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Democratic Convention.
U f Democratic party of the counties of
L,.,-!, Mitchell and Miller are request-
io'hold Contentions in their respective
goes, to appoint delegates to a Oon-
Ljon to meet in Baiubridge on Wednes-
r ilel9thof July next, for the pur-
f of nominating a candidate * for the
|jj !f , for the 8th Senatorial District.
[5, usage of the party in this Senatorial
(id, each county is entitled to three
■ties for eacli Militia District in the
|«nl counties. This June 12th, 1876.
W. O. Fleming,
of the District Executive Commit-
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, JULY 13, 1876
The Weekly Democrat.
Number 39
BEN, E. RUSSELL, - Proprietor.
Ben E. Russell, - - R. M. Johnston,
EDITORS.
Bainbridge, Ga., July 13, 1876.
Mr. Jno. D. Harrell is the General
Agent of the Democrat, and is authorized to
receipt for subscriptions and advertising.
financial imbecility and immorality of
that party which, during eleven years
of peace, has made no advance toward
resumption, that, instead, has obstruct
ed resumption by wasting our resources
and exhausting all our surplus income
and while annually professing to intend
a speedy return to specie payments, has
annually enacted fresh hindrances
thereto. As such a hindrance we de
nounce the resumption clause of the
railroads alone, and ou"; of more than
thrice that aggregate has disposed of
less than one-sixth directly to tillers of
the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the
omissions of the Republican Congress
and the errors of our treaties and our
diplomacy, which have stripped our
feilow-citizeus of foreign birth and kin
dred race of protection, and have ex
posed enr brethren of the Pacific coast
Te Whom it May Concern.
|5-reafter all personal communications
>'k Democrat relating to the fitness
afitne.ss of this or that man for of-
■ will be (liarged at the rate of twenty
icents per line. Announcements of
(didates, of ten lines or less, to run un-
of election, $10. We see no more
on why we should give aspirants and
fir henchmen the use of our columns
! of charge, than that our grocer should
Ipply us our daily rations for nothing.
I if you arc in favor of anybody for gov-
Lr, congressman, legislator, sheriff, or-
pry, constable, ad infinitum, bring
lag your recommendations, and we will
ihlisli them, provided you accompany
km with the CASH.
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rest and cheapest.
§0,000 MADE AND SOLD
Busiest Terms for Payment.
Democratic Platform Adopted at St
Louis.
We, the delegates for the "Democrat
ic party of the United States in Na
tional convention assembled, do here
declare the administration of the Fed
eral government to he in urgent need
of immediate reform ; do hereby enjoin
upon the nominees of this convention,
and of the Democratic party in each
State, a zealous effort and co-operation
to this end, and do hereby appeal to
our fellow-citizens of every former po
litical connection to undertake y?jth us
this first and most presting patriotic
duty.
For the Democracy of the whole
country we do here re-affirm our faith
in the permanency of the Federal Un
ion, our devotion to the constitution of
the United States, with its amendments
universally accepted as a final settle
ment of all the controversies that en
gendered the civil war, and do here
record our steadfast confidence in the
perpetuity of Republican self-govern
ment ; in the supremacy of the civil
over military authority ; ' in the total
separation of the church and State for
the sake alike'of civil and religious
freedom ; ih the equality of all citizens
before the just laws of their own en
actment; in the liberty of individual
conduct unvexed by sumptuary laws ;
in the faithful education of the rising
generation, that they tnay preserve, en
joy and transmit these best conditions
act of 1875, and we .here demand its | to the incursions of a race not sprung
repeai. We demand a judicious sys- from the same great parent stock, and
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H, 1876—lm.
Jake Born
Cfre requested by this gentleman to
C' 0 *** that he will take in exchange for
bridles, saddles, or work, in his
"A country produce, hides etc. Now
• Tou * time, people.
of human happiness, and hope we be
hold the noblest products of a hundred
years of changeful history ; but while
upholding the bond of our union, and
the great charter of these, our rights,
it behooves a free people to practice
also that eternal vigilance which is the
price of liberty.
