The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-09-28

was chosen chairman of the democratic
meeting tonight. His speech was d. voted
mainly to the consideration of the claim th.t
the present prosperity of the nation is dine r.
republican legislation, and cited as a sioniGD
cant fact that only in 1879, with the Ionsa
and senate both democratic, were we enabIad
to float our four per cent. bonds at par. uThe
American people do not owe their present
prosperity to either republican or democratic
Lawmakers. They owe it first and above ali
TO the blessings of the Almighty, who has
gwen them unbounded crops with which to
ieeu the Vanishing masses of Europe next
to the forced economy and retrenchnnant in
private and public expenditures rendered
necessary by the disasters of 1873, and lastly
70 the thrift, energy n skill of our farmers.
planters and mechanics, which have made us
large exporters to the marts of the world not
only OF The surplus products of our soil. but
also OF works of American invention and
skill" I"
resolutions were read and adopted, and
letters OF regret because of the absence of
The writers were announced,
Senator Bayard was then presented to the
vast lhrong and was received with long con
tihued applause and waving of hats and
hahdkelchlefs. He made a long speech, dis
cussing many questions which enter into the
presidential contest. He said that time has
changed the population of the south as well
as the north. A new generation of men and
women who could have had but little to say
or do in relation to the war of 81 now occu-
pes and controls the country. OF the charge
that in the event of democratic success the
war debts of the south, loss of slaves and
claims Tor other losses growing out CT the
war, pensions for their wounded, etc, would
be paid out of the United States treasury,
Bayard said "The best reply to all these
wild, malicious and foolish assertions is that
such payments would be impossible. The
good sense or honesty of that man is serious
ly to be impugned who does not read in the
PLAIN mandate of the fourteenth amendment
the absolute seal Of illegally and nullity set
upon all such claims. Having been for a
number of years in Washington, l have
learned who were the real beneficiaries of the
claims paid by congress in the past ten years
of the class and style Of southern claims
and in almost every instance a great part of
the money flowed into the pockets of north.
ern and very loyal assignees who had bought
up these claims for a song from their impecu.
NOUS owners. AT a great gathering of lepub
lican ladies and gentlemen last week there
were lawyers, bankers and statesmen WHIT
had more money in their pockets from south
ern claims, allowed by republican commits
sioncrs and republican courts, than the poo
south ever received since the WAL or ever viii
receive from now until the day Of judgment.
The cry of 'solld SOUTH received atten
ton, and Bayard said: 1.-The south is no
solid for anything dangerous TO the welfare o
the whole people, nor do | apprehend that i
will be. Its solidity has no feature and IT
result unfriendly 10 the prosperity of the en-
tire union"
In relation to the condition of business
and society in the southern states, Bayart
quoted freely from papers by Edward Atkin
son, Of Massachusetts,, and published. in thu
Fortnightly Reriew, in which appears thes
passages: "The total production of gold an
silver by the mines, mountains and rivers 0
the whole world for ~ years has been 81 400,
$4,000; and the American cotton crop TO
the last 10 years amounted to from $1,000
100000 to $4,000, 100000 in gold values.
"Since 1865 all industrial revolution has occur
red in the states made free by the war such a
!, never before occurred o the surfac
thele has appeared to be misgovernmenI
fraud, political disturbances, want O
stability, and sometimes even violence, bu
3 underlying this surface, apparently so deepl
t agitated, the great industrial forces have bee
quietly and surely working to the end ind
Gated by the great crops of cotton. The te
last crops marketed exceeding the last tie
1 antl-war crops by nearly $4,000 bales, Will
the crop now being marketed will be far la
ger than any ever before grown. Niolenc
S and anarchy can not have been the rule in
section that has produced greater crops fc
/ sale and has, at the same time, been MOI
= self-sustaining than ever before III j
+ history"
: Speaking OF the prosperity of the natio
, and of the production of sugar, tobacco an
rice, Bayard said:
Sand yet, our domestic production OF til
s last two articles is only in southern state
, and tobacco is chiefly produced there. OF IL
tobacco crop, from two-ffths retained an
manufactured in the United States over thi
ty eight millions of dollars of revenue hay
$ been derived in the last fiscal year. With IL
! executive power of this government in u
hands of an administration just and friend
towards every section how tritling will eve
the great present be to the great future pro
e perity that awaits u.s.
The south Corollna Census.