Morning journal and courier., 1880-06-24
The Campaign and Garfield.
A Letter from General Hawley.

ters that ought not to require an absence O l more than six weeks, but before my return you will have held your ratification meeting and entered upon another great political cam paign. Under the circumstances, perhaps 1 may be pardoned for making brief and ia l miliar address in advance
 The platform of the Republican party i always imperfectly set forth in it's formal res olutions. It is to be best seen in its history Therein it consists in the maintenance of tht Union atiany cost and to the last extremity because of the good the Union sources; in it. establishment of universal, civil and po1itica freedom and equality before the law; in its purpose and incessant labor to secure the free and peaceful ballot; in it's struggles te fulfill the sacred obligations of the national debt and maintain an undoubted credit; ir ! it's steady progress toward the resumption ot specie payments and the restoration of con stltutiona1 currency; in it's system of free ma tiona1 banking under conditions that secure the holders of bank notes against the possi biity of loss; in it's adjustment of the indis pensable tariff to the joint purposes of reve nue and protection; in it's fostering great works that have strengthened the Union and promoted prosperity; in it's devotion of the vast public lands to the free use of the set tier; in it's assertion of the right of self-ex
 patriation, free travel and free settlement the
 world over; in it's cordial welcome to all
 strangers; in short, in it's glorious worship of
 the ideal Christian republic
 When twenty-five millions of people find
 themselves animated by lofty aspirations to-
 ward such noble ends they instinctively as-
 semble in organized ranks under self imposed
 discipline. Thus parties create themselves
 and dissolve themselves, and no mans whim
 can stop one or the other. All this work of
 the Republican party is good. Against it all,
 an aggregation of local, undiseiplined, disor-
 ganized self f-assertions of class and race and
 sectional prejudice, of sluggish conservatism,
 has rendered fierce and sometimesa bloody
 opposition, in the name of Democracy. Prob
 ably no Democrat disliked all this good, but
 whoever disliked most of it sought the Demo cratic party whoever liked most of it sought
 the Republican party.
 The Democratic party has had partial con-
 trol of the national government for several
 years it has entirely controlled the legisla-
 tive branch for nearly sixteen months. Upon
 gaining this control it instantly sought to
 paralyze the executive which alone barred it's
 way to full sway. It struggled for nearly
 four months, in the extra session last year,
 to compel the executive branch to yield it's
 convictions of duty and it's constitutional
 rights under penalty of withholding the mon
 ey it held in trust for the sole purpose of
 maintaining the government. The country
 was alarmed at the sudden blaze of a revolu- tionary spirit in party of which two-thirds
 came from regions that had just been in re-
 bellion, and the following elections showed it.
 When Congress assembled in the second
 session marvellous outward change was ap- parent in the Democracy. It has sought only to escape in silence. Its most fiery orators
 have been dumb on the themes they.loved last
 summer. It has struggled to avoid general
 debates. I. sndured patiently all questioning
 and taunting It has done just enough of
 tacking general legislation upon appropria-
 tion bills to show that it has repented of noth-
 ing and learned nothing but alittle discretion
 It is approaching the contest in another di- 1OCGlOLJ duO W1GH u1uluOu. OaIS. It ndS not proposed new general tariff, though asserting that the tariff is wrong in theory and detail It has sought some small changes just to furnish texts for stump speeches. It is ready to at tack the National banking system and largely favors the anarchy of State banking, but it has not the courage to say so. At the same time it queerly enough favors the unlimited ,f, la S,, of peace, and always fights the opposite policy
 Every Democrat accepts the three great constitutional amendments, but it would be useless, hopeless and unpopular to do other wise. Yet the statutes passed to maintain the general spirit and purpose of those amend ments in maintaining the civil and political rights of the enfranchised race, all the stat utes aimed at the national protection of na- tional voting, all the statutes that place the national arms behind the national civil au- thority to save it from humilating defiance theaDemocracy calls odious war legislation, and seeks to repeal. But it kept very quiet during the late session.
 The laws to protect the ballot box it de- but as the Supreme Court has declar- ed them constitutional, it contents itself with to tangle them into uselessness by During the late sessions Dem erats only pressed the bills-they would not talk They showed their real spirit by abso- lutely prohibiting the payment of a dollar of the lawful debts5 5due United States mar shals for obeying the laws the court calls 
 There are many cases of disputed elections in the House. Two of the easiest that had no bearing on the presidential election were de- cided. But though ten months of the sixteen have been passed in session, there has been no attempt to decide the pretended claims against Mr. Orth of Indiana and MT. Wash burne of Minnesota. To expel those gentle men now would be to cause their triumphant election next November and furnish arguments for Republicans everywhere. Every Republican in the House believes those claims are shams but also believes, as does every intelligent politician in the country, that after next November if it shall appear to the decision of the election and to Democratic control in the Sen ate Mir. Orth and Washburne and Senator Kellogg will be incontinently whirled out of Congress.
 The conduct of the Democracy in the extra session strongly resembled revolution; since the autumnal elections it strongly resembles conspiracy.
 In one respect our opponents have modified heir extreme doctrine of State rights They Ire ready for the most extravagant expendi- ures for internal improvements
 Doubtless they desired to show general l of them sincerely and all of 1 hem for campaign purposes. But they could l lot control their forces. The Republicans | brought down the expenditures to $258, 459,- l '97 in 1875-6-their last year. For the next 1 iseal year, 1880-1, the Democracy have ap- 1 ,ropriated $297, 1860, 237, though the interest 1 account has been reduced several millions l trough old Republican legislation and Re 1 publican Secretary of the Treasury.
 The Republican candidates are before the ,eople Not Moses nor David nor Peter nor 'aul could take the field and escape savage ttacks by the Gentiles for their crimes and Garfield need not be dis