Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-18
If Hancock and English and the Democratic
party gets in it will be by men who went with

II Hancock and English and the Democratic
party gets in it will be by men who went with
their States.
The present revenue laws are deemed very
bad by the dominant element of the Democ-
racy. They want to change them. They will
change them radically whenever tho way is
clear. There is q whisky rebellion now in sew
eral States and officers of the law are power
less to suppress it. Recently warrant was
issued for the arrest of one Penton; a deputy
marshal went with posse to execute the
warrant. In his report to the marshal he says
Penton assembled from twenty. five to fifty
armed men and set him and the law at def
ance. When cautioned to desist, Penton re-
piled, '.When Hancock is elected this damned
foolishness will STOP"
The amendments to the constitution were,
the speaker said, constantly and flagrantly
defined in more than half the Democratic
States and should these laws be swept away,
and should the spirit which assails them in the
South and which called them into being con-
tinue to rage, mildew will follow in the wake.
The national banking system has been
struck wherever blow could be put in. This
fabric Of banking Is now inwrought not only
with the business of the country but with the
lion in the path Of fat money imitation and q
long train of financial heresies which possess
the Democaatic mind, especially in the South.
In regard to the assertion that Southern war
claims are buried by the Fourteenth amend
ment to the constitution, Senator Conkling
said: There can be no doubt that the way is
wide open to all Southern claims which ma
iority can be found to vote for and a President
to sign.
The Democratic party has had possession Of
the House of Congress four years and both
Houses two years. What useful thing has
been done or proposed? They have stricken
off some millions of tax on whisky and to-
bacco. They have attempted, by revolutionary
means, to put the executive under duress and
to cripple the government in order to over,
throw just and time-honOred laws. What else?
I do not know. 1t is said the Democracy
have reduced the appropriations. do not
80 understood it. The claim of economy is no
better than juggle. The pretended saving
which had been purposely left out of regular
appropriation bills came in as deficiency bills
after election.
In face of the facts, bold andDarrant, the
country is gravely told of the wondrous DEM
ocratic economies and it now begins to state
that resumption of specie payments was
brought about blythe frugality of the Demo-
cratic Congress. If a race was to be sailed
over the sea Of fiction the inventor of this
statement would surely take the cup. The
resumption of specie payments was q trans-
oendent achievement. The credit of it belongs
to some party and to that party future
generations will look back with
grateful admiration. Whoever would know
truth about it can easily do so. Senator Oonk-
ling here gave the history of our finances from
the close of the war to the passage of the re-
sumption act, which act he said encountered
solid Democratic opposition in both houses,
but passed by Republican votes. Repeal bills
were brought forward, and the Democrats voted
for them separately and as riders to appropria-
ton bills. Meanwhile, the world seeing that
we meant to be honest after all, notwithstand-
ing reputation at the South and the threats
in the North, and vicious declarations In the
national convention, it became easy to negoti-
ate ~ and 4 per cent. bonds at par and above
par. This was DONE and the debt has melted
away at the rate of $2, 600 600 q month. The
interest charge has been reduced ,one-half,
and when bonds of high interest rates still out
standing fall due in 1881, and afterwards, they
also will be replaced by 8 or per cent. bonds.
This all looks pretty we'll, very we'll beside
the exploits of the last Democratic admins
tration, Mr.. Buchanan's, which increased the
debt tenfold in time in peace, paid 10 per
cent. interest in treasury notes, and sold
per cent. twenty years bonds for SO cents on
the dollar. 1t is we'll to add that during the
last five years of their Congressional control
the Republicans dismissed $120, 900, 900 of
annual taxes, $31 900, 600 of tariff duties,
and 1856, 600, 900 Of internal revenue.
Senator Conkling concluded az follows: The
Candidates we support Desloes being hepuDl-
cans are largely fitted for the stations which
await them. Some services with him in Con-
gress has made me well acquainted with Gen.
Garfield. That he has intelligence, experience
and habits of mind which fit man for the
Presidential Office, think know. Without
early advantages he years ago achieved promi-
hence among leading men in public life, and
that prominence he has maintained ever since
in all collisions between Individuals and
parties. That he is competent to
the duties before him there seems
to me no occasion to doubt. Of Gen. Arthur
it seems needless here to speak. Most of you
know him and all who know him know high
souled, honorable man, honorable in every po-
sition in which he ever stood, man to be
acter, popularity and personality of a candi-
date can add strength to the Republican cause,
Gen. Arthur will add that strength wherever
he is known and most where he is best known.