Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-21
TELECRAPHIC.
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD
UNION
POLITICAL NEWS ITEMS.
Secretary schurz Opens the Cam
paign in Indiana.
PASSENGERS PASSING OMAHA.
Dr.. Tanner Still Comfortable Under His
Self-imposed Trial.
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN NEWS ITEMS.
Turkey Preparing for War With Greece
Russia's Designs on Corea.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
General Political News Items.

General Political News Items.
SECRETARY scHURz AT INDIANAPOLIS.
INDIANAPOLIS, July 20th.-Hon. Carl
Schurz, Secretary of the Interior, addressed
an immense assemblage OF Republicans at the
Wigwam tonight.
The Secretary said he intended to reason
and not to excite the passions of his auditors,
and then in a mastery way proceeded to set
forth the reasons why the Republican party
under Garfield would do vastly better work for
the country than the Democracy under Ham
cock The chances of the Greenbackers were
not visible ones. He alluded with some per-
sonal pride to the record of the Administra-
tion now about to surrender its duties into
other hands. While not free from blemish,
it was in every way creditable. He reviewed
at considerable length the unsavory record of
the Democratic party on the question of seces-
sion, slavery and finance. It was not
question of honoring worthy
General, but of giving the country the
kind of President it needs. He pointed out
that an army officer who had no previous
training as statesman was at sad disad-
vantage in handling the affairs of statecraft,
in which he was wholly or even partially un-
skilled; that he became frequently bewil-
dered, often did wrongly, got discouraged or
| reckless, and did incompatible injury to the
Government, no matter how pule, able or
steadfast. He declared that there has been
wonderful progress in civil service reform
during the present administration, and that
| the Democratic party was pledged by in
stinct and platform to make a mockery of
such reform. Such policy, carried out,
would in four years do almost irreparable in
| jury to the country, which is coming todemand
a further advance rather than retrogression
| into the spoils system. He made strong
| appeal for the election of Porter in Indiana,
| and concluded: 1.-THE Democracy may in
| course of time gain the confidence of the
people, but that should be only when repu-
diationists and advocates of unsound money
| have ceased to be in its ranks so powerful and
influential an element as seriously to threaten
the great economical interests of the country :;
when by energetic and successful action in
protecting the rights of the voter, whether
white or black, whether Republican or
Democratic, in all parts of the
country, and by the suppression of fraud
at the ballot-box through a healthy
and irresistible power of public opinion with
in itself, it was to have won the right to ap-
pear in its platforms as the protector of the
freedom and purity of elections, and when
card the ablest of its statesmen and to put
General of the army, who has never been
anything but a soldier, in nomination for the
Presidency, to make for itself certificate of
loyalty to the settlement of the great conflicts
of the past, and for all these reasons, in my
opinion, the interests of the republic de-
mand the election of James A. Garfield to
the Presidency of the United States"
A SECRET ALLIANCE,
CHICAGO, July 20th.-A Times New York
special says: 1t is rumored that Kelly and
Tammany have formed a secret alliance with
the Republicans to control the local patron
age of the metropolis.
POLITICAL PROSPECTS IN MAINE.
New YORK, July 2Oth.-The Times Port
land correspondent says careful canvass
convinces him that the Republicans will carry
the State by a small majority, both Houses
of the Legislature and four of the Congress-
men.
ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.
PoRTL AND (Maine), July 2Oth.-General
Neal Dow has written letter accepting the
nomination for the Presidency by the Ma
tional Prohibitory party.
DELIGHTED WITH GARFIELD.
CHICAGO, July 20th.-A Chicago gentle
man out of politics was in Mentos, Ohio re-
Gently and met Garfield. He writes to the
Journal that he is as simple of heart and
great of mind as Abraham Lincoln, and the
people will make no mistake by electing him.
He says: l wish every reader of your
journal and every citizen of the United
States could share in the glory of electing
him President, knowing that he is not only
truly an honest man, but a truly great and
good man."
NOMINATED FOR CONGRESS.
WILMINGTON IN. C.l July 20sh.-Wm. P.
Canaday, Collector of Customs at this port,
was nominated to-day as the Republican can
didate for Congress in the Third District
SPRINGFIELD (Ill.), July 20th.-The Re-
publicans of the Twelfth District have nomi-
mated Isaac l.. Morrisot for Congress.
Convention of COiored Men.
SPRINGFIELD Ill.), July 20,h.-The first
convention of colored men ever held in this
State met to-day, with 126 delegates present.
Committees were appointed and John G.
Jones was made Chairman. The resolutions
strongly set forth the duty of colored men to-
ward the Republicans, who freed and pro-
tected them, and reaffirm everlasting devotion
to the Republican party, and eulogize the
Republican candidates as statesmen and pa
triots. They say:
WHEREAS, 1t has been charged and currently re-
ported that this Convention had been called in the
interest of the Democratic party; therefore
ResolUed That we disclaim any intention or pur
pose to give aid comfort to the Democracy, either
by thought, deed action, but on the contrary rec
ognize in it lifelong enemy to the negro seeking
whilom power to perpetIate his degradation, and
since out OF power to hinder and retard his eeva-
ton AS it has not yet exhibited that repentance
which inspires confidence in parties well ind
vduals we will continue to watch it with suspicion
and dread as of deadly poison.
Pending action on the report the Conven-
tion adjourned to IL "A. NJ. tomorrow.
Governor Cullom and Secretary of State
Harlow spoke to the Convention to night.