Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-17
SENATOR SHERMAN.
The Past and the Present The Demo-
cratic Policy In the South.

at Ashland, Ohio. The Senator began by stating
that the older he became the freer he was from
tory Of Of the Republican and Democratic parties.
"Those Of us who have lived through tho
by single glance Of memory from the present
to the past the great and beneficial change
which has been produced In the United States
those Of you who are about to assume the reins
OF government will appreciate this change more
by reference to some figures taken by me from
1880 our population increased from 81, 10000 to
to g., ,000. .o0O more than SO per cent. The num-
Der Of manufacturing establishments increased
IN manufactures Increased from ,oos. 900 ,ooo to
$27o9. 900, 900. or nearly three-fold. The number
OF hands employed in manufactures increased
0,d G 70 o1 4o
The value of material used in manufactures in
more than three Told, and the value Of products
from $l,sS5,ooo.ooo to s5.s6s, ,oooooo or about
dition is not confined to manufactures only. 1t
extends to agriculture and other pursuits a.
well. The number OF farms in 1860 was 2,044,-
Of acres in farms increased during that time
from 4O7. 900 to 536, 900 900, and their value
increased from g. 600 000. 600 to &1O.1s7. 900.
I'm 1860 we had sO,6s5 miles Of railway. In
1880 we had s4,s93 miles, and now we have
uots during the last year amounted to $so4,-
0oo. .ooo. while in 1850 they amounted to $s7s.-
"0qr national debt. once IN object Of pro:
500 600. 600 year, the excess of taxes being SO
lightly borne that no considerable portion Of
sss is %sde sps q Of
Indeed, it is marvellous feature Of our condi-
ton that to repeal taxes is more unpopular than
to OF
The Senator then spoke Of the tr1umphs Of
the The Psry S
the South he said:
Of all the Southern States In this way they
claim to be secure Of 153 electoral votes. need
ing only forty-eight from the North to givethem
power ot 70 eecS pres1aenS ol sne of tSe
southern States. II there was legal. fair elec-
ton, without fraud or violence. the Republican
that theS eaned II IN States % crimes
20 revolving that when described in the mlldest
terms. good, quiet, honest people IN the North North
shs ospabe Of possSs
such crimes would be resorted to. It has got to
be somewhat out of fashion to talk about South.
the conditon s this connry Unless W we are viii
ing to look at the exact situation OF the rebel
States.
the Repubicans. su % white wRite and black, were either
not allowed to vote, or. il they voted, the count
was so made Is to reject their votes. and, in
voence and
scarcely denied It was proved by witnesses by
the hundred. whose testimony is recorded IL
any citizen. That fraud and violence was con-
tinued In 1876, and would have defeated PIesi-
dent Hayes but for the power conferred by State
their own contrivancc, which enabled the return.
ing boards in Louisiana, Florida, and South
Carolina to return the electoral votes OF those
Sss s'ee 10. mster Of and has been
denounced as fraud. Yet happen to know.
from the most careful examination Of these cases.
that in each OF these States, there 1ad % been a
overwhelming for the Hayes electors. and that
the returning boards were not able to repair al
reject the returns Of counties and parishes where
the fraud was most palpable and gross, and thus
secured the election of President Hayes. You
in Oregon and other States was attempted. and
the cipher dispatches, disgrace to the history
Of our elections, showed that bribery was at-
affirm without fear Of contradiction thatin every
one of the cotton States fair and honest VOTE
free from fraud and intimidation, would place
all these States on the side OF the Republican
"The occurrences at the recent elections in
Mississippi and Virginia, known as the Copiah
hnd Danyille outrages, show that this policy is
continued now, and the newspapers inform you
that it is the openly announced and avowed
purpose of the Democratic leaders to resort to
The same frauds in Louisiana and Mississippi,
hnd, perhaps, other States. The success of the
Democratic party is only possible by crimes
that in former times would have 80 shocked
public opinion as to have led to the punishment
and disgrace Of every one who participated In
them, and yet this is the way, and the only
way, by which there is possibility Of tho
Democratic party succeeding at the present
election. = have often thought and
believed that If the honest, good Democrats Of
Ohio could appreciate, as I do, the nature OF
these ofenses, and the danger to our fnstttu-
tions growing ont Of election frauds, they would
revolt against all affiliations with the Demo-
cratic party. I concede that, as citizens and
neighbors here, they are as peaceable, as order.
ly, and in the main as patriotic as we are, but I
cannot but think that they are 80 blinded and
misled by party zeal that they will condone and
take advantage OF crime and fraud to secure
party ends, or still more charitable view, that
they cannot be persuaded, even by evidence, Of
the truth Of charges 80 dfsgraceful to thek
party and their associates in the South"
The Senator then considered the tariff quess
ton, the duty on wool, an6 urged liberal PEN
sions for soldiers, closing With eul0gy Of tho
Republican national candidate.