Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 33, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1888 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1888.

A CRUSHER FROM JULIAN.

DORSEY AS A REPUBLICAN LEADER. The Political Situation s Reviewed by the Hon. George W. Juliiin, Surveyor. General of 'ew Mexico A Masterly Kffort. There was a large meeting at the Ilentiricks club room last ni?ht to listen to the masterly speech of tho Hon. George W. Julian. Judge Tierce Norton presided at the meeting. The speech was read by Charles M. Cooper, aa Mr. Julian was unable to be present on account of the press of official duties in New Mexico. The speech was listened to attentively. It wag read by Mr. Cooper in a captivating manner, who spoke as follows : Mb. President ad Fellow Citizens An epoch in the history of the republican party, that which marks its decline, was the desertion from iu ranks of the pre.it founders and leaders in 1S72. Among that illustrious number, including Horace Greeley, Charles Sumner, Salmon P. Chase, Lyinau Trumbull and John J. Palmer, there was another, eqully as distinguished, equally as noted for his great worth and sterling abilities; I refer to the Hon. George Y. Julian. It is oar misfortune that he is not with us to-uiLt, but ho has been kept away by illness and ujkhi mc lias devolved the pleasant duty of reading to you his words. You well remember his great speech iu this city in lS7d, which was delivered by that pre:it tage and leader of democracy, SamuelJ. Tildeu, as the masterpiece of that campaign, and it was through him that speech was given acirculation of over one müllou printed copies. I hold in tny bands another masterpiece from the pen of this great man. I would that I had his power and graces of oratory, his own inimitable tj!e, but it can be no more counterfeited than fan hia word,. I read: Mr. Chaieman and Fellow-Citizens The supporters of Cleveland Thurman are to he congratulated on the auspicious opening of the ctmpaign of I?;;. Tiie democratic situation is auimatlne as it is novel, aud I see iuitthe ure auguries of victory. Wc have fairly reached tLat parting of the ways between the old and the new which constitutes an cpocti, and every man can see this who is able to discern the sins of the tinip. We are on the eve of oao of those radical changes in party issues ?vjd party machinery which have diversified the course of American politic from the beginning, and created welUdofiued historic periods; and my judgment is jrreatly at fault i: the republican party iu November next shall i:ot be as completely swept out of existence as the old whig party in the campaign of LViJ. Allow me to state my realms for this opinion. THE OLD SECTIONAL, ISSUE. The Democratic Tarty No Longer Handicapped by KfpuhlU an Misrepresentation. In the f3rt phi'-e, the democratic party is no longer handicapped by tl.4 republicau theory of ltsh .j'fios nepraviiy. I'rom the Lrnil it"iiNtruriion of tin- irovcrnment to the canvass rS l""! it was the ht lj hss victim of u lorf.'uiia cuicluinn. '1 do entire ht-'t k ia trad'. of the rej Nbhcnu i -adcrs was th' all. i;ed wickedness of i lie It-ui.ici'uts. It was, in iuit, the platform n which the paityinadc its riilit in e try national ranrn'3 ee that of This deinocT.itie w ickediic-ss whs not neun', 'out only constructive, jtwa.x l.npuii d dinholim, und was b-picted in s-tn tli-ir prophecies of hat the J'i.iocr itic pnrty would h,thul.J iibe rcUircd to power. 1 Iu eh cuon ot a democratic prc-u-i ut would prostrate our in.inti'uctnres aud deraiice. tiie chances. It would h ! the cur-r-iif y and dcMroy tho puWj. credit. It would lrtad to the HiU'.i.-si"ii oi L'l.di, Willi her polamy. und jjive the ilemocraia two 1". S. .sc!iatot.. Ir would open the wny for the creation of a now Hate, to be carved out of the Indian territory, and thus a. Id two mure U. .". n-pators to the hi de of democracy and the South. It would 1. a 1 to the division ol Texas into five states, a oil thus t-tr'-tii.'thcn the ascendency of the South by iht addition. il I'.S. tenalor. It would re-cocftru-s the supreme court of the Ignited States by dujdicafuig the number of jtidgo, thr rfourths of whom woiiiil be helcct-l from the fNUith, and tin a tin- reconstruction acts and constitutional amcndm'nts would b rnounced tincoMHiitu; tonal and void. The country hoc. Id be saddled with the Confederate dHt and the. ( 'onted. -rate ienn;is; w hile the bounties and pension of our L'nion ddi rs rd sailors would be repudiated. The doctrine of :f'iou woiihl be icif-sertetl und slavery would be re-fti;ldished throughout the .South, and ll.e f;!ii!iin to'uli was lit '(Uentlygivtn to this ent do.'iie of democratic crimes nn.l calamities by declaring that thn old sLtveJioldtrs were pi p iring imcutories of tlieir ot slaves to t:; presented to congress w ith their petitioui for compensation when th democaiic party should regain the control of the government. ticnt'er.icii, I reproduce these stunning prophecies tor the special edification of the public in this campaign. They ure too picturesque and fascinatit. tube forgotten and will form a permanent chapter in the curiosities of politics. O: course t he prophtM themselves ltd not believe a word of their predictions, but all the same t!;eo prediction.- were made to piny a verv dv:.