The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-26
CORES pondence of the Herald.

While write, monstrous procession OF
placeholders files along Pennsylvania avenue
attending from Wizards far toward the
capitol. The mighty structure is ablaze with
unwontel splendors The modist stars do
MT shine tonight. Filmy clouds veil their
faces and only the binding glare OF this IL
Elimination and of rockets and roman CAN
Alas dazzle the vast multitude and gid the
glories of the capitol. The effect of the
scene is infinitely heightened by matchless
music made by the Marine band and by
.boutings of the mighty multitude attracted
BY the explosions of artillery, through the
afternoon and evening. Pennsylvania av-
anne is crowded everywhere between the
bindings that hedge it in, and whatever may
he said to the contrary this first Republican
demonstration in Washington of the strength
Of Garfield was illustrative of facts stated in
former letters. The original, unoought
impulses of the masses Of
the people incline them to
adhere to the impuisive, generous soldier, but
i remains to be seen how far these multi
tudes NAV be controlled by force exerted by
officers Of the treasury and the banks See
the splendid pageant moving along the grand
est thoroughfore of this most beautiful city
The explosions of cannon, the impressive
music, the shoutngs of vast multitudes like
the roaring of the sea, and offices and money
organize facts that organize victory. The
danger lies in those silent, steady, resistless
influences which money wields, and offices
and banks employ in every village, city and
hamlet, and at almost every tireside IN
America.
THE CHANCES.
If Indiana goes against us in the ap-
preaching October local elections Indiana
will probably vote against us in November.
Then the election of Hancock depends upon
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
You will observe that we must tight. Every
known appliance and every agen y to which
marty leaders resort must be welded or the
Democratic party will be no more. Han.
cocks defeat would be the death-knell of the
party that sustains him. II it cannot
achieve victory with such leader and with
such q catalogue of crimes ascribed to his
enemies, any future effort to eject those who
use the government itself and all its re-
sources to perpetuate their tenure Of supreme
authority will be idle and unavailing.
THE FIGURES.
The south will give Hancock 1873 votes.
Hemust have AZ more il he would win. New
Jersey casts nine votes, three less than enough
to make him president. Connecticut, Eng
Hsh leading the Democracy in that state as
candidate for the office of governor, will now
probably elect him. Connecticut casts six
votes in the presidential election. If these
six be added to the vote of New York. Han
cock will still lack six votes of an election if
New jersey votes for Garfield. 1t is thus
palpable that if Indiana be lost in October
we must carry New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut in order to,schieve victory. @..Of
course, the loss of New York would be nee
essarily fatal These are plain, palpable
facts. Nobody questions them. The presii-
Dental contest rests in four states. Practl-
cally, we of the south have little to do with
it.
THE LOCAL CHANCES.
1t is commonly believed that our
chances are better in New Jersey
than in Connecticut. The soldier vote
of New jersey, consolidated by Mcclellan
and Senator Randolph, will be cast as an unit
for Hancock, and these are local questions
disturbing the course of events said to be
promotive of Democratic success. In Con
necticut the contest turns solely upon federal
issues. and however boastful the newspaper
and politicians, the result is deemed doubt
full. The wealth of Connecticut favors Gar
field, and Hartford is said, bya correspond
r.l. Ill En- ha noypd will
gold drawn by insurance agencies from tn
south and west What wealth can accom-
plish in presidential election has been show
in Louisiana and Florida and its forces r
deemed resistless even in New England
WHERE GARFlELD's WEAKNESS LIES.
This very danger and this very potency o
gold and this seeming impossibility Of eject
Inc the party in power constitutes its weak
ness as we'll as its strength. 1t involves th'
only great and living and real issue in th'
contest. AS Grant was beaten at Chicago by
the honest patriotism Of his own party be
cause this party dreaded the third term, ever
80 do the honest people of the United State
dread this proposed perpetuity in ofic,
demanded By more thar than /, ,,a on
The people, even they are pleased that tn
country has perfect currency, dread the su
preme potency of twenty-five hundred ma
I iional banks. Yet they would show thes
consolidated dungeon institutions, that In
people and not the banks are still the coun
try's masters. A patented nobility, crowne
with honors and riches through twenty year
ofunpsralleled extravaganza in offices, an
honors and money, must be deposed or tn
people enslaved. Our whole system OF pur
republican government must undergo, sim
ply because of this unbroken retention
power by the Republican party, sure an
ruinous transformation. How rapidly pow
er glides from the many into the hands G
the few, is seen in the startling fact that
convention supposed to represent one hs
of the people Of the United States, as homes
and patriotic as the other half, absolutel
dominates candidate for the presidency VIII
would have soldiers at the polls and declal
that he union made the states, and not th
states the union. The danger is in the sui
stitution of consolidated empire, created
the interest of an aristocracy of life.lon
| place.holders, for the republic of oil
l fathers.
THE FACTS DEMONSTRATED
BY that mighty procession whose shoutir.
almost inaudible are now dying away in Ii
1 distance are not the facts that Carrie
I would have illustrated in promotion of h
triumph. The constituent elements Of th
mighty multitude are placeholders. The
enthusiasm is paid for. They are wild wi
excitement, but 1t is not the excitement tn
arinoatas ~ a ~, a eas of orr coi1ntrypor IT, n