Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-15

i cry Northern State. By 1876 things had q
| much changed that they come in With tbei
President by the slenderest majority possible
and that obtained through fraud. aud now tn
party seeks to perpetuate its control by claim
ing credit for the improved condition of 6nau
cial affairs What act, said he. did the Repuh
licans do, that they should claim this honor
In 1915 the currency was con
tracted sixty million dollars. Did tina
| bring about the i'm approved condition of affairs
The Democratic party stopped this contraction
OF the currency and this and not any act of tn
Republican party brought back prosperou
times. This work, he said, was assisted by th
energies and economy, Of the people at tb,
time of theseverest depression, We found thel
we were buying more from foreign countries
than We were selling and the balance between
the years 1860 aud 1866 was about twenty mil
lions. nation is like an individual il
matters of economy. The man who il
CAREFUL to live within his means, aud at the
same time lay by a little more for rainy wealth.
er, is sure to come out right in the end. It vas
SO with the United States in 1876. The tide
turned IN our favor. Since then we have main.
tanned our advantage, and last year the balance
was largely in our favor. It was asserted the
remonetizati0n of silver would drive gold oat
of the G. untry. Instead of that $3.50 00O, 100
of gold has been added The Republicans re-
fer T., this as John Sherman 8 triumph, and that
10 AsopupiCtsu phktys tuIOugu utL0, IS entltieO
to our thanks, but the facts are the people are
indebted to their energies, and such legislation
as The Democrats were able to give them.
He charges ,he Republican party with seeking
to create disc0rd between the sections. They
are preaching the doctrine of hate, and while
cryIIg out against q solid South are seeking
with all their energies to secure solid North.
1t Som hern people are wrong in uniting polit-
lcal what excuse have the Republicans of the
nrff \, fnro kts,fr f1< ty.oe
South is simply solid ag sinst the Republican
party because 1t regards hat party as unfit to
rule. With that spirit we Democrats of
the North agree. We arc all
solid against tht p, Republican par
ty aud expect to continue to be SO
during thu rest of our days. He referred to
levies by Republicans in power upon EN- ployes
OF the goVernment for corrupt campaiga SER
vices. charging that the ieVies were outrageous
and q great hardship ON those compelled 10
submit. The money was usrd in close and
doubtful districts, and corruptly. but the Re
publican party is versed in corrupt Practice;
its system OF election, supervision and rethrn-
ing boards, so fair ON its face, was an outrag-
eous use of power for q partisan
purpose, and it is in consequence of
this that the party has remained 30 long In
power, under this system, il matters not how
the people vote, the result declared is always
the same-the abuse of the power conferred
by the federal law for re election of Congress-
men,. The Democrat party sought it's repeal,
bat the President vetoed their ac5ien. Refer
ring to the election of 1876 and the uncertainty
and troubles which followed, he said: Presi-.
dent Grant appointed representative men to
go to the disputed States to see that no
fraud was epracticed in the count.
When these men arrived they found
they had been preceded bysuch Republican
politicians as Blaine, Hale. etc. He referred
particularly to the Louisiana returning board
which he denounced as a grossly partisan bedy.'
bent upon counting Hayes in, notwithstanding
the heavy majority sgainst him. Garfeld's
chief responsibility in this great wrong was in
sitting on the electoral commission and con-
doning the fraud, and hs did so willingly.
That party nomiaa'ed him at Chicago in recog-
milton of this service. Comparing Garfield
aud Hancock, he sand the latter was states.
man as well as soldier and commanded his
admiration Hancock, he said, went tu Louis
lena, wasro all was deuhs confusion and dis
order ard gave the people psaces He referred
sn warm terms to the craftsmanship displayed
~ oiesr NJ. 40. TE&s senator referred 81
length to the ;ast of
yo; ers to Indiana and other border States for
the purpose of cheating the. giH of the people,
but the cleaner elements of the popu-
iation would not tolerate such
an outrage, and the Republican managers
would discover their mistake when Indignation
was able to express itself at the poils. He was
glad Indiana was an October State. He ex.
pected the Democrats to win then with the
State ticket and increase the majority in No.
vemser. Senators Mcdonald and Jones also
spoke TO large audience at Mount Vernon to-