Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-09-08
POLITICAL POINTS.

COL. w. T. REND. a prominent busl-
ness man of Chicago, representative
Irishman, and life long Democrat, has
announced his purpose to vote for Gar
field and Arthur and act with the Re-
publican party, because he considers the
fundamental principles of that party
true, and that it is the party of freedom
and progress. And SO they come.
The court records of Indianapolis
show that English, Democratic cand-
date for vice president, is one of the most
successful foreclosers of mortgages that
the country has produced. The cases of
this kind are numbered by scores. His
nomination, therefore, we suppose must
be taken as an evidence that "the Demo
cratic party is the poor mans friend"
"THE civil should be superior to the
military power, and it is opposed to the
prevalence of this idea that military
thicftain should be selected for high
civil position" said the Democrats, and
then, to illustrate the harmony of Demo-
cratic preaching and practice, they NOM
mated major general Of the regular
army for president. Great are the "con-
stitutional doctrines and principles OF
the Democratic party!''
For years past the Democratic organs
the full strength of their vocabulary, the
"bloated bondholder;'' it is therefore en-
tirely in keeping with the practice of
the party that they should, this year,
nominate as their candidate for vice
president, one of that very class. When
Democracy has been especially denunci-
atory of particular persons or principles
it is time to begin to look for itsadoptinn
OF the same.
MURAT HALsrEAD, editor of the Gin
cinnati Commercial, an Independent in
politics, recently wrote letter upon the
campaign which concluded as follows:
will add that Gen. Garfield, if elected Presi-
dent, as believe he will be,-for I think the
Republicans will carry Maine in September and
Indiana in October, will 60 into the office an
ADLER and better equipped man for the place
than any one chosen since John Quincy Adams
This is the more important as coming
from one who is not partisan of Gar
field in the political sense.
SENATOR LOGAN, who has been speak
ing in Maine, says that there is no doubt
of q compile Republican victory in that
state; that the fusion fraud of last year
has driven many independent voters
into the Republican ranks; that
the Republicans are making an exceed
ceedingly active canvass with the most
encouraging results. There seems little
doubt that when the attempt was made
last fall by the Fusionists to count
out Republicans who were honestly
elected and count in their own candidates
they dealt a fatal wound to both the
Greenback and Democratic parties.
REPUBLICAN prospects in New York
continue to brighten. Further reports
from the interior counties are published
by the New York Times, all of which
represent the Republicans as united and
enthusiastic for the support of ftheir tick
ct. Garfield clubs are forming every
where, and the determination is to get
out every Republican vote. Not alone
is the work going forward i'll the country,
but in the metropolis effective work is
doing, and it is confidently predicted
that the Democratic majority there will
be materially decreased, and that the
Republicans will carry the state.
The Democratic leaders of Indiana
recently held u meeting for consultation
as to wa.ys ana means of conducting the
campaign. There was considerable dis
cussion as to the best method of spend
ing the campaign funds, when finally the
subject was settled by an emphatic declar~
alton by w. Fl. English, the Democratic
candidate for vice president, that ':the
time to spend money is on election day
Whether he holds this view because he
believes in buying votes outright, c'
because the opportunities for the legitl-
mate expenditure of money are then re-
duced to the minimum, and the demand
on his purse would thus be greatly re-
duced, is not known.
The Republicans are daily making
gains among working men. Many who
have heretofore steadily voted the Demn-
cratic ticket appear to be waking up 10
the fact, long ago established,
that the Republican party is
pre-eminently the party Of liberty
and equal rights-the party that
has done almost everything that has
been done for the elevation of labor.
At Republican meeting in South Bend,
Ind, on Saturday night, it is estimated
that there we're nearly 1000 torches in
! line, and 10 of these we're carried by
! Polanders who have heretofore voted the
Democratic ticket, but have nov renounc-
, ed Che Democratic faith of their own free
will and formed Garfield club.
The New York Herald, the sympathjes
of which are with the Democratic party,
admits that President Hayes admins
, tration has been very clean one; that
'tfew administrations have been 30 i'll
vulnerable on the score of corruption,
and that he has done much to correct
political abuses. This is emphaticallv
true, and it might be added, with equal
truth, that the administration has been
an able one Evarts' management OF
the state department has been very cred
table, while the treasury department
has had no ADLER head or better admins
:tration of it's affairs since its foundation,
and only two or three any where near Ms
able and satisfactory. The other de-
partments, though less prominent
from the circumstances of the times,
have been admirably managed. It is a
splendid tribute to the administration
that, though coming IN under the specl-
ally bitter hostility Of it's political oppo-
! AcHlS, IL AdS COAnpCAO>A V1ACAA AOokSCC t'h'
admission of its purity.
The northern Democratic journals are
not lavish Of type in their rejoicings
over the "great Democratic victory III
Alabama-in fact they are remarkably
quiet considering the magnitude of tho
triumph, Undoubtedly they sincerely
| wish that it had not been near 80 decisive
I.They do not hasten to lay before thei1
readers the "official returns in fact il
: is not certain that there will be any
official returns-for the north; the thing
I called by courtesy an election, was, it is
I now discovered, altogether too unani
nous. When precincts return Demo
cratic majority larger than their whole
population official figures are a littl
difficulty to get at, and not safe to han
die; when reached. Why does not som
enterprising reporter take advantage 0
one Of Gen. Hancock's reception days t.
! interview him upon the subject Of til
'"great victory" Of his party in Ala
j bama ?!:1He could be interrogated: t
whether he regards the result OF til