The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-10-29
OUR WASHINGTON LETTERS

OUR WASHINGTON LETTERS.
From oar Regular Correspondents.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. 21st, 1880.
The great event transpiring in this
city since my last Communication was
the Republican demonstration ON last
Saturday evening over the results of
the election in Indiana and Ohio. 1t
was one of the grandest political DEM
OnstrbtlOnS ever witnessed in this CITY.
The procession was forty-three min
utes passing the Republican headgual-
ters, ard as nearly every man was pro-
vided with either a torch or Chinese
lantern, it was beautiful sight to see
them marching UP Pennsylvania Ave
nue.. The Wisconsin Republican AS
ISOLATION was fully represented with
it's president, A. T. Longley, Esq, act
ing as Marshal. They carried one of
the best transparencies in the process
sion. 1t had Wisconsin Republican
Association on the ends, and on one
side was Barnum's forlorn looking
mule, with the "Solid South" 1873 votes
attached to it's tail and carrying on it's
back the sickest-looking rooster ever
portrayed on canvas. On the opposite
side was, Wisconsin good for $4,000
Republican majority" The greatest
attraction of the evening was the rep.
resentation of the canal boat even
ing STAR" (the boat General Garfield
was driver for in his young days.
drawn by seven mules, named Barnum.
Butler, Forney, Mullet, Sickles, Had
ley and Wade Hampton. On the stern
Of the boat was q transparency.
"Bound direct to the White House"
There were forty different Republican
organizations engaged in the celebra-
ton. They marched through the prin-
cipal streets to the City Hall where
fine speeches were made by Hon. Jay
A. Hubbell, chairman of the Congress
sional Republican Committee, Secre-
tary Thompson, Secretary Devens and
others. The vast multitude stood and
listened to them until nearly midnight.
On Monday evening there was another
grand turnout to serenade Secretary
Sherman upon his return from Ohio,
where he had been to aid the good
cause by his excellent speeches and his
vote: but the greatest aid he has rem
dered the country is his admirable
management of the financial depart
ment of the government whereby spe-
Gle payment has been adopted and a
prosperous condition of business the
result thereof. Upon the arrival of
the procession at the Secretarys ouse,
speeches of welcome were made by
Secretary Devens and District Attor-
ney A. G. Riddle, to which Secretary
Sherman replied. In reference to the
causes of the great victory in Indiana
and Ohio he said: The first of all was
the great prosperity that attended and
followed the success of Republican
financial measures. The resumption
of specie payments was bitterly OBJ
posed at every stage by the Democrat
ic party. While Senator Bayard in
New York was denouncing the Repub-
lican party for not DESTROYING the
greenback, the Democratic party was
denouncing us in the West for not issu-
ing more. The Republican policy of
reducing the interest on the public
debt by the process of refunding was
steadily denounced by the Democratic
party in Indiana because we did not
set the paper mills at work to print
more notes to pay the bondholders.
and in the east because we did not apply
our surplus revenue to pay off the
notes instead of the bonds. The peo-
pie appreciated the reduction of the
interest of the debt the rapid payment
Of the principal and the advance of
our notes to the gold standard. Prov
idence aided the Republican party to
thwart all the schemes of the Democrat
ic party. Some of them were adyocat-
ing the repeal of the National banks
with a view to revive the State banks,
but the people were satisfied that the
national bank system was the best that
was ever devised, and would not risk
its being tempered with. Another f.
nancial question that gravely divided
and weakened the Democratic party
was the tariff question. The Re
publican party has steadily supported
system of tariff laws, which, while