The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1876-08-05

and demand >,ich. modification Il IN"
treat with tie Gu nesc Empire: or such
Legislation hy .ergress, within censti
tutional limitation as shall prevent tn
further importation Or immigration OF
the Monaghan race. Reform is necessa-
~ am! can never I've effected but by ma
king it the controlling issue Of the cleo
tiol,s. and lifting it above the two false
issues with which tho otlice-hclding class
and the party in power seek to smother
IT, The f,lso issues with which they
would eh!rin.lie
fECrARIAN STRIFE
in respect to the public schools, of which
the establishment and support belong eX-
clusivtly to the several States, and which
the Democratic party has cherished from
their foundation aud resolved to main
tain without .partiality or preference for
any class, sect or ere d, and without con-
trbrtimy from the treasury to any. The
false issue by which they seek to light
anew the dieing emhers CT sectional hate
between kindred people once unnatural
ly cstrangcd, but now reunited III one
indivisible republic and common DIES
tiny.
Reform is necessary in the civil service.
Experience proves that the efficient
| economical conduct of the governmental
business is not possible if its civil service
| be subjected to change at every election.
and be prize offered at the ballot.box as
brief reward of party zeal, instead OF
posts Of honor assigned for proved COM
potency, and held for fidelity in the pub
lie employ. That the dispensing Of the
patronage should neither be Il tax upon
the time of all our public men, nor the
INSTRUMENT or THEIR AMBITION.
Here agall! professions falsifed in the
performance attest that the party in
power can work no practical or sanitary
reform. Reform is necessary even more
hin The Higher grades OF public service.
President, Vice-President, Judges, Sena-
tors, Representatives., Cabinet Officers,
these, and all others in authority are the
peoples serv ants. Their offices are not
a private per4uisite. They arc a public
trust. When the annals OF this Repu''-
lie, the disgrace and ccnslire of a Vice.
President, u late Speaker Of the House
of Representatives, marketing his ruling
as a presiding officer,
THREE SENATOR'S
protiting secretly by their votes as law
makers; five chairman of the leading
committees of the late House Of Repre-
scntatives exposed in jobbery, late
! Secretary of the Treasury forcing balanc-
es of the public accounts, a late Attorney
General misappropriating public funds,
a Secretary Of the Navy enriched or EN-
riching friends by percentages, levied of
the profits of contractors with his depart
ment, an Ambassador to England cens,lr-
ell in dishonorahle speculation, the
Presidents Private Secretary barely es'
Gaping conviction upon trial for guilty
completely in frauds upon the revenue, a
Secretary of War inpeael'cd for high
crimes and confessed misdemcanOrs.
THE DEMONSTRATION IS c COMPLETE
, That the FIRST step mist be the public
choice Of honest men from anothe, party
} lest the disease Of one political organiza.
ton infcst the whole body polite and
| thereby making no change Of men OF
party, we can get no change Of measures
, and 10 reform.
I'LL THESE ABUSES,
Wrongs and crimes the product Of SIX
teen years of ascendancy, Of the Republic
can party, create s necessity for reform
, confessed by the Republicans themselves
But these reformers arc voted down il
convention and displaced from the Cabi
net The p;irty's mass of hone st votes !!
, powerless to resist the eighty Thousand
office holders, its leaders and guides. Be
form ca,f only be had Ivy peaceful civi
+, volution. We demand Il change o
system, a change Of administration, :
change of parties, that we may have
9 change of men.