The Daily Fort Worth Democrat. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 11, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 16, 1876 Page: 3 of 4
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j the rapacity of carpet-bag tyrannies.
has honey-combed the offices of the
Federal Government itself with incupa-
_ | city, waste, and fraud; infected Stales
“ ! and municipalities with the contagion
Tlu* charge of disloyalty j °t misrule^ and locked hist the prosper-
;i"aiti.Nt Ti-.ias otiitht now to bV,''-v °l, ,,ur i',,l1"s";i,’1‘s people in the
* , w' , i I paralysis of hard tilths. Reform is
silenced loicvei. *» c na\i* cCi- j necessary to establish a sound currency
c lira led f»it‘ Fourth ol July as! restore the public credit and maintain
we never did, even before the j da; national honor,
w a i. We have carried the na- "e denounce tin*(failure for all these
r ' * sleven years to make good the promise
oflega) render notes.wnieh are changing
teandaid ol value in the hands of the
people, and the non-payment of which
siiMi.lv we *i, ** lis disregard of the piighted lailli ot
1,411 c 1 nation.
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Yp»nal flag in procession, floated
it from our house tops* and
shouted ourselves hoarse in oar
j a! s iot it; fervor,
not lacking itt devot on to a na-
t it ii whose natal day we liaye|
< a b -hi a ted so gi'undh ,and w hose i
nag we have spivnti exilitlhgly j
iosiu:‘hcni tin i zes. The cole-1
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ioation ol tilt- 4th in Texas, was :
ye:;» general, a.ni tt lias avalue
We denounce Tin* improvidence which
in eleven years of pence lias taken
from the p»*oj>li* in Federal taxes thir-
teen times iii4- whole amount ot tin* le-
ga 1 rende r non s. and squandered four
times t«ii- sum ui useless expense with-
out aeemnulaiing any reserve lor their
red. mptiom
We denounce the financial imbecility
V* A i{' ;n - ,MI<1 ; and immorality of that party which,
(..an oolongs to old.mu \ hoit(.aa\ : Uurir.g eleven years ot peace, has made
pageants, it lias drought us , in* advance towards resumption ; that
<- in* more in familiar ami s\ tu- . Mislead, n s obstructed resumption, by
,-.!u";r «-obt;!ct wni. it..- si' ns ! "if*"-...... ;m.l <-xl,a!istl..*r
1 , , , .. • p j. a.I <>1 on- surplus income, and while
<in, s\tii!M>js ol Out ii a I i t \ . i apmallv proies<ing to intend a speedy
We have Itjsn cucd keNTeadieg return .?n specie, payment, has annually
oi tlie dechiratton of offr inde- j
' such
t ed iresli hindrances thereto. As
hindrances we denounee the r(*-
J.::,.inn,-n. NV buy,- m-.-» jx-opU- , ......|i(II1 duusc oft!.,- a, t ol 1S75, m.tl
<0 Ail sections and ail politics j we here demand its repeal.'
mingling cordsaliy together, and | We demand a judicious system ot
i.;sj» red hv a common patriotic I Pr<,l>:|ration by public economies, by
'li'lH- bit U-rm-ss ol s,r- 'l*1'1''1'1 rwrai<-lim.Mii.s, uiiiL by wi«-
tie.ance, wtucli siiall enable the nation
pitepose.
an atmosphere,.and met had no
i art to ievive
i - a :a i i > m could Dm li\e in sihm n> insure i 1m4whole world of its perfect
ability, and its perfect readiness to
meet any of its promises at the call of
creditors entitled to payment. We he-
f, ! lieye such a system will he devised and
hit1 ' above* ail entrusted to competent hands
memories out ol
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syuipatby witfi the day ami its
*t\\ i. imrnortai memories.
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et leo.a i ion !ms d<>!u‘ great good, ! f«*r execution, creating at no linn
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because it brought vividly be-
fee us the fact, too h*ng forgot
the <inv and the flag
liter\t.utee. and it is not
aiston i r<trcu r says
ot light lor one man
t<» lean oil another. That's so.
I! \ on get loo drunk to stand tipr
•.in oil tiie fence, or sit down |
ami make helieVe you are inlet
* . ted in a paving cunt met. *
A Whimjman
igiisii hr knew tin
spoke
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oilier
an
artificial ‘scarcity ml currency, and at
no time alarming the public mind into
a withdrawal of that vast machinery of
credit J.y which ho percent, of all busi-
ness transa. tlons an* p<*rtormed—a sys-
to I tJ,m op« *i, public, and inspiring gem*r-
1 al eoniiileiicr*. would-, from the day of
its adoption, bring healing on its wings
to all of our harassed industry, and set
| in motion the .wheels or commerce.'
