Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-15

! cry Northern State. BY le76t things had .
much changed that they come in With thei
President by the slenderest majority possible
and that obtained through fraud. and now th
rasty M . seeks 70 perpetuate iss control oy o!.im
ing credit Tor tho impsoved condition of 6nau
cial affairs. What act, said he. did the Repub
licans do, that they should claim this. honor
In 1875 the currency was con
tracted sixty million dollars. Did tina
bring about the improved condition of affairs
The Democratic party stopped this contraction
OF the currency and this and not any act of tn.
Republican party brought back prosperous
times. This work. he said, was assisted by the
energies and economy of the people at the
time of theseverest depression. We found then
we were buying more from foreign Countries
than we were selling aud the balance between
the years 1850 aud 1866 was about twenty mil
lions. A nation is like an individual in
matters of economy. The man who Is
CAREFUL to live within his means, and at the
same time lay by little more for rainy wealth
er. ia sure to come out right in the end. It was
SO with the United States in 1876. The tide
turned In our favor. Since then we have main.
tanned our advantage. and last year the balance
was largely in our favor. It Waa asserted the
remonetiz alton of silver would drive gold out
of the c. untry. Instead of that $l50, ,00O 100
of gold has been added. The Republicans re-
fer tn this "a John Sherman e triumph, and that
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to our thanks, but the facts are the people are
indebted to their energies, and such legislation
as the Democrats were able to give them,
He charges he Republican party with seeking
to create discord between the sections. They
are preaching the doctrine Of hate, and while
cry lug out AGAINST a solid South are seeking
with all their energies to secure solid North.
If Southern people are wrong in uniting polit-
lcal y what excuse have the Republicans of the
NOrfh for aak IN dO fho no
South is simply solid ag ,inst the Republican
party because 1t regards hat party as unfit to
rule. With that spirit we Democrats of
the North agree. We are ali
solid against tht Republican par
ty and expect to continue to be SO
during th- rest of our days. He referred to
ievies by Republicans in power upon employees
OF the government for corrupt campaigo ser
vices, charging that the levies were outrageous
and great hardship on those compelled 10
submit. The money was us-d in close and
doubtful districts. and oorruptly, but the Re
publican party is versed in corrupt practice;
lts system Of election, supervision and return
log boards, 30 fair ON its face, was an outrag-
eous use of power for a partisan
purpose, and it is in consequence of
this that the party has remained 80 long in
power, under this system, i5 matters not how
the people vOte the result declared is always
the same-the abuse of the power conferred
by the federal law for reelection of Congress-
men. The Democratic party sought its repeal
but the President vetoed their acCisn. Refer
ring to the election of 1876 and the uncertainty
and troubles which followed, he said: Presi-
dent Grant appointed representative men to
60 to the disputed StNes to see that no
fraud was practical in the count.
When these men arrived they found
they had been preceded by such Republican
politicians as Blaine, Hale, etc. He referred
particularly to tue Louisiana returning board,
which he denounced as a grossly partisan body.
bent upon couuting Hayes in, not outstanding
the heavy majority against him. Garfeld's
chief responsibility in this great wrong was in
sitting on rha electoral com mission and con-
doning the fraud, and he did so willingly.
That party nominated him at Chicago in recog-
milton OF this service. Comparing Garfield
aud Hancock, he said the latter was q states.
man as well as soldier and commanded his
admiration. Hancock. he said, went tu Louis
lana, where all was donbt, confusion aud dis
order. and gave the people peace. He referred
in warm terms to the craftsmanship displayed
in order No. 40. The senator referred at
length to the subject of i'm portation Of colored
vm ers to Indiana and other border States for
the purpose of cheating the will of the people,
bat the cleaner elements of the popu-
iRtion would not tolerate such
an outrage, and the Republican managers
would discover their mistake when indignation
was able to express itself at the polls. de was
glad Indiana was an Ootober State. He ex-
pected the Democrats to win then with the
State ticket and increase the majority in No.
vemser. Senators Mcdonald and Jones also
spoke to large audience ut Mount Vernon to-