The Daily Fort Worth Democrat. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, July 14, 1876 Page: 3 of 4
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A New Daily.
The Mail is in receipt of the
li!st number of the Fort Worth
Democrat, an offspring of Pad-
ih*ck?s weekly, For the initial
! umber it presents an excellent
U* p<(graphical appearance, is;
edited wills rigor and ability, j
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s!ircesis. l i e Mail certainly j
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issued <*ii ! he ■[;}», is on our 1
T; i lev The I)t oiocrai is a iirni. j
o • .-iiiian paper, spicy, newsy,;
;i. o >npp* its
the rapacity of carpet-bag* tyrannies,
has honey-combed the offices of tins
Federal Government itself with incapa-
city, waste, and fraud : infected Stales
and pumieipalities with the contagion
of misrule, and locked fast the prosper-
ity of uur industrious people in the
paralysis of bard tinns. Reform is
necessary to establish a sound currency
restore the public credit aiid maintain
the national honor.
We denounce the falling for all these
sleven years to make good the promise
of legal lender notes, which are changing
teamiaid ot value in the hands ot the
people, and the non-pavment of which
i-a disregard of the piighlcd,faith of
iMtion.
We denounce iIn* improvidence which
in eleven years of pr.iec lias taken
IVotn tin* people in Federal taxes thir-
• n times ;in* whoh* amount ot the le-
ga1 fender notes, and squandered four
limes tiii-' sitm iu useless expense with-,
eii: ac.-mnulariug any reserve tor their
red'-uiption.
We denounce th** financial imbecility
and ii•unorahty of tiial party which.
THE DOLLAR STORE,
£ast Side of ML a in Street between 1st and 2d Streets is the
CHEAPEST
House in the City for
Ribbons Fancy Goods, Shoes, Hats, Glassware, &c., &c.
DRY GOODS
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no adv am e toward*, resumption ; that
inslea:!. li > ohsirueie({ resumption, by
wa-:»!!Lr our resources. and exhausting
(jr< | aii of on” -urpluN income, anil while
■ auiuiailv |>rv>ics>ine-i.i int< nd a speedy
r«-T*• :*i* to specie payment, has annually
‘•nae-’ed fresh hindrances thereto. As
-:a ■! hindrances we denounce the rc-
-u npt tonVlaiise of the at t ot 1875, and
ircotiid tiu* lust mini- j wv here demand ilN repeal.
tile Dvily 1*011 Worth j We demand a Jiu U**i<»us system of
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! |i;*epa:*ation by public economies, by
j odh-ial retrenchments, and by wise
I linuurc. which shall (‘liable the nation
j Tc. insure ili** whole world ot its perfect
! abuL^r. and i:s perfict n*adin<*ss to
! meet a!iy of i s promi<e< ar tile call of
! e?vdi!ors entitled to payment.» We !>e-
! lieve siieli a system will he devised and
1 above all entrusted to competent hands
f >r execution, creatinirat ho time an
1 artitieial -careitv ot eurrenev, and at
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j no lime aiarmijje- th<* public mind into
j a w it iidraw rfl of that vast machinery of
i credit .by which-bo j>ereent. of all bnsi-
‘ m-" transa. t’.ons are performed—a sys-
i ion o;»«-*i, public, and in-pir;i»«»' n<*iier-
j at eoMlid»*nee. would, from the day of
i; ' adoi>rioit, hritie- healinyou its wines
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our h-ira-sed industry, and >.et
ii mo:ion the wheels of ■ commence,
mambar?up > a?al the meehauical arts,
rest<u‘<* ej*jpjoyinep.t to labor, and rc-
. new in aM it> Uaiional sourei'S the pros
! perilv f*t the pv oj>ie.
Reform is .a rev-ary In the form and
j mode of federal taxation, to the end
liU she j tL a capnal niay he set tree from dis-
as far j tress, and labor''lightly burdened.
W(* (ienounei.* tin* present tariff, lev-
ied upon nearly 4000 articles, as a mas-
«•“!• piece ot injustice. incoualit\ .and
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i;i e it(mis.* Whenever a ma-ii
‘Visbes to coi|i(*j*al inmsi If from
e world, lie rei}?s an office,
t aPs out., a siyu stilling his of
h « hours, and then sta\s away
ion*ver.
•i yields a dwindling,
not a yearly rising 'revenue, it itiis
impowri>iird many iiMluslne's, to suh-
s:di/ear[(*\v. It prohibits imports that
t:f- ;«miirhi {jurelia-e tin* products of Aincri-
r lean labor, dt has degraded Ain<*rican
| commerce from thelirst loan inferior
upon the lii<**h seas. It has cut down
{lie sales of American manulacturcs at
j home and abroad, and depleted the re-
; turns of American agricultural indu>-
j try-, followed )>v half of our peopje. Jt'
costs tl«*. people live times nion* than
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tracts, and demand sucli modification
of the treaty witli the Chinese Empire^
or such legislation by i’ongress within
a Constitutional limitation, as shall
prevent the further importation or ipi-
migratiou of the Mongolian race.
