Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-18

away, unable to gain admittance. On the
| stage among the prominent men were Hon. f.
Pierrepont, Judge Cowan, Gen. A. McCook,
Postmaster James, Collector Merritt Gen
eral Graham, General Carr, Hon. Thurlow
Weed and others. About o'clock Governor
Cornell entered the Academy, and was es-
corted to private box amid three cheers.
General Arthur and Hon. James A. Varnum
accompanied the Governor. Shortly before
Senator Conkling arrived, accompanied by
Hon. Hamilton Fish, Hon. Lloyd Aspinwall,
Hon. John Jay. ex Governor Denison of
Ohio, and Hon. Levi p Morton, and as the
party advanced upon the stage simultaneous
cheers were given from all over the house, and |
h&ndkerchiefs andhats were waived in the air. |
The excitement subsiding Aspinwan ad |
vanced to the footlights, ard said he had |
been requested to open the meeting by read |
ing letter from Gen. Grant. [Great applause
[NoTE.-This letter has been published be-
fore.
Hon. Hamilton Fish was elected Chair
man, and in a brief speech introduced
Senator Conkling, who was greeted with
cheer upon cheer as he came forward.
NEW YORK, September 17th.-In Senator
Conklings speech tonight, after an eloquent
allusion to the grandeur and blessings of the
Republic, he said: The general issue con-
! fronting US is in itself, and in its bearings,
sectional Would that it were not so, but it
| is SO. In twelve States of the Union the
approaching election is to be no more than a
farce, unless, as has sometimes happened, it
be turned into a tragedy. In several South
ern States there is Republican majority,
but all the Southern States alike, without
exception or without doubt, are relied
| on to count up the Democratic
side and score 13S electoral votes. There
is to be no free debate, no equal
rights, no true expression, and yet he who
discusses these questions must be told in the
coarse parlance of to-day that he waves the
bloody shirt" The Senator denounced the
proposed count in some Southern States
| founded on the last census, and then read
| General Grants recent letter, in which he
says: 1.-THE Democratic party as now con-
stituted and controlled is not fit party to
trust with the control of the General Gov
ernment." The South controls the Demo-
cratic party. and in Congress the Southern
members hold absolute sway. Should a con-
troversy arise regarding the Presidential
election, and the election be thrown into the
| House. and vote being taken by States,
the South would cast nearly all the
Democratic vote, and in the Senate the
vote for President would come from the
same source. In every event of Democratic
| success, the Southern end of the Democratic
party must be to tbe Northern end as the
| locomotive is to the tender. The South has
control of all the working committees of the
Senate. On every committee there is q ma
iority of Democrats, and of these the major
ity ia all cases consists of Southern Senators.
The same conditions prevail in the House.
There are forty two committees. The chair
men of twenty-five are from the South. All
| the committees are so constituted that the
majority is Democratic, and OF the majority
more than half is Southern. During the
two years while this absolute power in both
LII. fL,a v,sto IS
the veto power and the approach of the
Presidential canvass have suggested urgent
reasons for "going slow" Many expected
bills have not been introduced many that
have been introduced have not been pressed
some that have been pressed have run against
such obstinate opposition as to secure their
present postponement or some modification.
But whenever the hour strikes that the veto
power is in Democratic hands, put there by
the Southern vote, whatever solid caucus de-
crees will be written that caucus will be
controlled by those who represent by less
than one-seventh of the people of the Union,
and more than one-fourteenth of the produc-
ing, commercial, industrial, tax-paying and
property interests of the country.
The Senator read the official figures of the
Bureau of Statistics to prove this assertion,
and said these facts are not recited with
pleasure, but with deep regret. The broad
issue at this election is whether our colossal
fabric, commercial, industrial and financial
interests, shall be under the management and
protection of those of Democratic ascend
ency in all branches of the Government.
This is deeper-rooted than any meas
ure within the scope of existing pub
lie questions. Statesmen abroad talk of
the balance of power and of changing the
map of Europe. These sayings mean not
much more than might easily occur here,
without violating the Constitution or tran
scending the usages of the Republic. At
least seven new States could be brought in,
and in the ease OF some of them very plausi-
BILE case could be made. The project would
become high party measure. Its success
would assure a complete Democratic ascend
ency in the nation for generation. At
least it would put the Government not mere
ly in the hands of the Democratic party, but
of the Southern Democratic party, with
Courts revolutionized to conform to its
reactionary notions and dogmas, pre-
judices and interests. What may be the
fate of the questions affecting commerce
among the several States the revenue, bank
and legal tender currency, taxation of Gov
ernment currency. in which these bonds are
payable, civil rights acts, claims growing out
of the war; claims for refunding the war tax
on cotton the late amendments, and many
other grave matters, no man can predict.
Meanwhile the army has been reduced to
skeleton, and whenever scare, pretense or
shrek of war on Mexicos border or elsewhere
can be discovered or invented, the army nust
be increased and filed up. By whom !? That
depends on the approaching election. If
Garfield and Arthur are chosen, by Union
men-men always for the Union to the core.
If Hancock and English, and the Democratic
party get in, by the men who went with
their States" The present tariff and revenue
laws are deemed very bad by the dominant
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change them. They will change them
readily whenever the way is clear.
There is whisky rebellion now in
several States. and the officers of
law are powerless to suppress it. Recently
a warrant was issued for the arrest of one
Penton. A Deputy Marshal went with a
posse to execute the warrant. In bis report
to the Marshal he says that Penton assem-
bled from % to 80 armed men, and set him
and the law at defiance When cautioned to
desist, Penton replied, "When Hancock
is elected this damn foolishness will stop"
The amendments to the Constitution were
constantly and fagrantly defied in more than
half the Democratic States, and should these
laws be swept away and the spirit which
assails them in the South, and which called
them into being, continue to rage, mildew will
follow in the wake. The national banking
system has been struck wherever blow
could be putt
In regard to the assertion that the Southern
war claims are barred by the Fourteenth
Amendment to the Constitution, Conkling
said There can be no doubt the way is
wide open to all Southern claims which ma
jority can be found to vote for and Presi-
dent to sign"
| Bitter fractional Fight Between Georgia
Democrats.
WASHINGTON, September 18th. - Judge
Lochrane, of Georgia, has just returned
from that State, and represents the pending
contest between the Colquitt and Norwood
factions as the most bitter that has ever been
known in Georgia. He says there can be no
reconciliation between the two factions. At
recent meetings at Macon. at which Colquitt
! and Norwood were announced for Joint dis
cussion, the crowd hooted and yelled at the
Governor. preventing him from speaking
more than fifteen minutes of the two hours
allotted to him. Norwood was listened to
with but very little interruption at the pub
lie meeting recently held at Columbus Ex-
Senator Gordon was also howled down by the
crowd. Lochrane further says that the scam
dals of Colquitt's ADMINISTRATION, and his ap-
pointment of Brown to the United States
Senate to succeed Gordon, form the issue in
the campaign. He believes that the con-
test between the Democratic factions will be
continued after the pending election. and
| they will never again act in harmony Loch-