-ive part in defeating the democrats in the campaigns of 167) and 1N. Iurintf the .m twenty years tliere has been a constantly growing spirit of discontent in the ranks of rt publicantsm and hundre li an l thousands would have enlisted under the bunner of temperance, or us members of our various labor Organization s, but they were load's to believe that their independent action, by weakening the republican ranks, would reton: ''the rebels" to power. They were so thoroughly indoctrinated with the theory that one-half the people or the United States were inherently disloyal to the old Hag and incurably ieious that they felt constrained to remain quietly in the party traces in order to save the country from impending damnation and ruin. They did not feee that a theory of American politics w hicli makes one totally baAe anil unworthy and the other perfectly virtuous and patriotic would, in practice, prove utterly fatal to democratic institutions, and that the adoption of such u theory by the republican party would so milkt it with the dry ranzrene of its own s; !i-righicousuess that death would inevitably follow, lint it worked admirably for years. No delusion ever had a more marvelous success, or more unscrupulous managers. No political puperstitiou was ever more skillfully manipulated by its chief priests. It held the republican party solidly together, and thus completely disabled the democrats. They could not silence the clamor of their enemies and refute their ruilir.g accusations unless they could regain power, and with it the opportunity to act; and they could not regain power because these railing accusations were accepted as gospel truth. It was a state of thines perfectly calculated to perpetrate republican rubs indefinitely, and suppress all criticism of iu misdeeds; aud it now scents marvel that this party devil-worship waa to toon brought to an end. FALSE PROPHETS EXPOSED. The Direful Condition Foretold Did Hot Follow Mr. Cleveland' Election. But four years ago the democratic party, aided by disgusted republicans and the providential interposition of Dr. Jiurchard, was commissioned to take charge of the national government by a majority of tho American people. And what has been the result? We are oow well along in the fourth year of a democratic administration, and the malevolent and malignant power that was to overthrow our institutions and blast the nation's life has had the amplest opportunity to enter upon its baleful work and display its infernal genius, lint the republic still lives. It has always feeemed to me probable that if the heavens ioiUd fall, the devil would be to pay; but the direful catastrophe lias not bappened as foretold by the prophets. The same sky overarches the . land which looked down upon it under republican administrations, and the same solid earth is tinder our feet. The ration was never more prosperous than since the 4th day of March, 18ö. Our manufactures have not been prostrated, nor has the currency been debased, nor the public credit destroyed. Democratic stains have not been carved out of Utah, Texas and the Indian Territory. The sunreme court of the United (States has not been re-constructed in the interest of secession, nor have the acts of re-construction and constitutional amendments been pronounced unconstitutional and void; but on the contrary, that irreat tribunal, although overwhelmingly republican, has recently pronounced a series of opinions, touching the matter of centralization and the proper autonomy of the states, whit h have been received with great satisfaction by the atates-rigats democrat of Virginia and the

entire South. The nation has not been saddled with the Confederate debt and pensions, nor have the bounties and pensions of our Union soldiers and sailors been repudiated. The doctrine of secession has not been re-as serted, nor have the freedmen of the South been put back into bondage, while no compensation has been made, or demanded, for the slaves made free by the rebellion. Let mc add that the prosperity of the South within the past three or four years is altogether unprecedented, and that, in the words of Mr. Curtis in his late address at Gettysburg, the tree labor of that nection "pays taxes on property of its own valued at uearly a hundrca million of dollars, while for the children of former slaves there are nearly twenty thousand schools, of every degree, with an enrollment of more than a million pupils." Iam not induliti in sentiment or any phase of emotional politics, but dealing in the impreynabie losric of tacts. Time, it lias been well said, makes mare convert, than reason; aud all I ask of any reasonable man is that he shall look at the Soutii to-day, r.s it appears under a democratic administration, and contrast its condition with the Scctacle of "hell broke loose," which for a scries of years scourged its territory under successive republican administrations, which had at their command the whole power of tho national government. Gentlemen, cannot every thinking man see that what tho South needs is not sectional strife and a prolonged antagonism of races, but cultivated patience and good-will in dealing with the inevitable conditions of progress? No other Tmlirr. unless aided bv miraculous interven tion, can work out the regeneration of that tection of the Union, and at the same time insure the development of its wonderful natural resources. Strife and disorder still prevail in some localities, and for sonic time to come may disturb the peace of society; but these evils cannot ! cured by federal action. The panacea of polities ha, been thoroughly tried, and hss only hindered that process of healthy grow th without which no cure is possible. Mr. Chairman, I think I have thus made clear one oi the reasons, nnd a very strong one for my faith in democratic acces in this campaign. The false prophets of republicanism have been brought to shame, nnd the democratic party Completely vindicated by livirg down the calumnies. This is now