The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1880-09-29
A GERMAN VIEW OF THE SITUA.
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ELOQUENT LETTER FROM JUDGE sTALLo.
. The suhjoined eloquent letter of
Judge Stallo, of Cincinnati, was read
at large meeting in the hall of the
Cooper Union, on the night Of Sep
TENDER 10Th. 1t is taken from the
New York World of Sept. 18th. The
World says
In the first part of this letter
Judge Stallo shows at length tina,
the Republican party has wholly
survived its mission; that its mem
beers are at cross purposes in respect
to nearly all the political problems
that now press for ISOLATION; that its
present tendency is towards central.
ization, and the usurpation by the
National Government of powers
wholly beyond its constitutional lin
its; that it is dangerous instrumen
tally for promoting the schemes of
monopolists and SPECTATORS; that its
Presidential nominee, as appears
from his past political history, is
ready to give his support to all mea.
sures ny which the powers of the
Government are abused in further
ance of private interests, and that lie
is the representative of the very
worst elements and tendencies Of his
party. He then proceeds as follows:
at is hardly necessary, l hope, to
say that my resolution TO cast my
vote lhis fall for the nominees of the
Democratic party is not indicative OF
a purpose 10 identify myself with
that party for all time. The Demo.
cratic party, even during the. last
four years, has not lived up to the
standard Of its protested principles,
and If in future it fails to practice
what it professes--if, for instance, it
does not place our revenue and tariff
laws upon a. rational basis-I shall
certainly not be among its adher
ents. But l shall vote for Hancock,
because he is an upright, intelligent
and patriotic man, who will natural,
ly turn for counsel aud support to
the better elements of his party
And there are statesmen in the front
ranks of the Dcmocracy-men like
Bayarl, Morrison, K,erner, Thur
man, Rauney, Payne, Groesbcck, Pal.
mcr, Trumbul), Davis, Mcdonald,
Julian, CAN'T, BigeIow, etc., not to
speak Of The Sout',rons, among WHOM
we also find men conspicuous by
their integrity, ability and. patriot
ism, in whose hands tue country is
'ar safer, in my Judgment, than il
those of Sherman, Conkling, Blaine,
E'lmunds, Cameron, Logan, and the
other leaders OF the Kepubli an par
". But there is another motive
which induces me to assist in break
ing the power of the Republican par
~ and defeating the election of their
candidate. alIude to the reproba
ti"n Of the great electoral fraud per-
petrated in the centennial year of
The American Republic. l know
ve'y we'll what excuse the Republi
cans seek to offer for this in famous
felony. They assert that the eIec-
tions in the Southern States were 60
tainted with force and fraud that the
true result could be reached only
through compensatory fraud. That
is the substantial if not the exact
form of their defense. Now, apart
from the refusal of the Republican
attorneys before the Electoral Com
mission to put their assertions TO the
proof, and apart from the enormity
Of the logic involved in such de.
tense, it is simply shocking to. the
sense and conscience of i civilized
people to speak in the same breath
Of the common disorders incident 10
all elections aud the deliberate at
tempt, carefully planned, premedita
ted and prepared BY the heads of the
party aud coolly executed amid the
acclamations or silent acquiescence
of nearly all its members, to set at
naugbt the will OF the people and
thus to subvert the very foundations
Of popular government. And prom
inent among those who were guilty
of this atrocious attempt on the life
Of tue Republic is James A. Gar.
field. 1t was Garfield who, With
Sherman and others, manipulated
the wires in New Orleans, at the ends
of which danced the puppets, Wells,
Anderson, Kenner and Casenave. It
was Garfield who afterwards in Con-
gress, in the course of the debate on
the bill creating the Electoral Com
mission, gave the Democrats the
most solemn assurance that this
Commission would have the unques-
.tionable right to inquire into the
iacts bearing upon tile validity OF
the electoral returns. Aud it was
the same Garfield who, after the pas
sage of the bill and the organization
of the Commission, as one Of it's
members, decided that it had no
such right and could not go behind
the returns And this is the man
whom his confederates now propose
to put at the head Of the nation! In
all countries in which society is not
in a state of utter moral decay there
are certain things which verybody
holds sacred and inviolable, like the
columns Of the god Terminus in an.
cient Rome, or tile trunks Of the for.
est on the Alpine promontory, tile
.Bannberg,' at the foot of which Viii.