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SATURDAY EVENING. OCT. 23, 1880.
That Heathen Chinee.
Truth, a morning journal of Xe w Yerk
city, published in its issue en Friday, a
fac-simile of Hie letter of Mr. Garfield
in which he declares that he is net pre
pared te say that the existing treaty
with China, which allows the free im
portation of Chinese laborers, should be
abrogated " until our great manufactur
ing and corporate interests are conserved
in the matter of labor." This letter is
pronounced te be in Mr. Garfield's hand
writing by Speaker Randall, Mr. Hewitt
and ether gentlemen of the highest repute
who have been in intimate association
with him, and have carefully compared
it with letters from him in their posses
sien. Still there exists a possibility that
it might ba a forgery, and the general
impulse of fair men has bsen te suspend
their opinion until Mr. Garfield had an
opportunity te make his denial or ex
planation. A telegram did appear
which purported te come from him,
declaring the letter te be a stupid
forgery, but it did net cetne in the au
thentic form which the gravity of the
occasion demanded. A letter which men
of such eminence and repute for honor
as Mr. Randall and Mr. Hewitt pro
nounced te be genuine certainly demand
ed from Mr. Garfield an explicit dis
avowal and the fullest explanation he
could give ever his own signature. This
he has net given, although as long age
as Wednesday evening the Xew Yerk
Herald says that it telegraphed te him
at Menter asking as te the genuineness of
the letter and offering te telegraph it te
him if he had net already seen it. Ne
answer has yet been received.
We are favored with a proclamation
from Marshall Jewell, declaring that he
is fully authorized te denounce it as a
bold forgery, both in its language and
sentiment. A denial from such a source
does net answer the purpose. Mr. Jew
ell can knew nothing of his own
knewledge as te tire forgery which he
affirms en authority which he does net
disclose. It would have been easy for
him te eay that he had been authorized
by Mr. Garfield te denounce the letter :is
a forgery. This, it will be noticed, he
carefully abstains from doing, and se
far as we knew, his ' authority '" may be
one of his clerks who knows no mere of
the matter than he does. Anether pecu
liarity of his deuial will be found in the
statement that the letter is a forgery
" both in language and sentiment." Ob
viously if the letter is a forgery in its
language it is se in its sentiment, since
the letter is published in full and it must
be altogether true or false. Mr. Jewell
denies, by authority, somewhat wildly.
If Mr. Garfield should himself declare
this letter a forgery no doubt the mass of
Republicans would believe him and the
mass of men would call for all the pro
curable evidence ljefere making up their
minds about it. Unfortunately Mr. Gar
field is believed by the majority of his
fellow-citizens te have deliberately com
mitted perjury; that offense having
been distinctly fastened upon him by
his own admissions and the testimony of
his friends in notable instances. His
word, therefeie, canuet be taken im
plicitly by these who are net ever-inclined
by partisan feeling te believe him
a pure white lamb. His denial would
net prove the forgery he would aver, but
without his denial even his friend- can
not believe him innocent. Only the
very faithful and the very stupid will
consent that the chairman of the national
committee shall step in te de Mr. Gar
field's denying for him en dubious ' au
thority." The Xew Yerk He mid pronounces this
letter infamous in that it calmly pro
poses te keep up Chinese importation te
aid the manufacturing and corporate in
terests in keeping down the wages of la
bor. Mr. Garfield himself has declared
en an occasion when it seemed te be his
policy te present the anti-Chinese view
of the question, that the Chinese inva
sion of this country was net an emigra
tion of free men, but was rather like an
importation of slaves. And se it is. The
Chinese are imported by companies who
sell their labor at a profit ; and this labor
is a constant threat against the labor of
the American citizen offered as it can
lie and is te the capitalist and manufac
turer at a price which is net a living one
for our own workmen. It is this impor
tation which Mr. Garfield was net pre
pared te say " should be abrogated until
our great manufacturing and corporate
interests arc conserved in the matter of
labor." What is the workman prepared
te say te Mr. Garfield, if he believes
he wrote these words ? Will they "con
serve' him V
A Great Declaration.
