The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-11-02
We are solid for Brents and Garfield.
Look for 30 majority.
DAVENPORT,
Chairman.

and spoke as follows
return thanks for the kindly recsp-
ton Thich has been accorded to me BY
the people Of Washington, without dis
tinction OF party since my advent
amongst you. aud especially for the
very cordial gre@ting which has been
20 the by this most intelligent
Assem- blage. / trus, that I shall find
all the citizens Of the Territory to be
my friends, unless ! shall prove 70 be
OF their confidence and es-
TEEN. | do not come among you as 4
politician seeking advancement, nor do
presume to influence your people into
any political channel; / have but one
interest To subserve, which. with the
help Of the Almighty Power. | shall
endeavor faithfully TO effect, which Is
10 aid in developing she natural re-
sources OF this vast expanse OF land and
water; 10 add TO your personal prosper
ity. 10 promote emigration hiiber from
other over-cro wded sections Of our
great country; 70 induce capital TO our
borders; 10 expedite a. hes; may the
construction Of railroads and Telegraph
lines, snd the introduction OF ell the
appliances necessary 10 our greatest
prosperity viii not dilate upon my
amazsneat at your incompatible re-
gion. mountains. valleys, plains. prai-
ries, forests, ocean front. riv,rs, har-
bors. bays. inlets. your timber, fish.
grain and fruit productions. year min =
crAl resources of coal, iron. gold. silver
and every 5tber peedful element Of the
greatest prosperity. for they are better
known 70 you than TO myself / will
only promise that NY untirIng efforts
shallbe directed TO their most ecoromica.
and fnllest development. have no
prepared speech. nor am ia any sense
a practical public speaker. but since
this is political gathering If men with
whose political sentiments | affiliate, /
will venture in obedience to your invi-
ta,ion TO make brief speech uCon Ma
tional issues. leaving the discussion of
local questions to gentlemen who are
more familiar with them. and In whose
judgemop: you would have more conf
dence than could possibly inspire
being 50 recently admitted to q resi-
dence in your Territory" Thus intro
ducing himself. the Governor proceed
ed to discussion 81 general National
issues. and we can only give q scan,y
synopsis of his speech.
THE people Of this country are once
more engaged in a contest for the SUI
premacy Of certain principles and ideas,
and the two leading parties present
candidates who represent those ideas.
IL is contest for principles; not alone
Tor the success of candidates, who are
simply opponents Of ideas. A man is
nothing of himself in this connection.
save as representative of thought
There is a radical fundamental differ
ence between the two leading parties
which now ask, at the hands of the peo-
Pile, the possession of the Government.
The ideas Of the Republican
party ante date the deluge to the first
written history Of man. There has Leen
from the beginning u contest between
the good and the bad. the true and the
false, the right and the wrong. the
weak and the strong. II began when
Cain slew Abel. when the weak went
down and the strong prevailed. when
the lsraeliies were forced TO make bricks
without straw. and Moses led them out
of the land of Egypt. and out of the
house of bondage. The struggle has run
down through all the ages of the past.
TO the period when the pilgrims landed
on Plymouth Rock. escaping from men>
tai and physical bondage, and planted
the standard Of civil aud religious lib
erty upon this continent fog liberal
ideas, the right Of man to tho fruits OF
his labor. the right TO voice in max !.
ing the laws by which he is governed.
the right Of representation, the right of
suffrage and for entire equality before
the law. A hundred years later came
the Declaration of Independence that
ell men were created free aud equal. A
century later the entire freedoms of
race held in bondage for centuries; and
today We find the fullest culmination,
IN theory at lesst. of the God-given
principle Of self government. The ele-
yaiion and the dignity of personal labor,
the Advancement OF mankind in the
scale OF being was the Fundamental
doctrine Of tho fathers who introduced
these ideas and engrafted them upon our
government.
About the same time that the Pill
grims landed upon Plymouth Rock
there came to this couatry another
band Of colonists, who Landed at James
town. in the State Of Virginia. the de-
scendants OF the cavaliers, who intro
ducsd different ideas Of labor. and
hnding slavery existing in the midst
utilized 1t to their personal interest
and emolument. With them labor be,
longed and was raised upon the soil, AS
any other lahoring animal, aud so was
Unlisted the differen; ideas sud systems
OF labor upon this continent. This idea
was endorsed and cham pioned by the
Southern Democracy, and they found
easy support from their eonfederates in
the North. At the beginning 1t was
not so. This Solid South party con-
pels Us TO sectional issue. They pre-.
sent IN their Convention to nominate q
candidate for President the prcmise of
one hundred and thirty eight electoral
votes, and so force us To q sectional con.
test. We would gladly forget the past
We would let the dead bury their dead
We would bridge ovey the bloojy
chasm; bat they throw down the rsant.
let. We accept the gage Of battle and
Ord defend the right ThoaAas Jeifer.
son. In the Declaration OF Independence
enunoiated the idea that all men were
created fres and equal. and Ia the con.
s,itutoa Is found no word recognizins
the existence OF slavery. in nriar -,