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The Indiana Democratic Platform

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
July
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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The platform adopted by the Indiana Democratio State Convention contains much that is good, niingled with a little whioh is undeniably bad. lts arraignment of the adininistration and the Kepublican party is pungent and forcible, and in the main its declarations of the principies and policy of the Democratie party are commendable and to the point. Even in those particulars in which the platform is most objectionable, it is at least clear and free from ambiguity, however incomprehensible may be the process by which the Convention was deluded into taking the stand it did. The only defect in the work of the Convention is in the treatment accorded the finanoial question. The Convention had a grand opportunity to take a stand which would have enforced admiration everywhere, and have shown that the Democracy of Indiana were not only sonnd to the core on the issues raised by the dominant party by its policy of striking down local self-government, by its attempts to muzzle the press, by its burdensome and iniquitous tariff, by the manner in which it has fostered corruption and allowed the revenues to be preyed upon by plunderera, but thatit was unfal tering in its devotion to the hard money principie, and oould not be turned into any of the devious by-paths leading f urther into the wilderness of broken promises and unredeemed pledges. That it did not seize this opportunity is to be deeply regretted; the more so as two previous State Conventions which had been held were also led astray by the same ignia JaVuut that has now allured the Democratie Convention. It is true that the Convention of Wednesday did not explicitly take ground in favor of more paper money, and that the declaration in favor of specie resumption may be held up as indicative of the sound views entertainod by its members ; yet the demand for a greenback currency, coupled with the sentiment that its volume should be regulated by legislation, shows but too plainly that the question of specie resumption was coii8idered a surbordinate ono. What has been done, however, cannot now be undone, and it is useless to indulge in vain regrets. The Indiana Democrat8 have, so far ag they could, placed the Deniocracy of the nation in a false and wrong position on the question of the finances; and it cannot be disguised that they have given the administraron press a weapon which it will not be slow to avail itself of. Their resolution in favor of paying the ó:2Os in greenbacks will be held up as repudiation, though it is, in reality, nothing bnt iuflation carried to its legitímate conclusión, and is, therefore, the embodiment of a doctrine which bas to-day its strongest and most numerous advocates in the ranks of the Kepublican party. We do not deny that the financial resolutions may be as satisfactory to the masses in Indiana as the remaining resolutions undoubtedly are, tor the inflation craze seems to have almost absolute posssssion of the State. Nor íb it at all unlikely that the platform and candidntes will together arouse an enthusiasm which wiil swecp the State, especially as the misdoeds of the adininistration and dominant party have excited such universal condemnation. But as a general rule outside of Indiana the financial resolutions will be unpalatable to the opposition, and will not be accepted as tuther sound or praisworthy. - Vree Prets. Bestram your temper, particularly if a policeman is in sight. Pits of anger hasten death. If a man should cali you a horse-thief and you should get highly indignant, it would cut your life short by several days ; and if it was in Texas and there was a vigilance committee handy, it might cut it short altogether.

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