The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-11-03

Fr FTT 49,
merchants and bankers want to know
what the value of their securities will
be after the election Of TildeR or Hayes;
when they begin to doubt. it is time for
poor people TO move when they see their
savings shrinking outof sight, and when
a pail is thrown over the public mind,
then ONE a panic, crash, ruin and col
lapse; many will never rise therefrom.
If such things take place it would never
restore the lost property and it would
be only poor satisfaction to the losers to
know that Mr.. August Belmont thought
there was no danger Of such a state of
things. Where has the craftsmanship
of the Democratic party ever been
shown? Look at the grand and bold
policy pursued by the Republican party
after crushing out the war, insisting on
even the income tax and other taxes to
reduce the debt of nation. With $50
millions of a reduction in debt we al
face the criticism of Europe and be
prepared for even the emergency of
another war.
The next question at issue was re-
sumption of specie payment;the Repub-
lican party decided to resume specie
payment in 1879 and to-day that is the
law of the land. Previous to Mr.. Til
denis entering as a presidential candi-
date he thought it was a good law, but
now he thinks that the naming Of a
specified day is an insurmountable OBJ
stacle to specie payment. That the
day would he long distant in the fu-
ture when specie payment would be
resumed if the democratic candidate
were elected, was the belief of every
man of sense. The result of Mr.. Til
denis long and unmarried life is proba-
bly, due to his naming the day but it
was so far off the length Of time con-
fused and embarrassed him. (Laughter)
This Democratic regard for rag money,
he regarded us the greatest political
effrontery;he had read Tilden's letter of
acceptance backwards and forwards
but could find NJ signs of specie pay
ment about it.
The next topic he would speak Of
was the treatment of the question of
the ratification of the South and the
pacifcation of the country:
The Democratic party has done
anything except to protract, prolong
and embarrass the war, and this is the
party that seeks to gain control of the
government. There is a duty to which
white men can never be %recreant, un-
less they admit that the freedmen are
better fitted to govern them than them
| selves and one thing which would de-
serve both the curse of God and man
would be the desertion of the freedmen
and leaving them a prey to the rebels.
prolonged cheers). Would it be wise
to trust the country to this Democratic
party? He thought not. 1t is wholly
neutrality-suspicious. from the very party
we expelled from power afew years past
ut the expense of SO much blood and
treasure. The question is, is the DEM
ocratic party as now constituted and
led, the same as when Jas. Buchanan
was president? The speaker here drew
a contrast between Tilden and Buchan-
an, and said that there was an odor of
devotionality around Mr.. Tilden. He
then reviewed Gov. Tilden's action in
1860 and read extracts from a letter of
question of the power of Il state TO Sc
cede. The speaker then gave q vivid
description of the great uprising of the
people in this city in 1860 and the mon
ster meetings which were held, and adj
ded that Tilden never attended them or
displayed any Patriotism. If Tilden is
elected the men who will fill Congress
will carry through their bills and meas
ures, although the pretense is made that
he would veto all bills on Southern war
claims. Why, they would break the
president or break the veto; but they
are bone of his bone and flesh of his
flesh.
Mr.. Evarts wound up with a splendid
peroration in which he said that in
1776 n great and glorious nation was
born, the United States, including
South Carolina; that the votes of this
free people might elevate Tilden to the
presidential chair Oil the 7th of Nov,
but until then he would never believe it.
He was greeted with tremendous APP
plause as he retired from the platform.