The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-04

any duties of citizenship. In the State of New
York the whole number of national office-holders
including clerks and subordinates of every degree
is 7465. This is one national official or subordi-
nate to 152 voters. Of State, county and town
officials there in this State 133513 This is one
State, county or town official to every eight and
half voters. When the potential functions of local
officers are taken into account their nearness to the
CITIZEN and their power over his property taxes and
interest, their relative influence becomes even
greater than numbers indicate The exclusion of
public servants from political action would disfran-
chise great body of our feliow-citizens The laws
mean no such exclusion, and we deny as an lmputa-
ton upon the people of New York that they are or
have been dominated by the nations subordinate
officials, and we can conceive of no condition of
affairs short of the extinction of manhood and pa
triotsm in which Postmaster or clerk could sub
due to his partisan will $50 other electors or exert
any other influence beyond such as his character
might give him. s
Fifh-Public faith, honest industry and general
prosperity demand sound currency of coin and
paper convertible into coin, and the already near
proach to specie payments enforces the wisdom and
duty of faithfully pursuing the necessary steps to
full resumption within the time now fixed by law.
sides to corporations monopolies, and hold that
the public domain should be reserved for the free
homes of industrious settlers. yj.
Se0enth-That we regard with alarm and disap-
prove the demands coming from the promoters of
various schemes that profuse appropriations and
grants shall be made and the national credit used
| to carry on works OF various kinds, local and
sectional in character and not of urgent national
| Importance. We call upon the burdened tax
payers of this State to watch and defeat all at
tempts however specious, to increase the public
debt, or to obtain their money for remote and
questionable purposes, which, if feasible, appeal
| to State action and private enterprise Such at
| tempts are more indefens;ble when sustained by
the votes Of sectional minorities, adding to the
burdens of the more heavily taxed portions Of our
country.
| Eighth-We recognise equally the rights of prop
erty, and manliness and dignity of labor depre-
eating any resort to violence in the of either.
| We insist at all times upon the supremacy of the
law and maintenance of public order. The adj
vancement of American industry and enterprise
depends upon the harmonious cooperation of CAPT
tai and labor and the adjustment of their material
relations whether left to the reason of parties or eff
fected by legislation, should be governed by con
siderae regard for the rights of the and for the
| just claims of the other.
The remaining resolutions arraign the DEM
ocratic party for false pretenses for perpet-
uating existing abuses and for slavish SUBJ
servience to most corrupt and dangerous infu-
ences, and pledge the Republican party of the
State to renewed and unyielding efforts for the
correction of municipal abuses, and for econo-
my and reform in every branch of the ad-
ministration.
Gov. Phelps, of Missouri, has appointed
David R. Armstrong, Of st. Louis, United
States Senator, to fill the unexpred term of
the late L. v Bogy.