Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-10-04

Graf, who is an earnest friend of reform
MANN. a. Keedy, Of Washington county.
He was one of the Committee on Platform,
and presented a minority report which,
first, commended the reform doctrines and
practices of Governor Hamilton, and ap.
proved his course in endeavoring TO adj
vance the public interests. 1t then made
demand and pledge for radical changes.
It is interesting to know what these were,
in order that we may see what it was that
caused the Democracy of Maryland Con-
vention to hiss and to vote down the report.
Here is the schedule Abolition of the
sinecure. Office of Tax Commissioner abo-
lition of the salaried offices of weighers of
live stock and of grain, which officers have
nothing to do, as the law is a farce aboli-
ton of the compulsory inspection OF tobac-
co, which feeds with its fees some fat
office-holders introduction of the civil
service principle into the tobacco, canal
and oyster service of the State, with view
to economy and the securing OF the best
service; reduction of the number of the
employees and officers OF the Legislature,
about one-third of whom are merely orna-
mental the fixing OF the compensation of
legislative employees by Law instead of by
the whim of the houses abolition of
unnecessary and heavy expenses of the
Land Department; abolition of the rule
requiring all laws to be advertised in news
papers passage of better Law against
bribery passage of law to punish i'm
proper use Of money at elections passage
of law to prevent the levying of assess
ments upon office. holders for political pur-
poses passage of law to relieve the
Board of Public Works CT the power to
appoint to subordinate offices and places
of employment. M. Keedy asked leave
to speak to his report, but he was seated
amid storm Of hisses, and the report re-
ceived about ten votes only, and was
tabled but not until'Keedy had exclaimed
so that all the Convention heard the pro-
phetic words & You may hiss me if you
will, but 1 am telling you the plain truth
when 1 say that if the Democratic party
continues in her present course in Mary
land she viii be wrecked beyond recovery"
What the Convention did adopt in place of
these practical measures was sounding lot
of platitudes charging that the Presiden-
tial elections of 1876 and 1880 we're con-
summated by fraud that the party in
Maryland "rests itself" on the Tenth
Amendment TO the Federal Constitution
relative to reserved rights of the States
that the party favors education, has paid
all bills against the State, and will encour-
age economy, restoration of toe merchant
marine, and oppose unjust extension of
corporate powers, closing with declara-
ton that labor has the same right to COM
bine that capital has. And this is abso-
lutely all there is in the meaningless gen
eralities of the platform, which were
adopted to the rejection of the specific
matters suggested by the minority report
There never was more striking instance
of the groveiing subserviency Of party to
the baser elements of society. Such plat
form plainly says: ave will talk to the
voters in sounding nothings, boys, while
you 60 on with the burglary"