The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-07-29
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Minneapolis Tribune.

Minneapolis Tribune.
The first consequence of a Demo.
cratic victory would be what Mr..
Schurz, in his Indianapolis speech,
graphically described as "carni.
VAL" for which "the people would
have to foot the bills" Whatever
might be Hancock's desire, he would
be borne down by hungry horde,
starving from an official fast Of
twenty years. There would be "a
complete destruction for time of
the whole administrative machinery
of the government" Men of NO
training, knowledge or experience
would be thrust into places of the
highest responsibility for no other
reason than that their party services
must be recompensed. The rules
which govern the public service, as
MIR. Arthur we'll argues in his letter
of acceptance, should be those adopt
ed in the regulation of successful
private business. What man con
Quoting vast business enterprises,
covering Ill parts of the country and
employing thousands Of hands and
brains, would for a moment think Of
sweeping away at breath the whole
personnel of his establishment, and
introducing instead a legion of fresh
hands gathered in understanding
haste from the highways and byways
Of the land? Yet this wild and stfi.
cidal absurdity is what the people
are asked to be guilty of, when it Is
proposed that they shall transfer the
government to the Democrats. In.
deed, it is worse than this. It is like
asking a railroad company whose
track has been torn up, it's depota
destroyed, its rolling stock broken
and disabled by mob, to dismiss its
faithful servants and surrender the
management of its affairs to the ruff.
fans who strove to ruin it.
What inducements for the change
they demand arc offered by the Dem
cratic leaders to the American peo-
pls2 Every intelligent man having
a substantial interest in the general
welfare knows that his interests are
safe under the guidance of the party
which maintained the Union and re.
stored the currency to sound condi-
ton. Nothing il. the existing condi-
ton of the vast industrial interests
of the country requires n change,
and least of all such change as the
discordant Bourbons, bound together
by no higher principle than tie wolf
ish instinct of plumber, would bring.
1t is not to be forgotten that only the
firm attitude of a Republican Prcsi-
dent, welding the terrible veto club,
has prevented a Democratic stam-
pede in finance rs ruinously reac-
tionary as that which the Confeder-
ate brigadicrs have attempted, and
still contemplate, in politics. When
the last Congress assembled, its
Democratic majority was full of the
wild financial heresies which Pendle-
ton first brought into prominence in
1868. Baffled then and since by an
honest-money administration, there
is no evidence that the heresics have
been definitely abandoned by the
party. Ewing, Thurman, and other
representatives of the "Ohio idea, -
have given no sign of conversion to
healthier principles. Landers, the
wild inflationist of Indiana, is the
party candidate for Governor. But.
Ter rules the largest of the Demo.
cratic factions in Massachusetts,.
Greenbackism, and all other forms
of reputation, are rampant all over
the South. 1t is impossible not ia
fear that party thus clinging to
these financial atrocities would at
tempt to engraft them upon the mon.
etary system of the country, if it had
the power. 1t is for the business
men and working men of the country
to make sure that no such calamitous
change shall be made, in the only
way in which that assurance can be
obtained-by an overwhelming de
feat of the Democrats in the Novem.
Der election.