The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-09-18
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Why q Change Is Needed.


Why Change Is Needed
In the course of his speech at Munich,
Ind, Saturday, Ex-Governor Hendricks
said:
'It is now twenty-five years that the
Republican party have controlled the
administrative and executive affairs OF
the country, end it is of the first impor.
tance that you and should consider the
question whether that 10 not as long as
one SET of men ought TO continue In alb.
solute control. In other words, the
question ia before us, ought there not TO
be changer That Is the first question
that strikes your attention aud mine.
How much has transpired since the
Republican party came into power7 And
! do not choose to include ia that period
of the war. | ask your attention only
for the last nineteen years, during which
that party has controlled the administra.
tive and executive affairs OF the country.
could not find figures or words to express
to you the"enormous sums of money that
have been collected aud the enormous
sums of money that have been paid out.
| will refer by way of illustration only to
Que year, the last year, as reported by
the Secretary of the Treasury. The
collections and expenditures amounted
to $663,000,000. The history Of those
transactions is found in many thousand
volumes, and they were recorded by many
thousands Of men-men belonging 70
one party only. No Democrats have
been allowed to participate in any of The
affairs of the country. speak in sub.
stahce; an occasional Democrat may
have been allowed an Office, but for the
great purposes Of administrative affairs
Of the Government Democrats have been
rigidly excluded, and to you men the
question is presented now: Ought there
10. to be change? Who knows what is
wrong in the booksY Shall they be
openedf Shall there be an opportunity
for US to know what has been wrong in
the records Of the country, 80 that We
may know whether it is we'll or Ill with
the country. May ask your attention
to another illustration of this subject2 1
do rot claim that the one political party,
in the frat place, in its organization, is
probably any more honest than the other.
If we hnd 40 political parties in this
political parties, and were TO run line
through Ibis crowd, and the me-. on that
side were to DO of one party and the men
on this side of the other party, the
chances are there would be Just Us many
honest men on one side as on the other,
and as ,uany rogues on one side, perhaps,
as on the other.
but ,ake another step In this thought.
Suppose this party comes into power and
it betbmes established that it is going -
retain It's power for twenty years, TO have
the control of the offices, the control of
the money and Of the country, don't you
see that all the rogues on this side would
gradually come Uvcr and join the strong
eide? Isn't that humsl nnture2 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 bnck until they would take the con.
troll of the dominant party themselves? ?
To very large extent that would provo
to be the human nature of the case.
~ have one step further to go In this
argu-'ent. I am trying to establish the
proposition that ther9 ought now to be q
change. do not know why the Repub.
licans for the last nineteen years have
said to every Democrat, you shall have
no position in tie control OF tho affairs
of government They have seen fit to
occupy that position--a cruel, proscrip.
tive policy, excluding every man that
did not agree with them. And what do
you think Of It, my countrymen2 Shall
1t be continued any longerf To what
condition have we come? refer now
to the statement made by Mr. Calkins,
the Republican candidate for Governor,
in his speech at Richmond week ago.
He said We now have $400,000,0 in
the Treasury. Do you know how he
came to say that2 He said that by way
Of braggadocio, by way of taunt to
Democrats. Hesaid that the Republican
party when It came into power found an
empty Treasury, aud now It has S4O0,
600, 600 In the Treasury. Do you want
to hear me express my opinion of what
Is the fortunate condition" of she coun-
try? Well, it is not In having Trea:
sury overlooking; it is not In collecting
fEca. shs people nasc!d millions OF nonoy
that It may be hid away in the vaults Of
the Treasury.
"What right hiss the Government to
9400, 900, 900 of the peoples money that
it has no OCCASION to use In tho adu,inis-
tration of United States affairs7 What
would be The effect If taxes we're reduced
so that the money would come back into
your pockets and into the channels of
trade? Don't you know that it would
stimulate enterprise7 :" gs
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