Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1878 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STA'J'E SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY 'MORNING, FEBRUARY 6. 1878.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY C. POLITICAL ANWOUNCEMJEATS. 8TATK TICKET. The name of MAIILON D MANSON, of Montgomery county, win do presented oeiore the democratic state convention for the office ot auditor ol state. " PATRICK SHANNON, of Vigo county, will J be a candidate before the democratic state convention for the office of treasurer of state. JOHN J. COOPER, of Marion county, will twa candidate lor the office of treasurer of state before the democratic state convention. WILLIAM O. FOLEY, of Decatur county, will be a candidate for the office of treasurer of state before the democratic state convention, February 20, 1S78. DR. E. STEPHENSON, of Dubois county, -will be a candidate before the democratic stale convention for auditor of state. The name of J. M. LORD, of Marlon county, will be before the democratic state convention tor the office of secretary of state. RILEY HOGS HI RE, ot Marion county, la a candidate for auditor of state, if the democracy have no objection. MAJOR EDGAR HENDERSON, of Madison county, wilt be a candidate for the office of treasurer of mate before the democratic state convention, February 20, 1&8. COCSTT TICKET. R. J. CONNER will be a candidate for the nomination of clerk, subject to the decision of the democratic county convention. THOS. F. RYAN will be a candidate for the nomination of county clerk, subject to the decision of the democratic county convention. DR. C. If. BUSLL will be a candidate for Sheriff of Marion county, subject to the deci'ston of the democratic nominating convention. "On the one term principle." CHRISTIAN PUNNMEYEB will be a candidate for sheriff of Marlon county before the democratic convention. AMOS SELLERS will be a candidate for sheiiff of Marion county, subject to the decision of the democratic chunky convention. WILLIAM LOVE will be a candidate for the nomination for sheriff of Marlon county, before the democratic nominating convention. . DR. S. LOFTIN is a candidate for treasurer of Marion conn ty, subject to the decision of the democratic nominating convention. J. M. YOUART is a'candidate for sheriff of Marion county, subject to the democratic convention. DR. W. M. DUNN will be a candidate for coroner, subject to the decision of the democratic county convention of Marion county. TOWKSHIF. NATHAN HALL Is a candidate for constable of Center to wnsaip, subject to the decision Of the democratic convention. TOIIN VAN STAN will be a candidate for J Township Trustee, subject to the decision of the democratic nominating convention, Feb. 16, 1S78. EXTRAORDINARY OFFER. One dollar and thirty cents will secure the Indiana State Seatlnel from now until Ufarcb 1. 1979, and also the Sentinel map of Indiana, the latent and most complete map of the state yet taaued, postage paid on both. Send your subscription at once and Keen re the Weekly Sentinel and map ol Indiana. Addiess SEXTIXEL COMPANY, Indianapolis, Ind. The silver dollar and the repeal of the resumption law is the demand. The decision of congress is that it is inexpedient to change the tax on whisky. No compromise with the Shy locks. The people demand the old silver dollar of 412)4 grains. The progress of the trial of the Louisiana returning board miscreants is watched with .profound solicitude. A respectable woman of Erie, N. Y., has been arrested and fined as a common scold. The millennium is dawning. The public school teachers of New York (have formed a life insurance company. When a member dies the next of kin receives from the society a check for $500. The people are congratulating the Sentinel for the "spankings" it is inflicting upon the Journal. It is one of the best subjects in the west for the operation, the "spanking" surface being of extraordinary area. The Journal -is variously styled "the business grave digger," ''the bankrupt court hearse." "the sheriffs hammer," "the Shy: lock blister" and "the Indianapolis nincom4poop." Take your choice. They are all ood. . The great speech of Senator Vporhees is still in demand, and is beings read by millions of the people. The Journal-"grave digger" and the "gold bugs' pimple" begins to think Mr. Yeorhees more than fills Morton's place ih the senate. The people are demanding the remoaetizatlor of the silver dollar that they may comply wUh the letter and the spirit of the contract with the bondholders and the Shylocks, and their subsidized organs cry "Ite'pudiation!" But such stuff no longer intimidates the people. In view of the terribly depressed condi tion of business in Indiana the question of interest is likely to occupy the attention of the people for some time to come, and the indications are that it will be forced into prominence daring the