Year: 1879

deliberately revived by the Democratic
leaders of the day. There has been no
new encroachmentup upon the local rights
of the States which calls for any resist
ance to Capitalization. On the contrary
the policy of the present Administra-
ton has been toward the most COM
plete separation of the National and
State authority in political affairs, even
to the extent Of forbidding those per-
sons who hold Office under the General
Government from taking an active part
in the control of caucuses and convefl.
tions for the selection of State and
local officials. But the Democrats are
not satisfied with proper distinction
between National authority and State
rights, but have rather been encouraged
hy the fun es,aaaeion of hoinn-rnla in
all the Southern States to urge an en-
croachment upon National authority.
They would repeal the law which en-
ables the National Courts to exercise
supervision over elections to the Ma
tional Congress, because they contend
that United States Senators are ambas-
sadors from sovereign States, and Repre-
sentatives merely accredited State
agents, and consequently it in nowise
concerns the National Government
whether such agents be chosen fairly
or fraudulently. They claim the right
of the States to nullify any United States
law which happens to be obnoxious to
any ruling local faction, as iE the case
of the "Moonshiners," who evade the
collection of the tax on whisky; and they
use their State Courts to defeat the
execution of the National law. They
still insist upon regarding the Union as
q mere League, from which any one of
the States may withdraw at pleasure,
and thus endeavor to nullify the logical
results of the successful war against Sc
cession. The Southern Democrats, who
control the caucus of their party, are to
a man IN favor of the most ultra doc
trine of State sovereignty, and await
only an accession To power to apply it
in the most obnoxious ana dangerous
fashion.


The Democratic party is as clearly
committed to the doctrine of unequal
rights as the Republican party is to
that of equal rights. The political his
tory of the South for the past four years
furnishes sufficient evidence of this fact.
Equal political rights were guaranteed
by the Constitutional Amendments, and
those amendments have been openly
nullifed In Mississippi, Alabama, Louis
lana, Florida, South Carolina and CO.
verify nulliied in every other Southern
State by intimidation, violence and
frauds connived at or tolerated by the
local Governments. An outspoken
Southern Democrat does not claim that
the black citizens enjoy equal rights
with the white citizens in the South,
but, on the contrary, asserts that the
former are not entitled to the same po-
litical privileges as the latter; and be
frankly approves of all the methods
that have been adopted to snuff out the
majorities of the "inferior race" in
certain sections in order that the minor
tiles of the "superior race" may rule.
This is not mere theory with South
ern Democrats; it is their practice, and
1t is through this practice that they
count upon maintaining "Solid
South" for the election of Democratic
President in 1880. The Democratic
State Committee in Mississippi actually
issued standing order that the disci-
pline of 1875, '76 and VI must be
strictly adhered to, and the methods OF
that period of intimidation and violence
rigidly observed, as the basis of this
years campaign.


Free elections likewise constitute q
cardinal principle with the Republican
party, the reassertion of which has be-
come necessary by reason of Demo.
cratic opposition. Free elections mean
honest elections, and honest elections
can only be assured by watchful super
vision. This condition is supplied by
the National laws in the case of Con
gressional elections, and it is the de-
clared intention of the Democratic par
ty to destroy it. The Democratic ma
jority in Congress compelled the call
in5 of aVtra session To achieve thi.
purpose, and threatened the actual de
struction of the Government by starva
ton to carry out their design until pub
lie opinion forced an abandonment ol
this revolutionary position. The re,
peal of the National election laws i:
one of the chief aims of the Democratic
party, and it only needs the election o.
Democratic President to accomplish
the substitution of free frauds for free
elections.


There can be no controversy over the
relative positions of the Republican anC
Democratic parties as to honest anC
dishonest money. There is factor
in the Democratic party, it is true
which contends for honest money, bu
it is subordinate and imbecile. ThC
ruling sentiment of that party is il
favor of a return to the excesses of ar
inflated and irredeemable currency
The Democratic House of the last Con
gress actually repealed the Resumption
law after all the necessary preparations
had been made for carrying it out, anC
upon the very eve of its success it wa
only saved by the Republican majority
in the Senate. The Democrats of Ohio
nominated General Ewing for Governor
because he is the most advanced anC
radical advocate of the fiat system. The
retirement of the National bank note!
as means for doubling up the volume
of greenbacks and thus breaking dowr
resumption is an avowed purpose of the
party. The South is so completely in
fected with so-called Greenbackisn
that the Democratic party as whole
can scarcely keep up with the senti
ments of its individual members in tha
section of the country, and is threat
ened with fatal detection in the "Sol
i'd South" unless it shall comply with
the most extreme views of the tiatists
Every one of these four issues Sc
clearly stated in the New York plat
form has been forced upon the country
by the Democratic party; they are the
vital issues of the next Presidential
election, and the campaign in New
York and Ohio this year must be based
thereon, as an intelligent preparation
for the National election OF next year
with regard to local or factiOnal dis
sensions. - Chicago Tribune.


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