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fines from each department, electric and tele- 



*ione combination, plumbing, soft water for 

 vatories, electric clocks, electric lighting of 

 gas, geological department located for light in 

 the best place ; the galleries arranged for the 

 public to look directly toward the members ; 

 galleries supported by solid walls, with direct 

 light and air from the outside ; no skylight or 

 hothouse arrangements. The heating will be 

 perfected by using radiation in all the offices, 

 halls, and corridors, both direct and indirect. 

 This system is combined with ventilating by 

 exhausting the vitiated air from the floor-line 

 by means of the exhaust-ducts, which are 

 helped or forced by the steam-heating pipes 

 within. 



The election in Indiana was held on Octo- 

 ber 9th. It was for the choice of Representa- 

 tives in Congress, Secretary of State, Auditor, 

 Treasurer, Attorney-General, and Superinten- 

 dent of Public Instruction, and the members of 

 the State Legislature. 



The Democratic Convention assembled at 

 Indianapolis on February 20th, and was or- 

 ganized by the appointment of ex-Governor 

 Hendricks as President. The nominations 

 were as follows : for Secretary of State, J. G. 

 Shanklin, of Vanderburgh County ; for Auditor, 

 M. D. Manson, of Montgomery County; for 

 Treasurer, William Fleming, of Allen County ; 

 for Attorney-General, T. W. Woollen, of John- 

 son County; for Superintendent of Public In- 

 struction, James H. Smart, of Allen County. 

 The following platform was adopted : 



The Democracy of the State of Indiana assembled 

 in delegate convention declare : 



t That national-bank notes shall be retired, and in 

 lieu thereof there shall be issued by the Govern- 

 ment an equal amount of Treasury notes with full 

 legal-tender quality. 



That we are in favor of making the United States 

 notes, commonly called greenbacks, a full legal ten- 

 der in payment of all debts, public and private, ex- 

 cept such obligations only as are by the terms of the 

 original contracts under which they were issued ex- 

 pressly payable in coin. 



That the right to issue paper money as well as 

 coin is the exclusive prerogative of the Government, 

 and such money should be issued in such amounts 

 asthejsound business interests of the country may 

 from time to time require. 



We are in favor of such legislation by Congress as 

 will authorize the taxation by the States of the United 

 States notes in common with all other money. 



That we deem it unwise and inexpedient to enact 

 any further legislation for the funding of the na- 

 tional deht abroad, through the means of home syn- 

 dicates or other methods; and we believe the true 

 policy of the Government and the best interests of 

 the people would be subserved by legislating so as 

 to distribute said debt among our people at home 

 affording them the most favorable and practical op- 

 portunities for the investment of their savings in 

 the funded debt of the United States. 



That we are in favor of legislation which shall fix 

 the legal rate of interest at not exceeding six per 

 centum per annum. 



We demand the restoration of the silver dollar 

 of 41 2i grains to the coin of the country, and with 

 full legal-tender quality in the payment of all debts, 

 Voth public and private ; and that the coinage there- 

 of shall be unlimited, and upon the same terms and 



conditions as may be provided for the coinage of 

 gold. 



That we are in favor of the immediate and uncon- 

 ditional repeal of the resumption act. 



We are in favor of the most rigid economy in 

 public expenditures, and wo declare that the fees and 

 salaries of all public officers should be reduced. 



That we are in favor of the repeal of the bankrupt 



That we sincerely deplore the recent violent col- 

 lision between labor and capital, and to prevent the 

 recurrence thereof, and to protect the future public 

 order and security, we believe that the wages of cor- 

 porations engaged in the business of mining, manu- 

 facturing, and transportation should be a first lien 

 upon the property, receipts, and earnings of said 

 corporations, and that such lien should be declared, 

 defined, and enforced by appropriate legislation. 



That we favor the passage of a law for the venti- 

 lation of coal mines one that would be just to the 

 miner and owner. 



The Democratic party is the friend of the common- 

 school system, and will in every legitimate way labor 

 for its success, and will oppose any attempt to di- 

 vert any portion of the common-school fund to any 

 sectarian purpose. 



That the last apportionment of the State for legis- 

 lative purposes was grossly unjust and dishonorable, 

 and we demand that the next Legislature, in appor- 

 tioning the State for legislative purposes, as will be 

 their imperative duty, shall have regard alone to 

 population and contiguity of territory. 



^ That the jurisdiction claimed and exercised by the 

 circuit courts of the United States over questions of 

 corporate and individual rights arising under the 

 laws of the States tends to oppress and burden liti- 

 gants to such an extent as to amount to a practical 

 denial of justice in many cases ; and we consider 

 the legislation which has conferred such jurisdiction 

 as unwise and hurtful to the true interests of the 

 people. And we demand such legislation as will re- 

 strict and limit the jurisdiction of such courts to 

 such matters as are clearly contemplated by the 

 Constitution and expressed in the judiciary act of 

 1789. 



We are opposed to class legislation, and protest 

 against the grant of subsidies hy the Federal Gov- 

 ernment, either in lands, bonds, money, or by the 

 pledge of the public credit. 



That we abhor and hold up to public detestation 

 the leaders in the Eepuhlican party who secretly 

 connived, and with barefaced effrontery carried out 

 the scheme, by and through venial returning boards, 

 whereby Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hen- 

 dricks, the people's choice for President and Vice- 

 President, were wrongfully kept out of the posi- 

 tions to which a free people had called them. We 

 hold it up as the monster crime of the age, a crime 

 against free government, a crime against the elective 

 franchise, and a crime that can only be condoned 

 when the malefactors who seated a fraud in the 

 Presidential chair are driven from power and con- 

 signed to everlasting infamy by the people whom 

 they have outraged. And we denounce the act of 

 the' President of the United States in appointing to 

 high and lucrative positions the corrupt members of 

 the returning boards, and condemn the acts of Fed- 

 eral officers in attempting to interfere with the rights 

 and powers of the State courts in the prosecution of 

 these criminals. 



That our Senators and Eepresentatives in Con- 

 gress be and are hereby requested to secure the 

 passage of a law giving to the soldiers of the Mexi- 

 can war a pension similar to that now given to the 

 soldiers of the war of 1812. 



The National Greenback-Labor party of the 

 State assembled in Convention at Indianapo- 

 lis on May 22d, and was organized by the ap- 

 pointment of James Buchanan, of Vigo County, 