campaign of 1373. This inference is strengthoned by the action of the Whitley county democratic conrention, held recently to appoint delegates to the state democratic convention. Ainong other resolutions, the following upon the subject of the rate of interest we reproduce as indicating the drift of public sentiment upon the subject: That In view of the enormous depreciation of property, both personal aud real, aud the depressed condition of the times, entailing unusual burthens upon the producing, laborloir, commercial and debtor class, tuat the war rate of 10 per cent. Interest on notes and Judgments should be abolished, and the old rate of tf per cent, interest be made absolutely ittxo legal rate of the State. In view of the fact that almost any rate of 'interest is fiow burdensome', it is not im .probable that the convention to assemble in this city on the 20th inst will regard it pro dent to take some positive action calculated to relieve the people of some of the burdens that are now pressing them into bankrupt courts. At any rate the subject is eminently

-worthy o! consideration.

IIOJT. TIIOHA& A. ItEXDBICHS-1114

POSITION. The Sentinel has at no time during the discussion of the two great measures of relief now pending in the United States senate directly or remotely alluded to Thomas A. Hendricks, vice president of the United States de jure; for while Governor Hendricks is engaged in conducting' his own private affairs, he is sometning more, and vastly more, than a private citizen. As we have said, he is vice president de jure of the United States, made such by the sovereign will of the American people, and the victim of a "fraud so essentially infamous that it is being recognized as the representative crime of ,the Christian era. Under such circum stances there has not been any terious popular demand for Governor Hendricks' opinions upon topics which were not dis tinctively announced during the campaign of 1876. We mean by this that Governor Hendricks, having always met the demands of the democracy of the country, the popu lar mind was in no sense disturbed by apprehensions that, when the time did arrive requiring his 'public utterances upon questions of national concern, he would be other than self poised, and would meet in all regards the largest expectations of the people, and indicate . not only his consistency but the requirements of the most exalted statesmanship. There are times in the history of nations when events shape themselves and take their di rection independent of what is termed "leadership." It evidences acumen and po litical sagacity to note the drift of events, to measure their Importance and comprehend the forces that are moving them forward, and it requires equal sagacity to know when '.'leadership" in the sense of an attempt to direct events is required, and even then there must be a profound comprehension of all col-lateral or tributary elements that combine to create great popular movements. Mr. Hendricks not being a member, of congress nor a senator, nor yet a candidate, could with becoming propriety withhold his views from the public, and with equal propriety, if requested, or if occasion should so demand, could make public his opinions upon current topics. Circumstances have recently transpired that have made it eminently proper for Mr. Hendricks to give publicity to his views, and in doing so be has met the expectations of his friends in Indiana and throughout the country. " Indeed, he has added indefinitely to his reputation for comprehensive statesmanship and devotion to the welfare of his countrymen. His response to Mr. Belmont is conclusive and forever sets any doubt at rest in regard, not only to Mr. Hendricks' consistency, but to his clear com prehension of the whole subject of national finances, so far as the silver dollar is 'concerned. We are not authorized to speak for Mr. Hendricks with regard to his aspirations for office, nor is the matter involved, but if it were now the uppermost thought in the minds of the American people we ' feel assured that he could not have more thoroughly established himself in their confidence and affections than by his advocacy Of the remonetizition of the dollar of "the fathers" and the "dollar 'of the contract." THE RETURNING BOARD AND THE RADICAL PARTY. We have believed from the first that the secret workings of the conspirators who reversed the will ot the American people and placed R. B. Hayes and W. A. Wheeler in office would be brought to light and subjected to the gaze of the world. Events now transpiring demonstrate the potentiality of the silent forces of truth which always and under all circumstances assert their divine right, and which, sooner or later, overmaster all obstacles. Christendom has witnessed no spectacle more humiliating, no crime more essentially infamous in all its parts than that committed by the Louisiana returning board. From' its