Bloomington Telephone, Volume 8, Number 12, Bloomington, Monroe County, 2 August 1884 — Page 11

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SUPPLEMENT.

TBI OMAHA Mill I sssa. ' i - - Gommeat mi Mr. Blaine's Letter Pungent Bem&rks About Mr. Eendricka.

Mr. Noim I-etterw

TO BS RBAD AND HSWJJUUX ItOgansport Advertiser. It is a statement of facts and principles which sheds lustre upon the Kepubkcan party, ana proves conclusively that Mr. Blaine is preeminently qualified for the high position of President of the country he so admirably eulogizes. Evety man who feels the least responsibility of cmsenship should read and story this grand letter; Every workingman wno is conf useg atamt past and anxious about the futures&ould gather strength and courage from its rich promise iii his behalf. Every man who wears the proud distinction of American citisenship should find de light in the grand achievements of the past portrayed in this production, and magnificent hope for the future in the policies it foreshadows-. SOUNDS THS XB-HOm South Bend Begister, -It makes the party platform a superfluity,

IUOC III BVUUUO VUV ftVJ UfJtK1 UL UUV MlWgui the tariff, in a deep ana well-sustained tone ana defines the position of the peaty on ether ques tions with remarkable clearness and probity. It is a paper that should be read without prejudice by every American citizen and that will go down to history as a worthy production of, the greatest statesman of his time. NAT, HOT BT A BAKES! YtTUt South Bead Tteef(Bes A little while ago we were informed that Mr. Blaine had said Tilden's letter in 1876 served him a better turn than all the speeches that were made in his behalf, and the inference was drawn that Mr. Blaine was going to attempt the performance of a similar role If he made the attempt he has also made a miserable failure. But then Blaine is not a Tildes, by a jug fulL AN UFRBSSmE SCKOSBZTY Booth Bend Tribune. His views and convictions are clearly stated and with a sincerity that cannot fail to impress any one who reads Ins letter. It is by far the ablest document of the kind that ever emanated from a presidential candidate. It breathes true ttrktism and-recognises the American .workgmti as the representative men of the ostv

VXrWS OLBAJU.Y BXPBXSSBDw

SfaelbyTilla BepcbUcas. Everybody is admiring the wonderful simplicity, grace, clearness and honest, straightforward declaration of principles and policies that characterise Mr. Blaine's letter of acceptance. No one who reads this admirable document can. doubt where the Republican candidate stands or what are his views and intentions with reference to every public question. A compendium or political soisaroB, Wabash Plata Defer. The best evidence of the strength of Blaine's letter of acceptance is to be discovered in the virulence with which the important points with which it bristles are assailed by the free-trade papers, big and little, all over the country. The paper is a compendium of political science replete with logic and unanswerable argument THX TARfTF IS AN XSSUX. Kvaaeville Tribune Bows (Bern.) More than half the letter is devoted to the tariff; which shows that the Republican standardbearer considers that ouesaoh as one of supreme importance in the coming campaign. If the tariff were not an issue Mr. Blaine would not have paid as much attention to that single topic as Le devoted to all other 'issues? combined. BSVKNUB A VBBX EH7TOBNT.

Terr Haute Gasette (Awfully Democratic). Mr. Blaine in his letter takes strong ground on the subject of the tariff. He believes in a protective tariff. With him revenue is a mere incident of the question and protection the main object. With this view he would of course be best pleased with the tariff, though he does not say so many words, if it was prohibitory. IT raSSSHTS TODISFUTKD TAOI& Bloommjrtoa U1M Paatsffrapa. The letter deals in so theories, but presents aa array of undisputed tacts in support of the treat scheme of protection inaugurated by the Republicans under Abraham Lincoln, and continued to this present, which is simply overwhelming. WON PIiBASB TRM DMOCKATS.

Bermonr Beifi

How the Democrats are all disappointed because Blaine didnt write a hurra, young American, blood and thunder, war-with-all-the-world letter of acceptance. How will ws please theml The tiling seems hopeless. WILIi ADD TO A WKIX-BABHBD VAJfB. Muscfe Hews It is a statesman's review of the Important Issues before the country, calm in statement, accurate in facta, logical in reasoning, and will add much to the author's well-earned fame as a

of enlightened views

STTIiB. OHABAOTXB, TerreHaate Courier. The letter is no disappointment to Republicans! in style, character and sentiment It is a grand document, and shows James G. Blaine to be a man worthy to he the President of fifty millions of free people. SHOULD BK BEAD BT XTXB7 VOTKB. Corambns Beeabtftoaa. His language is that of a statesman of rich experience and profound judgment, not of a mere politician. No synopsis could do it justice, and it should be read in full by every voter. CIJSABIY SXTS rOBTH TBS ISSUBS. Michigan City Enterprise. The letter is a good campaign document, In that it clearly sets forth the issues between the two parties, and should be carefoJly read. WITH DBXflflHT AND SATISFACTION. Madison Courier. It will be read with delight and entire satisjrfaetion by all who desire to see a statesman with complete grasp of all such questions at the .head of national affairs. AMEBIOAN rBOH BKaiNNXNO TO XNTA Yincennes Commercial. It speaks in behalf of American manufactures, and American labor. It is purely American from beginning to cnL POINTS OUT TBS DOrVKBSNGE Bichmond Palladium. Mr. Blaine points out very fully the difference between Republican protection and Democratic free trade. WILL BS B&GBXVSD WITH 9KHZKAL PAVOB. If uncle News. r It is strictly nd decidedly American in sentiment, and will be received with general favor by the party. XAflrrSBLY AND CAPTIVATING. Valparaiso Vldette.

