The Osceola times., 1876-07-08

than II produces To the treasury obs ructs pro
cesses Of productos, nd wastes the fruits Of labor
II promotes fraud, fosters smuggling, enriches dis
| honest officials, and ba1krupts honest merchants
We demand Iha, all eus,cinho,,sc taxation shall b
! only i9r revenue.
Reform is neces AIRY in the scale OF public
expense, federal, state and municipal Oul
federal taxation has swollen from sixty mil
lion dollars in gold in 1860 to four hundred
and ffty million dollars In currency in 1870
our aggregate taxation from one hundred
and htty-four jhilliofi dollars i gold in 1861
TO seven hundred and thirty MILLION dollar,
in currency in 1870, or in one decade from
less than ste dollars. per head TO more than
| eighteen dollars per nea3. Since the peace
the people have paid their tax.sesserer'
more than thrice the sum Of the nationa
debt, and more than twice that sum for tn,
federal government alone. We demand
vigorous frugality III esetv depsvtmsnt ant
| from every officer OF the governaieiis.
Reform is necessary TO put a stop to tn,
profigate waste ~ public lands and their di
versions from actual settlers 81 .hs tarty in
power, who have squandered two hundred
million acres Of land upon railroads alone
and out OF more than thrice that aggregate
has disposed Of less than sixty directly to
tillers Of the soil
Reform IA necessary to q orrect the omis
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our treaties and of our diplomacy; which
have stripped eur fellow-citizens OF foreign
birth and kindred race, when recrossing the
Atlantic, Of the shield of American citizen.
ship, and have exposed our breihien 6f the
Pacific coast to the incursions of race hot
sprung from the same great parent stock,
and in fact, now by law denied citizenship
through naturalization, because il is neither
accustomed TO the traditions of progressive
civilization, nor exercised in liberty unaer
equal laws. We deno,inoe the policy which
thus discards the liberty-loving German,
and t6lerates the renewal of the Coolie trade
In Mongolia women imported for immoral
purposes, and Mongolian men, held to per-
form seryle labor contracts. We, therefore,
demand such notifications of the treaty Of
the Chinese empire, and such legislation by
congress, within constitutional limitation
as shall prevent the further importation or
immigration of the Mongolian race.
Reform IL necessary, and can never be eff.
fected but BY making il the controlling
issue of the elections and Hitting 10 above
the two false issues with which the Office
holding class and party in power seek to
smother il. These false issues with which
they would enkindle sectarian strife in re-
spett 10 the public schools, OF which the
establishment Snd stipport belong exclusive
ly TO the several states. aad which the
democratic party has cherished from their
foundation, and is resolved to maintain with.
out partially or creed, and without con-
tributing from the treasury TO any false issue
by which they seek to light anew the dying
embers Of sectional hate between kindred
people once unnaturally estranged but now
ret,nited ip one indivisible republic and a
common DESTINY.
L.. . .,,u
and experience proves that an efficient and
economical conduct of the governmental
business is not possible il its civil service be
subject to change at every election; il il he
a prize fought for at the ballotbox, tr II il
he reward Of party instead Of posts OF
| honor assigned for proved competency and
| held for fidelity In the public employ. That
| the dispensing of patronage should neither
| be n tax upon the time of all our public
| men, nor the instrument of their ambition
| Here again, professions falsifed in the per
| formance attest that the party in power can
work out no practical or salutary reform
which is necessary even more in the higher
grades of the public service-president,
Judges, senators, representatives and cabinet
officers These and all others in authority
are the peoples servants. Their Offices are
not a, private perquisite, they are public
-
disgrace and censure of a vice-president; a
late speaker of the house ef representatives
marketing his rulings rs a presiding officer |;
three senators proffiting secretly by their
votes as Lawmakers; five chairmen OF the
leading committees OF the late house OF repre-
sentatives exposed in robbery; late secre-
tary of the treasury forcing balance in the
public accoants, u late attorney-gencral mis-.
appropriating public funds; a secretary of
the navy enriched or enriching friends by
percentages'levied off the profits Of contract
ors with his department; an ambassador to
England censured in a dishonorable specu-
| lation; the presidents private secretary
barely escaping conviction upon trial for
guilty completely in frauds upon the rev.
enUe; a secretary CT war impeached for
high crimes and confessed misdemeanors
The demonstration is complete that the first
step in reform must be the peoples choice
Of honest men from another party, lest the
disease Of one political organization infest
the body polite, and lest by making no
change Of men or party we can get no
change OF measures, and no reform in all
these abuses, wrongs and crimes
The products of sixteen years ascendancy
of the republican party create a necessity
for reform. Confessed by the republicans
themselves, but their reformers are uoted
down in convention and displaced from the
cabinet, and the party's mass Of honest
voters is powerless to resist the eighty thou
sand ofiice-holders, its leaders and guides
Reform can only be had by peaceful civic
revolution. We demand change of sys.
tem change Of administration, a change Of
parties. that we may have change of nem'
bers and Of men.
On motion of Mr.. MLean Md. the
convention proceeded To nominate can.
didates Tor president and vice-president
The roll of the states was called to
present their nominees. When Della
ware was called, Mr.. Whitley took the
platform, and nominated Thomas Fran
cis Bayard whom he eulogized in glowing
terms as a democratic statesman and gen
tleman. Applause.
Mr.. Williams Ind. presented the
name Of Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana
There was no fire in his rear. With hin
they could carry Indiana by twent,
thousand majority.
Mr.. Fuller III. seconded Hendricks
nomination eloquently and forcibly.
Mr.. Campbell Tenn. by instruction
of its convention, also seconded Hen
bricks, under whose lead Tennessee fel
more confident at success than unde
any other.
| Mr. Abbott, of New jersey, presente'
Jos. Parker's name in ringing speech
When New York was called there wa
tremendous outburst of cheers.
Senator Herman expressed his symps
thy with all that had been said OF ger
tlemen already presented here, but pre-
ceeded to urge the nomination of Nj
Tilden as the surest guarantee OF succe'
in the coming contest. Mr.. Tilden
name WAS received with great cheer.
Mr.. Ewing [Ohiol presented the nam
of the former statesman Mr.. Allen,
i Mr.. Clymer Penn. presented GeI