Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1880 — BUTLER FOR HANCOCK. [ARTICLE]

BUTLER FOR HANCOCK.

POINTS FROM HIS GREAT SPEECH AT FANUEIL HALL. THE DUTY OF TUE PEOPLE. “By a wise provision of the constitution the people are called Upon at every recurring period of four years to pass solemn judgment qf>on the policy, integrity and efficiency of the administration of the government in the past and to choose and appoint those who shall administer their government in the coming like period. If change of policy or administration of government is needed it can only be attained at a Presidential election. Under our system of elections, practically, the people must confer their power upon one or two men only, as the supreme executive head of the nation. No third person can be supported for President with any result save in the nature of a protest against the nominee of the conventions of the two great j>olitical parties. There is, therefore, no more solemn duty imposed upon any patriot than to determine which one of two candidates represents more nearly his convictions upon the greatest number of the measures and principles of govenunent. All history teaches that long continuance in power breeds corruption in the administration of governmental affairs ; that corruption always seeks perpetuation, and fears change of administration lest its wickedness may be* detected even if not* punished. When any one of my Republican friends desires to put to me a political question which lie deems unanswerable, he asks, “ How can you act with the Democratic party which undertook tw break up the Uniou which you fought to sus‘tain ?” The trouble with your question, my friends, is that you have forgotten the history of your Country. A portion of the Democratic party undertook to secede from the Union, and thereby broke up the Democratic party. If the Democratic party had undertaken to break up the Union tiie Union would surely have been broken up. Does any sane man not blinded by partisan prejudice doubt that without prompt, vigorous, loyal, courageous and patriotic action of the masses of the Dem<x ratic party that it would have been possible for-the Republican jiarty to have preserved the Union ? Look at the rank and file of our armies 1 They were as largely recruited from the Democratic as from the Republican party. For the correctness of this assertion let me speak of my own knowledge. I marched to the Gulf with a New England division containing 6,000 men, and there could not have been found 500 men .in that division who had ever voted any other than the Democratic ticket. They came back voting for the Union for which they fought, and they have been voting in the same direction since, ana will continue so to vote when they vote with the Democracy for Hancock, by whose side they fought.

TUB COLOR LINE. Can the Republican administration protect the Southern colored man in all his rights, and will they so do? Since the war closed, for sixteen years the Republican party have had absolute control of the executive department, and, until the last Congress, of the legislative department of tire government, and most of the time by a two-thirds majority. Has that party given protection to the negro in the sense in which they put the necessity for so doing before the people? Their very campaign cry is an admission that they have not so done. If at the end Of sixteen yet.s they claim they must be continued in 1 power four years longer that they may do it, how loni shall we, who have some convictions as to the misconduct of the party in other regards as well as in this, put up with all the other shortcomings of the Republican party, in order to have them fulfil their promises, so often solemnly made, and as religiously broken. PROSPERITY FROM ON HIGH. The only other reason given why the Republican party should be continued hi power is the present prosperity of the country, which, they do not explain how, is due to the legislation or administration of the Republican party. Is this claim a just and tenable one ? Every business that could not be affected by legislation or administration is prosperous. The Almighty, in his beneficence to us, has sent us the largest crops, of all kinds of provisions for a series of years we ever enjoyed, and at the same time also provided a market for the surplus of those crops, amounting in a single item to nearly 200,000,000 bushels of wheat in Europe by the failure of the harvest there. Had the Republican party anything to do with that? Yet the agricultural prosperity is claimed for that party. The balance of trade in our favor was due tothat excess of export over import. Is that due to the Rcpbuliean administration ? . SHOW THB BOOKS. (Fro/zi lAa Utica Observer.) The Republican party has been in power five terms—twenty years. During that time it has had charge of the books. Fully one-half the men Intrusted with responsibility during fifteen years are known of the people to have bee? venal and corrupt. The naval secretary stole whole million', outright; the war secretary took bribes; the Vice-Presidents of two administrations were clothed with shame; the interior secretary Delano sold post-traderships; and Garfield, who “ carried the purse of the nation,” aa Chittenden pnrased it, was a bribe-taker and perjurer. What W« want now to A chance to look at the books.

