Omaha daily bee., 1884-09-08
IMPENDING CONFLICT.
The Great Political Campaign BEGIN,
ming to Fake Form.
Recruiting Clans, Marshaling
Forces Every Where.
Hendricks Re-iterates the Ancient
and Exploded Dogmas.
And Passes Opinion on the
Great Labor Candidate"
St. John at Home--Butler on
His Travels.
Libel Suit-CaIifornia.s Campaign
Commences-Political Pabu-
lum of Every Variety.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, September 6 Sex
Governor Hendricks addressed 5000 people
al Muncie to-day. In the course of bis
speech he said: 1t is now twenty-five years
that the republican party has controlled the
administration and executive affairs of this
country, and it is of the first Importance that
you and | should consider the question
whether that is as long as one set of men
ought to continue in absolute control, in other
words, the question is before us, could not
there be a change? | ask your attention only
to the last nineteen years during which that
party has controlled thu administration
and executive affairs of the country. |
could not find figures or words to express to
you the enormou sums of money that
have been collected and the enormous sums of
money that have been paid out. | will refer,
by way of illustration, only to one year. Dur
ing the last year, as reported by the secreta y
of the treasury, the collections and eXpendi-
lures amounted to $500, 600, 600, The history
of those transactions are found in many thou
sands of volumes and they We're rec%orded.by
many thousand men, men belonging to one
party only. No democrats have been allowed
to participate in any of the affairs OF the cOun'
try. | speak in substance. An occasional dem
ocrat may be allowed an office, but fer
the great purposes of administering the nj
fairs of the government the democrats have
been excluded and to you men the question is
presented now, ought there not be achauge?
Shall they be opsn4d? Shall there be an op.
portunity for us to know what has been wrong
ia the records of the country, so that we may
know whether it is well or liz / do not claim
that one political party, in the first place, in
its organization, is probably any mere honest
than any other. If we had no political par
ties in this country, and were going to estab.
lish two political parties, and were to run q
line through this crowd and the men on that
side were to be of one party and the men on
this side of the other party, the chances would
be that there would be just
as many honest men on one side as on the
other, and as many rogues, perhaps, as on the
other; but suppose this party comes into
power, and it becomes established, that it IS
going to retain power twenty years, and nave
the control of the offices, the control of the
money and of tho country, don't you see that
all the rogues on this side would gradually
come over and JOIN the strong side and gradu-
ally push honest men on this side until they
would take control Of the dominant
party themselves. | don't expect, gentlamen,
that all men in office should be turned out. |
do not desra that where Il republican, gov
ernedby his conscientious convictions, has been
in oftice and las proven himself to be a Jrue
and honest man in the administration of that
office, [ do not aek that he shall Returned out;
but | ask that honest men shall be placed in
office sufficiently numerous to give the people
of this country information in regard to their
affairs. The republicans, for the last nineteen
years, have said to every democrat, you shall
have no voice in the control of the affairs of
the government. They have seen fit to occupy
that position with a cruel proscriptive policy,
excluding every man that did not agree with
them. What do you think, my c~ountrymen:
Shall it be continued any longer: lCries of
'no!"l MIR. Calkins, republican candidate for
governor, in aspeech n weeks ago, said we had
800, O0O,, 100 in the treasury. He said that by
way of braggadocio. What right has the gov
eminent to S40O, 100000 of tbs peoples money
that it has no occasion to use in tho admins.
tration of its AFFAIR."? What would be the eff
feet if taxes were reduced so that money would
come hack into your pockets and into the chan,
nels Of trade? Don't you know that it would
stimulate enterprise? Don't you know that 1t
would give. employment to laoorers: Send the
money into the channels of trade and wheat
won't sell at Il begging market for % cents, y
cents and rs cents per bushel.