them in their full force and usefulness, and io that end we must see to it that the management there>of does not become tyastefui 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 arc gratified that the Democrats in Congress have acted in respect to bounties and pen sions for soldies and their families in the spirit of justice and liberality.

9. We hold up to public detestation the conduct of the leaders in the liepublican part , 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 accted. It was an outrage upon free'government, end a crime against the elective franchise that an not be forgiven, and must not be repeated, and for which the guilty parties must be driven from power and consigned to infamy. And we hold up to public detestation tte conduct of the President in rewarding the guilty parties by conferring upon them high and lucrative offices." To reward crimeis itself criminal. 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 has come to us; business conlidence has been restored, and we havethe hope and promise of good times again. In all this we recognize the blessing of God upon our country, and we denounce 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 piospcrity. 11. We approve the sentiment expressed by Goyernor Hendricks in bis letterof acceptance in 1876, rhat “the iniquitous eoolie system whieh, through thea-ioppy of wealthy companies imports Chinese bondsmoh. establishes a species of slavery, ami interferes with the just reward of labor on dur Pacific Coast, should be utterly abolished.” 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 thatof any other State. 13. That wo recognize the right of colored citizens as well as white to immigrate into Indium , but we condemn and denounce the action of the Republican party in importing into thi-< State paupernegroes for the sole purpose of using them as voters. 14. We hereby insaruct our delegates to the National Convention at Cincinnati to present to that body the name of Thomae A. Hendricks as a candidate for President of the United States, one who has at all times faithfully maintained the causeof Democratic truth and justice acceptably to the Democracy of the whole Union, thus assuring the election of a Democratic Legislature and I til fell States Senator in 1881, and a fresh, pure and con stitutional administration of the General Government. 15. We favor‘the continuance of the two-thix<fs rule in the National Convention, and the dele, gates this day chosen are hereby instructed to vote for Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks as onj cjtfldidate for the Presidency, and to vote as a unit on all Questions in said Convention.

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