Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-07-15
SUMMARY OF NEWS.



Items of Interest from Home and Abroad
Oscar, crown prince of Sweden, ia visiting |
this country in quiet manner ..... The Re-
publicans of Vermont have nominated Horace
Fairbanks for governor and Redfeld Proctor !
for lieutenant-g governor. .....A boat race on
the Thames, for 81 600 side, between Sadler,
champion of England, and Trickett champion
of Australia, resulted in a victory for the
Australian by four lengths. Mr. Blaine
has sufficiently recovered to be able to leave
Washington for Maine. .... VIM. Kinsley shot
his wife and then committed suicide in ProVi-
demo, R. 1. He was for many years local
preacher in the Methodist church
The platform adopted by tho 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
peImanency of the Federal union, devotion to
the Constitution of the United States, with it's
amendments universally accepted as 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 State; 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 in
the hearts of the whole people the union,
eleven years ago happily rescued from the
danger of a secession OF States, but now to be
saved from corrupt ceutralism The cur
rency plank Gays that reform is necessary to
establish a sound currency, restore public
credit, and maintain 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 a disregard of the plighted
faith Of the nation. 1t denounces the IMPROVE
dence which for eleven years has prevailed, al
lowing no steps to be taken toward resump-
hon. 1t denounces the resumption clause OF
the act of 1875, and demands repeal, demand
ing judcious system of preparation. by pub
lie economies, by official retrenchments, and
by wise finance which shall enable the nation
soon to assure the whole world OF its perfect
ability, and its perfect readiness to meet any
Of its promises at the call of the creditor en-
titled to payment, and believes that system
well devised, and intrusted to competent
hands for execution, would inspire credit, gen.
eral confidence, and set in motion the wheels
Of commerce. 1t denounces the present tariff
as masterpiece of injustice and false
pretense, and demands that all custom
house taxation shall be only for revenue.
1t 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 a 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 alone, and demands vigorous
frugality in every department, and
from every officer Of the government.
Reform is necessary to stop th9waste Of pub
lie lands, to protect American citizens abroad,
and denounces the policy which discards the
liberty loving German and tolerates the re-
vivsl of the coolie trade in Monaghan women
imported for immoral purposes, and Monaghan
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 Monaghan race. 1t declares
that reform is necessary in the civil service,
and even more necessary in the higher grades
OF the public service, and that public offices
are not private perquisite, but public trust,
and concludes as follows: All these abuses,
wrongs and crimes, the product of sixteen
years ascendancy Of the Republican party
create necessity for reform confessed by Re-
publicans themselves, but their reformers are
voted down in convention and displaced from
the cabinet. The party's mass of honest vo-
ters are powerless to resist the eighty thou
sand offceholders its leaders and guides
Reform can only be had by a peaceful civic
revolution. We demand change of system,
change Of administration, q change Of par
ties, that we may have change of measures
and Of men. At the conclusion Mr.. Dorshe-
mer said the committee had adopted and in
dorsed though not as part of the platform,
the resolution which he had read indorsing
the action Of the House of Representatives
cutting down the appropriations and exhorting
them to frmness also the resolution as to the
just claims Of soldiers and sailors widows and
orphans. An effort was made in the shape of
a minority report to strike out the section re-
nouncing the resumption clause of the act of
1875 for specie payment, but it failed, and the
platform WAS adopted.
Samuel j. ITilden, nominated by the Demo-
cratic convention at st. Louis for President of
the United States was born at New Lebanon,
Columbia county, N Y, March Is, 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 1874, then practicng law, he pub
lished the Daily Ne,1S in New York city. He
ie'5 editorial Ifs after the campaign of that
year. In 1916 he was elected to the New York
State Legislature, and was also a member Of
| the State constitutional convention In l847