We .publish elsewhere a letter from
Mr. Frest, a lawyer of Xew Yerk city,
in enthusiastic praise of the course taken
by us in our controversy with the judi
ciary, and which expresses the warmest
admiration for the decision of the su
preme court, which Mr. Frest believes is
worthy te be compared te the first decla
ration of liberty sent out from Pennsyl
vania ever a hundred years age, in its
conservation of the freedom of the peo
ple. Mr. Frest expresses himself warmly
but net tee much se. Can any one be tee
animated in speaking of the chart which
Judge Sharswood's decision prescribes
for the contest of the judiciary and the
guidance of the bar. The tyranny of a
foolish, fcelii.sli or corrupt judge is mere
oppressive than that of any ether official
and mere dillicult te escape from. The
judge must be wise and pure if our
liberty and our democracy a: e te live.
Mr. Frest speaks with se much feeling
because he has been the victim of the
judge's unbridled power; but any man
who thinks of the greatness of the judi
cial power and hew impossible it is te re
strict it except by the judgment and tem
per of the judge himself, must feel that
the supreme court of Pennsylvania in
declaring it net only the lawyer's right
but his duty te inform the people of the
character of thejudge,didin fact deliver
as important a declaration te the con
tinuance of a democratic government as
was the great declaration of indepen
dence sent out from Pennsylvania in
1776.
Govhbseb Fester, of Ohio,en the day
after the election declared in conversa
tion after dinner in a Columbus hotel
that the tariff and business issues were
get up by Eastern parties for the purpose
of a scare, and he chuckled greatly ever
the success of the device in Ohie and In
diana. Mr. Handy, the Times corres
pondent, was in the party -who thus be
came the confidants of the governor in this
secret, and as they were let in because
the governor was feeling se geed, and
were net cautioned te keep the secret,
Mr. Handy telegraphed the news te the
Times. Then Gov. Fester became
alarmed at the imprudence of his admis
sion and wrote te the Xew Yerk Sun
denying that he knew Mr. Handy or had
ever said anything te him of the kind.
Mr. Handy in a rejoinder te the Sun com.
pletely corners the governor and gives
him a meal he will find much
mere uncomfortable te digest than the
one after which he was se jubilant in
the Xeil house. As the Philadelphia
Tunes suggests, it is wonderful hew
these Ohie politicians will lie, and it don't
cure them te make them governors or
candidates for president.
Mn. Jewell, who wishes te declare
" by authority'" what Mr. Garfield did
net say, is net se ready te explain his
own dubious writings. We have no ex
planation from him " by authority" as
te the meaning of that dispatch of his
which undesignedly found its way te Mr
Barman, in which he notified that Flor Fler
ida United States collector of the
shipment of e5U men, and warned him te
tell the men en the deck te keep quiet
about it. Mr. Jewell has the fleer.
MINOR TOPICS.
GncGOiiiA SrESCER, a colored woman, a
native of Havana, Cuba, aged 29 years,
appeared yesterday in com t at Washing
ton, D. C, and took the oath of allcgi allcgi
ance te the United States te become a
full-fledged .citizen, because she contem
plates visiting her native country.
Byhex SiMi'hOX, an English fanner and
capitalist, and Jehn Dyke. Canadian emi
gration agent at Liverpool, arrived in
Quebec en Thursday night from a visit te
the United States, Manitoba and Ontario,
They believe the eastern townships in Can
ada offer facilities for English settlers net
te be obtained elsewhere.
Te-mgiit's parade passes along the edge
of that Gibraltar of Democracy, the "Old
Eighth" ward. It is suie le receive a
royal welcome there, and these of the resi
dents of the ward living upon Maner and
Dewart streets who may have prepared te
receive our men with decorations and illu
mination will have future use for their
lights and lanterns and Hags, as yet an
other parade is premised between this and
election day, which will give the ,sHill"
such a shaking up as it has net felt during
the campaign. The date of the parade
will be announced shortly after te-night's
demonstration, and the Sixth, Ninth and
othcrsectiens of the city, which may pos
sibly feel themselves overlooked in this
turnout will certainly be remembered in
the future demonstration.
PERSONAL.
Ei:.tl Cekxixg Bexedici, a well
known lawyer and author, of Xew Yerk,
died there yesterday of apoplexy.
Rev. Dr. AVilliam Swan Pm.mi;h, an
eminent Presbyterian minister, died yes
terday, in Baltimore, aged 78 years.
