The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-06-13

accordance with constitutional provisions.
All Democrats rejoice with unbounded Joy
that free republican governments are once
more allowed to the states of South Caro-
lima and Louisiana. They rejoice in the
good fruits that must follow. They know
that peace and good order will prevail;
that capital will be made secure and labor
safe, contented and happy; that enterprise
will revive and the cruel burdens of gov
ernment and public corruption will be lifted
from the shoulders of labor, and that the
productions will increase and lands adYaDce
in price; but they know that, in the Ian
guage of Gov. Morton, 1T had become
inevitable that good government in the
states was not free will offering upon the
affairs of the country" For years the
Democrats had contended in Congress and
before the people for free republican
states throughout the south, and finally
it became inevitable because right and
truth were too strong to be longer sup
pressed. In this the Democrats find reason
to stand more firmly with their party out
of power, with no patronage to dispense
and no money to Distribute; but animated
by the spirit of our institutions and in
spired by the sentiment that the right of
local self government IS inherent in the
people. the Democratic party during the
past ten years has restored one state after
another until now the tread eff the soldier
is heard in no legislative hall, but in every
state the people are governed by laws of
their own enacting and by officers of their
own choosing.
Ny fellow citizens, my home is in the
west, aud my associations have been with
the people of that section, Among you /
am personally almost stranger Yet l
am received by you with open arms and
cordial greetings. Need say | am graft
fed? Because of this the fact has more
than personal significance. Does it not
proclaim that we entertain no sectional
political sentiment or sectional politics.
Some may think we should have an east
ern policy aHd others that it should be
western, but it seems to me that New
Yorker and an Indianian should under
stand it better than that and that the
administrative policy should be as broad
and comprehensive as the industries and
trade and commerce which it may affect
Does the trade of the great cities of the
Atlantic stop with the mountains? Does
it not reach beyond the Mississippi and
across the Missouri Every new home
that is built on that receding border, every
new farm that is made far out, even within
the shadow of the Rocky mountains. and
every additional bale of cotton that is pro-
duced in Louisiana and Texas, add some
thing to the worth of New York, and
Boston, and Philadelphia, and Baltimore.
Is there New Yorker who walks up and
down this great Broadway but hears and
feels the throbbing of local commerce ?
Let such a man break over the narrow
bounds and habits Of his life and visit the
great cotton and grain growing regions.
nor let him stop until he hears the waves
Of the Pacific dashing against the COLDER
shores of California, and he will be able
| better to understand and appreciate the
magnitude and complicated relations oi
the interests which are affected by the
| financial and commercial policy of the
country. Successful enterprise and de-
Yelopment in remote parts of the country
are as certainly and almost as directly con
nected with the prosperity of this city al
are the permanent and valuable improve
ments upon your more distant streets.
haye said this under the influence of th
sentiment ttat in respect to production an
trade the east and west and south are one
and that wise and just policy will alik
and almost equally promote the prosperit
of each, if your judgment should be a
comprehensive as the influence of you
commerce and as far reaching as the di:
tant lines OF your trade
} The proceeding terminated with brie
speeches by Governor Robinson, Lieutenar
Governor Dorsheimer and Senator NJ,
Donald. of Indiana,