Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-12

| effect of the election. This election has dis
 persed certain heresies and mistaken notions. l For twenty-five years there has been in this country party, sometimes less than half the people, claiming that they only ought to be allowed to make and execute laws and ad-
 minister public affairs. This election is 8
 condemnation of that very offensive heresy.
 It is no longer doctrine in the United States
 that none but a select set of men are to gov
 ern this country The doctrine of this
 country is that the rule of
 the majority is to be re-
 spected. That majority has caused this
 to be understood in it's expression of the last
 election and no more will it be said that one
 particular set of men arrogate to themselves
 the right and propriety of managing the pub
 lie affairs of the country. In that re-
 spect we are all equal. As soon as the bal
 ance shall return and the Republican party
 shall have a majority by one if
 you please, we Democrats shall respect
 the full force and meaning of
 that judgment. Now that the Democratic
 party has been heard as 0 majority in this
 land the Republican party shall respect that
 expression. Another heresy has been dissi-
 pated, that money can and must be used to
 carry an election. Somehow other they
 did not get control of so much money
 here in Indiana as usual and
 they had to rely only upon an appeal to the
 judgment of the people think another
 judgment has been pronounced, and that is
 that the American people are capable of self government. I think it is decided that the people are capable of managing their own elections, and that from this time on the
 marshal is not to deputize any secret agents to control elections. And that is one reason, that rejoice that the Democracy is to come in power. I hope to see all laws allowing any such abuse of power wiped from the statute books of a free people. I ! want to see the time return when the people shall in fact govern themselves and control 1 their own election according to their own l laws. Until the Democracy shall have an opportunity to repeal this law I hope ] the expression of public condemnation will prevent any marshal from appointing deputy marshals to control cleo 1 tions unless in fact under the law he ought ! to make such an appointment. But I don't | believe he ought to make such appointments. l There has never been a canvass in Indiana when there was so much of scandal and un- truth. I don't charge it upon the people; l 1t was not With them, but the men who con
 trolled in high places saw fit to
 make charges against their fellow citizens not sustained by facts. I repeat have never l known political contest in Indiana so char 1 acterized by islander, scandal and untruth. l So far as I was concerned, never turned to l the right or to the left. I knew that the
 many things that were held in regard
 to my loyalty and about my devotion to l the country and all that I knew that the people of Indiana already understood
 it and that they could make no impression l upon you. But we have learned in this con- 1 test that truth is stronger than error; that truth is stronger than a lie, and that the DO 1 litical party that is hereafter to reach the 1 judgment of the American people must rely l upon truth and not upon falsehood."
 l The Governor concluded by express
 ing his belief in the justice of the l Democratic platform to reform in the
 tariff Governor Gray followed in a speech 1 in which he declared that nobody need have | any doubt but that the Democracy was com 1 ing into power. Republican officeholderf would have to go as soon as the safety of the government departments would warrant |
 change being made.