St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-07
HENDRICKS AT MUNCIE.
He Speaks to Eight Thousand
People About the Need
Of a Change.
Criticism of the Republican Policy of
boarding Money in the
National Treasury.
An Illustration of the Correctness of the
Campaign Cry, Turn the
RaScals Out

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Sept. 6.-Ex-Gov.
Hendricks addressed s, 600 people at Muncie,
to-day. In the course of his speech he said:
SIT is now twenty-five years that the Repub-
lican party have controlled administrative
and executive affairs of this country, and it
is of the first Importance you and l should
consider the question whether that is not as
long as one set of men ought to continue in
absolute control. In other words, the ques-
ton is before us, ought there not 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 in
clude in that period, the period of the war.
l ask your attention only for the last nine
teen years, during which that party has con-
troled the administration and executive af-
fairs of the country.
l 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 l will
refer, by the way of illustration, only to one
year, the last year as reported by the secre-
tary of the treasury. The collections and
expenditures amounted to 1868, 900, 600. The
history of those transactions is found in
many thousand volumes. and they were re-
corded by many thousands of men, men be-
longing to one party only. No Democrats
have been allowed to participate in any of
the affairs of the country. 1
speak in substance An occa-
sonal Democrat may have been
allowed an Office, but for the great purposes
of administering the affairs of the govern
ment the Democrats have been excluded,
and TO you the question is presented now:
Ought there not to be a change! Who knows
what is wrong in the books! Shall they be
opened! Shall there be an opportunity for we
men to know what has been wrong in the
records Of the country, so that we may know
whether it is well or i'll with the countryl
May | ask your attention to another illus
tration of this subject! l do not claim that
one political party, in the first place. in its
organization, is probably any more honest
than the other. If we had no political par
ties in this country and were going to estab-
fish two political parties and were torun 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 that 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 to take another step in
this thought. Suppose this party comes into
power, and it becomes established that it is
going to retain power for twenty years, have
the control of offices, control of 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 nature! 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 control
of the Democratic party themselves. To very
large extent that would prove to be the hui
man nature Of the case. Without discussing
the question whether the Republican party
has been guilty of n great fraud, for l leave
that to your own reflection, l assume the
ground that no party should be in power
exclusively, not allowing any other party to
participate in the affairs of the government
for long period of time. Then there ought
to be a change, that people may come to
know with some degree of certainty how it
is with their affairs. (Cries of 1--WE will have
it this fall" Yes, sir! you are going to have
it this fall.
do not expect gentlemen, that all the
men in Office will be turned out. / do not
desire that When a Republican, governed
by his conscientious opinions, has been in
office and has proven himself to be a true
and honest man in the administration of
that office, | do not ask that he shall be
turned out. But I ask that honest men shall
be placed in office, sufficiently numerous to
give the people of this country information
in regard to their affairs.
have one step further to 90 in this argu-
ment. am trying to establish the PROPOSE
ton that there ought now to be change l
do not know why the Republicans for the
last nineteen years have said to every Demo
crat you shall have no position in the con-
troll of the affairs of the government. They
have seen fit to occupy that position, a cruel
proscriptive policy, excluding every man
that don't agree with them, and what do You
think of it! My countrymen, shall it be con
tinued any longerl [Cries of MOI To
what condition have we come!
/ refer now to a statement made by Mr..
Calkins, the Republican candidate for gov
ernOr. In a speech at Richmond. a few
weeks ago, he said we have now S400 000, 600
in the treasury. Do you know how he came to
say that! He said that by way of braggadcia;
by way of . taunt to Democrats. He said the
Republican party, when it came into power,
found an empty treasury, and now it has
$500, OOO, 600 in the treasury. Do YOU want
10 bear me express my opinion of what is
fortunate condition of a country! Well, it is
not in having treasury overlooking; il is
not in collecting from the people untold
millions of money, that it may be hid away
in the vaults of the treasury at Washington.
To-day they are building new vaults and add
ing to the old vaults so as to find room for
putting away the peoples currency. 1t is a
matter of brag. 1t is that Republicans have
now in treasury $500, 600, 900. And that.
gentlemen, is half of the paper currency of
the country, and there is more paper cur
rencv in the country, about S700, coo, 600.
And of the currency of the country there is
locked up in the treasury $500, 600, 000 Do
you desire that! If so vote for Mr.. Calbins:
vote for the Republican candidate for presi-
dent, for they boast to you that they have
locked up $500, 900, 600 of your money.
What right has the government to S400, 000,-
600 of the peoples money when it has no
occasion for its use in the administration of
its affairs! What would be the effect
if the taxes were reduced so
that this money would come
back into your pockets, and into the chan
nels of trade! Don't you know that it would
stimulate enterprise! Don't you know that it
would give employment to laborers!
Shall stop now, and speak of the present
condition of our country! A few years ago,
when you know it was fusher times, and
everything was well with the people, wheat