Captain S. LoxGSCen:, a prominent cot
ton dealer of Housten. Texas, died en
Thursday, aged 78 years. He was the first
president of the Beard of Trade and of the
Cotten Exchange in Housten.
Bishop Soii'bex has returned home treui
his four months' trip te the AVest, very
much improved in health. He had in
tended te visit Japan and China, te preside
ever the church conferences there, hut the
ill health of his wife compelled him te re
linquish the plan when he had reached San
Francisce.
Mr. Themas UueiiLb, M. P., delivered
yesterday before a large and cultured au
dience in the hall of Havcrferd college, an
t(liess en English public schools and Dr.
Arneld. Prof. Pliny E. Chase, en behalf
of the beard of managers of the college,
conferred upon Mr. Hughes the title of
Docter of Laws.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
Charles Rcntz, 75 years of age, lesiding
in Limerick township,Mentgomcry ceuntv
committed suicide en Thursday by shoot sheet
ing himself.
A fire in the Standaid oil company's
warehouse, near St. Paul, Minn., en
Thursday night caused a less of about
$30,000.
Patrick McDcrmett, Garrett O'Connor
and Daniel Dougherty were buried under
a falliug pile of lumber at Hunter's Point,
L. I., yesterday, and are supposed te be
fatally injured.
Jacob Swartz, assistant engineer of the
tugboat AVhite Crass, was crushed te death
while at work among the machinery of the
tug, yesterday, the engine being started by
the engineer who was se ignorant of
Swartz's peril. Swartz lived in Philadel
phia. Luke AValten, who murdered one of his
daughters and attempted te murder the
ether, in River Falls, AVis.T en the 22d ult.
has just been captured and ledged in jail.
He says he did the deed te prevent his
daughters " from coming te shame or
starvation through poverty."
Ezra J. Clement, aged 17 years, sus
pected of the assault upon and robbery of
his grandfather, Isaac Clement, at Pocas
set, Mass., was captured yesterday near
Plymouth. He was taken te Sandwich,
confessed the crime, implicated three
ether boys, and was committed. The
grandfather is new considered out of dan
ger. James B. Deyle, a native of Bradford,
AA'is., and son-in-law of Brad. Fester, a
noted counterfeiter, was arrested in Chica
go en Thursday, under orders from the
secret service bureau, for having in his
possession stolen government bends. There
were found upon him a number of $1,000
U. S. coupon bends, sixes of July 17 and
Aug. 5, 1801.
Pistols and Coffee ter Twe.
In a heat of passion ever a political dis
cussion en Tuesday night Mr. Van AVickle,
superintendent of the Standard oil com
pany, gave the he te .Majer Harry S. God
dard, of Philadelphia, who is visiting at
Bergen Point, X. J. Majer Goddard chal
Icdgcd Mr. Van AVickle te fight a duel,
giving him the weapons. Van Wickle as
yet has made no reply. Goddard seems te
he in deadly earnest, and the friends of
both parties fear there will be a collision
bctwrcn the men. Goddard has taken
part in several affairs of honor in the Seuth
and one in P7is,
THE TRIUMPH. OF SIGHT.
THE CHAINS OF UESPOTISH BROKE.
Significance of the supreme Court's Recent
Decision.
Xew Yere, 70 Ludlow Steeet,
October 15, 1880. $
Te tlie Editor et tec Lancaster Istelliqestct.:
Gentlemen : Your noble endeavors te
te maintain your right te criticize the
judiciary when it does wrong deserves the
united praise of the country, and I say of
the world. Your great victory will be re
membered hundreds of years hence. It
has instilled new life into lawyers aud has
raised them above slavery te the judiciary,
and has made liberty something mere
than a mere name as it has been se lung.
Yeu have served the ends of civil
liberty by your gcrat victory, as re re
pertetLin the New Yerk Sttn, mere than a
hundred battles could have done. Your
victory has flashed across the wiies and
has awakened anew all ever the land the
spirit that uttered these memorable werds:
" We held these truths te be self-evident,
etc., etc."
Pennsylvania, ever 100 years age, sent
forth these words, but through the acts of
some of the judiciary they were fading
away and becoming mere idle words.
