Connecticut western news., 1876-07-14
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

SUWMAhx VE NEWSo
 Interesting lEoms Er0m Home and Abroad.
 MT. Blaine's health has improved sufficiently to enable him to leave the capital for Maine. . Sadler, the English champion sculler, was defeated on the Thames in 8 contest with Trickett, the champion of Australia. The race was for the championship and $1,00O 8 side.
 ..A hailstorm in the vicinity of Quebec did great damage to the crops. ..Wm. Kins- ley shot and seriously injured his wife and then committed suicide, in Providence, R. l. They had been quarreling for years s...... The Republicans of Vermont have nominated horace Fairbanks for governor and Redfield Proctor for ieutenant-gover
 The platform adopted by the National Demo- cratic Convention, at St. Louis, declares as the voice of the Democratic party of the United States that the administration of the Federal government is in urgent need of reform, and appeals to fellow citizens of every former po- litical connection to undertake this first and most pressing patriotic duty of the Democracy of the whole country. It afirms faith in the permanency of the federal union, devotion to the Constitution of the United States, with it's amendments universally accepted as 8 final settlement of the controversies that engender- ed civil war, and records steadfast confidence in the perpetuity of republican self-govern- ment. It declares in favor of the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; the total separation of church and StateI the equality of all citizens before just laws of their own enactment; the liberty of individual con- duct unvexed by sumptuary laws; the faithful education of the rising generation, and urges reform as necessary to rebuild and establish ih the hearts of the whole people the Union, eleven years ago happily rescued from the danger of 8 secession of States, but now to be saved from g corrupt centraism. The our rency plank says that reform is necessary to establish 8 sound currency, restore public credit and maintain the national honor, and denounces the failure for all these eleven years to make good the promise of the legal tender notes, which are changing standard of value in the hands of the people, and the nonpay ment of which is disregard of the plighted faith of the nation. It denounces the improvi- dence which for eleven years has prevailed, al- lowing no steps to be taken toward resump- tion. It denounces the resumption clause of the act of 1875, and demands repeal, demand ing a iudicious system of preparation by pub lic economies, by official retrenchments, and by wise finance, which shall enable the nation soon to assure the whole world of it's perfect ability, and it's perfect readiness to meet any of it's promises at the call of the creditor en- titled to payment, and believes that 8 system well devised, and entrusted to competent hands for execution, would inspire credit, gen. eral confidence, and set in motion the wheels of commerce. It denounces the present tariff as masterpiece of injustice and false pre- tence, and demands that all custom house taxation shall be only for revenue. It declares that reform is necessary in Federal, State and municipal departments that Federal taxation has swollen from sixty millions, gold, in 1860, to four hundred and fifty millions, currency, in 1870; or, in decade, from less than five dollars per head to more than eighteen dollars per head. Since the peace, the people have paid to their tax gatherers more than thrice the sum of the national debt and more than twice that sum for the Federal government &lone and demands vigorous frugality in every department, and
 
 I Reform is necessary to stop the waste of pub lie lands, to protect American citizens abroad and denounces the policy which discards the liberty loving German and tolerates the re- vival of the coolie trade in Mongolian womer imported for immoral purposes, and Mongoliar men hired to perform servile labor contracts. and demands such modification of the treaty with the Chinese empire, or such Legislation by Congress, within constitutional limitation as shall prevent the further importation or i'm migration of the Mongolian race. It declares that reform is necessary in the civil service and even more necessary in the higher grader of the public service, and that public officer are not 8 private perquisite, bat public trust and concludes as follows: All these abuses
 wrongs, and crimes, the product of sixtee1 years ascendancy of the Republican party create 8 necessity for reform confessed by Re pubGcans themselves, but their reformers ar' voted down in convention and displaced iron
 the cabinet. The partys mass of honest vo
 ters are powerless to resist the eighty thou
 sand oficeholders-its leaders and guides
 Reform can only be had by peaceful civi
 revolution. We demand a change of system | u CuhuS0 OI AOullnlSLrAt1Ou, & CnanSo O1 par
 ties, that we may have 8 change of measure | and of men. At the conclusion MT. Dorshei
 mer said the committee had adopted and en
 dorsed, though not as part of the platform
 the resolution which he had read endorsipI
 the sction of the House of Representative
 cutting down the appropriations and exhortint
 them to frmness also the resolution as to thu
 just claims of soldiers and sailors widows ant
 orphans. An effort was made in the shape O
 8 minority report to strike out the section re
 nounciug the resumption clause of the act O
 1875 for specie payment, but it failed and th'
 platform was adopted.
 Samuel J. Tilden, nominated by the Demo cratic convention at St. Louis for President o1 the United States, was born at New Lebanon
 Columbia county, N. Y., March 15, 1914, and is therefore sixty-two years of age. He was educated at Yale College and at the University of New York, and then commenced the study of law. In 1844, then practicing law, he pub
 lished the Daily Neaos in New York city. He left editorial life after the campaign of tha
 year. In 1846 he was elected to the New Yorl State Legislature, and was also a member O
 the State Constitutional convention. In 184i
 he withdrew from politics and gave his atten