The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-14

say, "a government strong enough to protect
them" There Is no mistaking these signs.
The money kings will nominate Grant in 1880,
using the machinery of the Republican party
to give color, Of regularity to TO-, their p pro
gramme. And then the issue will be square,
" iSned between the people and the moneyesda
oIigarchy that is striving to alter the TACT II
not the form OF our government. Let no one
be foolish enough to suppose that there is
q ghost of a chance for the success OF thls
scheme
THE GABBLE OF POLITICIANS,
which / had heard all winter in Washington,
had led me to believe that there was danger
In the Grant movement But as soon as l
got out of the city and into the country, where
men work for living, ] found how hollow
and Fictitious the Grant movement really
was. The hope OF the remOrseless Shyl0cks
who have Grant in tow is that they Will be
able to rouse the echoes of 1879, raise the howl
of rebel-pronOunCed In this end Of the Union
"rebbil carry thirty States again. But
from what have seen and heard In Tour days
of ruralizing | am satisfied that
JEFFERSON DAVIS, RUNNING AS THE CANDI-
DATE OF THE PEOPLE.
against Grant as the candidate of the oil
garChy of "shent per silent" would sweep
nearly every farming hamlet in the North,
from PassamaquOddy Bay to Puget Sound
And yet, so far as the extinct antagonisms Of
the rebellion are concerned, Mr.. Davis stands
10 LieSS people us tLe eLhpo"luuenI vi BILL t'ii"
wrong
Yesterday talked with farmer in this
neighbOrhOOd. He Is a well-tO-dO man, out OF
debt himself, but oppressed by the fact that
the township in which he lives owes S2OO,OOO
in railroad bonds. These bonds were issued
in 1868, and have twenty years to run. The
law under which they were issued provided
that IL per cent of the total amount should
be raised annually by taxation, Of which z
per cent was to pay the interest and
mir tat FinFP md
gregating in twenty years the face Of the
principal. Well, this sinking fund has been
dropped since 1873, At that time four Install
ments had been paid amounting to 20 per cent
on the 100000 or $4,000. And this fund has
been used since 1876 to pay the interest !
There is only enough Of it left to pay the in
terest for about year and q half longer. l
asked the farmer, who Is one OF the sinking
fund commissioners of the township, what
they were going to do when the rest Of the
sinking fund was exhausted?
He said they would
PAY THE REST WITH A SPONGE.
But" said [, "the bondholders are going to
elect Grant President in 1880 with the votes Of
Just such men as yOu-meD who con be made
TO forget everything else by bowling the word
rebellion In their ears-and then they will use
Grants power to make you pay these debts"
How p was his sententious inquiry.
"By- returning Judgments against your
townships In the United States courts"
said, land then enforcing their collection with
the bayOnets of regular sOldierv."
us that what they calkilate p inquired my
farmer.
/ said 1t undoubtedly was
''Grant isn't nominated yet, is he?"
mo; but he will be; and when he is you
and all the rest of your class will vote for
him"
There's. where you dull" replied my
farmer with some warmth. "You duff
there just as II you had run your scythe into
stone heap. My township gave Grant TIA
votes out OF $50 in 1872; but Il he could get
three in 1880 don't know who would cast
them, We've got our eye on this Grant bust
ness up here. We've been fooled and BAN
boOzled by these ID fast horse politicians at
Washington long enough"
There was
MORE OF THE SAME SORT.
You can catch the drift of it easily enough.
Let me give you another symptom. This
County-C henango-is the banner Republican
county Of Southern Central New York. The
population is about G0000 and Is altogether
agricultural. Last year the farmers began to
get up Greenback clubs, and In order to test
their strength they ran Greenback tickets in
the municipal or township elections last
spring. The result was that they carried the
Board of Supervisors over both the regular
parties, beating both combined by over 800
majority in the aggregate vote. The other
two counties In this congressional district
are in similar condition. A Greenback can
didate will be nominated for Congress this
fall in this district, and, unless something
extraordinary should happen between now
and election day. he will beat the combined
vote Of both the other candidates
/ suppose it will be In the nature Of n sur
prise TO your readers to learn that New York,
outside the city, is about rs much of Green
back State as Ohio or Indiana. We shall
see. At all events the calculations of the
Shylocks are in fair way to be dislocated.
A.C.B.