con ception until haggard with fraud and blas phemous perjury it elevated R. B. Hayes to the presidency, it stands alone in the record of villainy. It has no parallel, no prototype.. Ransack the archives of hell, place every devil damned on the witness stand, mass all the crimes recorded in authentic history, and then exhauit fiction and fable,-and there will be nothing brought to light so essentially vile as the crimes committed in the interest of the radical party by the base wretches now on trial in New Orleans and the equally base creatures who abetted the violation of the law. We do not hesitate to rssert that it is impossible to take in one or a thousand views of the crime its significance, its proportions, or its far-reaching consequences; and but for the inexorable fact that the party in whose interest the crime was committed defend it, and by apol ogies attempt to shield the criminals, it would require the utmost stretch of credulity to snppo.e that any party could by any pos sibility look upon the crime with the least degree of allowance, or could entertain for the criminals any feeling except that of unmitigated abhorrence. The crime is of such hideous magnitude as to almost require infinite wisdom to analyze it, infinite jas tice to sit in judgment upon it and infinite vengeance to meet out its penalty. A great country is in the grasp ol thieves, and a great and free people struggling, to break these fetters are the companion pictures that attracted the attention of the people duriog the campaign of 187G the centennial year of American history. At last vic tory came. A majority of more than a qasrter of a million votes declared Tilden and Hendricks elected. It was true.. But while the people were rejoicing conspirators were plotting) anS the crime . for which the Louisiana returning board outlaws are now on trial was consummated, and the will of the American people was reversed. R. B. Hayes was lifted into power by derrick of fraud and perjury, and the people compelled to acquiesce in a condition - of things at war with every principle of justice, in flagrant viola

tion of constitutions and laws a condition of things more humiliating than ever befell any other civilized nation under heaven. But it seems possible to punish some of the criminals, and by legal proceedings acquaint the people with the devilish

depravity in which the crime was warmed into life. Nor is this all the good likely to accrue to the American people by the trial of the Louisiana scoundrels. The radical party is on trial as well. The representative men of the party aided and abetted the continental crime, and guarded the dens while it took shape with federal bayonets, and even now the organs of the party advocate their release from the clutches of ' the law. and with an effrontery that should put the devil himself to sbame refer to the transactions of the returning board conspirators as patriotic virtues. But the trial is progressing and the miscreants are daily approaching their doom, and, what is equally satisfactory, the radical party is ndissolubly linked with the gang, and is as. steadily tramping to its grave. Ai the truth comes to light, such distinguished conspirators as Garfield, Matthews, Sherman and others are brought forward to answer. Others will be added to the list until the entire chain gang will be exposed. Coming events are already casting their shadows upon the doorsteps of the white house, whose occupant is exercising the prerogatives of president in defiance of the will of the people and by virtue of crimes that can not be exaggerated. When an earthquake tramps along the bottom of the ocean, deep sea monsters are thrown to the surface dead. There is legal shaking in New Orleans; the profoundest depths of returning board dens are feeling the effect, and bottom facts, more hideous than the mon sters of the deep, are being subjected to the inspection of the courts. Justice is once more on duty, and it is possible that the truth will prevail.-' a CONSTITUTIONALITY OF GREEN BACKS. Those who oppose greenbacks upon con stitutional grounds admit that their issue was const tnttonal as a war measure. That is to say, it was constitutional to make use of greenbacks as a means of preserving the Union. We do not pronose to discuss the legal points involved in the question, nor to allude to any of the arguments on either side of the controversy. Admitting, however, for our purpose in this article, that the issue of greenbacks was constitutional as a war measure, We inquire when do they cease to be constitutional, and by what methods can the period be fixed for retiring them from circulation? If the term "war measure" is restricted to mean simply the time that war exists it would be easy enough to know when the day for retiring greenbacks arrived; for in that case greenback bills would occupy about the same relation to war as bullets. War