The Morning herald., 1876-01-20
/. ruE 0OMINR CAMPAIGN,

TINE COMING CAMPAIGN,
EDITOR Of THE HERALD.
We have now entered upon another politl-
cal year, that is hereafter to be memora'
Eble.for -its Presidential campaign. As it
was foreseen rampant Republican tyranny
and bloody shirt Autterings to keep up the
animesity between two sections Of the
country is dying out, as any sensible man
ought to have known it would, as the new
actors who have come on the stage have
not the interest in fluttering the old bloody
shirt, that those old tyrants had who are
rapidly passing to their graves. line
Younger regenerated Democracy, who the
people are now putting into power, is e1-
rected TO follow the landmarks pointed ou'
BY the great Jefferson and Jackson de-
,troy corruption, purge the thieves out OF
places in the government, reduce taxes,and
so far as legislation can do it, introduce
economy. Then sound and plentiful cur
rency for the country will follow, and no.
until then. Let the Democratic party lay
down a platform on this policy and
nominate a good, honest, fearless
man to carry out that doctrine and they
will soon have all the money needed
We do mot want platform or candidate
who is either for hard or soft money as II
is called. We want both kinds Of money,
| for there is not gold and silver enough in
the world, to furnish currency sufficient
for it to produce as much happiness and
comfort as.if something was added; tor IN
stance, paper promises paid on gold and
silver, is movable article. Mr.. Bayard,
in late spe ech in Philadelphia, said gold
and silver should be the standard of value
all over the world, that would all be very
nice, if all the countries inhabited by the
human family were alike, the governments
the same, the soil and climate the same,
in fact, if we we're all one happy family,
though unfortunately we are not. Therefore
the case differs, for if we found all our
promises to pay on gold and silver, and
that being movable article, that country
with its king or emperor whose word l.
aw, can compel nine-tenths of his subjects
r to live in the lowest state Of degradation
md work for mere pittance whlc!
/ will attract gold and silver tt
them, and therefore leave sucf
countries as ours without it, although
We mine from sixty to seventy-fve mil
lions a year, probably not SO much as th'
: balance of the entire world and by tn
4 policy that has heen pursued by the Re
i, publican administration, and railroad col
n porations, bond or obligations have bee:
old abroad, the interest on which witt
n other extravagances and stealings irtrc
II duced by the Republicans nearly ever.
year exhaust our product Of gold and sill
, yer, and now for statesman before thi
v state of things is altered or remedied, tf
!, talk of coming down to specie is nonsense
d 1t is one God send for the people Of these
# United States, that we have the richest
q most favored location, Of any spot on God'
n earth, and no foreign country can steal o.
= take it away, like they can Mr.. Bayard
"a standard of value Of gold and silver, if by
1t dishonest unpatriotic men, all our gold ant
l. silver is taken away, we can do h'alth,
h business on greenbacks drawn on our stand
is ard of value, great country that cannot b
= taken away, but with good common sens
d and economy to save the greater par
,e If the product of CUR mines a
home, in few years We should NOV
% quietly and easily into mixed cnrrenc
IN without expressing any one, but to attenF
s. specie payments without first p'actisin
g 9he old Jacksonian policy of econon,
he means in plain language, to crush all bus
re ness down by the old tyrants use Of tt
is sherias' hammer, for there is not or
IS, quarter enough specie in the country
pe found the currency entirely on or subje
Ell to it, and that party or man who attemp
ial it deserves to be beat. No lawyer CT
ty look any closer into business than 9th
on people, the Democratic party are not I
int s,,on ,ible for the dishonesty, corruption
eof and policy of the government for the Ia
to fourteen or fifteen years. Their duty
re- plain. Promise the people if they W
j. vote for and put them into power, tn
nat they will discharge thieves, break UP CT
ro- ruptiop, practice rigid economy, lower