The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-11-05
NEW JERSEY

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.Snator Bayar,Fs Speech al Jersy city.
The Democrats Of Jersey City held a
using meeting on Thursday evening
of last week. and were addressed by
Senator Bayard Of Delaware. The fol-
lowing is his able and argumentative
speech
MY FELLow-COUNTRYMEN AND CIrI-
zENs OF NEw JERSEY: Atthe invitation
Of your chairman have come, snatching
moment from the labors Of busy can
vass in my own State, to take counsel as
TO our duty in the present canvass. Il is
time when men should take counsel
together. This broad land isvery full of
distress to-day. There are to-day in
this c ty, in every village Of this State, in
every hamlet Of this Union, more strong
hands idle that long for work than ever
before in the history of our people. Not
only has there been much wearing
thought in he past year, but here we are
on the threshold of cold winter, and the
sunlight of relief has not yet dawned.
In such a time is it not fit that you of
New Jersey and of Delaware should take
counsel together3 All, gentlemen our
friendship is not of modern date it is of
an old and ancient date. Let me 90
back and take your hearts with me to
the days and the spirit of '76--to that
cold Dec .mber night when Washington
crossed the river that flows between your
home and mine to victory, and on that
cold Christmas morning there stood to-
gether there the Jersey blues and the
blue hens chickens. Together they
stood at Monmouth, Princeton, and York
town till British rule passed into history,
applause Now may we not come to-
gether to see if the spirit Of our ancestors
may not carry us through the perils that
confront us2 They distributed power
and placed checks upon its exercise, so
that the people should learn the great
principle Of local self-government. 1t
was the spirit of non-interference be-
tween State and State, which they taught,
and it is this spirit which invoke to-
night Itwere impossible to speak of all
the issues of the hour shall not sreak
of financial Questions, of that abomina-
BILE legacy = rag-money 49, which has
doubled the cost of rede .ming our debt
! shall not speak Of party which claims
to be the guardian of the peoples credit
| can but smile at their rag barons who
ask you to credit a party which has never
made pledge but to break it say
nothing of tariff duties which have given
us protection until our trade has been
protected out Of existence and the whole
business Of the country brought to a
deadlock. speak of higher interests
than these My friends, we may be
p or, W. may be in rags, we may have
bad money and not good, but leave us
still the principles of constitutional liber-
ty and our children may gloriously re-
trieve the disasters Of their sires. What
is the issue of the day? On the one side
coercive legislation enforced by the bu-
let the bayonet, the dragoon, and the
battery, all peaceful processes forgotten,
laws enforced by regiments, and propped
like Kellogg's government by bayonets.
Opposed is a party struggling against
this Do you doubt this What does
that party rely on for the enforcement Of
its tariff? Spies and informers.
heard a man, whose name | hesitate to
utter among decent men-this Mr.. But
Ter, of Massachusetts-say that through
the action of the laws of his party letters
from respectable women had gone into
into the hands Of an informer, and he
could say this in an American Congress
unrebuked. What is your so-called De-
pLrtment of Justice-Heaven save the
mark-what is your Attorney-General :
The chief Of banditt, this year IN Ala
bama but next in New Jersey. Ships Of
war have been moored in your harbor
and United States soldiers landed in the
streets of New York to enforce the laws
of this party already, 1t looks now as if
thenext congressmay have Democratic
majority DO you take that in! 1t
means that all this shall cease, it means
a change to prevent corruption, and in
vestigate the rottenness Of departments
and find where this money has been
squandered. (Applause.) More; we
elect in 1876 a successor to General
Grant. (Applause.) Mr.. Roscoe Conk-
ling, his bosom friend, has told us we
must choose between Grant and Dem
ocrat, and we will. 'Applause.) For
getting his caution, Mr.. Conkling an
nounced Grant for third term in that
sc tence, and on that we have some
thing to say The victory we fight for
to-day is that the votes in 1876 of elect
ors for president may be honestly count
ed before Democratic congress. If
anything else would not rouse you, re-
member that, your vote in, November is
the Growing vote Of 1876. AThe country
looks to your State For six months in
the year the capital is at one of your
watering places, one of your citizens in
the navy department serves Grant there,
and your senior senator serves him any,
where. (Laughter) am happy to say
you have a true man to Offset him, John
p. Stockton. (Applause.) He is, it is
true, in the minority, as are the rest Of
US. We can do but asiwe have done
march to defeat; but, please God, al
ways ready to march again.
'Ts not In nortals To command success
We win do more, Horatio; we'll deserve It,
Let me call your attention to some Of
the acts Of your senior senator, IA
voice, "How about the Gag lawi~
Well, I'll tell you Its an old American
idea that the laws should be the reflex of
the popular will. BY this party, on the
contrary, the wishes Of the party were
disregarded. The press expressed the
discomfort of the people at these laws
and at the rascalty of the District gov
ernment. calling Shepherd. the Presi-