The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-25
EX-GOV. HENDRICKS.
Doing Yeoman Service in Behalf
Of Democracy.
The Next Vice-President Makes Notable
Speech at Muncie-A Terrific Ar
raignment of Republican Poll
eies and Methods.


estino address to an immense audience.
In the course of his speech he said:
1t is now twenty-five years that the Repub-
lcan party has controlled the administrative
and executive affairs of this country, and II is
of the flrst importance that you and should
consider the question whether that Is as long
as one set of men ought to Continue IN abSo-
lutte control. In other words, the question Is
before US: Ought not there to be a change!
That is the first question that strikes your at
teutiOn and mine. How much has transpIred
since the Republican party came into power
and 90 not choose TO include IN that perlod
the period of the war! | ask your attention
only for the last nineteen years during which
that party has controlled the administrative
and executive fairs of the country. ! could
not ind figures or words 10 express to you
the enormous sums of money thai have been
collected and the enormous sums OF money
that have been paid out. | Will refer 10y way
of Illustration only "a one year, the last year
a reported by the Secretary Of the treasury.
he collections ana expenditures amounted
TO $J6J, 0J,OUO. The history of those transac-
lions is found in many thousand volumes and
they were recorded by many thousand men
men belonging to one party only. No Demo
cratS have been allowed to participate in any
OF the affairs Of the country. Speak in sub
stance. An occas onal Democrat may nave been
allowed an once, but for the great purposes OF
administering the affairs of the Government
the Democrats have been exc uded, and to
you men the question is presented now.
Ought there not to be d change! Who Knows
what is wrong in the books! Shall tAey he
opened! Shall there be an opportunity for us
men TO know what has been wrong in the rec
Ords OF the country, so that we may know
whether il is well or i'll with the country May
ask your attention to another Illustration
on TINS subject: ! do not claim that one po-
litlca party III the first pace. in its GrgiIIHa-
tiCn is probably any more honest than the
other. If we had no political parties in the
country, and were going to establish two ;JO-
Htical parties, and were 10 run line through
this crowd, and the men on that side we're 10
DC # one party and the men on IN s side of
the other party, the chances are there would
be just as many honest men on Que side as
on the other and as many rogues on one side,
perhaps, as on the other. liut take another
step in This thought. suppose this party
comes into power and II becomes eSja5lShei
that 1t is going TO return To power iOr twenty
years, have the control OF the Offices, the con-
troi OF the money, and o. the country. iolt
You see that all The rogue; on his side would
gradually come over ana JON the strong tide:
lint that human nature: And mere lban
that-dOnt you know as They come over they
would gradually push honest men on tiSs side
back and hack until they would take control
OF the dominant party them elves: ToaVcry
large extent that would prove /, be tine hu-
man nature OF the case without discussing
the question whether the Republican party
has been guilty OF great fraud, for | leav"
that Il your own reflections, assume the
ground that when party has been in power
exclusive y, nor allowing the ether party to
participate in the alta r. OF the Government
Tor a long cfiod OF time, there Ought to toe Il
change thai he pcope may come TO hnoW
with some degree OF certainty how II Is with
TIE" affairs lCrieS of We Will have il this
fall Yes sir, you are going to have il this
fall" ! don't expect, gentlemen, that al the
men in off &c will be turned out. ] do not de-
sire that where a Republican, governed by his
cons .lentOuS convictions, has been III once
and has prov en- himself to he Il true and honest
man III the administration OF that Office, 90
not ask that he shall he turned out. But
asa that honest men shall be placed in Office
sufficiently numerous TO give the people of
this cOnntry information in regard To their
affairs.
/ have one step further to go in this arglI-
ment. / am trying 10 establish the PROPOSE
tiOn that there ought now to be change.
