The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-10-25
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Senator Whyte on the National Finances.
WHAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WANTS AND
WHAT 1T WILL. DO.

WHAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WANTS AMI
WHAT 1T WILL DO.
Senator Whytc delivered an able and
striking speech at a mass meeting in Bal
timore, on October 18th, which was
received with marked favor and applause
by an immense audience. We publish the
Senator's language on the important topics
OF the canvass, rs it well merits general
perusal. The Senator said
This is an extraordinary canvass. There
are 292 representative to he elected to the
Forty sixth Congress and the candidates
number about 800. Some of them since
Tuesday have fallen by the waysde. The
parties contending for success have not been
confined to the Republican and Democratic
organizations, as since the war, but com
prise them and also Grcenbackcrs, Temper
ance men, Nationals and Butterflies, each of
the latter claiming some special theory of
their own not consistent, in my judgment,
with the general good.
Practically, however, the issue is between
the Republicans and the Democrats us the
elections in the West show, and no Demo-
crat need leave his old party to wander
into pastures new if he really loves his
country and desries to better its condition.
After March 4, 1879 the Senate will be Dem
ocratic by at least ten majority, and if the
Democratic party carry the House of Rep
rescntatives that result will render imposs-
BILE repetition of the fraud by which
Samuel }. Tilden, your lawfully. elected
President, was deprived of the fruits of that
victory.
You all know how strongly opposed the
electoral commission, denouncng the pro-
iect on the floor of the Senate as Demo-
cratic surrender, and finally yielding reluct-
antly to it, because it was supported by
older and wiser Democrats and was pressed
upon me by many of our best citizens, in
the interest of peace. Under that piece of
iugglery the verdict of the people was re-
versed by an eightto-seven decree of tri-
bunal of our own creation. This must be
the last and single electoral commission re-.
corded in American history. A Democratic
Congress, therefore, is needed to provide
the proper machinery for counting the cleo
toral votes, so rs to secure to the people the
candidates of their choice. You can see
the importance of Democratic House.
Again, suppose there should be three can
didates in 1880, and no election by the peo-
pie, the House will choose your President
for the ensuing four years. A third party,
holding the balance of power in that body,
would he national calamity, for the bar
gains and intrigues which such IL condition
of things would beget might again involve
the country in violence and confusion
Again, you need Democratic House, in
concert with the Senate, to devise ways and
means to lift the laborng classes out of
their distress and suffering into cond ton
of prosperity and happiness.
No man denies that there is widespread
want and trouble all over the land. who
is responsible for it? Surely not the De-
mocracy. The Republicans for sixteen
years controlled the legislation of the coun-
try, and by their wasteiulness and extrava.
gance, by their enormous issues Of paper
money to carry on the war, by their grind
ing taxation to pay in advance the public
debt, by their enormous increase of public
offices, from "A, 900 under Buchanan to 1922.
900 under Grant, by their odious and un.
Just tariff, they have entailed upon you the
vast burdens you bear. Applause.
The immense public debt, now standing
at two billions of dollars, gigantic as it is,
is only equal to one-half of the amount of
money wrung from the people by taxation
in the last twelve years. Terrible as it is,
we and our children must pay it, Better n
thousand times be ground to powder under
the financial milestone than suffer the re-
proach of reputation to tarnish the fair
fame of American credit. No Marylander
who remembers our trials and our heroic
courage in 1914, aud the resplendent glory
which shone upon Maryland's escutcheon
after it emerged from the dark clouds of
financial distress, can give his voice or vote
to any repudiating party.
The Greenback party proposes to ply the
national debt, as it natures, in greenbacks
80 that a debt of the United States bearing
interest is paid by a promssory note of the
United States not bearing interest and pay
able at no fixed period, tit may be for years
it may be forever" This ought to be call.
ed the Micawber party, for such PROPOSE
tions are entitled to just as much consider.
! alton as his financial theories. The debt