The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-10-09
BAYARD ON THE STUMP.
An Escellent Speech by the Della
ware Senator.
matoc Bayard to the Brooklyn n. Y
Democrats-Thc Contrast Between
Blaine and Cleve-
land.

Blaine and Cleve-
land.
In the course of a recent address to
the Democrats of Brooklyn, NJ Y,
Senator Bayard made these telling
points:
FALSE ISSUE.
The condition OF our country presents for
our consideration economic and political
BILE solution at our han1s. Some of them are
new, and appeal to forces not hitherto known
thst 1ur refer to R the fact
dates for the Presidency, and the parties that
support them, to the prejuGices and supposed
interest, are alleged to be distinct and at
variance with those of other classes. To state
the question simply, it Is the attempt to create
and force an issue between the laboriny
classes, so-called, and the owners OF capital
who employ them.
This is IN my Judgment false. un-Ameri-
can and wholly unadmisSable issue to be
raised: This country undoubtedly was in
tended to be governed in the interests, not of
any class, but of all classes of our population.
1t was intende that noue should have priyi-
leges denied to others, which simply meant
THAI none were TO have separate privileges
and it will be vain to search through any
public paper, in which the welfare of the
who,e people, and nothing less than the whole
people, was declared to be the object of the
Its clear to me that il this line of argument
IS 70 be followed, and issues are to be created
and fostered between the capital and labor of
the country, or between different CLASSES and
empioyments of our citizens, that in such q
struggle victory must ultimately be declared
after long and disa strous conflict, in favor of
one or the other; that there is TO be at the
end OF such struggle viotcr and van
oulshe parry. There is nothing in such a
the American Constitution. and the man who
contemplates 1t may be justly regarded as the
foe to liberty and the American form of Gov.
eminent.
MASTER OF PRETENsIoN.
Now, Mr.. Blaine in his famous letter has
LAID down his pretensons. and Mr.. Blaine
you know, is master Of pretension. He has
taken care to claim everythng-al the b.es ;
| ings of a free Government. all the ad van
| tages Of human invention and industry, the
very bounty of the soil. the Unlimited terri
| tory, the steamboat and railway, the te!e
Ehone, the very sun that warns. the breeze
that co os, the rains that fructify, and even the
| of the a sisted Immigration of labor -all that
the toll OF men and women has produced in
the United States has been seized by this can
didate FOR public honor and re spect, anc
held up by him as due to a high protective
tariff,
TIE UNJUST TARIFF SYSTEM.
On the contrary, make hold, in direct op
position to the statements and claims of Mr
Blaine, to aver, and call the reco d of h story
| as my witness, that sense OF injustice ere
ated by an unjust system of laying tariff
4
| sectional feslinr, more arrangements be
tween cur countrymen than any other singl,
cause; that it has caused labor to organiz,
in discomfort for lack of steady employment
and compensatory wages. has fil,e1 the ian
with violence ard threats of violence. ha
strained the rue of Law. and promises to brin.
in the military arm of force as customar,
bus om6odened and induced the dem
for the acseptanoo epsa of our Such ot DOCTRINE M
| as Mr.. Blaine advocates and hi
| party approves, in respect TO the use of th
| taxing power. but fos' the tone OF publ
thought ana feeling gradually generated b.
such mercenary spirit and abuse of u grea
pubic rus. / do not be ieye % sueh q spectacle
now. that u candidate VINO has fatfe aeJ tno
Every ,1 abuse that % our Avs oonla n r. unit ,; RS
justice. should nowbe running up ard dow
the land offering hmse as the special frien
| of the laboring man. whose 'scant earning
have gone largely to swell ,his vast fortune
and the foe OF monopoles which have on
added to his wealth-in cynical Disregard o
| an that right-minGed men value and respect
affecting specially to rapre sent the interest
of labor, and yet seeking to array cltsses c
society against each osher. hoping thereb
out of the general ruin to feed tat his grudge
against decency an 1 good order at the cost c
the pubic peace and welfare
Il 1t IS this system of taxation which, Will
| proSucjnga a revenue of more than 00)J
| GOO. incidenta ly entails enhance cost {
| living upon the American laborer and upo
| the American consumer to the extent,
least, of five times that amount. In addt.o
to tins it has gradually sealed up tho produc
of manufacturers within thor home markc
rendering it impossible for them profitably
increase their product, or even, as it woul
| seem, to maint;1n its present volume, muc
less to expand their 81 eS into fOi eign ma
kcts. when over production has glutted tt
home market.
