The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1880-09-22
The young Queen of Spain has
baby: it's girl.
an Account OF their Steward
ship.


following sketch Of Gen. Hagoods
speech at the mass meeting in Green
vile. ,:c 18th. 1t is a brief and
pointed record of the Democracy since
that party came into power, and ex-
hibits in striking colors the benefits OF
"Home Rule
GENERAL HAGooD's SPEECH.
1t affnrds me great pleasure, tel-
low -citizens Of Greenville, to meet you,
to witness the prosperity Of your beau
tiful Mountain City, and to renew
friendships, in many Instances dating
from my youth aud early manhood.
Ia the first battle of the late war, Oh
the first day of Manassas, I had the
honor to carry rife in the ranks of
the Butler Guards, i company which
your city and county contributed to
the Confederacy. But few of the
men who then swelled its ranks, and
on that historical field maintained the
rame and fame of Greenville are here
to-day. On Virgipian hills, beneath
the live oaks of the South, and on
Western fields they lie, heroes and
martyrs of the war for Southern ln-
dependence, vet the company itself
survives. It IS to-day distinguished
part of your military organizations.
The memories of half hundred hard
fought fields cluster in its banner and
it's ranks are recruited from the pa
triotism and devotion to principle
which characterizes your people now as
then. That patriotism and devotion to
principle found peacab!e, but no less
striking, manifestation whenGreenvllle,
in 1876, lent her powerful aid to the
OWL revolution which hurled from
power the harpies, bred of the war,
who polluted our State government,
and it is not to revive the memories OF
the "lost cause" sad and glorious as
they are, but to speak Of the results OF
that civil struggle, crowned with vic
tory. that I am here to-day. | am
here today as one who has been IN
part entrusted with the administration
Of the State government for the last
four years to give an account of the
stewardship Of the Democracy, and to
lay before you its claims to con-
tinuancc in power.
It was true, he continued, that the
Radical party was not fighting now,
having not the material wherewith to
form respectable State ticket, as they
had openly acknowledged in their
convention. But the Democracy was
as much on trial as ii conflict was
really in progress. 1t was on trial
before itself, aud before the people,
and all friends of good government.
If it had kept its promise ofretreuch-
meut, reform and relief, rescued a
despoiled people from despair, and
placed them on the high road to
prosperity, it could demand con-
tiuuance in power If it had not, its
leaders could but recall their own I'M,
precation, and subject themselves to
be driven from power with scorn and
Kisses amid the indignation Of be-
trayed and dece@ed people.
lie did not claim that they had es-
tablished political Utopia. Ex-
perience would yet teach farther re-
trenchment where it was possible, but
they never expected quite to reach the
state wherein the wicked cease from
troubling and the weary are at rest.
But they did claim that by comparison
with the government they had before:
the present one was as the MONDAY
light to the darkness of midnight.
(Chcers.) The public revenue had
been economically levied and expend-
ed. The expenses in many depart
ments had been lower than they were
even before the war, and where they
were higher it was due to the ne
! cessities of changed conditions. The
Radicals bad charge of the State gov
ernment for nine years, and the Dem
ocrats for three. Selecting three years
of the Radical rule, not at the height
of the carnival of corruption, but their
last three years, when the indigna-
tion throughout the Union, and the
wrathful muttcrings at home .cowed
them into what they called "reform -
during that period the Radicals had
collected in taxes for genera! State
purposes, : :: : ST ,349, ,46l
The Democratic govern meht
during its three years of
power had collected for
same purposes, :: : 9O9, ,oOO
When these millions left the peo-
ple's pockets, where did they 60 :?
The Radicals paid their County
Treasurcrs sl5l,OO0 annually in COM
missions. The Democrats paid theirs
S35, 900 for doing the same work.
Radical Treasurers had defaulted: as
shown by the Comptroller Generals
books for slOS,00O. Democratic
Treasurers for not one cent. (Cheers.) }
The Democrats in actual dollars and
centa had saved enough below Radical
expenditures to run the State gov
ernment for four years, without one
cent Of levy, aud could show the fig
ures for tic statcnlent- Another I'M
portaut item Of improvement ~as in
the levy, and collection of phos-
phate royalties, In the three years
referred to, the Radicals had collected
from that source Sal, ,000. In their
three years the Democrats had collect
ed from it 5295,0O0. It might be
that good and honest government