The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-08
A NEW DECLARATION.
A Statement Of Principles Enumerated by
the Connecticut Independents.
new York Tribune.

declaration OF the Well-meanlng Dull ullSbdkeu
fathers-was reread yesterday all over the
United States.
But it was not read by unanimous consent
Here and there ian independent Of the New
Haven or the Boston school bolted the document
The reasons thatconstrained them to do SO appear
in the revised and amended Declaration of Inde
spendence, containing all the modern improve
ments, to which they have set their hands and
seals, and which is to form one of the series OF
campaign documents to be issued from indie
pendent headqual tiers.
The Tribune has been placed in possession of
the advance sheets of the first rough draft of
The new Declaration. Whether it is destined to
FIRE the popular heart aud supplant the old Dec
laration remains-like the circus-to be seen.
This is the new Declaration:
~ in the course Of inhuman events it en-
VIM rash and regardless head of one
ters into tn~ = the political bands which have
people to disssas> another and to presume
among the move Srs of the eat .,,,sness
@ogeaf statidn 70 ~ sieh their own bumpGlvs.
and self-conceit inveig men, i 0ecent respect
TO the opionion of the we4 49, Ill - y ~! Dns
Lion and the Unicorn requires iae eney snouu
forego their hot-headed illadvset lil gi
We hold this truth to be self-evident nset tn
men are createdequa but that these United SJa ses
ought not to assert their equality, since to do so
Is to commit the objectionable sin of .ingoism
with large J; that to secure the inalienable
right not to commit this sin, government on the
American continent was instituted among men,
deriving its just powers from the consent of
Professor William Ct. Sumner of Yale College,
that whenever any form of government becomes
destructive of this end and assumes to have |
foreign policy, it is the right of the people
meaning the aforesaid Summer and his associates
Ito alter or abolish it, or. at all events to de-
fact nd I0o,@,,
both being notorously in favor of a nations hav-
ing foreign policy. Prudence. indeed would |
dictate that political organization long estab
1shed and OF patriotic record-whose services |
for humanity and freedom shall shine like the |
stars forever and ever-should not be
changed for light and transient causes; and, ac-
cordingly, all experience hath shown that the |
free traders of the United States have for many |
years condoned the Republican party But |
when long train of protection measures pur-
suing invariably the same object evinces hell |
ish design to cater for the home rather than the
foreign market it is their right it is their duty,
to hold meetings in Boston and New Haven and |
resolve not to support James 6. Blaine The free
traders and their allies have suffered patiently and
they are now constrained to request the majority
to allow the will Of the minority to prevail. |
The history of the present presidential nominee |
of the Republican party is history well calcu
lated to make bass wood Indian on guard in |
front of cigar store take to the woods in abject
dismay. To prove this, let facts be submitted to
4
He insists, in season and out of season tSun-
days and holidays included in spelling Nation
with a large N.
He believes that a foreign policy is handy
thing for nation to have in the house. and that
Uncle Sans ought to be visible to the naked eye.
He loves his country with all his heart and |
soul, his highest ambition being to assist her in
achieving her manifest destiny.
He is an earnest and unhagging champion of |
the developement of American trade in every
conceivable channel, and he was never known to
sit up nights deyising schemes for the develop
ment of the trade of rival countries.
He can always be counted upon to serve the
cause of free labor; he can never be counted
upon to serve the cause of servile labor
He was the open and intimate friend of the
tattooed James A. Garfield, and he harbors in |
his home IN Augusta pictures of the tattooed
George Washington and the tattooed Abraham
Lincoln,
He fred the Ephesian dome in several places
He introduced the Asiatic cholera into Maine |
and the potato bug into Colorado.
He struck the late lamented William Patter-
He has aided and abetted the floods and cy-
clones that have devastated the West
He has written a history which has resulted
in raising up among us in times of peace vast
hordes of book-agents that prey upon the PEG
pie
He is the author of Bread Winners and
Beautiful Snow.
A leader whose character is thus tattooed by
every mark which may define truly bad man
is unfit for the suffrages Of truly good free
traders.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to our
Republican brethren. We have warned them
from time to time that if we could not have our
own way we would kick. We have reminded
them that, politically speaking, we were infalli-
BILE in the first degree. We have cordially i'm
vited them to accept free reserved seats to Prof
Summers lectures. But they have been deaf to
the voice of justice foolishly arguing that the
majority was to be presumed to know thing or
two, and that the will of the minority was not a
safe cornerstone upon which to erect govern |
ment of the people.
We, therefore, the representatives of the
United States of America-but, more particu-
larly of New Haven, Comm Tooley |
street assembled, appealing to our
own supreme dogmatism for the beatitude
of our intentions, do in the name and by the au-
thority of minority which was badly beaten in
a fair fl ght at Chicago solemnly publish and de- |
clare that the free traders and their allies are,
and of right ought to be, free and independent |
Of the Republican party: and that as free and in
dependent persons they have full power to kick |
like sixty, bolt nominations, vote in the air, labor
for such forerunners of the millennium as q
Democratic restoration, and TO do all other acts |
and things which kickers and boilers may Of |
right do
And for the support of this Declaration Of In
dependence TALL others counterfeitl with firm
reliance upon the Endorsement Of Charles Fran
els Adams, we mutually pledge to each other our
signs, our soreheads, and our reason proof AFRO
gance.
Ex-MINISTER SARGENT.