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Show TILDKX AND HENDIlKKS. Tliey Issuo Their Letters of Acceptance. A Team Which Works Well Together. . Iteionu uutl uu lloiieMl Cur-i Cur-i l'cui'y. Read TiMcn's Finance Views uml Hie Couviufi'd TUut ll I Is Louk-Wiudetl. HICXDSICKS' LETTElt. Indianapolis, Ikd., July 4th, 1S7G. Gentlemen: I have the honor to acknowltdgu the receipt of your communication, com-munication, in which you have formally for-mally notified mo of my nomination by the national democratic convention conven-tion at St. Louis as their candidate for tbe office of vice president of the United States. It it a nomination which I had neither eipecttd nor do-sired, do-sired, and yet I recognize and appreciate ap-preciate tiie high honor done me y , the convention The choice of such a body, and pronounced with such unusual unanimity, and accompanied accom-panied with the generous expression uf esteem and confidence, ought to uutweigh all merely personal desired and preferences uf my own. It if with this feeling, and I trust al&o from tbe deep sense of public duty, that I now accept tbe nomination, and shall abide the judgment of my countrymen. country-men. It would have been impossible for me to accept the nomination if I could not HEARTILY ENDORSE TIIE PLATFORM of the convention. I am gratified, therefore, to be able to unequivocally say that I ogree in tho principles, approve, ap-prove, the policies and sympathize with the purposes enunciated in that platform. Tho institutions of our country have been sorely tried by tlie exigencies of civil war and since Deace, by the selfish and corrupt management man-agement ot public aflaira, which has shamed us before civilized mankind by unwise and partial legislation. Every industry and interest of the people have beon made to suffer, and the executive department of government, govern-ment, dishonesty, rapacity aud venality ve-nality have debauched tho public service. ser-vice. Men known to bo unworlby have been promoted, while others have been degraded for fidelity to official duty. Public ofTices have b-jen made the means of private profit, and the country has been ofieuded to see a class of men who boost of the friendship of the sworn protectors of the state amassing fortunes for-tunes by defraudinjj the public trens ury and by corrupting the terv-iiits ol the people. In Buch a crisis ot the nistory of the country I rejoice thai the convention of St. Louis his sc nobly raised THE STAXDABD OK RilfOEM. Nothing can be well with us or with our atiairs until the public conscience, shocked by tbe enormous evils and abuses which prevail, shall have demanded de-manded and compelled an unsparing unspar-ing reformation of our national ad-niniatration, ad-niniatration, in its head and in its members. In such reformation tbe reni.,al of a single officer, even a president, is comparatively a trifling matter, if the system whicn bo represents re-presents and which has fostered him as be baa fostered it, ia suffered to remain. re-main. The preaidint alone must not be made the scapegoat for the enormities enor-mities of the system which infects the public scrvico aud threatens the destruction of our inntitutions. In some respects I hold that the pn sent executive has been a victim rather than tho author of that vicious sya tern; congreasional and party leaders have been stronger than tho prtsi-dent. prtsi-dent. No one man could hnve created it, and the remuval ol no one man can umend it. It is tltorou i-ly i-ly corrupt and must be awrpi remoraeieesly away by the section of a government of elements entirely new and pledged to radical reform. I trust the work of reform must cvi-nently cvi-nently bf the restoration of the normal nor-mal operation of the constitution of the Unite'1. States with all its amendments. amend-ments. The necessities of war cannot can-not bo pleaded in lime of peace. The right of LOC1L EELF-OOVEKNaiENT aa guaniutet'd by the constitution muat be everywhere restored. The ceo trahzation and almost personal imperialism im-perialism which has been practiced must be done away or the first principles prin-ciples of the republic will bo lost. Our financial eyaietn of expenditurc must be reformed. Gold and silver are tho real sWndariU of values, and' our national currency will nut be a perfect medium of excliangm an til it snail be convertible at j the pleasure of the huldi-r. Aa I have heretofore said, no one desires de-sires a return U specie payment more earnestly than I do, but i do not believe be-lieve tht it will or can be reached in harmony with the interests of tlm people by artificial riiennures fur a contraction of tho currency, any mop' than I believe wealth or permunonl prosperity can bo creau-d by an iu)l.i-tiou iu)l.i-tiou of the currency. Tho laws of fioanco cannot be disngardcd with impunity. THE FINANCIAL POLICY OP UOVKIIN-MENT, UOVKIIN-MENT, if indeed it deserves the natno of policy at all, has been in disregard ol these law, and therefore has dioUirbtrd commercial business confidence tw woll aa hindered a return to specie payments. One feature of that pulley wait the rwmplion act of '75, which has embarrassed the country by the anticipation of u compulsory resumption resump-tion for which no preparation ban been made and without any ananrancn that it would be practicable. A repenl uf that clause ia necesntiry, that the natural operation ol fiuanoial lawx may be restored, that the buRiuesa of the country may bo relieved from its disturbing and duproHiting influence, and that a return to apecin payment may be facilitated by the nuhHtitutiun of more prudent legislation, which shall mainly rely on a judicium system sys-tem ot public economies and ot official offi-cial retrenchments, and abovo all on the promotion of prosperity in all of the iudnntrim of tho people. 