has ceased, and no more bullets are required. Feace has been declared, and the mission of the greenback is ended. If the term "war measure," as applied' to the constitutionality of green backs, does not mean that, then it must have a broader signification. The greenback, if issued, is a "war measure," and therefore constitutional, it was for the purpose of relieving the government and country from financial and business embar rassments occasioned by the war, and to promote business enterprises' during the war period. If this view of the case is correct it follows, logically we think, that it is emi nently - constitutional, as well . as wise statesmanship, to retain the greenbacks in circulation as long ae the business prosperity demand them, or at least until under the influences of peace business enterprises are relieved from em barrassments consequent upon a state of war which they were created to modify. In other words, ought not the means devised to enable the people to overcome the disasters incident to war be kept in operation until the business of the country is placed beyond the reach of the direct consequences of the war? The greenback currency .was deeigned to help the government and the people in a time of war. When the war closed and thousands of men returned from camp and engaged in the ' productive Indus tries of the country they required the greenbacks to aid them, and . if they were constitutional when these men were fight ing and destroying, it requires no great stretch of constitutional power to regard them as constitutional when these men engage in the. work of restoring the prosperity of the country. The means of relief should be commensurate as to time, at least, with dur ation of the distress they were designed to overcome. Just the opposite of this policy has been pursued, and the consequences have been calamitous beyond computation. It is a fact worthy of note, that the contrac tion of the currency has . been followed by failares almost dollar for dollar. As con traction went forward failures . multiplied, until the land is filled with business gloom, indicating very clearly that the hue and cry about the constitutionality of the green back, honest money redemption, etc., has been something worse than clap-trap; indeed something more like a crime against human ity. The fact that the welfare of business demanded more currency Is , shown by the embarrassments ' commercial, financial and industrial that have followed the curse of contraction. We hold that if it was consti tutional to issue greenbacks to preserve the Union and conquer Its foes it is equally C institutional to issue greenbacks to preserve the lives of the people and beat back starvation. The talk of flooding the country with an irredeemable paper' currency is a trick of the Sbylock organs that the work of business death may go forward. The welfare of the country demands more currency than it now possesses. No one advocates wild in flation. The people want enough currency to ' meet the demands of business, and since it can be obtained they have determined that it 'shall be set afloat, and it is likely, to be in gold, silver and greenbacks.

THE SOUTHERN' QUESTION.

An Open Letter from General Jubal A, Early on Hayes' Southern Policy. The Attitude of Ibe Southern Peopli What Alight Have Been A Complete Expollion f Southern Sentiment. The following private letter from General Jubal A. Early upon the southern situation will be found especially interesting, just at this time: Lyschbcbg, Va., Jan. 19, 137S. W. II. Lamaster, Esq.: Sia Your letter of the 14th inst has been received, and I have no objections to answer ing your questions freely and frankly. In the tirst place, 1 must My that it is very ap parent that we take dinerent views of what you call the president's "policy as marked out toward the southern states." Very evidently you think the wisdom of that policy is dependent on the question whether "the southern .people as a whole accept such a policy ana live up to the requirements of the constitution and liws ot the country wi trout resorting to the terrible kuklux remedy." I - presume you mean by the policy of the president toward the southern states the withdrawal of the federsl troops from active inllaence with the inauguration of the legitimate governments in the states of South .Carolina and Louisiana. My opinion is that there was no warrant oi authority in the constitution of the United states lor the employment of federal troops on the occasions referred to, and that the oath of the president to "preserve, protect and defend" that instrument imperatively demanded of him the order for the withdrawal of the troops which was so tardily given. The fact that it required the report of a commission specially sent to ew Orleans to satisfy the president of the necessity of that order convinces me that it was not dictated so much by a regard for