The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-02
THE NEW YORK CANVASS
Speech Of Hon. Samuel j. Randall
nj Madison Square.
What Gov Robinsons Administration
Has Done for the State The
Bloody Shirt--W What the South
Has Contributed to the
Prosperity of tho
Country.

lHs regular DeluoCrh0y OIL NOW IoEK nslt
an immense mass meeting In New York city,
at the Madison Square Garden, on Tuesday
evening. Twenty thousand people were In
tho building. Among tho speakers was Hon.
Samuel j. Randall, Speaker OF the House Of
Representatives, who spoke as follows:
Fellow citizens Of the city of New York. your
welcome have not words to EXPRESS my appro-
citation OF. am quite aware that 1t Is u tribute
10 the high Office which hold Mt the hands and
by tho votes Of the representatives Of the De-
mocraoy Of the United States In Congress.
/ want tonight to address myself to the ear
OF the business men OF the city Of New York. /
WIS reared tn mercantile pursuits and claim
some knowledge us to commerce. mnnufao-
lures and the general material interests OF the
Gov. Robinson Ieheers for RobinsonI In his
administration has kept time with the economy
exhibited by tho national government In tho
York. When he entered upon tho management
OF the State he found-or rather when the Dem
ocratic purity entered upon tho management Of
government reached rs high as sih 900 900.
This year he has. by the record. decreased
those appropriations necessary ito to MAINTAIN the
is q Gods blessing" and that blessing has
been giyon 70 Coy, Robinson. to share with tho
more. Gov. Robinson has reduced tho toll upon
your canals from u mills. as they were form
erly. say on wheat, to 2 hall mill. Gov Robin
duetlon on everything Tint WAS trans ported
from the great West to New York. For Instance.
The cost Of Transportation of a bushel Of wheat
while In 1878. unIer Gov. Kobtnson'5 manage
ment of State affairs, the transportation from
Chicago to Buffalo was reduced to II cents per
bushel.z 30. again. MS to the transportation Of
corn. In 1874 II cost Ia cents per bnshel from
Chicago to Buffalo ana to-day. or In 1875 1t was
gate shipments of wheat from Chicago to
Buffalo In 1876 amounted to H.s6l 900 bushels.
the reduction of tolls here. aud the demand for
q corresponding reduction by rail west of your
State. they amounted to 2t.21l.739. an increase
of asia.7an bushels of whoat
The shipments OF corn from Chicago to tide
wafer In 1876 amounted to 45.G2e03a. aud In 1878
to 80 ga 400, nm Increase OF lt,al 1896 bushel-.
The increase In shipments of wheat amounted
to over 70 per cent. and In corn TO over 10 per
cent.
Now, not only has that policy boon Of service
10 all the people Of this Slate md not only has
1t brought back prosperity here but 1t has
penetrated In its beneficial effects all over this
nation, and IL has enabled tho city OF New York,
composition With boston. Philadelphia Balti-
moro and Now Orleaus. and yet there are men
send this policy t2 the rear. aud 20 back to the
corrupt days Of the canal ring. that proposed
to give the greatest profit TO the men engaged
aa officers on the ennal. and expsnd m amount
of money that became burdensome Ia the ex-
treme. aud u hindrance to every healthy oondi-
tion OF trade. lApplause.J
bloody shirt" We have been by the leaders
taught. or Attempted to be taught thst the South
WAS nimeaI to the great Interests of the ooun-
try: that che was going In the future 10. do
much harm. II Is my Judgment that peopla's
happiness. - peoples contentment. a peoples
prosperity, may be measured by their produc-
tians and their wealth as produced from their
soil. want tonight, in answer to this bloody
shirt policy, this hate policy toward the South.
70 give you n few llgures which show wnat tbs
South has contributed not only toward re-
sumption, but toward the, prosperity OF the
people of this country and will do so by pre-
scouting TO you figures that cannot DO oontro-
verified. They are figures from their own re-
ports, colatad and D nted, and supervised by
their own Office olders | am going to speak
of the four principal stnpla productions OF tho
South, OF cotton. OF tobacco. Of rice. and or
sugar. and am going to run q comparison ba-
tween the I've years prior TO the wMr from 1854
to 1860 Inclusive. md the last past five years. in
showing tho condition and production OF the
South In these particulars. First as to cotton:
The product Of cotton in the years 1856 to 1860
inclusive. as Indicated by the record OF Its com
meroal movement amounted TO 1s $780, is bales:
tho product of five years. from 1874 to 1873, was
22.s72 4as bales, showing an Increase OF 3ea2,6sb
bales The record IL as follows, the values
being those Of the farm. which are 1 X cents per
pound loss than the values at ports of exportn-