Morning journal and courier., 1880-09-18

without exception or doubt, are relied upon
 to count on the Democratic side and to score 13S electoral votes, lacking but AZ of major ity.4 The causes of such 9 condition and the consequence if 1t succeeds are matters which
 no sane man can put out of view, and yet he who discusses them must be told in the coarse parlance of the day that he waves
 the bloody shirt. .''
 MT. Conkhng then proceeded to show that
 the Democratic party was governed and con
 trolled by the South, that in Congress party
 measures were settled by party caucus, that
 in the Senate and House the Democrats were
 in majority, that there was great prepon-
 derance of Southern over Northern Demo
 crats, and that thus the South was in control
 of the law making power, of the purse and
 the power to confirm or repeal treaties and
 appointments. He then considered the cen
 sus of 1870, upon which the present repre-
 sentation is based and said that the sugges-
 ton that the South was underrated there had
 never been made until now, when the recent
 census showed an apparent increase in popu-
 lation that was known not to be true. Men
 will wonder how 43 per cent. was added to
 the population of State in ten years, during
 which she received exactly 137 foreign emi-
 grants In 1870 the South had, white 7,667,-
 213 black 4,179 ,222, total Il 246, 435. The
 total was 29 per cent. or three-tenths of the
 population of the United States. The whites
 were one-sixth of the whole population of the
 country, the blacks one-ninth. The Demo-
 cratic majority in all these twelve States rep
 resents about six million people, or 15 per
 cent of our whole people. If to this number
 be added all the people of these States of
 whatever color, then they represent not more
 than ? per cent. of the industrial, commercial, tax paying property interests of the country, the other States of the Union representing 93
 per cent. Mir. Conkling, in demonstrating how the South controlled, cited the fact that those sixteen slave States were represented! by 32 senators, only seven less than majori- ty of the whole and the twelve Northern Democrats there now always voted with them. In the House there are 293 members ma
 jority is 147; the South has 1o6 mem bers, lacking only Al of majority of all The electoral college consists of 369; a majority is 185 The South has 13S, lacking only 47 of majority. Consid- CT the sway these numbers have. In the Sen- ate there are twenty eight committees, and committees not only prepare but virtually control legislation in both houses. Of twenty eight committees the South has the chair manship of seventeen. The Southern chair manships of the important committees The same conditions prevail in the House There are forty-two committees. The chair men of twenty-two are from the South. All the committees are so constituted that the majority IS Democratic, and of that majority more than half are Southern Democrats The caucuses were controlled by representatives of one-seventh of the country's population, and not more than one-quarter of the pro- ducing commercial, industrial taxpaying and property interests of the country. As proof of this Mir Conkling quoted figures from the bureau of statistics, showing that in the payment of customs duties and internal revenue in banking and commercial inter ests, in the amount of exports and imports, in it's manufactures and educational interests, and in its quota of immigration the South was immeasurably inferior to the North. The boasted commerce of the Mississippi, foundation for the claims of Southern su- premacy in national affairs, in so far as true, belonged to the past, showing that the carry ing trade was now monopollzed by seven great cities of the North and Vest Boston, New York Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago and Cincinnati. He cited vast ar ray of figures to show that the exports and l imports of Southern cities had steadily dim- | inished for the past twenty years, while those of the North had steadily increased.
 MT. Conkling then passed to political in- tolerance in the South. From seven Southern States giving maiorities for Grant in 1872, 26O, 900 Republican votes disappeared before l 1876, and in nine other Southern States 30O,- | GOO votes vanished in the same time. Most of these stihed votes were those of freedmen | anxious to exercise their new born right, but kept away from the polls by fraud, cruelty and intimidation. Force and tissue ballots l took care of the elections and placed the South in power in national affairs, and one of ! the chief uses of this power was the repudi- ! ation of debts Every Southern State but 1 Texas has lalely repudiated it's obligations. l This aggregate repudiation of State and mu- 1 nicipal debts amounts to about $500, ,OO0, 900. ! The speaker, in considering the projects by 1 which Democratic power was to be perpet- l uated, said that the old time scheme to make 1 four States out of Texas was by no means dead and schemes were far advanced to ob- l tain a slice of Mexico, and from New Mexico l and other Territories other States could be 1 made In fact it was within constitutional | privilege to create at least seven new States, | and these were from territory imbued with | Southern prejudices and slave holding infu-
 ences, and the project would add fourteen | Senators to the Southern majority and 1 so increase Southern representation in Con | gress that Democratic ascendency would be ! assured for another generation at least Meanwhile the army has been reduced to 8 skeleton and must be filled up, but by l whom If Garfield was elected, by Union men; but if Hancock was elected, then 1t
 would be filled by ex-Confederates Thus
 would the Democracy place the republic 1 again under control of those who sought to ] destroy it.
 Mir. Conkling argued at length, showing
 the hostility of the Democracy to the exist ing tariff and revenue laws, constitutional
 amendments and national banking system. | blow had been struck at the national bank
 ing system wherever possible, yet the Demo
 crats sought to blind the eyes of the public
 by nominating president of national bank
 for the second place their ticket. Re
 garding Southern war claims Mir. Conkling
 denied that the fourteenth amendment pro-
 hibited the payment of any part of those
 with which the Treasury was threatened.
 The Senator criticised the appropriations
 for internal improvements in the South o1
 purely local benefit, and ridiculed the Demo
 cratic plea of economy in national affairs,
 1 quoting figures from the Treasury reports to
 show that between 1876, the last year of Re
 publican rule, and 1879, with the Democrats
 in power, there was Q difference of ovel
 seventy millions of dollars in favor of the Re , publicans Regarding specie resumption , he thought the man who invented th' , claim that the Democrats were entitled tc credit for that act would, if race wa , sailed on the sea of fiction, take the cup ! The Democratic party had favored repudla tion General Grant was elected Presiden z upon resumption platform, and on his in.
 aueuration declared that the debt must be pait f and return to a specie basis as soon as possi {. ble. and the very first act he signed in 166' , was the act to strengthen the public credit , | providing for payment and redemption Il
 coin. and this bill was resisted by the soli' f Democracy.
 r In closing Mir. Conkling said: "A tri I | umphant nationality, @ regeneratsd constltu a ton, free republic, an unbroken country f untarnished credit, solvent finances, unpal ,. alleled prosperity GneSo are ours OesPAe ' the policy and the efforts of the Democrat
 party. But in the midst of this harmon and encouragement comes harsh discor Q crying, stGive us a change-' "Any s thing for a change" The countr 2 2 does not need or wish the chang 2 proposed and good-natured but firm ''No y i thank you," will be the response at tn 2 polls The candidates we support, beside ' being Republicans, are largely fitted for th stations which await them. Some servIc J with him in Congress has made me well af 2 2 quainted with General Garfield. That . has the intelligence, experience and habits ( mind which fit man for the president. 'e office, I think I know. Without early ae r vantages he years ago achieved prom Y hence among the leading men In put lie life, and that prominence ? has maintained ever since. In all tf y collisions between individuals and parties tn 2 he is competent to do the duties before hll .' 1 there seems to me no reason = doubt. Of General Arthur it seems needles .,o here to speak Most of you know him, an = a all who know him know high souled: hol ~ orable man in every position ln which I - - ever stood, man to be trusted In every T ~ lation of life. If the character, tho pop