The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-26

A. That we recognize the right of all men to organ
ize for social material adyancement the right of
wage workers to all lawful means to protect them
selves against the encroachments of moneyed monop-
Dsts and the right to fix price for their labor com
mensurate with the work required of them and we
hold that every has the right to dispose Of his
labor upon such terms as he may think will best
promote his interests and without interference by
other persons IN relations between capital and labor
the Democratic party fGvors such measures and poll
ces as will promote harmony between them and will
adequately protect the rights and interests OF both
3. We deem it of vital Importance that private
corporations should be prohibited by law from water
ing their corporate stock.
q. That it is the duty of the government TO repos-
itself of all public lands heretofore granted for
the benefit of corporations which have been forfeited
b. noncompliance with the conditions of the grant
and should hold the same for the and benefit OF
the people, Laws should be passed to prevent the
ownership of large tracts of land by corporations,
by persons not citizens of the United States who
have not declared their intention to become such.
provided by law. Congress should discourage the pr-
chase of public land in large bodies by any parties for
speculative purposes but should preserve the same
far practicable for actual settlers and TO that
end, all subsidies of land well money, to corpo-
rations and spectators, should cease forever.
z. The Democratic party is the faithful friend OF
the soldiers their widows and orphans. We in
favsr of the granting of pensions TO all soldiers sui
fering from disability incurred during service in the
army of granting pensions to soldiers of the Mexi-
of equalizng pensions and bounties to sol,
diers and pensioners without limitation to time and
of providing for the widows of all soldiers.
8. We hold it to be the duty of our government to
protect every part of the world all naturalized
citizens, including those who have declared their in
tention to become such according to laws, the
same would our native born, and to resist all
improper claims upon them by governments to which
theyn longer allegiance; and our sympathles are
with all oppressed people in all parts of the world in
all rght and proper efforts to free themselves from
oppression and establish free Institutions based upon
the consent of the governed.
3. The Democratic party demands reforms in the
civil service that will again result in the employment
of those only who are honest and capable, and that
honesty and capabity shall again be made condition
of public employment
10. The free schools of Indiana are the pride and
glory of the State and the Democratic party will see
to it that they not poisoned by the breath OF sec
tariansm destroyed by waste and extravaganza in
their management
IL. We approve of the action of the late Demo
cratic Legislature in preventing partisan Governor
from politically revoutonizng the benevolent insti
tutons of the State which he had already commenced
by the nomination of his party friends to fill the va
cances about to occur in the board OF directors OF
said institutions.
Of the infamous law passed by the former Republican
Legislature, for the settlement of decedents es-
habss under which law estates were being consumed
by costs and declare in favor of reducing all
fees and salaries according to the necessities of the
.ess. and that rigid economy shall be observed in
every department of the state and federal
IS. We also approve of the passage by said Legis-
lature of the metropolitan police bill whereby motto
rous partisan police at the capital of the State whose
chief business to labor to keep the Republican
party in power, superseded by strictly non-par-
tsan police, equally divided, to politics, between
Democrats and Republicans and who are required by
law to preserve order and attend to regular police
business, and forbidden to interfere in elections.
1t particularly appropriate that the State should
have some voice in choosing the police of its cap
aI where the State treasury, public buildings and
archives, and much public property situated and
where its principal officers reside, odieay assem-
Bile and about the greatest nuisance that be inflicted
city is mere partisan police, chosen by lot of
ward bummers and low grade politicians and ad-
venturers. We favor all measures that will elevate
and purify municipal governments and make them
protective of the interests Of the whole people, rather
than of the party which for the time being happens
TO he in power.
IA. Ne commend the last act of the Democratic
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tractors upon the Staehouse and II is the sense
of the Democratic party Of Indiana that no subsidy
either direct indirect, shall be hereafter voted to
contractors said building.
IS We are opposed to calling convention to alter
and amend the Constitution of this State. Such
convention would be a great and useless expense and
would result in unsettng laws and systems well
established and understood. and which could not be
as well understood under a Constitu-
be wise in this matter to let well enough alone. The
country has Trospered and grown great under the
present Constitution and it needs hnkering with
at the present time especially in the interest of any
party seeking to invade the rights of private property
and personal liberty, secured by the Constitution
And amendments that may become necessary in the
future should be made in the cheap, simple and
just manner provided in the Constitution itself
16 1t Is provided by the Constitution of this State
that the liberty of the people should be protected and
that their private property should not be taken with
out Just compensation. and opposed to any
change in the Constitution tending to weaken these
safeguards to any legislation which asserts the
power TO take or destroy the private property of any
portion of the people of this State without compensa
ton which unjnsty interferes with their personal
liberty to what they shall eat or drink or to the
kind of clothing they shall wear believing that the
government should be administered in that WAY best
calculated to confer the greatest good upon the great
est number without sacrificing the rights of person
or of property and leaving the innocent creeds hnb
its and business of the people unfettered by
sumptuary laws, class legislation, extortionate
monopoies. While standing Faithfully by the rights
of property and personal liberty guaranteed to the
people by the Constitution, distinctly declare that
we are in favor of sobriety and temperance and all
he of writ hut
we believe that a well regulated license system and
reasonable and just laws upon the subject faithfully
enforced, would be better than extreme measures
which being subversive of personal liberty and in
conflict with public sentiment, would be effect
lively executed thus bringing law into disrepute and
tending to make sneaks and hyPocrtes OF our peoples
therefore, opposed to any constitutional amend
ent relat ing to the subject of the manufacture and
sale of Intoxicating and malt liquors.
II. Believing that the elections should be
roled by the people under State laws and that the
stability of our institutions depends upon fair elections
and an honest count of the votes cast by the people
the Democratic party demands repeal of the laws
enacted by the Republican party designed to place the
elections under federal control in violation OF the
rights of the States and that 1t will hold up for the
detestation of the people the supreme frand OF S767
by which the will of the people was set aside and
usurpers were placed in the two most important
Offices of the country.
49, The Republican party stands arraigned at the
bar of public opinion for its long and continued
of usurpation and misrue. has disregarded the
rights of the people and the States it has held to
its l-gotten power in defiance of the popular will by
the corrupt use of money in the elections Especially
in Indiana in 1880; and it has corrupted public NOR
ais by elevating to high places who known TO
be dishonest, and has continued during period of
peace system of high taxation justified only by
condition of war in which it had its origin; and tn
furnish Iretext for its continuance has favored
every extravagant appropriation of the public money
cntailed burden the people, and which is benefit
only those who share in the plumber. The remedy
for these evils an immediate change of aduinistra-
tion Let taxation be redneed to the end that the
money shall remain in the pockets of the people in
stead of aceunuaing in the treasury, to tempt the
curidity of the VeIIsl and corrupt.
49, The continuance of the same party set of
men in power consecutvey for great many years is
naturally eo1ruptg and not in accordance with the
genius Cd our republican institutions The long con
tiln1ancs Of the Republican party party in power
nearly the quarter of century, has led to starroute
and other frauds and corruens frightful to eonten
siate the ll txteIrt of which will 1iprnr he l,n,nR