Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-07-07

Ave times more than Il produces TO the Treasury,
obstructs the process OF production, and wastes
the fruits Of labor, II promotes fraud, fosters
smuggling. enriches dishonest officials and bank.
rupts honest merchants. We demand that all Gus
tom-H House taxation shall be only for revenue
Q. Reform Is necessary in the scale OF public ex.
pense, Federal, State and municipal. Our Federal
taxation has swollen from S600OO,000 In gold in
1850 TO $500 1900 in currency in lS10i our aggre-
gate taxation from Si54,OOOOOO in gold in
1860 to $3.50 900 900 in currency in 1870; or in one
decade from less than five dollars per head 70
peace. the people have paid to their taxgatherers
more than thrice the sum OF the National DEBT ana
more than twice that sum for the Federal Goyern-
ment alone. We demand rigorous frugality in
every department and from every oihcer OF the
Government
TO- Reform is necessary 10 put stop to the
prolignte waste Of the public lands, and their di
version from actual settlers by the party in power,
which has squandered 20O,OOOOOO OF acres upon
railroads alone, and out Of more than thrice that
sggregste has disposed OF less than sixth direct
ly to tllers OF the soil
H. Reform is necessary TO correct the omis.
sions of n Republican Congress and the errors of
our treaties and our diplomacy, which have strip
ped our fellow citizens Of foreign birth and kin
dred race recrossing the Atlantic of the shield OF
American citizenship, and have exposed our
brethren OF the Pacific Coast to the incur
sions OF race not sprung from the same
great parent stock, and, in fact, now lately denied
citizenship through naturalization a. being neither
accustomed to the traditions OF progressive civtii
zation, nor exercised in liberty under equal laws.
We denounce the policy which thus discards the
liberty loving German, and toerates the revival Of
the COolie trade in Mongolian women, imported
for immoral purposes, and Mongolian men, held to
'relform servlle labor contracts, and Sund such
ri modification of the treaty with the Chinese En-
pire OF such legislation by Congress- within Con-
stitutiOna limitations, as shall prevent the further
importation or immigration of the MOngolian race.
II. Reform is necessary, and can be effected
only by making 1t the controlling issue of the cleo
tions, and lifting it above the two false issues
with which the officeholding class and the party
in power seek to smother it; the false issues with
which they would enkindle sectaran strife in re-
fs.t atal1 fWurlf fhn ufah-
lishment and support belong exclusively to the
several States, and which the Democratic party has
cherished from their foundation, and is resolved
to maintain without partiality or preference for
any class sect or creed, and without contributions
from the treasury to any; and the false issue by
which they seek to light anew the dying embers
Of sectional hate between kindred peoples, once
unnaturally estranged, but now reunited in one
indivisible Republic and common destiny
49, Reform Is necessary in the Civil Service.
Experience proves that IN efficient and ec0nOmi-
cal conduct OF the Governmental business is not
at every election; if 1t be prize fought for at the
ballot box; If 1t be brief reward Of party zeal.
instead of post Of honor assigned for proved
competency, and he'd for fidelity In the public
| employ; that the dispensing OF patronage should
neither be tax upon the time OF all our public
men nor the instrument Of their ambition. Here,
again, professions, falsiied in the performance,
attest that the party in power can work out no
practical or salutary reform.
IA. Reform is necessary even more In the higher
grades Of the public service. The President,
| Vice-Prcsident Judges, Senators, Representa-
tives and Cabinet ofiiccrs-these and all others in
| authority are the peoples servants; their ohees
| are not a private perquisite; they are public
| trust. When the annals OF this Republic show the
| disgrace and censure Of Vice-President, late
| Speaker Of the House Of Representatives market
| ing his rulings as q presiding officer; three Sena-
tors prOhting secretly by their votes rs law max
| ers; i've Chairmen OF the leading committees Of
| the late House of Representatives exposed in lob
| berry; late Secretary Of the Treasury forcing
balances in the public accounts; ., a. 4 late Attorney
i retary OF the Navy enriched or enriching his
| friends by percentages levied of the profits Of
contractors with his department; an Ambassador to
England censured in dishonorable speculation;
| the Presidents Private Secretary barely escaping
conviction upon his trial for guilty completely in
| frauds upon the revenue; a Secretary or War i'm
| peachcd for high crimes and confessed misdc-
| meanors: the demonstration il complete that the
first step in reform must be the peoples choice o,
honest men from another party, lest the disease OF
one political organization infect the body polite,
and lest, by making no change Of men or party, we
| can get no change OF measures and no reform.
