The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-09-24

The Big RatifeatiOn over the
Union of Democracy In
New York.
Senator Bsyard, the States.
man and Patriot, Makes q
Speech Equal 10 the
Nan,
which the BIgoted ReDublI.
can Associated Press Agent
Cannot Spoil,

which the Bigoted Republic.
can Associated Press Agent
Cannot Spoil,
Though the Attempt is Made.
A BuBgllng Synopsis of q
Grand Affair.
New York, 23.-August Belmont
was chosen chairman OF the demo-
cratic meeting tonight. His speech
was devoted in the main 10 the coz
siderstion OF the claim that the pres.
ent prosperity of the nation is due TO
republican legislation, and cited as q
significant fact that only in 1879,
with the House and SsDate both, the
democrats were enabled to float our 4
per cent. bonds at par. The Ameri
can people do not owe their
present prosperity to either repub-
lican or democratic Law makere.
They owe it first and above
all, to the blessings of the Almighty,
who has given them unbounded crops
with which to feed the fsmishing
masses OF Europe; next to the forced
economy and retrenchment in privat,
and public expenditures, rendered
necessary by the disasters of 1873.
and lastly to the thrift. energy and
skill OF our planters. farmers and ex-
porters to the marts of the world.
not only Of the surplus produce OF our
soil, but also of the works of Ameri-
can invention and skill.
Resolutions we're read and adopted,
and letters Of regret, because Of the
absence OF the writer's. were an
nounced. From Gen. Hancock:
Dear Sir - Please express my
thanks to the committee for the in,
vitation to be present at the grand
meeting TO be held in New York City,
on the 23d instant. II circumstances
permit it will give me pleasure to
attend, but my occupations and en-
gagements are such that it ia not
probable that shall be able to do 90.
II l should, I will take the liberty OF
informing you hereafter.
Ex-Governor Hendricks writes: /
am very confident that New York
and Indiana will both select demo
cratic electors, and that the national
democratic ticket will be elected by 8
vote that no fraud can overcome.
From Senator Hill, of Georgia:
am not entirely satisfied that ad'
dresses by southern speakers at the
north will aid the party. am quite
sure some which have been made
have not aided it. l much prefer MOI
TO speak unless il is assured that
will at least do no harm. My owr
opinion is that q well considered
speech. delivered by me to quieI
audience in Boston, might do good.
From David Davis: Domestic rea.
sons, which need no explanation,
exclude me from taking part in any
public meeting at this time. l regret
not being able to give more satiE-
factory reply 10 the invitation.
Senator Bayard WAS then presented
to the vast throng, and was received
with long continued applause and
the waving of hats and handker-
chiefs. He male long speech, dis
cussing the many questions which
enter into the presidential contest.
He said that time bad changed the
population of the south as we'll "a OF
the north. A new generation oil
men and women, who could have
had but little to say or do in relation
to the war OF 1861, DOW occupies and
controls the country. or the charge
that, in the event OF democratic sue
cess, the war debts of the south for
the loss of slaves and claims for other
Losses growing out of war, pensions
for the wounded, etc., would be paid
out OF the United States treasury,
Bsyard said the best reply to all these
wild, malicious and foolish assertions
Is that euch payments would be i'm
possible. The good sense or honesty
OF that man is seriously to be i'm
pugned who does not read in the
plain mandate OF the Fourteenth
Amendment the absolute seal OF lille
gality and pullity set upon all such
claims. Having been for q number
OF years in Washington have learned
of the claims paid by Congress in the
past ten years OF the class styled
Southern Claims" and in almost
every instance great part of the
money flowed into the pockets OF the
northern and very loyal as
slgoees who had bought up
these claims for song from
their impecunious southern owners.
At a great gathering of republican
ladies and gentlemen, last week, there
were lawyers, bankers and statesmen,
who had more money in their pock-
cts from southern claims allowed by
republican commissioners and re-
publican courts. than the Door south |
ever received from the war, or will |
ever receive from now until she day
OF judgment. The cry "solid south"
received attention, and BayArd said
the south ia not solid for anything
the north need spprshend, and its
solidity has no feature and no result
unfriendly to the prosperity of the
entire Union. In relation to the con-
dition of business and society in the
southern states. BAyard quoted freely
from q paper by Edward Atkinson,
OF Massachusetts,. and published in
the Fortnightiy Rerieo, and in which
appears these passages: The total
production OF gold and silver by
mines. mountains and rivers of the
whole world, for twenty-seven years,
mas been s., 400, 9S7, 900; and the t
American cotton crop, for the last ten I
years, amounted to from 81. 500, O00.-
200 to s., 200, 600, COO in gold value.
Since 1865 an industrial revolution {
had occurred, and, in the states made e
rec by the war such, as never before g
On the surface there has '
TO be misgovernmeut, fraud, @
disturbance. want of stability,
md sometimes violence, but under i,
yirg this surface, apparently so deeply 4
'gitated, the great industrial forces d
AVE been quietly aud surely working 81
o the end indicated by the great t.
rops of cotton. The ten las. crops
marketed exceeded the ten ante war
rops by nearly G, 800. 600 bales, while
be crop now being marketed will be
N the largest ever grown" Violence g