Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1880 — LANDERS. [ARTICLE]

LANDERS.

The Democratic Candidate for Governor Arraigns Mr. Porter and Flays Him Alive. Thu Speech of Hon. Franklin Uaderli Delivered at Seym oar, Ind., AnguM a. 18 so. The mlk>wlng maeterly argument wad made at Seymour, Ind., Aug oat 6, 1880, by Hon. Franklin Landers, Democratic candidate for Governor: Mb. Phmxdmbt, Latovs and Gentlemen— According to oar form of government every roar years the people have a right by ballot to change the administration of the Federal Government. The existence of political parties appear to be a necessity under oar form of government, and It Is desirable that great thought should be given to questions tea immediately Interest the people at large. Measures to their Interest mast be devised, antnhoee who devise them and first agitate them are not in the tree sense of the word pollticlansjtmt agitators. The politician.when a measure has been made popular with the people by agitation, takes It up and rides Into office on it. The party or man that devises nothing In the interest of the country deserves but little credit. The Republican party Is new asking a now lease of power on the strength of Its reoord, and It Is by no means modest In Its claims as being the friend and supporter of all measures that have tended to preserve our Government from hands which sought to destroy It, or In claiming credit for every measure that has tended in the least to revive the Industries of the country since the war; and It Is not slow to deny that It has extended support to any measures that have tended to destroy the Government or to retard the prosperity of the country since the peace of the Government was restored. Were It not for such claims set up by members of thatparty, I would not now go back to review some of the questions of the past, for you are more immediately Interested in the present and In the future than you are In the past. The only good that oan result from looking back over the past Is to enable ns to so shape the polloles of government as to In the future avoid the errors of the past.

F STATE BIGHTS. Mr. Porter, In his speech delivered In Indianapolis on the 16th of June, said: “Very early in the history of the United Btates the latal doctrine was proclaimed and took root, that any State which conceived that it was aggrieved by the United Btates might, acting npon Its own Judgment of the grievance, voluntarily withdraw and separate from the Union.” Mr. Porter was himself a Democrat till just before the war commenced, and he ought to be posted on the principles of a party to which, he belonged, at least while he was a member of It. I was a Democrat before and since the war, and I have yet to see the first resolution embracing the doctrine stated by him, in any Democratic National platform. Ido not deny tnat some who'acted with the Democratic party asserted the right of a State to withdraw from the Union, and I presume Mr. Porter will not deny that many Republicans asserted the same right. Fearing he may have forgotten the past of his preslit party, as he appears to have forgotten the principles of his old party—the Democracy—l now call his attention to a declaration of his home organ, the Indianapolis Journal, made November 13,1860, at a time when the Southern States were threatening seeesslon: “They know very well that If they are determined to leave the Union, no Republican will sare to have them stay. A Union preserved only by intimidation and force Is a mockery, and it is better broken than whole. If South Carolina and her associates In folly really want to leave the Union they oan go without a word of objection from any man North of Mason and Dixon’s line.” This declaration Is very broad. It lnoludes 81l men North of Mason and Dixon’s line, and 11 the Journal, the organ if * my competitor, (Mr. Porter), Is truthful, It embraces him; It spoke for him. t deny the truth of the declaration, however, and am sure no tree Democrat indorsed the uoclri_e. Other leading Journals of the Republican party took like positions. I would not refer to this questlpn, feilow-citizens-ffor it Is one of the past, and one tnat yon are not now Immediately interested In—were It not that a large portion of the speech of mv competitor is taken up with eulogies of the Republican party for Its great patriotism and faithfulness to the Union, and with denunciations of the Democratic party. The doctrine that the States of this Union have the right to manage and control their own domestic affairs has always been a Democratic doctrine, and Is to-day. It was oboe the doctrine of the Republican party, as will appear from a resolution found In Its National platform of 1860. The fourth resolution of that Republican platform deolares: “The maintenance Inviolate of the rights of toe States, and especially the right of each State to order ana control Its bwn domestic Institutions according to Its own Judgment exclusively. Is essential to that balance of power on which toe perfection and endurance of oar political fabrlo depends, and we denounce the lawless Invasion by armed force on toe 801 l of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretense, as amongst the gravest of crimes.” If the Republican party, after It came Into power under this resolution, had lived up to its pledge to the people, we would not have so much ground for complaint against It to-day, Mr. Porter says the Republican party has j. redeemed its pledges. This was a pledge that has been trodden under foot and disregarded by the Republican party. The domestic institutions of the States have been taken charge of by toe Federal Government under Republican law. I refer now particularly to toe law appointing Supervisors to take charge of elections In toe several States, and of Deputy Marshals to act under these Supervisors of elections. This law was passed by the Republican party under the plea that It was neces- ■ sary iu the Southern States. , | FEDERAL SUPERVISION SOUTH, i) j The Constitution of the United States provides that the time,place andmanner of selecting Senators and Representatives In Congress shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof, hut the Congress may at tiny time make or alter such regulation, except as tb the place of choosing Senators. Under this provision of the Constitution toe Congress of the United States evidently had the right to chango the manner of selecting Representatives, and also to provide for their election in all Stales where the States had neglected or refused to do so. The law was said to be exclusively for the Southern States. Under this name law they had a right to send toe United States army Into any State to take charge of the elections, The Southern States were man ■ aged by Supervisors and Marshals, backed by United States troops withdrawn it was thus that designing men from the North, called carpet baggers, were protected in their management ofthe Southern States. The United States army kept the people of the Southern States In subjection, while the carpet-baggers, by manipulating the negroes, got all toe places of power, and, under the pretext of going Into various schemes for Internal Improvement In toe different States, Issued large quantities of bonds, that they might get hold of the cash proceeds from the sales thereof. Every extravagance that could be thought of was engaged in. These oarpetb'lggors, having no common interest with the people of those States, the extent of the plundering committed by the agent*of the Republican party In the Southern Statesla simply appalling, and from first to last no effort was made to cneek it by toe party responsible for the robbery. ■ President Grant appointed men to offioe in, that section with especial reference to length of finger and dipth of pocket, and he found more No. ) thieves than were ever before Invited to help carry on any civilized Government. The following figures will show the amount of debt toe Republican Legislatures, oompOlfea In tbe main of negroes and carpet-baggers, involved ten of the Southern States, then under the control of the Republican party, from. the close of toe war to toe month Or June. 1872, The debt aggregates the enormous sum of two hundred ana e ghty-four millions of dollarkor thereabouts. The figures for each 61the ten States referred to Will foot up In round numbers as follows: The debt and liabilities at the close of tob war of the State of Virginia were 832,000,010. By January 1, 1872, that debt was Increased, under Radical rule, to 845000,000. i ■,< Thadebtof North Carolina, at the dose of toe war, was 811,000,000. By January 1,1872, It was Increased to nearly 815,000,000. South Carolina’s debt,at toe dose of the war.

