Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-08-16
INDIANA DEMOCRATS.


Stump the State for Hancock, Ebgl sh
aud Landsrs- Eloquent Speech Of Hon
J. B. Doolittle. OF Wisconsin. ct Indian
spolis. Saturday Night.
INDIANAPOLIS, ISD, August 1.-THE
Democratic Central Committee opened
the campaign to day. Over 200 speakers
will deliver addresses in the various
| cities and towns oil the State. The fol-
lowing are among the prominent speak.
ers: Senators Mcdonald. OF Indiana,
and Jones, OF Florida, at Evansville;
Hon. Chas. w. Anderson, OF Ohio, at
Richmond; Senator voorhees, ut Brazil;
Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana, and Gov.
Brockenger, of Missouri, at Fort Wayne;
and Hon. d. \. Gooding at Logansport.
In this city the meeting was held to-
night at the Wigwam, addressed bv Jas.
Pultzer, of st. Louis, Hon. j. r. Doo-
little, of Wisconsin, and Hon. Emil
Roth. of Cincinnati. Mr.. Doolittle on
being introduced said:
Speech OF Hon. Il. Doolittle.
For three cheers from so many hearts
| and voices, like the voice OF many
waters, thank you from my heart Of
hearts; not for myself alone, but in the
nanre of our standard bearers. Hancock
and English, whom We have nominated.
and whom We have
Determined to Eleo':
and when elected, inaugurated President
aud Vice President Of the United States.
Not being a resident OF your State. II
would not become me to discuss State
candidates. / shall therefore speak on
National issues and OF National candi
dates only.
Among other things Mr.. Doolittle said
I'll the Republic is true to itself and
true to the ideas OF its founders, before
the end OF its second century it will be-
the greatest nation that ever appeared
on the face Of the earth; but great rs 1t
is It n ust !or Yer rest upon
Three Great Fundamental Ideas.
In these it lives and moves aud has its
being. These ideas are: First, National
sovereignty, limited to National affairs
only; second. State sovereignty, reserv-
ed in State affairs only; and third, free
intelligent ballot and an honest count
Upon these three fundamental ideas and
upon these supreme conditions our great
Constitutional representative system de-
ppnNS anu IDuSl lOItNCi pun
these, as upon the three supporting col
umns, the whole gigantic structure rests.
II either is broken down or undermined
The Whole Edifice Must Fall
Mr.. Doolittle illustrated and enforced
these ideas as the fundamental articles
of the Democratic creed. He said blot
ont the idea of National sovereignty in
the Republic in the National affairs and
the Union under the Constitution would
be mere rope oisand. Blot out the idea
of State sovereignty in state affairs and
whatever be the former, whatever be
the name OF that great central govern
ment which shall attempt to exercise
sovereignty in domestic and State affairs,
as we'll as in National affairs, will be-
come a centraiz al, unwieldy despo,lsm.
Ii Sould. like a maelstrom, swallow up
All the Rights of the States
and liberties of the citizens; drive iree'
dom and intelligence away from the
polls, and hireling officials and the bay
onets around the ballot boxes, with
troops and partisan deputy marshais to
iptimidate or obstruct the electors,
would stuff the ballot boxes with false
or purchased votes, OF by IA alse and
fraudulent and perjured Returning
Boards count out tue votes actually
, ast aud count in the votes never cast,
in the way in which all the world knows
the party in power did, in order to
place in the Presidents chair q man
who was
Defeated at the Polls
by majority of hundreds OF thousands,
and rest assured, my countrymen, re-
publican government would become
shame and mockery. Our system
would end first in civil war, then in an
archv. and at last in military despotism.
Mr.. Doolittle dwelt on this idea at con-
siderable length. and said the great dis
,inrtion between the Democratic par.
~ and its leaders and the Re
nublican party of to-day, under
i,s stalwarts and Radical leaders, IS
This: The Democracy comprehends and
maintains the sovereignty OF the States
as reseryed bv the constitution over
tbsir own domestic and local afiirs,
while the Radicals and StalSarts seem
10 b.. the victims Of one idea only,
ofthe Sovereignty of the Nation,
without limiting that sovereignty 10
NattOuai dUdlES. .hi. Dooi't'O c"'" ~
true theory is this. Al! American citi-
zens are citizens OF the United States,
owing all, glance 10 the United States as
a sovereign, and at the same time they
are citizens Of the State where they live,
and owing allegisnce to that State. Also
every American native or naturaiized
citizen owes allegiance TO each and to
both at the same time, and he is pro-
,ec,ed by the laws OF each, within their
respective spheres. To borrow the lam
guage OF the Supreme Court OF the
United States, the power OF the genera!
government and Of the State. although
they exist and are exercised within the
same territorial limits, are yet
Separate and Independent OF Each Other
within their respective spheres, as ii the
line OF division. traced by land marks
and monume nts. were visible to the eye.
Yes, my fellow citizens, though It seeCls
almost impossible to make our kepuo-
lican fellow citizens comprehend II, yet
this, the most essential thing in our sys-
tenn, is Just what l have, and what the
Supreme Court has declared 1t is--it u
perfection, it is glory. namely, that
Every American Has This Double Citi.
| ssuahIps
this double allegiance aad this double