New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-16

r,, IN bo n nrettv mood Co TIM oral lawyer, I'M
nor .. n, by diff rig it'll that great
Cons Il iona x2ounder, G nerl Hancock' on ene
question f the 3msndme1ts ana inc 0Ou''
claims The General has d severed what lnde"
dad not know tna the amendments are su'nc'en'
bar to the payment of Souther claims OF All A'1u
The Democratic press snstans DIN J" ."o
position Senator Edmunds wit polc-
ness as admirable as 1t Is reckless Ut
clnres tins to be entHeV u
roneous. He SAYS Democratic Congress mas
ONLY TO pass n bill repeating the loyalty test OF
claimant 10 secure an unobstructed roiu W Wv
Treasury for the payment OF claims Whlcn ne 90. &c
mates at hundreds and probably thou'nhns VI
Millions He also declares that the CONSTITUTION
"does not stand in the way OF Congress penslon'ns
every rebel solder or 30 ers widow ana
or indeed every other rebel. u " p'eases' M
version will the North accept! Ihat OF Edmunus
and lIlden, or that OF Hancock
For twenty years the Democratic party Las been
shouting that all opposition to its desires was sec
tonalismD and bar to " harmony and good feeling
between the sections" The country has refused
for twenty years to believe them, ana III Is not
going to b. converted from that view now.
The South never forgave Ilden for promising TO
stand in the way o their claims. Hancock does not
wish 10 incur the same dis pleasure.
Senator Edmunds who was the Independent Edl-
tors candidate for the Presidency, says the South
Will demand the payment of thousands of millions
of claims IN case Hancock is elected, and that there
is no bar to the payment of rebel pensions Yet me
Independent Editor looks upon this talk about
claims as rubbish Who Is in better position 10
know. the Senator who has been IN washington Vi
the Editor who has mott
The business man begiis TO realize that Demo-
cratic change" is only another name Tor rum
The principles Of the De nocraic party are pretty
clearly defined by the Alabama, Arkansas and Maine
elections. They arr: Unlimited paper, unlimited
silver unlimited claims, ana unlimited reputation
Of all old debts There ali the elements OF vol
CAME change" in these principles.
The Superb Soldier is at the head of anything but
q superb CONGRATULATIONS suffers, false tabulators,
free.couuter, huildOzrrs ufatODlsts and repudla-
tors. 'Rah tor a change "!
General A. G. Lawrence writes strong letter to
the Newport Garfield and Arthur Club, telling
Why he supports Garfield He says " If the Solid
South should succeed half the blast furnaces of the
country would be shut of. On every hand the effect
would he felt Every mercantile venture would suffer.
The pioneer breaking up the soil IN the distant West
would drop his plough, knowing the markets would
be closed his product the unfinished railroads re-
naming monuments Of the f.ilr OF : change
II IS the duty of everyone who worked to save the
Tn or TO cOItnue 70 endraYer TO preserve the ma
tom he Significance IF tins letter Is heightened
by the fact that the writer IS the son OF Governor
William Beach Lawrence, the lnyeterate RhoIe
Island Democrat.
Tally one fer the mule-buyer. He carried Maine
by sending at least dozen more mule" at s., 900
apiece to buy victory for a " change"
II the country wishes 70 be set back quarter OF
n century it has only to vote the Solid South into
power.
Senator Edmunds says the " Democrats in Con
gress have tried time after time to repea' the only
obstacle to the payment of unlimited Southern
claims-th loyalty Of the claimants This is why
| the Democrats call the claim question bUgabOo
| probably.
If the Democratic party al by itself coud increase
the public expenditures $41.0O0000 IN five years,
what could il do under the cooperation and control
of the soft-mOney aglators and the Southern re-
pudiator.7 Let the Northern taxpayer who
viii paw f0r the experiment If 1t Is tried ponder on
that question.
How long would it take the Greenbackcr-Bull-
dozer-Repudiaror-Dc Democratic conglomeration to
undo the resumption they always denounced and
/ opposed
The South pays present just II per cent. of the
! Governments revenue from taxes The North pays
s3 per cent, OF tine Souths II per cent 95 pei
cent comes from the tax on spirits and
tobacco. This tax the Southern Democratic
platforms say must BE- repealed, and Southern
Democratic Congressman promise their constituents
shall be repealed, if Hancock IL elected. It's repeal
wonld cut down the SOnth's share of the Govern
meut taxation 10 less than one per cent, and raise
the North's share 70 80 per cent. In other words
the South under Hancock will run the Government
and the North Will pay the expenses. How does the
North like that view of a change "
Name is not much of victory for anybody, but
the Democrats have secured all the disgrace there