, 1875-07-13

AN INDIANA DEMOCRATS VIEWS.
Sptcftt Dispa1h 10 The Chicago II s'onhe.
FoRr WAYNE, Ind, July l2.--Tllo Sentine, this
evening publishes n longshy interviaw with
Judge ". u. Holman Congressman from tho
Filth Indiana District aud probably tho next
Damocratio nominee for Governor of Indiana.
Judge Holman Expressed himaof freely upon tho
financial question. which hc regards as Of
supreme Importance. lie bctiovca however.
that, to nsts. upon square issue between bard
aud soft money now il to disrupt both Of tho
great political organizations, With what rasul.sit
would be hard, perhaps impossible, to outline
At present. Upon tho right attitude Of tho
Donocrstic Congress which will assemble mex.
full much dnpends The business Of tho country
la not in good Shape, yet 1t oaunot 10 said that
anything like pnptc now prevails, or that any,
thing Of that Bort has prevailed. What we OK
perieoced two years ago was but d premonitory
symptom Of what may happon II our financial
affasrs aro not wseely snd cautiously adm,niB-
tered. Tho ll1st aud most important thing to bo
donc by tho next Congroes Is to Rlve tho
people An earnest OF its Intention to
practice economy, rigid and uncolnpromisng.
Reform within the raukR OF tho party now
In power is 1uito Impossible. Long accustomed
to extTavaganco, luxury, md tho corrupt nBe OF
patronage, 1t looks naturally to an oppressive
taxation Of tho pcupe 10 furnish 1t With means
to continue its pampcred existence. That so-
form In tho interests OF greater economy iB In
evisablo is q mattor about which thcro can now
be no doubt. Tbs question is, Who shall eject
that toformi II the Uomocratlo party reruseH
to undertake the task, then it will be done by
the Independent party. IN organization not yet
BY any rneaun perfect. but which contains With
In itsolf the elomcats Of political power sui1i-
cinnt to sweep all bofore 1t. The Dono-
cratic party ia logically the party OF reform.
It has prestige behind It, aud possibilities before
it. Tho dobtB OF the country, all told
national, State, county. and muntcpal,-wi az
grcEato not far from four aud half billions, md
thcHo dc6ts must 30 .pald ~ rapidly ss possible.
Tho resumption OF apecie payment, Ia the soase
In Which that atop is recommended by ultra-hartl-
money tnen would be attended, tho Judge bo-
lleyea, BY a contraction which would DO enormous.
Credits would be diminished. and many enter
pElsea which can onty exist BY virtue OF d
lenioat oxtention OF crodit would bo crunllod
ont OF e1isteuce. 70 atsomps to ray
our tremendous debts, and at tho samo time
make very largo reduction in tho amount Of
our circulating easranoy: Touid 10 only public
ljovea that, eventually, tho country must return
to = hard.money basis ~ tho only one which is
thoroughly scientific and huaest, he IL Of the
opnlon that tho time for taking tho initial
mcaau1ea has not yet arrived. lIs hays that the
Democratic Congress must frat take steps to-
warda retrencling the e1pouBes Of Uoverunlont
IN all departments. lie Endorsed tho Ohio
platform! of tie Democracy as sound aud
anle, with tho exception Of sho financial a,'.a
He also stated that he woul3 prefer slight Re-
publican majority in the Dext Congress-, because
hs Maya thAt tho Republican Administration has
got tbo Affairs Of tho country into an undesirable
shape. and to put them In order again u work
Of great difficulty and peculiar danger. uo re-
cards tho Hon. ii. u. Kerr as tho coming man