was 85j000j»0. January 1,1873, it was increased to upwapd of 839,000,000. # Georgia’s debt at the close of toe war wa« nearly nominal, but by June, 1871, It wa* made to exceed 860,600,000. The debt of Florida at the dose of the wai was 8221,000. By January 1, 1872, It was ovei **A?the < close of the war Tennessee owed 820,• 000,000. January 1, 1872, she owed over 846000,000. Artrsnmi 1 at the close of the war was indebted 84,0001)00. January 1,1872, her debts amounted to over 819 7uu,0.0. „ The State of Louisiana had debts and liabilities at toe dose of the warlnthesnmof 810,000,000; while January l, 1872, they footed up over liexas had a nominal debt at tbe dose of the,war, but January 1,1872, it amounted to debts and liabilities of Alabama were It win be observed that about the latter date moat of these States relieved themselves of this carpet-bag or Republican rale. And when yon consider that the Southern States have been the unwilling victims of this enormous robbery you will readily understand why those people are so much disappointed with the rule of the Republican party and why their 138 electoral votes will be cast for Hancock and English. They can not be worsted. Could anytning worst them? It 1s not surprising, in view of these facts, that Carl Schurz. In 1872, on the 13th day of August,ln the city of Indianapolis, made the following Inquiry and answer: “Has it (the Rep-biican party) fought against corroptlonT No. A party that fosters governments like those in toe Sonth has become a profpotor rather than an enemy of corruption. 1 1 Is the same in tne North. * * * * The party In ninety-nine oat ot one hundred cases has shielded fraud and corruption. * * * Perhaps in no previous period of a time of peace have the Constitution and the laws been trifled with in suoh an off-hand manner as during toe last three years. A system of whitewashing and hushlug-np was resorted to because those. who bad committed these malpractices were ardent followers of the party. Mr. Porter has much to say in his speech about Kuklux. Hear what Carl Schurz says in the same speech from which I am reading: “In North Carolina 1,402 Kuklux indictments have been made, two of which only have been tried, and 1,360 of whloh are against people who probably know of toe Kuklux not more than yon or I. Deputy Marshals called on those people, saying If they voted the Grant ticket and exerted their lnflnenoe for It they would not be prosecuted. Internal revenue officers went'round spying In Btores for any seeming violation or law, and by threats of prosecution causing the owners to vote the Grant ticket. We fight at present not only against Grant, but a system which firmly established will make free elections impossible.” In view of these declarations by Cud Schurz it requires more cheek than belongs to ordinary mortals to enab.e a man to stand up as Mr. Porter did on too 15 h of last month at Indianapolis, and eulogize toe Republican garty for honesty. Who Is right, Porter or The State rights doctrine, under Democratic construction, wou.d allow those people to bave managed their own Internal affairs Without Interference, and they wonld have been protected In that right as Gen. Hancock proposed to protect the people of Louisiana ana Texas when he was appointed commander of that Military District, and because of his refusal to protect toe Republican carpet baggers and robbers in their nefarious schemes for Einder, as they were afterwardgirotected, the publican party had no use for his services iger In the Sonthern States. Republican papers and speakers say that General Hancock is only a military man. He showed by Disorder No. 40, as well as In other military orders issued after he was appointed to the District referred to. to*»t he fully understood our form of govern fneut, and that especially was he lnteii ton preserving that form of government In spirit and In letter In time of peace, as he was Intent on patting down the rebellion In time of war. And that statesma nllke quality has made him loved and respected, not only by the people of the Sonth, who have been robbed and otherwise overriden by toe Republican party but by every patriot and Constitution-loving citizen who was looking on while the plundering was going forward, and who was considering what would have been toe condition of toe Sonth had such men as General Hancock been In command. He, like Washington, when toe War was over trad ready to beat his sword Into aiplow-share, and declare that toe clyll authorities are superior to the military. There is where we Defhoacats stand, and there Is where Washington and Jefferson stood. Hanoook and English will be elected, and when they are elected our ship of State will be carried back to its original moorings. The military will be kept in Strict subordination to the civil authorities; the rights of the States usurped by the Federal Goveraernment under the Republican party—for instance, the control of elections in the several Btates by Federal officers aoting under Federal authority, and the transfer of numerous trials from the State Courts to Federal Oonrts,will be restored to the Btates where coukfmake now the same declaration against toe Republican party that our patriotic forefathers made against the King of Great Britain with equal truth. They declared that their citizens had been arrested fer trifling offenses and transported to distant countries and there tried among strangers. Since toe Republican party came into power, and even during the past year, we have In Indiana witnessed the same thing done here. Parties In Jennings County were charged with violating the election laws, and notwithstanding they had a Court In their own County, they Were brought to Indianapolis and tried there for thirty days among strangers, by a Federal Court, for an oflbnse against the State laws. They were bankrupted, very nearly all of them acquitted aha then allowed to find their way back home. ITon will not hrtfo to stand suoh outrages npon the rights of out people much longer. We will not resort to arms, my fellow-citizens, but we Will settle such questions at the ballot box. FEDERAL SUPERVISION NORTH. “ Mr. Porter and other Republicans laugh at toe objections made by the Democratic party to toe usurpations of the Federal Government In the appointing of Supervisors and Marshals to take charge of elections In the several States when Congressmen are to be elected. The right of Congress to pass a law for the government ol elections in the South while States there were In a disorganized condition, was never Opposed by the Democratic party; but the use of toe United States army to back Republican Marshals while robbing the people of the Sonth has ever been opposed by Democrats. We supposed these Marshals and Supervisors of Elections would be confined In their operations to toe Sont hern States, as it was claimed toe iaw was made especially for them. Bat It proved to be so very advantageous to the Republican party in carrying the elections, that it was enabled thereby to inaugurate its fraudulent President Under that law the leaders of toe Republican party had their Supervisors of Elections, ana their Marshals, backed by the army of the United States, to protect them In their frauds; and at that time the Republican party was so intent-on upholding State rights It insisted we oould not go behind toe certificates of elections issnea by the States, notwithstanding we were telling them they were fraudulent, and we were ready and anxious to prove them so. The Republican party has been excited ny this, like a lion by a taste of fresa biood, till it is now and has been for some time putting in practice this same law in some or toe Northern States. Pennsylvania has suffered much by It, Iu 1876 toe Democrats discovered that Republican Supervisors had perpetrated great frauds in the registry of voters In Philadelphia: Tb sy charged that 20,000 names upon toe registry books were a fraud and a fiction. They brought the case before a Court in Philadelphia. They were enabled to Investigate 12,000 of toe 20,000 they charged as being fraudulent, and the Court decided they were so and ordered them stricken ofi. Yet toe Republican party says: “We are only using this law to preserve the purity of the billet box 1” We Democrats say it is used for toepfurnose of corrupting the ballot box, and I knowof nothing that could go further to Show it than this one act. You will bear in mlpd that toe duties of Supervisors of Elections commenoe with toe registration of voters. No bach an instance Is on record ih any Slate under a State law, free from Federal supervision. i In the city of New York, in 1878, they had Over twelve huhdred Republican Deputy Marshals appointed to preserve order at toe polls. These Deputy Marshals were the lowest type of humanity. Many Of them had just cofne from the penitentiary. Oh the day before the election these Supervisors Issued warrants for 3,100, and on election day they arrested over one thousand men charged with Intent