Ha presents his views at length, in masterly

capuvaung style ana lores.

Other Current Tdpie. SOL. HSNDBIGKS'g NOBTHWS8T OONPKDSBAUT. fcafayette Journal. During the war Mr. Hendricks conceived the brilliant idea of establishing a Northwestern confederacy. He wanted the West and Northwest to cut loose from the East, and form a government of its own. In one of his secession speeches he said: If this is rendered impossible by the folly or wickedness of the party in power, then the mighty Northwest must take care of herself and her own interests, and not allow the arts and finesse of New England and the Eastern lust for power, commerce and gain to despoil her of bar richest commerce and trade.9 thb aoks o? smm BSS. Slew Castle Mercury. Hendricks made haste to ratify his own nomination the moment he reached home, and appealed to the crowd to know if they would not stapd by the ticket and yet he is around telling reporters that he hau not made up his mind whether to accept or not For a man -who could set on the platform and allow himself boomed for the presidency, and then allow his vote counted, to retire McDonald and to substitute his own name, this is the very seme of silliness. ON VZ1X OP 8XLKNCS. Terre HaateBsprsHS. Thomas A Hendricks has allowed a week to go by without slandering anyone. Perhaps he has been reading that speech of Ben Butler's and is admonished that he had better turn from the error of his ways. He has been steadily enppjged lying about public men since before the

war. Butler told him he was a blackguard. He lied about Garfield to that extent that Garfield said he could never recognize him again. He has lied and been convicted of it against Secretary Chandlexy and artfully avoids making an apology. MAN WITH A BXCOBDt Jeffersonvilla G&cette. Thomas A. HendHcks. in 1863, said: "If Con gress would take a bundle of switches and switch them Lincoln and his Cabinet out of the White House, it would be well for the noonle: but until

that is done, all will not be welL You may hear prayers in your churches, your sons may go out to the battle-field, bi t our country is not to be restored as it was until Abolitionism is buried, never to be resurrected. 19 mr. Hendricks's fifty thousand. Crawfordsville Journal. Fifty thousand office-holders must go. But the Democrats, in the event of success, do not, by any means, intend to let the offices remain vacant, by way of economizing. They will be filled with their own kind, who, as George William Curtis aptly put it, "are very hungry, and, as you may well believe, very thirsty," CONDUCIVE TO BRITISH INTERESTS. Mnnele News. How comes it that Cleveland is indorsed by the London Times and every other English paper published in England and America, if the tariff for revenue only is not more conducive to British interests than the platform of the Republicans upon this subject HSNDKICKS'S DONATION TO CAPITAL. Martinsville Republican, Hendricks labored and voted for the grant of 54,000,000 acres of public land to the Northern Pacific railroad, a tract sufficient to give an acre of grour d to every man, woman and child in the United States. He is a man after Cleveland's own heart A LXTTLR LAWYER, Jladifton Courier. -- The late Charles Reads once wrote that a little lawyer was the greatest acs God ever made. Current public opinion in New York State indorses this opinion of the wise novelist aud points to Grover Cleveland as a living illustration of it HOW TO EXCITE ENTHUSIASM. Jtusbrills Republican. Mr. Hendricks knows how to excite the wildest enthusiasm in the chaste bosoms of a pure and undefiled Democratic party. He plumply states that when he and that other fellow are .elected, there will be 50,000 federal offices to fill. WITH THE LIDS OP THEIR DINNER PAILS. South Bend Tribune. The Democratic parity is between a chill and a sweat to know what the working men will do with Cleveland, their monopoly candidate. They'll fan him up salt river with the lids of their dinner pails. PROBABLY THE VERY SAME ISAAC. Salem Press. Are you the same Isaac P. Gray who, while acting as Governor of the State pardoned Jap. Choen, a notorious thief, upon condition that he and his family would vote the Democratic ticket! THE SCUM OF THE EARTH. Michigan City Dispatch. i'Dem,) The real laboring classes are heart and soul for Cleveland, Those who aiopt the title of workingmen and oppose him are cranks, socialists, dynamiters and the scum of the earth generally. A HEART BOWED DOWN. Bush rille Republican. How the Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks's heart must t ave ached when he found himself ' with the boom of his friend, Joseph . McDonald, in his own ticket INGENUOUS MR. HENDRICKS. Richmond Palladium. Mr. Hendricks ratified his own nomination on Saturday night last, but still insists that he has not yet determined whether or not to accept the nomination. ELEVEN" REASONS

THE PLATFORMS.

