The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-09-21

he will not veto that policy. But how
| is it. nay friends, with Seymour? YoJ
who are greenbaek Democrats, wha
do YOU expect from SEYMOUR if h,
ha 5 the veto power? The men tina
us Ia me d Inn know where he stands
sEYMoUR's DIsFRANCHIsEMNT OF SOL
DIERs.
Why, during the war you recollec
there came in 1862 to our soldiers il
the field the bad news from home
that they had abandoned the war, ant
had elected five members to Congress
from Ohio, only, who were in favor o
the war, and fourteen members wht
were against it The soldiers talked
in this way: How is this? If VIZ
could vote; il the sixty thousand
Ohio voters in the field had been a
the polls in October, no such result
would have taken place" The con-
versatiOn went on One soldier from
Pennsylvania said the soldiers IN the
Mexican war did vote. Said be, IN
nay State we did vote. Why can we
not vote now? Thereupon the people
in Ohio and New York passed laws
giving the soldiers the right to vote.
The voting law n New York would
allow one hundie1 thousand soldiers
In New York to vote IN the field, but
when it came to H0ratiO Seymour,
who was the Governor of that State.
he vetoed the soldiers voting law. L,
therefore, say to you. that he is veto
power man, and | ask the soldiers of
this audience, and the Union citizens
Of this audience, to remember when
they are asked to vote for Seymour in
November next, to remember on the
third day of November. each one of
you, that veto power. Applause and
cries of good, good" When you
come up to the polls, / ask you simply
to do what Seymour did to the sol
diers-and veto him. Renewed APP
plause and loud cries of Wen do
IT." A voice. Give him hell.
That is a strong name for it. my
friend, but it is right. But how does
Seymour stand on this green back pol
icy? We know something of his
opinions on that subject; when a
question involving the payment of
10 debts in greenbacks was presented
him as Governor of the State of New
York. q that STATED In 1863, they passed
a law which authorized the State Off
GERS OF that State to pay the debt, and
pay the interest on the debt of that
State in greenbaeks. Thereupon Sey-
mour sent in his message that it
would be a dishonOr, disgrace to the
State, to pass such law. And now
we have eminent men In the State of
Ohio going about claiming votes for
Seymour on the ground that he is in
favor of paying the National debt off
in greenbacks. Why, they are worse
of, my friends, than the man going to
Tantum that | once heard of. A man
going to Tantum stopped and inquired
of another how far it was to Tantum.
/" Well, my friend, if you keep on in
that direction, it is about $4,000
miles, as near as | can calculate, to
Tantum; but il you turn round and 60
the other way, it is exactly six miles.
Applause Now, my Democratic
friends, you are going the wrong road
to Tantum, and ii you continue in that
direction, you will have to go way
around by China, and fear you will
never get to your greenbaok pOlicv.
[ Applause. So it is with the whole
list of the financial questions, which
arc the favOrite questions with the
Western Democracy. There is the
National Bank question. You are in
favor of abollshing the National
Banks, and substituting the green
back currency in their stead. Why,
my friends, don t you know how they
treated that plan in the New York
Convention. Your Democrats from
Ohio, Indiana, and other Western
States, handed in your resolutions in
favor of this doctrine to the Commit
tee on Platform, but August Belmont,
and HOYatio Seymour, and the money
ring of New York, quietly pocketed
your resolutions, and you have not
one word in the platform against
these National Banks. And another
question you make, is in favor of tax
ing the bonds. Now, do you know
what the New York Convention did?
They say they are willing to let these
bonds be taxed if all kinds of prop
erty is taxed alike. Now, the present
plan is to tax the accumulated
wealth; TO tax things which are not
necessaries of life. So, In Ohio, for
example, ne-haf or three-fourths of
the National tax is upon items which
we can pay or not, as we please.
SIX millions five hundred thousand
of this tax comes from whisky
Now, if you don't want to pay it dent
drink whisky. Applause. The
whisky is made here In Ohio, sent
down the Ohio River and up the Mis-.
sissippi, and into all the rivers of the
South. And where does it 60 to?
Why, three -fourtbs of that. tax, at
least, is Maid by these rebel rascals
who drink our whisky at the South,
and in that way, and in that way
alone. they hello to pay the taxes.
( Applause Well, over four mil
lions come from incomes; and no
man pays an income unless it exceeds
81 ,O00 Now the poor man don't
pay any of this. a man whose
income is not above $1,000 does not
nav any part of this. But the Demo-
cratic plan, mark what it is; that plan
is to pay upon every particle of prop
erty, upon all property alike. 1t
would tax your wheat just the same
rs whisky; the drayman's horse and
dray just the same as the rich man 5
horse and carriage. Now, how did
our Western Democrats come to agree
to a plan that would put the burden
upon all property alike, instead of
the way il is now, upon the aecumu-
lated wealth add upon the luxuries of
life? Why, | will tell you. The
Eighth Congressional District Of New
York, where Belmont and all those
rich fellows reside, pays more in
come tax than all the districts of
Ohio. Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska
and Kansas combined. | can pick
out forty Western Congressional Dis
triets that don't pay as much income
tax as that single district IN New
York city. Now, these men would
like to have that changed. They
know if they eau put the tax upon
all property alike, upon lands, upon
horses, and upon all such property, it