to commit fraud—in attempting to vote without having made a proper application for naturalization papers or, In other words, ttiat their nuiuradxauon papers were frauds. They were tom from their families, placed in prison celts, and auer the election was over brought Deloro a Court where in every instance their natural Ization papers were pronounced genuine. Bui they bad lost their votes, and they had been cruelly defrauded of their liberty and kept from exercising their rights as voters: Can anything be more alarming and in more direct violation Of the spirit of our Government? I know of nothing to equal It, except the action of Napoleon alter the»revolution m France. He made as loud pretense of talrnefs and honor and honesty as do the leaders of toe Republican party now. He said the people should have a fair chance to vote. He himself was a candidate, and he bad his army at toe polls with the same appearance of fairness that the Republican party had their Marshals at toe polls to see that toe people had a fair chance to vote. When toe voter was for Napoleon he was all right, but when he proposed to vote against Napoleon he was taken as toe Republicans took our friends In New York, and locked up in prison. I say to you bow, my fellow-citizens, that it there is not a stop pnt to this there will eventually be no voting done in this country, except by too power which control the elections, or by Its friends. The acts of the Repnbllcon party during tbe last Congress ought to be sufficient to alarm every bonest man. They show what its purposes are. The Democrats, «. tiring toe extra session, made great efforts to repeal this elec-tion-supervising law, bat they were defeated by the veto of toe President. They were opposed at every step till they lost hope of repealing toe law, bat to despoil theaot of Its political effect and to keep tbe law being used as the Instrument of a party, they songht to amend It. Tk- ir amendment provided that no more than three persons should be appointed as Deputy Marshals at any one voting place; that they should be divided between the political parties; that they should reside In tne District composing toe voting place, and that they should be men of honor and character. This amendment was Voted against by all the Republicans in Congress, and vetoed by the President when passed by toe votes of Democratic members of Congress. Now, can we understand anything else than this, namely, that the Republican party don’t wantmi n qf good character as Marshals: that they don't want men as Marshals who live in the voting Ward or Precinot, an d that they don’t want fairness at the polls 7 But that they do want the law as it now is, under toe provisions of which the scum of the earth can be appointed to supervise honest voters and Impose upon' them and insult them as they dia so many thousands of our foreignborn fellow-citizens in New York City, snd be sustained in suoh outrageous oonduot by the army of the United States. Mr. Porter says in his speech that the doctrine of State rights and slavery went down together with the rebellion. We Democrats understood the war to be to maintain toe rights of the States. Seeesslon was against the rights of toe States. It never was regarded as a State rights doctrine, except by a very few. The war was for the maintenance of toe Union, and not for the destruction of slavery, if Mr. Lincoln is to be believed. Slavery, he said, could not be maintained, and toe Union B reserved, and, in order to preserve the nion, he emancipated the slaves. It was a necessity, as he said, whloh we Democrats indorsed. No man in Indiana, or bat few, Wonld have shouldered a musket and went into toe war to destroy toe rights of toe States, as Mr. Porter says, or to liberate the slaves either. If that was toe real purpose of the war, the people of this country were kept iu ignorance of it, and knew but little of what they were fighting for. General Jackson was toe first President who ever asserted toe superiority of the laws of the United States over State laws. In the case of Sonth Carolina, where she sought to nullify a law passed by Congress, he asserted the supremacy of the latter, and was going to maintain It, If necessary, by the army of the United States. He acknowledged the right of a State to petition for redress, and to carry the quo tion to toe Courts, bat denied her right to nullify a law of Congress.

REPUBLICANS ADOPT THE EXPLODED DOCTRINES OF THE FEDERALISTS UNDER HAMILTON, The Republican party has shown their contempt for State lines and State laws, as the original Federalists, headed by Alexander Hamilton, expressed theirs. The leaders of the Republican party Bay they want a strong Government, with all power In the Federal Government. Bo did the Federalists of lons ago, headed by Hamilton. Mr. Hamilton, Id toe National Constitutional Convention, on the 18to day of June, 1798, said: “We must establish ft general and National Government, and annihiiinte the State distinctions and State opera ions; and unless we do this, no good purpose can be answered.” He said also: “Let one body of the Legislature be constituted during good behavior or life. Let one executive be appointed [for life] who dares execute his powers. • • * All State laws to be absolutely void, which contravene the general law. An offleer to be appointed In each State to have a negative on all State laws. All the militia and the appointment of offioers to be under toe National Government. * * * The people are gradually ripening In their opinions of Government; they begin to tire of an excess of Democracy.”—Yates’ Debates of the Convention, pages 132-137. Fellow citizens, compare the views expressed by Mr. Hamilton, the leader of toe old Federalist party, with the practices of the Republican party in toe Southern States, and point out toe difference. * THE BONDED DEBT CHANGED AND HADE PERMANENT. Leading Republicans and their candidate for Governor claim much credit for the management of the bonded debt of toe country. They have managed that debt so as to consolidate the wealth of toe country in the hands of the few, as they have managed to concentrate the political power of the States in the hands of the Federal Government. The thousands that have been bankrupted and the tens ot thousands of tramps made by them, hold their policy in contempt. During toe war the very wildest schemes of inflation were adopted, and values were greatly enhanced by suoh inflation. The war debt wa» made at least twloe as large as It would have been had it been conducted upon a gold basis. Our bonds were issued ana exchanged for this depreciated money. Designing men In the Republican party designingly depreciated them. Greenbacks, when first issued, were convertible into 6-20 bonds, Whloh wonld have kept them of equal value With thebondst but seeing that the Republican party repealed the law, although they never refused to take that depreciated money fer the bonds. After the bonds had been bought with the depreciated money nothing could be gained by keeping it depreciated, and their next effort was to appreciate it by contraction. We Democrats opposed that, and in 1868 declared in favor of paying off the bonded debt in greenbacks—toe money, and toe only money, We got for them—unless toe law under which they were issued, or the bends themselves, provided otherwise. This alarmed toe friends of toe concentration of wealth, and they hastily passed a law through Congress declaring that toe bonded debt of the country should be paid In coin—called the law of 1869. MrGarfield supported that law, and when in the Forty-fourth Congress a resolution was offered In the House of Representatives declaring that 85,000 COO had been t spent on the floor ot Congress to secure the passage of that law, Mr. Garfield was one of the first men to take the floor against the passage of toe resolution. The resolution asked for an Investigation. He wanted no investigation. Five millions of dollars was nothing compared with the enormous amount made by speculators by the passage of that law. Senator Morton, Of Indiana, made a grand speech against tna taw. and voted against it. He denounced itaa being in the nature of a new contract, and as a bull movement to increase tbevalueoronr bonds abroad. He instated!! they meant a new contract to say so, meaning that under toe old contract it was clear they could be paid in greenbacks. They were then worth 80 per cent, less shan coin. No lees than •600000,000 was made by the passage of that act. By whom made? By those who held the bonds? Whom was It made off of? Those who had them to pay—the laborers of the country—tha creators of all the wealth—they were toe men wbo shouldered that burden. Yet our Republican friends and their candidate for Governor say they are the special friends of the laboring man! He Instate that the Republican party has ever Men the friend of laboring men. 1 defy him to point out a single act of that party which has not Men In toefntereet of tbe capitalists of the country, against the laboring man, whenever their Interests were opposed. Let him point to one. if hecan. *S - r The army of the country was composed of laboring men, and they have a particular