so juilpa'.ly true thst one of the recocnied leaders of the republican party, Mr. Henry Cabot ldgc, has recently declared that "any man who says that the institutions of this country are in danger from the election of any candidate, or the success of any party, is talking pernicious nonsense." Lvtrv intelligent republican knows that this "pernicious nonsense" has done its work, nnd that every one of its evil prophecies has I (ecu belied. Cleveland and Thurman not only enter the raco unshaekt led, but on the inside track, whilo the republican candidates are saddled with the huge giit of faNehoods ho long and so potently employed ia the service of their party in the past. THE TARIFF ISSUE. The Democrat ie 1'irty Not tlte Iimtrumsnt of Monopoly nnd Plunder. T pass to my second reason for believing in a democratic victory. Tho democrats are makiug their fight on a perfectly defined and strong issue. I allude to the tariif. I am sorry to say that both political parties have trilled w ith this question for twenty years. It was evaded us a party issue in the canvass of 1st;-. In 17- the democratic platform remanded it to the cotiqrcssi.in.il districts for settlement, and it w as not debated by either party. In l?7d the party platforms on the question were substantially identical, diilVring only in their phraseology, as they did in 1M'. This was true again in lss. Neither party was prepared to confront the other in a Square mid untidy treatment of the question as one of principle. The better men on both sides would havo ordered things other is but they rriiowed themselves to be overruled by the champions of expediency, whoso policy t-houid long since have been subordinated to the demands of hone.sly and courage. Herbert Spencer mentions n cl.is of people who hate anything in the shape of exact conclusions, and are continually trying to reconcile esaudi;o. lie says they would scarcely believe an oraide, if ic uttered a full length principle, and that if you were to iiifjuire of them w hcther the earth turns on its axis from l ast to west, or from west to cat, you might utmost expect the reply : "A little of both," or "not exactiv either. All parties nre afllicted wiih a halting and unbelieving element, whWh throws itself across the path of progress, and is always ready to f.u rilico principle to party success. A writer of fiction, w ios books abound in sermons, ti lls us that "the hell that a lie will keep a man from is doubtless the best place that lie can goto." This is a true in politics as in morals. If the democratic party is to be made the mere annex of republicanism nrd the instrument of monopoly and plunder, it ought to die, nnd the sooner the better. A struggle between two great national parties, in which principle is discarded, is a shameful prostitution of the ssentiid decency and dignity of polities'. I'.ut ut lat, thanks to President Cleveland, tho old-fashioned method of dealing wiih the tariif question has been disowned nnd both parties have faced the isniio without the slightest equivocation. The democratic platform demands a reduction of the surplus by reducing taxes. The republican platform demands the reduction of the surphu by increasing taxes. The democratic platiorra insists thst the taxes on clothing, blankets, tools, machinery, lumber, th necessaries of life, and the raw materials ami implements of production shall be reduced, in the interest of the whole body of tho people. The republican platform squarely opposes any hucIi reduction as inimical to nianuiacturers, who receive the sob; benefit of such taxes as a privileged class. The democratic platform demands the highest duties on luxuries, including whisky and tobaceo, which in all civilized countries are dealt with us prime sources of revenue. Tho republican platform demands the exemption of the luxuries named from taxation, which would thus open the Hood gates of drunkenness and crime in order that th great manufacturing monopolies of the country may grow ricu through the burdens heaped upon the masses of the people. Such is the contention betweeu these parties in the present campaign. Tho qurstion is so simple, and its economical and moral bearings are so readily seen, that he w ho runs may read. Herein is my iaith in democratic success. The qucstiou is sure to be understood by tho people. It has not beeu sprung too late in tho canvass for a thorough discussion of it on its merits. That discussion has already been going on for months, and it will continue to the end. It is iu the air. The campaign is affording the people u rareopportnnity for finding out the truth on a long-peud-in? and momentous question, and should they deliberately unbrace the mischievous folly embodied in the republican party creed as now revised, tlc-y will deserve to griud in the prison-house of their own madness till their sulleriiK's shall te.tch them the way of deliverance. 