National Republican., 1880-09-20
DEMOCRATIC ALARM.

Nothing has created such widespread
alarm among the democrats as to discover
that the business interests of the country
have been awakened to n keen sense
of danger under even the remote contin-
gencY of Il democratic victory in the pend.
ing contest. Since the close of the late
war the south has rendered itself sol
idly democratic through agencies that
shame civilization and awaken the keen.
est sense of danger in the minds of
men who are prosecuting the enterprises of
the country. The idea that q section of our
common country which places 13S votes in
the electoral college, majority of whom
are elected because the republican senti-
ment has been literally crushed out oft by
violence, outrage and shameless fraud, is
sufficient to create alarm when an advance
is made toward power through such Ngen.
cies.
Tile business interests of the nation nre
rs much exposed to outrage and overthrow
rs the right of suffrage and the exercise of
individual opinion. 1t is this record which
the democratic party has made for itself, and
which cannot be blotted out, that creates
alarm. The iree-trndc doctrines ofthe demo-
cratic party and the alarming precedents
they have established are a danger signal to
the manufacturing interests of the country.
The financial dogmns ofthe democraticparty
stand as q warning TO all who are in favor of
n sound currency and recognize in our
present system of finance the safest, best
and most convenient currency known to the
worlds history. With paper currency us
good as gold anywhere in the United States,
and with democratic alliance that seeks
to bring initiation and disaster to it, very
naturally creates distrust and alarm with
business enterprise, for a dcrangcment Of
our currency would bring inevitable
ruin. In less than four years after the
democratic party and its allies should
Uccede to power in both branches Of con.
gress aud i'm the executive departments of
the government, state sovereignty would
demand state institutions, the national
banks would be blotted out to give place TO
them, and the tide of our present prosperity
Wou4u uc lNiAtl DuNN loI more lNln
twenty years, TO q condition of oiiirs such
as marked the country when we had Il
wildcat and red dog currency that would
not pass at par beyond the boundaries of
the town where the banks were situated
which sent out such money issues. All
democratic history teaches the business
world that nothing better than this in the
way of money can be expected from u
democratic control Of public affairs, State
sovereignty is the chief part Of the
democratic faith, and when it secures
power the nation will become subseryient
to its behcsls, and each state will
claim and secure the right to dictate
as to its own money interests, State
sovereignty, it is well understood, was
greatly encouraged and strengthened by
the nomination Of HANCOCK, for he de-
clared his allegiance to that doctrine when
he had military control Of the SOUTH In
deed, IL was That historic fact which secured
him the nomination. The elcclonof HAN
COCK viii render state sovereignty the
dominant power 10 the nation and lead to
changes Of policy relating to our currency
which will bring inevitable demugomcnt