Bnt Pennsylvania again, after a hundred
years of our history had elapsed, in life
stirring sounds, peals forth her thunder,
breaking the chains of judicial despotism,
proclaiming te America that man is fiee
again. Fer that blessing thanks te your
supreme c-euit and te the noble judge who
steed by the right. The supreme ceuit of
Pennsylvania decides: "It is new the
right aud duty of a lawyer te bring te the
notice of the people, who elect the judges,
every instance of what he believes te be
corruption or partisanship."
Hew differently that reads from the fol fel fol
eowing: Just before Judge Barnard was
impeached in this city the Legislature of
New Yerk made a law te punish a man
as for a crime, if he said that judge did a
wrong. But just as the governor was
about te sign the bill its nature was dis
covered and the bar of Xew Yerk pro
tested against it and the governor re
fused se sign it.
Almest every lawyer knows that fraud
aud perjury are common in our judicial
proceedings, thereby apparently deceiving
our judicial officers into granting orders
of arrest in civil actions, depriving the
victim of his constitutional liberty for
years, or of his property.
The pretext is se apparent that the late
Chancellor Kent said that te allow such
recovery te stand should shock the com
mon sense of justice, but when judgcs'will
disregard law and right and oppress the
victim, it amounts te judicial slaughter
and the victim cannot help himself.
But thanks te you and your supreme
court, the remedy new is plain and a law
yer new cannot be imprisoned or dis
barred because the judge desires te stille
all knowledge of his own wrong. AYe here
say that you deserve great praise aud pro
pose te raise a fund te subscribe te your
paper, se thati copy may be sent te every
club and public institution. I enclose you
$2, and send me a copy for a year. I will
remit the balance when I see your terms
as printed in it. If you have a copy with
the opinion iu it of the court, please send
me one or mere, as I want te raise a fund
ferthe above purpose. I hand you a copy
of my paper, which you arc at liberty te
use. I am centendiug for the public geed
and will net submit te wrong. All this
will seen plainly appear.
A monument should he raised in Phil
adelphia, te cost net less than $200,000, te
commemorate the grand victory gained a
second time in Pennsylvania ever despot
ism, and the worst form of it, for such is
judicial despotism. I shall try te taise
funds by a popular subscription of five
cents each te erect such a monument.
Yours very truly,
II. A. Fnesr.
Mr. KauOuiau ami the Turin.
Fer tllC IXTLLMGEXChlt.
The Hen. Chi is. Kauil'mau, the De
mosthenes of the western edge of Lancas
ter county, is billed te appear ou the stage
next Saturday evening, at the hall, te en
lighten the people upon the subject of the
tariff. AVhat Chris, don't knew about
the tariff would make a big book, but he
thinks he is an oracle, aud can't repress
his overflowing zeal te show it. His ora
tory is peculiar, spasmodic aud erratic, but
his gesticulations are wonderful ! AVhen
excited, as he almost always is, he throws
his arms about very much like a jumping
jack, and, thrusting his head forward,
shakes it as though it was just check full
of ideas and wanted only this graceful move,
nientte shake them out. Perhaps after
Chris, gets through with his brilliant expose
of the tariff and its workings he will tell
his audience something about bulldozing
tiie workingmen, for whom he advertises
himself as a benefactor. He might tell
hew the boss of his stone quarries
works the thing for the benefit of
the workingmen, aud give us a schedule
of the high wages he pays the peer fel
lows in his employment. It wouldn't be
amiss for a large delegation of your Lan
caster people te come here upon this oc
casion. Yeu would be amused, if net in.
stiuctcd, and as the circus advertised for
the 22d will have gene, Chris, will have
had Iho benefit of a lessen iu clownish art.
and may be expected te get off Fcvcral
geed things.
The workingmen who shall find time te
go te this entertainment should ask Kauff
man some questions. Fer instance, they
might ask him whether a man who has
failed of success in everything he has un
dertaken in a business way is a lit exposi
tor of political economy? Aud, if one
who habitually pays the lowest wages for
the hardest work, and obliges his working
men te take their pay in store orders, may
be considered the particular friend of that
class.
And if the candidate of his party, Gar
field, who says that " individuals or com
panies have the right te buy .labor where
they can get it cheapest," is net proposed
as the peer man's friend whilst he favors
the introduction of Chinese te cut down
the price of labor.