fondness for toe soldier candidate whenevei an election Is approaching; hot whenever soldiers have asked that their services shall be recognized, as they did in asking Congress tnat their bounties should be equalized, toai measure received Its death-blow atthe hand* of L Republican President. No measure Id the interest of the bondholder was ever vetoed oy him. The law to increase his own sal, aiy 825,000 a year was readily signed by him. I voted when In Congress in favor of equalizing these bounties, and I did it on principle. A Government like oars needs no standing army. If laws are made fklr and honorable they can M enforced without an army. We only need an army when we are Invaded, or when there Is a great Insurrection at home. We rely on the fields and shops for an army, and the Government ought to treat an army so called Into service In such a way that there never will be any donbt about oar getting an army at toe first tap es toe dram. Tbe men who went Into toe army first were paid tha least. I want that equalized, as an encouragement to volunteering hereafter. We can afford to M liberal with onr soldiers, as we have them only when needed. They are not quartered on the country In time of peace, or ought not to M. But to return to the bonded debt the Republican leaders claim so much credit for. They were not satisfied with the legislation of 1869. The bonds and the law under whloh they were issued were still against them, as no provision was made for coin payment; hence the necessity for the law of 1870, which provided for toe reissue of new bonds payable in coin. The law provided they were to be payable in coin of the standard value that then existed, which was 25 8- 10 grains of gold, or 412)$ grains of silver to the dollar. The old bonds bave been taken tip. and this new bond, with Its coin provision, has been substituted and the question has been settled by the Republican party. That party has placed it entirely ont of the reach of legislation now; and aU that we can do Is to denounce It for Its management of the public debt In toe Interest of the bondholder and against the laborer and producer, thus saddlelng npon the country for generations to come the burden of an enormous debt and forcing Its payment In par money, when we got money therefor not worth 60 cents on the dollar. Had the volume of currency of toe country remained at what It was when the war oloaed (it never would have been worse than during toe war), and the taxes remained as they were, w e oould have had the debt paid off long before this, and been back to as sound a basis as we are now, with no debt upon ns. The currency has been contracted, the money has been brought to par ana toe debt has been left hanging over ns like a millstone around onr necks. We can not escape legislation that has been enaoted; we must accept legislation as it is, and deal with existing facts.

THE CURRENCY QUESTION. Under existing circumstances onr platform Is right: that we are In favor of money—gold, silver and paper—issued by the Government. The third resolution of our platform declares that the coin and paper money of the country should be of universal value and readily convertible, and should have as great purchasing power as the money of other first-class commercial countries of the world, and that paper money, like the coin, should M furnished by the United States,and should not Min excess of such quantity as will M, and remain always at par with coin. Mr. Schurz, In his late speech In Indianapolis, draws a oontrast between the Republican candidate for Governor In this State and myself, He Bays I am one of the leaders of the wildest inflation movements, and one of the most vociferous advooates of the repeal of the Resumption act. I have stated to yon, gentlemen, the purpose for which 1 wished to use toe Inflated currency given us by the RepubTican party. I wished to pay off the debhas I stated, in money of the kind received. That purpose has been put out of our power, as I have also stated, by toe Republican party. The debt being funded in those new bonds, no man has since heard me advocate inflation. The currency had been Inflated by toe Republican party, and I opposed contraction till we paid off the debt. The resumption law provided for contraction and I opposed it, as be says, for I was opposed to retiring the greenbacks as provided by that law. “Where,” Mr. Schurz asks, ‘would our prosperity be, had he and his followers prevailed?’ I answer: We have prevailed; our policy is today toe policy of the Government and the country. We have defeated the execution of the resumption law, as provided by the law Itself. The destruction of the greenbacks as a currency was toe object of the law, and that being defeated, we have accomplished our purpose. We have toe greenbacks with ns, notwithstanding the resumption law; and wc have them because of Democratic legislation—because of a law passed by the Democratic party for the reissue of greenbacks, instead of destroying them when redeemed under the resumption law. This Democratic law Is entitled, “An act to forbid the further retirement of United States legal tender notes;” but In a suit now pending, In toe United States Courts, managed by Republican leaders, they expect to get a decision declaring it unconstitutional. The resolution In onr platform has ever been my dootrlne for a sound business policy: and we are now looking to nothing else but business. We have been brought to that by contraction, and the debt placed out of onr reach for payment, as I have stated, in any other way than with ooln. Gold, silver and paper issued by the Government is the policy of toe Democratic party to-day, and has ever been my policy,except when we bad been carried so far from It by toe Republican party, and each an Immense debt piled upon us—twice as large as it would nave been had it not been for a deviation from that policy. The policy of the Republican party was ever different from mine and from the Democratic party. Its policy was to go back to resumption upon a gold basis and have nothing .hut gold money. The Republican party having demonetized silver in 1873 and passed a resumption law for toe retirement of greenbacks in 187 j, we Democrats said, as has been charged by Mr. Porter and other Republican speakers, that to go back to a gold basis, retiring greenbacks with ho silver in circulation, was nothing bat bankruptcy to the entire country, of, at least, of that portion of it in debt. And while the policy of the Republican party remained as the policy of the country there neVer was such a record of bankruptcy known in the history of the world. Every man of feeling wasshocked; the business of the country was paralyzed, and the money that we had was kept close in except when used to buy property at still lower rates. It mattered not howlow the rate was, It was expected to be less. I can give you some idea of toe bankruptcy and loss and ruin done by tola Republican policy, by reference to R. G. Dunn & Co.’s commercial reports, that firm being one ol toe prlnolpat commercial agencies In toe country. They give a list of failures in toe United Btates from 1872 to 1877, in toe aggregate, as foilowsiNumber of failures, 40,776; total liabilities, 81,087,622,075. And these immense figures are but a fraction or toe sum total of disasters that have fallen upon the country. The recorded liabilities of those who went down beneato the curse of Republican financiering while undertaking the coarse of contraction, famishes meager data npon which to predicate a satisfactory estimate of other losses, the sum total of whloh, by those most familiar with the subject of shrinkage in tbe value of real estate, is estimated at 40 per cent., or 812,000,000,000. The loss sustained by throwing at least 3000,000 of working people out of employment is not less than 87,000,000,000. And this cruel war waged by the Republican party upon the material prosperity of our country was checked by Democratic legislation. If we had looked exclusively to party considerations we would not have checked it; bat looking only to the interests of the country at large, we felt bound, as honorable men, to oheck np a policy that was raining toe country, although Republican demagogues may claim toe credit for It. Mr. Schnrz, even, claims that the prosperity of the country Is due to Republican policy. I have shown what the Republican policy has led to. Mr. Porter is also load in similar claims, and I presume toe smaller lights in his party will follow, and set np toe same claims. REISSUE OF GREENBACKS, INSTEAD OF THEIR RETIREMENT. Mr. Porter says the Republican party brought the old greenback to par. He says that was what you wanted. 1 admit that was what you wanted, but had it not been for toe Democratio legislation which I have referred to, in passing a law for the reissue of greenbacks, what wonld you have had? You would have had the ashes the greenbacks would have made instead of the greenbacks themselves. The Repnblloan law provided for their redemption and their retirement, bat the Democratic law provided lor their reissue, thus stopping the depreciation of broperty. Republicans will no doubt gay but few greenbacks have Men offer* ed for redemption, and therefore bat few of them would have went to ashes hnder their law. But suppose toe policy of the Republican party had been carried out—the taking Mom greenbacks their legal tender