1 do Tiot understand THE KI-I'EAL OF TUB KESUMITIOS claiiHO of tho act of 18715 to bo a backward back-ward Blep in our return to apucie payments, pay-ments, but the recovery of a fal step, and although the repeal n my lor a time bo prevented, yet thodntcr-miuatinn thodntcr-miuatinn of tho domocratic party on , the aubjact has been declared. Thoro should bo no hindrances put in the way of a return of specio payment, riayn the plnlfnrm of tho Hi. Louis I oouvonliun: "We denounco tho resumption re-sumption cld'ine of tho act uf 187G ' and demand its repoal.1' I thoronnhly believe by public economy, by official I roirnnchinonla and by a wish financial ' leiHlaticm enabling ua to accumulate 1 precioua nielnla, thai ruauniplioti at I an early day ia pofmbla without producing pro-ducing nu artificial acaroily uf cur- rency or disturbing the public or com- murcial cru.nt, and that tlienn niforniH r logMihor with a rnnloratiun of purn Ki'verummil, will rcHtora gmieral con- i fiilonco, CDCOnruKo uanlulinvtwiruyui r of capital, furnish employment lo 1 labor and relievo the country from r the paralysis of hard times. With J the industries of the pe tple there have i bjen frequent interferences. Our 'platform says many industries have heen impoverished to subsidize a few; our commerce has been deeded to an inleriur position on the high seas; manufactured havo been diminished, agriculturo has been embarrassed and the distress of the industrial classes d em nulls that these things shall bo rclurmed. Ibfe burdens bur-dens of the peoplo must also be lightened by a great change in our system of public expense. The profligate pro-fligate expenditures which increases taxation from So per cuptla in 1S00 to $1S in 1S70 tolls its own story of our need of reform; our treaties with foreign powers should also ho revised and amended in bo far as they leave the citizens of foreign birth in any particular less secure in any country on the earth than tney would be if they hud been born upon our own soil and, the INIQUITOUS COOLIE SYSTEM which, through tho agency of wealthy companies, imports Chinese bonds-inon bonds-inon and establishes a system of slavery, and interferes with the just rewards of labor on our Pacific const, should bo utterly abolished. In tbe reform of our civil service I most heartily endorse that section of the platform which declares that the civil aerwee otiL'ht not to be subject to change at every electiou, and that it ought not to he made a brief reward of party zeal, but it ought to ho awarded for competency aud held for fidelity in the public employ. I hope never again lo see tho civil and remorseless re-morseless proscription for political upiniou which has disgraced the administration ad-ministration of the last eight years. Bad us the civil aervico now ia, as all know, it has Borne men of tried integrity in-tegrity and proved ability. Buch men, and such men only, should bo retained in ofiice, but no man should bo retained re-tained in any consideration who has proaiitutrd bis office to the purpose of partizan intimidation or compulsion, ur who has furnished mony to corrupt cor-rupt elections. This is done and has been dono in almost every country. It is a blight upon tbe morals of a country, and ought to be reformed. In respect to OUR COMMON SCHOOLS, I havo only thii to Bay that in my mdgment tbe man or party that would involve our acboola in a polili cal or sectarian controversy is an enemy to the schools. Common schools are more under the protecting care of all the people than under tho control cf any party or sect. They must be under uo sectarian nor partisan, par-tisan, and there must he neither division divi-sion nor misappropriation of tho funds for their support. Likewise I regard the man who would arouse or foster national animosities aud antagonism an-tagonism among bis countrymen aa a dangerous enemy to his country. All the peDple must be m:de to leel and to know that once more tho established estab-lished purposo and policy tinder which all tlie citizens of every condition, condi-tion, raco and color will be secure in t!.ti enjoyment of whatever rights the constitution and laws declare or recognize, re-cognize, and that in controversies that may arise GOVERNMENT IS NOT I'AHTISAN, but within ita constitutional authority the just and powerful guardian of tho rights and safety of all. Strife between be-tween races and sections will cea.se as soon as the power for evil is taken aw.ty from the party who make poll 1 tie d gam out of acts of violence and blushed, aud the constitutional authority is placed in the hands of mm whose political welfare requires that peace and g.xyl order shall he preserved eveiywhere. It will be seen, gentlemen, that I am in ENTIRE ACCORD WITH THE PLATFORM of the convention by which I hav been nominated as a candidate for the omce of vice-president of the United States. I'ermit me in conclusion to express my satisfaction at being awxiated with a candidate for the presidency who is firat among his equala as the rt'prrntativa uf tlie spirit or of the achievement of rtfnrm in his oiliuial career as tlie executive of tho great buio of New York- Ho has in a comparative short record rabrmed the public service and reduced the publio burden so as to have earned at once the graiuudo of hn stato and th admiration of the country. People know him to be thoroughly in earueat. He has shown himself to h posseiised with powers winch fit him in an eminent degree for tho great work of reformation which this country coun-try now needa, aud if he shall be chosen by the penple to the hir,h ofiice of president, I believe that the day of hia inauguration will be tbe beginning of a now era of peace, purity aud prosperity in all departments depart-ments of our government. I am, gentlemen, Vuur obedient servant, Titos. A. Henbkjcks. To tlie Hon. J.A. McClornand, chairman, chair-man, and others of the committee of the N. D. C. |