Reform is necessary to rebuild and
establish in the hearts of the whole
people of the Union, eleven years ago
happily rescued from the danger of a
corrupt centralism, which, alter inflict
ing upon ten States the rapacity of
carpet-bag tyrannies, has honey-combed
the officers of the Federal Government
itself with incapacity, waste and fraud;
infected States municipalities with the
contamination of misrule, and locked
fast the prosperity of an industrious
people in paralysis of hard times. .
Reform is “necessary to establish a
sound currency, restore the public
credit and maintain the National hon
or. We denounce the failure for all
these eleven years to make good the
•promise of the legal tender notes, which
are a changing standard ot value in
the hands of the people, and the non
payment of which is a disregard of the
plighted faith of the nation.
from
thirteen
We de
nounce the improvidence, wnieh in
eleven years of peace has taken
the people, in Federal taxes
times the whole amount of the legal
tender notes, and squandered four
times this amount in useless expense,
without accumulating any reserve for
their redemption. We denounce the
tern ot preparation by public economies
by official retrenchments, and by wise
finance, which shall enable the nation
to assure the whole world of its perfect
readiness to meet any # of its promises at
the call of the creditor entitled to pay
ments. We believe such a system well
devised and, above all, entrusted to
competent hands for execution, crea-
ting at no time an artificial scarcity of
currency, and at no time alarming the
public mind into a withdrawal of that
vaster machinery of credit by which
ninety-five pir cent, of all business
transactions are performed ; a system
open to the public andLinspiring gener
al confidence would, from the day of
its adoption, bring healing on its wings
to all our harassed industries, and set
in motion the wheels of commerce,
manufactures and the mechanical arts
restore employment to labor, and renew
in all its National sources the‘prosperi
ty of the people.
Reform is necessary^iu the sum and
mode of Federal taxation to the end
and that the capital may be set free
from distress and labor lightly burden
ed. We denounce the present tariff
levied on nearly four thousand article:
as a masterpiece of injustice, inequali
ty and false pretenses. It yields a
dwindling, not yearly rising revenue ;
it has impoverished many industries to
subsidise a few ; it prohibits imports
that we might purchase the products of
American labor ; it has degraded
American commerce from the first to
an inferior rank upon the high seas ;
it has cut down the sales of American
manufactures at home and abroad, and
depleted the returns of American agri
culture or industry followed by half of
our people; it costs the people five
times more than it produces to the
Treasury, obstructs the processes of
production, and wastes the fruits of la
bor ; it promotes fraud and fosters
smuggling, enriches dishonest officials
and bankrupts honest merchants. We
demand that all custom house taxation
shall be only for revenue.
Reform is necessary in the scale of
publie expense, federal, state and mu
nicipal. Our federal taxation has
swollen from sixteen million dollars in
gold in 1860 to seven "hundred and
thirty million dollars in currency in
1870, or in one decade from less than
five dollars pei head to more than eigh
teen dollars per head. Since the res
toration of peace the people have paid
to their tax gatherers more than thrice
the sum of the national debt and more
than twice that sum for the Federal
government alone. We demand a vig
orous frugality in every department,
and from every officer ot 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 squan-
in fact now by law denied citizenship
or naturalization as being neither ac
customed to the traditions of a pro
gressive civilization, or exercised in
liberty under equal laws. We denounce
the policy which thus discards the lib
erty-loving German, and tolerates the
revival of Coolie trade in Mongolian
woman imported for immoral purposes
and Mongolian men hired to perform
servile labor contracts, and demand
such modification of the treaty with the
Chinese Empire of such legislation by
Congress within a constitutional limi
tation as shall prevent the further irn
portation or immigration of the Mon
golian race.
Reform is necessary, and can never
be effected but by making it the con
trolling issue of the elections, and lift
ing it above the the two false issues
with which the office-holding class and
the party in power seek to smother it-
the false issue with which they would
enkindle sectarian strife in respect to
the public schools, of which the estab'
lishment and support belong exclusive
ly to the several States, and which the
Democratic party has cherished from
the foundation, and resolved to main
tain without partiality or preference for
any class, sect or creed, and without
contributing from the Treasury to any;
the false itsue by which they seek to
light anew the dying embers of section
al hate between kindred people, on re
unnaturally estranged, but reunited in
one indivisible Republic and common
destiny.
