The daily gazette., 1879-01-29

IT is NOT without observation that so |
large number Of the so-called leaders
of the Democratic party is ayerse to the
most able and influential men Of its ranks
who have successfully combatted the
theories of the Radical aristocratc fac
tion of the Republican party. 1t cannot
he concealed from the obseryant reader
that both the old organizations are divi-
ded on the only question that seems to
disturb the most active faction Of the
Republican parry. Indeed if We We're
To- take from politics the measure, that
are developed through the policy of
tiharce one might suppose the Republic
cans would hardly have leg to stand
upon. senator Humans remark n the
: nate at lis last session that legislation
IN that body was all for capital and none
Tor labor. seems true 10 tie letter aud
Las been verified to a considerable ex-
Tent by he recent actions Of John sher-
man. Secretary Of tie Tieasury. His
actions, and one Of the modes in which
.e-islation has been manipulated for the
J. yate gan OF capitalists, will more
fully illustrate Mr.. Thurnan's declala-
Ton When Sherman con plies wi'h the
resolution Mr. Salisbury Introduced
and had passed the Senate, requiring the
Secretary to make an exhibit OF the cost
ol resumption, in the price paid for gold,
and the selling and exchange Of govern
ment bonds. John Sherman has had the
aid Of Democratic votes in his rascally
business. as he also had in his successful
efforts in surreptitiously etteeting the pas
sage Of the bill through Congress de
monetizing silver, and robbing the peo
pie, it is said, of fully five hundred mil
Lions of dollars. This measure tool
fully that amount of value from tn,
lands and tenements of the people an,
put it in the United States bonds held I,
great extent by foreign capitalists her
and in Europe. 1t devastated the here
totore successful farmer and struck dow,
the efforts of the most enterprisins all
energetic mechanics, and put to naugf
his labor OF years more tearfully than til
dread slrocco prostrates the wearie
traveller of the desert. Notwithstant
ing all these powerful efforts to Ger
tralize power and capital, by connectin
the purse and the sword, We find I'll
people awakening slowly to the extren
danger that surrounds them, and sendin
10 Congress the ablest men of the da
that e>pouse their cause and the ne,
Senate will contain fewer of the fossil
tossed up by the war than il has for 81,
teen years at least. The majority of Il
n7xt Senate will rest with men who g
poused the principles OF jefferson ar
jackson. They know gold and silver
lie only solid basis We can have for
safe paper currency. 1t is a fearful tli,
- witness struggle between the "
sections over the question that is nc
dividing them as surely as ever they we
divided by the slavery issue; but woi
tnr the South, since in this case their
du>tries are in great measure {
s3oyed or eircumseribed and held
el.esN by the sordd money power
Washington and Wall street. All
money is in the North, East and Mid,
States. The South and the West ;
through tie influence of the system
banking, and the power of that syst,
in Washington and Wall street, depict
OF money, and robbed of the very mea
upon which, for nearly whole centu
they depended for securing the mes
with which to conduct their industr
operations. The South and the We
VIII hereafter under the influence of