The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-08-05
SP E Il OH
DELIVERED BY
GOVERNOR ALLEN
AT
Newark, Saturday Evening, July l7ih.

Governor Allen paid visit to New
ark Saturda ,Ju.y II, to coas u tabout
some matters of local politics, and was
induced by the Democrats to make
them speech in the evening. The
wea ther was intensely hot, and the
hall crowded, 50 that he did not speak
more than half an hour. The follow
ing is a very full abstract of his speech {:
Men Of Nesvark, Friends and Eel
lOac-citizenS:
Many time before this have you
and stood face to face to discuss the
public questions of the day but at no
time have we come together under cir
cumstancss SO profoudly interesting
to the American people as on this oc-
casion, when forty millions of people
inhabiting one of the largest and most
fertile portions of the globe, feel that
something oppresses them deeply and
seriously. Every government, what
ever may be its form, makes itself re-
sponsible for the condition of its peo-
pie to very large extent. In a free
government, based upon popular suf-
frage, aud acting through the repre-.
sentative principle, tbs action of tae
government upon the people in their
dearest rights becomes matter of the
most serious import to the, people.
For more than fifteen years one class
of men have had absolute and unre-
strained control of the Federal Gov
ernment, and, during all that period,
the control of almost all our State
governments. Whatever there is of
happiness, of prosperity, dependent
upon the action of the government !;
whatever there is of suffering and
misery, dependent upon the action of
the government, is ascribable to that
party, for good or for i'll. They had
it all. The great Democracy of the
Union had no function but that OF
paying taxes. Applause. The 9th
er party had all the power, all the tax
es, and all the profits that necessarily
grew out Of them. [ApPlause.]
Now, if the condition Of the Amer
lean people is prosperous and happy,
if no man is disconnected ; if no man
is dissatisfied if there is no clique or
ring usurping the public authority and
the public taxes; if every
man who wants to work is employed
and well paid if every factory is run
ming, with its blazing fires throughout
the entire day if the farmers, without
being overburdened BY taxes, are
the full rewards of their hard
labsr in the long summer sunshine,
aud have enough to subsist and edu-
cate their families; if every farmer
finds his farm without mortgage, him
self without debt, ready to extend the
hand of fraternity to all unfortunate
if this be the condition of
affairs, then we ought to thank the
for bringing this state OF
things about. Laughter and applause]
With these long years of absolute
rule-the war did not last all these fif-
teen years the war is not to be used
as an excuse for what happened after
peace was restored-if, when the war
closed, and when this party took the
entire mass of the Southern States
into their own hands, and said, "We
will govern as we please; we will re-
if the operation of their
reconstruction has restored the South
ern people to their wonted prosperity,
if it has established peace without
discord, they are entitled to the ap-
probation of the country. That the
Congress Of the United States is re-
sponsible for the government of the
South and its turbulence and discord
is manifest from the fact that the party
dominant in that body was tho only
political power that had any. efficiency
there. II they could not rule the
Southern States after the rebellion had
how fit are they to rule
forty millions of people throughout
this whole continent LAppIause.
They spread baneful blight ever
the entire South they promised peace
and prosperity, and they gave them
the sword and haye. fulfilled their
promise by producing anarchy and
pauperism. Applause They were
loading down the people of the United
States with taxes every day, and at
the very time they were piling up the
taxes on the people of the North, they
had so desolated the Southern States
that they had no taxes to contribute,
and all that the Southern States were
unable to contribute was added to the
taxes of the Northern States. That is
a part of their doings.
Well, they were in u situation to set
an example Of economy, of purity, to
the whole American people.
They had all the power, and III
Democracy had none. They could
have economical the expenses of this
government twenty fold more than
they did, but they did not choose to
do it. They went on increasing the
taxes, increasing the expenditures and
a large per cent. of all the taxes paid
by the people meyer reached the Pub
lie Treasury. 1t was confiscated on
its way. They mildly termed it de-
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faulters would almost rival the innu-
merable multitude that st. John saw
in his vision.
Now, l want to define what This
word defalcation means. You have
not the least difficulty, if man, al.
though hungry, or prompted by the
cries Of nature, when his little child
lifts up his hands and says, "Father