Wby the Republican Party Should Be Sopported by Young Men Now York Tribune. A voung reader asks why he should be a Republican. There are many reasons, but the following are a few: 1, The past twenty-three years, under Republican rule, form the most glorious and the most prosperous period in the history of the country. The grand success of the party in the past is the strongest reason for trusting it to meet the future needs of the country. 2L Past success has been due to the right purposes and true wisdom of 4,500,000 Republican voters. These voters, have not changed in character, intelligence or beliefs. No other body of citizens has shown itself entitled to such confidence. 3. The Republican party trusts the people absolutely, as no other party ever has. It has had the courace to serve the best interests of the people, with faith that they have the intelligence and patriotism to appreciate such service. Thus it has represented and obeys, not the large landowners at the South, nor the political tricksters or bosses" of corrupt cities, nor the theorists, nor the millionaires, but the people.

4 It has always protected labor. The aboli-

tion of slavery removed competition of unpaid workers, and elevated all labor. The homestead law gave every industrious man the power to support himself aud family without dependence upon any employer, and so fixed a limit below which wages cannot be depressed. At the desire of labor, the eight-hour law has been passed, and the importation of coolies prohibited. Above all, the party has defended labor by a protective tariff. 5. When goods made by pauper labor abroad can be sold here without paying for admission to this market, the danger is that our own will become pauper labor also. The Republican party makes foreign goods pay duty, and so builds up home industry aud a home market for farmers. The Demenratic party has constantly tried to break down that system. 6. The Republican party protects the civil and political rights of all citizens. In its youth it refused to deprive adopted citizens of rights. It gave civil and political rights to colored citizens. . It is .the only party that has always resisted attempts to control votes or elections by fraud, fear oj force, 7. It has done more than any other party to protect citizens when abroad. Led by Mr. Blaine in Congress, it caused Great Britain to give up the claim that British-born citizens still owed allegiance to the British crown. It is pledged to make American citizenship a safeguard in all lands for every citizen who goes on a lawful errand. & It upholds the public faith. No other Nation in history has ever met a great debt as honorably and rapidly as this Nation under Republican rule, in spite of Democratic opposition. Hence no other has higher credit 9. It has given this country, in spite of constant Democratic hostility, a better currency than any other Nation enjoys. Defeat of the party would open the door to the old Democratic currency to thirty-eight kinds of paper issued at will by wild-cat banks. 10. It honors the soldiers who saved the Union by putting down a Democratic rebellion. It has granted large pensions, and has enacted that Union soldiers shall be preferred in the choice of civil officers. It names for Vice-president a soldier statesman against Hendricks, the copperhead and demagogue. , it Its candidate for President has exalted ability and great experience, is one of ftie foremost statesmen of the age, and was selected as his c'Mef adviser by President Garfield. Against him the Democrats have named a man of no experience or knowledge of men. who never had

force enough to make people know or care what

his opinions were, and who was nominated by corrupt rings of which he would be the tooL Beecher Logic. Philadelphia Prow. "I shall vote for Cleveland," says Henry Ward Beecher, "not because I am a Democrat, but because I am a Republican. " So? This is the flexible philosophy we suppose which permits a man to violate the commandments, not because he is a sinner, but because he is a Christian.

It Profits Nothing. Bloomfnston (111.) Pa nta graph. Any man possessed of common sense and a memory that can reach back four years, ought to know that it profits not dag to utter slanders against a Republican presidential nominee. Cleveland sod the Blind Pittflhur Times. Both Blaine and Cleveland were teachers of the blind. Blaine long since turned bis talents to other uses, but Cleveland still sticks to his first love.

The Republican National Platform The Republicans of the United States, in national convention assembled, renew their allegiance to the principles upon which they have triumphed in six successive presidential elections, and congratulate tho American people on the attainment of so many results in legislation and administration by which the Republican party has, after saving the Union, done so much to render its institutions just, equal and beneficial; the safeguard of liberty and the embodiment of the best thought and highest purposes of our citizens. The Republican party has gained its strength by quick and faithful response to the demands of the people, for the freedom and equality of all men, for a united nation, assuring the rights ot all citizens, for tho elevation of labor, for an honest currency, for purity in legislation, and for integrity and accountability in all departments of the government; and it accepts anew the duty of leading in tho work of Frogress and reform. We lament the death of resident Garfield, whose sound statesmanship, long conspicuous in Congress, gave promise of a strong and successful administration a promise fully realized during the short period of his office as President of the United States. His distinguished success in war and peace have endeared him to the hearts of the American people. In the administration of President Arthur we recognize a wise, conservative and patriotic policy, under which the country has been blessed with remarkable prosperity, and we believe his eminent services are entitled to and will receive the hearty approval of every citizen. It is the first duty of a good government to protect the rights aud promote the interests of its own people. The largest diversity of industry is most productive of general prosperity and of the comfort and independence of the people. We; therefore, demand that the imposition of duties on foreign imports shall be made not "for revenue only," but that in raising the requisite revenues for the government, suoh duties shall be so levied as to afford security to our diversified industries, and protection to the rights and wages of the laborer, to the end that active and intelligent labor, as well as capital, may havo its just reward, and the laboring man his full share in the national prosperity. Against the so-called economic system of the Democratic party, which would degrade our labor to the foreign staudard, we enter our earnest protest The Democratic

