The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-29


election. A commencement has already
been made. We repealed the law COM
polling the government to buy silver
bullion. We have not disturbed or de-
monetized the six hundred millions of
silver today in circulation either in spe-
Gle or by it's paper representative We
hold to the old and well-knOwn financial
principle of the democratic party that
silver and gold coin shall be the basis
of the money of the people, and we think
that upon such basis, bimetallic in it's
use and process, money may be fur
nished in ample quantities for the sue
cessful transaction of all the business
of the country. We have made no limi-
tation upon the coinage of either silver
or gold, and we intend to make none for
the future, except such as may be neces-
sary to maintain a parity of the two
metals and to make every dollar equal
in value in the market.
Federal Taxation.
I'VE purpose further a thorough re-
vision of the system of federal taxa
ton, insisting that the burdens of the
government shall be laid upon those
most able to bear them and that land
and labor, wages and agricultural prod
ucts shall be finally released from the
excessive exactions to which they have
been subject for the last thirty years.
and an increase of the revenue will be
the result of the revision of the tariff
upon these lines. We purpose further
to provide that a certain class of appro-
priations, those in relation to the ex-
Union soldiers of the late war, shall be
provided for and preferred and that the
amounts due those already settled, and
those yet to be adjusted, shall be paid
TO every soldier justly entitled, promptly,
without delay, in money of the utmost
currency and the highest class.
we denounce, as hitherto, all inter-
Terence by the federal government, its
agents or officers, in the elections held
by the people of the state. We believe
mat the present republican policy in
force since 1870. under what are called
FEDERAL election laws, is constantly at
tended with danger Of a collision be-
tween the states and the general gov
eminent; that the system of bribery in
the shape of appointments and that the
needless expenditures Of millions Of
money paid out at congressional and
presidential elections have no purpose
except TO secure the continuance in
power Of an administration willing to
use such means for its success. We
favor. therefore, and shall enforce the
prompt payment OF all pension dues,
the immediate repeal of all bOunties and
subsidies, and especially the election
bounties and subsidies paid TO partisans
as rewards for their labor. We favor
also such reconstruction OF shipping and
navigation acts as shall Iberate COM
merce from the burdens imposed upon
it by such laws, and an administration
of the public lands and the questions re-
lating thereto which shall reserve the
domain 10 actual settlers, and which
shall deny to corporations the immense
monopoly which they have enjoyed in
that behalf
Administrations Foreign Policy.
1--WE have the fullest confidence in
the wisdom, integrity and patriotism of
Grover Cleveland and Walter G.
Gresham. We know that they will stand
by all the best and highest democratic
traditions in respect TO the foreign
policy of the government. and we be-
lieve that no step will be taken which
will endanger the honor or character Of
the United States. the Monroe doctrine
any other principle which has here
tofore controlled our foreign relations,
and especially those with the Hawaiian
people.
During the last campaign the re-
publican party made a very harsh at
tack upon the present system of state
taxation. We appeal to the actual
operation of the law and the revenue
the many charges of the injustice and
inequality which were made against 1t.
The revenue has been largely increased,
il has been wisely expended and the
state debt has been gradually reduced,
so that the sums to be hereafter collected
from the people will grow lighter and
easier.
I'VE have witnessed with profound
regret the many financial disasters and
business distresses which have befallen
the people of the country and we de-
nounce the statement, so often made and
repeated, that these things are the re-
suit of democratic policies, as not only
untrue, but dishonest. The democratic
party inherited from the last admin
istration an empty treasury, very large
engagements for the payment of sub
sides and bOunties and financial
measure. commonly known as the Sher-
man act, which aggravated all these
evils an act so flagitiOuS in its charac-
ter that its own author and his pOliu-
cal associates felt compelled to join in
the effort for its repeal, and we con-
graduate the country upon the result
of the policy Of the present administra-
ton, developed in the recent eXtraordin-
airy session of congress, which has sensi-
bly, decreased the danger to the national
credit and will, in time, gradually re-
store the public credit and business con-
fdence and viii lead to the renewed en-
ployment of labor, the increase Of wages
and the rise in the value of farm pro-
duce. We are proud of the bearing and
acts of our senator's, Daniel w. Voor-
bees and David Turpie, and Of our
representatives in congress upon this
question and the controlling influence
they exercised upon its determination.
Pledges VIII BE Redeemed.
1--WE rely upon the judgment of the
American people that the policy Of the
administration so recently chosen shall
not be condemned without trial, and we
have the utmost faith that every pledge
made to the voters of the republic by
the convention last held at Chicago will
be redeemed, that every promise made
will be kept and that the result will be
relief to the whole country, not only
from the evils which it now suffers, but
from the causes of those evils which are
not fancied, but real, and which have
been engendered by thirty years of I'M