Morning journal and courier., 1880-10-26

I NOASSoNSS]ON~ ~-
 Bridgeport German Republicans present, who
 were accompanied to the hall by New Haven
 German Republicans. MT. M. Frank Tyler
 called the meeting to order and read the list
 of officers for the meeting, which were as | follows
 l President,
 l Hon. George H. Watrous
 Vice Presidents,
 Ex-Presid't T. D. woolsey Thomas R. Trowbridge, | J. B. Sargent President Noah Porter, l J. D. Dewen T. G. Bennett,
 ! John Run, Hon Henry Farnam,
 Prof. George P. Fisher, Hon. N. D. sperry, l Louis Feldman w. W. Winchester,
 Prof. Timothy Dwight, Capt. F. w. Tiesing, l John ". filling. Rev. MT. Kleeberg, l Wallace B, Fenn Prof. Johnson T. Platt, | Hon. Henry B. Harrison, Hon. Francis Wayland, | Wilbur F. Day, Emil Crisand,
 George W. Curtiss, George A. Butler,
 l Paul Gebhardt, Rev C. H. s1ebke'
 sIna h detebkss Prof panei C. Eaton l Henry J. Prudden, Gustavus J. St0eckel, E. P. Arvine, J. B. Darlington
 | Hugh Daley, Samuel Lloyd,
 I T. P. Merwin, H. D. White,
 W. K Townsend G. T. Smith,
 John Macheleidt E. c. Dow,
 1 Gottfried SStt rIelb' Tehr. George H. Schiller. | Eli Whitney William Schollhorn, | Edward Stevens, W. T. Bartlett,
 | Franilin Hart s. E. Baldwin,
 | S. E. Merwin, jr., August Sutter
 | A1phonse Thin, Fred J. Appel
 | Fred Oppell, Charles Hildebrandt. l Secretaries.
 | NJ F. Tyler Porter C. Moulton, | Charles l., JJllman J. M. Bishop,
 Charles Cough, Geo. L. Dlekerman, Henry J. Kellogg, Henry HiIlman, l Geo. L. Fox, Leopold Gruener, | John Kirschner Geo. E. Maltby. song by the glee club followed, which l was rendered in fine style.
 | ME. Tyler then, in a few complimentary
 remarks, introduced Hon. George H. Watrous. 1 Mr. Watrous spoke follows: Ladies
 and gentlemen-I rather enjoy, enjoying once
 in my life the place of presiding officer, es- | pecially of such 8 splendid Republican mass
 meeting as this. will detain you at this l time but moment. There was time not | long since when the solid South was pledged for the Democratic ticket. While nothing
 was said at Chicago about the solid North, yet I believe that on Tuesday of next week l the solid North is to meet the solid South, and believe to conquer (Great applause. 1 Who asked us to present solid North? Is l it asked because we want a sectional Presi dent? No. But when we are met by the l doctrine of a solid South we must meet it by | a solid North. James A. Garfield, whom we
 admire, is our candidate. (Cheers.) I owe
 nothing to him and he owes nothing to me, l | ry out the principles we love and admire. | General Hancock represents the party which I is advocating the interests of a solid
 South, and I fear that if he should be elected that an attempt | would be made to hand over the government | to the dictation of a solid South 1 have
 nothing against the South, but I want the
 control of the government in the hands of its
 friends. They feel that they have wrongs, 1 opd if eraF bn if iC reasonable fO presume that they will attempt to right what l they conceive to be their wrongs. Then is it not safer to leave the country in the control ! of it's friends? And on Tuesday next shall we not be able to say that solid North con-
 fronts a. solid South and they meet it with shout of victory? (Applause.) It is | enough that the South is solid to make you | and me feel that the North should be sofd- I do not propose to discuss why you should stand by General Garfield. He is the friend | of our country. will not discuss the ques- | tions of the hour. We have man at the | head of the State ticket who has proved him. ] self able to manage his own affairs, and
 believe will be able to manage we'll the affairs | of our fair commonwealth. I desire to say to you, gentlemen, in clos l ing, that you have one of the most | distinguished gentlemen in the country to | address you this evening. Allow me to in- | troduce to you Hon. Carl Schurz.
 | Mr. Schurz was received with grand
 demonstration of applause, which lasted some time. Great enthusiasm prevailed. MT. Schurz in opening said: I will en-
 deavor, ladies and gentlemen, to address my
 self to your sound judgment and common
 sense. The cry for change is what we now | hear on the Democratic side. have always
 thought that it was the first duty of an Amer | ican citizen to be patriot before he was a Republican or a Democrat. Country goes | before party. If were convinced that the party opposed to me was more likely to serve the public interests than the one I belong to
 I would then say, "Yes, let have a change" As @ member of the present ad-
 ministration I cannot say that we have not
 made mistakes, yet appeal to the Democrats
 have we not as rule served the country well i?
 The speaker here read from statistics to show
 that under the administration of President Hayes the losses in the management of the
 government have been only so cents to one
 million of dollars. There has, believe,
 never been a man whose losses in propor-
 tion were so insignificant as the losses by
 the United States government. Now if we
 take out all the sums involved in the refund
 ing operations, then the losses would be less
 than one-third of one per cent It would
 seem that this sort of thing is becoming
 intolerable, and is it not time that Eve had
 change?" (Cheers.) I can but feel, fellow citizens, that the present administration has your confidence and that they deserve 1t Men may have been appointed to office who should not have been, yet feel that we should not be censured for this when we hava 6Ona Sn well f0T fha 1a wo not all know that we can borrow all the money we want at as low rate of interest as any nation on the globe, and does this necessitate a change? Looking over the whole ground that the government has fel- lowed in friendly policy toward those who ask, instead of how to change it, how not to change it? Let me say to you, Democrats, if you are here tonight, that a change will not better your condition. We have educated gradually corps of public servants those whom we consider well qualified to transact the public business. Admitting again that mistakes were committed, yet do you think if General Hancock were to be elected that the public service would be in as good condi- tion as it is now? Even though he should do his best, yet do you think the public ser vice would not suffer? Supposing General Hancock should be elected and he should place new men in office, how great would be
  period of transition. If sixty thousand of fee holders should be turned out of office and sixty thousand new ones should be ap- p inted in their place, how great would be the loss that would follow. Does not every Democrat know that if General Hancock should make a proclamation tomorrow that he would keep all the officers at present in their positions that the Democrats would de- sert their party by thousands I told that the ''Blue Book'' is one of the most popular pieces of literature in the Democrat ic party, and each reader is picking out an office for himself. 0aughter.) The ele- ments in the Democratic party are numerous and all are trying to lift General Hancock into power. There is soft money and hard money, free trade and protection, and it is evident that if the 1 Democrats should obtain the power they 1 seek there would be clash of interest and | policy But they go upon the principle that l q to the victors belong the spoils," and all | other questions with them sink into insignif- | cance Now I venture to predict that in the | case of General Hancocks election the | business interests of the government and the | people would suffer thereby. What are we tr av,,oof General TarneS CarfieJd is 1