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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1876
Page
4
Odayamet Eads a donkey in cream waifa becomes a Jersey City oddity as Baltimore police face abetting robberies. Maryland oysters move to Jersey beds while political nominating talk and jaunty fashion notes mingle with tales of actors and forgers in a bustling, scattered chronicle.
A historical Indiana Democratic platform defends public school funding, liquor licensing, and nonpartisanship in veterans’ rights while opposing rebel debts and federal debts tied to the District of Columbia. It proclaims Thomas A. Hendricks as the party’s presidential choice and lists delegates to the Democratic National Convention by district. The document cites United States Court cost concerns and urges unity in casting Indiana’s electoral role.
A promotional notice extols Scientific American as the premier weekly on engineering and industrial progress. It highlights broad readership from farmers to lawyers, mentions a January 1 1876 volume, 832 pages per year, and subscription terms 3.20 dollars with club discounts. Munn & Co. is listed as patent solicitors with offices in New York and Washington.
Delegates of the National Democratic party declare urgent reform of federal government, denounce past taxation and waste, advocate sound currency and resumption, call for civil service overhaul, and demand a political shift to end Republican excesses with honest leadership and peaceful civic action.
The Indiana Democrats pledge fidelity to the federal constitution and public trusts, urge honest public finance, and call for reform of corruption in government. They critique personal government, advocate retrenchment, sound currency backed by gold and silver, and free circulation while opposing currency contraction and partisan measures. They condemn the 1879 specie payment act as a partisan tool and urge repeal, citing economic disruption and distrust.
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