And if it would net be' proper te term a
man mountebank who babbles about mat
ters he does net understand, and makes
himself the laughing stock of the com
munity. B.
Columbia, Pa., Oct. 23. 1880,
G AEFJLELD'S EMBARRASSMENT.
HIS FAILURE TO DENY.
TUE UEK-VL1 PBOXOEKCES IT FATAL.
Bis Tlce ei Tergiversation.
The Xew Yerk papers are publishing
lithograph copies of the following :
Personal and Confidential.
Hocseef Repbesextatives,
AVashixgten, D. C, Jan. 23d, 1880.
Dear Sir :
Yours in relation te the Chinese
problem came duly te hand.
I take it that the question of employees
is only a question of private and corporate
economy, and individuals or companies
have the right te buy labor where they
can get it cheapest.
AVe have a treaty with the Chinese gov
ernment, which should be religiously kept
until its previsions are abrogated by the
action of the general government, and I
am net prepared te say that it should be
abrogated until our treat manufacturing
interests are conserved in the matter of
labor. Very truly yours.
J. A. Gaufielv.
II. L. Meket,
Employers' Union, Lynn, Mass.
Editorially te-day the New Yerk Herald,
which has lately been supporting Garfield,
says : On AVedaesday evening Mr. A. S.
Hewitt, a gentleman of character, a per
sonal friend of General Garfield, with
whom he had served in Congress, said in
a speech iu this city concerning this let
ter :
' Seme people may inelinc te pronounce
it a forgery. I have seen it. I am familiar
with General Garfield's signature. I have
compared it with his letters in my posses
sion, aud I have no doubt it is genuine. If
it be a forgery, it is the work of a consum
mate artist ; but if I thought, after exam
inatien, there was the slightest doubt of
its authenticity, I should net refer te it.
Mr. Hewitt is a Democrat ; he is a strong
partisan ; but he is a gentleman, and
while of course his opinion is net final en
a question of handwriting what he said
has a certaiu weight.
Ou receiving a report of Mr. Hewitt's
speech the Herald en Wednesday evening
telegraphed General Garfield at Menter,
stating what Mr. Hewitt had se positively
asserted ; adding that he(General Garfield)
would probably think it advisable te deny
ever his own name the authorship of the
letter, offering, if he had net seen the
letter, te telegraph it te him at once, and
opening the Herald's columns te him for a
denial. Te this dispatch we have up te
this present writing received no reply.
There has appeared iu the associated press
dispatches a brief report, unauthenti
catcd in any way, that General Garfield
had declared the letter a "stupid forgery."
Frem Republican sources in Bosten came
yesterday the further assertion that no such
man as " H. L. Merey " has lived in Lynn
since 1873, te which the Democrats reply
that he lived eutside of Lynn, which may
be ; aud they are ready te prove his exis
tence if General Garfield denies writing
the letter.
AVe have waited some days te see if Gen
eral Garfield would make such a denial
of the authorship of this letter as we are
convinced he ought te make if he did net
write it.
His denial ever his own name would, in
our opinion settle the question. It would
iu any case threw the burden of proof
upon the Democrats, who, for political
ends, have made it public, and would leave
them, until they brought such proof, un
der the just suspicion of having uttered a
forgery.
But it is a mistake in General Garfield
te hesitate about a frank and explicit de
nial in his own name if he did net write
the letter. Seme of the sentiments in it
arc atrocious aud indefensible. If he en
tertained them last January, or at
any time, he is net fit te be president, or
senator, or te held any public office what
ever, it he did net entertain them and
did net write the letter, he ought te say
se, net at second or third hand, but ever
his own name. Even if he were net a can
date for the presidency he should repudi
ate at once the sentiments imputed te him
aud no notion of sham dignity ought te
bar his way.
Because here in this letter is no ques
tion of immigration or the right of asy
lum, en which there may be and are fair
differences of opinion. This letter con
siders the importation, net the migration
of Chinese ; it regards net the people of
the United States, but only a small part,
the employers of labor ; it docs net con
sider the rights of workingmen, be they
Americans or Chinese, but encourages the
giccd of these who seek te make money
out of their labor. The letter says : " AAre
have a treaty with the Chinese govern
ment which should be religiously kept
until the previsions arc abrogated by the
action of the general government," and
this is net merely harmless but indubitably
right. The next clause of the sentence,
however, contains what wc nave called an
atrocious sentiment. It is in these words :
"aud I am net prepared te say that it
should be abrogated until our great nianu
factuiiug interests are conserved in the
matter of labor."