quality; being then no longer useful as monfy and bearing no interest, they would have com*' in rapidly for redemption and Men as rapidly destroyed. Two of the prominent Presidential candidates before the Chicago Convention recommended taking from the greenback Rs legal tender quality. I now read from General Grant’s massage, ffeoond Session, Forty-fourth Congress. He said: “It will be a source of gratification to me to be able to approve any measure of Congress looking effectively toward securing resumption.” £ want youth Mar In mind his language—“looking effectively toward securing resumption.” This is his object. He says further: r “There are a few measures which seem to me Important In this connection and which I commend to your earnest consideration. A repeal of so much of the legal tender act as makes those notes receivable for debts contracted after a date to M fixed in toe act itself; say not later than the Ist of January, 1877.” Notloe the effect he states this would nave where he says: “We would have quotations at real values, not fictitious ones, and gold WUnld no longer be at a premium, but currency at a discount.” He understood the effect of this measure. It was to put greenbacks down. That was the idea. And when put down he then provides a means for bringing them Into the Treasury. HIS second proposition ta. that the Secretary of the Treasury shall be authorized to redeem, say not to exceed 82,0 0,000 monthly of legal tender, by issuing in their stead a long bond bearing interest at the rate of 3.66 per cent, per annum of the denominations ranging from 850 to 81,000 each. I ask yon as intelligent Democrats and Republicans, does this look like bringing the greenback to par, or does it look like bringing them to ashes, as I stated? And John Sherman, In his late report as Secretary ofthe Treasury of the United States, reoommended the taking from the green bask Its legal tender quality. But Mr. Hayes’recommendations were the ‘moat remarkable. HO says In hfe late message that he wants more stability In the paper money of tbe country, and In order to nave it he recommends the taking from greenbacks their legal tender quality. His conclusions as to the effect of taking from them their legal tender quality were the most remarkable. General Grant Insisted that that would depreciate them, and all other men well posted upon the subject So understood it. If Mr. Haves does not understand this he Is lacking in financial Judgment, and if he does understand It we must say that be ta chargeable with playing tne demagogue. It Is very remarkable, gentlemen, that, in view of all these facta l have brought to your attention, my Competitor, Mr. Porter, before an Intelligent audien Adn my own city, boldly asserted that party had brought the old to par, 1 was shocked and at the declaration. as as he professed to be the magnitude of his crowd on that to hear inch a declaration from the representative of a party tbat had made suoh a persistent war upon that money.

HOW BUSINESS WAS REVIVED. lam willing the manager* of the Republican party should have all the credit they are emitted to. They have managed the public debt, and I have shown how they managed it, as I have Bhown how we checked their destruction of values and their paralyzatlon of the business Interests of tbe country when we said that ns more greenbacks should be destroyed. Intelligent men possessed of capital said to themselves: “We will have no less value in commodities; we will commence buying again.” The manufacturer said: “I will kindle my fires for the destruction of values brought about by the Republican party Is now checked. There will be no less value. I can go to work, for we are now at the bottom.” And it was that act of toe Democratic party which revived confidence in the minds of moneyed men and restored toe industries of the country. We olaim nothing bat what we are justly entitled to, and we are resolved, in this canvass, to pnt to flight any demagogue we meet who sets up this false claim: That to the Republican party we are indebted for the return of prosperity to the oountry. While Republican policy was being carried ont there was nothing but destruction and paralyzatlon nntll we checked it, THE SILVEB DOLLAR REMONETIZED. Another ease as remarkable and as astounding is the claim set np by Mr. Porter that toe Republican party bronght the silver dollar from its hiding place. The silver dollar was toe unit of value from the days of Washington until 1878. It never had Men changed a particle as to the amount of pure silver In the dollar. It contained 871)$ grains of pure silver when first coined by Alexander Hamilton. It contains that now. As I have stated to yon, the legislation of the Repnblloan party has always Men In tbe Interest ofthe few at toe expense of toe many, and its leaders were not satisfied In changing our bonded debt into a coin debt, bat they set np a hue and cry that we must bat one standard of value. They Instated that the double standard of value established by Washington and Hamilton was false and should not be maintained. I admit there have been many things false about this standard. I am of opinion that gold and silver have a more uniform value than any. other commodity; bat the olaim that they have a fixed value I never did indorse slnoe I-have examined the question. The cause of their steady value constats principally in the fact of their Ming adopted as money by the various Governments of the world and the standard fixed by law for them. The fact of their Ming tons adopted as money by the various Governments of toe world ta the strongest reason why we should adopt them as money, because our exports are very lame. I once tried to expos 9 this false theory of there Ming a fixed value for gold and silver. When I first brought forward toe measure In Washington for toe remonetization of the silver dollar it was violently opposed; and I found Dr. Linderman, toe Manager of the Mint, was giving my measure all the opposition that coaid possibly M brought to Mar against It. I studied ont a proposition,which as I thought, would expose the fallacy of the theory of fixed value. They were olaimlng that silver was an article that fluctuated very much, although they onoe claimed it had as fixed a value as gold. After the Republican party demonetized it in 1873, H declined in value, and the areainent was then lost. On one occasion 1 met tne Doctor and said to him that J was very much annoyed with a question connected with coinage, and wonld M much pleased if he could explain it to me. He said he wonld do so with the greatest pleasure. I said, suppose yon had two tape lines precisely of the same length made to measure space, and had nothing to compare your lines with bat themselves; they wonld pass into nse, but after some years yon bring them together and find they differed In length. Now, said I, how would yon determine which had changed Its length, or whether one had contracted or the other expanded? After hanging his head for some minutes he replied: “By God, sir, there ta no answer for such a question; there is no way to determine that.’’ Well, sir, said 1.1 want to know why it ta yon and others claim that Sold has this fixed value, and that sliver has epreolated. The Government the same year made 2b 8-10 grains ot gold, or 412)$ grains of silver to be a dollar. The market valne at that time was toe same. Now they have got apart, and there is a difference probably of fifteen cents. Why, sir, do yon say that silver has depreciated and gold Das retained Its original value? Is there not as mnch argument to show that gold has Increased in value as there is that silver has depreciated? He said: “That ta a question we settle by comparing gold with the real estate of the country.” Said I, sir, that will not do, for toe real estate of this country has depreciated far more than yon say sliver has, and the value of silver to real estate Mars mnch nearer the same proportion than does gold to real estate. And, said I, every acre of land in the West can M bought with toe silver dollar at the same price that once the owners oould have sold It for gold dollars. The demonetizing of the silver dollar In 1873 was still further to aid the bondholders of the country in securing to themselves a dollar of more value. By demonetizing silver toe bonds were afterward payable in gold, as there was no other coin. Seeing tots great outrage npon the rights ot the people, and seeing that It was the only tiling we could do to aid them in the payment of that debt—the Republican party bavlng declared by law to a* it shonla be a coin debt—l brought forward a measure to remonetize the standard silver dollar. Leading Republicans fought that measure with more bitterness than any that ever was brought before Congress, within my recollection. The bondholder’s advocates on the floor of Congress were exceedingly bitter, and to show their bitterness, and also to show that this claim of the Repnblloan party, and of Mr. Porter for the Republican party, that it brought the silver dollar from its hiding place, la without a particle of foundation, and right in toe face offsets that every ten-year-old ■’taool hoy iu tbe country will understand, namely: That the Republican party is and has Men the violent enemy of the silver dollar;

