The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1880-08-20

| people, and that we are graNltatinS 10
| ward a stronger government | am glad
that we are. At the Fifth Avenue Hotel
| recently he paid tribute to Alexander
| Hamilton rs the leader of American
thought. The conflict is here again
SHAPED between the rights of man as
such and of power and paternal govern.
ment. That was the issue the people OF
eastern PENNSYLVANIA met in 1880 here Ill
this locality. aud they turned from pow
rr those who followed and believed IL
the teachings of Hamilton and Mr.. Ad-
ans, and placed in power those who fol
lowed and believed in the doctrines OF
Mr. jefferson. Applause.
With us the individual is the unit f;
we govern by individuality. All rights
belong to the individual, save those which
are vital to the conduct of the government
and when those pass from the individual
the extent of the grant is to be measur-
ed with ieslously, and its abuse curbed
whenever il occurcs We want no strong
government we want a government OF
the people, by the people and from the
people. Applause. Our candidate vol
ces this when he says: This Union,com
priSing general government with gen
eral powers, and State governments with
State powers for the purposes local to
the States, is polity the foundations of
which are laid in the profoundest wis
dom. This is the Union which our faith
ers made, and which has been so res
pected abroad and so beneiicient at home.
[Applause.l
TiIE TENDENCY oFTuElR SYSTEM
General Garfield and his party would
centralze the government. The tenden-
cy of their system is to ignore the indi
vidual as unit and to govern the peo-
pie from the top. Federal election laws
are but one of the evidences of this ten
dency. They apply now to cities alone ;
but concede the power and ii grows up
on what it grasps and ultimately finds
full play in the control of the elections in
rural districts.
In Il republic all men are equal; in a
centralized despotism they are also all
equal-in the former because they are
nothing. Wewant neither sectional hate
disunion nor paternal government. Gap
plause and cheering.)
Let us trace the record of the candi-
date of the republican party. He it is
whom solemnly asserted that the man
who 'attemps to get up political excite
ment in this country on the old sectional
ISSUES will find himself without n party
and without support yet he is the man
who is now presenting himselfto the peo-
pie as the champion of scctionalism. of
hate and dishonor Applause. In this he
is about to verify his own predictions and
~ Il Wit
support. He has eulogized British free
trade policy, and voted for high duties
in one session and has advocated pro
lection and voted for free-trade in an
| other, In 1866 he spoke against re
duc;ng the duty on tea and coffee and in
1872 he voted against placing them
| ON the free list. In 1866 he replied to
Mr., Stevens by saying: Against the
| abstract doctrine of the free trade as such
very little can be said. but it never can
| be applied to values except in time of
| peace. Yet to-day he is paraded as the
advocate protection, while he voted to
reduce the duty on pig iron from 80 TO
| 81 per ton; and in 1872 he voted for the
bill to reduce the duties on woods, iron
and steel ten per centum
| MORE OF GARflEl..S RECORD.
In 1850. rs member of the committee
| of ways and means, he voted against the
bill reducing the duties on salt, printing
paper and wood pulp, He has acknowl-
edged i'll emphatic terms in his place i'll
the gross partiality and injustice of the
| Federal election laws. and amid the de-
risiye laughter of his associates has voted
| 4 "a
them in the interest of Justice and fair
play. lie has vigorously and uniformly
declared against extravaganza and waste
in the bills for internal improvements for
rivers and harbors, and has uniformly
voted for the laws to increase and create
them He has spoken for general am
ncsty, but when the party lash was ap-
piled he has voted against it. Applause. ]
With the broadest theoretical views of
the union, peace and harmony in his
. public utterances, his practical application
of his own doctrines has been to perpet-
uate sectionalism and disunion. He voted
in congress against the bill for Electoral
commission, because it authorized that
commission to get behind the returns o,
a State. and as one of the commission h,
voted and decided that the law gave n,
such power in the cases of Louisiana an,
Florida. while it did in the case of Ore
gan. lie earnestly denounced the abus
! cs of the civil service, declaring tina
congressman had become the distributor
= and the brokers of public patronage
e while i'll his letter of acceptance he give
i hismqualilied assent to the continuation
{ | of the abuses he before assailed. He ha
z assumed to he "A friend of legislation fo
: preventing discrimination in freight chan
! ges and has giren like assurances to it
enemies. His personal record in matter
Il that are now so pubhc shall not attemp
G to deal with. They are before the pull
e lie, and they must judge him by the rec
Il ord in regard thereto. We present
IS candidate born on yourself applause an,
II chcers)-a candidate to whose suppoi
c every feeling of local and state prd
j. prompt us 10 rally. Renewed cheering.
4 \ Union General, who was found at tn
} supreme cricis of the nations peril equ;
d to the occasion, ,whorepellcd the advance
J. Toe from his native state and saved bot
d II and the Republic. One with n stail
% less personal record, a magnificent mil
D. tary record, is the candidate of the den
is oracy in this issue. Applause lie
Is the representative of Unionism again
c. srctioualsm-of the rights of the pc
lc pie against those of power and centra
G.; zation.
n Mr., Wallacethrew all of his fiery for,
IS, into his concluding words-the quotatiC
9 from Tennyson;
in on, God for a man with head heart aud hanC
4 Like one Of the strong ones long gone by!
II AristOCrat, DcmOCrAt, AutocTat-
* whatever they call him what careI?
one that can rule and dare n, lie
'o The cheering and other demonstrate
he Of npnroNal that had so frCnently int,