This is simply a defense of the coolie
system, or of a new slave system. The
" great manufacturing interests " arc.
according te this statement, te have the
special privilege of " conserving " them
selves by importing Chinese, and te in
troduce here a new form of servile labor
under the guise of immigration. AVe re
peat that Gen. Garfield, accused by such
men as Mr. A. S. Hewitt, and later Speak
er Randall, of having written this, wrongs
himself if he docs net hasten te deny the
charge in the most positive and explicit
manner aud ever his own name. He has
delayed tee long already.
The Republican organs are evidently dis
mayed at his silence. After waiting for
some days several of them have reprinted
a passage from his letter of acceptance, in
which he speaks fairly enough en the Chi
nese labor question, saying :
"The recent movement of the Chinese te
our Pacific coast partakes but little of the
qualities of such an immigrarieu cither in
its purposes or its result. It is tee much
like an importation te be welcomed with
out restriction ; tee much like an invasion
te be looked upon without solicitude. AVe
cannot consent te allow any form of ser
vile labor te be introduced among us under
the guise of immigration."
Unfortunately for their candidate this is
in his case net conclusive, for he has been
in several ether cases se glaringly guilty
of tlie vice of tergiversation that what he
made public after he was nominated has
no necessary relation te his real thoughts
and beliefs. Before he was nominated he
denounced in Congress these who sought
te keep alive sectional and anti-Southern
agitation ; but after he was nominated he
turned about and unblushingly heisted the
" bloody shirt." Before he was nominated
he asserted positively and circumstantially
that reform of the civil service was an ur
gent necessity and that te effect it all in
terference of members of Congress in the
appointments must absolutely cease ; but
in his letter of acceptance, te the amaze
ment of the public, he turned squarely
about and declared that the executive
must seek the advice aud recommendation
of congressmen.
These aud ether instances, se familiar te
the public and te his own supporters that
we need net cite them, make any perfunc
tory or second hand denials in his case of
no feice ; it is useless for his organs te tell
us what he said after he was nominated.
What the public has a right te knew is
whether he ever wrote such a letter as that
of which he is accused, and en that it needs
his personal assurance. If be did write
such a letter he is net fit te be president ;
he ought te resign from the Senate ; his
support by any party wenld rightly be
fatal te it The American people de net
want a man te be president who has even
in a private letter countenanced a new
form of servile la.ber. ,
Miff JEUSEY SAFE.
What a
' ' Careful Canvass1 '
Shows.
of the State
A correspondent of the Xew Yerk Sun.
writing from Trenten, says:
The Democrats have made a careful can
vass of Xew Jersey : Xet a city or town
ship has been emitted. The estimate of
probable results in "November is based en
unusually clese computations by trust
worthy persons. Relying upon these
sources of information, and firm in the
belief that no pains will be spared te bring
te the polls the entire strength of the party
the Democratic leaders have net a doubt
of the success of the Hancock electoral
ticket by a handsome majority. The un
expected defeat in Indiana has had a ten
dency te arouse the Democracy of Xew
Jersey te a clear appreciation of the grav
ity of the emergency, and they will only
work the harder te de their share in mak
ine up for this less.
Democrats who knew Xew Jersey thor
oughly scout the idea that Garfield can
carry the state. One of the most promi
nent and shrewd of these leaders called
my attention te the fact that for thirty
years past Xew Jersey had always cast its
electoral votes for the Democratic candi
dates for president, excepting that en ac
count of the Douglas and Breckinridge
split in 18C0 it gave four votes for Lincoln
and three for Douglas, and iu the disas
trous Greeley contest it went for Grant.
This experienced organizer and cautious cal
culater said that the Xew Yerk Democracy
need net be disturbed about Xew Jersey.
At first there was a slight tinge of dissat
isfaction with the nomination for gover
nor, and there had been a little discord iu
one or two Congress districts, while des
perate efforts had been made te create dis
affection in some manufacturing localities;
but under the pressure of the national ex
igency harmony was restored, and the
state might be depended upon te give a
geed majority for Hancock.
