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Reform Message on Currency and Civil Service Standards
A speech condemns Civil War era currency mismanagement and calls for gradual resumption of specie payments, fiscal restraint, and government reform. It argues for a strengthened civil service, reduction of official abuses, securing common schools, and ending political manipulation of appointments while endorsing reformist nominee Thomas A. Hendricks and vice presidential candidate Samuel J. Tilden.
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Mischiefe
St. Louis
United States
Congress
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Ir. Meedriskhs' Lette
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Hendricks
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Democratic Party
Pacific
New York
Thomas A. Hexpnicna
Joan A. McClennand
Committee
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National Democratic Convention