The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-10-01
CONKLING SPEAKS.
One Of the Best Efforts OF Ms Liie...The South.
ern Danger...Aboutt the Finances.
Able Exposition.


Cowan, Gen. Arson McCook, Postmas-
ter james, Collector Merritt, Gen. Ora
ham, Gen. Carr, Hon. Thurlow Weed,
and others. About o'clock Governor
Cornell entered the Academy and
was escorted TO private box
amid three cheers. Gen. Arthur and
Hon. james w. Varum accompanied the
governor. Shortly before 3 o'clock
Senator Conkling arrived, accompanied
by Hon. Hamilton Fish, Hon. Lloyd
Aspinwall, Hon. Jno. jay, ex-Gov.
Denison, of Ohio, and Hon. Levi L.
Morton, and as the party advanced upon
the stage simultaneous cheer arose
from every part of the house, and hand
kerchiefs and hats were waved in the
mir. The excitement subsiding, Mr..
Aspinwall advanced to the footlights and
said he had been requested to open the
meeting by reading letter from Gen.
Grant. Prolonged applause. Hon.
Hamilton Fish was elected chairman,
and in II brief speech introduced Senator
Conklmg, who was greeted with cheer
upon cheer ~ he came forward.
After an eloquent allusion to the grandeur
and blessing Of the republic, Mr.. Conkling said
The Democratic party IL the Democratic candi-
date and ! am against the ticket and all its
works. The general issue confronting III Ii in
itself and in its bearings sectional. Would that
It were not 40, but 1t In 30. In twelve states Of
the Union the approaching election Ii 70 he no
more than farce, unless, M has sometimes
happened, IL be turned into tragedy. In several
southern states there is large Republican ma
Jorty; but oil the southern states alike, without
exception on without doubt, are relied upon to
count upon the Democratic side and score one
hundred and thirty-eight electoral votes. There
IL to be no free debate, no equal rights, no true
expression IN these states; and yet he who dis
cusses these questions must be- tod in the
coarse parlance Of the 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 Gen. Grants recent let
ter, III which he says that "the Democratic
party ~ now constituted and controlled, IN not
lit party to trust with the control of the gen.
eral government" aud went ON to say that the
South controls the Democratic party, and that
III congress the Southern members hold abso-
lutte sway. Should controversy arise regard
ing the presidential election, and the election
be thrown into the house. there, the vote being
taken by states, the South would east nearly all
the Democratic votes, and III the senate the vote
for vice president would come from the same
source. In every event OF Democratic success
the Southern end of the Democratic party must
be to the Northern end as the locomotive IL to
the tender, ~ the horse liz to the cart
This IL as plain ~ any truth in gravitatiOn or
arithmetic. The South has control of all
the working committees Of the senate.
Democrats and nf these a ma i,rTtv i'm Mi cases
consisis of southern Senators The same cond-
tions prevail i'm the house There arc forty-iwo
committees. The chairmen of twenty-five are
from the SOUTH All the committees are 10 con
the majority more than half IL southern Dur.
ING fine two wears while tbis abaolutc mower in
hnfb bouscs has heen so jodged thc cyistcnco
of the veto mower, and tbc annroacb of a nresi-
dental canvass have suocested nrpent reasons
for ..co,nc slow' Manv exneted Hills bove
not been Introduced. ma;,y flint have bcen i'm.
troduced have not hccn Hnressed.n some that
have bccn {. nrcssed" have rnn AGAINST sl,cb oh.
stinate onnosition as 10 secnrc nr.sent most.
noncmenf or some modification. Int when.vcr
The bonr strikes fiat the veto nowcr il in Dem
ocratic hands, NM there Inv sontbern votes.
whatever fine soiid caucus decrees will Le writ,
ten. That Caucus will be controlled by those
who renresent less tbon one.scyentb of fine nco-
nle of The nnion' and moi more than one .fanr.
feentb of tho nroImc,nc' commcrcaI industrial
tox-navinc and nronertv Interests of the country
TEe senator read official tioures off fine burec,,
nj statistics 10 nrov, tbis assertion and said.
These facts ore not recited wifi pleasure lint
deem regret.
The next touic discuss,d was fine trade of fine
Mississnn; river md mon fills noint Conklinp
said. HE river commerce ar fine SoutLcr1
Mississinn IL regarded as n great Tie of interest
n sofegiiard and asn,ranco against nnrnoses
SECTIONAL ar inimjcoI and n large foundation for
tbe claims SET mn for Southern Influence i'm ma
tonoI afy.,rs mis- tbeory M far as !, ever
WAS time. belongs 10 tbe nast. The tread of
man i'm sIl aces Inns been ON lines of lotitndc,
NOT ON lines of longitude. Riyors and NOM,
toins an tLis continent RIM north AMI soufb.
men bridge and tunnel them and move east and
west. The construction of railways has
revoutioniZed traffic and transportation.
The great companion and competitor
TO this transcontinental movement IL
the lakes and Erie canal. The commercial
forces of seven great cities have grasped this
vast carving trade, and hold, propel and di-
rect il. Boston, New York, Philadelphia and
Baltimore at the east, and st. Louis, Chicago
and Cincinnati Mt the west, command the
machinery and outlets and inlcts through which
the surplus products of the Uaited States reach
the markets of the world, and through which
the merchandise of Europe il brought here aud
distributed. Could science deepen the mouths
of the Mississipp till the Great Eastern could
load Mt the wharycs of the Crescent CITY. the
achievement would no more arrest or divert the
movement of commerce and populatiOn east
and west than IL could control the tides of the
sea or change the course of the stars.
Statistics we're here given, locating the bulk
and substance of the nations wealth in the
north. and the sneaker said. l affirm TINT the
broad issue Mt this election in whether ou
colossal fabric commercial. industrial and tinan-
cial interests. shall be under the management
and projection of those who chiefly created and
own H. ar shall II Inc handed over Ia fine sway of
those whose share In II is small. and whose ex.
nerience. antecedcnts. theories and PRACTICES do
not at t3cm or cnt;tle them In JASMINE ~ con.
trol2
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bcan yot" in lie lnmtb Inv fraud crucitv' devil.
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n aotaS o'"a 5aaS;ioS H., ',;nIonno aud frond
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