Reform is necessary, and can never
be el lee ted but by making it the con-
trolling issue ot the elections, and lilt-
ing aliove the two false issues wiiii
which the office holding class and the
party in power seek to smother it—the
false* light with which they would en-
kindle sectarian strife, in respect to the
public schools, the establishment and
support of which belongs exclusively
to the several Stales, and which the
Democratic party has cherished from
their foundation, and -arc resolved tp
maintain without partiality or prefer-
ence for any class, sect or Creed, and
without contributing from the treasury
to any ; and the false issue by which
they seek to light anew tin* dying em-
bers of sectional bate between kindred
peoples, once unnaturally
but. (now. reunited in one
Republic and a common destiny.
Reform is necessary iu the civil'ser-
vice* Experience proves that an effi-
cient Economical conduct of the govern-
mental business is not possible, if its
civil service be subject to change at ev-
ery election—he a prize to be striven
tor at t in* ballot—be a brief reward ot
parly zeal, intend of posts ot honor As-
signed for proven -competency, and
held tor fidelity in tire public employ.
The dispensing ot patronage should
neither be a tax upon the time of all
our public "men, nor tin* instrument ot
their ambition. Hen* again professions
falsified in the performance, attest
that tin* party in power can work out
no practical nor salutary reform.
Reform is necessary even more in tin*
higher grades of the public servlet*.
President. Vice-President. Judges, Sen-
ators. Representatives, Cabinet officers
—these and all others in authority, are
the people’s servants. Their offices are
not a private perquisite; they are a* pub-
lic trust. When llie annals of this Re-
public show the disgrace a»id censure •
a Vice-President; a late speaker of the
House of Representatives marketing his!
i tilings as a presiding officer; three Sen-
ators orotiting secretly by their votes
as law makers; live chairmen ot 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 late
Attorney General misappropriating i
public funds; a Secretary of ;h«* X;iw ,
enriched and .cm iching friends by per-j
cent ages levu*d4olt the profits of con-
tractors with his department: an Am-!
bassador to England censured in a Jjs-i
ST. LOUIS ADVERTISEMENTS. ST. LOUIS ADVERTISEMENTS.
W. M. S'*nter.
\V. T. Wilkins.
SENTER & CO.
Cotton Factors and-General
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
SO. 200 X. MAIN ST.
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Cor.of Pine, St. Louis, Mo.
Liberal advances on Shipments pi
Cotton. Special attention given to
tilling orders for Merchandise adu
Plantation Supplies. * ju4-ly.
<J. O. Buchanan.
James Hurley.
R. B. Stewart.
J,. rilmaun.
W. F. Pace.
B. W. Met brm: k.
J. M. Gilkeson.
J. L. Sloss.
GILKESON & SLOSS,
General Commission
MERCHANTS,
Cotton Factors^
And dealers in
BAGGING,
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PROVISIONS*
120 North Main Street,
ST. LOUIS, MO.
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ESTABLISHED ISO i.
BKHMAV
HURLEY,
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LIVE STOCK
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Commission Merchants
NATIONAL STOCK YARDS,
East St. Louis, III.
UNION STOtK USDS.
1*12ni* St- Louis, Mo.
LIVE STOCK
Commission Merchants,
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NATIONAL STOCK YARDS,
Kant. St. Louis.
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KANSAS STOCK YARDS,
Kansas ('An. M>,.
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Hunteif, Evans & Hough,
UNION STOCK Y.UliS, flUCAGO. ILL,
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ST. LOUIS fiATICNAL
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DF.MOCRATC PLATFORM.
We. lilt* delegates ol tlit* Detiiocralic
. -»y of the Cniited Staler, in National
< mi:m ntion a-sent hied, do here declare
T, e adminiMralioii of the. FederaFGov-
“i iiment in urgent need of immediate
reform : do hereby enjoin upon the
-r.omi.nce- of t his ( (invention.and of the
I lemoeratie party in each State, a zeal-
ous etlort and co-operation to this end ;
and dpAiereby appeal to our lellow-
• •iti/ens of every former political con-
:k ( lion to undertake* with us this first
and most pressing patriotic duly.
For tlie Democracy of the whole
roiiniry we do here reaffirm our laith
in the permanency of the Federal Un-
ion ; our devotjon to the Constitution
<*1 the United States, with its amend-
inents uni\ ersally accepUM as a final
sctilenM*nt of the controversies that en-
gendered civil war ; and do here re-
cord our steadfast••confidence in the
prosperity of republican self goyern-
ment.
