Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-10-06

My purpose Is quite different. It is to show If
L can, what is actually at stake now who and
what the contending forces are, how much the
result may mean, and which way prudence and
wisdom point.
GENERAL GRANT s LII TIER TEXT FOR MANY
SERMONS.
You have listened to letter from one to
whom at least as much as to any other man
the nation owes its preservation, prosperity
! and primacy. This letter, instinct with COM
mon sense, hits the nail on the head I s
writer generally does hit nails, rebellions and
pretenders on the head. He says:
This meeting should awaken the people to
the Importance of keeping control of the gov
eminent in the hands of the Republican party
until we can have two national parties, every
member OF which can cast his ballot as iudg-
ment dictates, without fear of moestation or
ostraclsm 4, and have it honestly counted; par
are nation. but as to the policy to secure the
greatest good to the greatest number of it's
citizens. Sincerely believing that the Demo-
cratic party, as now constituted and controlled
is not tit party to trust with the control of
the general government, believe it to the best
interests OF all sections, South as well as North,
that the Republican party should succeed in
November. Yours very truly,
U. S. GRANT.
Lord Chesterfield said that letter shows
the man it is written to, as we'll as the man it
is written by. This letter bears Lord Chester
field out. 1t is written to Gen. Arthur, and
it reveals the confidence and esteem in which
the writer holds him. Informed by many
years of intimate acquaintance Gen. Grant
knew and felt, as we know and feel, that he
was writing not only to a friend, but to one of
the most genuine, patriotic and honorable of
men. LOUD applause.
HOW THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS CONSTITUTED
AND CoNTROLLED.
This letter furnishes text for many SER
mons. "The Democratic party as now con-
tod o,,Io lad -
,, ted how controlled? There is a vast number
of upright, patriotic men init-a vast number
of men who gave all and did all they should
have given and done to uphold their govern
ment and their flag in the supreme and dire
hour of trial. vast number who imperiled
| their lives, as other Democrats laid down their
lives for their country. Many Northern Dem
ocrats who cast all their weight and sympathy
on the nations side, after the war was over re-
turned to their former party associations ;
many others never did SO return. We're such
Democrats to guide and influence Democratic
congress and Democratic administration
their party would not be constituted and con-
| trolled as it is. Because such men and their
! views and interests will not and can not con-
| troll in the event of Democratic success much
| grave peril arises.
! As the Democratic party is Constituted, not
the men of the North, not the men who were
! for the Union and the Constitution. but the
men OF the South who were against the Union
and the Constitution men whose policy and
| purposes are still hurtful to fhe country are
bound and predestined to control Democratic
administration and Democratic Congress-
| [Applause.] In the Senate and in tine House
the South has an overwhelming majority of
the Democratic members, and most Of them
are men who led in the rebellion. Every party
measure in Congress is settled in party caucus
| by a party majority; thus the Southern mem
bers hold absolute sway, In possession of the
law-making power, of the purse, and of the
power to confirm or reject treaties and appoint
ments, the South is also to furnish all the votes
to elect the Democratic candidates, save only
the forty-seven votes which must be ratified, or
counted, or certified, or produced from the
Northern States, particularly not excepting
Oregon. Should the election be close, there
is no knowing but the two Democratic houses
may find ground on which to throw out part
or all Of any States electors. With much I'M
employed leisure on their hands. with the
danger which the electoral commission of
1877 alone overpassed, for that time, staring
the country in the face, these Democratic
houses have adopted no measure to insure
order and right IL ascertaining the result Of
the Presidential election. Should controversy
arise, and the election be thrown into the
house, there, the vote being taken by states
the South would cast nearly all the Democratic
votes and in the Senate the vote for Wee
President would come from the same source.
Southern end Of the Democratic party must be
to the Northern END as the locomotive is to the
tender, as the horse is to the cart. This is as
plain as any truth in gravitation or arithmetic.
THE SOUTH CONTROLS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Perhaps this point will seem to you to chal-
lenge some attention. For the population of
the Southern States, we must go back to the
census Of 1870. That count of the people was
made by enumerators not selected by Southern
nlf and MAJ Of fl,a
partisans" and professional reformers 1t was
made by the regular marshals and their depu-
ties, and the compensation was 80 adjusted as
to induce thorough visitation and, at the same
time, to guard against exaggeration of num-
bers. No imputatiou of fraud was ever cast
upon the york. Such thing as plot to fab
r1cate monstrous increase of population in
one section, in order to baff1a the course Of ma
ture and the logic OF events in another-a plot
to change the balance of power and population
in order to aggrandize one section by estab-
fishing false basis of representation and ap-
portlonment, thus robbing other sections OF
their share in governing the country in levy
ing taxes, and appropriating money, had not
at that time occurred to the conservative foes
Of radicalism. That particular spoke in the
wheel Of deviltry had no. turned up to the
shifty patriot of that day. Now such schemes
seem to wax apace. We read of producing
false heirs to thrones, but to multiply false
heirs without anyone to personate them on g.
scale SO grand as seems now in process, would
stupefy the ingenuity Of a French novelist, or
anybody else except thorough-going, nom
partisan, conservative disciple of the Demo.
cratic persuasion, wanting nothing for himself,
but ready to do and suffer for white mans
government with ''reform" and ''a change"
[Applause.]
The suggestion now is that the census
takers of 1870 under counted their neighbours
Paid by the head and by the mile, not by the
day, it is now alleged they robbed themselves;
they neither travelled or counted, nor charged
fer doing it. They were "carpet- baggers,"
too many Of them, in the South; their States
were Republican, they had their ambitions and
motives for increased political numbers and
power; there was not the remotest danger of
any direct tax; and yet, with nothing to gain
and everything to lose, they wronged and
swindled themselves for the sake of being dis
honest. This all may be. 1t is the only way
of accounting for the awkward wonders of
the census now progressing. I cannot be
called ingenious, because it is plainly the only
possible explanation, and it imps badly.
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