The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-26

cock opera house last night. The large
crowd repaired to the opera house where
Gov. Hubbard was introduced by Major
Wright, to full audience of ladies and gen
t'emen. Among them, we were grsuhed to
notice number of our republican friends.
The speaker devoted few minutes 10 his
many hearers of his stewardship north; he
spoke plainly, prncti ally and truthfully of
national and state tf4rs, and the supreme
importsnce OF the pending contest, generally
and locally. In his opinion, the conflict now
waglng is for the supremacy of right over
wrong, OF constitutional government accord
Ing to the Jeiiarsonian doctrine, over strong
combination of men who are ready to set up
perpetual government after the idea of Al
exander Hamilton, which was to elect a
President tor life and let that President ap-
point, for life, Governors for the different
states Or dependencies, as state lines would
then be wiped out. He thought the tenden-
cles OF later yelrs had been in that direction
guided by the interests which had control
and knowing the price Of liberty to be ''eter-
nal vigilance" he warned his hearers that
only Democratic success could prevent the
impending danger. A danger which threat
ems to destroy the institutions Of the fathers,
the founders and the builders. The Demo-
cratic party was the only truly national party
wnlle the Republican party was a party of
fal'e pretenses, whose only argument now, to
save Its existence, is an appeal, in open viola
ton OF every consideration of Christianity,
humanity and patriotism; an appeal which
continually parades before the northern mind
the hardships aud suferings incident to civil
war, in which half of the voters of to-day
took no part, with the sole purpose and view
OF keeping the north united by infsmirs its
passions and perpetuating the h,ts If
the war. While the Republican party Is
party of double-dealing, seeking to main
tain its ascendency on past glDries to which
1t is not fairly entitled, and by an election
machinery, devised to enable it TO fill every
precinct in the land with its active psrtisans
AZ the public expense, the Democratic party
had a broad, al honest and a
noble claim to dominancy. 1t was
the party of the constitution,
fathered by Jefferson himself, and it claimed
now the suffrage of the American people as
the llneal and legitimate offspring # Amer
lean independence, the declaration of which
Is the voice OF Jt tferson left here to guide the
people of our government in constitutional
ways, and remind us that liberty cost
price, which the blood Of patriots paid in
seven years fearful struggle. The Democ.
racy, true to its principles, pledges return
to the traditions of the fathers, which pledge
means nothing more than return from the
centraliziDg tendencies, the extravaganza,
protigacy and corruption of modern Repub-
licsnism to the constitutional rights of the
state and nation, and to simplicity, honesty
and purity in the administration Of tae gov
eminent To execute these pledges the Dem
ocracy present to the country Hancock, the
superb soldier and statesman, and English,
the eminent civilian, whose public lives are
unspotted by marks Of wrong or unjust &C
ton. The Republican party, IN opposition
and to perpetuste its reign of hate, presents
Garfield and Arthur, the first of whom the
writer knew personally, and is sorry
to say that he was not
as pure now rs in earlier days. The other
gentleman, General Arthur, the country
knows. The public record of Garfield was
touched upon only as tie made IL for himself
and his Republican friends certified to it. The
governor then referred to the unhappy con-
dition of affairs IL some of tho neghbnring
states, but said in the roundest OF terms that
in his opinion the election Of Hancock and
English was rs certain ms the sun would shine
upon us tomorrow. He said that the names
of Hancock and English were now household
words in the mouths of all good Democrats
from rocky strand of New England out
across the rolling prairies TO the golden
shores of the Pacific, and from the fountains
of the great river down to the blue waters of
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