1 have not the slightest apprehension that any 6uch calamity is in store ior the country. LATTER-DAY REPUBLICANISM. ThePartyof Lincoln Far Away From the Old Lnmtmarki. Indeed, the republican party seems to be rigorously employed ia the work of selfdestruction. Its esrly and greatest leader, Abraham Lincoln, -believed in a government "of the people, by the people and for the people;" but the party to-day believes in a government dominated by corporations, monopolies and class legislation. In its esrly life the republicau party espoused the old whi policy of a tariff i'or revenue, with incidental protection. In later years it practically reversed this policy by favoring a tariff for protection, with incidental revenue. It now turns another somersault ar-d repudiates the teachings of all the oracles of protection in the past bydernauding a tariff for protection, with no revenue. The party has hitherto had the reputation of being more favorable to temperance than the democratic party; but it uow openly declares that in order to prevent the reduction of existing duties on the necessaries of life, should it become necessary, it will favor tho total repeal of our internal revenue laws, which would probably reduce the price of whiskey to 20 cents per gallon, and reproduce the horrid saturnalia of drunkenness, lawlessness and domestic suffering which swept over the nation in the early part of this century. It thus commits the double otlense of mocking the cry of the people for relief from the burdens imjosed by the existing war tariff', and making itself tho owerful and remorseless ally of intemperance and the saloons. Goaded onward by party blindness, and yet smarting under the consciousness of its shameless inconsistency and recreancy to principle, it seeks to wiggle out of its dilemma by comparing its platform to that of the prohibitionists, liut the prohibitionists demand the total banishment of whisky from the country by law, w hile the republicans welcome its desolating flood and leave the people wholly unprotected ugainst its ravages. The prohibitionists demand the removal of duties on "food, clothing nnd other comforts and necessaries of life. The republicans, as I have shown, avow their purpose to repeal the internal revenue taxes entirely rather than submit to the slightebt reduction of such

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PUCK'S SIAMESE TWINS OF It is Dentil dutie. In fact, the attempt to shov, any likeness between the attitude of these parties on the taruT question is simply laughable. THE FREE TRADE SCARE-CROW. Tin Idiotic Howl of the republican Leaders To Make Party Capital. The further attempt is made to silence the cry of free whisky by raising the idiotic howl of free trade; but th; republican leaders know that the message of the president, which embodies the democratic gospel on tiie tariif, expressly disowns the policy of free trade, and that the reduction oi duties proposed by the Mills hill would leave them higher then those of the famous protective tariff of 18-1-, while it h entirely in accord with the avowed policy of Arthur, Oartieid, Grant, nnd other high republican authorities. The party managers, however, are not satisfied with their searc-crow of free trade. They denounce the democratic Party ns the champion oi Uritish free trade. Kelying upon the i rnornnce of tho people and the potenter of dcmagogisin, they charge the president with entering into a secret alliance with Kugland for the ruin of American liruiufuctures and the starvation of American la horns, lint they forget that the high protective policy of their party makes it the natural ally of tho Knglish tories, while the reduction 01 duties, now urged by tho democratic party, commends it to the friendship of tho English liberals and the English common people, w ho have uniformly been found on the tudo of the United States. What is tho meaning of this strange sensitiveness to the welfare of American manufacturers nnd this morbid jealousy of their rights? Why should congress tax tho whole people for their special advantage? Are they any more deserving than our faruiers. or niiy other class of honest producers? Is tlieie i.ny vali I reason for singling them cut as pets nnd favorites under a government of equal laws? The champions of our great manufacturing monopolies should remember that t tie lowering of our tarills has never injured the workinyinun or the people, and that our lowest LtriiVs in the last tifty years have been the most popular, although ruin was predicted as the sure result of reduction. It is urged that high duties enhance the wages of labor; but every intelligent manufacturer known that the ratJ of wages is determined by the law of supply and demand, and not by the Ittte of duties. Manufacturers are ny more inclind to divide their proliots among the poor than other men. Protection enables them to amass great wealth; but they hoard it, or lavish it in ambitious projects, insfead o? dividing it among their employes. When Andrew Carnegie made his million and a half in a single year, he did not dispense any part of it in largesses among his toiling operatives, hut reduced their wages. That wuh bis method of protecting them. In the light of such facts the people ure rapidly finding out tho truth, and the hollowncss and selfishness of republicanism as it writes down its character aud aims in tho latest confession of faith. THE CANDIDATES. Mr. Cleveland True and Tried Ills Itenomination Was the Demand of the Hour. I come now to my third ground of confidence iu democr.itie success, namely, the character of our standard-bearers. Four years ago Grovcr Cleveland appeared as a comparatively new stiir iu tho political firiuanietit; but he had so displayed the qualities of courage, independence, integrity und real leadership while governor of New York as to give him at once a national reputation, and a high place among the foremost men of Iiis party. Tho people caught his spirit and rallied to his support w ith such ardor and spontaneity that all rival candidates were sent to the rear, aud his nomination became nevitable. 