The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-07-21

the five-twenties with them, and
by adjusting the volume of the currency to
the wants or the insolvent debtors of the
country.
2. Repudiate the greenDacks, as the assig
mats and Continental money and every kind
of paper money always has been repudiated
al. or passing that stage of depreciation to
which the Indiana treatment would soon re-
duce the already dishonored promises of our
! government.
The Brooklyn Eagle says: The summary
of all this is that the state democratic CON
ventIon, of Indiana, sbsndons the demo-
cratic principle of hard money, believes in
the issuing of greenbscks, and in their re-
tirement, according as some man or men
may conclude the fluctuations of comerce
and OF industry require, thereby leaving
the value of greenback dollar as un-
settled and shifting as clouds in a changing
breeze. Undoubtedly the men who com
posed that Convention know the temper of
their own State and the desires OF its ma
! j)rities; but as evidently they do not know
the temper of the Democratic party else
where, or they care nothing about il; and
so they carry the State Offices are reck-
through whose possession alone
1 any new financial policy can be
adopted. Financially the platform is anti
democratic in principle. II is an expedient
bid for local victory at the expense Of the
prospects of the general Campaign. OF
course the democrats of Indiana know
! full well that no such doctrines they
have adopted could be even pre-
sented for acceptation in a national con-
vention of the democracy of the United
States. 1t is true they probably will carry
their state for themselves but as Democrats
1t was not their duty to make such plat
form as might harmonic with that which
the national Democracy must adopt, and
| thereby present a consistent front to tie
country? Was it not their duty as demo-
Gratis to stem the fallscy of initiation aud a
baseless currency rather than thus aid its
spread
The results of the issuance of such a plat
form can be only to cOmplicate the action of
the national democracy; and, whatever NAV
be its immediate effect in Indiana, outside
o. the few infiationists ofthe West, it can do
no possible good to that partv whose funda-
mental principle of financial policy is that
of the constitution of the country itself.
The Cincinnati Times compares the plat
forms of the two parties in this state, and
thus speaks ofthe democratic: The president
of the convention, Governor Hendricks. was
| the first to dwell upon the dangers and diff
| culties that confronted them. 1t was idle to
deny, he presented, that the republican
ticket was a strong One-made up of able
men and skilled politicians, and not easily
to be beaten. 1t was their principles, how
ever that were their weak point, and the
one upon which they were to be beaten
principles of dangerous and evil
tendency, which were not ssfe to fol-
low, and which the people would re-
pudiate. Stripped of the regular stock
phrases of convention platforms which
mean nothing and avail nothing, there are
left three prominent questions upon which
the comparison between the people of the
three parties must be made. They are, first,
the claim of the agricultural and laboring
interests of the state that they are not suffi-
GENTLY protected in their rights; second, the
liquor question; and third, the financial
issue. On both sides the evils of intemper-
ance and the need of protection to society
are recognized, the democrats, on the one
hand, seeking that protection in license
law. and the republicans, on the other, in
"local option''-the principle which permits
every locality to determine for itself
whether or not the sale of liquor
as a beverage shall be permitted. We
come now to the leading issue-that
of finance 1t means the destruction of our
credit at home and abroad, the loss of our
national honor, and the fiDancial ruin of
very many who have confided therein. The
resolution favorjrg return to specie pay
ments means nothing whatsoever, and is
simply thrown in that the party may not
seem to have repudiated their old principles.
1t commits them to nothing, and leaves the
The Chicago Times declares itself after
this manner: There was a notable gather
ing in Hoosierdom yesterday. There the
high priests and Levites of the ancient and
loud smelling putriditv, yclept the demo-
cratic party, gathered together and sent
forth to the world new book of the law,
} according to Saint Hendricks. The
document is marvel of length,
of rhetoric, of good sense, and of pernicious
doctrine. 1t is as incongruous medley as
could well be composed. Beginning with
an arraignment OF the republican party,
pointed, pungent and truthful-an indict-
! ment complete in every count and sup
ported by the most incontestible evidence
it resolves in favor OF tariff for revenue
, purposes only, and then. 'slops OFF, into the
veriest Pendletonian twaddle about the cur
rency that could be well conceived. While
lodging the main issue of initiation or no.
infiatiou it endorses the rejected Pendle-
tonian theory that the bonds of the govern
ment should be paid in greenbacks, and de-
mands the repeal of the law making them
4 payable in gold. Then, after alb
) surdly floundering between state
J and national issues, this wonderful
party jumps squarely into the arms of the
paternalists by raising hue and cry for the
regulation of the railroads and other mo-
3 nopolies by state and national legislation
; Thus, W bile claiming to be per Sc the simon
|, pure democracy, this body of idiots over
turns, at one fell swoop, the most cherished
principles ofthe party from its origin to the
present time-the non-intervention of con
} gress in the affairs of the states. After
: pouring a broadside into that dead lion
5 the civil rights bill, the platform drifts into
: the sea of local politics, where ell interest
outside of Indiana is lost. The speech o.
, the nigh priest of this wonderful gathering
which is given in full in oul
dispatches, is of a piece with the platform
and requires no comment at present.
The Cincinnati Commercial speaks thus
of the conventions: The governor has law
. yer's instructive and educated perception o.
I the value of words. He made pretty SHARP
Z attack on the Republican administration OF
. national affairs, taking for his text the reso-
: lutions of the Indiana republican conven'