Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1884 — JOHN M. PALMER’S VIEWS. [ARTICLE]

JOHN M. PALMER’S VIEWS.

He Wants the Ticket to Be Tilden and McDonald, or Tilden and Trumbnll. In a recent speech before the Democratic Jefferson Club, of Springfield, 111., ex-Governor John M. Palmer said, among other things: The Issue between the Democratic and Republican parties is simply this: The Democratic party claims that the war of the rebellion was simply to maintain the Constitution; the Republicans claim that it was to establish a new government with a larger power than formerly. Now we are going into this campaign under good old Uncle Sammy Tilden, God bless him! No man dare say wh it this Government can do, and no man dare say what it can not do. I suppose that all the powers not expressly granted to Congress are possessed by the States. That does not seem to be the present idea, however. The very reverse is the case. The Federal Government has absorbed everything not specially delegated to the States by the Constitution. I want a voice in the appointment and election of some of these Federal officers. Ipr fer the government of States, and for this reason I vote for every State officer, and if he does not suit me I can vote against him the next time. He is directly responsible to the people. Wbat have you or I to say about who shall be our Postmaster, our Marshal, our District Attorney? Nothing at all. Suppose you de not want a certain man to be Postmaster, what are you going to do about it? He is not answerable to you. If you enter complaint to the officer toVhom he is answerable, the chances are he will tell you to go to Hades. Gov. Palmer then referred to the attempt of Gen. Grant to go through the United States Treasury. He said: “I want to see every Union soldier that is deserving of It receive a pension, providing he needs it; every soldier should receive his due from the Government, and no ’ more. I do not, however, favor every beggar's putting his hand into the Federal Treasury; neither do I favor allowing any Wall street gambler who, with his eyes open, lost half he had in speculating in stocks to do the same.” Gov. Palmer then spoke on the tariff question, and denounced protection in unmeasured terms. “Where does the Federal Government or any other government get the right to tax me to support some other men, er tor the benefit of anybody else? I don’t believe the Federal Government has the right to subsidize any industry. I own about 500 sheep. lam for the wool tariff of 1867; but If a dog should kill my sheep I should be a free-trader. The whole scheme of protection In this country is unjust and unlawful. The Morrison bill did not satisfy any of us, but it was a step in the right direction. Mv opinion is that the Government should not take a cent more than for its absolute necessities. The Democrats when they meetin Chicago will adopt a tariff plank that will carrv the country. Gov. Palmer said when he went to Cincinnati he was In favor of nominating Tilden, but the “other fellows” nominated that grand soldier, Hancock, and he acquiesced. For forty days afterward he thought Hancock would be elected with a whirl, but “onr friends ot opposite views then came in for their whoop. If I could have my way I would have everv Federal official elected by the people, except those especially provided for otherwise In the Constitution We are going to Chicago in July and going to nominate Tilden, unless he dies first, and I hope the Lord will let him live. We are going not only to nominate him, but are going to elect him, and having elected him, we will inaugurate him. He was cheated out ot the office once. I thought it was a display of timidity, and 1 guess many of you thought the same, but I now know that Tilden's course was because he loved his country better than he ■loved himself." Gen. Palmer said he wanted the ticket to be Tilden and McDonald or Tilden and Trumbull. If the young men want to know what Republicanism does for a man, let them look at Hayes, Garfield, and Grant They will do for lesson No. 1.