Year: 1877

Very earnestly the Democrats of this
great city and State of Indiana, as $50
of other States contended for and de-
randed the restoration Of local self gov
ernment in all the States where it had |
been denied They insisted uron a re-
duction throughout the entire public SER
vice in expenditures, not by hundreds,
nor yet by thousands, but by millions an
nualy. Therein was involved also a
great reduction of the vast army of Office
holders, and the substitution of IN hoh'
est for dishonest administration. Con.
tending for results so notably right and
honorable, their cause was grand and
their victory glorious, and | will not dis
turb the pleasure of this occasion by un-
dertaking to recount the means whereby
the will and iudgmentof the people were
defeated The result as declared in Flor
i6a and in Louisiana and at Washington
is not and cannot be made satisfactory to
the country for the obvious reason that
it was not true A great and sincere
people will rest their fidal judgment only
upon truth, and never upon fraud, though ]
successful through technicality.


Even should the President and his
Cabinet adopt a part or a whole Of the
policies and purposes for which the Dem
oCratC party Las been Contendng for
many years, and which became so dis
tinctly defined last year, even that can
not remove or quiet discomfort. The
Democrats will make no faCtious OpDosi-
ton, nor will they seek to embarrass the
de f1cto administration, but will sustain
it in what is right because it is right, and
for the welfare of the country, and not at
all because of any fealty to the party that
stands defeated and condemned by the
people. The people cannotallow the Sc
lection of their Chief Magistrate to be-
come thing of chance or sharp practice
The first fraud triumphant in American
history must be assigned its proper lace
among the crimes against popular gov
ernment, and made 80 odious that no par
ty will dare to attempt its repetition. He
who is elected President must be inaug-
urated. Until that is settled and made
sure, no Democrat can be seduCed from
his devotion and allegiance in any way
not by allurements of office nor even by
strong appeal in abandonment by the
administration of vicious principles and
dangerous policies, and the adoption Of
better doctrines and just measures. DEM
ocrats will not intrust their most cherish
ed principles to the keeping of power
which is attained by vicious and corrupt
means. They will the rather continue
their faith in the right of the majority to
rule, in accordance with Constitutional
provisions.


All the Democrats rejoice with un-
bounded joy that free Republican Gov.
ernments are once more allowed to the
states of South Carolina and Louisiana.
They rejoice in the good fruits that must
follow. They know peace and good or
der will prevail; that capital will be made
secure and labor safe, contented and hap
py; that enterprise will revive, and cruel
burdens of the government and public
corruption will be lifted from the shoul-
ders of labor, and that productions will
increase and lands advance in price, but
they know that in the language of Gov.


Morton, at had become inevitable"
Good government in the States was not
a free will offering upon the altars OF the
country. For years Democrats had con-
tended in Congress and before the people
for free Republican States throughout the
South, and finally it became inevitable,
because the right and truth were too
strong to be longer suppressed. In this,
Democrats find reason to stand more
firmly with their party out ofpower,with
no patronage to dispense and no money
to distribute, but animated by the spirit
of our institutions, and inspired by the
sentiment of the right of local self-gov-
ernment which is inherent in the peo-
pie. The Democratic party during the
past ten years has restored one State af
ter another, until now, the tread of the
soldier is heard in no legislative hall,
but in every State the people are govern
ed by laws of their own enacting, and by
officers of their own choosing ZAP
plause)


Ny fellow citizens, my home is in the
the west, and my associations have been
with the people Of that section. Among
you personally l am almost stranger,
but l am received by you with open arms
and cordial greetings. l need not say to
you that l am gratifed because of this
fact; it has more than personal signih-
canoe (cheers). Does it not declare that
We have no sectional political sentiments
and that we will have no sectional poll
cies. Some may say that we ought to
have and must have an eastern policy,
while others will say that we must have
western policy, but it seems to me that
q New Yorker or Indianian should un-
derstand better than that, and that our
legislative and administrative policy shall
be as broad and comprehensive as the in
dustries, the trade and the commerce
they are to influence. (Cheers.) Does
not the trade of the great cities of the At
lantic extend beyond the mountains?
Does it not pass the Mississippi and go
across the Missouri wherever new home
is built upon the receding border, wher-
ever a new farm Is made far out
even into the shadows Of the Rocky
mountains. Whenever an additional
bale of cotton is produced in Louisiana
and in Texas it adds something to the
wealth ana greatness Of the city. Is there
New Yorker who, as he walks up and
down this great Broadway, hears and
feels only the throbbing of local COM
merce. Let such man break loose from
the narrow habits of his life. Let him
90 out into the great cotton growing and
grain growing regions of the country, nor
let him stop until he shall hear the
waves of the Pacific dashing against the
golden shores of California, and he will
90 back better prepared to judge of the
magnitude, and the involved interests
that are to be affected by the policy,com-
mercial and financial, of the country.
Successful enterprise and development in
remote parts of the country are as GER
tainly and most as directly connected
with the prosperity of this city as are the
permanent and valuable improvements
made upon your distant streets. have
said this under the influence of the sem
timent that in respect to production and
trade and commerce the East, West and
South are one; and / recognize no man
as a Democrat who believes that there is
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