The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-10-04
MR.. DAGGETTs SPEECH.

GsIlScnS OF w lnDeInuCCa OH Uedu anu
i;ring issues Saturday evening. His
speech was principally sectional He
pretended to show from the records
That the appropriations made by tho
Democrats since they obtained control
o; the House of Representatives wero
Ir excess of those made by the Repub-
j,cans in 1856. The exact amounts
4i,owed by the Forty third Congress,
which was Republican, and the Forty
fourth Congress with D Democratic
House, show n saving by the latter of
ever sos, 100000. We. refer to the
record for proof of the correctness of
these figures, which show that the gen.
f.eman was incorrect even when pretend
irg to be quoting from the records. The
greater part of Mr.. Daggett's remarks
were devoted to the South. where he
said Republicans were denied the privi-
hsge of voting, and in proof of this as
sertion cited to certain Congressional
districts, among, others that. of A. H..
stephens, where the total vote was less
than 10000. This would indicate that
voters were kept away from the polls,
we're it not for the fact that A. IL.
Stephens, as well as the others men
t9oned byfMr. Daggett, had no opposi
tIoa. Stephens was in Congress at the
0pcning of the rebellion, and while op-
posing secession in his speeches, acceptr
Ga the Office of Vice President of the
Goafedcracy. At the close of the war
Be was reelected to Congress, and the
Republicans, which then controlled, that
body removed his disabilities. He has.
since been regularly reelected, and in
1876 received a majority Of l3, 1913 over
2'ennelle. In 1878 he had no opposition
and only 3, 400 votes were polled in his
district, though IS shown in 1873, over
$4,000 of the voters of that district, out
OF total vote of about 1000, were in
:. favor of his election It has never
been charged that bulldosing was prac-
t:ced in his district, though he, like
Mr.. Daggett, favored the nomination of
Grant at Chicago. In the State of
Rhode Island, where Mr.. Daggett does
rot intimate bulldosing is practiced,
less than 10000 votes were polled in
1878, and in one of them the Repub-
iican nominee, N. W. Aldricn received
G,SG6 votes out of total of 1900 Ii
It is grievous offense to have South.
ern members of Congress elected by
less than 10000 votes, why do Repub-
]icans sanction it in Rhode Island MIR.
Daggett represents State which polls
less votas than many OF the.SoutherRr
Congressional Districts, and though
both parties are very nearly equally.
divided. he is ungracious. enough to-
charge the Democrats with being rebel
sympathizers The Southern States
were nearly all Republican few years
ago. and while that party has had con-.
troa of the General Government they
have become Democratic Are they
any more to blame for this than Maine,
which gave Grant over 80, 900 majority
and the other day defeated the Repub-
fcan ticket? If a Republican National
Administration can not keep the South
Republican, and does not, as is al
legged, protect citizens in their rights,
what less can Hancock do at the head
OF the Government ? No one pretends
to charge that. the South is less peace
able to-day than when it's State gov
sruments1were under Republican con-
troll; yet MIR. Daggett would have US
believe that it is as impoverished, as
unproductive and as unsettled as it
possibly can be, though statistics show
that it, has. produced over 5000, 900
bales oscOston this- year, besides sugar,
Dorm. wheat and other products. Mr..
Daggett would have us believe that
Southern Congressman do nothing but
spout treason and advocate vicious leg
nlation. He forgets what everybody
who reads knows. that the Silver bill
was introduced by Bland, of Missouri;
that the Anti Chinese bill was reported