do not know why the Republicans for the last
nineteen years have said to every Democrat,
Won shall have no position in the control of
the affairs of the Government. They have
seen hit to occupy that position, a cruel, pro-
scriptiVe policy. excluding every man that
did not agree with them. ana what DO you
think Of It, my countrymenI Shall IL be con-
Tinued any longer! Cries of Mo- TO what
condition have we come! refer now TO the
statement made by Mr.. CalkinS, Republican
candidate tor Governor, in u speech at kich-
mOnd a few weeks ago. He said we now have
500 5000 ~ in the Treasury. DO you know
Low he came to say that! Re SAID that by
way of ragga1Ocio-by way OF Il taunt 10 the
Democrats. He said the Republican plrty
whom 1t came into power found an empty
Treasury, and now il has S4U,OO,OJO IN
the Treasury. Do you want to hear me
express my opinion of what Is forIu-
maze condition OF the country. Well. it
is not IN having a Treasury overlooking. 1t is
not iii the co lection from tbs people of UNI
told millions of money that II may be hid
away in the vaults OF the Treasury. At Wash
ington to-day they are digging new VautS
adding to the old aul,s As to find room for
putting away the peoples currency. 1t Is Il
matter of Joy. is il. that the Republicans have
now in the Treasury S+JO,OO0OOO: And that,
gentlemen, is h If of the paper currency of
the country, and more. The paper Gu rency
of the country is about SlOOUU.JUO and OF the
currency of the country Their is locked up in
Treasury $40J,0Jl.0O0. DO you desire that: If
so. vote for Mr.. Calkins, vote for the kepuI-
lIcan candidate for President, for they boast
FAo.aNfl Alnl
Your money. What right has the Government
TO S400t0,G0) OF the peoples money tnCt it
has no OCCASION to use in the administration
OF its affairs: What won hc the effect If the
taxes were reduced so that the money Won
come back into your pockets and into
the channels of trade! Don't you
prize? Don you know that it would give
employment to labo' erS. shall / stop now
and speak of the present condition of our
country! -Four years ago when, you Know,
il WAS tusher times, aud everything was well
with the eOpe. wheat was worth $50 ana
labor WAS well paid and a Republican orator
came To You and said: My Countrymeu.
won yOu let well enough alone! Are you
willing 10 turn Z rty out that has brought
You such prosperity and put Il party in that
you do not know what will be the conse-
-que1ceF And TO that appeal the people lis
tened. How is it now? Are men employed?
Are furnaces throwing out fire and smoke
that Indicate successful enterprise and in luS-
try: | have here from an lndlanapO is pap er
OF yesterday evening, perhaps the best edited
pager of the Republican party in that city.
tine Nctrs,.a statement of the amount of fail
urcS that have recently taken place IN the
country. IL is n dispatch from New York,
that the business failures throughout the
country the last seven days as reported TO r.
q. Dun & Co.-and they are great authorities
on thai subject-number for the United States
l99, for Canada II, total 2l3 as against lg6 last
week, showing al increase of seventeen fail
ures tins week over last week. In other
words, il is per cent. more for the week that
ended yesterday than for the week before
hat inc in ail nf = a
how can it be otherwise when there is this
enormous portion OF the peoples currency
locked up in the vaults of the Treasury!
Send that money into the channels of trade
and wheat won't sell at a begging market for
o. cents. - cents and IS cents "A bushel. 1t is
so cents bushel less to-day than when you
elected Republican candidate four years
ago who made james q. Blaine Secretary OF
State. and ii you have your mortgage u pay
or interest upon it, counting Il bushel Tor 81.
IL takes a good many more bushels now to pay
the interest on your mortgage debt than II did
four years ago, and when you conc TO pay
your mortgage Off it will take a good many
more hundred bushels than il did n good while
ago. They do not say to you now. as they did
four years ago. let well eaough alone. Ii is
not well enough, il is bad enough. When you
see men out OF employment you NAV know
there is trouble somewhere. God wrote IL in
early days of our race that by the sweat of
his brow man shall earn his bread. but il did
seem that there was COUP ed with that Divine
sentiment that perhaps man should have Il
chance 10 earn bread by the sweat of his
brow. but it Is not SO now with all. There are
some that can not get employment 10 earn
their bread. / have understood that one of
the establishments in this city that gave en-
Dloyment not long since TO one hundred
hands is now closed down. There is no en-
p.oyment there any more, and SO il is with
the old rolling-mil ut Indianapolis that form
eriy employed hundreds of men. 1t is silent
now as in the graveyard across the way. The
Stlmuiant of LABOR, the Stimulant OF enter
prise and life, of activity, is dead 1t is locked
up in the Nations Treasury, and the Demo-
.erztS n change of nOlipy rNfmpa
ton will make it easier upon the people and
the burden lighter.