Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-09-24
Senator scnkling's Great Sreech.
Eow TIE DEMOCRATIC rARrY Is CoHsTIrr
A\n Tp\TpnT

The Democratic party as now constitut-
ed and controlled" How is it constituted,
how controlled There is a vast number of
upright, patriotic men in tia vast number
of men who gave all and did all they should
have given and done to uphold their Govern
mcnt and their flag in the supreme and dire
hour of trial. A vast number who imperil-
led their lives rs other Democrats laid down
their lives for their country. Many North
ern Democrats who cast all their weight and
sympathy on the Nations side. after the war
was over, returned to their former party as
sociations many others never did so re-
turn. Were such Democrats to guide and
influence a Democratic Congress and Dem
ocratic Administration, their party would
not be constituted and controlled" as it is.
As the Democratic party is constituted,
not the men If the North. not the men who
were for the | Mon and the Constitution,
but the men of the South who were against
the Union and the Constitution, men whose
policy and purposes are still hurtful to the
country, are bound and predestined to con-
troll Democratic Administration and
Democratic Congress. In the Senate and in
the House, the South has an overwhelming
ma iority of the Democratic members and
most of them are men who led in the rebel
settled hy party caucus by party majority;
thus the Southern members hold absolute
sway. In possession of the law-making
power, OF the purse, and of the power to
confirm or reject treaties and appointments,
the South is also to furnish all the votes to
elect the Democratic candidates. save only
the fOrtv-scvcn votes which must be raiiled
or counted, or certified, or produced from
the Northern States, particularly not except
Ing Oregon. Should the election be close,
there is no knowing but the two Democratic
Houses may find ground on which to throw
ont part or all Of any States electors
With much unemployed leisure on their
hands, with the danger which the Electoral
Commission of 1877 alone overpassed, for
that time, staring the country IN the face,
these Democratic Houses have adopted no
measure TO insure order and right in ascer-
tanning the result of the Presidential election.
Should controversy arise, and the election
I've thrown into the House, there, the vote
being taken by States, the South would cast
nearly al the Democratic votes, and IN the
Senate the vote for Nice-President would
come from the same source. In every event
of Democratic Success the Southern end of
the Democratic party must be the Northern
end as the locomotive is to the tender, and
as the horse is to the cart. This is US plain
as any truth in gravitation or arithmetic.
TIE SOUTH CONTROLS THE DEMOCRATIC PAETY.
Perhaps this point will seem to you to
challenge some attention. For the popula-
tion of Southern States we must 90 back to
the census of 1870 The count of the peo-
pie was made by enumerators not selected
by Southern Senators and members of the
House as 'non-partisans' and professional
reformers. 1t was made by The regular
marshals and their deputies, and compensa-
ton who so adjusted as to induce thorough
visitation, and, at the same time, to guard
against cXacgeratlon of numbers. No I'M
putation of fraud was ever cast upon the
work. Such a thing as plot to fabricate
mons,rous increase of population in one Sec
ton, in order 10 battle the course of nature
and the logic of events in another-a plot to
change the balance of power and population
in order to aggrandiZc one section by estab-
fishing false basis of representation and
apporlionment, thus robbing other sections
OF their share in governing the country, in
levying taxes, and appropriating money, had
not at that time occurred TO the conserva-
tive foes OF radicalism. That particular
spoke in the wheel of devltry had not turn
eli up to the shifty patriot of that day.
Now, such schemes seem to::wax apace. We
read Of producing false heirs to thrones
and estates. but to multiply false
heirs without any one to personate
them On Il scale so grand as
seems now in process, would stupety the in
genuty of a French novelist, or anybody
else except through going, partisan,
conservative disciple of the Democratic per-
suation, wanting nothing for himself, but
ready to do and suffer for white mans
government with reform" and "a change"
The suggestion now is that the census
takers of 1870 under-cOunted their neighbors.
