The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-29

Jndn TWICE tnat sum Tor the feQeral G0N-
ernment alone. We demand vigorous
frugality in every department and from
every officer of the Government.
Reform is necessary to put a stop to
the prohigate waste Of public lands and
their division from actual settlers by the
party in power, which has squandered
two hundred millions of acres upon rail-
roads, and out of more than thrice that
aggregate has disposed of less than a
sixth directly to tillers Of the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the Re-
publican Congress and the errors Of our
treaties and our diplomacy which have
stripped our fellow.citizens of foreign
birth and kindred race re.crossing the
Atlantic, Of our brethren of the Pacific
coast Of the incursions of a race not
springing from the same great parent
stock, and in fact now by law denied
citizenship through naturalization, as
being neither accustomed to the tradi-
tions ofa progressive civilization nor ex.
ercised in liberty under equal laws. We
denounCe the policy which thus discards
the liberty-loving American and tolerates
the revival of the Coolie trade in Nor.
golian women imported for immoral pur.
poses and Mongolian men held to per-
form servile labor contracts and demand
such modification of The treaty with
the Chinese empire, or such legislation
by Congress within a constitutional limi-
tation as shall prevent the further i'm
portation or immigration OF the Mongo-
lian race.
Reform is necessary and can never be
effected but by making it the controlling
issue of the elections and lifting it above
the two false issues with which the
oftice-holding class, and the party in
power seek to smother it. The false issue
with which they would unkindle secta-
rian strife in respect to the public
schools, of which the establishment and
support belonging exclusively to the
several States and which the Democratic
party has cherished from their founda-
ton and is resolved to maintain without
partiality or preference for any class sect
or creed without contributing from the
Treasury to any. The false issue by
which they seek to light anew the dying
embers of sectional hate between kin
dred peoples once unnaturally estranged,
but now reunited in one invisible Re-
public and a common duty.
Reform is necessary in the Civil Ser.
vice; experience proves that efficient
economical conduct ofthe Governmental
business is not possible if its civil service
be subject to change at every election,
be a prize for at the ballot.box, be a
brief reward of party zeal instead of
posts of honor assigned for proven COM
potency and held for fidelity in the pub
lie employ. That the dispensing of pa
tronage should neither be "a tax upon the
time of all our public men, nor the in.
strument of their ambition. Here, again,
professions falsifed in the performance
attest that the party in power can work
out no practical or salutary reform.
Reform is necessary even more in the
higher grades of public service, Presi-
dent, ViCe-President, Judges, Senators,
Representatives and Cabinet officers.
These and others in authority are the
peoples servants. Their offices are not
private perquisite. They are public
trust. When the annals of this Repub-
lie show the disgrace and censure of
Vice-President, late Speaker Of the
House of Representatives marketing his
rulings as a presiding officer, three Sena-
tors profting secretly by their votes as
lawmakers, FIVE chairmen of the leading
committees Of the late House of Repre-
exposed in jobbery; late
Secretary of the Treasury forcing balan-
Ces in the public accounts, late Attor.
ney General misappropriating public |
funds; a Secretary Of the Navy enriched |
or enriching friends by percentage levied
off the profits Of contractors with his
an ambassador to England |
censured in dishonorble speculation
the Presidents private Secretary barely |
trial for guilty completely in |
frauds upon the revenue a Secretary of
War impeached for high crimes and
The demonstration is complete that
the first in reform must be the peoples
choice of honest men from another
party lest the disease of one political
infest the polite, and lest
by making no change of men or party
we can get no change of measures and no
reform. All these abuses, wrongs and
crimes, the product of sixteen years
Of the Republican party, Gre
ate a necessity for reform confessed by
.he Republicans themselves; but their re-
formers are voted down in Convention
and displaced from the Cabinet. The
Oarty's mass of honest voters is power
ess to resist the eighty thousand office
holders, leaders and guides.
Reform can only be had by peaceful
civic resolution. We demand change
ofsystem, a change of administration and
l change of parties, that we may have a
,hange of members and of men,
A MINORITY REPORT.
General Ewing, of Ohio, made mi.
lority report to change the phraseology
If the financial paragraph as published
elsewhere.
HOW THE REPORT WAS RECEIVED.
The widest applause greeted the read
ng cf the minority report, and General
Ewing moved the adoption of his resolu.
ion, and was seconded by Mr.. Eaton, of
Kansas.
General Ewing followed his motion
With a speech, which was cheered and
.pplauded from ali parts of the hail.
Upon the expiration of General Ewing's
ime, it was asked that he be allowed
urther time.
A scene of indisCribable confusion en-
ued. Ewings time was not extended,
nd Dorsheimer, of New York, followed
mid cheers and Kisses. .
Mr. Voorhees, came to hand amid deaf
ming cheers, and advocated the minority
eport.
Mr.. Watterson advocated the majority
eport.
An hour of the most unutterable con.
usion followed, in which oints of order
we're raised, and finally the Chair de-
Jared the previous question had been
rdered On the question. On the ques-
ion of striking out the Objectionable
lause of the majority, attempts were
nade to call the roll, but the confusion
Yas so great that the delegates could not
Understand the question. The roll was
nally called amid the direst confusion.