Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1875 — Address of the Independent Members of the Legislature to the People of Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Address of the Independent Members of the Legislature to the People of Indiana.

To the F' ujib l of (he Stale as ladiana.: We the undersigned members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Indiana, beg leave to call your attention'to the following facts: First — 11 is well know to you that the financial legislation of the Republican party has for years been in favor ; of the money monopolists and against ■ the interests of the people. This has! been carried to such an extent that ! bankruptcy and ruin till the places! where prosperity and happiness! should dwell. You have petitioned for redress of your grievances, but relief has been denied you, and instead of relief aditional burthens of interest bearing debt and increased taxation J have been placed upon you. Second — You are also aware of the fact that the Democratic party in the State of Indiana in 1874 gave you a solemn pledge that if you would trust! the power of the State in its hands it would abide your will, and use that power to promote your financial interests - You so, ea«t your ballots that the power in the State was/placed in its hands in October last, and now within four months from that time' vou have been basely betrayed, and the financial pledges given you by! that party have been repudiated, and so far as it lay in the power of that party your rights have been ignored, its pledges to yoti broken, and the control of your dearest interests have been by it transferred to the keeping of tlie same money monopolists that have so long oppressed you and ab« sorbed the avails of your industry. 771/rd—lt is now an unmistakable fact that there is no hope whatever of!

effecting any reform of the financial legislation of the country or any other legislation for the benefit of the people through either the Democratic or Republican party, because both of them are owned and controled by the .money power and monopolists. We therefore urge it upon you as a duty you owe to yourselves and your families, if you would escape the condition of mere serfs and vassals, to perfect the organization of the' Independent party in each county and township in the State, and protect your interests by casting your ballots for men who will not bow at the feet lof the money power, nor kiss the I band that oppresses you. The financial policy' declared as the i bond of union by the Independent I party, of utilizing the national debt ; by means of convertible bonds at a : low rate of interest with legal tender paper money, is the only' proposition that will, when adopted, release the industrial interests of this country from the bondage of the money power, in whose grasp they are being crush-ed'to-day. As a means to aid in the accomplishment of the end. desired, we suggest that you take and circulate such papers and writings as advocate your cause. . _ We further join with the Independent State Central Committee, and recommend that you call a meeting in each county' in the State, and send one or more delegates to the Convention at Cleveland, to be held on the 11th day of March, 1875. We further request that each organization in the State, now organized, and hereafter organizing, immediately put themselves in communication with E. A. Olleman. Chairman Independent State Central Committee. Any person attending the Cleveland Convention in accordance with the call issued at Indianapolis, on the 25th of November, 1874, will be entitled to participate. The only' object. of the recomendatipn is to ascertain as nearly' as possible the number of persons that will go from Indiana. Senators—George Majors, Peter Cardwell. Representatives—John C. Lincoln, Win. H. Miller, C. McFadMenTAI. C. Fa u 1 k, Jam es Emerson, A. R. A. Thompson, George 11. Brown, E. Y. Jackson, John 11. Miller. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 21, 1875.