The Russellville Democrat., 1876-08-10

promotes fraud. fosters snug gling, enriches dishonest officials, and brnkrupts honest merchants. We demand that all Custom House taxation shall be only for revenue. Reform is necessary in the scale of public cxpcnse-Fed- eral. State and Municipal. Our Federal taxation has swollen from $60,000,000 gold in 1880 to S450, 100000 in currency in 1870: our aggregate taxation from $l 34, : 100000 gold in 1860 to $730,000,- 900 currency in 1S70-all in ole decade from less than s5 per head to more than SIS per head. Since the peace, tho people have paid to their tax gathcrers more than thrice the sum for the Federal Government alone. We demand a rigorous frugality in every de partment and from every officer of the Government.
 Reform is ncctssary to put a stop to the profligate waste O. rpub- lie lands and their diversion from actual settlers by the party in power, which has squandered two hundred millions of acres upon railroads alone, and out of more than thrice that aggregate mas dis posed of less than a sixth directly to the tillers of tic soil.
 Reform is necessary to correct the omissions of a Republican Congress and the errors of our treaties and our diplomacy, which has stripped our fellow citizens Of foreign birth and kindred race re- crasing the Atlantic from the shield of citizenship, and has eX posed our brethren of the Pacific coast to the incursions of race not sprung from the same great parent stock, and, in fact, now by law denied citizenship through naturalization as being to the tra- ditions of q progressive civiliza- tion, one exercised in liberty un- der equal laws; and we denounce the policy which thus discards the liberty-loving German and tolcratcs the revival of the Coolie trade in Mongolian women, i'm ported fo9 immoral purposes, and Mongolian men held to perform servile labor contract.
 Reform is necessary and never can be effected but by making it the controlling issue of the cleo tion and lifting it above the two false issues with which the office holding classes and the party in power seek to smother it.
 l. The false issue with which this would enkindle sectarian strife Tn respect to the public schools of which the establish ment and support belong exclu- sively to the several States, and which the Democratic party has cherished from their foundation and is resolved to maintain with out rartiality or preference for any class, sect or creed. and with out contributions from the treas ury to any.
 ,, The false issue by which they seek to light anew the dying cmbers of sectional hate between kindred people once unnaturally estranged. but now reunited in one indivisable republic and q common destiny.
 All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, the product of sixteen years ascendency of the Republi- can party, create. q necessity for reform, confessed by Republicans themselves; but their reformers are voted down in convention and displaced from the Cabinet. The party's mass of honest voters is7 powerless to resist the eighv thousand office holders, it's les,j. CTS and its guides. Reform c,n only be had by q peaceful cfic revolution. We demand a chanre of system, g change of Admin g. tration, Il change of party, tat we may hare change of mes ures and of men.
 Resolved, That this Conventibn representing the Democratic pr. ty of the States, do cordially e. dorse the acton ..,,of the prese, f House of Representatives for r.. ducing and curtailing the expc,- ses of the Federal Govern ent, n cutting down onorous salaries, cx. travagant appropriations, and n abolishing useless offices al places not required by the pubic necessities, and we shall trust to the lirmness of the Democratic members of the House that In committee of conference and m misinterpretation of rules will ,e allowed to defeat these wholc- some measures of economy d handed by the country.
 Resolved, That the soldiers aI q sailors of the republic, and tl lc widows and orphans of those WI q have fallen in battle, have . just claim upon the care, protcctlon and gratitude of their fellow w-citi Zcns.
 Reform is necessary in tLe civil service. EXperieute proves that efficient and economical conduct