toe Republican part y have nominated a man for President who opposed that measure with aU toe ability he possessed. I now read from a speech made by General Garfield in too debate on tbat question, that the country may snow what views he then entertained as tc the remonetization of silver: j I read from the Congressional Reoord,of Jane 28,1878. The question under discussion was a bill for the tasoe of subskhary silvsr coin, and Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, was managing the d6bftt6. * j The extract I wish to read is as follows: Mr. Randall—l yield to the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Landers], that he may offer an amendment, npon which he desires to test the sense of the House. After that amendment ta offered I shall ask toe previous question. Mr. Landers, of Indiana—l movo to amend toe proposed amendment by addtqgtoe following: “And it la further providedTxhat tha Secretary of the Treasury is directed toauthorize the coinage of the standard silver dollar of the same weight and fineness in use January 1,1861. and said dollar shall be a legal tender in payment of all debts, publio and private.” The vote npon toe amendment was—yeas llLnats 66. While discussing this measure for the remonetization of the silver dollar, or, in other words, toe bringing of it from its hiding place, in a speech against the measure, which may be found in the Congressional Record of the Forty-fourth Congress, first session, volume 4, parts, page 4,561, Mr. Garfield said: “By toe proposed measure one-fifth of the enormous aggregate oi pudiio and private debtaean M wiped out as with a sponge. This Nation owes *2,100,000,000 and private citizens ofthe United Btates probably owe 82,500,000,000, possibly more. At the present moment the relation of debtor and creditor in the United States involves nearly 86,000,000.000. It ta proposed by the amendment of toe gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Landers) that at one jfell stroke one-fifth of all this enormous sum shall M wiped ont, repudiated, and that this process shall M called honest legislation. Slnoe I have been in public life I have never known any proposition that oontalned so many of the essential elements of vast rascality, Of oollossal swindling as this. I do not charge that ta the purpose of the gentleman; bat such, in my judgment, ta the effect or toe amendment proposed. But aside from the political ethics Involved In this scheme, we should consider its effects upon the business of the country. Gentlemen may remember the financial shook of 1837, the later shook of 1867, and that still later of 1873. Oonoelve them all united in one vast crash and the financial ruin, the overthrow of business, would be light in comparison with the shock which would follow, If the principle here proposed were adopted. * * * Put In operation the provision noW suggested, and all onr gold coin will leave toe country as fast as it oan M carried abroad.” Yon will now Bee, gentlemen, that my statement, as far as Mr. Garfield ta concerned, Is correct. He is looking after the Interest of the creditor and says that 81,000,000,000 of tbe Indebtedness of the country wonld M wiped ont at onoe as with a sponge. I have shown yon, as far as the National indebtedness is concerned, that your indebtedness was increased no less than 8400,000,000 or 8300,000,000, and yon see here now, Instead ot giving toe debtor olass the benefit of the remonetlzlDg of silver, Mr. Garfield was insisting that toe creditor was to M robbed of it.

