Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-06-21

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demanded . testoration of .locat self-
government In all the States where il
had been denied. They insisted upoo
. reduction throughout the entire pub
lie service, and expenditures, not OF
hundreds, nor yet of thousands, but oi
many millions annually. Therein was
involved also great reduction Of the
vast array ofof6ce- holders, and the sub
stitution OF honest for dishonest admin
istration. Contendine for results so
notably right and honorable, their cause
was grand and their victory giorious.-
I will not disturb the pleasure of this
occasion by undertaking to recount the
means whereby the win and judgment
of the people were defeated. The re-
suit as declared in Indiana and in Flor
ida and in Washington is not and cam
not be made. satisfactory to the country,
for the obvious reason that il was not
true. A great and sincere people will
rest their judgment only upon truth,
and never upon fraud successful through
technicality. Even should the Presi-
dent and bis Cabinet adopt a part or
the whole Of policies and purposes for
which the democratic party has been
contending for many years, and which
became so distinctly defined last year,
even that cannot remove or quiet the
public discomfort.
The Democrats will make no factious
opposition nor will they seek to embar-
rass the de facto Administration, but
will sustain it in what is right, because
it is right, and for the welfare of the
country, and not at all because of any
fealty to the party that stands defeated
and condemned by the people. The
people cannot allow the selection of
their chiefmagistrates TO become thing
Of chance or of sharp practice. The
fraud first triumphant in American
history" must be assigned to its proper
place among the crimes against popular
government, and made so odious that
| no party will dare to attempt It's repeti-
ton. He who is elected President must
be inaugurated. Until that is settled
and made sure no Democrat can be se-
| duced from his devotion and allegiance
by the allurcments of office, nor even
by the. stronger appeal in the abandon
ment by the Administration Of vicious
principles and dangerous policies, and
the adoption Of better doctrines and just
| measures. Democrats will not intrust
their most cherished principles to the
keeping of the power which is attained
by vicious and corrupt means. They
| will the rather continue their faith in the
right of the majority TO rule in accord
ance with constitutional provision. All
Democrats rejoice with untoundsd Joy
that free republican governments are
once more allow ed to the States of South
Carolina 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 Sc
cure and labor safe, contented and hap
py; that enterprise will revive aud the
evil burdens of bad government and
public corruption will be lifted from the
shoulders Of labor, and that production
will increase and lands advance in price.
But they know that-in the language OF
Governor Morton-it had become inev-
itable. Good government in the States
was not free-will offering upon the al
tar of the country. For years the Dem
ocrats had contended, in Congress and
before the people, for free republican
States throughout the South. And f.
nally ii became .'inevitable," because
the right and truth were too strong to be
longer suppressed. In this Democrats
find reason to stand firmly with their
party. Out OF power, with no patro-
mage to dispense and no money to dis
tribute, but animated by the spirit Of our
institutions and inspired by the senti-
ment Of the right Of local self. govern
ment, as inherent IN The people, the
Democratic party during the past ten
years has restored one State after an
other, until now the tread Of the SOL
diery is heard in no Legislative hall. but
in every State the people are governed d
by laws Of their own enacting and by
officers Of their own choosing: My
1 fellow-citizens, my home is in the
West, and my associations have been
with the people of that section. Among
you 7 am personally almost stranger,
yet l am received by you with open
arms and cordial greeting. Need say
that am grati6ed because OF this fact
II has more than personal significance.
Does it not proclaim that we entertain
no sectional political sentiments, and
that We viii have no sectional policies:
Some may think we should have an
Eastern policy, and others that it should
be Western. But il seems 10 me tba,
New Yorker and an Indianian should
underestimate better than that, and thai
our legislative and administrative polity
should be ~ broad and comprehensive
as The industries aud trade and COM
merce which il may affect. Does the
trade Of the great cities Of the Atlantis
stop with the mountains Does il nol
reach beyond the Mississippi and acrosl
the Missouri, Every new home thal
| 10 built upon the receding border. ere.
i ~ nee farm that % msde TAR out even
4 within the shadow Of the Rocky Noun.
tains. snd everv sddisional bale q cot
! ton thss - produced IN LeuisisnS snt
Texas, adds something to the great