! manufactures and tin* mechanical arts,
j re-tore employment to labor, and rc-
j new in all its national sources the pros
| perity ot tiie people.
Reform is necessary in the form and
| mode ot federal taxation, to tlu; end
t hat "capital maybe set tree from dis-
tress, and labor lightly burdened,
We denounce tin* present tariff, lev-
ied upon nearly 4000 articles, as a mas-
ter piece ot injusticev inequality and
fai-e pretense, it yields a dwindling.
till
day i
; , . A- ! | not a yearly rising revenue. It has
Ai«i.,.uupoi..s, and ''.asi hned I iuipoveri-hv'd many industries, to sub-
sidize a tew. It prohibits Imports that
, .ut”.ii purchase the products of Ameri-
f'Ai prulaiiiity.
might
A Iraiii i[;\n over and killed ’ ^:i?l ’* f I* has degraded American
’ | commerce from the first to an interior
killed two horses, oil the rail* upon flic high seas. It has cut down
the sales of American manufactures at
i end nonl* Sherman, this week1.
The owner filed a suit for dama-
ges one hour after the oeeur-
i cnee. —-t'
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DEitfOCRATC PLATFORM.
home and abroad, and depleted the re-
turns of American agricultural indus-
try. followed bv liaif of our people. It
costs the people five times more than
it produces to the treasury, obstructs
the processes of production, and wastes
the lmit.'got labor. It promotes fraud,
and fosters smuggling, enriches dis-
honest officials, and bankrupts honest
merchants. We demand that all cus-
tom house taxation shall be only tor
revenue.
Reform is necessary in the scale of
public expense. Federal, State and
municipal. Our federal taxation has
swollen fro in $10,000.000 gold. 1860 to
$450,000,000 currency in 1870. Our ag-
gregate taxation from a $184,000,000
gold, in 1860, to $750 000.000 currency,
in 1870 ; or in one decade, from less
and most pressing patriotic duty.
For the Democracy of the Whole
rouutry we do here reaffirm our faith*
in the permanency ot the Federal Fn-
ioii ; our deviotion to the Constitution/
'*t the United States, with its amend-
■ments universally accepted as a final
setdement ot the controversies that en-
gendered civjr war ; and do here re-
cord our steadfast confidence in the
prosperity of republican self govern-
ment.
In absolute acquiesccNce in the will
•<f the majority, the vital principle of
ment.
Reform is .necessary to pur a stop
to the profligate waste of public .lauds,
and their diversion from actual settlers
by the party in power, which lias
squandered 200,000.000 of acres upon
railroads alone, and out of more than
Republics; iiji the supremacy of -the thrice that aggregate has disposed of
Avil over the military authority ; in less than a sixth directly to tillers of
ili<* total separation of church' and
>tate, for the sake alike of civil and rej
ligious freedom ; in the equality of all
iti/.ens before just jaw s of their own j and the errors of our treaties and our
the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the
omissions of a Republican Congress.
enactment ; in the liberty of individual
conduct, unvexed by sumptuary laws;
and in the faithful education of the ris-
ing generation, that they may preserve
enjoy, and transmit these best condi-
tions of human happiness and hope.
We behold thy noblest products of a
hundred years of changeful history.
Hut while upholding tlu* bond ot our
Union, and great charter ol these Our
our lights, it behooves a free people to
Practice that eternal Vigilance which is
thejtDceot liberty. Reform is neces-
sary to rebuild and establish in the
hearts of the whole peopleThe Union
ol eleven years ago happily rescued
f rom the danger of a corrupt centralism
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diplomacy, which have stripped oili-
fellow citizens of foreign birth and kin-
dred race, recrossing the Atlantic, of
the shield of Ameneanship. and have
exposed our brethren of the Pacific
coast to the incursions of a race not
sprung from the same great parent
stock. In fact-now by law denied citi-
zenship through naturalization, as be-
ing neither accustomed to the traditions
of a progressive civilization, or exercis-
ed in liberty under equal laws. We
denounce the policy which thus dis-
cards the liberty loving German, and
tolerates the revival of the coolie trade
in Mongolian women, imported for
... ,, v,„f . v imffioral purposes, and Mongolian men
vhicli, after inflicting upon ten States lifted to perform servile labor eon-
T±d
East Side of Alain Street between 1st and 2d Streets is the
CHEAPEST
House in the City for
Ribbons, Fancy Goods, Shoes, Hats, Glassware, &r., &c. jiiKKSm. J. 1". WOLF & CO.
