Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1896 — Indiana’s Sound Money Plank. [ARTICLE]

Indiana’s Sound Money Plank.

We are firm and emphatic in our demand for honest money. We believe that our money should not be inferior to the money of the most enlightened nations of the earth. We are unalterably opposed to every scheme that threatens to debase or depreciate our currency. We favor the use of silver as currency, but to the extent only and under such regulations that its parity with gold can be maintained, and in consequence are opposed to the free, unlimited and independent coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1.

It is stated that twenty million pounds of shoddy cloth were imported into this county last year, under the low tariff clause - of the Wilson-Gorman tariff law, in excess of that of any former year, and death lurked in fevery pound of itr; This is an increase of 8,200 per cent, as is verified by the U. 8. treasury reports. This-displaces so. much of opi home manufactured goods, thus displacing our home labor, and scattering the germ of the diseases found in the rotten imported goods, broadcast ovef our land. The protective features of the McKinley law would bar this class df foreign shoddy from our land, and employ our home labor and give our people a product not thus infectedThe health and, prosperity of our people demand the return to protection.

Candidates for Circuit Judge. Three able attorneys of Rensselaer have expressed their intention to be candidates for the Republican nomination for judge of the Thirtieth Judicial Circuit, to succeed Judge Wiley, who has been nominated for Appell ate Judge. They are Messrs S. P. Thompson, R. W. Marshall and M.,F. Chilcote. All of them have long, been known throughout the circuit, as able and honorable attorneys, fully informed in matters of law and methods of practice, and any one of them, if elected, will make an able, impartial and careful judge, who will discbarge the responsible and onerous duties of the' office in a manner satisfactory to all the people, and honorable to themselves. It is now thought that the contest for the nomination will be confined to these three gentlemen, and that no" candidates will come forward from the other counties of the circuit.

Under the Harrison Administration the revenues of the Government, brought in under the operation of the McKinley law, were not only more than sufficient to meet the current expenditures of the Government, but, under the wise administration of the Republican party, the excess was applied to the payment of the national debt, and more than $260,000,000 of the national debt was paid off. Not only that, but the Republican party truned the Treasury over with $107,000,000 in gold”and/ nearly $40,000,000 of other money to the incoming Democratic Administration. What has been done by the Democratic party or the Democratic Administration since it came into power? Instead of paying off any part of our national debt, they have increased our national debt in the enormous sum of $262,315,000 in a period of a little over three years’ time. This imposes upon the people of this country an indebtedness in interest alone of $11,492,616 over and above the other .expenditures that we naa under a Republican Administration. This expense comes year after year, and these $262,600,000 are a mortgage upon the people of this country extending over a period of thirty years. —Hon. Albert J. Hopkins, M. C., of Illinois.