Year: 1876

is possible without producing an g artificial
scarcity of currency" OF disturbing public
or commercial credit; and that these re-
forms, together with restoration Of pure
government, Will restore general confidence,
encourage the useful investment of capital,
furnish employment to labor, and relieve
the country from paralysis Of hard times.


BURDENS OF THE PEOPLE.


With the industries Of the people there
have been frequent interferences. Our
platform truly says that many industries
have been impoverished to substitute a few.
Our commerce has been degraded to an in
ferior position on the higl-seas. Manufac-
lures have been diminished, agriculture has
been embarrassed, and the distress OF the
industrial classes demands that these things
shall be reformed.


The burdens of the people must also be
lightencd by great change in our system
OF public expenses. The profligate expen-
ditures which increased taxation from IS
per capita in 1860 to S1S in 1870, tells its own
story OF our need in fiscal reform. Our
treaties with foreign powers should also be
revised and amended in so FAR us they leave
citizens OF foreign birth in any particular
less secure in any country on earth than
they would be il they had been born upon
our own soil. and the iniquitous coolie sys-
tenn, which through the agency OF wealthy
companies imports Chinese bondmen and
establishes species OF slavery, and inter-
feres with the Just reward of labor on our
Pacific coast, should be utterly abolished.
CIVIL SERVICE.


In the reform OF our civil service / most
heartily endorse that section OF the platform
which declares that civil service ought not
to be "subicct to change ut every election"
and that it ought not to be made "the brief
reward OF party ZEAL" but ought to be
awarded for sound competency and held for
fidelity in the public employ. hope never
again to see the cruel and remorseless pro.
scription for political opinions which have
| dsgrated the Administration Of the last
! eight years.


Bad rs the civil service now is, rs all
know, it has some men Of tried integrity
and proved ability. Such men, and such
men only, should be retained in office. But
no man should be retained on any consid-
Grafton who has prostitutcd his office to the
purposes of partisan intimidation or COM
pulsion, or who has furnished money to
corrupt elections. This is done and has
been done in almost every country OF the
land. 1t is 4 blight upon the morals OF the
country, and ought to be reformed.


COMMON SCHOOLS.


OF sectional contentious and in respect to
our common schools l have only this to say,
that in my judgment the man or party that
would involve our schools in political or
sectional controversy is an enemy to the
schools. The common schools are safer
under the care Of all the people than under
the control Of any party or sect. They
L. ,n:t t0,n,. min, ,Drtis
there must be neither division nor misap-
preparation OF funds for their support.
Likewise I regard the man who would
arouse or foster sectional animoSities and
antagonisms among his countrymcn as n
dangerous enemy to his country.


STRIFE BETWEEN RACES.


All the people must be made to feel and
to know once more that there is established
4 purpose and policy under which all citi-
zcns Of every condition, race, and color will
be secure in the enjoyment OF whatever
rights the Constitution and laws declare or
recognize, and that in controversies that
may arise the Government is not a partisan,
but within its constitutional authority the
Just and powerful guardian Of the rights
and safety OF all. The strife between the
sections and between races will cease as soon
''Es the power. for evil is taken away from a
party that makes political gain out Of scenes
of violence and bloodshed, and the constl-
tutional authority is placed in the hands OF
men whose political welfare require that
peace and good order shall be preserved
everywhere.


IN ACCORD WITH PLATFORM.


1t will be seen, gentlemen, that | am in
entire accord with the platform Of the Con-
vention by which I have been nominated as
candidate for the Office OF Nice-Presidcnt
OF the United States.


| Permit me, in conclusion, to express my
satisfaction at being associated with q candl-
date for the presidency who is first among
his equals as a representative Of spirit and
] OF achievements Of reform. In his official
career as the Executive of the great State OF
New York he has in q comparatively short
period reformed the public service and re-
duced the public burdens so as to have
earned at once the gratitude OF his State and
the admiration Of the country.


| TILDEN.


The people know him to be thoroughly
| in earnest. He has shown himself to be pos.
sessed Of powers and qualities which tit
him in an eminent degree for the great work
OF reformation which this country now
needs, and if he shall be chosen by the peo.
| pie 10 the nSn once VI IIesiueHI VI Cie
United States / believe that the day OF his
Inauguration will be the beginning OF new
era OF peace, purity, and prosperity in all
departments Of our Government.


am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
THOMAS A. HENDRICKS.
10 Hon. John 4. McCIernaud, chairman,


and others of the Committee of the Ma


tional Democratic Convention.
| LONDON HoTELs.-Mr. Jennings's last
| 7 ondon letter tn the New York World Dic.