The Russellville Democrat., 1876-10-26
THE RUssEL1vILLE DEMOCRAT, THURSDAY, 1876.
to the tillers of the soil.

the omissions of Republican Congress and the errors of our treaties and our diplomacy, wliicli has strippedoursfcllow citizens of foreign birth and kindred race re- erasing 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 a progressive civiliza- tion, one exercised in liberty un- der equal laws; and we denounce the policy which thus discards the liberty-loving German and tolerates the revival of the Coolie trade in Mongolian women, i'm ported for immoral purposes, and Mongolian men held to perform servile labor contract.
 Reform is necessary and never can be effected but by making fl the controlling issue of the cleo ton 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 partiality or preference fol 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 embers 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 ascendepcy of the Rcpubli. can party, create necessity fol reform, confessed by Republicans themselves; but their reformer; are voted down in convention and displaced from the Cabinet. The party's mass of honest voters is powerless to resist the eighty l thousand office holders, it's lead CTS and it's guides. Reform car only be had by a peaceful civic revolution. We demand change of system, a change of Admins tration, change of party, that we may have change of meas ures and of men.
 Resolved, That this Convention representing the Democratic par ty of the States, do cordially en dorse the acton of the present House of Representatives for re ducing and curtailing the expen ses of the Federal Govern ent, iI cutting down on rous salaries, cx travagant appropriations, and ir abolishing useless offices and places not required by the public necessities, and we shall trust tc the firmness of the Democratic members of the House that nc committee oi conference and nc misinternretation of rules will be allowed to defeat these whole. some measures of economy de manded by the country.
 Resolved, That the soldiers and sailors of the republic, and the widows and orphans of those who have fallen in battle, have q jus, claim upon the care, protection and gratitude of their fellow-citi' Zens.
 Reform is necessary in the civil service. Experience proves that efficient and economical conduct of the Government is not possi- blc if it's civil service be subject to change at every election, be a prize fought for at the ballot box, be an approved reward of party zeal instead of posts of honor as signed for approved competency and held for fidelity in the public employ; that the dispensing of patronage should neither be a tax upon the time of our public men nor an instrument of theiI ambition. Here, again, profcs sions falsiiied in the performance attest that the party in power can work out no practical or saiut9ry reform. Reform is necessary even in the higher grades of pub lie service. President, Vice Pres ident, Judges, Senators. Repre- sentatives, Cabinet officers these and all others in authorit, are the peoples servants. Then offices are not a private pcrqnlslte they are a public trust. When the annals of this Republic show disgrace and censure of Vice President; a late Speaker of the House of Representatives mar keting his rulings as a presiding officer; three Senators prolitina by their votes as law makers: five Chairmcn of the leading Commit tees of the late House of Repre-
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