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

quadrenniai delegate assemblage of the national
democracy to lay down the established doc
trines Of the or saniZatiOn anew on the SUBJECT
Of the currency and the sacredness of the public
pledges, and to extirpate by vigorous treatment
the last radicles and vestiges OF so dangerous
heresy as that to which the Ohio democrats have
been ssdnced in committing themselves Inc ne
authoritative, and there is no room TO question
that IL will be on the side of hard money, and an
honest payment of the public obligations.
THE RIGHT WILL TRIUMPH.
IChicago Times, Prodigal Child
The action taken by the opposition convention
at springfield on Wednesday win give profound
satisfaction to all the friends Of a sound cur
rency, free commerce. and national honesty.
The platform adopted is in most respects admir-
able and presents most striking and grateful
strast to the long-wnded, obscure and am
bigious declarations of political dishonesty
IL is all com pressed into the space of Is
lines, and is a plain, bold, unequiyocal state
E %sns OF on ne the pst great living issues
of the times. short as it is, IL contains more
than the rambling half-column pronunenls asa
and the rock-rooted saurfans Of Ohio IL party
espouses principles and cheItshes DEFINITE pur-
p5ses il finds no occasion to use up quires OF
fooisca : in expressing ITSELF 1t is only when
parties wishing to say nothing, seeming to say
something, or to disguise disho est purposes, or
TO mite dozen discordant elements of oppo-
sition" in an organized contradiction tnat IL
becomes Ss nee sftsmpt in the springfieId
nIatform to ride two horses There Is no
facing both ways. There Is no ex-
Of doubtful meaning. Every sentence is as Gle IT
as crystal, and not word is calculated 10 mis-
lead or deceive. With the exception OF the nrst
resolution. which was not at all inn roved by the
changes made after it came rom the hands OF
the com il is all that could be desired III
spurns reputation in any form or guise. ltgiyes
no countenance to a currency based on faltn
or any other sort of moonshlne. IL declares
for "free commerce; no tariff for any purSose
. but for revenue" IL provides for "lndlvldual
{ liberty, and opposition to sumptuary laws" IL
demands that go vernment be restricted "to the
IIegitimate domain OF poIiticol power" and ex-
cluded from all intermeddling with the a1alrs
OF society, whereby monop9lles are iostereal
. freedom unnecessarily and oppr ssively e,
strained" And finally asserts 1.-The right and
. duty of the State TO protect It's citizens from
extSrtIon and unjust discrimination by char
tered monopolies
OF the Immediate success of the new party
its friends may not be very sanguine. OF its
ultimate success not in Illinois alone put In the
whole country, there can be no doubt. The
people in ONE parts of the country have been
badly bitten by the paper money snake, and IL
ont of their systems But the majority of the
people are honest and being honest, they Will
come e apSa fng Of honesty II the
new party shall be defeated at the coming cleo
ton, il Will have no cause for encouragement,
the right will triumph last. And for the
presen! better defeat IN fighting for the right
tnan success in lighting for the wrong
NO DEAD HORSE.
ISpringfeld Republican, independently
That opposition convention in Illinois, We'd
nesday, was not so fully attended as We could
have wished. There appears, also, TO have been
a pretty heavy spriu killing of delegates who were
viands of that nature. IL was expected-anc
indeed, inevitable-that there would be. Luck
lily, these delegates were In the minority. The
convention as a body, was of another mind.
II has made a good beginning. at least, toward
preparing the way of the coming party in Illi-
nois and making It's paths straight. IL may not
succeed in eIecting It's men this year: the odds
are that won't. 1t is not at all essential, or
ever important in the larger sense, that Il
ground. That has been done. The rest will
come in good time.
COVERS ALL THE HIGH GROUND.
Rochester Union, Democraticl
In ohio and Illinois platforms were laid down
and tickets nominated. However well adapted
TO their situation and to the issues OF their Stat
and congressional canvass, the platform of our
friends in Ohio falls in general and intrinsic
merit far below that of their brethren in Illinois.
To declare in favor of "a sound currency" as the
Ohio platform does, is TO merely state PROPOSE
tion-not solve it; is to evsde an issue-not meet
boldly to the front and says that nothing but
gold and silver o can n,a form "a
The Ohio platform is silent on the resumption
of specie payment; that of Illinois demands ii as
soon as it can be reached without detriment to
platform holds the five-twenues TO be payable
In legal tenders; that of Illinois would pay the
national Indebtedness in the money OF the
civilized world. AS both parties in Ohio are on
record in favor of paying the hve-twenties in
greenbacks, the demOcra &c resolution is OF local
State application and has no general Importance.
That, as question OF the law of their being, the
rency which was received for them, is an in
disputable fact But that question was made
political issue in 1868, and it was decided in
money of the civilized world. AS a practical
proposition, It thus stands settled. and the Illi-
n9S m Is s9una HP1h h inc
comes into power, and as when the democratic
party comes into power the greenback will be
made as good as gold, payment viii be all the
same whether made in gold or greenbacks. The
Ohio resolutions with regard to other subjects
well. Those of Illinois are less numerous, but
m re 10 the purpose. The entire Illinois plat
form covers all the high ground for an intelli-
gent and effective campaign, and commendS
Itself TO the approval of good government every
where.
A SIGNIFICANT COMMENT.
New York Times, Rspl
On the whole the democrats come out badly
from the conventions of yesterday. The open
Reputation of Ohio can hardly be counterbal-
anced by the action of Illinois, where the con-
vention was small, rdly half its members be-
ing present, and where the specie payment res
/ Oluf10nS were 1Orceu through against a very
| strong opposition. The republican showing is
I much better, and it looks now II the Two
4 great parties might divide with considerable
distinctness on the financial issues.
NAUGHT Is EVERYTHING AND EVERYTHING
| Is NAUGHT.
New York Tribune, Neutrall
Is 1t possible to tell what the position of the
democratic party of the country is upon the Inn
poriant questions off lrrency and finance from
the resolutions of the democratic conventions OF
| Ohio and Illinois? No one needs TO be told that
tire question which most occupies the minds OF
the American people is this one of finance 1t is
| not TOO much 10 sa, that IL is the main issue
two democratic conventions, held the
same day in two States mo- far apart
taking positions upon this question almost
Numerically opposed to each other. What
then, in this state of things, can any one decide
as TO the. position OF the party upon it? A