DEMOCRATIC. 1876 1880 DEMOCRATIC. 1876-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 kindred race crossing the Atlantic, of the shield of American citizen re The Chinese. REPUBLICAN. DEMOCRATIC. civili nor ex doned, and the Ame- ship, and have ex- more Chinese immi- [Plank 11. [Plank 10. 1880 * * * * Everywhere the protection accorded to a citizen of American birth must be secured to citizens by American adoption. [Plank 5. REPUBLICAN. 1876-It is the immediate duty of Congress to fully investigate the effect of the immigration and importation of Mongolians upon the moral and material interests of the country. Plank 11. REPUBLICAN. 1880-Since the authority to regulate immigration and intercourse between the United States and foreign nations rests with the Congress of the United States and the treaty-making power, the Republican party, regarding the unrestricted immigration of Chinese as a matter of grave concernment under the exercise of both these powers, would limit and restrict that immigration by the enactment of such just, humane, and reasonable laws and treaties as will produce that result. [Plank 6. Civil Service. DEMOCRATIC. 1872-The civil a service of the government has become a mere instrument of partisan tyranny and personal ambition and an object of selfish greed. It is a scandal and reproach upon free institutions and breeds demoralization dangerous to the perpetuity of Republican Government. We therefore regard a thorough reform of the civil service as one of the most pressing necessities of the hour; that honesty, capacity and fidelity constitute the only valid claim to public employment; and the offices of the Government cease to be a matter of arbitrary favoritism and patronage, and public station become again a post of honor. To this end it is imperatively required that no President shall be a candidate for reelection. 1876- Reform is necessary in the civil service. Experience that proves efficient, econômical conduct of Governmental business is not possible if the civil service be subject to change at every election, be a prize fought for at the ballot-box, be a brief reward of party zeal, instead of posts of honor assigned for proved competency, and held for fidelity in the public em DEMOCRATIC. REPUBLICAN. ploy; that the dis1872-Any system pensing of patronof the civil service, age should neither under which the be a tax upon the subordinate posi- time of all our pubtions of the Govern- lic men, nor the inment are considered strument of their rewards for mere ambition. party zeal is fatally demoralizing, and we therefore favor a reform of the system by laws which shall abolish the evils of patronage and make. honesty, efficiency and fidelity the essential qualifications for public positions, without practically creating a life tenure of office. [Plank 5. REPUBLICAN, who may be judges and accusers should not dictate appoint ments to office. The invariable rule in appointments should have reference to the honesty, fidelity and capacity of the appointees, giving to the party in power those places where harmony and vigor of administration require its policy to be represented, but permitting all others to be filled by persons selected with sole reference to the efficiency of the public service, and the right of all citizens to share in the honor of rendering faithful service to the country. [Plank 5. 1880 The Republican party, adhering to the principles affirmed by its last National Convention of respect for the Constitutional rules governing appointments to office, adopts the declaration of President Hayes, that the reform of the civil service should be thorough, radical and complete. To this end it demands the co-operation of the legislative with the executive de partments of the Government, and that Congress shall so legislate that fitness, ascertained by proper practical tests, shall admit to the public service. { 1804 Jefferson, Va. (Rep.).. Vice- Clinton, N. Y. (Rep.). Pres. { De Witt Clinton, N. Y. (Cl. Dem.) Vice- Gerry, Mass. (Rep.). Pres.Ingersoll, Pa. (Cl. Dem). ELECTORAL VOTES FOR PRESIDENTS AND VICE-PRESIDENTS. 1816 Monroe, Va. (Dem.) Pres. King, N. Y. (Fed.) Vice-Daniel D. Tompkins, N. Y. (Dem.)....... 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