Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-18
DISGRUNTLED CONKLING

DISGRUNTLED CONKLING
Forced to the Front by the Exigencies Of
His Party-He Makes the Greatest Effort
6 of His Life-A Liberal Waving of tho
Bloody Shirt, Faint Endorsement Of
Garfield and Hearty Praise of Arthur.
NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-THE Academy of Music
was crowded to overlooking tonight on the oc-
casion of the Republican mass meeting, and
the police were obliged to close the door to
keep the throng from overcrowding the corri-
doris. Thousands went away, being unable to
gain admittance to the building. On the stage.
among the prominent men, there were: Hon.
Edw. Pierrepont, Judge Cowan. Gen.. Arson
McOook, Postmaster James, Collector Merritt,
Gen. Graham, Gen. Carr, Hon. Thurlow Weed,
and others. About O'Clock Gov. Cornell
entered the Academy and was escorted to q
private box amid cheers. Gen. Arthur and
Hon. Jas. II. Varnum accompanied the gov
ernor. Shortly before Senator Conkling ar
rived accompanied by Hon. Hamil-
ton Fish, Hon. Lloyd Aspin-
wall, Hon: Jno. Jay, Ex-Governor
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as the party advanced q simultaneous cheer
arose from every part of the house and hand
kerchiefs and hats were waved in the air. The
excitement subsiding Mr.. Aspinwall advanced
to the footlights and said he had been request
ed to open the meeting by reading letter from
Gen. Grant. prolonged applause.) Hon.
Hamilton Fish was elected chairman and in a
b2ief speech introduced Senator Conkling. who
was greeted with cheer upon cheer as he came
forward.
After an eloquent allusion to the grandeur
and blessings OF the republic, Mr.. Conkling
said: The Democratic party is the Democratic
candidate and am against the ticket and all
its words. The genersl issue confronting us is
in itself and in its bearings sectional. Would
that it were not 80, but it is 80. In twelve
States of the union the approaching elections
is to be no moresthan farce unless, as has some
times happened, if it be turned into tragedy.
In several Southern States there is large Re-
publican majority. but all the Southern States
alike. without exception, or without doubt, are
relied upon to continue on the Democratic side
and score one hundred and thirty-eight electo-
raj votes. There is to be no free debate, no
equal rights, no true expression in these States,
and yet, he who discusses these questions must
be tOldfn the coarse parlance of the day that
he waves ''the bloody shirt"
The Senator denounced the proposed count
in some Southern States founded on the last
census, and then read Gen. Grants recent let
ter in which he says that ''the Democratic party
as now constituted and controlled is not fit
party to trust with the control of the general
government" and went on to say that the
South constitutes the Democratic party, and
that in Congress Southern members hold abso-
lutte sway. Should controversy arise regard
ing the Presidential election, and the election
be thrown into the House, there the vote being
taken by States, the South would cast nearly
k64 novo xy<1ko o,,l ~ haG nno 80
the vote for Vice President would come from
the same souuce, In every event of Democratic
success the Southern end of the Democratic party
must be to the Northen end as the locomotive
is to the tender as the horseis to the cart, This
is as plain as any truth in gravitation or arith-
metic. The South has control of all the work
ing committees of the Senate. On every COM
mittee there is a majority of Democrats, and
of these the majority in all cases consists of
Southern Senators. The same conditions pre-
vail in the House There are forty-tw0 com.
mittees. The chairmen of twenty-five are
from the South. All committees are consti-
tuted 30 that majority is Democratic, and
of the majority more than one-half is South
ern.
power in both Houses has been so lodged. the
existence of the veto power and the approach
of the Presidential canvass have suggested
urgent reasons for 'sgoing SLOW" Many
expected bills have not been introduced.
Many that have been introduced have not been
'pressed." Some that have been s'pressed"
have run against such obstinate opposition as
to secure present postponement OF some medi-
6cation. But whenever the hour strikes that
the veto power is in Democratic hands the SOL
id causus will be controlled by those who rep-
resent by less than one-seventh of the people
of the union, and not more than one-fourteenth
of the producing. the commercial industrial,
tax-paying and property interests of the coun-
try. The Senator read official figures of the
bureau of statistics, to prove the assertion and
said these facts are not reached with pleasure
but deep regret.
The next topic discussed was the trade of
the Mississippi river, and upon this point he
said: The river commerce of the Southern
Mississippi is regarded as the great tie of in
terest, as guard of assurance against purposes
sectional and inimical and large foundation
for the claims set up for Southern influence in
national affairs. This theory, as far as it is
true, belongs to the past. The tread of man in
all ages has been on lines of latitude. not on
lines of longitude. RiverS and mountains on
this continent run north and south. Men
bridge and tunnel them, and move east and
west. The construction of railways has revo-
lutionized traffic and Transports
competitor to this transcontinental
movement is the lakes and Erie canal. The
commercial forces of seven great cities have
grasped this vast carrying trade and hold. pro-
pei and direct it. Boston, New York, Phila-
delphia and Baltimore at the east, and st.
Louis, Chicago and Cincinnati at the west
command the machinery, and outlets and in
lets through, which the surplus products of the
United States reach the markets of the world,
and through which the merchandise of Europe
ia brought here and distributed. Gould science
deepen the mouth of the Mississippi, till the
Great Eastern could load at the wharves of the
Crescent city, the achievement would no more
arrest or divert the movement of commerce
and the population east and west than it could
control the tides of the sea, or change the
course of the stars.
Statistics were here given locating the bulk
and substance of the national wealth in the
North, and the speaker said: ST affirm that
the broad issue at this election is whether our
colossal fabric, commercial, industrial and
financial interests, shall be under the manage
ment and protection of those who chiefly erect
ed and own it, or shall it be handed over to
the sway of those whose share in it il
small and whose experience, antecedents, the
cries or pratices do not fit them or entitle
them to assume it's control.
Senator Conkling spoke of wiping ont the
Republican vote in the South by fraud. cruel
.ty, deviltry, force and tissue ballots, and re-
peated what he said in the Senate that the
Democratic party would have to-day no major.
ity in either house of Congress except for cleo
lions dominated and decided by violence and