The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-08-02

To-day the people Of this country are paying
10 and Is per cent interest II is eating up the
oT vn[ f Se oI tne Peope eating up tnS Tes nlt
tonal bank system enenmb rs he Industries
on tnls country. My fellow ci liens tteIe has
louis platform. IL is said Of that platform
that 1t demands immediate resum ption
WE SAY THIS IN OUR PLATFORM.
/ We demand q judicious syl5teas
of preparation by public economies
| by official retrenchments and by wise finance,
which shall enable the nation soon to assure
perfect readil ess to meet any of its promises
1T the call Of the creditors entitled TO pay
ment We bslieve that II such a system were
devised, and, above all, entrusted TO eompe-
| tent hands for eXecu ion, creating at no time
an artificial scarcity OF currency, aud at no
drawal of that machinery of credit by
which pinety five per cent. of all bu iness
pubic and Inspiring general confidence
would, from the day OF Us adoption. bring
6esirg 69eanng on fts wings to al! our harrassed IN
| merce, ce,manufactures, and he mechanical arts;
restore employment TO labor, and renew in all
Pile"
THE PLATFORM REVIEWED.
We demand judicious system of prepars-
ton. How? First by public economy; by re-
ducing your public expenditures; by saving
your money; by cutting of this high rate
debtors, but by becoming free from
debt; by increasing our productions.
| forced, as the Republican party intend that
IL shall be, but IL must be brought about by
increasing our productions by reducing AKA
| ton, by cutting on everything In the way OF
extravsgance, and then let the prosperity Of
me country bring 1t about without legislation.
which is The most worthy 'Ooi OF
platform does not exactly conform to your
views, but IT Is nearer in accord with the
feelings Of the people of Indiana than the
| hope from that party that has been so exIrav-
sgant In your public expenditures. You
| have
NOTHING TO HOPE FROM THAT PARTY
which has been the inst; ;ument OF rings
and railroad corporations. They have
during sixteen years of their existence given
away 2OO,0O0O0) acres of your pnbic domain
10 railroad corporattons-enough TO make
nine states the size of Indiana. They have
not AIKEN one step during the last four years
in the interest of the people. You
know know how the recent ex osures have
every department OF the government.
| Take your h.ornipg paper, read the testimony
your president in attempting to shield his
| private secretary from the punishment that
| was justly due him for his compiled in the
| whisky ring. How he used Of the highest
Judicial officers whose special duty it is to
| prosecute offenders of the law, to prevent
| babcock, his private secretary, rom being
| convicted and punished as a defrauder of the
government. To these things Re, ublican
speakers of the day have but one answer, and
THE HATES AND PREJUDICEs OF THE
| PAST.
And in this campaign it il their deliberate
purpose to ignore all other questions, and
appeal to the country by the falfe statement
that there still exists in the South a settled
purpos e 10 destroy the government or that it
is the miss on OF the Democratic party 10 turn
the absolute control OF our gOvernme into
the hands OF those who attempted It's destruc-
tion. After eleven years have elapsed since
the war closed it is full time that this question
should be banished from our politics.
We ought this year al least 10 recognize the
fact tnat we are one nation, having one flag
and one common destiny. some OF the gen.
tlemen who are making the most noise about
the war and its results, fifteen years ago were
silent. l. has taken some of them fifteen years
to get mar. The distinguished Republican
candidate for governor, ten years after peace
was dec ared, in a foreign countryside At
lautic ocean between him and The people Of
the SouIh-for the first time discovered
| the enormity of their crimes in wsging a war
IN attempting to destroy the government, and
1t makes him
AS "HoT As LIME KILN,"
and he is ow finding relief in expressing his
| feelings TO his I, low citizens of Indiana. In
conclusion desire 10 say a word to that class
| OF voters who have concluded that neither the
Democratic or Republican parties are worthy
o1 S tnet voi tS ana nave e0nc1ded
ticket. Have you stopped to consider
| what will be the result of your action?
| What W IL you accomplish? Will f. bring you
relief? Do you b, pc by that method to estab-
lish reform? Cut down your pubic expendi-
lures, or lessen taxation? As sensible men,
you must recognize the fact that the Inde-
pendenG par y as IL exists o-day can not carry
| a siUgle state or even a single county In he
| Union. What will be the suit? Every vote
c Sc for Peter Cooper for president or
| Wolcott for governor is vote to con-
| tinue in power the party from whose
misrule you are seeking relief.
Is that what you desire? II on do know of
| no better way TO accomplish IL than by the
means you are now using. 1 hope, however,
| that your good ia gment and sense viii die
tate to you a line of action that will result in
your supporting Tilden and Hendricks and
| "A llliams, that in our general government re-
| tren chment and reform may be established,
| go d government instituted, and a L classes
and ali sections be protected by wise and i'm
partial laws. [Cheers.