The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-02-06
OLD OWEN WIDE AWAKE.
Democratic Mass Convention Saturday.


I Especial Correspondence of the Sentinel.l
SPENCER, Ind, Feb 3-The democracy of
Owen county met in mass convention in
Spencer on Saturday.
The following resolutions were adopted:
Resolved, That we in favor of the re-
Storatlon OF the silver dollar OF the same
standard as it was at the time of the creation
of the national debt, and that 1t be made n free
legal tender, with unlimited coinage.
2. Resolved, That we are in favor of the i'm
ton act.
s. Resolved, That we are in favor of the
abolition of the national banking system and
the substitution of a circulating medium, pro-
vided by the government, instead of the notes
issued by said banks. without taxing the peO-
pie for the privilege OF obtaining it,: That we
are in favor of the amount thus issued bearing
reasonable and judicious proportion 10 the
business interests and population of the eoun-
try Amendment by FOwlerl-''and that
all such notes iss@ed by the government
as q circulating medium or otherwise.
be taxed for all purposes che same as
ali other property is taxed" That protest
not only against the bad policy of converting
non.1ntereSt bearing greenback debt into
an interest barring bond debt, but we de-
nounce 1t as an unfair and unjust discrimina-
that the doctor class shall be compelled to
diSc9Tge their debts in acurrency thus arbitra-
riIy made scarcer and dearer than that they
were by contract required to pay.
4. Resolved, That we are in favor of paying
of the rational debt according to the terms OF
the contract as originally made.
5. Resolved, hat we are in favor of all the
money issued or authorized by the general
government being made a legal tender for the
payment of all debts, both public and private
in order that each kind may be at par with
the other.
The resolutions were adopted with cheers
and applause.
Hon. /. H. Fowler then offered the follow
ing resolution, which was adopted in a SINH
lar manner:
Resolved, That we abhor aud hold up to
public scorn and detestation the leaders, both
In hfgh places and low places, in the republic
can party, who secretly connivei, and with
Dare-faced, revolutionary effrOntery, carried
out the scheme, by and through venal and
corrupt returning boards, whereby Samuel ].
Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks, the peoples
choice for president and vice president of the
United States, were wrongfully defraude d from
the positions to which fr people had called
them. We hold IL up as the monster crime of
the age, a crime against free government, a
crime against the elective franchise, and
crime that can only be condOned when the
malefactors who seated fraud in the presi-
dental chair are driven from place and power
and consigned 10 oblivion by the people whom
they have outraged.
The chairman then offered the following
resolution, taken from the Sentinel, which
was adopted:
Resolved, That in view of the enormous de-
probation OF property, both personal aud real,
and the depressed condition of the times, en-
failing unusual ourthens upon the producing,
laboring, commercial and debtor class, that
thewar rate of 10 per cent. interest on notes
anf judgments should be abolished, and the
OLD rate OF per cent. interest be made abSo-
lutely the legal interest of the state.
Resolved, Thai the democracy of owen
county. in convention assembled, send greet
ings to Hon. ID. W. Voorhees, at Washington,
and assure MIN that he has touched their
hearts in his grand effort i'm the senate OF the
United States in their behalf, and that we bid
him god-speed in his glorious work