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INDIANA. 



adopted, at home and abroad, and we denounce and 

 condemn the present Republican Administration for 

 its neglect of duty toward those lately imprisoned as 

 " suspects " in the jails of Ireland by the arbitrary 

 action of the British authorities. 



We demand a revision of the present unjust tariff. 

 The Constitution of the United States confers upon 

 Congress the power to establish a tariff for revenue, 

 and, as a just and proper exercise of that power, we 

 favor such an adjustment of its provisions, within the 

 revenue standard, as will promote the industries of 

 the country and the interests of labor, without creating 

 monopolies. 



The Democratic party is now, as it has always 

 been, opposed to all sumptuary legislation, and it is 

 especially opposed to the proposed amendment to the 

 Constitution of Indiana known as the prohibitory 

 amendment, and we are in favor of the submission of 

 said proposed amendment, as well as other proposed 

 amendments, to the people according to the provisions 

 of the Constitution for its own amendment, and the 

 people have the right to oppose or favor the adoption 

 of anv or all the amendments at all stages of their 

 consideration; and any submission of constitutional 

 amendments to a vote of the people should be at a 

 time and under circumstances most favorable to a full 

 vote, and therefore should be at a general election. 



That we freely indorse and approve the laws passed 

 pursuant to the demands of former Democratic Con- 

 ventions, making provision for the safety and protec- 

 tion of laborers and miners, and providing for the 

 collection of their wages, and are in favor of all other 

 enactments to that end which may be necessary and 

 proper. 



The free schools of Indiana are the pride and glory 

 of the State, and we will see to it that they are not 

 poisoned by the breath of sectarianism , nor destroyed 

 by waste and extravagance in their management. 



In the relations between capital and labor we favor 

 such policies as will promote harmony between them, 

 and will adequately protect the rights and interests of 

 labor. 



We esteem Daniel W. Voorhees as an able and 

 faithful representative of our State in the Senate, and 

 specially commend him for his active sympathy kibe- 

 half of the soldier. 



The following is the ticket nominated : For 

 Secretary of State, William R. Myers, of Mad- 

 ison : for Auditor of State, James H. Rice, of 

 Floyd County; for Treasurer of State, John 

 J. Cooper, of Marion; for Attorney-General, 

 Francis T. Hord, of Bartholomew ; for Clerk of 

 Supreme Court, Simon P. Sheerin, of Cass ; for 

 State Superintendent, John W. Holcombe, of 

 Porter ; for Judge Supreme Court First Dis- 

 trict, William E. Niblack, of Knox ; for Judge 

 Supreme Court Second District, George V. 

 Howk, of Floyd; for Judge Supreme Court 

 Fourth District, Allen Zollars, of Allen. 



The Republican State Convention, consisting 

 of 1,157 delegates, met in Indianapolis, on the 

 9th of August, and adopted the following plat- 

 form: 



The Republican party of Indiana, represented in 

 delegate convention, recalls, as an incentive to further 

 exertions for the public welfare, the achievements of 

 the party in restoring the national Union: in over- 

 throwing slavery in securing to disabled soldiers and 

 to the widows and. orphans of those who fell in battle, 

 or died from wounds or diseases contracted in the ser- 

 vice of the Union, laws providing for liberal bounties 

 and pensions : in building up an unexampled credit 

 upon the simple foundation of an unchangeable public 

 faith ; in reducing the great debt necessarily incurred 

 for the suppression of the rebellion one half, and the 



interest on the remainder to so low a rate that the na- 

 tional debt is no longer regarded as a burden in es- 

 tablishing a currency equal to any in the world, based 

 upon the convertibility of greenbacks and national- 

 bank notes into gold or silver at the option of the 

 holders ; in increasing the value of agricultural pro- 

 ductions and the wages of labor, by building up home 

 markets on the policy of reasonable protection to do- 

 mestic industries ; in exalting the value of our natu- 

 ralization laws to pur foreign-born fellow-citizens, by 

 securing to American naturalization everywhere the 

 full rights of American citizenship ; in founding Amer- 

 ican citizenship upon manhood, and not on complex- 

 ion, and in declaring that citizenship and the ballot 

 shall ever go hand-in-hand ; in maintaining and cher- 

 ishing as a chief safeguard of liberty our system of 

 free schools, supported by a tax imposed upon all 

 property for the education of all children ; and in the 

 submission, from time to tune, in the respectful obedi- 

 ence to what has been deemed the popular will, of 

 amendments to the national Constitution and the Con- 

 stitution of the State. Animated by these recollec- 

 tions, it is resol ved 



1. That, reposing trust in the people as the fountain 

 of power, we demand that the pending amendments 

 to the Constitution shall be agreed to and submitted by 

 the next Legislature to the voters of the State for their 

 decision thereon. These amendments were not parti- 

 san in their origin, and are not so in character, and 

 should not be made so hi voting upon them. Recog- 

 nizing the fact that the people are divided in sentiment 

 in regard to the propriety of their adoption or rejec- 

 tion, and cherishing the right of private judgment, we 

 favor the submission of these amendments at a special 

 election, so that there may be an intelligent decision 

 thereon, uninfluenced by partisan issues. 



2. That we feel it due to the memory of President 

 Garfield to express our sense of the great loss suffered 

 by the nation in his death. We recall with pride the 

 fact that, springing from the humblest conditions in 

 life, Lincoln and Garfield arose, step by step, without 

 any help but the force of their abilities and exertion, 

 to the front rank among Americans, and were chosen 

 by the Republican party to bear its banner in its 

 struggles to maintain the supremacy and glory of the 

 national Union. 



3. That lapse of time can not efface from the grateful 

 recollection of the Republican party its memory of the 

 brave soldiers, from whatever section or party ranks 

 they may have come, who offered their lives in sup- 

 port of its policy of restoring and maintaining the 

 union of the States. 



4. That a revenue greatly reduced in amount, being 

 all that is now needed to pay the interest on our pub- 

 lic debt and the expenses of the Government, econom- 

 ically administered, the time has arrived for such a 

 reduction of taxes and regulation- of tariff duties as 

 shall raise no more money than shall be necessary to 

 pay such interest and expenses. We therefore ap- 

 prove of the efforts now making to adjust this reduc- 

 tion, so that no unnecessary burdens upon the con- 

 sumers of imported articles may exist, and that no 

 injury be inflicted upon our domestic industries, or 

 upon the industrial classes employed therein. 



5. That we arc gratified to observe that the laws for 

 the protection of miners and securing their wages, un- 

 der the constant administration of them by Republi- 

 can mine-inspectors, has done much for the comfort 

 of the workers in mines, and that we hope to see im- 

 portant suggestions of the present inspector for amend- 

 ments further to promote their comfort adopted by 

 the next Legislature. 



6. That the relations between capital and labor 

 should be so adjusted that the rights of laborers shall 

 be fully protected. 



7. That the fees of all State and county officers 

 should be so regulated as to give a fair compensation 

 to them, but not so great as to tempt applicants to 

 corrupt methods to obtain the same, or to impose un- 

 just burdens upon the people. 