111 later career bus been still more remarkable. He has been far more thoroughly tried ia the great oilice of president, and under the remorseless tin of his political enemies; but since the day of his inauguration ho has been steadily whining the admiration and love of his party and the iepcct of good men. His nomination for a second term became aforegone conclusion so early iu his administration, and his qualities as a great leader of men revealed themselves so unmistakably from time to time, that the claims of uo other candidate have been debated, or even seriously thought of. Not one of the famous men of the republic in its early days was ever moie completely the idol of his party. His rcuominntion at St. Louis by the unanimous vote of its picked men from every section of the Union was no surprise to the country, but I bdieve was universally anticipated by men of all parties lint this unanimous nomination only faintly indicated the unexampled aud resistless enthusiasm of the convention. It carried everything before it like the tides of the sea, and the delegates became tho mere instruments of a power which bad enthralled them, and given them oue heart and one will. Their sense of duty was an illumination j And yet their enthusiasm was not ephemeral, but the final outburst of a deliberate and intelligent estimate of the man in the light of his public ttcLs through a series of years. -What other explanation is possible? It will not do to hold, with Senator Ingalls, that Grovcr Cleveland is a near relative of the great family of idiots, and that the democratic party is "a heap of compost." Nor will it help the matter to brand the democrats as rebels, who have found their likeness and fit instrument in the president. These interesting specimens of post-moi teia politics and political lunacy have served their turn and pone to their jdacc. Mr. Chairman, ia tho canvass of lS7t I referred to the exceptional power of oue strong man, thoroughly in earnest, and thoroughly armed with the stiength ot his convictions "With a fertile brain, perfect courage, absolute devotion to duty, and a genius for the work of reform, he may scatter renovating ideas, redeem a state from misrule, and radically change the face of society. A really great man, w ith rare force of character, passionately wedded to his work, and desperately resolved to submit to no defeat, might so inspire the people with Iiis own spirit of courage and faith that a revolution iu the administration of public affairs would be the result." These words wera spoken of Samuel J. Tilden twelve years ago, and I have no doubt would havo been perfectly just ilied in the admiuistratioaof that eminent statesman if he had been permitted by the party in power to take the office to which he had been fairlv elected. Hut in thus sketching the democratic candidate of 137Ö I anticipated the character and career of G rover Cleveland. Let me illustrate the truth of what I say by facts. His auDual message on the subject of the tariJ awakened alarm in the ranks of a very formidable body of democrats and general rejoicing among republicans It was regarded as a daring and perilous venture. The rugged issue he presented had been evaded and shunned by the cautions and prudent politicians cf both parties since the close of the late war, w hile a surplus had been accumulating in the treasury which had threatened the utter demoralization of our poiitics.and had been unnecessarily drawn from tue pockets of the people in the form of taxes upon the necessaries of life. The president iuLly realized the situation and the necessity of prompt action, and without taking the

TO-DAY One or Them Thrives on It, But to the Other.

counsel of timid leaders ho launched his message. He was a candidate for renoininntion; but in determining the Question of public duty he took no thought for the morrow, and w as perfectly ready to face the consequences of his course. Th people, however, love courage, and he ha so multiplied himself in the ranks of his party, and has been so completely vindicated in the congressional debates upon tho question, that at the end of eight months tho ttansformation of his party was accomplished, u was shown in the nearly unanimous democratic vote upon the Mills bill in the house of representatives. THE PENSION SERVICE. More Money Pnld Out to the Kohllers Than Kvcr Itefore. Let me refer to the matter of pensioning our Soldiers. The most cherished memories of the w ar fur the Union cluster around the men w hose valor saved it. and tho widows and orphans of those w ho were slain. No subject of greater dillicnlty and delicacy could have been presented to the president than that of passing upfhi the numerous nets of congress providing for pensions which be has been called upon to consider. He could not bo unmindful of the strong sense ot" gratitudo to the nation's defenders which exists in every section of the Union, nor forget the natural impulse of every patriotic man to l.vvor the mot liberal nnd beneficent legislation iu their l half. To the average public man it would have been far easier to approve of indefensible legislation under the pressure of a strong public opinion than to hazard the damaging misconstruction of his action iu guarding the public treasury by the disapproval of fraudulent claims. Hut the president has been inflexibly true to the principle that public oflice is a public (rust, und not an outfit for the personal ad vantago of the Incumbent, or a m;ichine to be ued for his political ambition. He had the courage to veto the dependent pension bill, and demoralized our leg. station; and here again the people showed their lovo of courag'? by approving his act, while many of the leading republican newspapers applauded it. lie has shown the same courage und I' ve of Justice in his vetoes of numerous private pension bills, w hilo it should be remembered to his honor that underbis ndmlniVtration more money has been paid out la the form of pensions