the obliga tions ot the oath taken by him, Or respect for the rights of the south, as by the appre hension that- the question was one of too much hazard to be dealt with in the manner that had been before pursued on several similar occasions since the war by the federal government. I see no reason to doubt that, it licouia nave oeen aone witn impunity, the president would have forced the Cham berlain government on couth Carolina and the Packard government on Louisiana; but the democratic house of representatives had refused to pass an army appropriation bill unless coupled with a provision forbidding the employment of troops for such a purpose, and it was very evident that the next house (the present one) would adopt the tame course unless the troops were witnurawn irom tne state nouses in South Carolina and Louisiana If, therefore, the president had attempted to forcibly install the Chamberlain and Packard govern ments, be would have inaugurated a war in which he would not have bad the support of congress, and that war would have involved hts own title to the presidency, and have assumed such proportions as he would have deen unable to deal with. V rule, therefore, the act of withdrawing the troops, so as to leave the legally elected governors and legislatures of tbtse states in the exercise of their legitimate functions, was in itself a proper one, yet it was too long delayed and was unaccompanied with any disavowal of the power of the federal government to interfere with the inauguration of the governors or tee organ'zatlon of the legislatures of states. I think it a misnomer to call the conduct of the president, in regard' to the two states named, his "spUthern policy," or his "policy towards the southern states." Is there anything in the constitution authorizing or requiring the president to pursue a different policy towards the states of the south from that pursued towards the states of the north or the states of the west? If there is anything else in the conduct of the' president entitled to be called his "southern policy" I am not aware ot it It is true that his d clarations in favor of civil service reform and the order discountenancing interference by federal office holders in state elections are very proper things in themselves, but I have as yet failed to discover their fruits in the character of the appointments that have been made. If there has been the slightest improvement in that respect I have not ascertained it. Now, in response to your inquiry whether, in consequence of the president's policy, the southern people will "live up to the requirements of the constitution and laws of the country without resorting to the terrible knklux remedy, will the southern people at the next presidential election allow the negroes and other republicans of the southern states to vote .their sentiments without molestation, or will the United Siates be compelled to send federal troops again among certain states to insure a peaceable election?" I have to say that the people of the south have as a community Jived up to the requirements of the constitution and laws Ot the country. In resisting the invasion of their territory by the United States government during the late war they fought for the principles of the constitntion as they understood them, and I think they were right in their interpretation of tbein; but as we differ on that question I will not discuss it. Since the war they have desired and endeavored to conform to the requirements of both the constitution and laws, and faithfully to fulfill their obligations to the federal government. They will continue to do so, not in consequence of the president's socalled "southern policy," but because they recognize the fact that in the strict observance of the constitution and laws is theotily safeguard for their liberties and rights; but they clainTalso the protection of the constitution and laws against all usurpatioLS and abuses of power by the federal government or its agents. As long as that government confine itself to the limits of the constitution and the laws passed in pursuance thereof, there need be no apprehension of a disregard of them by the people of the south. As to the "kuklux remedy," I have read a good deal on the subject from northern republican journals and the speeches of orators who flaunt the "bloody shirt," but I have never, to my knowledge, seen a member of any such order as the "kuklux," though I have been in every southern state since the war, except Kentucky and Florida. There have doubtless been, acts of violence in some of the southern states, but these have been mostly in those states in which the governments have been under the control of military authority ,or of the radical or republican party upheld by military power, and the people have been goaded to them by the wrongs and outrages committed . on them by those in authority. Even in such cases the violence committed has been exceeded in atrocity by that which has occurred in same of the northern states since the inauguration of Mr. Hayes. If the white people of the south had been allowed, without tne interference of the military authority, the agents of the freedmen's bureau or the carpet baggers from the north, to manage their own state governments. I believe that the negroes of the south would have been far better and more kindly cared for than they have been. and that their condition at present would be vastly preferable to what it is. There is no

