The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-07-05

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essary, to pnteasstop tosthe profigate
waste Of the public lands and their
diversion from the actual settlers by
the lp8rty in 20 wef Fhiehchas sqnaH-
/ dered 200 600, 900 of acres upon ran
roads alone, and out of more thaR
thrlce chat aggregate has disposed
of less than a sixth directly to the
tillers Of the soil. Reform is neces-
sary to correct the omissions of the
Republican Congress and the errors
Of orr treaties and our diplomacy
which have stripped our fellow citi-
zens of foreign birth and kindred
race, re-crossing the Atlantic of the
shield of American citizenship and
have exposed our brethren of the
Pacific Coast to the ineursions of a
race notasprung from athe1sane great
parent stock and in fact now. by law,
denied citizenship through natura.i-
zation as being neither accustomed
to the traditions of a progressive civ
ilization, or exercised in liberty-lov-
ing German and tolerates the revi-
val of the Cooheatrade in MOngolian
women imported for immoral pur-
poses, and Mangclian men hired to
perform servile labor contracts, and
demand such modification of the
treaty with the Chinese empire, or
such legislation by Congress within
a constitutional limitation, as shall
prevent the further importation or
immigration of the Mongolian race.
Reform is necessary and can new
er be effected but by making it the
controlling issue of the elections,
and lifting it above the two false
issues with which the holding
class, and the party in power seek
to smother it in the false issue with
which they would enkindIe sectarian
strife in respect to the public schools
of which the establishment and sup
port belonging exclusively to the
severed States, and which the Dem
ocratic party has cherished from
their formation and resolved to
maintain without partially or pre-
ference for any class, sect or creed,
and without condesceHdingl to any
of the false issues by which they
seek to light anew the dying embers
Of sectional hate between kindred
people once unnaturaIly estranged
but now united in one indevisa-
bic republic and one common destinya.
Reform is necessary, in the civil SER
vice. Experiences proves that eff
cient economical conduct OF the
governmental business is not poss-
ible, if its civil service be subject to
change at every election be prize
fought for at the ballot box; be a
brief reward .ofparty zeal instead Of
posts OF honor assigned for proved
competency and dheaith for fidelity in
the public employ; that the 'dispen-'
sing Of patronage should neither be
q tax upon the time Of all our pub
lie men nor the instrument of their
ambition. The again professions
falsified in the performance attest !
that the party in power can work
out no practical or salutory reform.
Reform is necessary, even more in
the higher grades Of pHblic service.
Vice President, Judges,
Senatores, Representatives and Cab 4.
met officers, these, and all others in
authority, are the peoples servants.
Their officers are not u private pre-
quisite. They are a public trust,
wherein the annals Of tie Republic
show the disgrace and censure of
Vice President; jate Speaker Of
the House of Representatives, mark
citing his rulings as a presiding Off
GER; three Senators proftiag. secret.
" by their votes as law makers J;
five ChaHmen Of the leading COM
mittees OF. the late House of. Repre-
seutatives exposed in jobbery; a late
Of the Treasury forcing
in the public accounts; a
late Attorney-General misappropriat-
ing public funds; Secretary of the
Navy enriched or enriching friends
by percentages levied off the profits
Of contractors with his department
an ambassador to England censured
in dishonoFable specqlatiou; the
Presidents Private Secretary barely
escaping conviction upon trial for
guilty completely in frauds upon the
re yenue; a Secretary of War inn
peached for high-crines. and confess
cd misdemeanors. The demonstration
Is complete that the frst stop in re.
form must be the peoples choice of
honest men from another party, lest
the diseases of one political organi-
zation infest the body polite and
thereby making no change of men
or party we can get no change of
measure and no reform. All these
abuses, wrongs and crimes. the pro-.
duct of fifteen years ascendancy of
the Republican party create nee
essity for reform, confessed by Re-
publicans themselves, but their res
formers are voted down inlconven-
tions and displaced from the Cabi-
net. The parties mass of honest
votes is powerless to resist the eigh-
ty thousand Office holders, its lead
ers and guides. Reform can only be
had by a peaceful civic. resolution.
We demand change of system,
change of ADMINISTRATION "a change
of parties, that we may have a
change of members OF men.sq s-zsi
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Dark Disappointment,
st. Louis Republican. 49,
Fred. Douglass is laboring undera.
severe attack of disgust, lie tried
to get himself admitted as a delegate