Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-03
THE DEMOCRACY.
senator Toerhees Contract. Democratic

which the people are most interested, is the
great distress under which the country is
laboring. He proposed to speak in regard
for that distress, After balancing
accounts he was disposed to stand
now as he had stood for years, for
the Democratic party. He could congrat-
ulate his Democratic friends that in not one
particle are we responsible for the dark
cloud that now lowers over the land. The
Democratic party has not for seventeen years
had the power either to enact or make law.
He dwelt at length on the history of the
legislation of the past seventeen years, and
showed that the enactments of 1862, 1869,
and 1873 and their results were due to the
Republican party. For this he blamed not
the members but the leaders of the party,
and wished to say to those who declare one
party as much to blame as another that that
is not true. One party and one alone
BROUGHT DISTRESS TO OUR HOMES,
and the reverse of prosperity to every citizen
except bondholders. The speaker recalled
his position in 1862 and 1867, and declared
he had make his record up from those days
without flaw or break, and inside the Demo-
cratic party. He thought what he had built
up as Democrat he could stand by as
Democrat. He claimed to have been the
pioneer in behalf of the greenback, and can
vassed this district years ago successfully on
that issue. Mr.. Voorhees, devoted part of
his speech to discussing the lack of harmony
alleged to exist in the Democratic party. He
said it would be strange if in SO large an
organization there would not be some diver
gence, but claimed that the party is reason
ably harmonious. The great Mississippi
valley is now united, from its source in the
SHOWS to it's mouth in perpetual summer,
and seven-tenths of the whole population
of New York and more than half of New
England have the same purposes as the great
west SO that the party is so far unit that
| it is harmonious enough to commit it to
THE INTERESTS OF THE LABoR1NG MEN
of the United States. The speaker also
endeavored briefly to show that the Demo-
cratic party is not only harmonious in prin-
ciple, but not sectional, and therefore pre-
dicted such a movement of the people under
its policy as has not been seen since Jackson
made war upon the money power in the
name of the people. The Democratic party
had gaown until it had elected governors in
twenty-one States, and how? By antagoniz-
ing that party which had brought upon US
these distresses of which we now complain.
Therefore, this is no time to falter. No one
else has fought that party. Never until the
Democratic party carried one branch of Con-
gress had there been any agitation in place
of power in behalf of reform for the relief of
the people. In the first place, it had cut
down the expenses of the government over
SAC, 900, 900. Then, after the Republicans
has concluded that we could
RESUME SPECIE PAYMENTS
on the first of January, 1879, the Democratic
House had twice attempted to repeal that
law. On one occasion Frank Landers, of
Indiana, had introduced bill to restore the
old silver dollar, and he honored him for it.
There is no greater crime than when the
government goes to work to take out of the
hands of the people money which is needed
to support them in the necessary business of
life. Murder is a light thing in comparison
The Republican party, then, is responsible,
and if he thought the Democratic party
were, he would not remain in it longer than
necessary to jump off this platform. The
whole policy of demonetizing was simply to
make money scarcer, and not that anything
was the matter with the silver dollar. Con
traction was pursued only to give chance
to cut off that much of the supply of money,
and leave little margin of gold which was
| owned by few men, and consequently they
owned the rest of the people. The speaker
| referred to
THE SILVER DEBATE,
and said he had voted against all amend
ments to the silver bill, although some of
them were not SO bad as the party sup
posed. He explained what free coinage is,
| and stated that he had spent his last week in
Washington endeavoring to establish another
mint. He thought another necessary, and
thought Indianapolis the best place for it,
because the government owns seventy-lve
acres there, where the arsenal is situated
The war is over now, all concede, except his
friend Blaine, and therefore he thought a
better use for the buildings in Indianapolis
is for making money for the people than in
storing guns and ammunition. He was sat
is6ed if another mint should be established
that it would be placed in Indianapolis. He
didn't believe the country will have too
much money, and did not think ii ever had
too much, or that there had been any need of
contraction. There would not have been
any move toward contraction
IF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAD BEEN IN POWER.
The Senate is now Republican body, but
let me say after the 4th of next March the
Democratic party will have the Senate as well
as the House. The die is cast, and next
March the Democrats take possession. Then
let the responsibility come. Be not afraid
but that the policy of the government will
then be placed permanently on the side of
the industrial interests of the country. A
government that is not on the side of
the people is accursed of God, and ought not
to stand. This grand old party elected one
President but did not inaugurate him. Next
time it viii do both. It will take western
material next time, q western man not afraid
to 60 in when he knows he's right. The
speaker dwelt on affairs in Indiana and the
enunciations of the Indiana Democracy last
month. He had the honor to be on the
finance committee, and amid the tolls and
responsibilities of the winter it had been a
pleasure to feel that the promptings of his
own conscience were in full accord with the
wishes of his constituents. He had waited
to hear
VOICE FROM INDIANA,
and it had come. The platform had been
put forth, and twenty States rally around
it. In respect to one clause he said he was
not in favor of taxing the people more for
providing them with circulating medium
that is paid the pensioners. The govern
ment expends yearly $3O,OOO,OOO on the
bereayed ones, but it pays more than that
to the bankers for the privilege of issuing
its money for circulation. He was for the
pension list, but did not want to pension the
bankers too. The speaker denounced dis
criminatian against greenbacks, and showed
the injustice of paying soldiers in sighted
currency while the bondholders must re-
ceive something better. He knew this was