The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-11-20
THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
TOLD IN MANY COMMUNICATIONS.
A New Declaration of Independence-Har-
rison's Inconsistency on the Tariff Cues
tion-A Gross Injustice-A Good Sug-
acknowledgements Galore.


self into a committee OF three, and
whereased, wherefored and resolved, and
finally adopted the following declaration
of Independence for our party (the repub-
lcans):
When in the course Of human events ii
becomes necessary for one party to dis
solve the political bonds which have con-
nected them with the common people and
10 assume among the powers of the earth
the separate and higher station to which
the laws of monopoly and of monopoly's
god (high tariff, entitle them, pretended
respect to the opinions OF mankind re-
quires that they should declare the causes
which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident:
That all men are not created equal; that
the republican party is endowed by its
bosses with certain inalienable rights; that
among these are life, monopoly and the
pursuit of office; that to secure these
rights, returning boards are instituted
among men, deriving their unjust powers
from the consent Of a few political knaves;
that when any party threatens to become
destructive of these ends, it is the wish of
the monopolist to alter or abolish 1t, and
to institute a new party, laying its founda-
tons on such principles and organizing its
powers in such form as to them shall seem
most likely to effect their continuance in
Dfice.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that par
ties long established should not be
changed for light and transient causes, and
all experience hath shown that the people
are more disposed to suffer while evils are
siderable than to right themselves by
abolishing the party to which they are ac-
customed. But when a long train OF re-
forms and democratic victories pursuing
Invariably the same object, evinces a de-
sign TO reduce them under absolute reform
II is their right, it is their duty to throw
off such a party and to provide new
methods for their future continuance IN
Office. Such has been the patient suffer
ings of our party, and such IS now the
necessity which cOnstrains them TO alter
their former systems of tactics.
The history of the present democratic
party is a history of repeated reforms and
economizings, all having in direct object
the establishment OF an absolute reform
over these states. To prove this let facts
be submitted 10 a candid world:
They have refused their assent to laws
the most iniquitOus and unnecessary for
the public good. They have forbidden
their congressman to vote for measures of
immediate and pressing importance TO the
monopolist. unless suspended in their
operation, till the masses of the people
would be benefited; and when so sus-
pended they have become dead letters.
They have refused TO pass other laws for the
accommodation of a few monopolists unless
those monopOlists would relinquish the
night of reducing the wages of their labor
ers-a right inestimable to them and for
midable to honest men only.
They have called together the people to
conventions at places unusual and uncom-
Portable Ito u.s. and distant from the usual
place Of getting our hired repeaters, for the
sole purpose of nominating honest men
and trying to beat our party.
Thew have dissolved parties of "bull-
dozers" repeatedly for opposing with
cowardly measures our invasiOns on the
rights of the ballot-box. They have re-
fused for long time after such dissolution
10 allow other such mobs to come into the
country, whereby our party is unable to
pet votes enough, have returned to the
people and preached prohibition to some,
free whisky to others, used Dorsey's
SOAP" the party remaining in the mean
while exposed TO all the dangers OF demo-
cratic doctrine from without, and mug
wumpery within.
They have endeavored to increase the
population OF these states for that purpose,
+ promoting the laws for the naturalization
of foreigners, trying to pass others to en-
courage their migration hither, and lower
ing the conditions Of new appropriations
of lands They have INSTRUCTED the adj
ministration OF justice Cd by refusing
their assent TO laws for establish
ing returning boards They have made
officers dependent on the peoples will alone
for the tenure of their offices, and the
amount and payment of their salaries.
They have attempted to cut down the
number of Offices and to send out
swarms of our officers to either work or
starve.
They don't want us in times of peace to
keep standing armies among the people,
without their the people's) consent. They
have affected to render the military de-
pendent on, and inferior to the civil
power.
They have combined with others (the
pecple) to subject us to a jurisdiction for
eign to our grit and unacknowledged
by our leaders, giving their approval to
for Furnishing us (the troops) for any muir
ders which they committed on the peace
able inhabitants of the state because
they would not support our party
for increasing our trade with all parts of
the world; for cutting down the taxes
without our consent; for depriving US, in
q few cases, of the benefits of trial by
bribed jury; for arresting us to be tried
for swindling the government; for taking
away the colored vote, abolishing our most
sumptuary laws and altering, funda-
mentally, the powers OF the bondholders;
for retiring our legislatures and electing
them themselves with enough majority in
both houses to legislate in the interest of
the people.
They have excited the people to action
by declaring us corrupt party
and prosecuting our thieves. They
have added to our public lands,
improved our coast, increased the popula-
tons of our towns and prolonged the lives
of our people. They are this time pre-
pairing TO turn loose democratic orators all
over this land TO complete the
work of reform, honesty and death,
Ito monopoly, already begun with
circumstances of unanimity scarcely
paraIleled In the palmlest days of
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