Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-10-01
CONKLING,s GREAT SPEECH.

The Now York senator's BInsterIy. Preson- |
tntiOn of tho Questions nt Issue In the |
Pending Canvass.
The following Is a summary OF the address
recently delivered by Senator COnklinR at |
the New York Academy OF Music, TO an nu- |
dienoe comprising most Of the leading peo-
pie OF the metropolis. The great building
was packed with eager listeners, and thous
gain entrance.
After few words Of general introduction,
Mr.. COnkling said
Two parties exist; parties should nIvavs
exist I'm government of majotfties and 10
support and strengthen the party which most
hIvaIsH In,,l noids ms views Is among the most
IanuhDle, merttorous acts of an American
citizen, and this whether he be in Official or
IN private station. Two parties contend for
the arrangement of National affairs. One or
the other of these two contestants Is sure to
manage the Nations concerns for some time
20 come. The question is, Which of the two
lslt sater and wiser to trust2 tits not ques-
tlon OF candidates. A candidate II he be an
honest genuine man, will not seek and ac.
sept party nomination to the Presidency,
Nice-Presidency, or Congress, and after he Is
elected become n law unto himself. Few
thngs are more despicable than first TO secure
geVatlOn at the hands OF party, and then, in
the nope OF winning pretentiOus, non. partisan
applause, 70 affect superior sanctity, and
meanly TO imply that those whose support
ana confidence were eagerly and deferentially
sought are wanting in purity, patriotism or
some Other title to respect. The higher Obli-
cations among men are not set down I'm writ.
ing and signed and seaied-thev reside in
honor ana good tQith. The fidelity of "A nom
lnee belongs to this exalted class, and there.
fore candidate of partyis but the exponent
OF party. The object OF political discussion
issues. IL IS paltry incident OF an election
ahecting fifty million people that II decides
Ior an occasion the aspirations of individual
men. The Democratic party is the Demo-
cratic candidate, and am against the ticket
and all its works.
THE ISSUES.
T. .-aN.- Ga -.
ing election is to be no more than farce, un-
less, as has sometimes happened, It be turned
into tragedy. There is to be no free debate,
no equal rights, no true expression in these
states; and in several States the clear majority
ts TO have no deciding power-not even a
chance in a rattle such as that In which lots
were cast and the booty divided the other day
between Tammany Hall and the Upper Afr
and Solar Walk Reform Democracy Senator
Hampton largely promises 10000 Democratic
majority in South Carolina, where the actual
majority IS 10000 the other way. In several
often ascertained Republican majority, but
all southern States alike, without exception
or doubt, are relied upon to count on the Dem
ocratc side and to score 1873 electoral votes
lacking but AZ of n majority of all.
GENERAL GRANTS LETTER.
You have listened to a letter from one to
whom mt least as much as to any other man
the Nation owes its preservation, prosperity
and prtmacy. This letter, instinct with com
mon sense, hits the nail on the head. Its writ.
er generally does hit nails, rebellions and
pretenders on the head. He says:
"This meeting should awaken the people to
the Importance of keeping control Of theGov-
ernment in the hands of the Republican party
until we can have two National parties, every
member of which can cast his ballot as judg-
tnent dictates, without fear or mOlestation or
ostracism, and have it honestly counted par
ties not differing in opinion as to whether we
are Nation, but rs to the policy to secure the
greatest good to the greatest number of its
citizens. Sincerely believing that the Demo-
cratic party, as now constituted and CONTROL.
ed is not fit party to trust with the control
If the General Government, i believe it is to
che best interest of all sectious, South as wen
AS North, that the Republican party should
"Yours very truly, US, GRANT"
Lord Chesterfield said that a letter shows
the man it is written to as well as the man it
is written by" The letter bears Lord Ches-
terfeld out. Il Is written to General Arthur,
and It reveals the confidence and esteem i'm
which the writer holds him. Informed by
many years of intimate acquaintance, Gener-
al Grant knew and felt, as we know and feel,
that he was writing not only to a friend, but
TO one of the most genuine, patriotic and hon
Orable of men. Loud applause.l The letter
furnishes text for many sermons.
1.-THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AS NOW CONsTI-
TUTED AND CONTROLLED"
How is it constituted; how controlled?
There is a vast number of upright, patriotic
men in it; a vast number of men who gave all
and did all they should have given and done
to uphold their Government and their flag in
the supreme and dire hour of trial--a vast
number who imperiled their lives as other
Democrats laid down their lives for their
country. Many Northern Democrats who cast
side, after the war was over returned to their
former party association. Many others never
did so return. Were such Democrats to guide
and influence Democratic Congress and a
Democratic administration, their party would
not be constituted and controlled" as it is.
Because such men and their views and inter
ests will not and can not control I'm the event
of Democratic success, much grave peril
arises. As the Democratic party Is constitut-
ed, not the men of the North, not the men
who were for the Union and the Constitution,
but the men OF the south who aYere against
the Union and the Constitution, men whose
policy and purposes are still hurtful to the
country, are bound and predestined to con-
troll a Democratic Administration and DEM
ocratic Congress. tApplause.I In the Senate
and in the House
THE SOUTH HAS AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY
of the Democratic members, and most of
them are men who led in the Rebellion. Ev-
cry party measure in Congress is settled in
party caucus by party majority; thus the
Southern members hold absolute sway. In
possession of the law making power, of the
purse and of the power to confirm or reject
treaties and appointments, the South is also
10 furnish all the votes to- elect the Demo-
cratic candidate save only forty seven votes
which must be ratted, or counted, or certified,
or produced from the Northern States, par
ticularly, not excepting Oregon. should the
election be close, there Is no knowing but the
two Democratic Houses may find ground on
which to throw out Il part or all of any States
Electors. With much unemployed leisure on
their hands, with the danger which the Elec-
Joral Commission of 1877 alone Overpassed for
that time staring the country in the face,
these Democratic Houses have adopted no
measure to insure order and right in ascer-
tanning the result Of the Presidential election.
Should controversy arise and the election be
thrown into the House, there, the vote being
taken by States, the South would cast nearly
all the Democratic votes, and in the Senate
the vote for Vice President would come from
the same source. In every event of Demo.
cratic success, the Southern end of the Demo
cratic party must be to the Northern end as
the locomotive IS TO the tender, as the horse
is to the cart This is as plain as any truth in
gravitation or arithmetic.
SWELLING THE SOUTHERN VOTE.
Perhaps this point will seem to you to chal
lenge some attention. For the population OF
the Southern States we must go back to the
census of 1870 That count of the people was
made by enumerators not selected by South
ern Senators and members Of the House aS
mon -partisans" and professional reformers
1t was made by the regular Marshals and
their deputies, and the compensation was sc
adjusted as to induce thorough visitation
and at the same time TO guard against eNag
geration of numbers, NoimputatiOn Of fraut
as n plot 10 fabricate monstrOus increase o.
pOpulatfon in one section in order TO battle
the course of nature and the logic OF events II
another-a plot to change the balance of pow
er and population I'm order TO aggrandize oni
section by establishing a false basis OF repre-
sentatiOn and appOrfionment, thus rObbinf
other sections Of their share In governing tbs
country, In ievying taxes, and appropfiRtinf
conservative foes of radicalism. That par
ticular spoke in the wheel of deviltry had no
turned up to the shifty patriot of that day
Now such schemes seem to wax apaCc. W.
read OF producing false heirs to thrones anC
estates, but 70 multiply false heirs withou
any one 70 personals them on a scale so grant
as seems now in process would stupety thu
ingenuity of a French novelist or any bod.
conservative disciple OF the Democratic per
suRsiOn, wanting nothing for himself bu