Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-01-24
SENATOR PAYNE's VIEWS
AS GIVEN AT THE BANQUET TO
THE LEGISLATURE.
An Able Exposition OF Doctrine from
the Newly Elected Senator
from the State of Ohio.

lAoh. 'AchAJ b' IL ~ iiC SofC q poii-
plimentary reception to the Members of
the Ohio Legislature at the Neil House
in Columbus on Thursday Evening last.
Quite number of distinguished Demo-
Gratis and Republicans were present,
and the affair was success i'm every
particular. At the close of the BAN
quet Mr.. Payne arose and spoke as fol-
lows:
GENTLEMEN OF THE GENERAL ASSEM-
BLY,: You have seen fit to elect me to
the highly honorable and responsible
position of a member of the United
States Senate. No doubt the compli-
ment was mainly intended for the pa
tiently waiting, long suffering, ever
faithful and true democrats of Northern
Ohio. For the first time in the history
of the state they been recognized and
honored by their brethren. In their
name meet you tonight to thank you
for the noble act of justice which has
been so gracefully and generously
awarded to them. For myself, also, ]
have desired this social gathering that 1
might in person assure you my sincere
and lasting gratitude, and give you
frank expression of my views on some
of the pressingissues of the day. For
fifty years have been resident of the
state and colaborer in the democratic
field. In forty-nine consecutive state
elections l have supported and voted
none other than the democratic ticket;
and every one of those votes has been
anoE Tn N IN rI in tho o;+x, !, .
Cleveland. | have actively participated
in twelve presidential canvasses, in
which, among other questions, the
issues of '"rhe Removal of the Depos-
it's" by General Jackson; "The Inde-
pendent Treasury" under Van Buren;
''The Annexation of Texas" "The
War With Mexico;n "The Popular Sow
ereignty" of Stephen A. Douglas; ''rhe
Lecompton Constitution "of Buchanan;
"Incipient Secession at Charleston"
'"rhe Civil War Under Lincoln;" "The
Abolition of Slavery" 1.-THE Resump-
tion and Maintenance of Specie Pay.
ments;' "The Great Fraud of 1861
were by me discussed before the people
without evasion or disguise; and am
proud to declare that tonight, review
ing the past from this advanced mile
stone in the journey of life, there is not
one of the opinions then expressed that
1 would recall or change, or modify If
/ had the power to do so. This is all
| care to say in vindication of the ortho-
doxy of my political faith, or OF my
steadfast loyalty to the democratic par
ty. - M
Gentlemen, / am induced to accept
this senatorship to which you have
elected ME mainly by the hope and be-
lief that in the discharge of its duties
may be useful to the state and the par
ty: the last must be secondary to and
in harmonary with the first, and both
must have the appreciation of my con-
case knowingly violate the constitution
or perpetrate wrong. But to be use
full the representative must be cordially
sustained by this constituents, and that
they may sustain him there must be be-
tween him and them substantial coin
cidence of views. AS to the influence
of the lobby, think you need have no
apprehension. They have always
deemed it expedient to give me wide
berth, and the increased rigidity that
age imparts to the features will not be
less repellant to their insidious ap-
proaches
Twill now proceed to some important
questions. And first
CIVIL sEvICE.
For twenty-three years the dispensa-
tion of federal patronage has been in
I, IL, Nft /, ioov
pointments have all been made from
the adherents Of that party, and mostly
from the class of active politicians.
The federal judges, supreme, circuit and
district, with their clerks, marshals, as
sistants, deputies, registers, master COM
missioners, assignees, have been and
arc republicans. The heads of depart-
ments and their subordinates through
all grades, down to the messenger and
porter, subtreasurers, collectors of both
customs and internal revenue, survey
ors, postmasters, letter carriers, num-
bering in the aggregate more than 10O,-
600 have been supplied from the one
party, while nine-tenths of that party
and the entire democratic party have
been and are now absolutely prescribed
and debarred the public service. Dur
ing this period money by the thousand
millions has been collected and disburs-
ed, and the books keptby those partisan
agents, furnishing an opportunity and
q temptation for peculation, fraud, and
concealment to which | should dread
to expose, even the ironclad integrity of
democrats. Inevitably, corruption, and
great abuses have crept in and have