party has failed completely to relieve the people of the burden of unnecessary taxation by a wise reduction of the surplus. The Republican party pledges itself to correct the inequalities of the tariff, and to reduce the surplus, not by the vicious, indiscriminate process of horizontal reduction, but by such methods as will relieve the tax-payer without injuring the laborer, the great productive interests of the country. We recognize the importance of sheep husbandry in the United States, the serious depression which it is now experiencing, and the danger threatening its future prosperity, and we therefore, respect the demands of the representatives of this important agricultural interest for readjustment of duty upon foreign wool, in order that such industry shall have full and adequate protection. We have always recommended the best money known to the civilized world, and urge that efforts should be made to unite all commercial nations in the establishment of an international standard which shall fix for all the relative value of gold and silver coinage. The regulation of commerce with foreign nations and between the States is one of the most important prerogatives of the general government and the Republican party distinctly announces its purpose to support such legislation as will fully and efficiently carry out the constitutional power of Congress over inter state commerce. The principle of the public regulation of railway corporations Is a wise and salutary one for the protection of all classes of the people, and we favor legislation that shall prevent unjust discrimination aud excessive charges for transportation, and that shall secure to the people and the railways alike the fair and equal protection of the laws. We favor the establishment of a national bureau of labor, the enforcement of the eight-hour law, and a judicious system of general education by adequate appropriations from the national revenues, wherever the same is needed. We believe that everywhere protection accorded to a citizen of American birth must be secured to citizens by American adoption, and we favor the settlement of national differences by international arbitration. The Republican party, having its birth in a hatred of slave labor, and a desire that all men may be truly free and equal, is unalterably opposed to placing our workingmen in competition with any form of servile labor, whether at home or abroad. - In this spirit we denounce the importation of contract labor, whether from Europe or Asia, as an offense against the spirit of American institutions, and we pledge ourselves to sustain the present law restricting Chinese immigration and to provide such further legislation as is necessary to carry out its purposes. Reform of the civil service, auspiciously begun under & Republican administration, should be completed by the further extension of the reformed system, already established by law, to all the grades of the service to which it is applicable. The spirit and purpose of the reform should be observed in all executive appointments. All laws at variance with the objects of existing reformed legislation should be repealed, to the end that tho dangers to free institutions which lurk in the power of official patronage may be wisely and effectively avoided. The public lands are a heritage of the people ol? the United States, and should be reserved, as fhr as possible, for small holdings by actual settlers. We are opposed to the acquisition of large tracts of those lands by corporations or individuals, especially where such holdings are in the hands of non-resident a 'lens, and we will endeavor to obtain such legislation as will tend to correct this evii We demand of Congress the speedy forfeiture oall land grants which have lapsed by reason of non-compliance with the acts of incorporation in all cases where there has been no attempt in good faith, to perform the conditions of such grants. The grateful thanks of the American people are due to the Union soldiers and sailors of the late war, aud the Republican party stands pledged to suitable pensions for all who were disabled, and for the widows and orphans of those who died in the late war. The Republican party also pledges itself to the repeal of the liraitation contained in the arrearages act of 1879, so that all invalid soldiers shall share alike, and their pensions begin with the date of disability or discharge, and not with the date of the application. The Republican party favors a policy which shall keep us from entangling alliances with foreign nations, which gives us the right to expect that foreigners shall refrain from meddling in American affairs. The policy which seeks peace can trade with all powers, out especially with those of the Western hemisphere. We demand the restoration of our navy to its old-time strength and efficiency, that it may, in any sea, protect the rights of American citizens and the interests of American commerce; and we call upon Congress to remove the burdens under which American shipping has been depressed, so that it may again be true that we have a commerce which leaves no sea unexplored, and a navy which takes no law from superior force. Resolved, That appointments by the President to offices in the Territories should be made from the bona fide citizens and residents of the Territories wherein they are to serve. Resolved, That it is the duty of Congress to enact such laws as shall promptly and effectually suppress the system of polygamy within our territory, and divorce the political from the ecclesiastical power of tfce so-called Mormon Church, and that a law so enacted should be rigidly enforced by the civil authorities, if possible, and by the military if need be. The people of the United States, in their organizea capacity, constitute a natton, and not a mere confederacy of States. The national government is supreme within the sphere of its national duty, but the States have reserved rights which should be faithfully maintained. Each should be guarded with jealous care, so that the harmony of our system of government may be preserved, and tho Union kept inviolate. The popularity of our institutions rests upon the maintenance of a free ballot and honest count, and correct returns. We denounce the fraud and violence practiced by the Democracy in tho Southern States, by which the wilt of the voter is defeated, as dangerous to the preservation of free institutions, and we solemnly arraign tho Democratic party as being the guilty recipient of the fruits of such fraud and violence. We extend to the Republicans of the South, regardless of their former party affiliations, our cordial sympathy, and pledge to them our most earnest efforts to promote the passage of suoh