I want yon to reflect for one moment as to tbe practical working of this measure. It la claimed by Mr. Porter, and by other Repub llcan speakers, that the Republican party brought the silver dollar from its hiding-place, and also brought the greenback to par, and that toe prosperity of toe country followed. I admit that prosperity followed, bnt I trust I have shown you to whom you are indebted for tne bringing of those measures forward which brought prosperity to the country. I want to call your attention now to the prediction made by Mr. Garfield, that toe shook to business wonld be greater than the combined panics of 1837,1857 and 1873. Have you felt It? Mr. Porter now claims that this measure was toe one that restored confidence and that revived business. Mr. Garfield said it would destroy business. I want yon to notice the prediction of Mr. Garfield as to the effect of this measure, provided It was adopted. He said put in operation toe provisions noW suggested, and all onr gold coin will leave toe oountry as fast as it can be carried abroad. The provisions were pnt In just as suggested by the passage of a law February 28,1878, over the President’s veto and toe vote of Mr. Garfield against it—two-thirds of both Houses of Congress voting for It—and Mr. Porter, in his speech, now claims that gold and silver have accumulated until wer have 8400,000,000 in the country. What do you think of Mr. Garfield as a financial prophet? >Thu measure that was to bankrupt the oountry, according to Mr. Garfield, ta now claimed bv leaders of the Repnblloan party as having Men adopted by it, and that it has saved toe country! They must think that the reooiieotion of man ta very short. I tell yon they will find, before they get through with this canvass, that there is more Intelligence, among tbe masses than they thought for. The people will know who *o give credit to for, the measures that revived toe drooping Interests of this country. And I How say to my competitor that 1 defy him to point to any financial measure of hta party which is being carried out to-day—toe first one of Republican origin I mean. The Democratic party has relieved the country from some ofthe most odious legislation enacted by toe Repnblloan party before we same into power in the halls of Congress. Republican leaders are as bold in toelr claims for tha oerdlt of measures brought forward by the Democracy for m the betterment oot the condition ,of the oountry. jand opposed at every step by the Republican party, as Baton was when he called Ohim up on a high mountain, and claiming to own the whole world, proposed to give it to him If He wonld tail down and worship him. The olaim of Mr. Porter, and others of the Republican party, to this financial policy has as little foundation in fact as the claim of Baton to toe different kingdoms he proposed to give away;and if the great mass of toe people only had a little of the wisdom that Christ had they wonld see through this fraudulent scheme and scoot the claimant, and say as Christ said to the devil, “Get thee behind-me, Baton.” THE LORO AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY RAVE * REVIVED BUSINESS AND CHECKED 5 BANKRUPTCY. * r I trust that I have not only shown yon,'bnt that I have convinced yon, so far as nnanic al measures have had anything to .do with restoring confidence in commercial F circles and reviving the par] alyzed Industries of tne country, that the credit belongs to the Democratio party. Bnt the fact is the good Lord has had more to do with reviving the industries of this country, starting apt he shops, ana bringing onr paper money np to par, than ail tbe policies ol all the political parties combined. He has blessed ns with abnndant crops, and the crops across toe water Ming blighted for several seasons, we have received fair and reasonable prices for our products. The balance of trade has been In our favor, and toe gold hr s been brougnt to ns because it belonged to us on balance. Ana Inasmuch as we hope to have a continuance of His infinite favors, we mast not forget to give Him the credit that Mlongs to Him, THE EBB AND FLOW OF GOLD ACCOUNTED FOR. Mr. Garfield said that gold would leave the country as fast as it could be carried away if we remonetized sliver. Mr. Porter said that gold had been banished by the cheapening of greenbacks, and found Its hiding place Myond tbe sea, and came back when onr money became par. As each of these gentlemen are at toe head of a great party, one In the United Btates and the other In this Btate, It would be Information to toe people of this oountry if either of them wonld show how gold could get ont of this oountry while the balanoe of trade to In out favor, and what law oould M passed to keep It here if we owed It to others. This ta information which I myself would be pleased to have, and. I know many others would M equally as well. Gold and silver form the baste of exchange' Mtween Governments, and when tbe citizens of one Government sell more to another than, they bay, the gold belongs to the seller, and It. goes In payment of toe balance dne; bnt when the people of one country hoy more than they sell, then the gold most go to pay the debt dna> to the citizens of tbe country they trade with. Let the people of this country banish the Idea, and not listen for one moment to any argument that may M bronght np in regard to the accumulation of gold by law, or Its banishment from the oountry by having a cheaper Every Government hss a cheaper money, or have paper money; buythe balance of trade ta always payable In coin, and it always goes sfesafessssfeafe business matters embraced in tbeJaw of trade and oommeroe. If he win study that he will

Understand the financial rule I have just referred to. (taPUBLICAH XTFOBTS TO PBSVKTT THE CIRCULATION OF SILVER. The Republicans now claim that they have brought the silver dollar from its hiding place. I have tried to show yon how they retired it to its hiding place, and I now propose to show yon how they are endeavoring to keep it there. The Republican party, as 1 have stated, is wedded to the doctrine of having nothing m money hot gold. Ever since the remonetisation of silver by the Democratic ■ 1878 the leaders of the Republican re sought in every way possible to i the people against its use. John , when in the Benate of the United •posed the remonetization of silver aa as did Mr. Garfield, and since Mr. has been Secretary of the Treasury, owed no opportunity to pass In which he oould impress upon the minds of the people the impracticability of using silver M money. He combined with the bankers of New York against It. He had his Assistant Treasurer made a member of the Clearing House Board of New York City, and then, according to a resolution passed by the Board (the Assistant Treasurer of the United States being a member thereof), diver was not to be offered in payment for any balance doe any member of that Board, and was not to be received in bank only to be paid back in kind. All this tending to embarrass the business Community in handling it. A badness man wants to deposit In hank what he receives, and check pat of bank as his necessities require. It was well known to Mr. Sherman inat an arrangement of that kind was calculated to bring about great opposition to the Use of silver as money; and that accounts for the prejudice among business men of the East against sliver. He has constantly refused to hand oat silver in the payment of our bonded debt, while the diver he has on band Is a legal fender for every dollar that we owe. But he prefers to Issue new bonds, bearing Interest, knd sell them to buy gold with, instead of paying out the silver hehas on hand. If be would pay It out on the bonded debt of the country we would save the Issuing of new bonds j ust to the amount of silver that he has on hand, and tbe Interest upon the bonds also. Mr. Sherman has never lost hope of bringing the law Into oontempt; he even showed a disregard for the law making silver a legal fender. Although he Is our hired man, and tala only business la to carryout the laws passed by Congress, Instead of carrying them put he sets the law at defiance. Not being aware, apparently, of the intelligence of the people he was talking to, he has on many occasions asserted that be could not pay out the sliver. If any business man had an agent employed, as we nave Mr. Shermrn, to pay out money In bank on Indebtedness, which was a legal tender, for every debt he owed, were the agent to keep the deposit in bank and issue new notes bearing Interest in settlement of the debts and in payment of the old notes of his employer, he would be discharged Instantly. Any man can pay ont money that he has on hand if he owes debts far In excess of the money he has on hand. That Is the condition of the Government.

Mr. Sherman says that the sliver money vben paid out immediately comes back. That is the office of money, ana that dollar which passes the most rapidly in performing exchanges, is the dollar we want. If the silver dollar comes back rapidly to Mr. Sherman In the payment of debts dno us, after having been paid out on debts we owe, it is then ready for another payment, and that is Just what a business man wants—when he pays oat a dollar on debts that he owes, to reoeive lt back on debts due him. There never was such an effort made since the formation of the Government to set at defiance the law of tbe land as there has been made by the Republican party to discountenance sliver, and banish It as money. Yet, on the eve of an election, io the taoe of the reoord, and In the face of the message of Mr. Hayes, and hls vetoing of the silver bill—the bill for the remonetization of sliver, and in hls late message recommending Congress to stop the coinage of stiver dollars, many Republicans now claim, as did Mr. Porter in hls late speech, that they are the especial friends of silver. A REPUBLICAN BUGABOO. Mr. Porter also, In hls late speech, took great pains to try ana get up a sensation because of the Introduction of a bill in the Lower House of Congress to have the number of Supreme Judges increased, as ho says, to twenty-onO. I know of no one, except himself, who professes any fear of the passage of such a law. The simple introduction of a bill' in Congress amounts to nothing. Unless It can be shown that there was some favorable action taken on snoh a bill, I am somewhat astonished that he should rerer to it. If such a bill was introduced and no action taken thereon, there Is no evidence that it embraced the views of more than one man. In a body of 300 members,lf one of them should Introduce such a bill, why should there be any fear expressed, and Why should the attempt be made to raise unnecessary alarm 7 * ANOTHER WAVE OF THE BLOODY SHIRT. Mr. Porter and other of our Republican felends still appear to have great dread of the Brigadiers of the South. I mean the Democratic Brigadiers from the South. Republican administrations, ever since the war, have never failed to take Into thetir embrace and their confidence a Brigadier from the south who was willing to support the policy of the Republican party, whenever such a man expresses a willingness to support it, he is immediately reconstructed, ana becomes at once a new man. And Republican administrations have taken Into their embrace and given lucrative appointments to Southern Brigadiers who were not engaged in honorable warfare. I refer particularly to one Mosby, who was engaged In a guerrilla warfare against unarmed persons. They brought Mr. Keys Into the Cabinet,where be was the commander of about 24,000 postmasters; and General Longstreet,'who was placed in a lucrative position In New Orleans, has recently been appointed to a profitable foreign mission. All but one or two of the seventy odd conspirators who figured In the manufacture or forged testimony, upon which the inauguration of Mr. Hayes was consummated, have been placed in profitable positions by the fraud that they carried out—l mean the fraudulent President they inaugurated. Hearing Republicans express dread and fear of Brigadiers who are Democrats, and knowing their course, as I do, In immediately placing In profitable official positions Rebel Brigadiers who are Republicans, my cariosity has been somewhat excited as was She Irishman’s I once heard of. A chemist had invented and was showing a liquid that ■would consume not only glass and Iron, but anything that was pat in ft, when an Irishman standing by remarked very earnestly: “Faith and bejabers, sir,l would be pleased to know what it is made of.” I, too, would be £ leased to know what this Republican party i composed of, that It has suon alchemlstio power as to completely and Instantaneously reform everybody who comes within its organization.