danger of a resort to any such measure in

tne south as yon style the "kuklox remedy," unless the United States eovernment shull again undertake to interfere with the destinies of tho statep, and to control them or the organization of legislatures by the use of the lederal troops. If the people of the south are left to manage their own state govern ments me negroes or ine scuth will soon learn, as they are fast doing now, that the white men of the south are their best friend and protectors. Of course a different story will be told by designing men, whose schemes of self aggrandizement can be promoted only by agitation, sectional strife and domesticviolence. Every man. white whatever politics, who is entitled bv the state constitution to vote, will be allowed to vote bis sentiments at the next presidential and 11 other elections, unless the United States troops shall be employed to control the elections. Our elections are all peaceable unless where federal troops are employed, and of course there will be no necessity to employ them to secure a peaceable election. But even if there was d.mger of violence at the elections, will you take the trouble to find in the constitution or laws of the United States any clause wnicn auinorizes itne united States to employ its troops for the purpose of securing a peaceable election, or of guaranteeing to any man the exercise of his right to vote? How can troops be employed for that purpose uniess tne oincer in charge of them is to be vested with the power ot judging of the qualification of votes? As I read the United States laws, as embodied in the revised statutes, the ordering or having troops at any place of election on the day it is held is expressly iorDiaaen unaer penalty ol a heavy line and imprisonment, and under the constitution of the United states the federal government can employ its troops to suppress domestic violence in a siaia onjy "on application or the leebiature or of the executive, when the legislature can not be convened." From your asking me the question, "Will the United States be compelled to send federal troops again among certain states to insure a peaceable election V it is very apparent that you have consulted the precepts and practice of your party more than you have the constitution and laws of the United States. It is true that under one of the bills passed to enforce the recent amendments there are certain jenalties imposed for preventing any lrgal voter from voting "on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude," but nowhere in the constitution or laws is to be found any warrant for the employment of United States troops at any election, to insure a peaceable election, enforce the right to vote, or for any other purpose, unless it be in accordance with the provision of the constitution to which I have referred to frotect a state "on application of the legisature or of the executive (when the legislature can not be convened) against domestic violence." Is it necessary for me to remind you that if the United States government expects the people nf the south to "live up to the requirements of the constitution and laws of the couutry," it must first set the example. Very respectfully yours, etc., J. A. Early. TELEGRAPHIC SIHSf ART. Monday, Feb. 4. COXGKESSIOSAL, Senate. The greater part of the morniDg hour wis taken up in presenting petitions from different parts of the country against changes in the present tariff duties. Mr. Dawes introduced a bill to regulate the use of proxies in meetings of shareholders in national banking associations. A large number of bills of no general importance were introduced. Mr. Eaton presented a petition of the citizens of Pottsville, asking an amendment to the silver bill to make the silver dollar contain 430 grains Btandard silver. Petitions from several counties in New York were presented, in favor of the remonetizition of silver and the repeal of the resumption act Mr. Beck offered the resolutions of the American Association of Breeders of Short Horn Cattle, asking that the duties'on live stock thorough breds imported be abolished. Mr. Morrill reported a bill to remit taxes on several banks. Mr. Beck submitted an amendment to the silver bill, and explained it in a few remarks. Mr. Bayard spoke in opposition to the bill. After Mr. Bayard closed, Mr. Eaton took the