Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-24

tlceS SCfOnG ana bradley, ana the reSump-
tion of specie payment postponed for years.
We charge them with sustaining carpet
bag government that in seven years added
to the Indebtedness of nine impoverished
states the enormous sum of $40, ,O0O. 600,
squandered among c0rruptionists.
We charge them with fastening on q
proud commonwealth an ignorant herd of
manumittcd slaves, whose mockery Of adj
ministration would have provoked laugh
ter, had not their expressions outraged civ
ilization.
The sanctity of legislative bodies has
been invaded by armed soldiery, and lib
erty stabbed at the heart by the perpetra-
tion of that which the republic of Rome
and the monarchy of Britain by express
statutes prohibited, namely, the presence
of troops at the election polls. We charge
them with sustaining with the aid of the
army usurpers in the executive chairs of
Southern states while the people were
groaning under the weight Of monstrous
taxation. We charge them with engen-
dering riots in different parts of the South
in which blood has been shed and lives
lost, and then falsely spreading the calum-
MES through the North to influence politi-
cal campaigns. We arraign the Republi-
can party as guilty of the blackest crime
ever committed against free government
high treasOn-.nOt courageous and defiant
like the rebellion, but craven and secret,
encompassing the life of the republic, lay
ing polluted hands upon the ark of the
covenant, high treason by bribery, treason
and forgery, that deprived the people Of
the presidency, thrust their elected chief
into retirement, and placed in the chair of
Washington a candidate defeated in the
electoral college, and by majority of
nearly three hundred thousand voters.
We arraign tho Republican party as
even now striving to tear open tho healed
wounds of war, and array one section
against another. That in all their plans
and purposes, their aim is to perpetuate
their power, that they may hide their
crimes, gloat in plunder and drag the gov
ernment towards Capitalization, imperial
ism and despOtism.
The Democratic party cherishing beyond
all price the Union, abhOrring the doctrine
of secession, undaunted by defeats, puri-
fed by deprivation of patronage, taught
by the lessons Of the past never to desert
principle for expediency, strengthened by
the return of the Southern states, by the
accession of unnumbered thousands, as
the conservative power in American poll
tics, and by the flower Of the young men
as the party ofthe people, has raised aloft
the banner of tie constitution, adhering to
every letter of tho sacred character, from
the ''We'' in the preamble, to the last
word in the last amendment. Yielding
loving allegiance to the general govern
msnt, she is the determined foe of central
ization, and believes that the very core Of
the constitution is the clause "All powers
not delegated to the United States by the
constitution, nor prohibited to the states,
are reserved to the states and to the pcO-
ple."
The mission of the Democracy is to
guard the rights Of the people at their
cials accountable to the locality, and not
to a president throned in the White House.
She cries out for retrenchment and reform
everywhere. She will strive to fill the high
places with men of untarnished honor, and
gifted with wisdom to direct mighty EN-
pirc on her pathway through the ccntu-
ries. Her organization, limited to no Sec
tional line, premeates to every county in
the entire republic. She does not live on
the polluted breath Of patronage, but in
llales the pure air Of patriotism. Her
darling desire will be to draw closer and
closer fraternal ties, that we and our chill
drcn and our children's children may en-
joy the priceless boon Of constitutional
liberty.
These are the issues on which the battle
will be waoed from now until November.
On these issues We will appeal for their
suffrages to the enlightened patriotism Of
the American people.
Political parties, not sectional but M
tiOnal in their organization, are necessary
to the vitality of government, but no party
can long exist, or deserves to exist, that
has not for it's basis integrity, devotion to
the constitution, love for the entire land,
and for its loftiest aim the welfare of the
people, the equality of the states, and the
honor, glory and perpeiuity Of the repub-
lie.
Other Speeches.
Letters of regret were received from
General Hancock, Samuel J. Tilden, CEas.
Francis Adams, Gen. Mcclellan, H. NJ.
Plaisted, of Maine, and many others. A
large crowd was assembled at Irving hall,
where John McKeen presided. Speeches
were made there by Waddcll, of North
Carolina Beebe, OF New York, and Gen.
Mcmahon. At tho Seventh street meet
ing Augustus Schell presided. Among the
speakers were Ex-Governor Carroll, Scna
tors Morgan and Herman, Ignatius G.
Grubb, Ex-Governor Bedle and others.
Senator Wallace was introduced but ex-
cused himself from speaking. Among the
speakers were Wade Hampton, of South
Carolina. and S. J. Randall, of Pennsylva-
MIA. Addresses were made from stands
on Fourteenth, Fifteen and Sixteenth
streets and at the entrance to Tammany
hall. The latter building was jammed and
the streets through which the almost end
less procession moved were alive with peO-
pie.
The torchlight parade was - tremendous
success. There were fully fifty thousand
men in line, most of them uniformed.
There were numerous devices and con-
trivances drawn by the various ward Orga-
nizations, such as miniature printing
Office, = blacksmith shop, an ancient fire
engine, an old fashioned and clipper-built
ship. There was squad of one hundred
colored men in line. Companies of stone
cutters, masOns, butchers, carpenters and
other men of trades appeared in the pro-
ccssion attired in their working uniforms.
The line did not cease moving until after
o'clock.
GEN. DANIEL E. SICKLEs
Speaks for Hancock From Clutches.
A Republican Soldier WHO Lost a Leg ut
Gettysburg.
One division of the great Democratic
parade in New York last evening halted