The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-24

this city tonight The people alive TO the OF
hour In this State, and are girdng for tho light
There a very largo audience in Capitol square this
evening hear the democratic side Of the questions
which will enter prominently into this canvas The
speakers were the Hon. George H. Pcndleton, of
Cincinnati, and General Ewing, OF Lancaster. The
former spoke for than an hour the policy and
shortcomings oil the republican party and fol-
lowed by General Ewing Oh the same themo Tacre
was great similarity In their speeches, Of which
abstracts are gvon below. Each gentleman went over
the whole range OF subjects In the ncld OF his labor,
aud dwct with peculiar emphasis on the currency and
labor questions:-
sgEYcn OF GEORGE u. rESpLsrox.
He said: -
MT FxLLow CIrrxKss-I speak to you TO- night be.
cause our country suffers because honest industrious
employment IN vain and their families want
food. Hdrper's Weekly says:-'It 10 computed that
there are three millions OF people III the country Idle
years ago received So and So day eagerly accept
nifty cents All labor has been forced to submit TO
reduced wages"
We ought IN G candid spirit to search tho cause II
the government either In It's legislation adm uis
r 5aton, =. iau. we Gusna 10 apply tho remedy
to you republicans and democrats alike. II 90 not
convince your judgment / Will not wound your just
susccptiblies. | critcise policies, not motives
Ohio 10 fortunate State. Its soil Is fertile, It's
climate IL heantu Its mines are rich, Its population
Is hardy, enierprisng, intelligent The lake. the
river, tho Marietta the Baltimore aud Ohio the PITTS
burg and Fort Wayne, tho Pttsourg aud ST. Louis, the
Atlantic and Great Western tho Lake Shore railroads
the intcrsecting canals anu railroads IRON north to
south brng all It's parts into easy communication.
Nature, always bountu, has given 1t an exceptionally
abundant harvest Neither plague nor pestilcnce las
visited It, And yet the highways and byways arc
fllsd with tramps; the cities ana villages iIlod
with deeds Of violence against person ana property
the station houses aud warehouses filled with the
poor and hungry and miserable as well as GRIM
inas labor Is dscOutcncd. anu the dscontent ultcrs
omnous threats and is occasionally tempted 10 wicked
deeds In = word, men are idle, women are suffering,
children are hungry, all are unhappy; our Industries
all derangcd business IS stagDun, enterprise and
energy SIT with folded hands, and all men look with
anxiety Tor that which shall come TO pass. speak OF
affairs In Ohio because | know them. speak what
you know. ] testify that which you have Now,
why Is thsP There must be u cause What is it
One fact confronts US this inquiry. The laws of
TAXATION the laws Of the tariff the commercial system
the financial systcm-hese touch Tue worry life and
being OF the whole social and industrial fabric Tho
these laws and these systems. 1t has had power for
halt q generation Even since the war IL has had
time has there been an adverse House Of Repre-
sentstives. II has used this power without
is left OF 1t. bears almost entirely and very
heavily upon Western industries and the
product of Western lands. The tariff iadjusted
1t produces little revenue; Is extremely
those who import and pay dutes EFFORTS large sub
sides Tor private interests from those do not and
saps the prosperity of every industry. even those 1t
Affects protect Scarcely ship navigates the
under the flag Of tho United States and the
do are put on the Clyde aud belong to foreign owners
The financial system may be briefly stated An I'M.