and bounties to our soldiers and sailors than was ever before expended in their behr.ll during an equal period. THE CIVIL SERVICE. The Perfect Cloml l alth of the President Touching t'lvll-Servlce Ileform. The character of the president invites further illustration in his action touching the reform of the civil service. There is no reason to doubt bis perfect good faith in espousing this reform, and there is just as little doubt that he underrated the character and potency of the opposition he would have to encounter. What w e call the spoils system is rooted in the policy and traditions of all parties for more than tifty years. It may almost be called an institution, find its overthrow must necessarily bu the work of time and courageous endeavor. Hut the president bravely undertook it. Uarly in his administration he set about the vork ot taking the New York postofhee out of party polities, so that its a Hairs might be managed on business principles, and in the interest of the people. He has done very much to redeem tho New York custom house from the great and cr ing evils which havo disgraced its management during previous administrations. lie Las postpoued the removal of the great body of republican officeholders till the end of their term of service. He has repeatedly favored the extension of the civil service rules in furtherance of the great ends contemplated by the reform, and an a rule his appointments have born remarkably meritorious; while he has set his face against political corruption, and kept the executive mansion free from scandals that have disgraced so many previous administrations. lie has, it is true, disappointed the hopes of some of the zealous friends of this reform, and has evidently not accomplished all that was desired and expected; but be has done far more than any of his predecessors since tho introduction of the spoils system, and placed the movement on such a footing that no retreat is now possible, lie is bitterly assailed by the repubtican leaders for not fully Jiving uf to his promises; but the publio will not fad to notice that it is not the violation of the presidtnt's promises that od'ends these leaders but the fact that he made them. licaditigrepublican senators haveopenly declared that if ho hud made a "clean sweep'' of the ofliees, they would have had no quarrel with his polic3. In this they but echo the genereal sense of the party, which four years ago nominated a man for the presidency whose political life had belied every principle of civil service reform, and whose renomiuation this year was the ferveut wish of an overwhelming majority of iti members. When we remember, that with the slight exception of President Arthur's action touching federal appointments, the record of the republican partv on this question for twenty years has been a saanieless exhibition of oiliciul corruption and political prostitution, the hypocrisy of its present leaders in assailing the president is readily seen. They despise him in tho exact measure of their unfaithfulness. I ounht to odd that many of these assaults emanate Ironi republican otiiceLolders who owe their reteution in their places to the impartial enforcement of the civil service rules, while they lack the decency to keep silent. The president, in the meantime, holds on along the path of his pledges. He takes no step backward, but commend the good work of the faithful commissioners chosen by himself for its prosecution, and shows his determination to stand by them. He cannot work miracles, but he will not betray the cause to its enemies, nor withhold from it his continued and earnest support to the end. His enemies know this, aud their malignant 'warfare against him would instantly eeae if he should really turn his back upon his professions. THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES. lie view of the Pecoros of Urn, Harrison and Mr. Morton. I need not multiply these illustrations of the president's strong personality, which has so impressed the country, and so naturally suggests the contrast between him and his comtetitor. Gen. Harrison is certainly a respectale candidate. His private life is without a stain, and, I believe, bis personal and political integrity is undoubted, l am quite sure he ba3 writteu no letters which he has any occasion to call on his friends to ''burn.' lie is a very good lawyer and an intense partisnn who is not wanting in pugnacity. His military career bears witness to his patriotism and courage, but it off ers no striking situations. His service in the senate for six years supplies no satisfactory proof of his statesmanship, and leaves Lim at a disadvantage when compared with rival leaders who have had the experience and training of an extended publio career. While in the senate he vigorously assailed the president on the score of his inconsistency in dealing with the civil service, but his attack fairly im