ST. LOUIS ADVERTISEMENTS.
W. M. SenterL W. T. Wilkins.
SEN TER & CO.
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Cotton Factors and General
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
]SO. 200 X. MAIN ST.
Cor.of Pine, St. Louis, Aio.
liiberal advances on Shipments of
Cotton. Speck; 1 attention giwn to
filling orders lor ^I(*reJiandi^(* adn
Plantation Supplies. ju4-ly.
J. M. Gilkeson.
♦T. T.. SIoss.
BOHAXAW
MIRLKY.
I LLHAXH & ( o..
LIVE STOCK
Commission Merchants
NATIONAL STOCK YARDS,
East S(. Louis, iil.
UNION STOCK 11 IDS,
St. Louis, Mo.
LIVE STOCK
Commission Merchants,
I'.’e, the de|egates of the Democratic
pariy of tiic UniUtd States, in Xational
1 oiivcntiiin assemhied, <lo here deckvre
the ;j(hnmisiration of the Federal <4ov-
t i iimein in urg(*nt need of immediarC
reform : do hereby enjoin upon the*
nominees ol this Convention.and of the
! lemocratie j»arty m each State, a zeal-
ous eilbrt and co-operation to this end :
and do hen by appeal to our fellow-,
iiizens ofevtlTV Idnm i* political con- j ‘ 1:111 “v<! dollars per head, to more
'ice,ion to undertake with us this iii>L| ,,l;ln '''^Hccn dollars per head. Since
timsl l.r..Jsill,r tKilri.itie .lilt,- , ?j ttl<‘ pCUCC, tllC people llilVC paid to tlieil'
tax gatherers more tDan thrice the
sum of the national debt, and more
than thrice that sum for the Federat
Goverment alone. We demand a rig-
orous frugality in every department,
and from every officer of the Govern-
tracts, and demand such modification
of the treaty with the Chinese Empire,
or such legislation by Congress within
a Constitutional limitation, as shall
prevent the further importation or im-
migration of the Mongolian race.
Reform is necessary, and can never
be effected hut by flunking it tne con-
trolling issue of the flections, and lift-
ing above the two ftilse issues with
which the office holding class and the
party in power seek to ^mother it—the
false light with w hich they would en-
kindle sectarian strife, in respect to the
public schools, the establishment and
support of which belongs exclusively
to the several States, and wliieh the
Democratic party has cherished from
their foundation, and are resolved to
maintain without partiality or prefer-
ence flu-any class, sect or creed, and
without contributing from the treasury
to any : and the false issue by which
they seek to light anew the dying em-
bers of sectional hate between kindred
peoples,, once unnaturally estranged,
hut now reunited in one .indivisible
Republic and a common destiny.
Reform.is necessary in the civil ser-
vile. Experience proves that an eili-
cient economical conduct of the govern-
mental business is not r»o>sihle, if its
civil service be subject tF change at ev-
ery election—be a prize* to be striven
tor at the ballot—he a brief reward of
party zeal, intend of posts ot honor as-
signed for proven competency, and
held tor fidelity in the public employ.
The dispensing of patronage should
neither he a tax upon tlu* time of all
our publirmen, nor the instrument ot
their ambition. Here again professions
falsified in the performance, attest
that the party in power can. work out
no practical nor salutary reform.
Reform is necessary even more in the
higher grades of the public service.
