The Russellville Democrat., 1876-08-10

Government from protector int'
 a despoiIer. No allusion is mad,
 to the painful perversion of higl
 trusts which have brought dis
 grace upon the nation. Nc
 stern, resolute, unsparring deter
 mination is expressed to rectifN
 known wrongs, but only q fcebl, promise to punish them if, per adventure, they are discovered
 no broad or statesmanlikc scheme
 for the rctrenchmHnt of our op
 pressive expenditures is broach ed; no hearty condemnation oI the bad practice which divides the spoils of office among the henchmen of Congressional lead eis; no whisper of approval, even of the law declaring u day for the resumption of specie payments which some jealous Republicans would persuade us is a solemn national pledge, and the sum and text of orthodoxy on the curren- cy problem"
 He considers Hayes letter q little better than the platform, but thinks its omissions as fatal as the omissions of that instru ment, especially the absence of any allusion to the enormitics ei Grantism. Concerning Governor Tilden, Mir. Goodwin speaks high. ly of his public spirit and great legal ability, and his admirable combination of the thcoretic and practical. Says he:
 As governor of New York MT. Tilden, in his short tenure of the place, has evinced a mastcrly fit ness for all it's duties. He has defeated a multitude of ill,con- sidered and improper bills, rccti fled many minor crl OTIS of admin istration, overthrown a fraudu- lent and gigantic conspiracy, and reduced the taxation from over Sl5, 100000 in 1875 to less than $8,000,000 in 1876, with an assur- ance that, if the changes he has suggested are followed, the de- crease will be two or three mill ions more in 1877! A part of this reduction is due to the ex- tinction of the bounty debt, but the rest to Gov. Tiiden's direct efforts and influence. X * X Mr. Tilden is cautious and wary. and never acts until assured of foothold or truth and right, but then he is as tenacious in pursuit as a sleuth hound, ard absolute ly inaexible."
 In contrast with the Republi- can platform Mir. Goodwin says of the St. Louis declaration:
 "The platform adopted at St. Louis, reads to me, from begin nlng to end, as an earnest and vigorous cry for better condi- tion of things. It is clear, out spoken, and positive, evading no real issues, and treating those it touches with refreshing boldness and decision. The philosophy of politics which peryados its gener- al uttcrances, is, to my mind, the soundest, greatest, truest that the human mind has yet attained. It is the philosophy on which our institutions are distinctiyelv built. The enormous centraiiza tion which has grown up since the war-almost imperceptibly perhaps--it denounces as the most formidable danger in our existing position; and while 1t frankly and manfully accepts the war and the legislative results of the war, in a permanent and un- changeable settlement of a con ilict now forever past, it de, mands thorough regeneration of essential political practice and doctrines. It demands reduc- tion in the public expenditures; :; it demands an adjustment of our costly and expensive modes of taxation, it demands q cessation in the proiigate misuse and waste of the public lands; it demands q reorganization of the civil service, which is q fruitful source of the prevailing corruption; it demands q change in the bad practice which has rendered appointments to office the reward for service to and senators; It de- mands frugalitJ-, simplicity, ca pacity, and honesty in all public officers, and last though not least it demands, in the place of that dilatory, inefficient, and deceptive policy which has hith- erto marked the treatment of the currency problem, instantaneous, active, systematic, and rigorous effort for the restoration of a sound financial condition"
 MT. Goodwin concludes by an announcing his firm determiaa, ton to support the democratic ticket. He very naturally does not sec how any member of the Fifth AyenHe conference can do otherwise, after the declaration of that body as to the candidates needed.
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