Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-08-24
EASTERN NEWS.
GREAT Republican Deinons'rnt'on.
.ssoorArEp PRESS DISPATCHES.

Tooau to his nOue, was ouo VI efeat
Esgnitade. The Republican torch bear
- nroauizations Of the city made their
-. a1pearance in this campaign, and
- aggregate marchers numbered about
t 80 In addition to the local orgaRiza-
800 uniformed bodies were present
no. neiohborinQ cities. Gen. Logan
to-; rad from Pullman on special
sa.i. landing at the Twenty -Secoud
us sst depot at 8 O'Clock. The advent
a.bs train was announced by the fring
os-t;IIery and a brilliant display of
ee.ls.arks. A mounted escort was 10
na;,;ng. and the distinguished party
ssv;no entered carriages. the cavalcade
- ia line of march northward on
S:.h;gan boulevard TO Lake Park, where
100 had been erected for the speak
=. ~ ths evening, and it was 1890
';J,ck before the last OF the marching
0..,,s had reached the point Of rendez
- and General Logan was escorted
.o ,hs sneaker's stand. The crowd thsn
~ ,hs mark had swelled to about 5000.
a. he stand were Governor Oglesby,
~ ~. HamiItou, Hon. Joseph Medill,
~. Cnas. b. Farweli, WIN. Penn Nix.
snd An array of Woe Presidents te,
~ nnmber OF fully 200. Gen. Logan
sss received with cheering, and spoke
s follow:
uisno,s IL am somewhat travelworn
- my circui.ous route from the cher
800 capital % our Nation 70 my ma
.,ss state and my beloved home. Ii
..s on this, my native soil. that my
serish uride was encouraged up TO the
~ nj
hays. or can serve, my constituency
fairly and we'll IN the advancement OF
sheir Interests, my fondest aspiration
and hopes will have ripened into a
sbsrished reality. Ny fellow citizens
md friends, my heart beats in har.
mony With yours in all that pertains TO
EAR common humanity and our CON-
nam oitizenship. made a vow when
Iers, entered public life to devote all
nv enerRies to our whole people, and to
Iook for my reward in the eonscien
tiocsness that had kept the faith.
shaIl ever remember this great evidence
Al respect with heart OVERLOOKING
win gratitude.
Irsturn to you, my friends and fellow
citizens, thanks for this grand demon
stratiop. and as il means much more
thau 10 be merely accepted as personal
10 myself, but az TO the great principles
which / have been chosen, in connection
vith one OF our greatest and most brill.
iant American statesman, Ia part 70
represent. 1 therefore deem it proper
At this time to examine some of the
ossstions that divide in two the states
man of this country. The Dem ocrasio
psrty controlled this country with only
few intervals from 1887 to 1861, and
daring these twenty four years there
vas only one important measure enact
ID In accord with its faancial policy
nov remaining upon the statute books,
namely. the independents treasury sys-
ten. Its financial policies in all other
respects have failed and have bten
abandoned by the country. The doc
tFine of State sovereignty by which ths
nation was to be subordinatsd to indi-
yidual States is nov repudiated by the
people. Under this doctrine the south
ern half Of the Democracy entered into
gigantic rebellion against the govern
ment. While the majority of the Dem
ocrsts Of the North were loyal to the
government great number of their
organisations sympathized with the
Sooth. In 1860, when tho Democrats
Int control Of the government, they
left II financially wrecked, the people
discouraged and the country almost in
ruins. Their financial ideas aud tariff
policy had brought the nation to its
lowest level without credit and almost
without hope for the future. II we
may judge them by their records mp to
that time, there IL no ground for belief
that they could now 80 manage the af
fairs Of the Republic AZ to meet the
present demand of the people.
Tue speaker then went on to declare
that the Democratic party had resisted
every advance ia finance and every
measure touching the sources of hu.
manity. IL opposed the emanoip ,tiou
OF the slaves and the homestead laws !;
u had left the doctrine of voluntary
expatriation in such shape that citi
Eens Of foreign birth were seized and
forced into the armies of foreign gov
ernments until Republican Congress-
gave them the same protection which
10 Afforded to native born citizens
10 the reforms of the civil serrice In
siituted by the Republican party,
opposition has been shown by q great
portion of the Democracy. I'VE find
their candidate for Vice President a
Gentleman from whom the people ough,
to have expected better. things, said the
speaker. Declaring in q speech m ,ds
by him on July 18th 1884. and since his
nomination that the only remedy for
dishonesty of administration In the
government IN to turn out the 10000
Republican office holders and to supply
their places, suppose he means, with
honest Democrats. Where Union
soldiers are holding Office l suppose he
would replace them with Confederate
Democratic soldiers; whore civilian
Republicans are holding Office | sup
pose be would supplant them with civil
Ian Democrats in order that the gov
srnment may be honestly administered.
This declaration from one Of the nom-
ineee shows what that party means by
civil service reform.
are found In all associations in life. and
Declared that. while he would not charge
me Democratic party with being dis
honest as a whole, he did not think II
vonld profit Gov. Hendricks TO chai-
ienge comparison Of administrations rs
tne Republican and the Democratic
party. de then quoted statistics show
ing the lssses in the collection of public
money under Republican and Demo
cratic administrations, and adverted to
we conduct Of Floyd, Thompson, Cobb
ana others, whom he claimed had de-
picsed the treasury, arsenals and Indian
uost funds at the outbreak of the late
var. Gen. Logan then proceeded TO
aiscuss the financial policy established
me Republican party, under which
ae stained that the evils heretofore ex
tefaensed under the Democratic system
asd disappeared. The perpetustioa of
system should be left in the hands of
~ friends rather than committed to its
snemies In q period of business depres
eon. de declared that the Democratic
rfsy was always ready to reckiesslv
enc hold OF almost any quick system
Ut we payment OF the public debt and
us me temporary relief of the country.
aIhou2h Its adoption could only work
psImanens disaster. Speaking Of the
zsir. he said the history OF
@e uemocratic party shows that On the
eolect Of the tariff its coming into
over would be full Of suggestions of
sAnRer. The theory of the Democratic
Essy, that the market price Of the pro-
saots Of this country should be gov
snsu oy cost. like the products in other
soantfies, would, il allowed to be DON.
animated, bring the manufacturing Of
~ country to an end. He then review