The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-09-03
THE OHIO DEMOCRACY.
No Federal Troops at the Polls Elk
pansion of the Currency.

( The following extracts are from Al
address Of Senator Peudleton. They
strike the keynote for Mississippi a.
we'll as for Ohio:
AN army of soldiers to keep peace at tn,
polls, an army of officers to electioneer at the
polls, packed juries to convict, arrest without
warrant on suspicion of intention wrongfully
to Vote-this, said he, is the Republican pro
gramme; this is the issue which confronts you
Need | argue this issue Monarchical Great
Britain has not for 200 years permitted an armed
soldier To approach the polls. More than loo
years ago troops were used to quell riot at the
Westminster election, and the authorities or
dering them Wee brought TO the bar of the
Commons, and there, on their knees, received
the censure of that august tribunal. Great
Britain will not permit an officer appointed by
the Ministry to take part in conducting an cleo
ton of member of Parliament When We
state the argument the highest grounds of
philosophy and experience, when we read the
lessons of all history, when we demonstrate the
utter unconsttutionality of such methods, we
are met with the insane gibberish of Confed-
crate Brigadiers, of starving the government,
of secession revived, of State rights leading
again to
Turning to the subject of finance, Mr. Pen
dleton said ''And side by side with this tran
scendent question are the great financial issues,
the full RECOMMENDATION and free unlimited COIN
age of silver, thus leading the van of the great
nations which now retrace their erring steps ;
the issue of all money by the Government; the
lifting of the burden from the bowed shoulders
of labor; the solution of the pressing problem
of currency for the exchange of domestic in
dustries, which shall bear true relation TO the
currency of foreign exchanges, and not be sub
ject TO the fluctuations of volume caused by
vicissitudes of other nations. Specie payments
are resumed, they tell us. If by this they mean
an equalization, in valuation of paper and coin,
an unsatisfactory, incomplete, uncertain, equali-
zation, caused chiefly by boarding paper aud
placing obstacles in the way of its presentation
and selling bonds, l admit it, / am glad Of it,
| hope it may not he disturbed. l would do
nothing TO impair II. would not have the ter
rible suffering of 10 years utterly without re-
suit | would not have the sacrifcial offering
utterly in vain; but / can never forget that,
most unnecessarily, most wrongfully, this result
has been attained by the martvrdum or the en-
terprise, and energy, and business, and labor of
the land; Of the young and vigorous and auda-
cious manhood aspiring to be rich of the pa
tient, drudging old age, content to live and by
the apotheosis of fixed capital and accumulated
wealth. | have just returned from .he East.
The whole country watches our contest. The
Democrats look with intense interest and anxi-
ETY. on our struggle. They pray for our success.
Their hearts and hopes and warmest wishes are
with us. They know our courage, and energy,
and fidelity. They believe we viii use with
wisdom a success which We will win with brave
effort They foTesee in our victory still greater
victory hereafter"