INDIANA. 



as President. The following nominations were 

 made : for Secretary of State, Henry James, 

 of Grant County ; for Treasurer, E. P. Main, 

 of Floyd County ; for Auditor, John F. Bird, 

 of Gibson County; for Attorney- General, Da- 

 vid Moss, of Hamilton County ; for Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, John Young, of 

 Marion County. The following platform was 

 adopted : 



The National Greenback-Labor party of Indiana, 

 in convention assembled, declares : 



1. We declare our fealty to the American mone- 

 tary system the abolition of all bank issues, the 

 free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver, and 

 the issuing by the Government of full legal-tender 

 paper flat money, receivable for all dues and payable 

 for all debts, public and private, in amount sufficient 

 to meet the wants of trade, to give employment to 

 all labor, and to enable the people to do a cash busi- 

 ness and to relieve them from the debt system which 

 has made the industrial and commercial classes the 

 slaves and drudges of the credit-mongers of the 

 world. 



2. "We declare our opposition to every measure 

 looking to the resumption of specie payments, the 

 monarchical system of finance which puts all the 

 interests of industry, trade, and commerce in the 

 hands of the few, and enforces a monopoly of 

 wealth destructive of the highest material good of 

 society. 



3. We proclaim our uncompromising hostility to 

 the perpetuation of the system of Government bond- 

 ed indebtedness, which is intended to bind unborn 

 generations in chains, and we declare that the Gov- 

 ernment should use all the funds now hparded for 

 resumption purposes to pay and cancel outstanding 

 bonds, and that it should make new and liberal is- 

 sues of money to be applied to the same purpose ; 

 and that the issue of future interest-bearing bonds 

 should be prohibited by constitutional amendment. 



4. We demand that all legislation should be so 

 enacted and so administered as to secure to each 

 man, as nearly as practicable, the just reward of his 

 own labor; and we denounce all lawlessness, vio- 

 lence, and fraud that refuses submission to the will 

 of the people honestly expressed through the bal- 

 lot. 



5. We denounce the red-flag communism imported 

 from Europe, which asks for an equal division of 

 property, and we denounce the communism of the 

 national banks, of the bond syndicates, and of the 

 consolidated railroad corporations, which have se- 

 cured and are enforcing an unequal division of prop- 

 erty, having already divided among themselves ten 

 thousand millions of the property of the people by 

 corrupting the representatives and servants of the 

 people. The one system of communism ignores the 

 inequalities of capacity which have been implanted 

 by nature in the human family, and both systems 

 are destructive of the rewards of toil and of the in- 

 centives to industry and exertion. 



I. We declare that until the American monetary 

 system, which will result in the practical extinction 

 of debt and usury, is established, the State should 

 by all the powers that it can exert limit and reduce 



ie rate of interest, so that it shall in no event ex- 

 the average increase of wealth by productive 

 industry. 



7. We favor simple, plain, and economical govern- 

 ment: as few laws as possible, and thev rigidly en- 

 forced ; as few officials as practicable, and they held 

 to a close accountability. To this end we demand 

 ition of all useless offices, and the overthrow 

 the system by which offices are made to yield al- 

 Bt pr.ncelv fortunes. It is the first duty of the 

 General Assembly of Indiana to secure such 

 legislation as shall make it impossible for any local 



or State official to receive more than adequate pay 

 for his services ; and when practicable tiw compen- 

 sation should be fixed by a specific salary. 



8. We denounce the conspiracy of the .Democratic 

 and Republican leaders of Indiana to build a costly 

 and magnificent State House, which, as experience 

 has proved in all similar cases, would result in the 

 general plundering of the people. We denounce 

 the action of the Governor in calling a special session 

 of the Legislature for the purpose of fostering this 

 scheme. We denounce the indecent haste with 

 which the State House Commissioners are proceed- 

 ing to let a contract to bind the people of the State, 

 and we demand that no contract shall be let until 

 the voters of the State have had an opportunity to 

 express their will upon the subject through the 

 Legislature to be chosen in October next. 



9. We protest against the weak and ineffective 

 election laws of Indiana, and we ask that the next 

 Legislature shall enact statutes which shall secure 

 fair elections in the State, and which shall provide 

 severe and adequate punishment for fraudulent 

 voters and for those who bribe voters or procure 

 fraudulent votes. 



10. We denounce the criminal and unfair appor- 

 tionment of the legislative and congressional dis- 

 tricts of the State in the interest of the Republican 

 party, and the equally unjust apportionments made 

 in the past by the Democratic party ; and we pledge 

 our members of the Legislature to vote for a fair and 

 equitable apportionment, which shall secure a full 

 and untrammeled expression of the political senti- 

 ments of the people. 



11. The State should enact laws which will abro- 

 gate the abuses and protect the interests of men who 

 work in mines, by providing for the proper ventila- 

 tion of the mines; and the earnings of all employees 

 of corporations should be a first lien upon the prop- 

 erty of said corporations. 



12. If it was wise and needful in 1867, when 

 money was plenty and the country prosperous, to 

 enact a bankrupt law, it is certainly humane now to 

 amend such law so as to prevent frauds, and to con- 

 tinue in force this last escape of the oppressed debt- 

 or from the extortions of the money power. And 

 we favor the exemption of not less than $1,000 worth 

 of property to the householder from forced sale on 

 execution. 



13. The Constitution should be so amended that 

 the President, Vice-President, and Senators of the 

 United States shall be elected by direct vote of the 

 people. 



14. We are unalterably opposed to adding to the 

 burdens of the people by an increase of the stand- 

 ing army, believing with Washington that " over- 

 grown military establishments under any form of 

 government are inauspicious to liberty, and particu- 

 larly hostile to republican liberty." 



15. We endorse and reaffirm the platform of prin- 

 ciples adopted at Toledo February 22, 1878, and we 

 congratulate the country upon the union of the po- 

 litical interests subserving the useful ranks of soci- 

 ety in one party, which shall advance this decree 

 of a higher and better civilization, and this oldest 

 gospel, that there shall be work for all, and that all 

 shall work. 



The Eepublican party of the State assem- 

 bled in convention at Indianapolis on June 5th, 

 and was organized by the appointment of Ben- 

 jamin Harrison as President. The following 

 nominations were made: for Secretary of 

 State, Isaac S. Moore, of Warrick County ; for 

 Treasurer, George F. Herriott, of Johnson 

 County; for Auditor, A. O. Miller, of Boone 

 County; for Attorney-General, D. P. Bald- 

 win, of Cass County; for Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction, James T. Merrill, of Tip* 



