Year: 1878

BuL lltJle more than two mOnIHs now remain until the State nomi- hating convention will meet at the Capital to put out a regular Demo cratic ticket for State officers. It is of the utmost importance for the good and harmony of the party that the ticket this year be put in the field fairly and squarely. and that the gentlemen given the nomination shall represent the popular will and enlist the cordial support of the rank and file of the party. The con- position of the Convention should therefore be very carefully and mi nutely looked after by the voters in each county. Each county should begin right now to scrutinize the situation and not put it off and put it of until there is barely time to get few of the members of the party together and hastily go through the formality of choosing any delegates who may happen to be proposed without knowing exactly how they stand upon the important issues now before the people. The people ought to know exactly the standing of every delegate sent up to the State Convention and no man who has not decided and we'll matured determination upon the important issues of the day should be sent there. We want no delegates sent there who will be mere clay in the potter's hands. Such delegates will not do for the present time. We regard it as inn portant that the next State adminis- tration and the next Legislature should be in harmony and accord not only with each other, but also with the wishes of the masses of the party. The question of our State Finances will not down, and upon this particular point the ut

 most care should be exercised. We want no man placed in official posi- tion now who believes Tn adding to our burden of taxation by recogniz- ing illegal and fraudulent debts. We want none who will allow bond holders, either good or bad, bamboo gle him into the belief that the honor of the State requires the refunding of old bonds, thus heaping up inter- est upon principal and increasing the demand for additional taxes. We want men who will dare to be just 10 their State and their constit- uency even at the risk of having the bondholding gentry kick up and de- nounce them as repudiators. Close ly allied to our States indebtedness is an economical ard judicious ad- ministration of the working machin- cry of our State Government. We are poor-penniless and cannot afford to pile on any style. We must live within our means even if we have to live poorly. Every un- necessary expense must be Topped of. We cannot afford to borrow money if it can possibly be avoided. The State Government was formerly run on greatly less than is expended every year now, and until we are in better financial circumstances we should return to the simplicity of former days. If we want these prin- ciples to govern the policy of our State we must commence building upon them from the very foundation. We must send men to the State Con vention who are advocates of these principles, and who will see to it that the gentlemen nominated are firmly fixed Tn similar views. We need positive, firm men-not mega

 tives who will be as clay in the pot  ter's hands, and it is to be hoped that the people will commence think

 ing about these matters. Don't say "therc is tine enough" and let it go without B thought until the very moment for action arrives. There is little enough time and we trust the masses of the party will begin at once to consider these things.