Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-21
THE CAMPAIGN.
At Indianapolis schurz Crates for Garfield
and the Eighty Thousand Republican
Ohicials-Opening Chorus of the CoIored
Convention at Springfield, Illinois.

scctolaIy VI uue lnteflOf, aQQfesseQ an immense
assemblage of Republicans at the Wigwam.
He spoke at length, making the following
points:
In the first place we want good government
government which understands the public
business and transacts it honestly and Justly.
The Indiana question is, how far has the pres
emit government met these requirements. /
think I am not exaggerating when say that
fair minded men of this country will admit
that on the whole, the public business has been
conducted by this administration successfully.
1t has maintained the public faith and raised
the credit of the United States to point never
reached before. 1t has consistently
followed the policy. of re-
system, and promised the prosperity of the
people by the restoration of specie payments.
1t has funded enormous masses of national in.
debtedness at lower interest, AMI saved mil
lions year to the tax payers. 1t has faith
fully executed the laws, and observed sacred
constitutional principles. IL has removed
many obstacles that stood in the way Of o
friendly understanding between different Sec
tions. 1t has reformed many abnses in the
public service.
Now that the time for change in the person.
mel of the administration has arrived we should
favor that candidate who can be depended on
to keep the administration where it is. The
Democratic party labors under historic az well
as constitutional difficulties. Since the down.
fall of the slave power the Democratic party
has beeu drifting with strange incapacity to
understand the present and future. commit
ting blunder after blunder from the secession
movement Of 1861 down to the nomination of
Hancock in 1880 good, clear headed Democrats
unale to control the obstreperous elements n
the party.
In 1854 the Democratic party declared the
wars failure, and must be abandoned. If this
policy had been adopted the union would have
gone to ruin. The Democrats declared the
abolition of slavery would be the ruin of the
country; declared the resumption Of specie
payments must be repealed.
The speaker went on to recite further EXAM
pies to show that the Democratic party showed
itself incapable to understand facts that had
been virtually accomplished, and
how it obstructed things that were
inevitable, and now in the year 1880, when war
issues were fairly behind us, when by a COR
cilatory spirit and strict Observance of consti-
tutional principles. the government has re-
moved the elements of discord between the
sections, when general prosperity was blessing
the land, and when the people look for enhght-
ened, practical statesman ship-now the Demo-
cratic party knows nothing better to do than
to set aside all its Statesmen of known and
settled opinions, political experience and
training, and nominate professional soldier
who has never been anything else but that, and
who, from the very nature and necessities of
professional ways, stood aloof from the man.
agement of political questions.
/ shall not attempt to depreciate the charac-
ter of Hancock and the services which be has
rendered the country. He is gentleman of
irreproachable private character. As sol.
dier he has shown bravery and skill in handling
troops under difficult circumstances, and his
70 sGal J:
ments. For all this every good Citizen will
honor him. But the question is not whether
he is deserving general, but whether he
would be the kind of President the country
needs, who can be depended upon to success
fully solve the problems of craftsmanship now
before us. To head battalions of brave men
against fortified position. or win campaign
by dashing movements, is one thing. To regu-
late the finances of the country, to organize the
civil service in such manner that it may con-
duct the public business upon sound business
principles, is another.
While speakingl of sound money in their
platform the Democrats put forward Ewing, of
Ohio, Butler in Massachusetts,, and Lauders in
Indiana, all inhationists. Resumption was OPP
posed to the last by Democratic Congressman.
When Hancock was mentioned Peter Cooper
and Sam Carey were among the first to wish
him success. Business men who voted the
DEMOCRATIC ticket are taking gambling
chance, and that chance against them. The
Democratic paaty is held together by the ad-
hesive power of public plumber
end if Hancock should say he would abandon
the specie system he would be laughed at by
his party. Democratic success would cause the
immediate removable of eighty thousand officials,
and their places would be filed by inexpe-
rienced men, without time for careful selec-
tions. This would destroy the whole admins
tration machinery, and remove for time at
least the guards now placed over the public
money.
Let US look at the other side When in 1869
the Republican majority in Congress declared
tor payment of the public debt in coin there
was the end of the reputation movement in
the Republican party. When iu 1876 the Re-
publican majority passed the resumption act
that was the end of the unredeemable paper
money business in the party. The Repudia-
tionists Joined the Greenback party, and finally
most of them became Democrats. The Re-
publican party has either converted or elected
this class, and has become
the reliable sound money party, and the solu-
ton of new financial problems can be safely
entrusted only to it. As to civil service in the
event of Republican success, the administra-
tive machinery will not be suddenly taken to
pieces and disorganzed to become raw mate
rial. That those Republicans who demand
complete reform will not cease to work for it
is certuin, while on the Demo.
cratic side we have no reason to look for
anything except complete relapse into the
old method
The Presidency is not a presentation of "a
sword or gift of horse given to a victorious
soldier to please him. If so, then simple JUS.
tice would give it, since Grant has had it, to
Sherman and Sheridan before Hancock The
Presidency is not trust due no man. Nobody
has ever earned it as a thing belonging
to him, and it should not be bestowed but for
patriotic and enlightened craftsmanship.
Above all the Presidency should never be point
ed out as the attainable goal of professional
soldier. In a republic great care should be
taken not to demoralize the army by instilling
political ambition in the minds of its officers.
l am for subordinating the military to civil
power, and therefore favor making Congress-
man Garfield President and letting General
Hancock remain general
The Democracy may in the course of time
gain the confidence Of the people, but that
should be only when the repudiationists and
advocates of unsound money have ceased to be
in its ranks, SO powerful and influential an ele-
ment as seriously to threaten the great econ
omical interests of the country.
COtored Convention.
SPRINGFIELD, July 20.-The first State con-
vention of coIored men ever had in Illinois