Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-26
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What is the Democratic party fighting
for? 1t is fighting to bury forever he
bloody shirt, to restore the union in fact as
in name, to re-establish solid peace, to re-
move the outlawry of thirteen States, and
to bring into the service all the material
elements of the nations resources. The
country must be reunited. 1t is not possible
| in peace to keep alive the memories of war.
It is not possible for the States to exist to-
gether with one-third of them ostracised,
hated, suspected and oppressed.
The pending campaign is to determine
whether the hideous spectre of fraud shall
sit in the seat of Washington, whether bay
onets shall convert popular elections into q
farce, whether another Louis Napoleon shall
dare on this continent in the name of the
people to trample down civil liberty, whether
national fraud shall not only be condoned,
but approved and perpetuated, whether mo-
nopolists shall own the country and the
whole landed estate pass in
to the hands of favored few,
whether the system of government
espionage into private business shall con-
tinue, whether eighty thousand Office holders
shall feed at the public crib for life and fat
ten by illegal fees aud oppressive exactions
upon the taxes of the people, whether the
statute of liberty shall be taken down from
the national capitol and the golden calf
erected thereon instead.
The Democratic party is fighting in Maine
for free ballot and against special legisla-
ton and the revival of puritan
exclusiveness. it is fighting in
Louisiana for the rights of local govern
ment and against returning board frauds, it
is fighting along New England's ocean
washed coast for national marine that has
disappeared from the seas. it is fighting in
the South for equal rights and restored
constitution and for the protection of the
laws. it is fighting in the North to assert the
right of the majority to rule
and for a civil service cleansed
of custom house robbers and of
whisky thieves, it is fighting in the West
in favor of the farm and the farmer, of labor
and of the laborer, to remove the burdens
on international commerce and to save to
the producer the fruits of his toll.
Is it asked what are the issues of the
Presidential campaign? They loom up from
the history of twenty years Of misrule, of
open disgrace and secret robberies, of i'm
-oo.hod ofenos o,,d rOI,bad rolJia,a of e&o;nod
Indians and savage massacres. The battle
is waged to assert End establish the principles
of constitutional government as to the rights
of local government, as to the sacredness of
ballot, as to the tariff, free trade and sail
ors' rights, as to the public lands and i'm
provements, as to finance. It is already
charged that General Hancock's or inions on
finance are unknown. It is not 80. 1t is
enough that he is a Democrat. The Demo-
cratic party is in favor of the money of the
constitution. The money of the constitu-
ton means sound currency, whether gold,
or silver, or paper, or all, dollar for dollar.
That's the Democratic doctrine, and has
been from the foundation of the govern
ment to Andrew jackson, and ever since.
But We want the same money for the rich
and poor alike, and mean to have it, and we
want permanent financial system
guarded by laws prohibiting the
Secretary of the Treasury from specializing
in Wall street, and preventing the use of the
public funds for political purposes.
Talk about sound finances. Who invent
ed the paper legal tender? Was it Demo-
cratic Congress that invented or Demo
cratic supreme court that declared paper to
be legal tender? This is the offspring of
Republican money making. They cheap
ened money to get it, and after they had
gotten it, made it dear, to keep it from the
people. That's unadulterated Republican
fnanciering.
The Democratic party and its candidates
are sound on all constitutional and political
questions tending to the prosperity and well
fare of the American people. 1t is the party
of the people, and of free and honest gov
eminent. The mission of Republicanism is
ended, the doom of the party of plumber is
fixed, its burial lot had as we'll be bought
and its coffin ordered. The majority of the
people are about to assume the reins of gov
eminent, and the place that knew the pro-
scriptive bloody shirt yelling minority, will
soon know it no more forever.