The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-09-27

the constitution OF any American state is gov
chosen by the people. The question
whether a case has arisen requiring the Presi-
dent to employ military force to protect lawful
state authority against domestic violence is, by
the constitution committed to his decision and
to his responsibility. Taking no issue with any
decision of this kind which has been made by
the national executive in respect to the employ
ment of troops, and expressing no opinion in
regard to the methods and attendant proceed
ings employed in any instance, we cherish the
the hope that the action taken in relation to the
Southern states will result in peace. tranquility
and justice, and no acts of the Republicans Of
New York conducive to its good effects shall be
withheld.
We insist on purity, frugality and efficiency
in every branch of the public service, national
and state, and to that end we hold these re-
qurements and practices just:
1. No needless office or officer or public agent
should exist.
q Compensation for official service should be
fair and just, but in no case excessive
g. Fit men and no others should hold public
trusts.
4. Every official. high or low, should be re-
quired at all times to faithfully perform his
duty and the whole of it.
b. No official or Office holder should be sub
ject to political or partisan assessments or to
interference in any of his political rights or
action, and plain laws should forbid all at
tempts to make or enforce such assessments or
to control or abridge in any respect the abso-
lutte freedom in political action which in this
country belongs to all voters alike.
In connection with this subject we recur
with satisfaction to that position OF the letter
of acceptance of Mr.. Hayes wherein he de-
ciares that the founders of our government
meant that the officer should be secure in his
tenure SO long as his personal character re-
NAMED untarnished and the performance of
his duties satisfactory. In furtherance of this
H. 49,.
legislation making officers secure in a limited
fixed tenure and subject to removable only as
officers under the state laws are removal in
this state on charges to be regularly and openly
preferred and adjudged sufficient.
We hold honest service or labor the best and
highest exertion for American citizens and
those who labor for others, whether for the
government or for private employers, are as
fully entitled as any citizen can be to absolute
freedom in all political, civil or religious affairs.
They owe the full service they agreed to render
to their employers; they owe nothing more.
The constitution of the United States and of
the state of New York and the laws establish
equal rights for all citizens and all voters, and
we deprecate as unwarrantable and hurtful all
attempts by employers, whether representing
capital or political power, to encroach upon OF
coerce others in the enjoyment of any Of theil
rights, or the exercise of any al the duties OF
citizenship. In the state of New York the
whole number of national Office holders, in
Guiding clerks and subordinates OF every de.
gree, is 7465. This is one national official OF
subordinate to 1852 voters. OF state, county
and town officials there are in this state 1888 513
This is one state, county or town official tc
every 81 voters. When the political functions
Of local officers are taken into account theil
nearness to the citizen and their power over hii
property, taxes and interests, their relative in
huence becomes even greater than the number;
indicate. That exclusion of public serya MT
from political action wonld disfranchise great
body of our fellow citizens. The laws make
no such exclusion and we deny as an imputa
ton upon the people of New York that they
are or have been dominated by the nations
subordinate officials, and we can conceive of M
condition Of affairs short of the extinction o.
manhood and patriotism in which postmaste
or clerk could subdue to his partisan will Is.
yOnd such as his character might give him.
Public faith, honest industry and the genera
prosperity demand sound currency of COLI
and paper convertible into coin, and the al
ready near approach to specie payments en-
forces the wisdom and duty of faithfully pur
suing the necessary steps to full resumption
within the time now fixed by law.
We oppose any further land grants or sub
sides to corporations and monopolies and hoIt
that the public domain should be reserved fo
free homes for industrious settlers.
We regard with alarm and disapprove the
u6tuduuo CUmluS Vi various
schemes that appropriations and grants shall b.
made and the national credit used to carry OF
works of various kinds, local and sectional il
character and not of urgent national i'm por
lance. New York with one tenth of the popu
lation is the source of about one-fourth of al
burdened tax payers of this state to watch ant
defeat all attempts, however specious, to in
crease the public debt or to obtain their money
for remote and questionable purposes, which il
feasible, appeal to state action and private en-
terprise. Such attempts are the more indie
feasible when sustained by votes Of sectional
minorities adding to the burdens of the more
heavily taxed portions OF our country.
We recognize equality the rights of property
ard the manliness and dignity of labor depre
eating any resort to violence in the name Of
either. We insist at all times upon the su
premacy of the law and the maintenance Of
public order. The advancement of American
industry and enterprise depends upon the har
monious cooperation of capital and labor, ant
the adjustment of their material relation.
whether left to the reason of the parties or at
fected by legislation, should be governed by
considerable regards for the rights of one anC
for the just claims of the other.
George w. Curtis, when the reading wal
completed. called for the re-reading of a sec
ton of the platform and then moved to ament
by substituting therefor a resolution which ht
read, having been called to the platform ami(
great applause. 1t is as follows:
The lawful title of Rutherford B. Hayes tt
the Presidency is as clear and perfect as tina
of George Washington. We gladly recognize
his eminent patriotism proved in the field ant
in civil life. We heartily commend his effort
in the permanent pacifcation of the Southern
section of the Union and for the correction O
the evils and abuses in the civil service al
strictly conforming to his own pledges and tt
the declarations of the convention that nomi
mated him, and as tending to the promotion @
public welfare. Recognizing that the work il
but begun we shall hail with satisfaction it,
prompt and vigorous prosecution in which thu
President may confidently rely upon the cor
dial support of the country.
Mr.. Curtis said: AS Republican in a Re
publican convection, l offer resolution of par
ty communication for the Republican Presden
Of the United States. When [ came to thi.
city the air was filled, and was glad to know
it, with demand for harmony, for Cancellation
for peace The Republicans of the empire stat,
were here to meet, and here they met today. ]
came to this hall, sir with the same desire OIL
harmony and Cancellation that | have no doub
animated the breasts of my fellow Republi
cans, and the first words that saluted my ear.
were practical deDuncations of a Republican
high in Office in Republican administration
and of principles which were denounced as nau
seating shbboleth, or words to that effect, and
which you yourselves in convention repeatedly
declared, and which the national convention
WulCu uOmludtCu TcSlucub hdy6S, ulSlluCUl1
declared as its own conviction.
The Republican party, Mr.. President, hal
brought this administration into power, and the
Republican party is responsible tor the admin
istration. The question for the country this
moment is, Do you, does the Republican party
accept the responsibility? (Applause.) Now
Mr.. President, 1 was never prouder than am
at this moment to be known as Republican
(applause), and it is for this reason that, as
have always known the Republican party to be
the party of progress, of liberty, of equnl
rights, of reform, of absolute Individual politi
cal independence l see in the administration
that we have brought into power surer earnest
of the attainment of these great results than
has been permitted to us for long time to see.
did not expect, in my time at least, believing
nevertheless as 1 did, that the Republican
party is not now and never was a sectional par.
ty, believing as L do now and have always be-
lieved, that in its efforts the Republican party
was national party and union party, and
knowing that the peace of nations and the in
tegrity of nations is to- be maintained by mutu-
al confidence and mutual respect yet never
theless did not suppose that in my time L
should see Republican President without, in
any Republican principles received in the slave
states of Georgia, of Virginia, or of Tennessee
with confidence and respect, while the original
anti-slavery Republican state of Massachusetts
cheers him when he comes and cheers him as
he goes (applause), and the Republicans of
Maryland, who have tried in their own persons
the bitter ordeal to which many Republican in
any, Southern state in this country has long
been exposed, echo back to Massachusetts the
cordial approval, and express the confidence
and respect which Massachusetts has uttered