legislation as will secure to every citizen, of whatever race or color, the full and complete recognition, possession, and exercise of all political rights. The Republican State Platform. "The Republicans of Indiana, in State convention assembbd, ratify and adopt the platform of the recent national Republican convention at Chicago, as a comprehensive and sufficient declaration of their faith and purposes in respect to all questions of national scope and character, and they ratify and approve the nomination of James G. Blaine and John A Logan for the offices of President and Vice-president of the United Statoffl, and pledge to them the united and earnest support of tho Republican party of Indiana. "I. We indorse with pride and satisfaction the pure, able, dignified, and patriotic administration of Gov. Albert & Porter. "IL We favor an appropriation by the Leglsature for the erection of a suitable monument to tho memory of the loyal and brave sons of Indiana, who gave their lives to save the Republic 4IIL In the lapse of thirty-three years, by the increase of our population, and bv the marvelous development of our material resources and the spread of intelligence, our State has outgrown the Constitution of 1851. and we therefore favor the calling of a convention, at an early day, for the purpose of framing a new State Constitution, adapted to the present circumstances of a great and growing Commonwealth. TV. We favor such change in the law as shall take the administration of the prisons and the reformatory and benevolent institutions of the State out of the domain of party politics. 4V. We regard the system of prison contract labor as a degrading competition with the if. bar of the honest citizen, and we favor its abolition. "VI. We favor the enactment and enforcement of laws for the improvement of the sanitary conditions of labor, and especialry for the thorough regulation and ventilation of mines, under the supervision of the police authority of the State. "VII. We renew the pledge of our devotion to the free, unsectarian public school, aud will favor all measures tending to increase its efficiency, and especially such as will promote its usefulness as a preparation for the practical duties of life. "VIII. The amendment of the Constitution of the State, which authorized and contemplated a revision of the laws relating to fees and salaries ought not to remain a dead letter, and we favor the enactment of such laws as will place the compensation of all public officials upon a basit of fair compensation for services rendered. "IX. Recognizing with gratitude the services of the Union soldiers in defending the government against armed rebellion, we favor a just equalization and adjustment of bounties and pensions, and a liberal construction and application of all laws granting pensions to honorably discharged soldiers of the Union army. "X Wo denounce the action of the Democratic majority in the last General Assembly in enacting laws of purely partisan character, whereby experienced, competent and eminent officials were displaced and mere politicians appointed to the serious injury of the benevolent institutions of the State, including those for the deaf and dumb, the insane, the blind, the Boys' Reformatory and the Soldiers Orphans' Home; aud in the passage of a metropolitan police bill, by which, in cities of a certain population, the control of municipal affairs is taken from the citizens concerned and placed in the hanh of a partisan State commission.

The Cry for Reform. Indianapolis Journal. The burden of the Democratic platform and of the party's campaign speeches and documents is "reform." "We want reform," says the platform; "we want reform," say the party's orators, and "we will have reform" is the slogan with which the party goes into the fight. No bill of particulars is presented, and no abuses are pointed out. The party has simply shut its eyes and joined in the refrain "reform," But because the Democratic party has shut its eyes is no rea sou why all the people should do the same. In fact, the eyes of the people are very wide open, and there is a general desire to know and to understand all the points in the campaign. The Democratic party demands reform, and the people naturally want to know what that party proposes to reform. What has the Republican party done that must be undone or reformed! The first thing the Republican party did was to wipe out a Democratic rebellion and restore the Union. Does -the Democratic party want to "reform" that? The Republican party gave freedom to all the slaves held in bondage by Democrats. Does the Democratic party want reform badly enough to put tnem back into involuntary servitude! The Republican party gave the right of franchise to the newly-emancipated slaves. Does the party of reform want to deprive the colored race of that right! The Republican party took charge of public affairs when, under Democratic management, the government was obliged to pay 12 per cent interest, while to-day it can borrow a thousand millions at 3 per cent. Is there anything here that reqires "reform" at the hands of the Democratic party? The Republican party came into power when the value of good old Democratic "money" was worth all the way from par to zero, and was most valuable in the hands of those who did not know how worthless it was. Does the Democratic party wish to "reform" Republican banking methods and go back to the old way? The Republican party has made gold, silver and paper of equal value from one end of the country to the other. Does the Democratic party call for "reform," and desire to go back to the good old Democratic wild-cat system? The Republican party, by a wise application of the tariff, rendered it possible to pay hundreds of millions in the shape of pensions to the soldiers of the Union and their widows and orphans. Would the Democratic party "reform this?" The Republican party has made it a point to protect American laboring men against all the outside world. Will the Democratic party "reform" this idea, if it should get a chance? The Republican party has fostered and developed all the industrial interests of the country, and has the satisfaction of seeing every manufactured article, in the country sell cheaper than ever before. Does the Democratic party think "reform" is needed here? The Republican party has paid a thousand millions of Democratic debt, and is still disposing of that legacy of Democratic treason and rebellion at the rate of one hundred millions a a year. Does the party of "reform" desire a

discontinuance? The Republican party has steadfastly refused to recognize the claims of any but Union soldiers, and is pledged never to consent to the payment of one cent to any who fought to destroy the Union, Will the Democratic party hasten to "reform" this policy? The Republican party has ever taught that treason is odious, and that love of country is the supreme virtue of American citizenship. Will the Democratic party reverse the order here, and introduce "reform?" We have enumerated an even dozen points in American political history, on the establishment of which the Republican party 4as insisted, and has succeeded; despite tne most desperate, unscrupulous and criminal opposition of the Democratic party. And now the Democratic party shuts its eyes and bawls lustily for "reform." Will it dare to confess a desire and intention to "reform all or any of these distinctively Republican achievements) They cover the entire ground of Republican administration, and the party challenges the criticism of the world on them. If the Democratic party dares not lay hands on eitherof them, nor explicitly condemn even one of them, then is the Democratic campaign cry the plea of a demagogue, tho wail of defeated and chagrined hypocrisy. If "reform" is so badly needed, let the items be pointed oat and the fight made in open field. The Republican party invites it

A Trifling Error, Boa ton Journal. It is of no earthly importance, but the report that an "ex-Governor Pillsbury, of Maine reeled o'f long yarns of Blaine's unpopularity at home to Chicago listeners canuot be true, because tliure is no "ex-Governor Pillsbury, of Maine. 9 Not one.

