3. Wo believe that the time has arrived
when a reduction of Internal Revenue tax
ation is advisable and especially on such
articles as arc in use by the masses of the
people, and bear hardly on tho laboring
classes.
4. We believe in the maintainanco of
such a protective tariff as, while it shall
noi discriminate in favor of any class of
manufactures, will yet afford such protec
tion to our manufacturing interests as will
enable them to thrive and prosper, and to
maintain not only a fair but a liberal rate
of wages and compensation to the vast la
boring class that constitutes so large a pro
portion of our population.
5. Teat while we liehcve in rigid econo
my in the expenditure of the public mon
ey, to the end that the burdens of tho peo-
Sle may be lightened, and tho debt of the
lation rapidly extinguished, yet we are
in favor ol such a broad and comprehen
sive system of public improvements, inch
s may be classed as national In their char
acter, and such as may be necessary to de
velop our vast resources and to as well
promote the national commerco and the
national welfare; and be it further—
Resolved , That our delegates to Freder
ick shall use all honorable effort to have
these resolutions or others of similar im
port adopted at that convention.
The county central committee to
serve for the ensuing year, was form
ed as follows :
District No. I—Ashford Trail, Geo. W.
Price, J. B. Stottlemoyer.
No. 2—N. H. Little, Oliver Boley, L. V.
Alderton.
No. 3—D. Coveney, T. B. Lashley, B.T.
Davis.
No. 4—J. H. Gephart, D. E. Brackett,
Wm. Lucas, A. H. Dawden, J. W. Stuff.
