Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-09-18


much as an entire absence of sectionalism.
l have noticed in my travels that section
allsm IS passing away.
In his speech at Cairo, ON the 10th
he said .....-.
To stand DIVIDED we are too nearly
equal, man to man, to he great and
prosperous people; let US hope there may
be genuine union Of sentiment, gener.
Gus rivalry in the building up Of our sew
eral States
We must live together. and this CREST
people in their march of progress cannot
stop for chickering's and quarrels. The
genius of our people is progress, business
and energetic life, and the party that
stands in their road will go down before
the march of events. General Hancock
is a representative of this unionism the
Republican party and its policy are the
opponents of the reverse Their policy
destroys our control of the manufactur-
ing interests of the republic; takes from
the North that peculiar control which
has heretofore belonged to us, and places
factories, furnaces, rolling mills, and
workshops by every river in the South
The South has been agricultural; that is
its natural sphere. It's enormous pro-
ducts from the soil have been and ought
to continue to be the most important
element in her progress and prosperity.
Disunion, hate, and persecution force
them to depend upon themselves and
thus deprive Us Of what is and ought to
continue to be our natural market.
Another thought the plain issue be-
tween a strong government and a gov
ernnent of the people, between the teach
ing of Jefferson and those of Hamilton
is involved in this campaign General
Garfield, in his place in the house, on the
Goth of January, 1865, said:
! I believe that the fame of Jefferson is
waning and the fame of Hanrilsefn wax
ing in the estimation Of American peo-
pie, and that we are gravitating towards
a stronger government. l am glad that
we are.
At the Fifth Avenue Hotel on Friday
last he paid tribute to Alexander Ham.
ilton as the leader of American thought
The conflict Is here again shaped between
the rights of man as such, and of power
and paternal government. That was the
issue the people of Eastern Pennsylvania
met in 1900, here in this locality, and
they turn form power those who followed
and believed in the teachings of Mr.,
Hamilton and Mr. Adams and placed in
power those who followed and believed
in the doctrines Of Mr. Jefferson. With
us the individual is the unit. We gov
ern by individuality. All rights belong te
the individual, save those which are vi
tai to the conduct of the government
and when those pass from the individual
the extent of the grant is to be measured
with jealousy, and its abuse curbed when
ever it occurs. We want no strong gov
ernment we want government of the
people, 10y the people, and for the people
Our candidate voices this when he saws
This Union, comprising a general gov
ernment with general powers, and State
government with State powers, for pur
poses local to the States, is polity the
foundation of which were laid in the
profoundest wisdom. This is the Uniol
which our fathers made, and which has
been so respected abroad and SO benefi
cent at home.
General Garfield and his party woult
centralize the government. The tenden
cy of their system is to igne re the indi
. vidual aS a unit and to govern the peo
pie from the top. Federal election law
are but one of the evidences of this ter,
dency. They apply now to cities alone
but corcede the power and it grows upol
what it grasps and ultimately finds full
, play in the control Of elections in tn
rural districts. In republic all mel
are equal i'll centralized despotism the,
, are also all equal in the former, becaus
they are everything in the latter, be
, cause they are nothing. We want neithe
sectional hate, disunion, nor paterna
government.
f Let us trace the record of the candi
S date of the Republican party He it i
who has solemnly asserted that the NAL
t who attempts to get up political excite
!. ment ia this country on the old sectiona
issues will find himself without a part
! and without support; yet he is the MAJ
9 who is no~ presenting himself to tn
[ people as the champion of sectionalisna