The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-09-24
SENATOR BAYARD
..sr~-... the Democracy OF New
York-
a. Able. Eissaest and Pointed
sYeeeh-
Anniversary OF the Capture OF Mater
Andre

New York, Sep. 23.-August Bel
ant WAS chosen chairman OF the dem
oer.tic meeting tonight. His speech
"a. devoted in the main to the consid-
sration OF the claim that the present
,,,osperity OF the nation Is due TO re-
nublican legislation, and cited as sig-
nIacant fact that only in 1879. with the
house and senate both democratic, we
we're enabled TO float our four per cent.
bonds at par. The American people
don't owe their present prosperity TO
either the republican or democratic
law makera They owe 1t first, and
above all, to the blessings Of the Al
mighty, who has given them unbounded
crops with which to feed the famishing
masses OF Europe; next, to forced econ
omy and retrenchment in private and
public expenditures, rendered necessary
by the disasters OF '73; and lastly, to the
thrift, energy and skill Of our planters,
farmers and mechanics. which have
made Us large exports To the marts Of
the world, not only OF n surplus product
Of our own soil, but also OF works Of
American invention and skill.
Resolutions were read and adopted,
and letters OF regret, because OF the alb
sence Of the writers, were announced.
Senator Bayard was then presented
to the vast throng and was received
with long continued applause and waiv-
ing OF hats and handerchiefs. He
made long speech, discussing many
questions which enter into the presi-
Dental contest. He said the time had
changed the population Of the south as
we'll as the north; new generation Of
men and women, who could have had
but little TO say or do In relation to the
war Of '0l, now occupies and controls
the country. OF the charge that in the
event Of democratic success, the war
debts OF the south, loss Of slaves and
claims for other losses growing out Of
the war, pensions for their wounded,
ETC., would be paid out OF the United
States treasury, Bayard said the best
reply to all these wild, malicious and
foolish assertions. is that such payments
would be impossible. The good sense
or honesty of that man is seriously to
be impugned who does not read In
the plain mandate OF the fourteenth
amendment the absolute seal Of illegal
ity and nullity set upon all such claims.
Having been for number Of years In
Washington, have learned who were
the real beneficiaries Of the claims paid
by congress In the past ten years OF
class styled southern claims" and in
almost every instance great part Of
the money flowed into the pockets of
northern and very ''loyal" assignees,
who had bought up these claims for n
song from their impecunious southern
owners. At the great gathering Of re-
publican ladies and gentlemen last
woek, there were lawyers, bankers and
statesmen who had more money in their
pockets from southern claims allowed
by republican commissioners and repub-
lican courts than the poor south ever
received since the war or eser will re-
ceive from now until the day OF judg.
ment.
The cry Of ''solid south" received at
tention, and Bayard said: The south is
not solid for anything the north need
apprehend, and its solidity has no fea-
ture and no result unfriendly to the
prosperity Of the entire union.
In relation to the condition Of busi-
ness and society in the southern states,
Bayard quoted freely from paper by
Edward Atkinson, of Massachusetts,
and published in the Fortnightly Re-
pie'c, In which appears these passages:
The total production of gold and silver
by mines, mountains and rivers of the
whole world for twenty-seven years,
has been "a, 400. ss7 900, and the Amer
lean cotton crop for the last ten years
amounted to from $4,000. 600, 900 to
5000, ,000, 900 In gold values" Since
'oo an industrial revolution occurred In
the states made free by the war, such
a. never before occurred. On the sur
lace there has appeared to be misgov-
ernment, fraud, political disturbance,
want OF stability, sometimes violence,
Dut underlying this surface, apparently
20 agitated and disturbed, great indus
uial forces have been quietly and surely
working to the end indicated by the
great crops of cotton; the ten last crops
marketed exceeding the ten anti.war
crops by nearly 6,50o, 600 bales, while
the crops now being marketed will be
by far the largest ever grown. Vio-
ience and anarchy could not have been
the rule in section that produced
greater crops for sale and has at the
same time been more self-sustaining
Than ever before In Its history.
Speaking Of the prosperity Of the m.
tion and Of the production Of tobacco.
sugar and rice, Bayard said: And vet
our domestic production Of the last two
articles Is only in the southern states.
and tobaccois chiefly produced there.
VI the tobacco crop, from the two.
nttns retained and manufactured in the
United States, over thirty-eight million
aoiiars revenue have been derived in
tne last fiscal year. with the execpt,va