Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-08-25

SHERMAN ENDORSES GARFIELD.

Garfield and Arthur ratification meeting was
held Mt Washington Thursday, and Secretary
Sherman made n speech. lie wanted, he said,
to bring out strongly the marked contrast be
tween the Republican and Democratic parties.
The Republican party Is a national party. 1t
loves the whole country. 1t loves every man,
woman and child in 1t, whatever Is the color OF
his skin. It is the Democratic party which seeks
to degrade There IL n great distinction between
the Republican and Democratic parties. Ours is
a national party with hearts broad enough 10
C yer all the country. Theirs il sectional party.
We would make a national government. They
would make n confederacy Of states When this
country was in danger. and the rebels sought to
break up this Union of ours, the Republican party
to man rallied around the flag. There were no
Republicans in the rebel army No, not one.
How marked il the contrast There was not
Democrat In the south who did not go into the
rebel army, and the Democrats of the north SYM
pathized with them. When the question arose
whether this country should be free country it
was the hand of the martyred president whose
marble image now confronts you that struck off
the shackles and said, IAN men shall be free"
When the life Of the nation was at stake and the
Union endangered, the Republican party rallied
around the Union. There Is difference between
the parties
Speaking OF the homestead law, he said that it
was brought into life by the Republican party,
after II had been vetoed by Democratic presi-
dent We believe that we must protect indus
tries, build up manufactures, and set the people
at work. and keep them employed. When the
question Of honest money rose, 1t was the Re-
publican party which protected the interests Of
the nation. The Democratic party had shnpas-
tiers issued by state banks. They would not have
national money, because they said anything
which was national was unconstitutional. But
the Republican party gave the country national
money, and now that national money is rs good
az gold. Our bonds are worth more than those
Of any other country with the possible exception
of Great Britain. How was II in Democratic
times? Our bonds then paid twelve per cent in
terest, and twenty-year bonds were sold for
eighty and ninety cents on the dollar. The
heart of the Republican party beats for liberty,
for the national honor and national glory The
Democratic party is in favor of state rights, OPP
posed to everything national, and in favor OF
state banks and rything bad
Referring TO the Republican candidate for the
presidency, Secretary Sherman said he had known
him for more than twenty years. He sprang
from the people. He was educated in hard
school, and step by step he has pushed onward,
until he now occupies place of the greatest dis
tincton. lie was an honest brave and efficient
soldier, and, what was better than all, true Re
publican. Passing on to General Hancock, the
speaker referred to his education at the public ex
pense, and said he had been fed at the public ex.
pense lie was a good military man, and II he
would desert the Democratic party, against which
he fought for four years the Republicans would
elect him to some respectable office. When the
two candidates were compared the comparison
was in favor of Garfield.