The silver state., 1880-10-19
PROTEST FROM BUSINESS MEN.

The merchants and business men of
many of the, large Eeastern cities are,
holding meetings and protesting against
the assertion that the business or fnan-
cial interests of the country have any
thing to fear from the election. Of Han
cock.
In Philadelphia, upwards. Of 10000
merchants, manufacturers and business
men held meeting, which was presided
over by Henry B. Talham, the head of
the largest lead house in the country,
and adopted a resolution, protesting
against the cry ''that the business of
the country would suffer by Hancock's
election, but, on the contrary, that his
election is the only way to- bring peace
TO the whole country, and permanent
prosperity to all business interests.
At Erie Pennsylvania, a similar
meeting was held, and Judge CAL
braith, of the Erie car works. presided.
A resolution was adopted. to the effect
taat the business. men, without distinc-
tion Of party, are opposed to the parti-
san efforts, now being made by the pol
iticians, to involve the business and
manufacturing interests of Pennsyl-
vania in the Presidential canvass, and
that they earnestly deprecate contia-
uance of sectional preiudices and hatred
between the North. and the South, the
mere partial cessation of which has
recently SO largely increased our North
ern trade, commerce and manufactur-
ers, and in no place more than in Penn
sylvania, as shown. by it's daily increas-
lag trade with the South.
In Chicago, the merchants held a
meeting OF like import, and issued an.
address to the people of Illinois, which
is signed by Levi 2, Letter, of Field,
Letter & Co., by Chas. Gossage, Of
Gossage & Co., the leading dry goods
houses of the Northwest, by Cyrus H.
Mccormick, of the Harvesting COM
pany, and. by several bankers, manu-
facturers, capitalists, brewers and bust
ness men generally. This address says
that the studious efforts, now being
made, to create an impression on fnan-
cial, mercantile and industrial. circles
that a change in the administration of
the General Government, by transferr-
ing its powers from one of the great
political parties to the other, will check
reviying confidence and prosperity, is an
insult to the common sense of the bust
ness classes. 1t also says that
IT is equally presumptious to as
sert that the era of prosper
ity, now opening throughout the
land, is attributable to the Republican
party, and the purity of its administra-
tions. On the contrary, it is an histori-
cal fact that the worst and longest
period of financial disaster and wide
spread bankruptcy that has even been
experienced in the United States, oc-
Cured during the administration of the
Government by the party now possess
ing it's reins., Thousands of merchants,
who had passed unscathed through all
previous panics, went down in the crash
Of the last seven years.
Those business men assert that the
revival in trade is due to good crops in
this country, poor crops in Europe, the
conciliating policy adopted toward the
South, and the restoration Of; honest
local governments in. that section.
They say that change of administra-
tion is desirable, after a1apse, of twenty
years, and that. it is time to take an
account of stock by agents who have
not been handling the trust. Who will
say that they are not right in doing so!
None but those who have had the hand-
ling of the cash since 1861.