The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-11

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may be defined alike 10 the voters Of Maine
and OF Texas, OF Oregon and Of Florida. 1t u
Idle to Imagine that the Democratic party
can eyer succeed upon the basis o. one set o.
another section; or upon the strength OF Q
certain set Of principles TO be preached fol
example, at the North, and q set Of practices
at variance with those principles, to be fol.
4 lowed, for example, at the South.
"These are generalities which, presume
everybody will admit to be true and logical
| Now as to details:
awe are told that the South will demand al.
most unanimously that the Speaker commit
| himself In favor Of what Is known as
THE TEXAS PACIFIC RAILWAY SUBSIDY
generally called for short Tom Scott d
scheme; that the South will not support any
| candidate who refuses TO do this. Now
don't believe any such statement | don't
estimate the quality of the Democracy of the
South upon any such sordid basis. expect
the support Of several Southern men. shall
receive the votes Of several members whose
constituents would derive much material BEN
eft from. the construction Of the. Texas Pa
| clfic road. And yet / do not hesitate to say
that scheme, but on the contrary, shall an
tagonize all public subsidies TO private
or corporate interests In all sections
Of the country and for any purposes whatso-
eyer-for the simple reason that the practice
Of granting subsidies cannot be made con-
sistent with the declarations Of principle upon
which the Democratic party stands before the
country
q YOU say, colonel, that you do not believe
the South VIII with any ,, tsa e n n
favor OF the scheme or schemes under consid-
GRAFTON. Are you sure Of that p
81 am sure Of 1t on two grounds: First, be-
cause 1t would not be sound craftsmanship,
Il
policy for the Democratic representatives from
the South to take such ground at this time.
sit is assumed that the South has d major
ity in the caucus, and thereby controlling
power IN the House. We'll, that is one branch
Legislative branch trembles In the balance,
with chances In our favor, while the executive
branch, about half wrested from the clutches
of old fashioned Radicalism, may be gained
fashioned IA Radiicalism, according is we behave
In the. use of what power we already have.
Now, In my Judgment, any attempt on the
part Of the South to force any conclusions at
this time would be Q regular hand to mouth
policy. Our Southern friends are too
keen. politicians not to understand the
great fact that the more q party has
to lose the easier it is for q faction to control
IT, just now the Democratic party has very
little to lose and hence the South, though
the minority very difficult to ooeree. But let
the party obtain control OF the nation. Then
1t would have 9 great deal at stake. and IL the
South still held majority In It's councils that
majority would be worth something.
1.-THE policy OF the last campaign was to
count SO many electoral votes as sure from
the solid South and then figure just enough
out Of the Northern States to elect the ticket.
This, rs we have all discovered to our grief,
generally agreed among Democrats now
that we must have a large margin
of success III order to win In al
national contest. 1t Is idle to talk about mot
toleratlng another count-in' by the Radi-
be held next month and should be as close as
the last one was, they would count their man
In again, just as they did before. believe
they would undertake. to count out anything
less than sixty electoral majority, for ex-
margin OF success In order to win. Now we
cannot hope to gain this additional margin in
New England; we cannot get 1t In the Middle
States, because we already have them except
Pennsylvania, and we can never get that
State In q vital election until somebody
smashes the counting machine of the
Cameron ring In Philadelphia: we cannot
get It In the South because that 1t is already
solid. We have then only the central West
and Northwest to look to for the gains neces
sary to our success.
oHIo ILLINOIS AND WISCONSIN
are the States TO which the Democratic party
must look for its only chance Of winning lii
1880. These States can be won by straight
forward, consistent devotion to Democratic
principle, but they can never be gained by q
got Of Democratic principles for one section |
hare gre Violated by Democratic practices
Nobody need misunderstood your attitude |
IN the Tom Scott question, Col Morrison |
Will you be equally frank about the
1EvEEs OF THE MISSISSIPPI ?"
''That is another question. The Missis-
'ippi is natural artery of commerce, pene- |
rating atntg nj, nearly ,, all sections and Of
ill.,, ill., As saw such pa the i use Of the
National energies and resources for it's i'm |
is perfectly legitimate and in ac-
ord with the strictest Interpretation of |
he Improvement Of the river for purposes OF |
navigation consists In combining its waters,
md, therefore, In rebuilding It's levees to q
certain extent. The burden Of this ought not |
o fall upon riparian owner or even States,
will not, indeed, favor any special
svee system beyond the needs of navigation.
nd designed purely to augment the value OF
rivate property in real estate but will go
2 all reasonable bounds In the improvement
the navigable character of the stream
well, Colonel, that detinitionof your views
!, certainly clear enough. viii you complete
ne platform by informing the public how
on STAND on |
THE CURRENCY QUESTION p
Il am for resumption of specie payments
ure and simple. To resume means to return
, some previous state. Therefore, when men
peak OF resumption they properly mean a
sturn to the monetary system that prevailed
this country, say, prior to 1861 They do
OF mean the adoption of any new system.
he old system involved what Is called dou-
10 standard, In which gold and silver Jointly
nd severally constituted the monetary stand
I'd OF the country. It has been proposed, on
he one hand, to abandon coin as a monetary
asis and substitute the paper of the Federal
overnment. Ioppose that. 1t has also been
roposed to adopt standard of gold coin
one. am equally opposed to that l am
said before, for resumption In the proper
'nse OF the term, and that means a return to
le monetary standard Of, say, 1860; which
)ly as the coinage of the realm"
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T., AZ