The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-13

ton IN the election of 1850. Reform
throughout the federal administration is
stu q necessity, Continual disclosureS M
new and hitherto concealed punderinr of
the peoples funds by the inner RINGS in
the treasury, poStothcc and interior denart.
mentS demonstrates that reform Is now
more than ever necessary. IL remains like.
wise Tor the democrats of the state of
New York, and It is ter first
political duty 70 carry unto successful
completion of the great measures
and policy Of administrative reform begnn
in 1874. The resolutions deuounce the
assassination of the president aS crime
against authority and against free
institutions and against human-
ity. Then revere the demand
for reiNndmg the national debt and declares
gold and silver TO be the true legal tender
and basis of all paper mediums, and insists
on the payne of the principal and inter
est of every dollar of the public indebted
ness Readjustment is reputation. The
act OF northern republican leaders
~ giving the support of that party TO rcpu-
diation in Virginia, Mississippi, Minnesota
and other states, is a national disgrace, dam
gerous as precedent and destructive of
public credit. The resolutions demand
thorough and immediate investigation in
me star route and other frauds on the fed
eral treasury and vigorous prosecution,
already too long delayed of ali the partici.
pants, both high and low, and
assert that the money stolen by
these plunderers from the treasury was
used rs a corruption fund in the last presi-
DENTAL election. Aller vigorous arraign.
mont OF the republican party ON its lcgisla-
tive record IN this state during late sessions
OF the legislature, the resolutions declare in
flNnr nI Snph rainpp, hN I..,,.l,tt,s.
enactment as well as by ad.
ministratiye action for the civil service
Of the country, as will substitute for the
present periodical scramble for spoils
wise system disappointment and promotion,
by which the inCumbenCy Of the sub-trcas-
ury officers shall be regulated
by law and depend only upon
capacity and character, and demand that
NO assessment shall be levied ON public OIL
GERS for political purposes, The public
welfare demands that various questions re-
latng to chartered monopolics and
methods of transportation should be
met and provided for, aud we are in favor of
the adoption of measures to restrict the
growing power of such monopolics They
should be subject to the super
vision of commissioners, established
/ by public authority, All un-
just discrimination in transportation
of passengers aud merchandise should be
/ prohibited, After strongly protesting
against the tendency to Capitalization in
the policy of the republican party, the
resolution definitely Challenged comparison
of the records Of the democratic party
with that furnished by factions which
were once the republican party of
this state, The report was unanimously
adopted aud the convention then proCacd-.
ed to the nominations. Vim. Purcell, of
Rochester, editor and proprietor of the
Rochester Union, was nominated
for secretary of state; George
H. Lupham of Yates, for comptroller;
Roswell Parmcnticr for attorney general,
and Robert A. Maxwell for Treasurer