New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-21

| ing their own debts are Democratic States. with
electoral votes ana VINO viii tell me that
IL ia certain they will be more onseienous VIII reSu
TO The National debt than they showed themselves
with regard 30 their ownf Have we right IN expeSt
sound financial policy While there are many so9u
sound money In the Democratic party - is equay
well known that The Democratic party has irfessuoy
sttraeed to ~ fold very argem9or s Oh i ~ boe n
deed, IN IL National platforms OF ale uechre1 toI
Scsp deaned az nS ZANE time the repeal Of
| the resumption law. ask what would have become on
But While thus speaking OF sound money in their
financial National platforms is il not equally true IN
large number o. the states the most prominent inni-
onists put forward for the highest honors followed
by the masses OF Their party 80 General EWING vi ID
drrs, Indiana wnile in Maine Democrats and Green
| the Western ana most of the Southern states th9
Democrats almost tnt unsound hnancal
was opposed in Congress by Democratic Congressman
why. when General Hancock nominated. the attrac-
oi for Tie Greenbackers seemed 10 be so strong that
The venerable Peter Cooper and General sam carey OF
ONO were the first to pay TO linn their devotion
Now anybody fore.ell what viii happen in these
respects ~ case OF Democratic victory In faot we
do not know whether the advocates OF tue pubic Ian
or the rspud onsts, whether the hardmoney men na
the nnstonists, the strongest element ~ thc
Democratic party throughout the country and which OF
those elemeats Will control its policy. appeal 10 YOU
is dark and that m yotns the Democratic ticket Won
will take gambling chance. and that chance being
tne country. 20 take that gambling chance under such
clTcuals anecsi
|
But thing is cerain--hat the Democratic party
in its fashion, viii reform the civil That 1t will
certainly do 1T will do II according to an old Demo
cratic principle, to the victOrs belong The spOils
That principle of Democratic origin and the Demo
cratic party adhered with fidelity worthy OF
the best Other parties we're infected by H. Dut
the Democratic party may claim the glory or its pa
terDy. and Of lis answering advocacy. IL may
abandon any other principle, but not that II there
Democrat, either at the head Of the organl-
the ranks who has proved recreant To that
great doctrine, and made proclamation OF his opposition
10 IL, do know his name. 1t is so closely inter
with the traditions OF that party that doubt
very much whether it could be abandoned without de-
s;royng the parys existence. Now substitute for this
present condition. Of the pubic service) the Demo
cratic reform, making clean sweep according TO the
old spOs stem, and what will you hayeG Hundreds
of thousands OF politicians. great and small, but all
hungry rushing for seventy eighty thousands places,
backed and pressed by Democratic Congressman
ami Democratic committee in the land. THIS IN
peiuOus rush must be satisfied rapidly AS possible,
for they to make the best Of Their time; and In
this case as wei as Others time Us money III is useless
TO disguise 1t the masses OF OnceseeRers sarVediOf
twenty years, VIII not be turned back long there
is mouthfu the table. scve3ty or eighty thousand
officers selected at random from that multitude OF raven
applicants. will be put into places held now mostly
taken at radon for L is impossible TO m So large
number OF places in so short time as the furious de
| mand will permit Ia any other way. Need tell any
sensible man what the Effect upon tue conduct OF the
public VIII De- ~ VIII De 1ec az ,6
rnent at one cIi blow 1t will be the sudden sub.u-
the substitution eager desire make pub
lie affairs much can be made III the shortest
stole time, for Official training, experience and OF
responsibility 1t VIII be removal, Tor some time at
least Of those carefully devised gnarss w9en are now
word, be the sudden distribution OF 50 many thousand
places OF trust, responsibility and power now well ed,
in the OF the word spells among the hosts
of the victorious party.
| THK REPUBLICAN PARTY.
No prudent cizen fail TO be repealed By such pros
meets equally great greater dangers threaten
from the other side Let look at that other side
| now l am certainly not one OF those who would
that the Republican party has been without fault
We have had Republican advocates OF the payment OF
public debt in gTeenbacks; have had Republican
infationis;s and the discussions inside OF the Repub-
lican party for time heated ard bitter Thus
for a season the party seemed TO stumbs along with
uncertain gait but IL has always had an unerrng IN
stnc which in the end made it turn RICH; side up and
then /. kept right side up When IN 1863 the Republi
can majority Congress declared for the payment
the public debt principal and interest in com, there
was the end and forever, of the reputation
| ment. open and disguised. i'll the Republican party.
| When III 1875 the Republican majority in Congress
passed the Resumption act, there the end once and
| me Republican parry. Those who remained rcpudia-
uonists at-neney men did not lemain Republicans
&c leaders Of The party. They tried luck
time inside OF 1t; then they left and became
INDEPENDENT GToenoackers, and finally most OF them
landed IN the Democratic party "a the Democratic
GreenbacR, who for a time becaMe Independents
|
lowers are still intermediate state but will no
| doubt finally mateTialize as sound Democrats
while the Democratic party has been attracting
such clements The RepuDlca.parylhas been ethercon
vertinetbem sound principles ejccting them until
| they almost wholly disappeared among It's component
parts. Tins II has become emphaucany the protector
of the national iaiih ana the party sound money I'm
this way the Republican party, steadily progressing in
enlightened perception OF the principles Of sound
finance, las become the feable sound money party Of
country, u which. parties now the solution Of
financial problems can alone be safely trusted And
how magntcentY DO the effects or the results already
achieved appear III the revival OF our business prosper
lily. II may b. sad that our financial policy has not
wholly originated tha prosperity ITue bnl II has most
powerfully aided II by giving us that confidence which
is impossible without stable money values aud sound
currency system. And what prudent man would now
these great results by turning oyer our financial
tue refuge of all destructive elements threatening
uncertainty ana confusi0nt
GENERAL GARFIELD's RECORD.
Indeed not only in the traditions ard good sense of the
Republican party DO you the security there Is
at present for the ancy OF our National faith well
successful management OF the financial policy you find
equal security in the known opinions and principles of
its candidate, James A. Garfield His convictions on
these subjects found their first best procln
nation in the platform of his party or in his letter of
acceptance His record OF nearly twenty OF Con
gressional is blank the great questions
of the times Ike that OF his opponent There is not
phase of the question of National Obligations; there
is point OF financial policy, from the first day that
the subj considered in Congress he became
member OF thc body to the present hour that he has
GOT discussed with an ability and strength, lucidiy OF
argument amplitude of knowledge and frrnness Of CON
vction placing him in the first rank OF tie defenders of
SOUND principles. Ii you want to study the why
the public faith should he invioaby maintained. why
an irredeemablc paper is and ways has BEEN
curse all the economic interests Of this and all other
countries, why confidence can he restored and main
tanned why business obtain healthy development
why foreign commerce be most proftaby conducted
only with money system OF stable ana intrinsic value.
you VIII nd in the speeches OF James 4. Garfield upon
this subject The most instructive and convincing mrOr
nation YOu Will find there opinions not suddenly made
up order TO suit opportunity and necessities OF
candidate in election but the convictions OF life
time. carefully matured by conscientious research