The daily gazette., 1880-09-08
SECOND EDITION.
The Non-Partisan Vote.

In his recent speech at Belleville, ILL.,,
hon. Lyman Trumbull made number
oil telling points in favor of the Demo-
cratic party which appeal with special
force to Independents and liberal kepub-
Ioans. For many years Mr.. Trnmbull
was one of the foremost leaders OF the
Republican party, but la company with
many other able men he was driven
from the fold by the corruptions of
Grantism. He is now the Democratic
nominee for governor of Illinois, and
that he will receive powerful support
from moderate Republicans cannot be
doubled by those who have watched the
marked change in public sentiment in
Illinois which has been going on during
the past few years. In his speech at
Belleville Mr.. Trumb bull did not treat of
State questions, but restricted himself to
defining the present attitude of the two
great national parties toward one an
Grafton of thoughtful men. Mr.. Trum-
bull pointed out In the first place that
the Republican party of our day is not
the Republican party of twenty years
ago. In the days of its purity that par
ty thus defined the things which il hop.
ed TO acco nplIsh: "The restoring of the
action of the Federal government to the
principles OF Washington and Jefferson;
the establishment of the right of each
State to order and control its own DOM
estio institutions according to its own
Judgment exclusively; the return to
rigid economy AMI accountability as in
disptnsable 10 arrest the system attic
plumber of the public treasury by favor
ed partisan, and change of admi nisGra-
tion 10 correct the recent startling devel-
opments OF frauds and corruptious at
the Federal metropolis"
This paragraph reads as though it
might have been taken from the Demo-
cratic platform at Cincinnati. Certainly
u embodies no principles for which
Democrats are not contending to-day
and which, on the other hand, has not
wholly or IN part been repudiated by the
Republicans. AS to the "reckless ex-
travagance" charged upon the Demo-
crauc administration of that day, Mr..
Trumbull showed that, even allowing
iberally for the increase of population,
the average annual expenses of the gov
ernment were S88. .000, 900 less under DEM
ocratio than under Republican rule.
After dwelling on the extravaganza
and waste OF the Grant administrators, a
the speaker denounced the Republican
attempts to control the elections, and
characterized the fraud of 1876 as "a
crime without parallel in th history of
free governments"
As to the claim of the Republicans
that under their auspices the currency
OF the country has been improved and
its prosperity restored, he showed that
1t WAS the Republicans who made the
currency what 1t WAS and whose mis-
management depressed the industries
of the country. "And let the people re-
mem 5er," he added, "that it was not till
the Dem, cratic party got control of the
House OF Representatives and checked
the wasteful extravaganza of Republi.
can administration that returning pros
perity began to appear" The most effec-
tive passage in the speech, however, is
that In which he points out "that no
| original Republican who prefers princi-
pie to party, right to wrong, and fair
ness to dishonesty" can longer act with
the present Republican administration,
but that the duty OF the hour for all such
voters is to act with the Democratic
party, whose success holds out the only
hope of improvement aud reform The
speech III oughont is powerful appeal
to non-psrtisan voters, aud ought to ex-
ert widespread influence upon the re-
suit.