Reform is necessary in civil service.
Experience proves that efficient eco
nomical conduct of the governmental
business is not possible if its civil ser
vice be subject t.o change at every elec
tion ; be a prize fought for at the bal
lot box ; he a brief reward of party
zeal instead of posts of "honor assigned
for proved competency, and held for
fidelity in the public employ ; that the
dispensing of patronage should neither
bp a tax upon the time of all our pub
lic men, nor the instrument of their
ambition. Here again the professions
falsified in the performance attest that
the party in power can work out no
practical or salutary reform.
Reform is necessary even more in
the higher grades of public service.
The President, Vice-President, judges,
cabinet officers, these and all others in"
authority, are the people’s servants ,
their offices are not a private p?rqui-
site, they are a public trust. When
the annals of this Republic show the
disgrace and censure of a Vice-Presi
dent, a late Speaker of the House of
Representatives marketing his rulings
as a presiding officer, three Senators
profiting secretly by their votes as law
makers, five chairmen of the leading
committees of the late House of Rep
resentatives exposed in jobbing, a late
Secretary of the Treasury forcing bal-
Attorney - General misappropriating
public funds, a Secretary qf the Navy
enriched or enriching friends by per
centages levied off the profits of con
tractors with his department, an am
bassador to England censored in a dis
honorable speculation, the President’s
private Secretary barely escaping upon
trial for guilty complicity in frauds
upon the revenue, y Secretary of War
impeached for high crimes and confess
es misdemeanors, the demonstration is
complete that the first step in reform
must be the people’s choice of honest
men from another party lest the disease
of one political organization infest the
body politic and thereby, making ho
change of men or party, we can get no
change of measures and W reform. All
these abuses, wrongs and crimes, the
product of sixteen years ascendency of
the republicans themselves 1 , but their
reformers are voted dowh in conven
tion and displaced from the cabinet.
The paity mass of honest vbters is pow
erless to resist the eighty thousand
offices holders, its , leaders and guides.-
Reform can ohly%e had by a perfect
civic revelation. We demand a change
of system, and a change of administre-
■ * This 0 —" ■* 1 " *
cum ; a change of parties that we may
have a change of men.
Prince Milan is determined to invade
Turkey.
The Senate will pass the gfendry Ap
propriation bill.
The Turks are actively preparing to
meet a Servian attack.
Christian Stein, the great illicit
whiskey manufacturer, has’plead "guil
ty*.
Democratic clubs for the campaign
are being formed all over the Cohn toy.
Cxmeron, Secretary of War, "tempo
rarily assumes the duties also of Secs
retary of the Treasury.
The bill prohibiting the sending of ob
scene and immoral literature through
the mails, has passed the Senate.
Boutwell’s Mississippi cogimittee has
returned to Washington with enough
evidence for three thousand printed pa
ges.
Packard has been nominated for Gov
ernor of Louisiona. This is an unex
pected triumph of the administration
at Washington, working through the
custom house, United States Marshal’s
office, etc. Antoine, the present Cre
ole Lieut-Govemor, was nominated for
re-election.
dered two hundred million acres upon ances in the public accounts, a late
A most astonishing piece pf. intelli
gence is telegrapned from Mobile. ft
that Sam Bard, with his new paper,
will support Tilden and Hendricks.
Sam’s sourness at the defeat of “the
old man” for a third term seems to
have had a purgative or a purgatory
effect. As the Democratic doors have
been left open, there is no one to for
bid Samuel’s entrance, but it would be
becomingly modest in him to take A
hack seat.
The Memphis Avalanche thinks the
Centennial grounds could not accommo
date all the editors who will claim the
honor of having first suggested the
ticket of Tilden and Hendricks.
Times are hard we kn«w, but if you don’t
take the Democrat yon are a. Burner. It is
“chucked” full of good news-sad only $2,
The Indians are
Uncle Sam
dians are playing the wild with
m's soldiers. Ain't they *
