The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-30

ern states have been reclaimed, since the
people Of those states manage their own
affairs in other words, since the establish
ment of home rule--there has been no diff.
ference between the north and south in so far
as political prescription or fair elections are
concerned. And General Grant knows this.
He has Just travelled through the southern
states, where he says himself
no was courteously treated,
was honored, was accorded hearty
RECEPTIONS, was cordially welcomed was, 10
fact, given one continued ovation by oil
classes of people and by all parties. He
charges that the Democratic party opposes
the payment of the public debts
OF the governments of states, of counties
and municipalities, viii General Grant, or
any other Republican, give the data on
which he bases so grave charge as this
What act Is there of the Democratic party
that even gives color to the charge that it is
opposed to the payment of the public debt
We have but to look at the congressional
records, and there we sec that the Dem
o2racy has gone unequiVocal(y and
unalterably before the people as
determined that the public debt
shall be paid even to the last silver and &C.
cording to the contract under which it was
created. What honest and just debts owing
by any state, county or municipality, have
the Democrats of such state, county or mu-
nicipaity favored the reputation of? In
the southern states the carpet bag element of
which we have spoken piled up state, county
and municipal debts until they were SO
grievous bur,hen the people reeled under
thsm. They were debts, too, for which no
benefits accrued 10 either state, county or
municipality for they were made for the
benefit Of the creators, but with few ex-
ceptions, where bonds were legally issued and
gave no benefits, the people have
submitted and have paid the inter
est and in part the principal as
they fell due. General Grant says the Dem.
ocrstic party discourages and opposes educa-
ton. In the southern states where the
Democracy have power, we sec that white
and black children are educated alike. All
the advantages ola education free of cost,
SO far rs in the power and the means of the
people lay, is given to white and black and
there is not a community, not - neighbor-
hood, nota voting precinct not city, not
town, not hamlet, without its ole, two,
three, five, or dozen public school houses.
General Grant knows this, for
he has just Travelled through the
south and has personal knowledge of these
facts. He has certainly read the census re-
ports; if no has not it is his own fault, and
these census reports show how fur advanced
the southern people are in educational ad
vantaees for the negro, advantages, too, that
they, the southern people, pay for out OF
their own pockets If General Grant can
not give better reasons than he has for being
II Republican he hid better give none But
then could General Grant be Il Democrat If
no desired to be! He could vote the Demo
cratic ticket at all elections, but could he gain
recognition, with his record, from the Demo.
cratic party? Would it not be wisdom on
his part to look somewhat after General Nc.
Donald's expose of the whiskey ring frauds,
instead of giving uttcrance to dreary political
patitudesl