Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1884 — One of the Things that it Means. [ARTICLE]

One of the Things that it Means.

[Nashville American.) What does the election of Cleveland and Hendricks mean? It means not ‘reprisals and revenges,’ but universal brotherhood and a real union in sentiment as well as name. It means the full renationali zation of the Southern States.

B<jjolring At the Democratic jollflcatlon at IfutlNuapoliM Thomas A. Hendr.cks and Isaac P. Gray were introduced to tin- assembled Democrats and spoke a» follows:

MB . BBHUUCU' SBKXCH. I take great pleasure In expressing to the chairman and members ot the state committee my appreciation of the value of their great service in this contest The Democracy of the state should thank them. For my* self I take the opportunity also to ex* press my obligatious to the voters of Indiana. In t « first speech I made during she contest I said to the people that I hoped to receive their votes. I ier eated it frequently during the caniKuiug I said it earnestly, and some gentlemen thought it was not the thing to do. Why hey should have thought so 1 can not tell. I rliink when 1 desired tbe support of the people of Indian*, i: was proper I should say so to them. I did say so then, and I now have the opportunity for thanking them for grunting the

request. Indiana io-day is Demo crutic. It is Democratic by a good many thousand majority,— a strong, solid, earnest Democratic state, and my iellow-citizfcos, as the result of the controversy we bave the national ticket sustained by a good majorityCleveland and Hendricks have been '-.lected president and vice president of the United States, aud nave received the vote of Indiana. Next to that we have the election of tde ent e state ticket, from governor to the close oi the ticket We have nine congressmen out of thirteen.--We h ive both branches of the legislature and that means we have Mr. Voor he es also. We bave a great result in the several counties of the state, and, if this is not the celebration of a state victory, I would refer to the g/orious victory that the Democrats thave secured in Indianaro is. Qf oil che blows the Republicans have reteived the loss of Marion county is he hardest to them. As a result of he national election, I wish to say to you that the value of public securi* ties has already advanced. Many who do not think rightly said that the effect cf our victory wojH be to reduce the value of United States securities. Such, we see, has not been the effect of the election. Certain heresies and mistaken opinions have prevailed. The Republican party has been a party of less than naif the people, claiming that they alone ought to be allowed to execute and adminisier laws. That heresy has been rebuked. A certain sot of in“n is no lorgor to be allowed to control this government. The doctrine of this country is that the rule of the major ity is to be respected, and that majority has caused itself to be under stood, and no more will it be said that one particular class of men can arrogate to themselves the government oi the country. The majority will rule, and when the balance shall return to the Republican party and that party shall have the majoriiv we shall respect that expression of the People’s will.- Somehow the Republicans did not gel as much money as usual t<> use in the election in Indiana, and the result was left to the best judgment of the people. We see the result. \\ e covered the whole earth. It has been decided that the people are capable of managing their own elect ous, aud from this time on a United States marshal is not to deputize any secret agents to interfere with our elections. Shortly before the election in this city, certain gens tlemen addressed a note *o the Unit* ed States marshal. They wanted United States raaashals in this city, where for many years there had

been no disturbance at any election, and where the marshals had been admonished there was absolute quiet at the eleations. Yet these gentle rnenasked the appointment of deputy marshals. I will not read the names ts the gentlemen who have become immortal because they have tbiown reproach on the good name of the city of Indianapolis. Upon their petition marshals were appointed—bow many and who we do not know.— They came into our midst secret agents to carry out schemes unknown to our citizens of the community, but the people so bore themselves o •. election day that not a single marshal dared to show his head. But they were to rule over you and to strike you down. I hope to see all laws allowing any such abuse of power wip d from tbe statute books of a free people. 1 want to see the time

return when in effect tbe people will govern themselves. There never haa been in Indiana a canvass in whicn there has been so much slan der, scurrility and untruth. It has been filled with charges not sustained by any facts. I never, so far as I was concerned, turned to the right or lef. Decause of them. I knew that many things that were being said against myself, about my loyalty, about my devotion to the country, were understood by the people. We have learned in this country that trutn Is stronger than lies, and tbe party that hereafter reaches power will leach it by truth, aud not by lies. The Democratic party, I believe, will coine into power. It sincerely desires reform. The watch word of ti.e party in the contest, as in the con test of *ight years ago with Tilden and Hendricks, has been reform, —ex-

ecutive, a 'miuistrative, and revenue reform.—an hone.t administration of them. The revenues now collected exceed the wints of an economical administration by $85,000,000. Be cause of this the Democrats say let thore be reyenue reform- Let that reform consist in part in the reduct*, ion of taxation. Is It not patent to | every man that there ought to be reform here? The Democratic patty this year came oefore the country with a clear and straightforward statement of the reform t ey intend to accomplish. It; their national

platform th»y d«ci»r«d what tsform they would hare. It war;. 1. That taxation iball not exceed the wants of the government economically administered, 1. Taxation shall be for tbe public ptxrposre only and not for private advantage. 3. In tbe adjustment oars aball be taken to neither hart labor nor barm oanftal. 4. Taxation shall be heaviest on articles of luxury and lightest du articles pf necessity. When at tbe great convention at Chicago this banner was put into the hands of Cleveland and Hendricks we took it to carry before the people to rise or fall with this glorious banner. That banner I have carried over Indiana. Wherever I have gone I have preached that as the true doctrine of the spirit of taxation, and the result has been four, five, or six thousand Democratic mojority in Indiana. This is our doctrine on the subject of taxation, and it is right! that the people should understand this qc.fc3ton.

My countrymen, I cannot express to you under how much and how great an obligation I feel to you. I did not de-ire the nomination for vice president. [Several voices, "You will be president four years from now.”] It became my duty to accept it. I went as far as I could over the state and spoke to 4 he people frankly, as I have always on public questons, and to you and the men, women, and children who are at home I tender my heartfelt thanks this day. Gov. elect Gray made a short speech in which he said: The time is near at hand when the Democratic part will navs an op:*or tunity to carry out its re.orms. The plea is put up: “Will we turn Repub lican offloeho ! ders out?” Of courso we will! This has been a contest between the parties. The Republican party in its twenty-four years lease of power has filled all places with Republicans. and when the Democratic narty obtains pewer on the 4th of March next we will expect that from that time, as rapidly as possible, the offices will be filled with Deinocrets. I don’t expect that all the Republican office-holders will he turned out. There may be some widow woman holding some second-class postoffice that will not be disturbed, but these big fellows who have made money by fostering monopolies —to these I expect the Democratic administration to say: “Pact your gripsack, ge l " your 3aratosa trunks ready; you may go to a cottage by the sea for awhile, or if your health is not good you may go to Europe; or if you don’t want to do that, you may take Horace Greeley’s advice and go west. When we want you again wo will send lor you.”

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