The Republicans are making vigorous
efforts in Xew Jersey ; but these well ac
quainted in the state can easily see that
these efforts arc aimed net at carrying the
state for Garfield, which sensible Republi
cans really regard as hopeless, whatever
they may deem it expedient te pretend en
the subject. These exertions are directed
towards &ccuring certain congressional
districts, and especially the Legislature,
se as te elect a Republican successor te
Senater Randelph, while a few seem te
think there is a bare chance of placing
Potts in the chair new occupied by Gover Gover
eor McClellan. But I have net yet met an
intelligent Republican, thoroughly in
formed in the political situation of the
state, who believes it will give its electoral
vote te Garfield.
Therefore the Xew Yerk Democrats
need feel no uneasiness about their
brethren in Xew Jersey.
' 179 Words, Paid."
The Philadelphia Times prints the fol
lowing humorous contribution te its col
umns from a well known United States
official of Wilmington, Del. :
Official Repert of a Big Thing.
Special dispatch te the Times.
AVilmingtex, Del., Oct. 21. Levi C.
Bird, esq., delivered an exhaustive speech
upon the subject of tariff in its relations te
the industries of the city aud state. This
speech was made in compliance with an in
vitation from the Republican League of
the city. The opera heusc'was packed and
Mr. Bird was at his best. He speke nearly
two hours and half. The speak
er introduced his subject by
saying he would discuss no ether question.
I have asked that the business and work
ingmen give me hearing. I shall keep
my word. I shalrkneck at your deer. I
shall see your wives and your children. I
shall stand iu your path as yen come from
your work. It needs no philosopher, no
logician, no Solemon here. I demanded
only a patient hearing of plain facts. He
then proceeded te demolish free trade aud
tariff for revenue. This hits at Mr. Bay-
ara ana ueucrai i'ertcr l'esties were par
ticular enjoyable te his audience and very
effectieus in the demolition of their sophis sephis
tcm and was greeted with great applause.
(179 paid.) II. II. Mullejs,
U. S. Marshal.
IN A IIOLK.
That Is Where Mr. Ilunily l'n!s Fester.
Te the Editor of the Sun.
Governer Fester, of Ohie, has taken the
trouble te telegraph a denial that I ever
had an " interview" with him or " that
he ever said te me or any one else that the
tariff and business issues were gotten up
by Eastern parties for the purpose of a
scare." I never claimed te have inter
viewed Governer Fester. I am net in that
business. But Governer Fester did say te
a group of half dozen persons, including
myself, exactly what I attributed te
him in the Philadelphia Times. It was at
the Xeil house, Columbus, ou the day
after the election. The governor had just
dined and was in lfigh spirits and very talk
ative. On his breast he were a badge
bearing the picture of a grinning man and
the legend: "Beat us? Xet by a 320
sight," and something mere te the same
effect. If it were worth while I could
produce at least three persons who heard
the conversation aud will vouch for the ac
curacy of my report ; te one of them I
read it befere my dispatch was sent. In
the course of a connection with the press
covering fourteen years I de net remem
ber that my veracity was ever before im
peached, and I may therefore be par
doned for giving this matter attention.
M. P. Haxdt.
Philadelphia, Oct. 22, I860.
STATE ITEMS.
The Shenandoah Valley railroad company
will build a bridge across the Susquehan
na river at Steelton, wheie it will connect
with the Reading railroad.
The train leaving Philadelphia at 1 p.
ni.. yesterday, for AVest Chester, struck
and killed, near Roscment station a re
pairsman by the name of Magraw, who
resided at Bryn Mawr. He saw the ap
proaching train, but failed te step aside in
time te save his life.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
ii
Sale or Ileal Estate.
Henry Shubcrt, auctioneer and real estate
agcut, sold at public sale, October 22d, en
the premises, at the village of Rohrcrs Rehrcrs Rohrcrs
tewn, a two-story frame dwelling belong
ing te the estate of Frederick Heffman,
deceased, te II. M. Mayer for $1530.
