The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-10-07
SPEECH OFTH E
HON. FRANKLIN LANDERS,
-DELIv Erred At
Cincinnati, O., Oct. 3, 1873.
At

pate in the political canvass In which you are
engaged, am safe in pledgtng you the warm
earnest sympathies OF the democracy of Indiana
and their eager hopes that in so noble and
good cause you will triumph at the polls. In
that have been Induced to accept this invita-
tIon more through the solicitation and innu-
ence of business republicans or my own STATE
than from almost any other prompting
COMPROMISING the dangers and disasters OF
pledged to the bullionists OF the country as
against the interests OF the people; re-
in our elections, will go further and aid you in
achieving the success which, trust, awaits you
at the polls. Nor have our people forgotten tnaI
two wears ago. upon like issues. the democracy
OF ohio, under the leadership OF .Honest Bill
Allen" reorganized the democratic party, not
Country. and in his friunphant election blazed
the way to democratic success now and
usual with you OF Ohio to rec ect for second
term those OF your governors whom, upon trial,
we' In Indiana, are wondering what has
caused all this great commoti0n" In opposition 10
thacwhich seems TO have been the sc tied policy
of the state No more able. honest or 1alth Ful
governor ever graced the subernatort 81 chair Of
your state, and TO this hour In canvass heated
more than seven times hot, no. an insinuatiOn
finds utterance against his integrity, Inc n city
or the efficiency Of the old patriarch patriarch
may exist to Gov. Al ems reelection IS because
he is the unselnsh, fearless and noble adv
of the rights and interests OF the people-tne TAX
paying. tOiling masses. as against coupon-cllp-
ping bondho ders who are demanding and ex-
aeting more than was originally nominated in
the bond. and more than tine commercial, me-
chanical and Industrial interests OF the country
can endure. Upon such an issue the conIest ~ 10
which you of Ohio are engaged is not local. but It's
consequences are OF interest to every section and
all classes Of tie people, and in tnis view OF us
INV sympathies with the cause in which you are
engaged, and to discuss with you something
Of this we deem the living issue OF the day.
THE LIVING ISSUE.
,s.l,, In oil
of Gov. Allen. two years ago, this question Of
finance and currency largely entered, and to that
extent became thing of public decision, the
democracy predicting nothing but untold evil
rom the impOlicy or restriction and want of
sufficient circulating medium to do the business
of the country. Ii was thought necessary TO In
duce Senator Morton TO visit you, and in sound
ing the Keynote of the canvass, paint in glow
ing colors the prosperity whlcn was ionoWlng so
aeceptably upon the heels OF the contraction
policy. In few days came the panic or 1878,
sweeping ike a sirrocco over the country
and blasting trade and commerce in an
hour. But the lesson of that hour has been lost
upon republ can leaders, and again to-day they
are skiing for fresh lease OF power, truthfnly
promising nothing in return but stagnation In
business, want of employment, universal BANK
ruptcy and the in4poverishment of the masses
In answer to this OF promised public ruin in the
obstruction of the business in terests OF the coun-
try, the issue is squarely made up, and the de-
dorse the eighth resolution ofyoursta conven-
ton:
tofore made by the republican party,
and the further contraction proposed by
payments, have already brought dis ,ster to the
business of the country, and threatens III with
general bankruptcy and ruin. We demand tha'
this policy be abandoned, and that the volume
of currency be made and kept equal TO the
wants Of trade leaving the restoration OF legal
promotinV the industries OF the people, and not
destroying them"
Tnis is explicitly and clearly the democratic
sentiment at open issue with the contraction
policy OF the republican party, and directly
with the forced resumption act of the last session
you will either sanction fatty repudiate
this baneful and perniclOus policy OF the repub-
iican party, by which wicked and designing
speculators, in the interests Of foreign bond md
.onntrv. making the Industrial classes serfs by
mpoverishing them to the uses and bidding OF
oullionists. The question Of black slavery mas
sword, and upon this issue IL will be for those
who eat their bread In the sweat OF their brows
Whether the liberation Of four miIiions OF
blacks is to be followed up In the
virtual enslavement of every laborlng
demanding buIlionists are to become the task
masters Of the people. IL never was an object OF
the war, which resulted in the eradication OF
black slavery, that the public Indebtedness con-
tracted in its prosecution should ever be made
the pretext for the enslavement OF the laoorlng
classes Of this country, white or black. The
slave oligarchy of the South. as 1t was called,
with its cruel and arrogant domination over
four millions OF Poop e, must not now be super
seeded by a bonded aristocracy arrogantly domi-
neering over forty millions, regardless OF the
The resolution Of your state convention /
have quoted takes issue with the law OF con-
gress providing for specie resumption at the be-
ginning of the year 1875. The contraction
forced upon us by this enactment will bring
untold ruin and disaster to the millions, and
benefit only the few capitalists of this country
and Europe who no our bonds and are there
fore the public creditors. Already the evil In
fuences of such policy cast their dark shad
ows before in the prostration of every branch
OF business. Trade langulshes, commerce II
tive, and, in a word. the advancing and pro
gressive prosperity OF every department OF In
dusiry and commerce Is measurably suspended
in the fear of the fatal hour of a forced
resumption OF specie payments IN lieu o
the unexampled prosperity which a greenbacl
currency has hitherto for almost q whole gener
alton blessed us. AS the coils of the bultonis
policy continue TO tighten around the business
and material interests of the country, crushing
its energies its enterprises and its hopes, the or,
of "hard times" and scarcity Of money awakeI
cial legislation TO which republican senators ar
pledged to.'takc no step backward, no matte
what of public disaster lies in front.
The re sumption act of congress provi des:
/. For the retirement OF all the fr actiona
2 That the limitation on national ban k I'M
shall be abolished, to enable the banks 10 fun
nish the entire volume OF the currency.
3. That on issuing bills TO the national bank
deem greenbacks to the extent of eighty De
cent. of the currency so issued, u atil the volum
of greenbacks shall be reduced eighty-tw
millions.
4. That after the LIST OF January, 1879, the secrt
tary Of the treasury shall, on dem and, redeeT
the greenb backs in coin.
THE KEY NOTE
am thus particular in mentioning the ms
ter,al provisions OF this ruinous and unwise az
of congress for the reason that Senator Morton
in sounding the Keynote at Urbana, ina6
yertently misrepresented its purport in the vii
declaration that "the bill provided that th
green backs should not be retired to leay
less than three hundred millions in ctrculs
tion,D whereas, in fact, the act does provide, 9
Ihave stated for the retiring Of the entire eli