INDIANA AFFAIRS—DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY. As the Demooratie candidate for Governor of your State you may expeet me to give you some reasons why the Democratic party should be retained in power In this Common* wealth, especially. For nearly eight years past the State of Indiana has had the benefit of a wise, economical and conservative administration under Governor Hendricks and Governor Williams, while in the legislative department we have had but little power. Two years ago, in our State platform, we promised the people a reduction of Interest. We were suooessful in electing a majority of the members of the last General Assembly, and that pledge was promptly redeemed by that Legislature. A reduction of 2 percent, was made in the legal Interest of the State. I was again somewhat surprised at the claim set up by Mr. Porter for the Republican party that It had reduced the rate of interest in this State, in the face of the foot I have just stated. * We also promised the people an economical expenditure of their money. By comparing the expenses incurred under the management of the Republican party in maintaining the State Benevolent Institutions and for publio printing, to say nothing about the reduction pf expenses in the management of other departments (whloh have been great), it will be found that there has been saved to the people dosing last year in the Insane Hospital alone the Sum of *41,466.68; in the Deaf and Dumb. Asylum *8.237.60, mnd in the Blind Asylum *8,160.42. We havH had exclusive control of the Asylusos ronpbut one year. While we have . had exclusive control of the State pfinting forslx years. The books show that the saving to the taxpayers of the State in that simple item of expenditure, as compared with the eight previous years under Republican control, amounts to the enormous sum of *88,909,86 per annum. The Democratic party in the last six years has saved the' tax-

payers of Indiana in the one Item of printing afene. the eqprmons sum of >221.454 J0. A While the expenses of the Benevolent Institutions of the State have been largely diminished A* it should be remembered that the I n m titan have been Increased in number, especially In the Insane Hospital; and also that the cost of living has been greater the past year than during years < immediately preceding; and In the Insane Asylum the Superintendent’s report i hows that the disbursement for food was >44,4?4.31 or 14 per cent, more than for the year previous, computed for the same number of Inmates; and yet the present Democratic officials have shown snoh extraordinary economy in the other expenses of that institution es to save the taxpayers >41,468.68 in the year 1879, as compared with the annual expenditures under Republican officials. No man can say that the Benevolent Institutions of the State have not been aa well managed and cared for as they were under Republican rule; and no one will deny but that the State printing has been as well done. Indeed, no department of the State Government has suffered in the least in efficiency. Peace and order nave generally prevailed. It is true we have had some labor troubles, but they have been settled by wise counsels, and the laws have been enforced by the civil authorities. Not a gun has been fired during the eight years of Demoo ratio executive control. No property has been destroyed by violence; and tbe persons and property of our citizens have been protected. lam convinced that in this enlightened age, with prudent and wise management, our laws can be enforced by tivii authority without resort to arms. And I hink a great deal of this desirable state of as airs Is due to our wise system of commonschools. Intelligence and reason have taken the place of violence and passion. During tbe labor strike In 1877 many persons thought a resort to arms was neoeesaiy. I then differed with them, and believing as I did that oar trouble, which was then great, could be settled by compromise and argument, I hastened to the office of the Mayor of Indianapolis, and moved tbe appointment of a Citizens’Commi ttee of Conference. My motion was kindly entertained by the Mayor, a good and efficient Committee was appointed, and my highest expectations were fully realized by the work or that Committee. Pittsburg, Pa., and Columbus, 0., by pursuing a different policy, and hastily resorting to arms for the settlement of the same trouble, lost many valuable lives and millions of property. This la a lesson that should be remembered by all, and all should profit by It. Should Ibe your Governor, there will not be a gun fired In Indiana tor tne purpose of preserving law and order at home until every means shall have been exhausted law and order through the and no man would be in command of any force—should to call out tbe militia—with decide the question himself as to of the civil authorities to restore If I ana your Governor I will assume ts responsibility myself: and if we have to resort to the military or tbe country to restore order, I will deolde that question myself. CONCLUSION. ADd, now, ray fellow-citizens, I trust 1 have convinced you not only that the policy of the Democratic party has ever been in direct opposition to the charge made against it by Mr. Porter and others that a State has the right to withdraw from the Union at will, but that the policy of the Democratic party is and ever has been in favor of the maintenance of the rights of the States nnder the Constitution, to manage and oontrol all their domestic allairs without any interference by the Federal Government, while conceding to the FeneralGovernment the legislative powers provided by the Constitution of the United States. I trust I have also convinced you that secession was not pState right, but rebellion; that the Republican party, since the close of the war, has endeavored to pervert our form of Government from a Government of thirtyeight free and Independent States into a Government of consolidated power; that the right of a ttta'e to manage and control her elections without Federal interference is necessary to the perpetuation of free government; that the right of the States to maintain Courts for the trial of all offenses against State laws Is imperatively demanded; that the Republican party has consolidated the wealth of this country in the hands of a few, In the same way it has consolidated the powers of the States In the hands of the Federal Government; that Its polloy was one that bankrupted all the debtor class, and Increased the enormous fortunes of the creditor class, thereby paralyzing the industries of the country, bo that bankruptcy was the rule and not the exception; that the Democratic party has, by the passage of a law through Congress for the reissue or greenbacks, checked the decline in values, which had destroyed confidence in any kind of investments; and, by the remonetization of the stiver dollar, gave the manufacturer and the capitalist an assurance that there would be more money, encouraged Investments,restored confidence In future values and relieved the country of tbe paralyzatlon and bankruptcy which had been brought on by Republican policy.