TEE SOUTHERN QUEsTION.
Think for one moment of the class an
character of men who have been authorize
to represent the government of the Unio
to the Southern I,eop.e. Did they represel
} its tenignity, i; honesty or It's jpstices z
| the contrary. the rising generation of Il
Southern States, If they measured their Go
{ ernment by its agents. would be obliged
% essarS taxes, M " to harrass ass the % taSoarer, "1
wound the feelings of the people. to bring di
grace upon republican institutions.
memeer % Of fe the senate@tRe % eonfirmi1g % bod Do
: Of al executive appointments-I profess tn
2 have known but few cases. some rars e
| ceFtions, where the men appointed to publ
Office under the Federal Govern nent in Il
e | Southern States would have possibly be,
sn0sen s b IGr ,ne @ same once 10 oi Mortae
{ the answer is: "what can we do. Such me
-tai rs they arc -aro the best we can get
= publican party" Look also at the kind
: men with whom political alliances a
= promptly made by the Republican party in
;, Look at the Cash family in South Carolins
rcd-haEded murderers- and desperadoes, I
glass, who have been painted as typit
/ ,
S young Cash died tae o:her day defying I
n legal process of the State and its officers: wi
United States Deputy Marshals commissi
| in his pocket.
!. Look at Chalmers in Mississippi, gazett
for years by the Republican press as the mi
derer of Soiored troops Mt Fort Pillow. Yet
10 | is taken to tho bosom of tho Republican pai
and paid fees as an attorney t. prosecute
political opponents in the courts of the Unit
e States.
N Look at Virginia. o shade of Washingto
o sacred tomb at Mount Vermont! With,
g, there the sacrifice of State honOr-the rel
e. dation OF State obligations, the degradat
If of every function of State government t
overthrow of every institution of good &c
ae Votes IN te senae OF
-, | United States, and in control of the ent
Is patronage of the Government of that
er Dominion. the Mother of States and Stat
a. men,"
POLICY OF INJUSTICE.
lie Fellow couEtrymen, the war for the supre
De acy of tho Union ended in the complete oy
n throw of its opponents nca.'iy twenty ye
ago. Whatever reasons may once have bt
nj thought to exist fof such policy and syst
against tho white people of the South
y States can now be no longer alleged. WI
u. as the price of party adhesion. we see AZ
and Mosby in foreign missions, and Maht
of and Cash and Chalmers ali i'll the close
,s. brace or the Republican leaders,w we may KIN
= that the Republican party does trust
w South when it thus bestows Office and po,
en- upon the least Trustworthy.
| lUeFtlOT0, VI uu uuI
" and patriotic public opinion the men AMI
tn party who have devised and continue p
be cy of injustice and alienation toward nea
oue-half the States of this Union. j cha
III. them here, AMI in the full Wow of our co
try. with prostitutiug and perverting
h, | great public power of Government for
III narrow and sectional party ends.
sh The proofs are written on the pares Of
tory. Our statute books contain them.
decisions of the Supreme Court denying
re coustitutionality of these laws attest th'
Is The blue book with its lists OF incomplete
dishonest and corrupt oficcholders attt
them. The record of the criminal courts
do test them. Everywhere ana on every han
u emblazoued the burning truth that the +
ho of party spirit has caused the Rcpub'i
party to forget truth. Justice and the Con
tion in dealing with this people of the Sot
at ern States since the close of the war.
". This alone is an issue sufficient for this {
;,b vass: this alone should control the votes
''A thougntfu', moderate and patriotic citiZ;
and instruct them that public welfare.
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