The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-09-18
The only way in which victim can be
properly treated is by putting himself in
proper care in such way that he cannot
leave until good result is obtained"
Why n Change Is Needed.
In the course of his speech at Munich,
Ind, Saturday, Ex-Governor Hendricks

In the course or his speecn aC MUNICH,
Ind, Saturday, Ex-Governor Hendricks
said
"It is now twenty-five years that the
Republican party have controlled the
administrative and executive affairs Of
the country, and it is of the first impor'
tance that you and should consider the
question whether that is not as long as
one set of men ought to continue in abb
solute control. In other words, the
question is before us, ought there not to
be change? That is the first question
that strikes your attention and mine.
How much has transpired since the
Republican party came into power? And
do not choose to include in that period
of the war. ask your attention only
for the last nineteen years, during which
that party has controlled the administra.
tive and executive affairs of the country.
I could not find figures or words to express
to you the enormous sums of money that
have been collected and the enormous
sums of money that have been paid out.
will refer by way of illustration only to
one year, the last year. as reported IT. BY
the Secretary of the Treasury, The
collections and expenditures amounted
to 1868, 100000. The history of those
transactions is found in many thousand
volumes, and they were recorded by many
thousands of men-men belonging to
one party only. No Democrats have
been allowed to participate in any of the
affairs of the country. I speak in sub
stance; an occasional Democrat may
have been allowed an Office, but for the
great purposes Of administrative affairs
of the Government Democrats have been
rigidly excluded, and to you men the
question is presented now: Ought there
not to be change? Who knows what is
wrong in the booksY Shall they be
opened? Shall there be an opportunity
for us to know what has been wrong in
the records of the country, so that we
may know whether it is we'll or i'll with
the country. May 1 ask your attention
to another illustration of this subject? l
do not claim that the one political party,
in the first place, in its organization, is
probably any more honest than the other.
IF we had no political parties in this
country and were going to establish two
political parties, and were to run line
through this crowd, and the men on that
side were to be of one party and the men
on this side of the other party, the
chances are there would be just as many
honest men on one side as on the other,
and as many rogues on one side, perhaps,
as on the other.
"But take another step in this thought.
Suppose this party comes into power and
it becomes established that it is going TO
retain its power for twenty years, to have
the control of the Offices, the control of
the money and of the country, don't you
see that all the rogues on this side would
gradually come over and join the strong
side? Isn't that human nature7 And
more than that, don't you know that as
they came over they would gradually
push the honest men on this side back
and back until they would take the con.
troll of the dominant party themselves !
To very large extent that would prove
to be the human nature of the case.
"I have one step further to 90 in this
argument. I am trying to establish the
proposition that there ought now to be
change. do not know why the RePub'
licans for the last nineteen years have
said to every Democrat, you shall have
no position in the control of the affairs
of government They have seen tit to
occupy that position-a cruel, proscrlp.
tive policy, excluding every man that
did not agree with them. And what DO
you think of it, my countrymen? Shall
it be continued any longer? To what
condition have we come? | refer now
to the statement made by MIR. CalkIns,
the Republican candidate for Governor,
in his speech at Richmond week ago.
He said we now have $4O0,OO0,000 IN
the Treasury. Do you know how he
came to say that? He said that by way
of braggadocio, by way of a taunt to
Democrats. Hesaid that the Republican
party when it came into power found an
empty Treasury, and now it has S4OO,
OOOOtO in the Treasury. Do you want
to hear me express my opinion of what
is the fortunate condition of the coun.
try? Well, it is not in having Trea-
sury ove:howing; it is not in collecting
from the people untold millions of money
that it may be hid away in the vaults of
the Treasury.
"What right has the Government to
100000 of the peoples money that
it has no occasion to use in the admins.
tration of United States affairs? What
would be the effect if taxes were reduced
so that the money would come back into
your pockets and into the channels OF
trade? Don't you know that it would
stimulate enterprise 2"