A Concession to Culture Philadelphia Press. The use of the word "exclusively" instead of "onlyj in the Domocratic tariff plank is supposed to be concession to the more cultured classes of Bo-itoQ. It is a bicker word and not so vul

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MOBTON ON HKNJDRICKS. Speech of Senator Morton at Academy of Music, Indianapolis, August 11, 1876, Opening the Campaign of that Year. Of Governor Hendricks, the Democratic candidate for Vice-presiclent, it is not important to speak in this community. You have known him as a member of Congre3S, of the Legislature, of tho constitutional convention, as Commissioner of the General Land Office, as Senator of the United States, as Governor of the State, for nearly thirty years, and during all that time he has suggested no policy, produced no measure, started no idea which any human being can remembor, save and except one which we are all asked to forget His place of general retirement and relaxation has been upon the fence and he has never gotten down upon the one side or the other until his part v had taken such decided ground as left no doubt as to their position. Iiike Tilden, he will be thG last of his line, and will leave no idea, measure, nor policy as a political contribution to those coming after him. His official li.:e in small things has been repectable, and successful in dodging larger responsibilities. Perhaps no political career of equal extent in this country san be referred to which has been so barren of good or important results. In the winter of 1800-61 he stood with Buchanan and the leaders of his party in denying all right of coercion, in justifying tho South and throwing all blame for the then threatened rebellion upon the Republicans of the North. After the breaking out of the war he sunk out of eight for a time, and his posdtion was wholly unknown. Toward the conclusion of 1861, when the country was depressed t y misfortune, he came again to the surfaco along: with the leaders of his party, aud was bitter in his demonstrations against the war and the government The 8th of J anuary, 1862, at the State convention of the Democratic party, he made the most celebrated fipeoch in his life, in which he attempted to show by labored argument that the interest of the Northwestern States was wholly with the South, and not with the East; that the New England States had been our oppressors, so that the inference of all was that the States of the Northwest should form a Northwestern confederacy for the time being, to be afterward united with the South, and to cut loose from the States in the East He arraigned the war party as the most intolerant ever known, as corrupt, as the author of hard times &nd desolation, as wholly responsible for the war, aud said that if the war should be so prosecuted as to abolish our market in the South by destroying the peculiar system of labor in that section he would advise the Northwest to look out for itself; His favorite phrase was: "The restoration of the Union upon the basis of the Constitution' by which he meant the preser vation of slavery and giving to it equal rights in all the Territories; and in referring to this in a subsequent speech in the campaign he said. If this Is -pondered impossible by the folly or wickedness of the party in power then the mighty Northwest mast take care of herself and ber own interests and not allow the arts and finesse of New England aud the e&atera lost of power, commerce and gain, to desjwil hr of her richest commerce and trade. Mr. Hendricks fully believed at the time that he had struck the Democratic current of thought and action, but afterward feared tha he hd got off the fence prematurely, Itwas, in myopinion, the worst speech made in any Northern State during th3 war, and exerted the most deleterious influence. Itwas the fruitful parent of that crop of conspiracies and treasonable schemes which afterwards disturbed the peace of . the State, and so nearly compromised her position in the Union. The Sons of Liberty and other disloyal organizations and the treasonable schemes that were formed were but the offshoots of that cen tral idea of his speech that the interests of Indiana were not with the East, but . were with the South, and that the Eastern States should be left oat in the cold. Mr. Heh"5?lcks did :aot belong to any of these organizations, as I believe, but that he knew all about them, that ha never condemned them, and that their leaders and contrivers were all his friends, I never doubted for a moment, and that his position was this: That if they succeeded in their purposo ha would reap the benefit, but if they failed he was not responsible for their action. He has always exhibited an uncontrollable hatred for the negro, and in this represented the lowest aud most vulgar elements of his party. In the Senate he opposed the freedom of the slaves escaping into our lines during the war. He bitterly opposed the repeal of the fugitiveslave law long after the issue of the emancipation proclamation, and, speaking against the issue of repeal, said: It it is as plain, tome as the multiplication table that it should be defeated. The 10th of February, 1864r on the resolution to allow negroes to ride in the street-cars in Washington, he said: It seems to be considered a great outrage that the negroes in tha District of Columbia are not allowed to take their soats in the same cars with white men and women that travel on railroads in this city. If I were allowed to express an opinion I should say the outrage would be the other way. The 5th of December, 1867, in speaking on the District of Columbia bill, he said he was opposed to allowing negroes to sit on juries or hold office, and that it was a "policy which subjugates the white to the colored race." Mr. Hendricks was in the Senate when the thirteenth amendment of the Constitution was adopted, abolishing slavery; when the fourteenth amendment was adopted, securing equal rights, protection, and immunities in all the States, and prohibiting the payment for slaves or the

rebel war debt; when the fifteenth amendment

and recording no act to which his friends

point witn pnae or pleasure. His unbroken record of blunders, unredeemed by any gcod measure, presents the question whether he is promising material for a gnat reform or. lieform should be the normal conditio of overy political party. Abusesare constant arising; old ones are being discovered; new improve men in administration are neossarr lie form should be steadily made as a daily business, and not merely by fits and starts just before an election. POLITICAL SLANDER

