The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-09-07
HENDRICKS SPEAKS.
AND MUNClE HAS A TREAT.
The Next Nice-Prcsident Makes an Ar
raignment Sublime--He Shows That
Change is Needed
"In Cold Naults"-Etc.

administrative and executive affairs Of
this country, and it is of first impog,-
ance that you and sbort
consider tho question who 70,
that is not rs long r.,
one set Of men ought to continue i'm all
solute control. In othor words, the quos-
ton is before us, ought there not be a
change? That is the first question q
strikes your attention and mine. How
much has transpircd since the Republi-
cap party came no power, and do
not choose 10 include in that
period the period OF Che war, ask your
attention onlyto last nineteen years.
! during which that party has controlled
| the administrative and executive affairs
OF the country. / could not find figures
or words to O. press to you the enormous
sums Of money that have been col
| lected 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 by
/ the Secretary Of the Treasury, the col
| lection and expenditures amounted to
! SGd3O0O,OuO. The history of those trans
| actions is found in many thousand
! volumes and they wore recorded
| by many thousand men heloug,og to
| that party. Only Democrats have been
| NaNN't'l'' li'lll llhl lflIlhAlbll III any ll
! the ailalrS Of the country. | speak i'm
substance. An occasional Democrat NAV
! have been allowed an office, but for
! great purposes in the administration
Of affairs of the Government
! Democrats have boon excluded,
and 10 young men the question is pre-
sontcd, now, ought there not be Il
! change? Who knows what is wrong i'm
those books? Shall they be opened?
shall there be an opportunity for us
men to know what has been wrong
in those records of the country so that
| wO may know whether it is well or IN
with tie country? May ask your at
! tentiOn to another il ustration of this
| suhlect2 do not claim that one poll
Teal party, in first place i'm it,
organization, is probably any
more honest than another. If
we had not political parties in the
country, and were going to establish
| two political parties and were 10 run
| line through this crowd, and
men on that side were one party
and men on this side of the
0thcrparty the chances are there would
| he Just rs many honest men ON one
side us on the other and as many rogurs
on one side perhaps rs on the other: but
take another step In this thought. sup
pose this party comes into power and
II becomes established that il il
| going to retain power for
twenty years, and have the control Of
Offices, control of money and of the
country, don't you see that all the
roguos would bG ON their eide? Is not
that human naturC2 And more than
that, don't You know that as they came
over they would gradually push hon
eSI men ON this side back
ANA back until they would
take control dominate the
party themselves to very large extent.
That would provo to be the human ma
| turc of the ease, without discussing the
| question whether the Republican party
has been guilty of n great fraud, for !
| leave that to your own rotlec-
ton. assume the ground.
| that no party that has been
! IN power exclusively, not allowing the
| othor party to participate In affairs of
| Government for long period OF time.
Ihou there ought to be n u change that
| people may como 10 know with some
degree of certainty how it * with thoir
affairs. Cries OF 1--WE will have il this
fall | do not expect, gentlemen, that
all men IN Office will hO turned out
don't desire that when "A
Republican, governed by his cOnsciou
luus convictions who has been in otncc
and proven himself to be true
and honest man In the admins
tration of that office, don't ask
that he shall uo turned out, but
ask that honest men shall be placed
IN Office, sufficiently numerous to give
the people uI thus country information
IN regard To tur'r affairs. | have one
step further to 81. n this argument. |
am trying to establish the proposition
lhAl lhern ought now To be u change.
do not know why Republicans, for
the last nineteen years, have said
tp every Democrat: "Nou shall have no
position in the control of the affair,
of government They have seen
NJ to occupy that position, u
| cruel proScnptlvo policy, CNclud-
/ ing every man that did not agree
| with them, and what do you think Of IT,
my countrymcn? Shall il be-
continued any longer? Cries
OF "No!'l To what condition have
we come. | refer TO the statement
made 10y MIR. CalkinS, Republican can
| dldHtc Tor GOVERNOR in speech ut Rlch-
| mond u few weeks ago. lie said we now
| nave $lOOOOO,OO In the treasury. DO Won
! know how he came To say thutP He
said that by way fbraggadocio, but the
lauul Is to the Democrats. lie said the
| Republican party when it came into
! power found an empty treasury, and
! now 1t has SlOO, Jl,OO, Do YOU want To
| near me express my opinion
of what is fortunate condition
of country Well, it is moi
in having u treasury overlooking. IL is
not in collecting from the people untold
| millions that IL may be hid away
! in the vaults of "A trcnsutt.
aud at Washington To-day they ME-
digging new vaults, adding to old
vaults, so rs to find room for putting
away the peoples currency. Il IL
u matter of wag-wag, is il
that the Republicans have now
m the treasury SlOo,O0O, 900, and that, zen
tlemon, IL more than half of the paper
currency in the country. The pnner
currency of the country is about $500.
! OlO,0N, and of currency OF
the country there is locked
mp in the treasury SiOOOOO OOl
DO YOU desire thatY lfso, vote far Nlr
! CNlkins, Vote for the Republican can,
didato tor President, for thov boast to
YOU that they have locked up $lOO,OOO.-
900 of your money,
What right has the Government tn
An'OOO0O of the peoples money. thai
1t has no OCCASION To use In the admnis-
tration, of It's alta rSG What would
be the effect II taxes were
reduced so that lac monr\
would como back into your pockets
and into the channels of trade. non't
you know IL would stimulate ON
terprise? Don't you know that 1t would
give employment TO MhOrers? Shall |
stop now and speak of the present con-
diuons of the country. -Four wears ago,
when You knew IL was ilushor times
and everything was well with the pco-
pie. Wheat was worth $l.2O, aud labor
was well paid and Republican orator
camo to YOU and said: "My country.
men, won't you let wen enough alone?
Are you willing to turn a
party out that brought you such pros,
perity and put party in that YOU do
not know. What will bo the
consequences" and the people listened.
TOW Is II now Are men employedg
Aro furnaces throwing out fire and