The Daily Fort Worth Democrat. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, July 21, 1876 Page: 3 of 4
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77ft . the nibaeiry of carpet-bag tyranfihte,
iJftlm iiJCtllDCiCIL l|as honey-couibed the? office* of $lu?
^ Federal Government itself with incapa-
____• ■ -4 — u city, Waste, and fraud ; infected States
| - j and infinicipalities with the contagion
Th3 TBXcIS and Pacific* j of misrule, and locked fast the prosper-
* . __ | Uy of our industrious people in the
I paralysis of hard thins. Reform is
Under tne date of Austin, j nece-sniy to 'establish a sound currency
i - . of). \i.»; tt tii.i i restore the public credit and maintain
duo Mil, jl41 till " tlteb the I the national honor.
Sl»eiman as follows : j We denounce the failure for all these
mm a . .. « ..... I slvveii years to make good the promise
^ he pt uposillon lot extension j oflegal tender notes, which are changing;
et time to »Be Texas and 1 aei- j teandard oi value in the hands of the
lu: Kail way Company is lying in i people, and the non-payment of which
tee i.om;nnioe loom in ilie JSen
ate yeC Teireli, ol Travis, and
■+m
1 is a disregard of the plighted faith of
nation.
We denounce the improvidence which
in eleven years of peace has taken
om* or two distin^uisiied
\ is, at. work to defeat exten-
% ’
>11. Tin- motives ol the lob-
They are work-
viaif of ti»e 1 iiiernntion-
a! indiirni and certain land-
sharks, wiio hope to see the T.
aie plain.
n y; in h
fiiace, ol J-anuin, ale lighting'it
bitterly. Tkeie is a small btlt! from fh«- people in Federal taxes thir-
\ erv active lobby, containing I me uhoh* amount, of the le-
• * ’ ! gu) tenner utnes, and >quanuered four
iaV'* i iime> rids sum in useless expense with-
j out accumulating any reserve lor their
! red.-mjaioii.
! We denounce the financial imbecility
I am! immorality of that ]>arty which,
1 during eleven,years ot peace, has made
! no advance towards resumption ; that
, in.hc id. li s obstructed resumption, by
loiFeii subsidy ai d t.ic i '\Vs:!l- <«ir n^uw, and exlwustiug
o*M*i\,n:u!i .nlown open Mull j prOiessihg to intend a speed}’
1 hey may pul down their own j tvun n m specie payment, has annually
<*enilieaies Oil it. i enacted'fresh hindrances thereto. As
such hindrances we denounce the re-
| sumption clause of tlie act ot 1875, and
we here demand its rejieal.
We d -maud a judicious system of
preparation by public economies, by
official retrenchments, and by wise
li nance, which shall enahh* tin* nation
1<> .mure the whole world ot its perfect
abiliiy, and its perfect readiness to
pot- meet any of it s promises at the call of
du.sl u hat motives impels the j
U^-a-Hlors abpvo mentioned, it is
bard to surmise. Certainly.
«
ihev are endeavoring ova liar-
:o\v ami unreasonable policy to
cripple one the grandest en-
**rorises of the cenlurv. It is
mi re I v a very sh ort sighted
no time alarming the public mind into
a withdrawal of that vast machinery of
\ uunises and pass the extension
Pin
*# i ! 1 •
rev ti.:it •v.-uid throttle the <;f- ' <-v<-di!ors<-::til|«I to payment.. We be-
, \ , , l- • . ........ . . , ... l.. lieve such a system will be devised and
' * '.,s (> r 1 !d‘l comply ;;p,,Vl. -dl entrusted to competent bands
* ith ns charter, when they are ■ for execution, creating at no time an
•ailing lot til every effort. to artificial scarcity of- currency, and at
meet '-their obligation to the
.date and onl\ ask a lev* da\s rIvdjt hy which b5 per emit, of all busi-
* * I grace. 1 am satisfied that | ness transa . tious are performed—a sys-
j lie majority of the House and I bun opi a, public, ami inspiring gener-
Ummte will take a more liberal I Jd eoniidence. would, irom the* day ot
, . . • ns :idopaon, bring healing on its wings
\ tc\\ ol litefcda'es dut.N in the I ,•)■] of .our harassed industry, and set
in motion the wheels ot ‘commerce,
niamUae!lavs and the mechanical arts,
roton emp]ovm«*nt to labor, and re-
new in all its national sources the pros
perity of tint peoj)l<^.
Reform is necessary in the form and
V Iriend stud y esteron} , tlja t tliat e:i]»!t:il may be set tret* from dis-
v.'ien the fanners o! our country tress, and labor lightly burdened,
made, up their minds to get a I We denounce the present, tariff, lev-
year ahead, financially, instead j ir‘* upon nearly 4(XK> articles, as a mas-
pf n*maining a year beliind, as I ‘J’ 1>;<')l iuju.-tic<y inequality and.
