Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-11
Greenbacls to be Declared Equal
to Gold.
The 5-2O's to be Paid In Cur
rency.

1 10 GOlus
The 5-2O's to be Paid In Cur
rency.
| INDIANAPOLIS, June I0.-The Farmers
Reform Convention assembled at the Ex-
position Building at 10 O'Clock to-day.
About five hundred delegates were present.
Archibald johnson, of Montgomery county,
was chosen temporary chairman and j. NJ.
Hyatt, of Henry county, temporary secre-
tary. After the appointment Of Commit
tees on Credentials, Platform and Resolu-
tion and Permanent Organization, the Con-
ventiOn adjourned until I o'clock p. NJ.
Afternoon Session
The Convention IesSsembled at one
O'Clock. The Committee on Permanent
Organization reported DR.. A. c. Stevenson,
Of Putnam county, for President 'of this
Convention, one Vice President for each
Congressional district, and j. NJ. Hyatt, Of
New Castle, and J. ID. Gaughey, of Indian
apolis, as principal Secretaries. The Com
mittee on Credentials reported that all ere
dentials had been accepted.
On motion, it was resolved that the Sc
lection Of candidates for State offices be
made by counties, and that each county
delegation select a committeeman
to cast the vote for the county. The
following resolution was then adopted:
Resolved, that it is the sense and ex-
preston Of this convention, that the Com
mittee ON Nomination look only to the best
interest of the laboring masses, and that in
their selection of candidates no heretofore
political differences should be made a test
OF said candidates, but should look only
to honesty and qualifications.
Almost a Bolt.
During the call Of counties for a com
mittee on selection of candidates for State
offices, the delegations from several coun-
ties in the West, the Fourth and Tenth
Districts, announced their withdrawal from
the convention, refusing TO participate fur
ther unless platform was adopted before
the nominations were made.
A motion finally prevailed directing the
committee for the selection of candidates
TO withhold their report until a platform
was reported.
Greetings.
The following telegram was received
from the convention at Springfield, Ills, in
response to cOngratulatory message sent
that body at the morning session:
''Interconvertible bonds triumphant. No
show for bankers and usurers. Legal
tenders and low interest is the ruling cry
from all sections. Theconvention is large,
earnest and harmonious.
While waiting for reports from the COM
mittee the convention was addressed by G..
a. Altman, editor of the, Indiana Farmer,
Col. y. j. Coleman, of the st. Louis Rlt-
raj World, and c. VIZ Greene, ,of the Na-
tiOndl Crop Reporter. The following
resolution was presented and adopted:
Resolved, that we, the farmers and work
ingmen of Indiana, fully determined to
command due recognition, adopt as an ex-
preston of our sentiment and purposes the
name Independent.
The Committee on Platform and Reso-
lutions then made their rep0It, which was
unanimously adopted as follows:
The Platform.
The Farmers Con enliOn sin presum-
ing to enter into competition with existing
parties" explains the wrongs and remedies
il deals with. Our Government is founded
on the sovereignty of the governed. The
farmers seek to bring producers and con-
sumers, farmers and manufacturers into
the most direct and friendly relations pos
sible, for their benefit. Railroads are nee
essary to our welfare. OF parties, the pre-
amble says:
"Our Government is wholly perverted
from its true design, and the sacred names
of Democracy and RepublicaniSm are the
synonyms of deSpotiSm, and the parties
represented thereby, as now organized, are
engines of oppression, crushing ouL the
lives of the people,
The wrongs cited are banking and
monied monOplies, with rIinOus rates of
interest; consolidated railroads and transit
monOpolies; manufacturing modopolies,
crushing out small operators; land mOnOpO-
lies eating the public domain commercial
and grain mOnopolies, fattening on human
necessities, tSpeculators' cornersl; the finan-
cial distress.
On this last topic the platform demands
the retiring of National Bank notes, etc,
the issuing Of Government legal tenders
Declared EQUAL with Gold,
to be interchangeable with 3.65 per cent
bonds, Congress regulating the volume and
distribution of the currency. 1t demands
the payment of the national debt on some
thing like the Pendletonian plan-the
bonds originally calling for gold to be paid
in gold and all the rest to be paid in green
backs at the option of the Government
without funding in long bonds or in any
way increasing its gold-paying and untaxed
obligations.
1t proposes electing the best men without
regard to political opinions, and denOunces
buying votes with whisky as we'll as money,
demanding one term for officers, from PreSi-
dent down. A reduction of fees, salaries
and all public expenses is demanded 20 re-
duce taxation. The present assessment tax
is denounced as throwing the burden on
real estate, capital escaping. The limita-
tion of grand juries to felony cases is de-
manded, and it claims the right of the
people to restrict the abuses of the liquor
traffic.
The Ticket.
The Committee on Selection of State
Ticket submitted the following, which was
adopted unanimously:
For Secretary of State, NOyes S. White,
OF VigO county; for Auditor of State,
Ebenezer Henderson, of Morgan county
for Treasurer of State, Morris c. Bennett,
of Steuben county; for Attorney General,
James 5. Mitchell, of Elkhart county for
Judge Of the Supreme Court; Horace p.
Biddle, of CaSs county; for Superintendent
of Public Instruction, ClarksOn Davis, of
Henry county.
On callof districts for the appointment
of State Central Committee, the Fourth
and Tenth Districts failed TO respond.