Morning journal and courier., 1880-10-08
Flag Raising in Fair Haven.


 Great atEnthusiasm-stfrri Addresses by Judge Harrison and P. c. NIouItOn- Singing by the GIee Club.
 There was grand rally of the Eleventh and Twelfth ward Republicans in Fair Haven last evening, occasioned by flag raising on the corner of East Grand and Pearl streets, bearing the names of Garfield and Arthur, and the public meeting which followed 1n Central Hall.
 The hall was crowded, many ladies being in the audience. The following officers were announced:
 President-Warren Robinson.
 Vice Presidents-H.- w. Crawford, O. k. Pond, E. F. Arvine, John H.. Whiting, Will liam Konold, P. B. Beebe, Charles F. Crock ett, c. c. Dennison, D. c. Burwell, Spencer English.
 Secretaries Fred A. Chase, A. B. Barnes, l.. w. Robinson, Henry Futile, H. N. Pond, ). R. Warren, Samuel Hemingway, jr.
 Porter O. Moulton was first introduced. He delivered an able speech on the issues of the campaign, his remarks being received with much favor by the large audience in at tendance.
 On the conclusion of MT. Moulton's ad- dress the Bigelow Glee club sang campaign song to the tune of ''Hold the Fort.'' The song reused the audience to high state of enthusiasm, fully preparing it for the able address which followed by Judge Lynde Har- rison.
 On being introduced Judge Harrison paid a compliment to the enthusiasm of Fair Ha- ven Republicans, which reminded him of 1860. He endorsed the sentiment of General Hancock as reported in the evening papers, that there were two ways to conduct an cleo tion and one was to abuse the opposite par ty and it's candidates, and said that he did not propose to follow that course. He took up the charge against the Re- publican party concerning the granting of public lands to railroad corporations, and showed by the records that the Democratic party under Douglass commenced the prac- tice and the Republicans stopped it during Grants first term. He then reviewed the charges of extravaganza and negligence and corruption against Republican management of the federal treasury, and showed by the figures that the Republicans had shown greater capacity for economy than the Demo. cratic administrations of Jackson, Pierce and Buchanan and the recent Democratic Con- gress. He also took up Senator Bayard' claim that the Republican party is responsi- ble for the decay of our commerce and ship ping interests, and showed by figures from the
 
 A. Wells in the North American Recieoo for 1877 that the real cause for it's decay was Confederate cruisers from 1861 to 1865, and the Democratic tariff for revenue, which pre- vented us from competing with England in the building of iron steamships when the great change was made from wood and sails to steam and iron, from 1850 to 1860.
 But passing these, Mir. Harrison said ''In the march of the centuries, men and the personnel of an administration are nothing, but principles everything" and he showed that the underlying fundamental principles of all great Democratic measures are governed by a strict and limited construc- ton of the Constitution, whereas the Repub. ican party and its predecessors in principle have always believed and taught that the Constitution is elastic enough for great and growing nation to secure from it's Congress such legislation as may be requisite foI the benefit of the whole people. He said all the great controversies of the cen tury, including the war of the rebellion, had grown out of these different constructions of the federal Constitution. Letters of Wash ington to Lafayette and Patrick Henry in 179s and 1799 show that he adopted the present republican theory, and extracts were read. Because of the Republican theory, and in op- position to Democratic traditions, protective tariffs had been adopted to protect American industry secured national currency had been 1urulSueu US dSdlnSC Wllu caC ana OCaCe DdnK money; and the war for the Union was suc- cessfully waged. The Democratic party had always been true to its traditions and tied it. itself up to the ''words nominated in the bond, " except when in 1860, in the Brecken- ridge platform, it invoked the power of the Constitution to protect human slavery wher- ever the flag floats, and in 1868, when it ad- vocated virtual repudiation by the payment of the national debt in unconstitutional cur rency. He then took up the question of vio- fence and frauds at the South, and said there can no longer be used the remedy of federal interference, because under the Constitution we must wait for applications from local au- thorities, which we shall never have from the present governing class at the South. The danger grows out of the illiteracy of the Southern whites we'll as blacks. The rem edy is national aid for education, and he gave many figures and estimates to illustrate his argument.
 At the close of Judge Harrison's address he was given three cheers, and a vote of thanks was extended to the speakers.