The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-07-01

eminent a real disposition. no sump-
tuary laws; separation of church and
state Tor the good of each; common
schools fostered and protected.
Home rule, honest money. consist
ing OF gold, silver and paper, convert
BILE INTO coin on demand; the strict
maintenance OF the public faith, State
and National. and a tariff for revenue
only.
The subordination of the military to
the civil power, ard a genuine and
thorough reform OF the civil servic.
The right TO a free ballot is a right
pre~servative of all rights, and must and
shall be maintained in every part Of
the United States.
The existing administration - the
representative of conspiracy only, aud
its claim of right to surround the
ballot boxes with troops aud deputy
marshaIs TO intimidate aud obstruct
the electors and the unprecedented use
OF the veto to maintain its corrupt u
despotIc power insults the people aud
imperiIs their institutions
We execrate the course OF this AL
ministration in making places in the
civil service a reward for political
crime and demand a reform by statute,
which shall make 1t forever impossible
for a defeated candidate TO bride his
way to the seat of a usurper by billet
ing villains upon the people.
The great fraud OF 1876 7. by which,
upon a false count of the electoral votes
of two States, the candidate defeated
at the polls was declared to be Presi"
dent, aud for the first time in Amerl-
can history the will Of the people was
set aside under threat of military vio-
lence, struck a deadly blow at our sys-
tenn of representative government.
The Democratic party, to preserve the
country from the horrors of a civil war,
! submitted for a time in the firm and pa
triotic belief that the poole would pms
ish this crime in 1880. This issue
proceeds aud dwarfs every other. II
inspires a more sacred duty up0n the
people of the union than ever addressed
the consciences of n nation Of freemen.
The resolution of Samuel j. Tilden
not again to be a candidate for the ex
allied place to which he was elected by
a majority of his countrymen, and from
which he was excluded by the leaders of
the Republican party, is received by
the United States with deep %sensibiiity.
and they declare their confidence in his
wisdom, patriotism aud integrity uns
shaken by the assaults of the common
enemy; aud they further assur him
that he is followed in the retirement he
has chosen for himself by the sympaD
thy and respect of his fellow citizens.
who regard him as one who. by elevat-
ing the standard of the public morality
and adjoining and purifying the pub
lIc service merits the lasting gratitude
OF his country and ibis party.
Free ships and a living chance fol
American commerce upon the seas, on
the land: no discrimination in favor OF
transportation lines, corporations ol
monopolies.
Amendments of the B~urlIngame trea-
to; no more Chinese emigration, except
for travel. education and foreign com
merce, and therein carefully guarded
Public money and public credit fol
public purposes solely, and public lane
for actual settlers.
The Democratic party is the frieut
of labor aud the laboring men. anC
pledges itself to protect him, alikt
against the cormorants aud the com
mulle'
We congratulate the country upor
the honesty aud thrift of a democrati,
Congress. which has reduced the pub
lie expenditure $40 900 0D a year.
upon the continuation Of prosp' rity n
home and abrosd. and. above all. upor
the promise of snch a change in the adj.
ministratiou of the Gnvernmens a.
shall insure a genuine aud listing rs-
form in every department Of the pablo
service.