plied that he bad no fault to find with the spoils system, while he was exeeed;ngly active iu his endeavor to secure his full share of federal appointments. lie voted for the Blair educational bill, which a number of the better men iu his party w isely opposed as a measure unduly favoring the centralization of federal power. He voted for the dependent pension hill, which the president vetoed with the general approval of the people, while he introduced several private pension bills which could not be defended, lie voted for the Hennepin canal scheme, which some of the leading republican papers justly denounced at the time as a most gigantic and unqualified piece of jobbery. He has avowed himself in favor of 6tcamship subsidies, and he is, of course, the representative of. the atrocious taritf" policy of his party, which is row the vital issue of tho canvass, and has suddenly become the great test of republicau orthodoxy. Gentlemen, can such a man be trusted as a leader in the reformation of great and hoary abuses? Is he strong enough to lift his party out of the mire of general demoralization in which it has lauded, and restore it to the integrity of its earlier days? Is he able to work out the regeneration and purification of a party already dead in its trespasses and sins? To ask these questions is to answ er them. Gen. Harrison, if elected, will faithfully carry cut the principles of his party as defined in its platform. He will countenauce no revolt, or even protest, against hia supreme authority. He will do nothing to check the current of evil which Ins completely carried it away from its traditions, aud made it the servant of corporations, inonopolcis ar.d special interests. lie lacks both the power and the w ill to rise above it, whilo bis political career has revca'ed no sign of discontent with the evil tendencies and crow ing abases w'.ich have mn'!e it w hat it is. Of nil tho prominent leaders of his party he is probably least iutlined to listen to the cry of re.'orm. Oi the candidates for vice-president I need say but little. Judge Thun.ian is known to the whole country as u man of great ability and large experience in public affairs. His fidelity to the people has been splendidly illustrated in his successful light Against the domination of great railway corpcruiiun3, and his name is the synonym of integrity, courage and devotion to his couutry. Of the republican candidate it is only necessary to say that he is a wealthy New York banker, who.se statesmanship is of an unknown quality, and who never would have been dreamed ot' for the second ofiice in the gift of the people but for the money he ii able to control.

THE LAND QUESTION. Restitution of Stolen Lnndi Land Stealing; lit Now Mexico. Gentlemen, in approaching the conclusion of what 1 have to say, 1 must refer to a still further ground of encouragement. I find it in the action and attitude of the democratic and republican parties touching the land question, anil 1 am drawn to this-topio by the fact that I am somew hat familiar with it, while my official work in New Mexico for t lie past three years seems to make it appropriate. The republican party prides itself upon its early espousal of the homstcad policy, which it borrowed, as it did its other principles, from the old free soil party uf 113. It also claims the glorr of having enacted the homestead law ot ISoJ. Let it be duly honored for its good work; but the country will not forget tnnt, simultaneously with the enactment of this law, and as if intending to nullify its operations, this same republican pnityset on foot a system of extravagant and unguarded land grants to railroad corporations, which surrendered to their purposes nn aggregate area of the public domain about equal to the entire territory of the thirteen original colonics ot the Union. I admit that there was some excuse for this legislation, and that it should have the benefit of extenuating facts. We were grappling w ith the ditheult problems of a great war, i.nd this naturally opened tho wny for hasty legislation on other questions. The demand for great highways to the Pacific was deemed imperative, while their construction was believed to be unattainable without tin help of the publio lain!. Moreover, the value ot the lauds grunted was not then understood as it is to-day, nor did uuy one then foresee the rapid settlement and development of our western states and territories through which the building of these roads would become a u work of practical accomplishment without the aid of the government. I add that I believe that it was universally understood thst the lands would be promptly restored to tho publio domain on the failure of the companies to comply w ith the conditions ot the grants. f this had been doue, the mischiif inflicted upon the couutry would have been comparatively trifling. The recreancy of the republican party was not so much in making the grants as in declining to enforce their forfeiture and succumbing to corporate dictation. If congress had done its duty, the great body of lands given away would long since have been restored to the public domain; but the roads were allowed to proced in their laegard way, and hold back from settlement and tillage during many years vast areas of land which had never been earned, while it is well known to every lawyer who pructices in the federal courts, that their rulings in controversies arising under these grants have sometimes been colored by railway influence. Attempts were made in congress at various times to declare these grants forfeited, so that the lands might be restored to the people, but they were battled by republican opposition. This happened year after year, while the railway lobby played its strong game in Washington, and congress became the servant of the corporations it had created and richly endowed. More than one hundred millions of acres of the public domain were thus illegally held in the clutches of these corporations, w hile an additional area almost as large was withheld from the people under executive orders, coverinsr the even-numbered sections withdrawn pending the survey of the odd-numbered ones, and indemnity lands unwarrantably reserved. The truth isthat for more than twvntv years prior to the inauguration of (irovcr Cleveland the general land office, to a fearful extent, was a mere bureau in the service of the railways, as I have demonstrated iu a carefully