Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-29

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And how magni6cently do the effects of the re-
suits already achieved appear in the revival of
our prosperity!
It may be said that our financial policy has
not wholly originated that prosperity. True,
but it has most powerfully aided it by giving us
that confidence which is impossible without sta
bic money values and sound currency system.
And what prudent man would risk these great
results by turning over our financial policy to
the hands of party which, as have shown, is
the refuge of all destructive elements threaten
ing new uncertainty and confusion2
Indeed, not only in the traditions and good
best security there is at present for the sanctity
of our national faith as well as successful
management of the financial policy; you find
equal security in the known opinions and prin-
ciples of its candidate, James A. Garfield. His
convictions on these subjects have not found
OF his party or in his letter of acceptance. His
record of nearly twenty years of congressional
service is not blank on the great questions of
the times, like that of his opponent. There is
not phase of the question Of our national OBJ
legations; there Is not point Of financial policy,
cred in congress since he became member of
that body to the present hour, that he has not
| discussed with an ability and strength, q lucid
ity of argument, amplitude of knowledge and
tirmness of conviction placing him in the first
rank of the defenders of sound principles.
If you want to study the reasons why the pub
lie faith should be inviolably maintained, why
an irredeemable paper currency is, and always
has been, curse to all the economic interests of
this and all other countries, why confidence can
be restored and maintained, why business can
obtain healthy development, why foreign
only with money system Of stable and intrinsic
value, you will find in the speeches of James A.
Garfield upon this subject the most instructive
and convincing information. You will find
there opinions not suddenly made upto orderto
suit an opportunity and the necessities of can
| didate in an election, but the convictions of
lifetime, carefully matured by conscientious
research and large inquiry and maintained with
powerful reason, before they had become gen.
orally popular. You find there teacher, states
man, and a leader in a great movement, with
principles so firmly grounded in his mind as
them even if they were not supported by pow
erful party at his back. There is double as
surance, therefore, in the traditions and acts of
the party and in the character Of the leader at
its head.
Abiding to the large element in the
Democratic party entertaining the Wild
est nations on finance and the currency,
and the alliances of that party with the
paper money, imitation party, the speak
er urged that it would be hazardous to
trust it with the executive branch of the
government. Referring again to Gen.
Hancocks inexperience in civil affairs,
and his military bias, Mr.. Schurz con-
cluded as follows: -~--
What have we on the other hand IN the Re-
publican candidate? His youth was that of
poor boy. He lived by his daily labor. He
effort, taking with him the experience of
poverty and rd-worklng man. He cultivated
his mind by diligent study and he stored it with
useful knowledge. From learner he became
q teacher. When the republic called her sons
to her defense he Joined the army and achieved
distinction in active service as one of the brave
on the battlefield. He was called into the
great council of the nation, and has sat there
for nearly twenty years. No great question was
discussed without his contributing the store of
his knowledge to the fund of information neces-
sary for wise decision. His speeches have
ranked not only among the most Instructive and
useful: Scarcely a single great measure of
period without the imprint of his mind. No
man in congress has devoted more thorough
inquiry to larger number of important SUBJ
jects and formed upon them opinions
more matured and valuable. He was not as
great soldier as his competitor for the presi-
s be: sts3sssa y aadan fnt e psassa sSse
life, from the lowest to the highest, for he has
lived through them. He Understands the
great pre- blems of politics, for he has studied
them and actively participated in their discus
sion and solution. Few men in this country
would enter the presidential Office with it's great
duties and responsibilities better, or even as
well, equipped with knowledge and experience.
He need only be true to his record in order to
become wise, safe, and successful president.
If the people elect him it will be only because
his services rendered in the past are just of that
nature which Will give assurance of his ability to
render greater service in the future. The coun-
try wants a statesman of ability, knowledge, ex-
pc1ience, and principle at the head of affairs.
His conduct as q legislator gives ample guaran-
the of great promise in all these things.
In a few months you will have to make your
choice. know that when party has been so
citizens may be moved by desire for achange.
In not few cases it may be a desire for the
sake of a change. While the impulse is natural,
it should not be followed without calm discrimi-
nation. Prudent men will never fail to consider
whether the only change possible bids fair to be
a change for the better. It is true that parties
are apt to degenerate by the long possession OF
power. The Republican party cannot expect ia
escape the common law of humanity; but no
candid observer will deny that within a late
period the Republican party has shown signs
rather of improvement than deterioration; and
that it possesses the best share of intelligence,
virtue and patriotism of the country. In mat
| fors of n1Ost essential r1omcnt tn tho Y,11h1ir
welfare it can be safely better counted upon fol
efficient and faithful service, while its opponent
opens only prospect of uncertainty and con.
! fusion.
The Democracy may in the course of time gain
! the confidence of people; but that should be
of unsound money have ceased to be in its ranks
so powerful and influential an element as Sc.
riously to threaten the great economical inter
ests Of the country; when by energetic and sue
cessful action in protecting the rights Of the
voter, whether white or black, whether Repub
ican or Democrat, in all parts of the country,
and by the suppression of fraud at the ballot
box through healthy and irresistible power Of
public opinion, within itself, it will have wor
the right to appear in it's platforms as the pro-
tector of the freedom and purity of elections
and when it will find it no longer necessary tc
discard the ablest of its statesmen and to put a
! general of tho army, who has never been any
thing but soldier, in nomination for the presi.
dency, to make for itself a certificate of loyalty
to the settlement of the great conflict Of the
past.
And for all these reasons, in my opinion, the
interests of the republic demand the election Of
James A. Garfield to the presidency of the
United States.
Showing Up Hancock.
Hon. r. w. Thompson. secretary ot
the navy, delivered a speech at Denver,
Col., on the night of the 21st inst. He