In absolute acquiescerce in the xyill
ol the majority, the vital principle of
Republics; in the supremacy of the
civil over tlie'military authority ; in
1 lit* total separation of church and
State, for tin* sake alike of civil and re-
ligious freedom ; in the ‘equality of all
citizens before just, laws oi their own
enactment; in the liberty of individual
- conduct, unvexod 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.
Wo behold the noblest products t of a
hundred years of changeful history.
But while upholding the bond ot our
^Union, and great charter ot these our
our rights.JUbehooves a free people to
practice that eternal vigilance which is
the price ot liberty. Reform is neces-
sary to rebuild and establish in tlie
hearts of the whole people the Union
ot eleven years ago Jiappily rescued
from the danger or n corrupt centralism
which, alter indicting upon teu States
ii produces to the treasury, obstructs I honorable speculation; the President
tie* processes' of production, and wastes
I'm* limits of 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 lor
revenue.
Reform is necessary in tie* scab* of
public expense. Federal, State and
municipal. Our federal taxation has
swollen from G.0t)(XOOO gold, ]S(»0 to
SloO.OOOJHX) currency in 1870. Our ag-
gregate taxation from a $184,000,000
gold, in 1800, to $7J0 000.000 currency,
in 1870 ; or in one decade, from, less
than five dollars per head, to more
than eighteen dollar^ jx*r head. Since
tin* peace, the people have paid to their
tax gatherers more than thrice the-
sum of the national* debt, and more
than thrice that sum fertile Federal
Goverment alone. We-demand a rig-
orous frugality in every department,
and from evefy 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 has
squandered $00,000.(100 of acres upon
railroads alone, and out of more than
thrice that aggregate has disposed of
less than a sixth directly to tillers ut
the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct tlie
omissions of a Republican Congress,
and-the errors of our treaties and our
'diplomacy, which have stripped our
fellow citizens of foreign birth aiid kin-
dred race, recrossing the Atlantic, of
the shield of Amerieanship, and have
exposed our brethren of the Paeitic
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 ot the coolie trade
in Mongolian women, imported for
immoral purposes, and Mongolian men
hried to perform servile labor con-
private secretary barely escaping con-
viction upon trial for 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 j
must. he.'the peoples choice ot honest
men from.another party, lest-'the dis-
ease ot one political organization infest
the body politic, and theu*by making
no change of men or party, we can get
no change of measures and no reform
All these abuses, wrongs and crimes,
the product ot sixteen years* ascenden-
cy of the Republican party, create the
necessity for reform confessed by Re-
publieans themselves; but their reforms
are voted down in convention; ram 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 we may have a change of
measures and of men.
B.-iUir >‘,iiv•"’,J U (>l'lv to the
DEMOCRAT OFFICE,
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F. B; Davidson,
Wvalt M. Browm
Marmaduks & Brown,
Cotton Factors,
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B. C. EVANS,
Staple and Fancy
DRY GOODS/
Gents1 Furnishing Goods, Boots,
SHOES, XOTIOXS, &e.
Houston St.. Fort Worth, jull-tf.
Carson and Lewis House,
Weatherford, Texas,
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(Late of T. & P. R. R.) PR0F(R’S,
The best building, most elligible lo-
cation, and b\ far tlie best table iu the
city. Try us once. jh7-tm.
'Cor. Main and Chestnut Streets,
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ju4-6nt. St. Louis, Mo.
C. C. Dalv.
Frank Miller.
Daly & Miller,
LIVE STOCK,
These Stock Yards arc loeated at
Kiist &t. l^onis. llIunoiN,
Directly'opposite tin* city of Saint
Unui-s and nearer i;.- hu>inc>s
centre, than any yards h»-
, yaied therein. They
cm brace an area of
GJO a<*re>. ol
which
IOO Acres are Enclosed,
for the
special busi-
ness ol t he \ aid.
and (JO acre- are under
shed. The stock arriving*
is unloaded directly in 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 tlie yards, and shippers can
confidently anticipate an active and re-
liable market lor all receipts however
large* and for all grades of stock.
Every etlort will Iu* 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 tin* equal of any
live stock market in the West.
A .irst-class hotel for tin* convenience
of its patrons is attached to tin* yard.
ISAAC KNOX. President.
R. M. MOORE, Sec. A Ti cs.
MULHALL & SCALING,
LIVE STOCK
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
—For tlie sale of—
Commission Merchants, CclttlSj HO^S £U2Ci SllSSP;
NO. 1 EXCHANGE BUILDING.
gST* Office, St. Louis National Stock
Yards*. Fast ht, Couis, III.
NATIONAL STOCK YARDS
East St- Louis, 111.
Direct communication by telegraph in
the yards, * 1-Uiu.
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The Daily Fort Worth Democrat. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, July 14, 1876, newspaper, July 14, 1876; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1097801/m1/3/?q=San+Antonio: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.