The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-04-10
DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE.
The Platform of the Party Adopted at
the State Convention.
A Clear and Unequivocal EnunciatiOn OF
Principles Sentiments which
the Masses Will IndOrse.

The democracy of the state of Indiana as
sembled in delegate convention declare:
That national bank notes shall be retired,
and in lieu thereof there shall be issued by
the government an equal amount of TIRE asury
notes with f1ll legal tender quality.
That we are in favor Of making the United
States notes, commonly called greenbacks. a
full legal tender in payment OF all debts,
public and private, except such obligations
only as are by the terms of the original con-
tracts under which they were issued. ex-
pressly payable in coin.
That the right to issue paper money as
well as coin is the exclusive prsrogative of
the government, and such money should be
issued in such amounts as the sound business
interests of the country may from time to
time require.
We are in favor OF such legislation by con
gress as Will authorize the taxation by the
states OF the United States notes in common
with all other money.
That we deem il unwise and inexpedient
to enact any further legislation for the
fundingo of the national debt aorOad, through
the means of home syndicatss or other
methods; and we believe the true policy of
the government and the best interests of the
people would be subserved by legislating so
as TO distribute said debt among our people
at hOme-affording them the most favorable
and practical opportunities for the invest
ment of their savings in the funded deDt OF
the United States.
That we are in favor of such legislation
which shall fix the legal rate OF interest at
not exceeding SIX per centum per annum.
We demand the restoration of the silver
dollar, OF 4l21s grains, to the coin of the
country, and with full legal tender quality
in the payment of all debts, both public and
private; and that the coinage thereof shall
be unlimited, and upon the same terms ard
conditions as may be provided for the coin
age of gold.
That we are in favor of the immediate and
unconditional repeal Of the resumption act.
We are in favor OF the most rigid economy
in public expenditures, and we declare that
the fees and salaries of all public officers
should be reduced
That we are in favor of the repeal of the
bankrupt act.
That we sincerely deplore the recent vio-
lent collision between labor and caUital,
and to prevent the recurrence thereof and
to protect the future public order and Sc
curity we believe that the wages of cor
porations engaged in the business of
mining. manufacturing and transporta-
ton should be a first lien upon the
property, receipts and earnings of said cor
porations, and that such lien should be,
declared. defined and enforced by appropri-
ate legislation.
That we favor the passage Of law for the
ventilation of coal mines-one that would
De just 10 the miner ana owner
The democratic party is the friend of the
common school system, and viii in every
legitimate way labor for its success, and
viii oppose any attempt 10 divert any por-
ton OF the common school fund to any sec
tartan purpose.
That the last apportionment of the state
for legislative purposes was grossly unjust
and dishonorable, and we demand that the
next legislature, in apportioning the state
for legislative purposes, as viii be their i'm
perative duty, shall have regard alone to
population and contiguity of territory.
That the jurisdiction claimed and ex-
ercised by the circuit courts of the
United States over questions of cor
porate and individual rights arising
under the laws of the states tends TO
Cypress and burden litigants to such an ex-
tent as to amount 10 a practical denial of
justice IN mtHy cases; ana we consider the
legislation which has conferred such juris-
dictiOn rs unwise and hurtfal to the true
interests of the people And we demand
such legislation as will restrict and limit the
jurisdiction of such courts 10 such matters as
are clearly contemplated by the constitution
and expressed in the judiciary act of 1888.
We are opposed TO class legislation, snd
protest against the grant of subsidies by the
federal government, either in lands, bonds,
money or by the pledge of the public
credit.
That we abhor and hold up to public
detestation the leaders in the republi-
can party who secretly connived, and
with barefaced effrontery carried out
the scheme. by and through venal
returning boards, whereby Samuel ].
Tilden and Thomas 4. Hendricks, the peo-
ole's choice for president and vice president,
were wrongfully kept out of the positions to
which free people had called them. We
hold it up as the monster crime of the age,
a crime against free government, crime
against the elective franchise, and a crime
that can only be condoned when the
malefactors who seated fraud in the pres
ideutial chair are driven from power
aud consigned to everlasting infamy by
the people whom they have outraged. And
we denounce the act of the president of the
United States in appointing to high and
lucrative positions the corrupt members of
the returning boards. and condemn the acts
of federal officers in attempting to interfere
with the rights and powers of the state
courts in the prosecution of these criminals.
That our senators and representatives in
congress be and are hereby requested TO Sc
cure passage of a law giving 10 the soldiers
of the Mexican war a pension similar to
that now given to the soldiers of the war
of 1872.