Year: 1879

washington and Federal officials all over
the Union are openly and shamelessly taxed
Tor Republican campaign funds? If the
amount taxed on these officials is not neces-
sary to their support, then it is SO much of
the peoples money taxed for the mainten-
ance OF party rule, which could a& be 9TH
crwise maintained, and if it could be other
wise maintained, tn en it is so much souan-
dered to satisfy partisan greed. Ali We
want is fair and square effort before the
country to purify the political atmosphere,
and we are content and more than content
to take all the ill consequences arising to
us @mssiesss =yisM Of our ewp ulti.
mate good, and The great good TX sSwh6lc
country, which is no less our country be-
cause We are SouthcrDers and Democrats"


GREENBACKs OR HARD MONEY.


Correspondent: "Governor, presume we
will have to set you down as hard money
man? ?"


Governor "Of the strictcst school. do
not comprehend the greenback philosophy
at all. If l had been in Congress at the
time should have voted against the re.
sumption measure, not because / would
have been opposed to resumption. l have
always recognized resumption as necessary
to honest money and the actual payment of
tho public obligations, which must be met
dollar tor dollar in constitutional money.
and in good faith to the letter and spirit of
The law, as well as necessary to the honest
payment OF all debts. But yet I would, to
use MIR. Tildcn's phrase, "have got ready
to resume and more or less invited into
cooperation with the government the wise
providence of the business circles of the
country, and permitted the business neccs-
sites OF the country, with its shaping hand,
to disentangle the financial web which Re-
publican craftsmanship had wound round
and round the great industries of the country
until it stood like the lion in the meshes.-
The small operations of daily life, gradually
cutting mesh after mesh, would in due time
and with wise providence and patience,
have relieved the distress of the country,
naturally and permanently. Sudden re.
Sumption, n.ny Ote,o, cost tic people Of tie
country too much to Jc adyOcated. | should
have preferred more of what the doctors
call the tentative process than the enormous
physicking through which the country has
been put. No one can tell the countless
loss and sorrow through which the people
OF this country have passed in this rapid
resumption measure, which can be com.
pared to nothing else than the Egyptian
order to the Israelites, to make


BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW.


Yet, when the hard pan has been reached,
painful though the process may have been,
1t does seem 70 me to be unwise to 90 back
and, perchance, have unwisely to travel
over the same ground again. l do not
think it wise for the Democracy at this
stage to set back the wheels of resumption.
Let us rather now take advantage of what
ever good may be found in it, The past,
with all its sorrows, it might be as well
with all our might and main to put bravcly
behind us, and look out to the wide future
before us. The truth is, resumption will
prove partial success or failure before
1880. We, in our own interests whether
Democrats or otherwise, should wisely en-
dcavor to make the most of it, and the
country has right to expect this much at
our hands"


TIE JACKSON DEMOCRACY.


Correspondent 81 believe, Governor, YOU
have always stood on the platform of the
Jackson Democracy ?"


Governor: "Evcr, and [ stand there to-
day. To my view, we should get back
there as fast as possible. The true Jack
son policy, as | apprchcnd it, is to olsen
tanglc the business transactions of the
country from the legitimate financial con-
duct Of government affairs. TO mix the
two things is unwarranted by the Constitu.
tionand dangerous to the last degree
Why, does not everybody see, from what
has transpircd before us, that the moment
that the government becomes involved in
its financial operations with those of the
country at large, the moncyed men of the
country and the great industrial classes
become involved in IAN irrepressiblc con-
fiict,' even more terrible than that which
the great New York politician of former
day pressed upon the attention of the
country! The moneyed men in their own
interest endeayor to shape and control the
financial policy Of the country, more or l,ss,
as the necessities Of the case or the


GREED OF THE MONEYED MEN


might demand. The industrial classes, at
first unconscious of control, or patient
under it so long as business prospcrs with
them, as soon as reverscs come-either aris.
ing from the exigencies of the times or the