The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-08-20

| HBusS o1 man as Bucn 3nN9 power 4uo
paternal government. ~ wis tAeiesue
the people Of EastsfA ns plvaaia -nss
in 1900 here in this ,locaIE and they
turned from power those Mko followed
and believed ii the t. Hts of MI.
HamiIton md Mr.. AasnSs. ID pIsced Id
| power those who fOll0wu' - aibclievod
in the doctrines Of Mr.. Irsou. [Ap-
plause. With Us the ip1isj1nal il the
unit; we govern by ind 1aaiity. An
| rights belong to the fndfts ]. save those
which are vital to the csmdact of the
government, and whei tisnnnE pass from
the individual the sxtsnt Qf she grant il
to be measured with iealopy, and its
abuse curbed whenevsr il occurA We
want NO strong govefnment We want /
governunent OF the psspls, ~ sAe people
and for the PeoplA 4Appsaaaf oar
candidate voices this whap henye: This
Union, comprising . gsnsral government
with general powers, md E2te govern
ments with State powe1 ~ psrp poees
local TO the States, Is polity the fouuda-
tiOns of which were laid In the profound
est wisdom. This is the Union which our
fathers made, and which has been so re-
spected abroad and 80 benehcent at
home" Applause.
TENDENCY OF THEIR SYSTEM.
General Garfield and his party would
centraliSe the government. The tendency
of their system is to ignore the individual
as unit and to govern the people from
the top. Federal election laws are but
one of the evidences of this tendency
They apply now to cities alone; but con-
cede the power and it grows upon what
it grasps and ultimately finds full play in
the control of elections IN the rural dis
trlcts. In q republic all men are equal
in centralized despotism they are also
all equal-in the former because they are
everything; in the latter because they
are nothing" We want neither sectional
hate, disunion nor paternal government
Applause and cheering.1
Let rs trace the record Of the candi-
date Of the Republican party. He it is
who has solemnly asserted that the man
who " attempts to get up a political ex-
citement in this country on the old sec
tional issues will find himself without
party and without support !" yet he is
the man who is now representing himself
to the people as the champion Of section
alism, Of hate and disunion. Applause
In this he is about to verify his own pre-
diction, and find himself without party
and without support He has eulogized
British free-trade policy, and voted for
high duties In one session and has ad-
vocated protection and voted for free
trade in another. In 1885 he spoke
against reducing the duty on tea and
coffee and in 1872 he voted against plac-
ing then on the free list. In 1875 he re-
piled to Mr.. Stephens by saying: against
the abstract doctrine of the free trade as
such very little can be said, but it never
can be applied to values except in time
of peace" Yet to-day he is paraded as
the advocate of protection, while in 1870
be voted to rednce the dnty on pig iron
from 90 to 81 per ton; and in 1872 he
voted for the Bill to reduce the duties
on wool, iron and steel ten per centum.
MORE OF GARF1E1D's RECORD.
In 1880, as a member of the committee
of ways and means, he voted against the
bill reducing the duties on salt, printing
paper and wood pulp. He has acknowl-
edged in emphatic terms in his place in
the Federal House the gross partiality
and injustice of the Federal election laws,
and amid the derisive laughter of his as
sociates has voted against his own propo-
sition to amend them in the interest of
justice and fair play. He has vigorously
and uniformly declared against extrava-
gance and waste in the bills ior internal
improvements for rivers and larbors, and
has uniformly voted for the laws to in
uah hmm
for general amnesty, but when the party
lash was applied he voted against it. Ap-
plause. With the broadest theoretical
views of union, peace and harmony in
his public utterances, his pnctical appli-
cation of his own dOctrinss has been to
perpetuate sectionaism and disunion. He
voted in Congress against the bill for the
Electoral Commission, bGanse it author
lied that commission to 90 behind the re-
turns of State, and as one of the COM
missioneFs he voted and decided that the
law gave NO snch power in the cases of
Louisiana and Florida, while it did in the
case of Oregon. He earnestly denounced
the abuses Of the civil afvice, declaring
that Congressmen had become the dis
tributors and brokers Ofpublic patronage,
while In his letter Of acceptance he gives
| his unqualified assent a the continuation
of the abuses he beforeassailed. He has
assumed to be the hiend Of legislation
for preventing discFininstion in freight
charges and has giya like assurances to.
Its enemies His perpnal record in mat
ters that are now 90 mblic shall not at
tempt to deal with. They are before the
| public, and they must Judge him by the
record in regard thepte. We present
candidate bern On your soil (applause
and cheering) "A candidate TO whose sup
port every feeling Of Dcai and State pride
prompts as to rally. Renewed cheering
A Union General, no Mas found 1t the
supreme crisis Of ths m<ion's peril equal
| to the occasion, whorepelled the advanc-
| ing foe from his nAive State and saved
/ both It and the r0ubIics One with
stainless personal tcord, . magnificent
military record, i he candidate Of the
Democracy in this isue. Applanse He
| Is the Representative of unionism against
sectionaiism -of thl rights Of the people
against those Of poJer and centralizAtion.
Mr.. Wallace thrW al his fiery forces
into his concluding Fords the quotation
from Tennyson: sss sas
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Like oas q ths sisa3 onss l1ng goae byi
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| The cheering andDthsr demoDstrasions
Of approval that BEL % fteqnsntly inter