The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-07
Mr.. Hendricks Acceptance.


me Of my nomination by the national dem
ocratic convention at st. Louis as their
candidate for the Office of vice president of
the United States. 1t Ia a nomination
which had neither expected nor desired.
and yet l recognizes and appreciate the hiph
honor done me by the convention. The
choice Of such a body, pronounced with
such unusual unsnimity, and accompanied
with so generous an expression of esteem
and confidence, ought to outweigh all
merely personal desires and preferences of |
my own. II is with this feeling. and / |
trust also from deep sense of public duty, |
that
NOW ACCEPT THE NOMINATION
and shall abide the judgment of my coun-
trymen. IL would have been impossible
for me to acctpi the nomination If l could
not heartily endorse the platform Of the
convention. | am graufled, therefore, to
be able unequivocaly to declare that l
agree in the principles, approve the poll
cies and sympathize with the purposes
enunciatcd IN the platform. The insitu-
tiops of our country have been sorcly tired
by the exigenCies of civil war, al since
the peace by selfish and corrupt manage
ment of public affairs, which has shamed
us before civilized mankind BY unwise
and partial legislation every industry and
interest of the people have been made to
suffer, and in the executive departments Of
the government dishonesty, rapucity and
veualty have dcbauched the public service.
Men known to be unworthy have been pro-
NOTED, whilst others have been degraded
for fidelity to official duty. Public Office
has been made the means of private profit,
| and the country has been offended to see
| the acts of men who boast the friendship
| of the sworn prott ctors of the state amass-
ing fortunes by defraudipg the public treas
| ury and by corrupting the servants of the
people. Ia such crlsis of the history Of
the county, | rel ice that the
| convention ut 81. Louis has so nobly
raised the standard of reform. NolhiI e
can be well with us or with our aifoirs
until the public conscience shocked by
the enormous evils aud abuses which pre-
vail, shall have demand d and complied
an unsparing reformation of our national
administration, in its head and it's members.
In such reformation the removal of
| single officer. even the president, is COM
psratvely n triillng matter If the system
which he represents and which has fostered
him, is suffered to remain. The president
alone must not be made the scapegoat for
the enormities of the system which infec,s
the public service ana threatens the de-
struction Of our system. In some respects
hold that
THE PRESENT EXECUTIVE HAS BEEN THE
VICTIM
rather than the author of that vic rus sys-
TEN; congressional and party leaders have
been stronger than the president. No one
man could have created 1t, and the strength
of one man cannot end it. ii is thorough
ly corrupt, and must be swept remorselet Wy
away by the selection of government
composed of elements entirely new and
pledged to radical reform. The first work
of reform must evidently be the restoration
of the normal operation of the constitution
of the United States, with all its amend
mente. The necessities of war cannot be
pleaded in time of peace. The right Of
local self government given by the clDsti
tuition of the United States must be every.
where restored. and the centralized, almost
personal Imperialism which has been prac
tist d must be done away with, or the fi,st
principles of the republic will be lost.
OUR FINANCIAL SYSTEM OF EXPRDIRNTs
MUST Re REFORMED.
Gold and silver are the real standards Of
value, and our national currency will no,
be perfect medium of exchange until il
shall be convertible at the pleasure of the
|
desires a return to sprcie payments mo e
earnestly than l do, but do not believe that ii
will or can be reached in harmony with the
interests of the people by artificial meas.
+ ures, or the contraction of the currency,
any more than believe that wealth or per.
msnent prosperity can be brought rhout by
: an inf .tl IN Of the currency The laws OF
finance cannot be dsregarded with
r immunity. The financial policy OF
, the country, OF indeed it deserve,
the name of pli6y). has disregaidet
these laws, and therefore has disturbed
] commercial and business confidence MS VT J.
, as hindered return 10 specie payments
One feature of the policy was the resump-
ton clause of the act of 1875, which hai
t embarrassed the country ty the inaugura
lion of compulsory resumption for which
no preparation has been made, and with
ont - assurance that ii would De prac
' tcabe.
| THE REPEAL OF THAT CLAUSE Is NECES'
sAkY,
E that the natural operation of financial laws
. may be resumed that the business Of the
country may be relieved from i,s disturb.
ing and depressing influence and that a re-
turn to specie pay ments may be f,c litated
, by the substitution of wiser and more pru
, dent legislation, which shall maiLly rely on
judicious system of public economy and
official retrenchmrnt, aud above all on the
t promotion of prosperity in all the industri'
, Of the people. do not understand the re-
peal of the resumption clause of the act OF
1875 to be backward step in the return to
specie pay ments, but the recovery OF false
step, and, although the repeal may tor a
time be prevented, yet the determination OF
the democratic party on this subject has
= now btcjme Distinctly declared There
should be no hiDdrances put in the way of
"a return to specie payments "as such q
hindrance," says the platform Of the st.
Louis convention, eve denounce the re-
sumption clause of 1875 and demand its
, repeal" thoroughly believe that by pub.
lie economy, by official retrenchment and
by q wiae system of fiuance, enabling US Il