What Henry Ward Beecher Thought of Dew ooratic Slander of Public Mm In 13&0. From Hen.-y Ward Jteer tier's Sermon, Preached el fly mouth Church, November 14, 1881. A (food name i rather to be chosen than great- riches A good name is better than precious ointment. . Proverbs xxL i and vi. JL

"'The value of a good, name is just as eminent

in regnra lo parties aa it is w iuuiviuuulo, w firms, to corporations, to states and nations. What, when you come to the very marrow of i is the rea son that the Democratic party b&s come to scorn in tLis land! For I am going, to talk

p'.uiuijr wuigm. jl uuuti no& nunv cvio bin jy, sources from which votes have been cmtheredL u

but why is it that, talrin the country through, z$&

man ot most feeling, most religion, moat cfvThVi

tiong and men who Rtnnrl hio-hear. in m&rihAod f W

wnax is tne reason mat tney are stea&uy erabodied ar d embattled against that party? It is because they have no confidence in its integrity. It is because it is rotten to the very center and core; not every man that is in it, but the thins called an organized party, which in Its receul manifesto before the work of election had begun, stultified itself by the amazing declaration thai it renewed all its traditions and all ite issue

that is & say, its base subservience to slavery. m

its condoning secession, its refusing to help the gr land through the great struggle for emancipa tion and for liberty, its obstruction to every step of recopstruction, its blatant and persisterA f -folly in resisting all honesty in regard to cur- W, ' reucy and money matters these things, so many jLfv black streams, don't come from anything but f "l black pool at headquarters and at head waters, p y It is a party that has truckled to the baser rein- kl

" Why is it that the Republican party, after

twenty rears of power, has not lost it? TJet

its reput ation is such that men believe it mean r liberty, civilizatian, power for the best elements i " , in human society. That is its reputation, and it ' has gone into power again, or is on the eve of '! . doing it, unless the State of New York is thrown out Laughter. The Democratic party has got a bad name; and I don't know how it is going to get rid of it Certainly not in the measures that have been taken will it be accomplished. In xy 5'

the conduct of this campaign we expect, on eita-ij ,

er siue, a certain amount oi monu mcnon, wu T am nni Viaia Riiv i.htkt t.ViA RarmbliftLTt nariV

hai

oAmnflipn hju docftloned certain" elements of de

pravitv that never have been suropassed. annw;

very seldom equaled, in this country; and it is aj ?;

part of my purpose in preaching this sermon toi-y see to it that it Bhali never happen again. I pro4

pose, as rar as my testimony is ooncemeut as arK. ,s

as l can oring cne vroru oi vroo w uer upou v.

this community, and the population at large, tofv

under the official sanction of the DemocratiWj

sleep wiin a rocten aeaa man wan wwa hum partv. 3 "A good and great man is a glory to a State. .-; He may have faults which it may be fair to . mention, though perhaps uncharitable and unnecessary. We cannot afford to put for f our ta TO a man in the presidential chair who Is not .

liUCa S man as iae n&uou uu ue prvau m ""i; as much as eood name is a tower of strength top

a man and the elory of the nation over which he

presides, by just so much is the iniquity of tak-i lng away u man's good name unjustly, fouliyir That there has been a most deliberate consp4rf

acy carried out in allots parts with foresight,

with malign and infameus intent, to destroy

name of General Garfield, I have no more don

than I believe that I stand here, or that

devil goes to and fro seeking whom he devour, un and down among men. I

watched the progress of it I have seen venomous thrusts that have been made at hi

a man 1 believe as Dure as any other imb

walks the earth: as conscientious, as sensiti

to everything that is pure and virtuous; a Chris

lan man. a Christian teacher, a good ratnei an

L husband and neighbor, a good man, whose who!

lone hf 3 has been the earning of a reputation an

a character that should rank him anion th

flNrood men of the earth.

I "I'amnot speaking of the miserable

biers that have sought to join his name in

transaction of' money matters. He has not

friend, who, dying to-day, would not be procd

put hiB estate into the hands of James A

field to take care of those whom he loved, is unbounded in him; yet they tried to

him a miserable thief and liar, and to discrown) Ahim. They seemed to think that a noble citi4

whole world is lawful prey, and that they are be credited with skill, with power and c rea tne

that know how to disrobe him and to tarnish his

?lnrv. which is the oiorv of the nation.