President. Vice-President. Judges. Sen-
ators. Representatives, < labinet officers
—these and all others in authority, are
the peak 's servants. Their offices are
not a private perquisite; the\ are a pub-
lic trust. When the annals' of tills Re-
public show the disgrace and censure •
a Vice-President; a late speaker of the
House of Representatives marketing his
tidings as a presiding officer; three Sen-
ators profiting secretly by their votes
as law makers; live chairmen of the
leading committees of the late House of
Representatives exposed in jobbery; a
late Secretary of the Treasury forcing
balances in the public accounts: a fak
Attorney General misappropriating
public funds; a Secretary of the Navy
enriched and euiidling friends by per-
centages levied off the profits of con-
tractors with his department; an Am-
bassador to England censured in a dis-
honorable speculation; the President's
private secretary barely escaping con-
viction upon trial for guilty complicity
in frauds upon the revenue; a Secretary
of Way impeached for high crimes and
confessed misdemeanors—the demon-
stration is complete that the first step
must be the peoples choice ot honest
men from another party, lest the dis-
ease of one political organization infest
the.body politic, and theieby making
no change ot men or party, we can get
no change of measures and no reform
All these abuses, wrongs and crimes,,
the product of sixteen years’ ascenden-
cy of the Republican party, create the
necessity for reform confessed by Re-
publicans themselves; but their reforms
arc* voted down in convention; aim dis-
placed from the Cabinet. The party's
mass of honest votes is powerless to re-
sist the eighty thousand office-holders—
its leaders and guides. Reform can only
be had by a peaceful civic revolution.
We demand a change of system, change
of administration, and change of par-
ties, that \\ve may have a change of
measures and of men,
GILKESON SLCSS,
General Commission
MERCHANTS
C'otton Factors
Aixl dealers, in
RAGGING,
TIES,
FLOUR A NO
I1 HOI' JSIONS.
120 XorlLi Main Street.
ST. LOUIS, SydIO.
j u4-l y.
NATIONAL STOCK YAKiiS,
East St. la.nil. III.
l’OBT. I,. Ill XTKi.*,
KANSAS STOCK YARDS,'
Jiaasas M..
AL. <L EVAX'S.
Hunter, Evans & Hough,
j LNION STOCK YAI.TS, CHICAGO, lil.
D. C. HOUGH.
( ash Advances made on ( on^ign-
iiiciiN to cither house. ju l.D'.
lirir.fr yourd>>b B ork j0 j
DEMOCRAT OFFICE,
•Soutii si(i,i of public Square.
D. XV. Marmaduke,
Jb\ E. Davidson, ^
v Wyatt M. Brown.
Marmaduke & Brown,
B. C. EVANS.
Staple and Fancy
DRY GOODS,
Gents’ Furnishing Goods, Boots,
SHOES, XOTIOXS, &o.
Houston $t.. Fort Worth, jull-tf.
Carson and Lewis House,
Weatherford, Texas,
i PH,
(Late of T, & P. R. R.) PROPR’S.
The best building, most elligible lo-
cation, and by tar the best table in the
city. Try' us once. ju7-lm.
Cotton Factors
—A XI)—
Cor. Main and Chestnut Streets,
ju4-6m. st. Louis, Mo.
sr. louis katilnal
Stools ITsrd.s
•These Stock Yards are located at
E^3st Hi. Louis ISIinois,
Directly opposite tin* «*ity of Saint
Louis, and nearer it^ bu^iurs.-s
centre, than any yard- lo-
cated therein.' 'J'hey
embrace an area of'
656 acres, ut
which
Acres are Enclosed
lor t he
special busi-
ness ot the yard,
and acre- arc un<ler
slu*d. 'I’lic stock arriving
is unloadcrl directly in tin* pens
! ami idaecd immediately on rite market
Buyers from New' York. Boston',
Chicago. Cincinnati, Louisville, NVh-
ville and other points are nermaiicn* 1 v
located at tin* vards, and shippers «-.*•**
edufidcmly anticipate an active and re-
liable market lor all receipts howewr
large and for all grades of stock.
Every effort will he made to advance
4lie* confidence of shippers in the Saint
Louis live stock market, which has al-
ready. through the agency of these
yards, become at least the equal ot anv
! live stock market in the West.
A .irst-cla*s hotel for the convenience
j of its patrons is attached to the yard
iSAAU KNOX. Fhe-idenf.
1 R. M. MOOJCE. Sec. A: Ti es.
C. C. Dalv.
Frank Miller.
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Daly & Miller,
LIVE STOCK,
Commission Merchant?,
NO. 1 /exchaxge building.
fl©* Office, St. Louis National Stock
Yards. Fast St, Lott is, HI.
IHILHALL i! J1L! \G,
LIVE STOCK
COMMISSION MERNHNTS
—F«.r the !;.!<* .if—
Cattfe, Hogs and Sksp,
XATtOXAL STOCK YAHD.S
East St-, Louis 111.
Drr<»et communication by telegraph in
the yards. i-Otw .
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The Daily Fort Worth Democrat. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 11, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 16, 1876, newspaper, July 16, 1876; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1097693/m1/3/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Advertising%22: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.