Union and American. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1875-1877, 1876-10-26

paid 10 the taxgatherers morethsn thrice
The sum Of the national debt. and more
rian twice that sum for The Federal
Epyernment alone, We demanda Wig
orcus frugality in every department and
trqm every oficer ut the Government.
Reform is necessary to nut n stop ia
the1pFodigate waste OF public, lands.and
tBeif diversion. from actua, settlers ny
the party in power, which has squan
dered .wO hundred millions OF acres
upon railroads alone, and out of more
than ttricethat aggregate has disposed
of less than a'sixth directly to illtrs
OF the soIl.
'H7Reformi s necessary to oorret [ the
omissions of the Republican Coz gress
aDdthe eInrs pf purlrea les and dplo-
macy, which have stripped on fellow
cit Zens of foreign blrihi and Kindred
race, rccrossi9e he Atlantic, OF the
shield of American cpizepship.an have
exposed our brethren of the Pecihc
coast to the incursiOns ot a race not
sprung from the same great parent stock
aud in fact now b law denied CITIZEN
ship through naturalization as being
neither accustomed 10 the traditions ot
a progressive cIviliZaticn nor exercised
in liberty under equal laws. We de.
dnunce the policy which thus di,cards
the liherty-loving German and tolerates
tho revival OF the coolie trade in Mon
goliau women imported for immo al
purposes, and Mongolisn men hired to
perform servile laaor contacts. and dc
mand such modification of the tresty
wi Ii The Chinese Empire, or such iogis-
lAtiOn hy Congress. within a constltu-
I tional Limitation, as sh II prevent the
further importation or immigration OF
lie Mcngolian race.
Reform is necessary, and can never I've
effected but by making it the controlling
issue OF the elections, and lifting 1t
above the two false issues with which
the O%ficehnldlng class and the raity in
power seek to smother 1.-THE false Itsue
with which Il lev would enklndle section
al strile in respect to the public schools
of which the estal,l lshment and sup
port belongs exclusively to the several
I States. and which the Democratic parry
has cherished from That foundation nd
resolved to maintain without partlality
or preference for any class. seato r creed
and without contribution from the treas
ury to any of them; and the false ISSUE
by which they seek to light new the
diving embars ol sectional hate Let tween
k ndred peoples once %estranged. bur
lnow. rennIiel ID one indiyisl6le republic
and acommon destiny.
lrT WIFE sE REFoRM is NECESSARY.
Re,nim Is necessary 10 the Civil Service.
Experience proves that efficient, c O
omlcal conduct of the Governmental
business is not possible il its civil slrv
| ice be subject to change at every election
be a prize fought tor at the la Iot box.
be a brief reward Of party yea, ins' ead
of posts of honor assigned for proved
| competency, aud held tor fidelity in III
| public employ; that the dispensing
Of patronage should neither he n tax
| upon the time Of all our public mec nor
the instrument of their ambition. Here
| again profes,ions-attest that the party
| 10 power can work out no practical or
salutary reform.
Reform is necessary even more In the
higher grades of the public SERVICE.
President, Vice President Judges, Sens
ators, Representative Cabinet officers,
| these and all others in authority are the
| peoples servants Their Offices are not
n private pe-qui lite, they are a public
trust. When an annual of this Rtpuh'
lie show the disgrace and censu'e OF a
Vice. President, n late Speaker of the
House of Rcprescn' atives, marketing
his rulings as n presiding officer, three
Senators profting secretly Ivy their votes
as law makers, FIVE chairman OF the
leading committees of the late House NJ
Represent atives exposed in jobbery, a
late Secretary of the Treasury forcing
balances in the public accounts; a late
Attorney General misapproprlalng prh
lie funds, a Secretary of the Navy tn>
riched or enrichlng friends by pelcent-
ages levied off the profits of contractors
v it'll his department. an ambassador TO
England cen, ured for a disbonorahle
speculation, the Presidents priva'e Sec
rotary barely escaping conviction upon
trial for guilty completely IN frauds up
on the revenue, q Secretary ct Wal I'm
peacled for high crimes and confessed
misdemeannrs, he demonstration is com
plete, that the first step in reform must
We the peoples choice of choice CT non
est men from another party. lest the
disease of one pol tical organization IN
Test the body polite, and lest Ivy making
| no change Of men or party we Can gel
no change Of measures and no reform.
An these abuses, wrongs, aud crimes
the product of sixteen ,csrs' s,cenden
cy Of The Repub lean party, create a
necessity for reform confessed by he
publicans themselves, but their reform"
prs are voted down in convention and
Displaced from the Cabinet. The party
mass OF honest vote $ are pnwerless to
resist tfe eighty thousand "ficehoIders
its lead re-. and guides. Reform can
only be hadlby II peaceful civic revolu>
ton. We demand n changeo of system.
a change Of administration, a chan OF
parties, that W. may have acbange OF
measures and of men.
BEATTY PARLOR