MONTGOMERY EI.AIR’B ton, d. JU. IAKY MIMIMAXS [ I'i'oiii the 'lr. roii prefaced > ; J remarks B . '\ i '■ f>j? ".•/', g Ikw-ock. lie then said : ■ ;.-a v, imh « JI be ■ t < ..pb-\ tnonev.W •V/ . •>, J * ,£i ■'■.■■eetivc o laud bis place byM ■ • , ■ . "B Im-e v. c.mnseM ir erirjM'’ r ..h' . -, '; >t - .A public records. * * * K? 17,’# I lir-t. io cal', ttfienti.m to {■‘J-.’/ ‘‘J / # ■ f.V'o, |o • >,,. « 'I lie .■irlilice consi-ts in present '> .• . ■: . for file )ia:s memioiid, " ■ i '"' '■ f.mnv that the expenditure is i he 'i o show ll.>w in, out, w this • ~ ‘ • ..f , ; .. .. -o di ions ;■ • of vbiill he ■;■■.> t'.ie.rp.M® v > t‘ye ■ nouiitlß'- ’'-■.‘l 1 L ? •■'••'. ... 4, ;> '/ # nt ■'• ■'■ 4B’’ - t-"’;'.-- *. ‘"i- / # printed gold. a;.propt ;t!i) n >s;.-, 1 U.. 017.758 » *.• ■ t uh) 'S .i" :■ • ls;s iJi,-> .T: ss.t.j; ;j.; • . . uio.-i >9 '.'■ ■■: ■ ‘ : ! “'’i ■> i,i,: B sjvs. ■ •>!' 11l e es lor con pni Jt .-I a t >■! ?#l .•«<( i h <■ j. s the small hoii nd i e . ■ j in . ,e-t . At Tie debt dm- b. I’m I'niled State-. a :id| 7i.‘ 7T-. it. I- ii > i ■'■ i .i. 1 i ii I, as s! btaiement. 'BW|B|BMBBI And :m the •< ' lu b\ the-e tiled lee collilpV io peethe bcm ceil the P-.ii• nos lie l liceiil. financial records, I ■ could im b- Iler meet tiiei sue thus tables I m, ,-, mmm . pm pa! •■ d from his 'I he m t orlinarx receipts, as he S’t of tin- i\m: years of Republican rule, June 30, 1875, are bo. for the sweeding four years itemocrals ran;rolled the House of sent at ives iBBIWWWSWw Slmwinm a decrease o! receipts Democrat 1c era of The net ordinary expenditure of the cans, during tiie first period was Do. of the Democrats during the last |w : v was Showing a saving of expenditure of and this, too, whilst I lie pav nieiit on account pensions was increased in IKT'.I uyjMBMMMMI and the Halifax award was ai oim-Jmied ,W>._ 4,?J '/ These items-, though iiielmled in the account ordinary expenses, are not in fact so, and deducted, asthey ought, to be, the Democratic era, as compared with that of the cans immediately preceding, shows a saving of about MBajSEBSSgSg INDIAN SERVICE. HWMMMMiI The Republican profiigaey is best displayed by examining some special branch of tin- service, tlri! of the Indian Bureau for example. The secretary's report shows that whilst the dian service cost.the count ry, forthe seventy- ■SgHaßMßggi two years ending in 1S(M) Tor the nineteen years of Republican rule its I® cost was An excess of An average of morethanfive times as much per I annum duringa period when the Indians were fewer in number, and when in con;-eqtience of the reduction of the number of Indiansand the country being traversed by railways, SSjOssaEffi the expenses of the service ought to have been reduced. But. instead it was steadily progressive, beginning in ISfil at $2,865,000 it had in 1875 reached the enormous sum of At the same rale of progress it would have been WMBMI in 1879 But in that year, through the control the Demoeracy had acquired, it was reduced to Matting a difference of near and a difference between this and the last.year of Republican rule of and between the four years of Democratic con- BMWmB trol in the House and the four preceding wMmMMM years of Republican rule, of CUSTOMS SCIIVICE. By the abstract from the bureau of statistics it "appears that there was expended for collect- ?|s|saS|j ing customs: From 1872 to 1875 2S.MIM From 187 G to 1879

A saving by the Democracy of The register’s report shows that, during the six WW years of Arthur’s regime at the port of New ■■■ York the expenditures amounted to S 1 An average per annum of After a Democratic committee had exposed the enormous abuses of this regime, Arthur and lamMj Cornell were removed, and the expenditure WWE was reduced, in 1879, to An annual saving of INTERNAL REVENUE. ■■ Expenses of collecting from 1.872 to 1875 “ “ from 1875_t0 1879 14, Saving CUSTOMS. Percentage of collecting in 1875>4 47 per IMi “ ' “ in 1879 399 “|| I Savingso 48 INTERNAL REVENUE. ■ Percentage of collecting in 187553 89 per BOO■ “ “ in 1879 816 ‘J'S Saving fO 73 “ 'tofl EXPENDITURES UNDER MISCELLANEOUS APPHOPRI From 1789 to 1 SGI—72 years From 1861 to 1879—19 years 996,088,00® Excess of Republican expenditure in 19 years I over previous 72 years $531.570,00® This class of expenditures is not affee'ed by the war, aa® is exclusive of fliat for the War and Navy DepartinetlOH Pension and Indian Bureaus, and on account of public debt® EXPORTS AND IMPORTS AND THE NATIONAL DEBT. From 1872 to 1875 our imports exceeded our exports, by $303,759,8f1M From 1876 to to 1879 our exports exceeded our imports, by 753,271,41* It was this revolution, effected under that Democratic I>egut»l lative ascendency, which gave repose and prosperity to tfik country, which alone brought about resumption and enabled us to refund the national debt, and save >14,290,000 of iM--> terest annuallly since 1877. REDUCTION OF THB NATIONAL DEBT. I During the five years, 1871 to 1875, the amount 1 was >156,953,000 3 During the four years from 1876 to 1880. 170,715,000 Difference in favor of Democracy. >13,702,000 > and this was effected on a decreasing revenv- > HEVENUB. The revenue for 1871 to 1875>1,584,962,000 , Whilst from 1876 to 1880, assuming the correct- ' ness of the secretary's statements for this year,it was.. 1,365,346,090 A difference of >219,616,000 8o that with nearly >22o,ooo,ooo‘less revenue, the bcinocratic House secured the payment of nearly >14,000,000 more of the, public debt than the Republicans daring the same time. The significance of these figures cannot be concealed. } They show that the advent of the Democracy to power means; reform in every branch of the public service; tbd lightening ‘of the burdens upon labor; the infusion of new life in 'eommerce; the restoration of tranquility and harmony between sections; the great Increase of prod action, ond the exaltation of the credit of the -country. To accomplish this the people now mean to elect the hero who broke the back of the rebellion at Gettysburg. Will the honest men of fixe country continue to be the dupes of the spoilers, who, whilst amusing them with idle clamor, have robbed them of untold millions fa money and bestowed 175,000,000 acres of land, nearly sB upon corporations—nearly double the area of all the filatoe lying east of.