"I say these thin es with grief. I would nofc say them if the indignation of the Lord di. ' not stir me to the very bottom, and if I did not iV . . i . u ' '

desire to nave rc Known ior generauvu w v, ; coma that the men who undertook, by liesJ by forgory, and by persistence in them,

blight a fair fame, that on tnat man suoujs rest the indignation of the Lord and of thi

nation, so that the people should bf

was adopted, providing that no person should be " ? God come to judge such a nan. denied the right of suffrage on account of race, j will eoraa, it has come: and, as when the thud

aer urea&s m tne summer buwuk wi muumwu

its crash is caught up by this mountain sad

thrown to that and to that and goes echoin

down upon the horizon, so down through

course of time the men that have conspired

color, or previous condition of servitude, and he spoke and voted against all. He not only voted against the thirteenth amendment, abolishing slavery, but in an excited speech declared to an astonished Senate that the United States had no power te abolish slavery by an amendment to the Constitution. He said: It is enough to know that the Constitution existed before the revolution in the eolpnies; that it continued during the revolution; thht it came with the colonies into tneir stato of independence and separate sovereignty, and when the colonies came into the federal compact they did not submit that institution or other domestic institutions to the control of the federal gov ernmant. The federal government has had nothing to do with tho institution of slavery except so far as by compromise it was protected and respected, and a fugitive escaping from one ritate to another shall be4 returned without respect to the law of the State into which he escapes. This wtis spoken of slavery in April, 1364, in the last year of the war, when slavery was in fact already dead, having been killed by the emancipation proclamation, but he a til carried the putrescent corpse about in his arras, and entertained the vain hope of calling it back to life. He opposed the enlistment or negro soldiers, and in a speech at Shelbyviile, Ind., in February, 1863, just after his election to the Senate, said: TheUst Mid crowning act of infamy on the part o f this Congress U to be the enactment of the law to organize 150,000 negroes into regiments. The bill has passed the Hou&o, aud 1 believe will pass the Senate and be approved by Mr. Lincoln. Three Republican members voted against it. Their names should be preserved in letters of gold. What does this legislation mean! Ia iUhat the 20,000,000 white men at the North cannot cope with the 7,000,000 white men at the Souh? or 1s it that the negro will make a better soldier than the white moat Further on he said: Can it bo possible that the safety, the honor, the glory of my country is to rest upon the shoulders of negro regiments!1 In ohuroh poatry I find the lines: "TTpon what a slender cord Hang everlasting things." If our country's fortune depends upon negro valor, then may we fling: "Upon what a slender cord Hang earthly things." The men will be marked who have done this. The people whose sons and brothers are in the field will not forgive the insult. Looking at these remarks in the light of the past we would question tho sanity of the author did we not know that his opposition to negro soldiers was because he was opposed to the use of any means to put down the reunion. As a re .ember of the House of Representatives, in 1854, he voted for the repeal of the Missouri compromise, that slavery might go into Kansas and Nebraska. As a member of the Indiana constitutional convention, in 185C1, he made but one speech, which was against permitting free negroes no come into the State, With grand opportunities for usefulness and connecting his name with the greatest reform of the century, he was blind to the time and place and remained a bigoted adherent to slavery. His political record, extendingover a period of nearly thirty years, is a dull, monotonous page of weary commonplaces, diversified only witn blots,

this infamous thing will have the thunder of

di&nation stiil reverberating to the latest day.

"Young men. there never was a time when

God-given conscience should not lift you aboi

tne passionate juagmenc ana parry rury oc time. There never was a time when young l

should not be warned that power doesn't conn

bv treason, And that prosperity decent follow

wickedness. I tell you that manliness is profit , - -:4& able; I tell you that there is no manliness witkj out truth, fidelity, integrity, purity. These an ,-i w2! real; and he that disbelieves them does so at h own peril." . . yV Signlfioaat Correspoadenper Chicago Tribune. ' P'tA Some time before the late Democratic con tion was held, the editor of the Swedis ;i

quest for his views, sent the following dispatch to Mr. Patrick Ford; of the New York Mb$ World: j , feS Chicago, Jury L I V Editor Irish World: ' I deem it of the highest hnporUace tha'; the DewlMjto cratic partyominate Butler. His ejection Would absolutely certain. I believe him the only man who r -fJm

eloonentlv set forth in Tilden's letter as

for tha reservation of ourdenaoeratic form of go

mnni LP. KELSON.

Editor Swedish Worker.

The editor of tho Irish World sends tho

lowing dispatch hi reply to Mr. Nelson's ?rami

NitwYobx, July 15. L. P. Kelson, Stfltor Swedish Worker, Bom s.

Dearborn street:

Nomination of Cleveland was an insult and de

power, of the workingmen of the United States to

sent th insult. If Cleveland 3 victorious mon

wins a double triumph. Butler would b my

but wa lack the machinery to elect him. To ifiv

votes t Butler is to give the election to C

Enlightened self -interest and the principle of demand that Cleveland should be defeated.

fore I go for Blaine and Logan. PaxaiOC FOSaX

What tho Irish Think of Cleveland. Irish Mation.

The triumph of the men who nominated CI' land was as much a slight and insult to the

leaders of the old party as to the Irish, toe

ingmen and the auti-monopolists who o

his nomination so strenuously. The Intel!

and Avnerianceof the nartv were contem'

pushed aside to make room for a dull sad

ding country lawyer who is the merest toon

an illiberal and corrupt ring, having no affl

with the able men whom the party loved

honor in the past, and whose dark and uev

methods are a ofeffraceful tArody on tne

manslup which once ruled the eounoils ot Democracy.

Irishmen of spirit have no choice must be defeated, and the only way effectually is by voting for James G. President Let us organise for the crush know-nothingism for all tel.