Paid by the head and by the mile, not by
the tiav. it is now alleged they robbed them
selves; they neither travelled nor counted,
nor charged for doing it. They were car
pet-baggrrS," too many of them, in the
South; their States were Republican, they
had their ambitions and motives Tor increased
political numbers and power, there was not
the IcmOtcst danger for any direct tax; and
yet with nothing to gain and everything to
lose, they wronged and swindled themselves
for the sake of being dishonest. This all
may be. 1t is the only way of accounting
for the awkward wonders Of the census now
progressing 1t cannot he called ingenious,
because it is plainly the only possible cx-
PLANTATION. and it imps badly. Ecumenical
tDufltll~ lilslk SIT 'l A!ItNN ltNtHb ltibuipu'
census revelations. but men will still wond-
or how g., per cont was a.i.lai t.. the popula-
ton Of Il State in ten years, during which
she received exactly 1T foreign Immigrants
II fact established without the aid of any
census. Such an increase of population
anywhere would crop out in unnumbcred
directions. Production, consumption, build
inrS, titled acreage, railway traffic, postal
returns, immigration. would tell the story
of such growth Whether these tell-tale
tests. which cannot be smothered, sustain or
demoish the proposed count in the Southern
States will Incidentally appear further on,
if your patience shall endure.
was speaking the population Of the
eleven States, now twelve by the division of
virginia, which seeded from the Union, and
now constitute the chief power of the Demo-
cratic party. In 1870 it was-white G,O6',-
al3: black, 4,l,9 2223; total II, 246, ABS. The
total was - per cent. or 3-lOths of the popu-
lation of the United States. The whites
were 10th of the whole population OF the
countrv-thc blacks 10th. The Democratic
majority in all these twelve States represents
about six million people, or 10 per cent. OF
our whole people. Ii to this number be
added all the people OF these States, OF what
ever color, then they represent not more
than per cent. of the industrial, CONNER
cial, taX-paying, property interests OF the
country; the other States OF the mon repre-
senting 93 per cent.
TIE soUTH IN CoNGREss.
Let us see how much National control Is
now in the hands of the South, scant as it is
IN numbers and interest Upwards of thirty
members sit in the House of Representatives
and in the Electoral Colleges, by reason OF
counting the whole colored population as
citizans with full political rights, equal In
nil things with the whites. This is double
wrong and double robbery, to just the extent
TO which the freedmen are hindered or de-
frau,led of their vote and their voice. 10
what extent this is true the election returns
too clearly show. This representation, based
on stilled rights, is Il plain violation OF the
Constitution and OF common honesty; but
there it is: and there it votes and speaks in
the Nations councils.
The sixteen lately slave States Gncludins
Delaware, MARYLAND, Kentucky and Missis-
ouri. which did not secede) have thirty-two
Senators. Thirly-ninc is a majority of the
Senate: 50 that the South needs only seven
Senators from the other States TO make a
majority of all She will never fail to get
them if seven Northern Democrats are there.
There are twelve there now.
In the lIous' of Representatives there are
ag3 members \ majority is 141. The
South has 100 members, lacking only IL OF
majority OF all. o
The Electoral College consists of 800; a
maiority is is. The South has 13S, lacking
ONLY A. of Il majority. Consider the sway
these numbers have. In the Senate there
are - committees. and committees not only
prepare but virtually control legislation IN
both houses and this must be 50 more and
more AS the houses and the business grow
larger. OF these - committees the south
has the clllirmauship OF Il and the control
of all. The Southern chIir'nanships are OF
important committees Delaware, with
40, 900 people, about M many AS the city oil
Cleveland. Ohio, or single rural county III
New York, has the chairmanships oi the
Committees of Privileges and Elections and
nf F'inance-both very important committees.
The great State of New York, with 5,oOO,
600 people and her enormous interests ana
tax paying. has for her Democratic senator
a. g IL. 4 f..taAt,a tf.,. an