Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-09-25
EX-GOV. HENDRICKS.
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j At Muncie, Ind, on September 6, Elk.
Governor Hendricks delivered an inter-
iesting address to an immense audience.
In the course of his speech he said:
1t is now Iwenty-iye years that the Repub-
lican party has controlled the administrative
and executive affairs OF this country, and it Is
of the trst importance that You and / should
consider the question whether chat is as long
as one set of men ought to continue in abso-
before us ouet mot there to be ehanres
That is the first question that strikes your at
tention and mine. How much has transpired
and DO not choose to Include in that period
the period of the war? L ask Four attention
only for the last nineteen years during which
that party has controlled the administrative
and executive at airs of the country. could
not find figures or words to express 20 you
the enormous sums of money that nave Deen
collected and the enormous sums OF money
that have been paid out. will refer by way
of illustration only to one year: the last year
The collections and expenditures amounted
to sos, JO0, 900. The history of those transac,
tons is found in many thousand volumes and
men belonging to one party only; NO Demo
orats have been allowed to participate IN any
Of the affairs Of the country SPEAK nay "a h sun
allowed an office, but for the great purposes OF
administering the affairs of the Government
the Democrats have, been excluded, and to
you men the question is presented now.
Ought there not to be change? Who knows
what is wrong in the books! Shall they be
men to know what has been wrong in the rec
ords of the country. SO that we may know
whether it is we'll or i'll with the country May
ask your attention to another Illustration
on this subject? l do not claim that one po-
itical party, in the first place. in its organiza-
tSer Is any ny han
country. and were going to establish two po-
litical parties, and were to run line through
be of one party and the men on this side of
the other party, the chances are 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 take another
step in this thought Suppose this party
comes into power and It becomes established
that 1t is going to return, to power for twenty
years, have the control of the offices, the con-
troll of the money, and OF the country. Don't
gradually come over and JON the he's strong tide?
Isn't that human nature? And more than
that-don't you know as they come over they
would gradually push honest men on this sido
back and back until they would take control
of the dominant party themselves? 10 q very
Large sssent that would to be the hn
has been guilty of great fraud, for l. leave
ground that when party has been in power
exclusively, not allowing the other party to
participate in the affairs of the Government
change that the people may come to know
with some degree of certainty how it is with
their affairs ferries of : We will have it this
fall.''l Yes, sir, you are going to have it this
fall i don't expect, gentlemen. that all the
men in Office will be turned out. / do not de-
conscientious Convictions, has been in ONCE
and has proven himself to be a true and honest
man in the administration of that Office, do
ask that honest men shall be placed in office
sufficiently numerous to give the people OF
this country information in regard to their
I have one step further to go IN this argu-
ment am trying to establish the proposi-
dc sss he last
nineteen years have said to every Democrat,
you shall have no position in the control of
seen fit to occupy that position. a cruel, pro-
scriptive policy. excluding every man that
did not agree with them, and what do you
tinued any longer? Cries of "No!') To what
condition have we Gomez refer now to the
s4O00oO,ooo in the Treasury. Do you know
way Of braggadocioby way 81 f tannt to ts
Democrats He said the Republican party
whom IT came into power found an an. empty
express my opinion Of what Is 4 fortu-
not 1 harg s IS
not in the collection from the people of I'M
told millions Of money that it may be hid
ington to-day they are digging new. vaults,
adding to the old aults so to find room for
Of Is II the have Is
now in the Treasury 800, 600, 0OO2 And that,
gentlemen, is half of the paper currency, Of
the country and more . The e,p paper a Gu Tency
Treasury s400, OOO 600. fDosyou desire that? II
ea Ho CANDIDATE Ga FOR FOR they soas
TO you that they have locked up 10000, 900 of
your money: What right has the Government
to $400C0o,O0oi of the peoples money that it
has no occasion to usa in the administration
of its affairs? What would be the effect If the
taxes were re reduced 50 that the money would
the channels of trade? Don't you
know that it would stimulate enter
emnoymen mem to- o iaborersr Snail stop now now
and speak of the present condition of our
Four years ago, when. you know.
with the people, wheat was worth $L2O, ana
labor was Wen paid, and md 4. Republican orator
won't you let well enough alone? Are you
willing to turn party out that has 6ronght
you such prosperity and put a party in that
n91 TO ss ~ the
tened. How is it now7 Are men empioyed2
Are furnaces throwing out fire and smoke
try? have here from an Indianapolis paper
of yeste rday evening, perhaps the best edited
paper of the Republican party in that city,
ures that have recently taken place In the
country. 1t is dispatch from New York.
country the last seven days. as reported to r. 4
8. Dun & Co.-and they are great authorities
pm thar subject-number.fo for the. United States
week, showing al increase of seventeen fail
Tres this week over last week. In other
words it is = per cent. more for the week that;
ended Yesterday than for the week before
hat, an increase in failures of per cent, and
now can it be otherwise when there is this
enormous portion OF the peoples currency
send that money into the channels of trade |
md wheat won t sell at a begging market for |
70 cents busheI less to-day than when you |
elected Republican candidate four years
lgo who made James G. Blaine Secretary of |
'tate and if you have your mortgage to pay |
,r interest upon it, counting buShel for 81, /
{ takes good many more bushels now TO pay |
he interest on your mortgage debt than 1t did
our years ago, and when yOu come to pay
our mortgage off it will take q good many |
more hundred bushels than it did good while
ourYyears ago. let well enough alone. 1t is /
lot well enough; it is bad enough. When you
godd wrote E
arly days of our race that by the sweat of
is brow man shall earn his bread, but it did T
eem that there was couped with that Divine
eminent that perhaps man should have a
nance to earn bread by the sweat of his
row. but it is not so now with all. There are
ONE that can not get employment to, earn Il
leir bread. / have understood that one of
ne establishments In this city that gave em- 7
ands is now closed down. There is no EN-
ioyment there any more, and so II 4. with
riy employed hundreds of men, 1T is SILENT
ow as IN the graveyard across the way. The