The Russellville Democrat., 1876-08-03


 and wastes the fruits of labor; 1t promotes fraud, fosters snug. gling, enriches dishonest officials, and brnkrupts honest merchants. We demand that all Custom House taxation shall be only for revenue. Reform is necessary in ,he scale of public expense--Fed ersI, State and Municipal. Our Federal taxation has swollen from $60,000, GOO gold in 1860 to $450, ,0o0,000 in currency in 1870: our aggregate taxation from $l54,- 000,000 gold in 1860 to $73o,000,- eco currency in l870--all in cre decade from less than $5 per head to more than Sl6 per head. Since the peace, the people have paid to their tax gatherers more than thrice the sum for the Federal Government alone We demand rigorous frugality in every de- partment and from every officer of the Government.
 Reform is necessary to put a stop to the proiligate waste of pub lie lands and their diversion from actual settlers by the party in power, which has squandered two hundred millions of acres upon railroads alone, and out of more than thrice that aggregate mas dis posed of less than sixth directly to the tillers of the soil.
 Reform is necessary to correct the omissions of Republican Congress and the errors of our treaties and our diplomacy, which has stripped our fellow citizens of foreign birth and kindred race re- erasing the Atlantic from the shield of citizenship. and has ex posed our brethren of the Pacific coast to the incursions of race not sprung from the same great parent stock, and, in fact, now by law denied citizenship through naturalization as being to the tra- ditions of a progressive civiliza- tion, one exercised in liberty un der equal laws; and we denounce the policy which thus discards ;he liberty-loving German and tolerates the revival of the Coolie trade in Mongolian women, i'm ported fo- immoral purposes, and Mongolian men held to perform servile labor contract.
 Reform is necessary and never can be effected but by making it the controlling issue of the eiec- ton and lifting 1t above the two false issues with which the office holding classes and the party in power seek to smother it.
 l. The false issue with which this would enkindle sectarian strife ID respect to the public schools of which the establish ment and support belong exclu- sively to the several States, and which the Democratic party has cherished from their foundation and is resolved to maintain with out partialitY or preference for any class, sect or creed, and with out contributions from the treas ury to any.
 ?, The false issue by which they seek to light anew the dying embers of sectional hate between kindred people once unnaturally estranged, but now reunited in one indivisable republic and a common destiny.
 All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, the product of sixteen years ascendency of the Republi- can party, create a necessity for reform. confessed by Republicans themselves; but their reformers are voted down in convention and displaced from the Cabinet. The party's mass of honest voters is powerless to resist the eighty l thousand office holders, it's lead CTS and it's guides. Reform can only be had by Q peaceful civic revolution. We demand a change of system, a change of Admins traitor, q change of party, that VIC may have a change of meas ures and of men.
 Resolved, That this Convention representing the Democratic par ty of the States, do cordially en- dorse the acton of the present House of Representatives for re ducing and curtailing the expen- ses of the Federal Govcrnu ent, in cutting down on arous salaries, eX- trayagant appropriations, and in aholishing useless offices and places not required by the public necessities, and we shall trust to the iirmness of the Democratic members of the House that no committee ot conference and no misinterprctation of rules will be allowed to defeat these whole some measures of economy de manded by the country
 Resolved, That the soldiers and sailors of the republic, and the widows aud orphans of those who have fallen iu battle, have q just claim upon the care, protection 1 and gratitude of their fellow-citi- 1cns,
 Reform IS necessary in the civil serylce. kSpcrictce proves that efficient and economical conduct