The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-08-10

With the industries of the people there
have been frequent interferences. Our
platform truly says that many Industries
have been iml overished to subsidize
few. Our commerce has been degraded
to an inferior position on the high seas.
Manufacturers have been diminished
Agriculture has been embarrassed. The
distress of the industrial classes demands
that these things shall be reformed.
PUBLIC EXPENSES MUST BE REDUCED.
The burdens of the people must also
be lightened by a great change in our
system of public expenses. The profit.
gate expenditures which increased taxa.
ion from $5 per capita in 1866, to SIS in
1870, tells its own story of our need of
fiscal reform.
Our treaties with foreign powers should
be revised and amended in SO far as they
leave citizens of foreign birth in any par
ticular less secure in any country on
earth than they would be if they had
been born upon our soil. And the iniq-
uitous CooIie system, which, through the
agency of wealthy companies, imports
Chinese bondmen, and establishes spe-
cies of slavery, and interferes with the
just reward of labor on our Pacific
coast, should be utterly abolished.
In the reform of our civil service do
most heartily indorse that section of the
platform which declares that the civil
service ought not to be subject to change
at every election, and that it ought not to
be made the brief reward of party zeal,
but ought to be awarded for proven COM
potency, and held for fidelity in the pub.
lie employe, l hope never again to see
the cruel and remorseless prescription
for political opinions which has disgra-
ced the Administration of the last eight
years. Bad as the civil service now is,
as all know, it has some men of tried in
tegrity and proved ability. Such men,
and such men only, should be retained
in Office, but no man should be retained
on any consideration who has prostituted
his Office to the purpose of partisan in
timidation or Compulsion, or who has
furnished money to corrupt elections
This is done and has been done in al
most every county in the land. 1t was
blight upon the morals of the country,
and ought to be reformed.
OfseCtional contentious, and in respect
to our common schools, have only this
to say, that in my judgment the man or
party that would involve our schools in
political or seCtarian controversy is an
enemy to the schools. The common
schools are so far under the protecting
care of all the people, than under the
control of any party or sect, they must be
neither sectarian nor partisan, and there
must be neither division or misappro-
priation Of the funds for their support
Likewise | regard the man who would
arouse or foster sectional animosities and
antagonisms among his Countrymen as
an enemy to the country.
All the people must be made to feel and
know that once more there is an estab-
lished purpose and policy uuder which
all citizens of every condition, race and
color will be secure in the enjoyment of
whatever rights the Constitution and
laws declare or recognize, and that, in
controversies that may arise, the govern.
ment is not PARTISAN but within "its
Constitutional" authority, the Just and
powerful guardian of the rights and safe
ty Of all The strife between the sections
and between the races will cease as soon
as the power for evil is taken away from
the party that makes political gain out
of scenes of violence and bloodshed. The
Constitutional authority is placed in the
hands of men whose political welfare re-
quires that peace and good order shall be
preserved everywhere
1t will be seen, gentlemen, that 1 am
in entire accord witt the pla' form of the
convention by which have been nomi-
mated as a candidate for the office of
Vice President of the United States.