mense public Indebtedness, payable In paper, has, by
the effect of two laws, been made payable gold only
and thereby been increased thirty per cent Silver
has boen demonetzed, and gold, the only remaining
legal tender Tor the bonds, has been
HANGED accordingly. Resumption OF specie payments
ordained Tor January, 1879, and within egh
teen months they have no plan except the illegal con
gold. The first measure largely Increased the indeb-
edness. The second diminished the currency In which
that Indebtedness eau be paid The third efecually
and necessarily destroys the industries and energies
by which the means Of pay can be earned The
Egyptian policy Of requiring bricks, and
son. facts only. pass Tor the present IA
examination OF tho effect OF these various laws An
OHIO audience understands them we'll The great
campaign OF 1875 was fought upon these laws. Their
effect ioreseen, examined predicted with unerrng
accuracy. The Resumption act was analysed and Its
etzation OF silver was not then appreciated; has
only increased the momentum OF the general move
ment. Prophecy has become accomplished IN history,
and this night the ten thousand failures OF the last
twelve months the weary footsteps OF the innumera
be multitude seeking work. the strikes Of unpaid Ia
borers the bloody and disgrsceiul riots In our cities.
the roads filled with tramps and station houses filled
with homeless paupers indct the republican policy as
the OF this condition OF affairs.
Mr.. Pendeton attacked the policy OF the republican
party In general and the present adm in par
ocular and then pointed out the democratic plan for
the relief OF labor He said the democratic party trac
ing the paupersm and discomfort OF the people and
the pIpstrtion Of all prosperity 10 The vicious policy
which he had described u demands tho repeal OF the
Resumption the restoration OF the old silver dollar,
the retention of green backs, the cessation their
dun by the Cover nmcnt making all legal tender
and the paper and the coin nterconvertble AZ par.
This will give US stable currency, sound cur.
wheels OF industry, give sails " our commerce
and labor to our artisans. This will lift from our
enterprise and energy the weight which has long
oppressed them. This will revive hope, renew
fdence. and, by removing the uncertainty as to the
future, stimulate the activities SO long dormant 1t
will act just con,rariwise to the republican policy.
All business will instantly feel its influence, and within
a year after its adoption II Will rebuild the places
rh hnuA lNnnn mazda tn nr m
commend 1t TO your thoughtful consideration. l
commend It to you laborers, whose bravo hearts have
asked nothing more for your Independence than az
much work as your strong and Wiling arms can DO.
| commend II to you of the workingmcns party,
shoula be dle, but tina, 1t should all combine with
labor. commend II to all good citizens whose highest
aim Is their couatry's welfare.
OF HON. THOMAS KwI2G.
The speech of Thomas Ewing was substa ntiaIH as
He said that long political strife had happily ended
in the triumph OF the democratic principle OF local
soif government; and another equally proiractcd and
momentous struggle Is now nearing It's decisive day.
For years past, violation OF the constitution
and OF the pledges on whicn the war was fought tho
republican party held several great states in military
subection fastened on them rule OF ignorance and
vice; robbed them by intocrable debt and taxation;
fomcntcd race and sectional hatred and prevented
the restoration oil that free government and ratcrna
feeling, without which the vain and It's
fruits but ashes. Aud Tor ten years past IN violation
Of It's duty TO the great people who bore the heat
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debt homo, q currency debt and leaving then
prosperous industries undisturbed by contraction ana
forced resumption It has doubled the public burden by
fraudulent making the grecnback debt coin debt;
sold the bonds abroad, and mado America, as a bor-
rover the Of Europe, the lender demonetized
silver at the demand OF foreign Shyocks, and to
crown its bunders and crimes paray zed the Astounding
energy OF our people by scheme oil gold resumption,
which is filing the land with bankruptcy and the
hearts Of tho aboring masses with despair
But tho Presidential election came, and the
people, by the choice OF Tidcn, demanded
restoration Of free government In the South and in
dustral prosperity in the North. They were buhed
out OF their choice tor President by the tn reat
little fellow from Michigan should falsely declare
Hayes elected and that the retiring President should
then install him at the point OF tue bayonet II GER
tain leaders OF the Eastern democracy had met this
threat the democracy OF the West met II, hKc Tree
men jealous OF their liberties. instead OF like bond
holders trembling about four per cents, tho bullics
of the republican party would have cowcd, as bulcs
do when met by resolute men. But the right eau
not DO long baflod by mere chcane and fraud
The democratic party having succeeded in its years.
struggle the south from tho rule OF the carpet
bagcers m ust now Tree the nation from the still