The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-06-29

| Lue suEl VI tuc Nhtioudi ucpI, nHo hioic
than twice that sum for the Federal gov
ernment alone. We demand vigorous
trugality in every department and from
every officer of the government. Re-
form is necessary to put stop
to the profigate waste Of public
lands, and their division from the actual
settlers by the party in power, which has
squandered two hundred millions of
acres upon railroads alone, and has dis
posed OF less than sixth directly to til
lers of the soil. Reform Is necessary to
| correct the omissions of Republican
! Congress and the errors of our treaties
and our diplomacy, which have stripped
our fellow citizens of foreign birth and
kindred race recrossiRg the Atlantic Of
the shield oI American citizenship, and
have exposed our brethren OF the Pacific
coast to the incursion oI race
not springing from the same great
parent stock, and in fact now by law
denied citizenship through naturslzs-
ton, as being neither the custom OF a
| progressive civilization nor exercised In
| liberty under equal laws. We denoupce
the policy which thus dlscards the liberty
loving German and tolerates the revival
of the Ccelie trade in Mongollsn women
imported for immoral purposes, and men
held to perform servlle labor con-
tracts, and demand such moIitica-
ton OF the treaty with the Chinese
Empire or such legislation by Cong ress,
within constitutional limitation, rs shall
prevent the further importation Of the
Mongolian race.
Reform is necessary, and can never be
effected but by making it the controlling
! issue of the elections, and lifting 1t
| above the false issues with which the Of
flee holding class and the party in power
seek TO smother it, and with which they
would enkindle sectsrian strife in
respect to the public school,
Of which the establishment
and support belong exclusively to
the several States, and which the Demo.
cratic party has cherished from their
! foundation and is resolved 10 maintain
without partality or preference for any
class, sect or creed, and without con-
tributng from the treasury to any.
The false issue by which they seek TO
light anew the dying embers OF
sectional hate between kindred peo
pie, once unnsturally estranged,
| but now reunited in one
undivdable repuy..c and common des-
tiny. Reform is necessary in the civil
service. Experience proves that efficient
and economical conduct Of the govern
ment business lis not possible if its civil
service be subject to a chsnge at every
election; be prize fought for at the bal
lot box, be brief reward OF
party zeal instead of posts OF honor
assigned for proved competency, and
held for fidelity in the public employ
ment, that the dispensing of patronage
should neither be tax upon the time
OF all our public men nor the iDstru'
ment of their ambition here. Again the
the professions falsitied in the per.
formance attest that the party in
power are unable to make the prac-
! tical or salutary reform
necessary, even in men in higher
grades Of public service, President, Vice
! President, Judges, Senators, Represents.
tives and Cabinet officers. These and
all others in authority are the peoples
servants, their offices are not q private
perguisite, they are public trust.
When the annals this republic show
! the disgrace and censure of Vice Presl-
dent, late speaker of the House OF
Representatives, marketing his ruling as
Ii presiding officers; three Senate profit.
ing secretly by their votes rs lawmakers,
i've chairmen of the leading commttt Is
OF the late House of Representatives ex-
posed in jobbery, a late Secretary OF the
! Treasury forcing balances in the public
accounts, n late Attorney General mis-.
appropriatlng public funds, Secretary OF
the Navy enriched or enriching friends by
percentage levied of the profits OF con-
tractors with his department. an am-
bassador to England censured in dis
honorable speculation; the Presidents
private secretary bsre.y escaping con-
vction upon atrial for being guilty OF
completely in frauds upon the revenue; a
Secretary of War impeached for high
crimes and confessed midemeanors. The
| demonstration is complete that tn"
! first step in reform must
be the peoples cnoice OF
honest men from another party, lest th5
disease of one political organization in.
iest the body polite, and lest, by making
no change of men or party, we can get
no change OF measures and no reform.
All the abuses, wrongs and crimes,
the product Of sixteen years oi
sscendency of the Republican
party, create n necessity for
the reform confessed by the Republican,
themselves, but their reiJrmers are voted
down IN the conventions and displaced
from the cabinet Of the party. The
mass OF honest voters is powerless 10 re-
sist the 10000 sffice-holders, leaders
and guides Reform can only
be bad by peaceful civic
resolution. We demand q change OF
system, q change Of administration and
a change Of party, that we may have
chsnge OF members 81 Of men.
The minority report presented by Gen
Ewing recommends an amendment 70 tbs
resumption clause OF the platform
presented by the majority, embedying
the Western, or soft money ideas. Gen.
Ewing spoke At some lengh.b, defending
the minority report AMI urging the
adoption Of the amendment.
Mr.. Dorsheimer-1 will say that al th'
end of the resolution relating 10 th'
matter Of Mongollap importations, ther'
we're two Or three lines Of language
adopted by the Convention which wer'
written in lead pencil and which | VA
unable TO read ard the Secretary vber
have closed will supply the omission
Mr.. Brown, Of Oregon-We wan
them read now. am on that Commit
tee myself and demand that they b
read in conjunction with the other.
Cries Of No, No."
Mr.. Dorsheimer-YOurC Committee ol
Resolutions also had referred 10 them AM
recommends the adoption OF the follow
ing resolution:
AppIsuding the House OF Represes
tattyea-
Resolued, That this Convention, repre-
senting The Democratic party Of th
United States, do cordially endorse ID
action OF the present House Of Repre-
sentatlves, (spplsusel, in reducing an