floor but yielded before commencing his remarks, and the senate adjourned. Mouse. Mr. Southard introduced a bill authorizing the payment of customs in legal tender noU-s. Mr. Mills introduced a bill to pay all bonds issued hereafter, principal and iterest, in gold, silver or legal tender notes. Mr. Davis offered a bill to reduce the tax on brandy 35 cents. A bill was introduced for a constitutional amendment for the election of president by the direct vote of the people. The consular and diplomatic appropriation bill was introduced. Mr. McMauon offered a resolution, which was adopted, taxing the wealthy citizens on the excess of incomes above a reasonable minimum to be fixed by law. The doorkeeper submitted an affidavit denying the charges made against him a few days bince, and asking for an investigation. Adjourned. MISCELLANEOUS. The blockade of the Black sea has been raised. Rn mania will refuse to give up Bessarabia to Buasia, The Servian commanders have been ordered to stop hostilities. Austria will fight against any conditions that will injure Turkey. It i.1 thought that the proposed conference of the powers will be held at Paris. The Russian papers and public opinion are against a conference of the powers. Thirteen hundred Turks were taken prisoners by the Greeks at the capture of Dam0C0. The Union Pacific rail road is now running trains to Cinchordia, 150 miles west of Atchison. The Mutual Insurance company of St. John, N. B., to day decided to wind up business. William Sturgess, a railroad man of Chicago, has gone into bankruptcy. Liabilities $752,500. The Rome Courier states that Cardinal Howard ie to be created archbishop of EJinburg and primate of Scotland. The house committee to-day agreed upon a bill extending the time of the completion of the Pacific railroad for ten years. J. Madison Wells arrived at New Orleans to day in charge of a sheriff, and was safely landed in jail. He refused to talk. Nine millions of people are reported destitute in northern China. England and America have been appealed to for aid. . Austria, Rourcania and Servia are unwilling to accept the peace conditions of Russia, and it looks as if the eastern question is becoming rather mixed. The St Petersburg Vedemosti calculates that after the conclusion of peace the Black sea nnd the sea of Azof porta will export five, million quarters of wheat

DUBOIS COUXTT.

JHeelf of the Central Commit tee The Resolutions Adopted. Special Correjpondence of the lnlinel. Jaspee, Ind., Jan. 30. Saturday, January 26, a meeting of the central committee was bad. A lare crowd of Dubois county's best democrats assembled, and the issues of the day were discussed. After appointing delegates to the state convention and various other matters had been acted on the following resolutions were unanimously adopted Thecomiaittee on resolutions reported the following: Resolved, Ky the democracy ot Dubois county, Indiana, that we are In lavor of the renieaetization of silver ami tr frv coinage, aud the Immediate and unconditional nrrai oi mi-resumption act. Resolved, That we are Id favor of the immediate reneal of the national nanbinor vam nr the United States, and the substitution of the green ohck mereior. Resolved, That we do most filly and heartily indorse the aclion of the Hon. -Thomas K. Cobb, oar Terre-itit I vo fn -ricr,-.a.i n hi. votes in favor of remoneUring siiver.ana the jcfTOw ui iub resumption act. Resolved. That we reivwrilxA in Tr V KtAnVienson a true and tried democrat, with aU the qualifications necessary r an houetft and eilicient officer, and It being the wish of thU uiceiiDK, anu oi tue democrats of this county: theretore Resolved, That tl delegates of Dubois county, who attend the state convention on " iu oi r eoruary, oe. aua mey are hereby instructed to cast the fail vote of Dubois county iur ur. r.. si-puenson ior ine oilK-e or treasurer of slate, so lon$ as there is a possibility for hi nomination. Resolved, That we heartily indorse and approve the stand taken by Hon. I. W. Voorliees in the United Htte senate, for his masterly way in defending the lights of the whole people. The above resolutions were unanimously adopted, after which Mr. C. Doane offered the following resolution, which was also adopted : Resolved, That In the opinion, of the democracy oi Dubois county, a tax of twocenn on each one hundred dollars Ik as rnueh as ousht to be levied in any one year, lor the purpose of building a sute house .and we will cot support any candidate for senator and representative at the election this fall, who will not pledge himself to vote against any proposition to levy a larger tax than two cents on -aU hundred, dollars for state house purposes In anyone year. Ontnotionof Mr. A. J. Gosmann, it was ordered that all democrats from this county to the state convention be considered delegates. On motion of Mr. Lon Greene it was ordered 'that the democracy of this