! All these abuses, wrongs, and crimes, the
| product OF sixteen years ascendency Of the Re-
publican party, create necessity Tor reform con
! fessed by the Republicans Themselves: but their
reformers are voted down in convention. and dis
placed from the Cabinet. The party's mass Of hon.
est voters Is pOwerless to resist the $1,000 officers
its leaders and guides. Reform can only be had
| by peaceful civic revolution. We demand a
change of system change Of administration, a
change of parties, that we may have change OF
measures and of men.
Your committee have also had referred to
them and recommend the adoption of the
following resolution:
ResoIrtd, That this Convention, representing
the Democratic party OF the United States, do cor
| daily iudorse the action Of the present House OF
Representatives in reducing and curtailing the ex-
penses of the Federal Government in cutting
| down salaries and extravagant appropriations, and
| in abolishing useless Offices and places not re-
| quired by the public necessity and Te shall trust
| TO the hrmness of the Democratic members OF the
| House that no Committee OF Conference and no
misinterpretaton Of rules will be allowed TO de-
feat these wholesome measures OF economy de-
|
Resolred, That the soldiers and sailors of the
| republic. and the widows and orphans OF those
the protection and gratitude OF their fellow
citizens
Gen. Ewing, of Ohio, then made a minority
report signed by himself, Voorhees,, of In
diana; Brown, of Tennessee; Hoy, of Penn
| sylyania; Trumble, of Iowa; Davis, of West
| Virginia; Davis, of Kansas, and Hardec, OF
Missouri, which report was as follows;
The undersigned members of the committee
Iecommend that tho following clause in the reso-
| such htndrance we denOunce the resumption
clause OF the at OF Is 5, rnd we here demand its
Iepel H." And they recO nmen1 that there be sub.
sttuted for that clause the following: The law
! for th' resumption OF specie payments on the ist
OF january, 1873, having been enacted by the Re,
| publican party without del beTation in Congress
or discussion before the people, and being both
Inc iect al to secure it, object and highly injur-
Gus TO the business Of the country, ought to be
forthwith repealed
a lengthy discussion ensued on this re-
port, amid much confusion, when motion
to strike out the clause in the report of the
committee reading: "As such hindrance we
| denouncc the Resumption clause Of the act
| OF 1910, and we hero demand its rcpealn
was put and lost-Yeas, 2l9; nays, $50.
| The roll was then called on the question
| OF the adoption OF the majority report of
! the Committee on Resolutions, and the re-
suit was announced as follows Yeas 651,
nays 81, and the platform was declared
adopted.
Candidates for the nomination for the
Presidency were then named In the follow
| ing order:
Mr.; Whitley, of Delaware, nominated SEN
ator Thomas +. Bayard.
Mr., Williams, OF Indiana, nominated Gov.
Thomas A. Hendricks.
Mr.; Abbott, Of New Jersey, nominated
| Joel Parker.
Senator Herman, OF New York, nominated
Gov. Samuel j. Tilden. Mr.. Tilden's nomi-
nation was seconded by Virginia, Texas and
| Wisconsin.
Gen. Ewing, of Ohio, nominsted ex-Goy.
William Allen.
Mr.. ClYmer, of Pennsylvania, nominated
! Gen, Winfield s. Hancock, and was followed
by Gen, lrent, of Louisiana, in the same
The vote OF the States was then called for
the first ballot, which resulted as follows:
Tilden-Alabama, 1S; Arkansas, 10; Cali
fornia, 12; Connecticut, IL; Florida, 8;
Georgia, s. Illinois, 10; Iowa, IA; Kentucky,
"A; louisiana, 81 Maine, IA; Maryland, 4;
Ia, 10; Mississippi, 10; Missouri, 2; Nebras-
ka, 8; Nevada, B; New Hampshire, 10 New
] York, 70i North Carolina, o; Oregon, 81
Rhode Island, 8; South Carolina, IA; Texas,
l01Si Vermont, l0i Virginia, II; Wisconsin,
10; Total 4Oa1f.
IIendrieks-Alabama, 8; Colorado, 8;
! Illinois, 23; Indiana, so; Iowa, 8; Kansas,
/ 10; Maryland, 81 Michigan, s; Missouri, 4;
North Carolina, ~ Tennessee, "a; Texas,
/ 2lSj Virginia, ]; Wisconsin, l. Total, 1904.
! Thnrm p--Neyada, ..