Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-10-01


and what check can possibly come to it i
Hancock he chosen President rather thai
Garilcldf That simple enquiry contains tn
nub oil the whole question, and desire her
at the outset to state that if this was II mer,
personal contest between Gen. Hancock an,
Gen Gariicld-a mere strife for chieftain
ship between two gallant generals of III,
: | mon Army, then it would not he contes
worth the while of the American people t.
get excited about; and, for myself, partisan
as have been and am, | should ask TO bt
excused from entering into it, | am no
mere 10 pronounce an cxtravagant eulogy
upon Gen. Garfield. If spoke of him at al
1t w0uld be in language of adulation. in Ian
suage OF warm personal friendship Gloud ap
plauscb of entire personal confidence. o
absolute personal admiration [Applarisc.
| should speak of General Hancock without
a single word of disrespect, as man who
had served his country well but if you have
SAID all have intimatcd about General Gar.
Held, and admitted all | have said of Gen
Hancock, you have not even picked the shell
OF the great controversy before the American
people. 1t Is the record of the two parties
they represent, with the principles they have
emblazoned on their standards; and the
country Is asked which set of men and which
set of principles it will choose
''Well, says my friend, what will happen
II we do elect Hancock! Let us begin with
some of the smaller things. And do not
know as it is one of the smaller things, but
1t IS one not generally spoken of among the
popular subjects of discussion II YOU elect
General Hancock you inevitably, within the
space of twclvemoth-l am not sure that il
would not be within the space or ninety days
hand over TO the Democratic party. led by
Southern men, the control of the Supreme
Court of the United States absolutely. Five
of these Judges arc to-day beyond seventy,
or in that nc!ghbOrhood. They may accept
retirement at full pay. If they are reluctant
to do so, a Democratic President backed by a
Democratic Senate and House, would swamp
that court by superior numbers and by way
of advice to the North let me say that a bill
is pending on the calendar of the Senate to
make that court consist of twenty members.
well, says my inquring friend, What
OF that Suppose the court itself does be-
come Democratic; if you have honest Judges
1t makes no difference about their politics
No, but when you come to that great class
of political cases in which are points relative
to upholding the reconstruction of the South
ern States, the upholding of the Constitu-
tional Amendments, in which are garnered
up and preserved the fruits of the war-upon
/ "i 'h'st tuestipuS sutl WOulu Dt US
inevitably and as radically wrong as the
men who fought in the ranks of the rebel
army. Applause. beg you to remember
that the Democrats after 1884 bent all their
energies TO building up Supreme Court
that would uphold the State rights theory,
and the fist fruits of it was the Dred Scott
decision of 1857, in which slavery was made
National. Do not believe for one moment
that you may entrust the Supreme Court to
such men, though they are honest men. |
may say their honesty is the trouble They
belic5e in these doctrines, and it is this
which makes them so powerful for mischief.
FREE TRADE AND STATES RIGHTS DEMOCRACY.
al will tell you another thing that will
happen if Hancock is elected. We shall
have thorough overhauliDg of the whole
revenue and financial system of the United
States. | suppose You would not hiss man
in Newark if he said something in favor of
protection. Laughter | am little ex-
treme on that subject, because believe it
would take but a very little change in the
tariff laws to create a panic; and ask you
to look back at the prosperity of the last
twenty years and then say if you are willing
TO put the whole of il 10 the hazard of an ex-
pertinent of trying a new theory with new
men? | could detain You until morning ia
recording instances of how the prosperity of
the American people has been 50 enormous
" developed by reason of u protective tariff.
but it is useless ut this late tiltc Ia ask the
value of protection. Loudcheers
Another thing that will happen if Han
cock is clected-and only speak of those
things publicly vouched as the policy of the
party-will arise from vindication of the
theory of State Rights, the underlying prin-
ritNln nj ,rtrIipo .r -, n
cratic PARTY. If he comes into power, in ac-
cordancc with bills that have been perpetu
ally renewed in Congress for the last eight
years, the old State bank system will be re-
newed, and the "shin-plaster' currency will
be revived. If, outside OF the humanitarian
achievement of the Republican party there
was but this one thing-the abolition of
State bankS-upon which the party could
pride Itself, that should be sufficient to en-
title it to the country's gratitude. In abol-
ishins this system the Republican party
abolished bad money. Loud applause.
There has not been bad bill in circulation
since the National Bank system was estab-
lished. Loud applause
THE NORTH AND TIE SOUTH.
Il must call your attention to onc OF two
things in the history of the past ten years
One is that the Republican party has been
held up 10 the scOrn and Indignation of the
country hy the Democratic party on account
of its harsh and cruel treatment of the South,
rs they say Well. ten years have gone by,
and We have reached the year OF the deccn-
NAL enumeration. Take, among others,
West Virginia, nestled up in the Al!cs,,;.n-
les, with Il little arabic land in the valleys, u
State which has not seen the face of an im-
migrant in five years laughterl and ii shows !
a gam OF 6J per cent, putting itself along !
side of Minnesota laushter that has been |
her population by immigrants |
from every State i'll the Union and from
almost every civilized country in Europe. |
Kentucky equals Indiana Tennessee keeps I
abreast of Illinois. Ge0rya-well, | don't |
know where TO put Georgia laughter - |
well, Georgia equals Pennsylvania. Great
laughter. Alabama is equal to Wisconsin
and though there is Il persistent effort to /
keep ii out of this canvass. yet this Southern .
census will DISCLOSE and will Intentionally .
dlsclOsc-It is not for me 10 say who the in /
tender is, who plotted the plan-the fact |
that there are one and half TO two millions
in the South who are not there applause
names of men in the grave and babes
which are not yc; born. Great laughter.
''Now take four and half millions OF ne
grocs in the South who don't have anything
more To do with the Government oi the nitcd
States than they do with the Government of
Great Britain endowed with American
and yet as incapable OF exercising
the right of franchise as il they were in the
moon. Laughter. Take four and Il half mil
lions of those men, and what To we see In
Alabama the negro vote is just about the same
as the white vote il is i.i..rtt..i,.jsiy itonub
ii,.n, am, yet Alabama turns out Demo
cratic majority of 10000 and the wonder
Is she don't turn out Il Democratic majority
pt 100000. Laughter. And the result is
hat Alabama presents herself before the bar
If public opinion of the United States with
The claim that every one of her white men
shall exercise double the power in the Prcsi-
iential election that the white man in New
Jersey does. In Mississippi there are 225,
100 cOlOred men to l0O, 900 white mcn-that
IS nine To four. In Mississippi to-
lay four soldiers oi the Confederate
army will exercise us much power in
.lcctlng Hancock, by throwing their votes
for him, as nine Union soldiers in New
\ ork or New Jersey will exercise by voting
or Garfield. | don't know whether you rel
sh that or not don't Applause. And
now on the top of the four and half mil
ions of actual men of flesh and blood de
prived entirely of their power as political
.lcment in the Government, We have II mil
ion and half of imaginary men tu over
'omc there are seven millions which are
on the other side before We start in
The race. say that this sort of thing must
n stopped. Cries of good" and cheers.
In Alabama, in 1872, with IA comparatively
rec vote, we threw $1,000 votes. | believe
We threw !, III three years after. In Mis-
'ssipp our vote ui $4,000 has absolutely
disappeared. t'lvr me II sponge and the lib