The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-05-23
GREENBACK.LABoR PARTY.
The Platform Adopted at India
napoiis Yesterday.


IsprAsApoLs, Ind, May 22.-The
National Greenback Labor Party nomi-
mated State ticket to-day, as follow.
For Secretary Of State, Henry James, Of
Grant county; Auditor OF Estate, Jacob F.
Bird, Of Gibson county; Treasurer Of
State, 3. P. Main, Of Floyd county; At.
torney General, David Moss, Hamilton
county; Superintendent Of public In
struc.ion, Prof. John Young, Munson
county. %st
The resolutions were as follows: The
National Greenback Labor Party, Of In
diana, in Convention assembled, decides:
/. We declare our fidelity to heAmeri.
can monetary system, the abolition Of all
bank issues, the free and unlimited coin-
age Of gold and silver, and the Govern
ment issue Of full legal tender paper
money receivable for all dues and pay
able for debts, public and private, in an
amount sufficient to meet the wants oil
trade and to give employment to all labor
aud to enable the people to do q cash
business, and TO relieve them from the
debt system, which has made the indus.
trial and commercial classes the slaves
and drudges Of the credit mongers OF the
world.
2. We declare our opposition TO every
measure looking to the resumption Of
specie payments, and the monarehical sys.
tenn OF finance which puts all the interests
Of industry, trade and commerce in the
hands Of the few and enforces monop-
oily Of wealth destructive to the highest
material good Of society.
8. We proclaim our incorporating
hostility 70 the perpetuation Of the sys.
TEN OF the government bond Indebtedness
which Il Intended to bind unborn genera.
tions in chains, and we declare that the
government should use all the funds now
bonded for resumption purposes TO pay
and cancel the outstanding bonds, and
that Il should make new liberal issues Of
money, 10 be applied to the same pur.
pose, and that the issue Of future in
terest bearing bonds should be prohibited
by Constitutional amendment.
A. We demand that all legislation
shall be 80 enacted and so administered
as TO secure to each man as nearly as
practicable the Just reward Of his own
labor; and we denounce all lawlessnsss,
violence and fraud that refuses submis-
sion to the will Of the people honestly ex.
pressed through the ballot box.
5. We denounce the red flag commun.
ism imported from Europe, which asks
for an equal division Of property, and
we denounce the communism OF the ma.
tional banks, Of the bond syndicates and
Of the consolidated railroad corporations
which have secured and are enforcing an
unequal division Of property, hay.
ing already divided among them:
selves ten thousand millions Of
the property Of the people by corrupt.
ing representatives and servants OF the
people. The one system Of communism
ignores the inequalities Of capacity,
which have been impaired by nature IN
the human family, and both Systems are
destructive Of the rewards OF toll and Of
the incentives TO industry and exertion.
9. We declare that until the American
monetary system, which will result in 9
practical extinction Of the debt and
usury 10 established, the States should BY
all the powers they can exert, limit and
reduce the rate Of interest 80 that II shall
In no event exceed the average increase
Of wealth BY productive industry.