The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-01
PRICE FIVE CENTS.


100000 or more than thIee-fold. and the value Of
products from 81 855 0O0 600 to So 1863 0OO 600 OF
about three-fold
But this enormous improvement in our con-
dition is not confined to manufactures only III
extends to agriculture and other pursuits AZ
we'll The number of farms in 1860 was 2044-
600, while in 1880 it was 4,008, 900 The number
OF acres in farms increased during that time
from 4O7, 600 600 to 536 900, 000 and their value
increased from So 600, 100000 to $40 1917 0O0 00O
While the products Of farming increased from
$246, OOO, 900 to $406, 600, 600
- In 1860 we had 30,635 miles of railway In
1851 we had 81, 1893 miles, and now we have 1871
0Oo miles Our exports of domestic products
during the last year amounted to 1894 O00 OOO
While IN 1860 they amounted to 1878 600 600
Our national debt, once an obiectof profound
alarm, is being paid off at the rate Of 800 600
vOU year, the excess of taxes being so lightly
borne that no considerable portion Of the people
complain OF them, and no general demand is made
for the repeal of any of them. Indeed it is a
marvellous feature of condition that to re-
peal taxes is more unpopular than to retain
tnem, and some OF these taxes are themselves a
means OF prosperity, and not burden com
planned of by ANY,
Ihe Senator then spoke of the triumphs of the
Republican party in the past, and declared the
Democratic party totally unfit to govern the
country. Concerning the Democratic policy in
the South he said
of all the Southern States. In this way they
claim to be secure of 153 electoral votes needing
only forty eight from the North to give them
power to elect President Of their choice And
yet we know that in perhaps majority of the
Southern States, if there was legal, fair cleo
tion, without fraud or violence the Republican
party would be in the majority. We also know
that they gained power in those States by crimes
so revolving that when described in the mildest
terms, good, quiet, honest people in the North
doubt the truth of such statements, because they
are not capable of believing it possible that such
crimes would be resorted to- 1t has got 70 be
somewhat out of fashion to talk about Southern
outrages, but no correct view can be had of the
condition Of this country unless we are willing
to look at the exact situation of the rebel States
By the policy adopted in 1875 in Mississippi
the Republicans, white and black, were either
llot allowed to vote, or, if they voted, the count
was so made as to reject their votes, and, in
many cases, to count them on the other side.
This fraud and violence was open palpable and
scarcely denied. 1t was proved by witnesses by
the hundred, whose testimony is recorded in
public documents now open to the inspection of
any citizen. That fraud and violence was con-
tinued in 1876, and would have defeated Presi
dent Hayes but for the power conferred by State
Legislatures upon returning boards device of
their own eontrivance, which enabled the return
ing boards in Louisiana, Florida and South
Carolina to return the electoral votes of those
States for President Hayes. Sometimes this
has been a matter of complaint and it has been
from the most careful examination of these cases,
that in each of these States if there had been
a fair election, the majority would have been
overwhelming for the Hayes electors. and that
the returning boards were not able to repair all
the wrong done, but did lawfully and properly
reject the returns of counties and parishes where
the fraud was most palpable and gross, and thus
secured the election of President Hayes. You
all remember that ever then bribery and fraud
in Oregon and other States were attempted and
the cipher dispatches, a disgrace to the history
of our elections showed that bribery was at
tempted in several Of the Southern States
affirm without fear of contradiction that in every
one of the cotton States fair and honest vote,
| free from fraud and intimidation, would place
all these States OH the side of the Republican
party.
''The occurrences at the recent elections in
Mississippi and Virginia. known as the Copiah
and Danyille outrages, show that this policy is
1 continued NOW, and the newspapers inform you
| that it is the openly announced and avowed pur-
pose of the Democratic leaders to resort to the
same frauds in Louisiana and Mississippi, and
| perhaps, other States. The success Of the Dem
ocratic party is only possible by crimes that in
former times would have so shocked public opin-
ion as to have led to the punishment and dis
grace of everyone who participated in
them, and yet this is the way, and the only way,
by which there is possibility of the Democratic
party succeeding at the present election.
have often thought and believed that if the
honest, good Democrats of Ohio could aDpre.
ciate, as do, the nature Of these offenses and
the danger to our institutions growing out of
election frauds, they would revolt against all
affiliations with the Democratic party concede
that as citizens and neighbors here they are as
peaceable, as orderly, and in the main as
patriotic as we are, but cannot but think that
they are so blinded and misled by Larty zeal
that they viii condone and take advantage Of
crime and fraud to secure party ends, or still
more charitable view, that they cannot beperS
suaded, even by evidence, of the truth Of
charges so disgraceful to their party and their
associates in the South
The Senator then considered the tariff ques-
ton, the duty on WOOL and urged liberal pen
siona for soldiers closing with eulogy Of the
Republican national candidate