county meet at tht court house in Jasper, in mass convention, on Saturday, June 8, 1878, for the purpose of appointing delegates to the congressional, judicial and district conventions. On motion, the papers of the county are requested to publish the proceedings of this meetiag; also that a copy of the resolutions be sent to the State Sentinel. On motion, the meeting adjourned. E. Pickbart, B. L. Greene, secretaries; C. Doane, chairman. OLD OWES WIDE AWAKE. Democratic Mass Convention Saturday. f fSpecIal Correspondence of the SentineL SrENCER, Ind., Feb. 3. The democracy of Owen county met in mass convention in Spencer on Saturday. The following resolutions were adopted: 1 Resolved, That we are in favor of tbe restoration of the silver dollar of tbe tame standard as it was at the time of the creation of the national debt, and that It be made a free legal tender, with unlimited coinage. i. Resolved, That, we a!e In favor of the immediate, unconditional repeal of the resumption act. 3. Resolved, That we are in favor of tbe abolition of the national banking system, and The substitution of a circulating medium, provided by the government, instead of the notes Issued by said banks, wiihout taxing tie people for the privilege ol obtaining it: That we are in favor of the amount thus issued bearing reasonable and judicious proportion to the business interests and population of the country 1 amendment bv Fowlerl and" that all iuch notes issued by the government as a circulating medium or otherwise. be taxed for all purposes Olie same aa all other property is taxed." That we protest not only against the bad poller of eonvertine a non-Interest bearing greenback deb into an interest bearing bond debt, but we denounce It as an uuf.ur and unjust discrimination in favor of the creditor class to so legislate that the debtor class shall be compelled to discrge their debts In a currency thu arbitra rily maae scarcer and dearer than that they were by comrat required to pay. 4. Resolved, That we lire in favor of paying off the rational debt according to the terms of tne contract as originauy made. money issued or autlmrized by the general government being made a leg'1 tender for tbe payment of all debts, both public and: private in order that each kind may be at par with the other. The resolutions were adopted with cheers and applause. lion. l. II. rowler then offered the follow ing resolution, which was adopted in a similar manner: Resolved. That we abhor and hofct tin to pnbiic scorn and detestation the leaders. both, in high places and low places, la the republican party, who secretly connlvel, and with bare-raced, revolutionary effrontery, earned out the scheme, by and through venal and corrupt retnrninu boards, whereby Hamuel J. Tlldeu and Thomas A. Hendricks, the people's cho'ce for president and vice president of the Lmlted states, were wrongfully defraudtd from the positions to which a f r e people bad called them. We bold it up as the inon-ter crimof the age, a crime against free government, a crime against tbe elec ive fraiichis. and a VI line ilia, vail urj uwiivtvucxa . lwtz kx liio malefactors who sealed a fraud In the presidential chair are driven from place and power and consigned to oblivion by the people whom they have outraged. The chairman then offered the following resolution, taken from the Sentinel, which was adopted : Resolved, That in view of the enormous depreciation ot property, both personal and real, and tiie depressed condition of the times, entailing nuusual burthens upon the producing, laboring, commercial and debtor class, that the'war rate of 10 per cent. iDtreston notes anj judgments should b abolished, and the ol" rate of 6 per cent, interest be made absolutely the legal interest of the state. Resolved, Tha'. the democracy of Owen county. In convention a-wembjed, send greetings to Hon. D. W. Voorhees at Washington, and assure him that be has touched their hearts in his grand effort in the senate of the United fStates in their behalf, and that we bid him god -speed In his glorious work. Colonel Thomas II. Harris and Samuel Adams, Eq , have formed a co-partnership under the name of Harris & Adams, for mercantile collections and settlements, office in Franklin Fire Insurance company's building, Indianapolis. "Colonel Harris is well known as an experienced collector and accountant &nd Mr. Adams as a first rate bankruptcy aud mercantile lawyer. Any of our friends who have interests of any kind needing care or attention will be entirely safe in intrusting their affairs to these gentlemen." Indiana Farmer. Their card presents an imposing array of references to tba. leading houses of Indianapolis. Hog Cholera Tue Great Cre. In another column the half column advertisement of Dr. Jos. Haas - appears, to which the attention of the trade, and farmers particularly, is called. 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