prepared magazine article published few years a,'o. But congress, at last, under the pressure of publio opinion, wus constrained to act. Dills were passed in tho torty-eighth congress declaring forfeited rJ.oTO.MO acres, and in the forty-ninth congress 30,Sll,3o' acres, making a total of 50,l.sJ,2 17 acres. These measures were initiated by democrats, and the opposition to them came from republicans. Since Cleveland's inauguration 52,437,373 acres iraproperly reserved have been restored to the public domain by exccitive action, while tho present house of representatives has passed a bill declaring forfeited ),7&,5t('.! acres, which bill, it is generally understood, will fail in the republicau senate. If to thoso suras we add 10,701,54-' acres already reeonimendcd for recovery, in cases now under consideration in tho general land oflice and the department of justice, we shall have an aggregate of 167,400,17 acres. This democratic record is not complete without the further statement that the house of representatives has passed o bill repealing the pre-emption law, and so revising our land laws generally as to set apart for actual settlement the whole of our remaining public domain which is fit for cultivation. This measure, it is much to be regretted, will in all probability be defeated in the senate, which has repeatedly refused to concur in its essential provisions. Mr. Chairman, I think I am justified in saying that this wholesale restitution to the people of these millions of stolen lands under past legislation is as honorable to the democratic party as it is damaging to its opponents. It certainly furnishes no reason for turning out the present administration and restoring the cast-oil' dispensation of public plunder which has so long scourged the country. Allow me to refer to a more particular and localized illustration of republican devotion to the rights of settlers. Naturalists tell us that with the aid of a single joint of an animal they can determine itd entire structure. Let m see if I cannot give you a pretty clear opprehen6ion of the nature and make-up of Latter-day republicanism by examining the joint of it which is supplied by New Mexico. When the United States acquired this territory it was incumbered by old Spanish and Mexican land grants covering a claimed area of about fifteen million acres. The government bound itself by treaty to respect the title to these grants, so far as found valid under the laws of Spain and Mexico; and, by act of congress of July 22, l-t, the oflice of surveyorgeneral for the territory was created, and it became his duty to ascertaiu "the origin, nature, character and extent" of these claims, and make full report of his opinion thereon for the final action of congress. This armed him with very large and responsible powers, for no court in the Union had any authority to review his opinions, which were final and absolute, subject only to the ultimate supervision of conpress. The matter to which I wish to direct your special attention is the action of the government under this legislation, and I snail speak from personal and ofhciJ knowledge. LSy far the greater part of this action occurred under republican rule, and the aggregate of the public lands lost to the government by its recognition of fraudulent titles and unwarranted Continued vu 1'iflti l'ge.

DARE NOT FACE THE MUSIC. Mr. Shlvely Challenges Prof. Tloyne to Joint Debate, But Keccives No Answer. Washington-, Sept. 14. Special. On Aug. 30 Mr. Shively, democratic congressman from tho Thirteenth Indiana district and candidate for re-election, addressed the following letter to his republican competitor, Prof. Hoyne: Washington, D. C, Aug. SI, l?ss. Prof. Wna. Hoyne. Republican Nominee forConress, Notre Dame, led.: Del ie ving that yon nrreewith me as to the propriety and desirability of a full, free and

thorough investigation ot the issues involves in the present campaign, I very respectfully invite you to engage with me in a series of joint discussions betöre the voters of the Thirteenth congressional district: the number, dates and places of such meetings to be arranged by our respective committees. Very truly yours, B. F. Shively. Mr. Shively has received no reply as yet. lie is still looking for "tho letter that never comes." Evidently Prof. Hoyne, like Gen. Hovey, Gov. Forter and the rest, dare not face the music. INDORSES ORGANIZATION. President Cleveland AT rites to Mr. Itlack 1'avorlng the Plan. NEW YoniC, Sept, 15. Hon. Chauncey V. Plaek, president of tho national association of democratic clubs, to day-received the following letter from President Cleveland: Lxecutivk Mansion, Washington, I. C, Sept. 14. lion. Chauncey F. lllack. President, Etc.: MY rKR MR Th papers which you klnllrrnt for my perusal touching the scope, method and purposes of the aooition of democratic eluhs have treiitftbencd inr t lief in the extreme important of such organizations as havo lxm thus ass(I.i ite . The strutylo upon which we have entered is in behalf of tho people tho plain peoi'.c of the land nn J tin r must be reached. We lo not frowJ u-on the theory that they are to be lr.t i.r others who may or may not be h sympathy vith th-ir interests. We have umleruk'-n to ta.h the votors aa free, indejM-ndcnt citiwnn, ini.-li'.grut enough to see their rights, intcrestcl enough to Isiro their country's welfare. Thus, this campaign is 0110 of information ami organization. JJvrry eiiirrn slionll bn rckf:irhl as a th"njUu"ul, rfpöns:t)!e voter, ar.d he should lie furni,he.l the mean of examining the issues involved iu the pending i-in-vafls for himi'lf. 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