Year: 1879

Keep the Radical party in power, an


but for which, he would be i'm Obscurity


where he belongs. Did you ever thinl


that never before in the history of thi


country, was AN appropriation bill We


tocd. Ii can't hc found upon rccOrIe,


legislation. This may he Revolution


And yet this ic fdctO President with al


the suspicion that surrounds and at


tends him, prtsjImes to do things tha


have no precedent and what the man,


great and good men who have both re


ilected honor and glory upon the nation


with all their wisdom, refrained from


doing. Bills that were uucunStitution


al have been vetoed, but never was tn,


veto power used To defeat the eXprcsS


cd will of the people, made manifest


through their Representative in Con


gresS, and the President attempt 10 t!ic


tate to it what laws should be enacted


The Executive has no such authority


1t has Il separate and distinct duty t.


perform in tine Government, and this j.


not one of them. Did you know that


this much vaunted resumption of spe,


Gle payment that the Republican party


would have yOu believe they accom-


plishcd, is "a failure? Who in this au-


dience can take his dollar and demand


and receive specie in lieu of it? Where


will You 90, and of whom will YOU


make the demand? The truth is, that


YOU must first have aS much rs iifty


dollars before you can make any de-


mand, and then YOU have to 20 to New


York City to do this. So YOU see that


the poor man, and he constitutes the


greater class, is entirely excluded from


the operation of the law, and the bond


holder reaps the benefit. What Door


man has the time or extra money that


II will require 10 have the fifty dollars


that he has saved by mis- honest sweat.


carried up or transmitted To New York,


i'm order To have the benefit of this so
called specie payment ? So Won see
that it is "A practical failure, and that it


Is Il law for the money kings of the


EIst, and against the horny handed
yeOmanry and prOducersof the country.


In fact, the Republican party is no poor
mans party, its effects are To make the
rich, richer, and the poor, poorer. The
great National Republican party
demOnetiZed silver, and by their vile
iegisiations, changed an act of Congress
by which the bonded war debt was to
DE paid IN coin, to a contract TO pay in
gold, and thereby rob the nation of one
half its wealth that being about the
ratio that silver bears to gold, and added
this sum to the already swelled Golfers
of the bond holder, and when the DEM
Ocrats in Congress, introduced and
be enacteda law remOnetizing
silver, this bill had to be passed, and
was passed, over the veto of "A Rad
ical President. Not only is this so, but
the present administration has, bv its
recent conferences with its wards, the
National banks, caused them to pay
ont the Mexican dollars to depOsitors,
dollar for dollar, and after this was
done then to issue to them orders to
the effect that their value was less than
one hundred cents; 50 that there was a
in the currency, and great
loss tO the masses of the people, and i'm
fact, although one NAV have had a
pocket full of Mexican dollars, he could
not sit down at night and count il over,
and say how much money he had.
The Mexican dollar weighs more than
the standard dollar, and vet the stand
ard dollar is legal tender and the Mexi-
can l. not. Is this right ? No. \ dol
lar should be dollar, and pay a dol
lars way everywhere, and then there
will be no tluctuatiOn i'm value and en-
riching one class to the prejudice of an
other.


And while upon the subject of finance
L want To say that | am for abolishing
the National banks and wiping out the
exemption clause on the treasury note
"eXcept duties on imports and exports
aNnH interest Il a Il
aries" don't mean to Tepudiate any
contract that may have been honestly
money that is good enough
for the poor man ought to be good
enough for the Office-hOlders and bond
holders; and when il is called dollar
il ought to be one for all purposes. This
IL Democratic doctrine, and has been,
and it ought to be, and | believe is the
doctrine of the people if they could
keep their voices from being stifled by
the power of the money-kings, the Ma
tional banks and Wall streeters, who
are the pets and flvOrites of the great
National Republican party. Who in
troduced IA bill into Congress asking that
the producer of tobacco be allowed to
sell us much rs one hundred pounds to
his neighbOr without obtaining alicense
to do 81? A Democrat; and had this
law been passed il would not only have
increased the production of the weed,
but would have added to the value re-
allied from the sale of tobacco. As it is,
sales must be made to license tobacco
dealers only, and who are frequently at
a distance from the man who could have
his little patch, yet he can't sell his little
crop to his neighbor who has large one,
without risking the penalties of the law
Or take the expense and trouble of haul
ing his little bunch to the distant dealer,
and the Republican party say that they
will not let the farmer have any such
law. Did you ever think that we, i'm
this tobacco growing belt of country,
We're paying an undue proportion of the
expense of the national government;
and that we are actually taxed ON tho
of lie? And vet this is true,
and although the Democratic party has
sought to give relief, still the Republic
can party says no. For illustration: to-
baccO is one of the most highly taxed
articles; and in this section our farmers
raise barely enough wheat and corn 10
support them, and sometimes not
enough, hut cultivate large crops of to-
niccO, III tue SOIL II bctlcT dtltptCu 10 tllc
growth of this, and sell the tobacco to
buy the nccessaries of life, and in max
ing his sales he is forced To sell at such
reduced rate rs to enable the buyer and
To pay the Government
lax, and the Effect il ta cause him To
pay tax unknown to the grain grow
ing sections of the north; and yet this
Radical party insists upon this sort of
taxation, and if we dare say aught
against it, or enact laws for the preserv-
ition of our rights, they cry out "Rcvo-
luton and starvation of the govern
ment." Who introduced bill and en-
,cted the same into law putting qui-
nine on the free list? This, too, was the
work of Democrats; and every one who
mas Il chill hereafter ought to be thank
'ul to our gallant Mckenzie for his wis
iom and industry in cOnceiving and
through this bill 80 you see


he lion p-hoarted Oid Democracy stands
'irht ,DOn the record Notice lust one