'1 • . . , ’ , la be pretense. Il yields a dwindling,
tne;» nave been doing, would be- j !l()f a yearly rising revenue. It has
bold one of the happiest and j impoverished many industries, to sub-
most prosperous counlries on j sidizealewg It firohihits imports that
i might purchase the products of Ameri-
can labor, it lias degraded American
commerce from the first to an inferior
THE •nnTXARSTQB.E,
EaBt Side of main Street between 1st and 2<1 Streets is tlte
CHEAPEST
House in the City for
DAT GOODS
Ribbons, Fancy Goods, Shoes, Hats, Glassware, kc., &c. jnl0-3in. *1. E. WOLF & 0.0.
Wisdom in a Sentence.
• he face of lbe. globe. There is
a vvorid of truth in this sentence,
(let out of debt -and keep out.—
Make it a point to get one year
ahead, and stay ahead.—Mar
vital Herald.
Sherman organized a military
company, on the Kith inst.
DEsVtOCRATC PLATFORM.
We, the delegates of the Democratic
•party.of tlie United Slates, iu National
Convention assembled, do here declare
the administration of the Federal Gov-
ernment in urgent need of immediate
reform ; do hereby enjoin upon the
nominees of this Convention,and of the
1 KMiioeratic party in each State, a zeal-
tit is effort and eo-operation to this end ;
and do hereby appeal to our fellow-
eirizens ofevefy former political con-
nect ion to undertake with us this first
and most pressing patriotic duty.
For the Democracy of the whole
country we do here reaffirm our faith
in tlie permanency ot the Federal Un-
ion ; our devotion to the Constitution
ot the United States, with its amend-
ments universally accepted as a final
etdement of t lie controversies that en-
gendered civil war; and do here re-
cord our steadfast confidence in the
prosperity of republican self govern-
ment.
In absolute acquiescence in the will
of the majority, the vital principle of
Republics ; in the supremacy of the
civil over the military authority ; in
the total separation of church and
State, for the sake alike of civil and re-
ligious freedom ; in the equality of all
citizens before just laws ot their own
enactment; in the liberty of individual
conduct, unvexed by sumptuary law s ;
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 the noblest products of a
hundred years of changeful history.
Kut While upholding the bond of our
Union, and great charter of these our
our rights, it behooves a free people to
practice that eternal vigilance which is
the price of liberty. Reform is neces-
sary to rebuild and establish in the
hearts of the whole people the Union
of eleven years a«ro happily rescued
from the danger ofa corrupt centralism
w hich, after Inflicting upon ten Statse
upon the high sens. It lias cut down
the sales of American manufactures at
home and abroad, and depleted the re-
turns of American agricultural indus-
try. followed bv hail* of our people. It
costs the people five times more than
it produces to the treasury, obstructs
Jh** processes, of production, and wastes
the truits ol 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 .for
revenue.
Reform is necessary in the scale of
public expense, Federal, State and
municipal. Our federal taxation has
swollen from $ 16,00!.‘,000 gold, IStiO to
$-150,000,000 currency in 1870. Our ag-
gregate taxation from a $184,000,000
gold, in 1800, to $730 000.000 currency,
in 1870 ; or in one decade, from less
than five dollars per head, to more
than eighteen dollars per head. Since
the peace, the people have* paid to their
tax gatherers more than thrice the
sum of the national debt, and more
than thrice that sum for the Federal
Govenneiit alone. We demand a rig-
orous frugality in every department,
and from everv officer of the Govern-
•/
ment.
Reform is necessary to put a stop
to the profligate waste of public lands,
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
thrice that aggregate lias disposed of
loss than a sixth directly to tillers ot
tiro soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the
omissions of a Republican Congress,
and the errors of our treaties and our
diplomacy, which have stripped our
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
immoral purposes, a lid Mongolian men ajm mi
hried to perform servile labor con- city. Try us once.
tracts, and demand such modification
oi the treaty with tiie Chinese Empire,
or such legislation by Congress within
a Constitutional limitation, as shall
prevent the*further importation or im-
migration of tlie Mongolian race.
Reform is necessary, and can never
be effected' but by making it the con-
trolling issue of the elections, and lift-
ing above the two false issues with
which the office holding class and the
party in power seek to smother it—tl
false light with which they wfould
kindle sectarian strife, in respect to t
public schools, the establishment an
support of which belongs exclusive!
to the several States, and Avliicti t
Democratic party has cherished fro
their foundation, and are resolved
maintain w ithout partiality or prefe
cnee for any class, sect of creed, an
w ithout contributing from the treasu
to any ; and the false issue by whi
they seek to light anew the dying eni
hers of sectional hate betw een kindre
peoples, once unnaturally estrang
but now reunited in one indivisib
Republic and a common destiny.
