Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-11-05
POLITICAL POINTS,



Truth from Yasoo- why the Dems
cratic party Is DcfaeSe6 Defran6iHs
the Government. 10.
CAMPAIGN POINTS FROM TIE n. Y
TRIBUNE.
The Republican who isn't q stalwart
may as we'll climb q tree till q yeal
from next November. The procession
will 60 over him if he doesn't.
Hendricks thinks the Ohio result will
have no effect upon Presidential candi.
dates. As he speaks for himsslf he ID
entirely right, for how could it affect
those already deadf
Gen. Garfield says the Greenback
party has passed away like the faint
recollection of q dream. Rather like the
lingering perfume Of an over-ripe egg.
The Democrats were eager to Zap
peal" to the people for verdict on their
struggles for an untrammelled ball0t-box
to stuff. Well, tho verdict has begun t.
come in, and its tenor is that the people
think ballot-box which allows . man
to vote only once is good enough for
them.
The Democratic Statesmen were sure
the "people were behind them" in
their extra session work. They were
right. The people took that position
with business purpose.
THE PROSPECT IN NEW YORK.
Senator Chandler has returned from
New York, and is iubilant concerning
the political outlook in that state. He
predicts that it will give $4,000 Repub-
lican majority, and is sure for 1880.
DEFEATED BECAUSE DIsLOYAL.
Says Speaker Randall, If he is cor
rectly reported: "The tide seems to be
running for the Republicans, and 1 don't
see how we are to check it" Mr.. Ran
dali ought to know, if anybody, for no
other man did more than he to give the
Democratic party its present attitude,
half repudiating and half revolution.
ary. His was the hand which moved
the levers when Democrats in congress
committed themselves to a stubborn
fight with the executive on q question
which they professed to consider more
important than all others. But now he
win probably say, with the Warrington
Post, at is about time for the Demo
cratic party to recognize the fact that
this is q hard-money country" So it is,
but recognizing the fact will not help
the Democracy. On these two questions,
which are one at bottom, the Democratic
party has taken its position, and it can
not change now if it would. 1t cannot
undo all that its revolutionary adhe-
rents have done at the south, nor can it
blot from their minds all the teachings
of the last ten years on the money ques-
tion.-Ne1c York Tribune.
THE DEMOCRACY AND THE CURRENCY
QUESTION.
Mr.. Hayes has expressed the opinion
that the defeat of Tom Ewing in Ohio
will not take the currency question out
of politics. "There will always be an
element" he says, "that will want q
kind of money which is cheap to make
and easy to get. The Republican party
can not cater to that element, but the
Democratic party can and will. With
one million voters of that class in the
country, We may expect the Democrats
to continue their present policy of
attempting to win them by indorsing to
some extent their theories" There is
in this. The currency question is not
wholly out of politics, and will not be 90
long as the government continues In the
business Of issuing legal tender
notes. A decision by the Supreme
Court in the Butler Chittenden case that
congress has no power under the consti-
tuition to issue legal tender notes would
do more than any other thing to take the
currency question out of politics and
keep it out. 1t is question, however,
whether. the Democrats will hereafter
consider the Greenbacken worth win.
ming. The Ohio experiment in its out
come is not calculated to encourage the
Democrats in the policy of catering to
the Greenbackers, nor is it calculated to
encourage the latter to keep up their
organization. Still it is not unlikely
that, Notwithstanding the drubbing ad-
ministered to them In Ohio, the Demo.
Gratis will distinguish themselves when
Congress reassembles by making war on
the national banks and clamoring for
unlimited coinage of silver on private
account. Beyond that they will not be
apt to 60 in their efforts to win the
Greenbackes.-Chicago Times.
YAEOO INDEPENDENT DEMOCRAT TELLS
SOME PLAIN TRUTHS.
A letter has been received in Wash-
ington written by Judge r. 8. Hudson,
of Mississippi, who is represented - one
of the ablest and worthiest men in that
state. Judge Hudson's letter Ia in reply
to I'm invitation from . committee of
what is called "The Independent OF
Pacific Democratic party Of Ya1oo
county," to become candidate for the
legislature. Judge Hudson declines the
invitation in Z letter which admits al
that Republicans charge - to the situa-
ton in Mississippi. Judge Hudson de.
plores the exodus, and draws . strong
picture of the effect upon the south oi
the emigration of its laborers. Tracing
the causes, Judge Hudson says: "When
IL bulldoxing and intimidation to end J
When are We to have free, unawed,
and unstEangled aspiration for office,
canvass, and election3 When IL our
mother district to be unstained with the
blood of the citizen, and whom shall the
graves cease to be filled with the dead on
election years and occasionsf When
are the walls and cries Of the bereft
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party organizations and electionsf
Why the continued threats and intimi.
dation against those who may 80 1t to
organize the colored voters to vote any
particular ticket, whom there are no
tickets but what are almost excludvely
composed Of old and tzied white men Of
Yasoo county, They know, and We
know, that there has bean bulldOstnS,
and even worse. They know, and We
know, that tho Bourbon army In time OF
profound peace b not permanently die
| Organised and disbanded, and can Be
brought to the front again upon roll
call.
HOW eOUTHx1N Dz1foCRATIC OJT1CIAIA
/ OoHsPIR8 70 D1Y1AUD THE 0ovKnN.
4 MINT.
! Commimiouer of Internal Revsnnl
4 RAum has received . letter fr0m o. q
the officers Of The internal revenue bu-
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