The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-08

lofz ne was chairman OF the hOeral repnollcam
state committee Of Indiana. and rolled up his
sleeves and went in On his weH developed mus
Gle recently inteSrogated him as 10 the situa.
oy the Indiana dem, sTasy. HIS reply Is charac-
teristic and crisp, to-wit:
"Ihe platform is nos - good as their ucket-
never knew man To retire from politics who
did not Immediately come back 10 lie anu
hees. He retired At the first state conven-
ton he turned mp and IL TO IT. He bull
ned The committee on resolutions, by threats
ofa
MINORITY REPORT,
and a consequent row IN the convention into
inserting some financial quBekery, and loaded
the party with a defense Of some 2ectllsr views
of his. Whether right or wrong, IL is not now
properly in issue whether the $50 bonds are pay
able in gold or greenbacks, and it was sense
less piece of work 10 put in = platform a aoernand
for the payment in greenbaeksy SRd the repeal
OF the act Of Congress declaring the'0 payable IN
gold.
AS a lawyer, say that by every test it was
never the intention OF Congress at the tlme the
that had been the Intention in ne act suthoriz-
ing them, IL is nowhere so nominated aS IN the
acts creating the other bonds Bat the act OF lsy
has now stood five years, and II seems 3 danger
Gus precedent To repeal 10.
The one thing that most hindsrs the demo-
that III in power they would unsso much legis-
laiion vn subjects adjusted and nnaL such a
will inc ease and vivify that fear. II was a
needless thing to refer 10 the 5-0 bonds, As they
HUs
all funded before they are payable. 1t was
THB WORK OF yooRHxzs~
To commit the party to this blunder. Hs Is an
evil in the party. He did Greeley more harm
and GrSnt more good in 1872 than any ten TePub
nean speakers In the State. lie first bittsSly op-
posed Greeley, aenouncing him in the severest
terms, declaring he wonla never, never vote for
him. and within month was iuisemssy pals,
and stay retired. If. he had salary grabbed
enough back pay to go west and grow up with
the country, he would have acted with degree
of love for the state worthy comneHeration
Ia q monument
BY which 1t is seen that Col. Finch deems
Daniel the Tall Sycamore of the Wabash, the
Hoosier woe of the period.
Ex-sTAIE TREAsURER RYAN
Mr.. Ryan is an active business man resides
ia indianapolis. conducts a farm, and is en-
gsged in numerous other enterprises. lie is de-
cidedly "hard money" man.
..It is Ridiculous he said 10 me, Hto talk
about paying the 500 bonds in greenbaclls, for
by the time such law could be enacted, aud a
president could he elected who would s'gn il,
the 5-9 bonds viii all be funded IN lower rate
execute a law abrOgating the cont nact made
with these innocent purchasers oi the new
bonds
Mr. Ryan il thorough going. earnest demo-
crat. and clever gen. iemen. His views on cur
rency the bonds IL fiation, specie basis for cur
rency, etc., lind a faithful representative In the
Times.
have not met a democrat during the campaign
who does not agree with me in my Greencastle
speech. All of them say 'it Is right it
is sound democracy but some fear that We can't
resume specie ayments for years yet. To them
replied, but we can keep specie payments and
specie resumption steadily in view. They agree
that we should. am satisfied, /" continued Mr..
Mcdonald, "that the
DEMOCRACY OF NORTHERN INDIANA
are almost universally sound the currency
and financial questions"
remarked: "1hat suggests something OF The
innuence of the Chicago Times, winch is go uni
versally read up there"
"Yes,' replied Mcdonald, "where that fearess
journal goes. sound financial opinions in
stilled into the public mind"
met Mr.. John Fishback, proprietor OF the
Sentinel, and asked:
Are any of your prominent business men for
hard money and against imitation"
ssNery many OF them," he replied. al could
name YOU a score OF the very largest and most
prominent of our mercantile firms who are ut
terly opposed to the financial theories OF Nor
| ton, Logan * Co.. Mr.. Fishback mentioned
Murphy, Johnson & Co.. and Others whose
names did not catch.
BRIEF RESUME.
Thus it is seen that the Indiana deInoc' acy-
do not support its imitation platform, do not
interpret il to mean imitation and irrsdemabili-
ty. Thousands of the strongest, ablest and best
men of the party in the State cordially coincide
in the views of the Times on that question Ny
impression is the hard-money party in this
state grows stronger day by day.