Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1892 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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TRUSTEE’S NOTICE. Notfee is hereby given that I will be at my office at Jehn A. Knowlton’s, in Joxdan township, or the Fourth Saturday ol each month for the transaction of bnsu neta oonneeted with tba duties of Tros toe. JAMES H. CARR, Tsaslee Jordan Township

THE PLATFORM Adopted by the Democratic Party efl»diana, April 21. 1822. We, the Democracy of Indiana, in delegate convention assembled, reaffirm our devotion to the time-honored principle* of our historic party. We believe that the powers delegated by the people should be strictly construed; that the autonomy of the states and the rights of local selfgovernment and home rule should be jealously guarded, that no money should be taken fro.' the oeople, under any pretext, for ether than public purposes; that the strictest economy should be exercised in all govern cental expenditures, whether local, state or national: that legislation should be confined to the legitimate ob jects of government; that public office ia a solemn pub] trust. We are uncompromisingly opposed to the enlargement and concentration of federal powers: to the usurpation bj the central government of the functions of the states; to bounties and subsidies in every form; to every species of class legislation and government partnership with private enterprises; to the whole theory and practice of paternalism. We believe that in a “free country the curtailment of absolute rights of the individual should only be such as is essential to the peace and good order of the community,” and we regard all legislation looking to the infringement of liberty of person dr conscience, not absolutely necessary to the maintenance of public order, as vicious in principle and demoralising in practice. We arraign the administration of Benjamin Harrison for its subserviency to the interests of the money power, which created it, and its indifference to the welfare of the people: for its brazen violation of its solemn pledges to the country, to elevate and purify the public service; for its shameless prostitution of the public patronage tv the vilest partisan purposes, as illustrated by the sale of a cabinet office to John Wanatnaker; by the employment of the pension bureau as a party machine, and by the promotion of William A. Woods to a higher pest in the federal judiciary as a reward for his services ia saving the “blecks-of-five” conspirators from the penitentiary; for its contemptuous repudiation of its promises to the veteran soldiers of the Union; and for its wicked attempt to fasten upon the country the odious and nn-American force bill, intended to deprive the people of the right to regulate their own elections. We favor such a radical and comprehensive measure of tariff reform shall relieve the necessities of the people add the crude material of our manufoctures from federal taxation. We condemn the so-called reciprocity policy as a transparent attempt to impose upon the American people the shadow of commercial freedom for its substance, in order to perpetuate the existing system of licensed spoliation for the benefit of trusts and monopolies, which are the chief support of the Republican party. We beliye that there should be kept in constant circulation a full and sufficient volume es money, consisting of gold, silver and legal tender currency at par with each other. We favor the election of United States senators directly by the people and commend Senator Tur pie for his efforts in congress to secure this great reform. We indorse the course of our distinguished senators, Daniel W. Voorhees and David Turpie. We most heartily applaud the action of our last two legislatures in passing the school-book laws; thereby giving the people of Indiana A complete series of school text books equal to those formerly used, at one-half of the old trust prices. We pledge ourselves to resist every attempt of the school-book combine to regain their control es Indiana, and by that means bring about the frequent expensive changes in books of which the people justly complained in former years. We approve the Australian election system, introduced in Indiana by the Dem<Kratic party. It has stood the teat of expedience, and we are in favor of maintaining ** intact. This convention hereby renews the expression of appreciation of the patriotism of the Union soldiers of Indiana in the war for the preservation of the Union, and wa favor just and liberal pensions for all disabled soldiees, their widows and dependents; but we demand that the work cd the pension office shall be done We denounce’ of that office by the present commissioner, Green B. Benin, as incompetent, corrupt, digMranerful and dishonest, and we demand fcs inuaecKate removal from office. We wanes heartily endorse the action of the Graaf Army es the Republic, looking <* <*» es We heartier indorse the new tax tew as