Reform is necessary in the civil se
vice. Experience proves that an el
eient economical conduct of the goven
mental business is not possible* if i
civil service be subject to change at a
cry election—be a prize to be striv
tor at the ballot—be a brief reward
party zeal, intend of posts ol honor a'
signed for proven competency,' an1
held for fidelity in the public employ*.•
The dispensing of patronage should
neither he a tax upon the time of all
our public'meiij nor the instrument of
Jlieir 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-Presideiit, Judges, Sen-
ators. Representatives, Cabinet officers
-—these ami all others in authority, are
tlie people’s servants. Their offices are
not a private perquisite; they are a pub-
lic trust. When the annals of this Re-
public show the disgrace a.td censure t
a Vice-President; a late speaker oftlie
House of Representatives marketing his
i tilings as a presiding officer: three Sen-
ators profiting secretly by their votes
as law* makers: -lire'chairmen of the
leading committees oftlie Ja.e Hou>c of
Representatives exposed in jobbery, a
late Secretary ot the Treasury forcing
balances in the public accounts: a late
Attorney General misappropriating
public funds; a Secretary oftlie Navy
enriched and em idling friends by per-
centages levied oft 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 iriaUfor guilty complicity
in frauds upon the revenue; a Secretary
of War impeached for high crimes and
confessed- misdemeanors—the demon-
stration is complete that the first step
must be the peoples choice of honest
men from another party, lest the dis-
ease of one political organization infest
the body politic, and thereby making
no change ot men or party, we can get
no change of measures and no reform.
All these abuses, w rongs 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
are voted down in convention; aim dis-
placed from the Cabinet. The party’s
mass ot honest votes is pow erless 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 we may have a change of
measures and of men.'
6T7l LOUIS ADVERTISEMENTS.
Ws M, Center*
W. T. Wilkins.
ST. LOUIS ADVERTISEMENTS.
SENTER & CO.
C. G. RuchaiKMk
James Hurley.
R. B, $tew art.
Ij. Ullnfann.
W. F. Race.
B. IV. 5(e( onhb k.
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ESTABLISHED 1864.
B1JCHMM,
HURLEY,
I LL JI AVV «V ( «..
LIVE STOCK
Commission Merchants
NATIONAL STOCK YARDS,
East St. Louis, III.
UNION STOCK YARDS,
A-I2111. St. Louis, Wlo.
LIVE STOCK
Commission Merchants,
General Commission
MERCHANTS,
Cotton Factory
And dealers in
i _
BAGGING,
TIMS,
FLOUR AND
PROVISIONS.
120 North Main Street,
ST. LOUIS, 3MIO.
ju-t-ly.
NATIONAL STOCK YARDS,
East St. Lou is, III.
140RT, D. HUNTER.
KANSAS STOCK YARDS,
Kansas City. Mo.
AL. G. EVANS.
Hunter, Evans & Hough,
UNION STOCK YARDS, CHICAGO, HI,
D. C. HOUGH.
Cash Advances made on Consign-
ments to either house. jul.lv.
I
BrU'.g your-lob U’ork- to tbe
i ~
DEMOCRAT OFFICE,
side of Public Square-
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1: .
il
I). W. Marmaduko,
F. R. Davidson,
Wyatt M. Brown.
Marmaduke & Brown,
B. C. EVANS,
* 1
Staple and Fancy
DRY GOODS,
Gents’ Furnishing Goods, Boots,
SHOES, ITOTIONTS, Ac.
Houston St., Fort Worth, jull-tf.
Carson and Lewis House,
Weatherford, Texas,
Cw,
(Late of T. & P. R. R.) PR0PR’$,
The best building, most elligible lo-
cation, and by far the best table in the
ju7-lrn.
Cotton Factors,
—AND—
'Cor. Main and Chestnut Streets,
/
ju4-6m. $t. Louis, MO.
W. N. K. BEALL & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS AND
COMMISSION merchants,
Solicit consignments of Cotton, Wheat,
Wool, Hides, &e.,
18 S Commercial St., St. JLouis
References: Banks and reliable
Business meu,of St. Louis.
ESTABLISHED IN I860.
Do a strictly Commission Business.
Sell anything that can be sold in this
market. Liberal advauces when bill of
lading is attached to. draft. Never
speculate in anything. * Remit pro-
ceeds of sales promptly v Guarantee
satisfaction. Give us a trail.
Si. LOUIS NATIONAL
Stools” IT ards
These Stock Yards are located at
Fast St. Louis Illinois,
Directly opposite the city of Saint
Louis and nearer its business
centre, than any yards lo-
cated therein. They
embrace an area of
050 acres, ol
which
IOO Acres are Enclosed,
lor the
special busi-
ness ot the yard,
and 00 acres are under
shcil. The stock arriving
is unloaded directly iu the pens
and placed immediately on the market.
Buyers from New York. Boston,
Chicago* Cincinnati, Louisville, Nash-
ville and other points are permanently
located at the yards, and shippers -can
confidently anticipate an active and n -
Jiable market for all receipts however
large and for all grades of stock.
Every effort w i'll In* made to advance,
the 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 of any
live stock market in the West.
A first-class hotel for the convenience
of its, patrons is attached to the yard.
ISAAC KNOX. President.
K. M. MOOU K. Snc. <i Tics.
MILHALL MALIM,
LIVE STOCK
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
•—For the sale of—
*
Cattle, Hogs and Sheep,
NATIONAL STOCK YARDS
East St. Louis, 111.
Direct cbnnnunieation by telegraph in
the yards.
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The Daily Fort Worth Democrat. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, July 21, 1876, newspaper, July 21, 1876; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1097721/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.