Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-15
INDIANA CAMPAIGN
OPENED LAST NIGHT BH TWO HUN.
DRIED SPER0REs:;. IA
Ex-Governor Doolittle's Speech at In
dianapolis--A Great Meeting at Esyans-
Vile Addressed by Senator Mcdonald and
Others--The Democrats bound TO Carry
Indiana.

| Vile Addressed by Senaaor Mcdonald an
Others--The Democrats Bound TO Carr
Indiana.
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. l4-The Democrati
central committee opened the csmpssea to-day
] Pler 200 speakers will deliver addresses in the
| various cities and towns of the State. Tn
following are among the prominent speakers
Senator Mcdonald of Indiana. and1anes. o
Florida, at EVANSVILLE; Hon. Ohas. Anderson
of Ohio, at Richmond; Senator Voorhees,, a
Brazil; Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana, end Gov.
Brockmeyer, of Missouri, at Ft. Wayne; Bon
d. 3. Go0ding, at Logansport. In this citJ
1 the meeting was held to. night at, the wigwau
and addressed by Hon; James Pn!itzsr. of g.
Louis, Hon. j. Is. DOolittle, of Wiscsfsssa, and
| Hon. Emil Rothe. of Cincinnati. Mr.Dooiit
Il upon being introduced said: From thest
cheers from SO many hearts and voices, like
| the voice of many waters, thank yen from
my heart of hearts, not for myself alone, bu,
! In the name of our standard bearers. Hsucock
| and English, whom we have nominated. and
whom we have decided to elect, and when elect:
ed inaugurate President and Vice President OF
the United States. Not being resident oi
your State it would not become me to discuss
| candidates. 1 shall, therefore, speak upon ma
| tioDal issues and candidates only" Among
other things Mr.. DOolittle said 80 If the repub.
lie is true to ITSELF and true to the ideas of It's
founders, before the end of it's second century
IL will be the greatest nation that ever 5peared
on the face of the earth. But great
as it is it must forever rest upon
these great fundamental ideas. In these
it lives, moves and has its being Theseidsas
are. first. National sovereignty limited to
National affairs only; second, State sovereign-
ty reserved in State affairs only; third, free
intelligent ballot and an honest count. Upon
these hree Fundamental ideas-upon these su.
preme conuitions-our great constitutional re-
publican system depends. and must FOREVER de-
pend. Upon these. as upon three supp .ztiu 2
columns. the whole gigantic structure rests.
If either is broken down, or undermined, the
whole fdifce must fall" Mr.. Doolittle illus.
tratei and enforced these ideas and funda-
mental articles. He said: ''Blot out
the idea of National sovereignty ia the
republic in National affairs, and the
union under the constitution would be mere
rope of sand, Blot out the idea of State sever
eighty in State affairs, whatever be the FERNS
and whatever be the name of that great central
government which shall attempt to exercise
sovereignty in domestic and State affairs as we'll
as In matters of national affairs, will become
centralized, unwieldy despotism. 1t would be
like a INSTRUMENTATION up the rights Of the
States and all liberties of the citizen, drius
fir. edom and intelligence from the polls and by
uiICliuS auO INC cdy0u66 Surround the
ballot boxes with troops and partisan deputy
mar>hals to intimidate or obstruet the electors;
stuff ballot boxes with false or purchased
votes; by false and fraudulent and
perjured returning boards count cut, the votes
actually cast, count in the votes never cast-in
the way in which all the world knows the sarty
in paSer did in order to place in the Presi-
dental chair a man who was defeated at the
polis by the majority of hundreds of thousand.
And =
government would become STAN aud mock
cry, our sys' EN- would end first IA civil var,
then in anarchy, snd last in military despos.s
ISM" Mr.. Doolittle dwelt on this idea at con-
siderable i.ns.h and said; ;:..a treat di.
leaders aud the Republican party of to. dsy
under its stalwarts of radical leaders,
is this: The Democrats comprehended and
maintained the sovereignty of States az re-
served by the constitution over their own do
nestle and local affairs. while the radicals and
stalwarts seem TO be the victims of the old
idea only of the sovereignty of the nation
wi hont limiting that sovereignty to national
affairs" Mr.. Donlittle said: Our true
theory is this. ALI American citizens are citi-
gems of the United States owing allegiance to
the United States as a sovereign and at the
same time the citizens of the State where they
live. owing allegiance to that State also. Every
American, native or naturalized, owes ailegi-
ance TO each and to both at the same time, and
he is protected by the laws of each within their
respective spheres, and the Ian
guape Of the supreme court of
the United States. The powers of the general
government and the State, although they exist
and are exercised within the same territorial
limits, and yet separate and independent of
each other within their respective spheres, as
if the line of division, traced by landmarks
and monuments, were visible to the eye. Yes,
my fellow citizens, though it seems almost i'm
possible to make our Republican fellow citizens
sy stem is just what have stated and what the
supreme court declared it is-its perfection.
it's glry-namely. that every American has
this double citizenship, this double allegiance
and this double protection, both National and
State. in all life's journey, from the cradle to
the grave. The sovereignty of the nation, and
the sovereignty of the State, like two guardian
angels. upon the right and upon the left, walk
close by our side, and IN nine times out of ten,
we appeal to the State for protection. But in
the exceptional case, the protection of the
National government ia equally important, and
necessary. and vital, to our we'll being" He
continued at length, saying this was subject
on which the Republicans leaders constantly
misrepresent the views of the Democratic party,
and falsely assert that because We maintain
uncer the constitution the reserved rights of
tuo Ctatc, lucy AdhSciy CudfSS Iudb We assert
the supremacy of States over the Federal, and
deny the sovereignty of the United States in
national sffa'r,. But have been able 60 show
You how solld are the foundations of the Dem
ocrstic creed" Mr.. Doolittle then referred to
The hilt,ry of the Republican party since the
war, and charged against that party the tramp
ling down the constitution in time of profound
peace. whenever its LEADERS believed that the
consultation stood in the way of
tteir party aeoendeney. He referred,
among other things, to the military
reconstruction bill of 1876, upon the passags
Of which Thad. Stevens, then leader of the
House, frankly admitted they were acting out.
side the constitution, and as frankly avowed
that the object was to maintain the ascend.
ancy of their party. Mr.. Garfield was an APT
scholar in advocating the same measure. Feb.
ruary II, 1867, he said: "It is severe; it il
written with q steel pen, made with q bay.
nnet." Mr.. Doolittle maintained that the
bill in itself, and these declarations of Stevens
aud Garfield, were nothing less than deciara
ton of war against ten States of the Union
nearly two years after their civil war was ovel
and peace declared; that with steel pen made
with bayonet, in time of profound peace, they
wrote across the names of ten States of this
Union, expelled by act of Congress" al
erased from the constitution the sacred words
the right of TRIAL bv jury" and the h&beas
corpus, and all civil law for all that region oil
country, from the Potomac to the Rio Grande
and for 10000 900 of people. he contrasted
this language with that of General Hancock In
assuming command of Texas and Louisiana
He knew what the war was for. He knew
when it was over. He knew that in time o