The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-08-12

truly says that many industries have been i'm
poverislied TO subsdize few Our com
merce has been degraded TO an inferior posi.
llon on the high seas manufactures have
been diminished agriculture has been em,.
barrassed, and the distress OF the industrial
classes demands that these things shall be
The burdens Of the people must also be
hghtened by great change in our system OF
public expenses. The prohigate expenditures
which increased taxation from S5 per capita
70 IooV Y Sle ~ 1870 tells is own story Of
our need Of fiscal reform.
Our treaties with foreign mowers should
also be revised and amended IN % a. ~ thev
leave citizens of foreign birth in any partie,i.
lar less secure in any country on earth than
they would be if they had been born upon our
own soil and the iniquitons coolie system
winch, through the agency Of wealthy com.
panies, imports Chinese bondmen, and estab-
lishes species of slavery, and interferes with
the just rewards of labor on our Pacific coast.
should be utterly abolished.
In the reform of our civil service most
heartily indorse that section Of the platform
which declares that the civil service ought not
to be subject to change at every election
and that i ought not to be made ssthe brief
reward ot party zeal, but ought TO be award.
60 Tor proved competency and held for fidelity
10 ths public employ hope never again TO
political opinions which has disgraced the adj
ministration of the last eight wears. Rad as
the civil service now is, as all know, Il has
some men OF tried integrity and proved abili.
NY. Such men, and such men only. should
De retained IN Office but no man should he
retained, on any consideration, who has nros.
titnted his office to the purposes Of partisan
intimidation OF compulson, or who has fi,r-
nshed money to corrupt the elections. This
Is done and has been done in almost every
county ofthe land, tits bliglau upon the NOR
ais OF the country, and ought to be reformed.
THE SCHOOLS AND EQUAL RIoHTs.
VI sectional contentious and in respect 10
o., our common schools have only this to saw:
lhai, IA my Judgment, the man or party that
would involve our schools in political OF sec
"a, mrian controversy Is an enemy TO the schools.
The common schools are safer under the nro.
tecting care Of all the people than under the
control of any party or sect. They must be
neither sectarian nor partisan, and there must
oe neither division nor misappropriation of
the funds Tor their support. Likewise re-
gard the man who would arouse or foster sec.
tlonal animosities aud antagonisms among his
countrymen as q dangerous enemy to b;s
country. All the people must be made to
ieel and know that once more there Is estnb.
lshed q purpose and policy under which All
citizens of every condition, race, and color
val be secure in the enjoyment Of whatever
rights the Constitution and laws declare or
recognize and that In controversies that may
arise the Government is not partisan, but
within It's constitutional authority the inst and
powerful guardian of the rights and safety of
all. The strife between the sections and he.
tween races will cease as soon as the mower
Tor evil is taken away from party that makes
political gain out of scenes of violence and
bioodshed, and the constitutional authority Il
placed IN the hands Of men whose political
welfare requires that peace and good order
shall be preserved everywhere. 80
GOV. TILDES's PUBLIC SERVICES.
II will be seen, gentlemen, that / am in
entire accord with the platform of the Con-
Ventlon by which have been nominated as a
candidate for the office of Vice President of
The United States. Permit me, in conclusion.
10 express my satisfaction at being associated
with candidate for the Presidency who Il
lrSl among ms equals as representative of
.he spirit and Of the achievements of reform
In his official career as the Executive of The
great State of New York, he has. In n eom.
short period, reformed the public
service and reduced the public burdens. soas
. have earned at once the gratitude Of his
state and the admiration of the country. The
people know him TO be thoroughly in earnest;
ne has shown himself to be possessed of now.
srs and qualities which fit him in an eminent
iegree for the great work of reformation which
his country now needs and if he shall be
;hosen by the people to the high Office Of
resident Of the United States believe that
he day of his Inauguration will be the begin
ing OF new era Of peace, purity and pros.
,erity in all departments of our Government.
am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Thomas A. HENDRICKS.
10 the Hon. John A. McClernand, Chairman.
and others Of the committee of the National
Democratic Convention. n