The two-story and mansard reef brick
dwelling, Xe. 145 East James street, the
property of Miller & Swarr, was sold at
private sale by Jehn II. Mctzler, en Satur
day, Oct. 10, for 82,900, te D. G. Kcndig,
of this city.
Jehn Hull sold, at private sale ,a let of
ground en Xew street, 22x46 feet, te R.
A. Buckius, for $220.
Plenty or Passengers.
The Strasburg stage was unable te held
all the passengers yesterday and came into
town with a buggy containing three of
them fastened behind it.
Mayer's Court.
This morning the mayor sent one dmnk
te jail for 80 days and another for 15.
Three vagrants were' discharged.
A GREAT MEETING.
THE DEMOCRACY ABOUEO.
ADDKESSEs BT ABLE SPEAKERS.
And Listening With Eager interest.
The court house was packed last even-
I ing in attendance upon the Democratic
mass meeting, and by 7:45 standing room
was scarcely te be had. At that hour
Gee. Xanman, esq., called the assemblage
te order and introduced Ezra D. Parker;
esq., of Mifflintown, Juniata county.
Mr. Parker's Speech.
Mr. Parker, en being introduced, said he
did net net consider that there was any
thing in the late elections te disceurage or
alarm the Democracy. There was an elec
tion held in Indiana, recently for state aud
local offices iu which the Democracy hoped
te win a victory, but they were called
upon te meet net only the Republican party
of Indiaua but an army of office-holders,
visiting statesmen from Philadelphia,
Xew Yerk and elsewhere, backed by mil
lions of money, contributed by one hun
dred thousand office-holders. The Dcmec
racy were repulsed but net defeated. The
affair was a mere preliminary skirmish.
After the smoke had cleared away Gen.
Hancock was asked whether there was any
cause of alarm or doubt of the result and
he said there was net. The speaker then
said that he viewed the situation as he did
the field of Gettysburg. After the first
day's battle had been fought and Gen.
Reynolds bad fallen in the midst of carn
age and the Union army had been repulsed,
then Hancock was despatched by the com
mander in chief te view the ground and
select a position for the battle, and having
done se, there was fought the most terrific
battle of modern times and was wen the
greatest victory of the war, and se it would
be in the coming political contest under
the leadership of the same great comman
der. The speaker next took took up the Re
publican claim that their party was en
titled te credit for the business prosperity
the country new enjoys. He showed that
it was net until the Democracy came into
power that there had been a return of
prosperity in business pursuits, ana that
the Republicans might as well claim credit
for the fine weather we enjoy, for they
had as much te de with the one as the
ether.
Mr. Parker then took up the tai iff ques
tion, reviewed Garfield's record, and
showed that in every instancohe had voted
in Congress against the interest of the
peer man and in favor of the wealthy. He
voted against a reduction of the duties en
sugar, coffee, salt and ether necessaries,
and in favor of a reduction en coal and
iron, and thus against Pennsylvania's in
terests. Mr. Parker pursued this ques
tien at some length and exposed 3Ir. Gar
field's vacillation and lack of moral cour
age en this and ether questions. He
defended the position of the Democ
racy en the tariff question ; they were in
favor of a tariff for revenue te payoff the
national debt, that the people might be
relieved from the burdens of taxation.
Mr. Parker referred te and denounced the
great steal of the presidency in 187G and
concluded with a line eulogy of the char
acter and services of Gen. Hancock, a man
who had never betrayed his trust, failed
te de his duty in any emergency, military
or civil, in which he had been placed, and
if elected te the presidency, as he undoubt
edly would be, he would add new lustre te
his own name and te the glory of the na
tion for which he has fought se well.
AVheu Mr. Parker concluded there was
a rapturous outburst of applause followed
by the introduction of Edgar K. Apgar,
esq., of Xew Yerk.
Mr. Apgar's Speech.
Mr. Apgar said that in his judgment one
of the most important questions of the
campaign was that of taxation. The ques
tions of the war, and settled by the war,
were secession and slavery. They were
settled effectually .and forever, and the su
preeo question new is of the best and
most economical administration of the
general government. An examination into
the cost of government is interesting and
presents curious results. In 1830 the total
cost of our federal, state and local govern
ments, was $84,000,000 per year. In 18G0
this had grown te the enormous sum of
$150,000,000, and the Republican national
convention deemed the matter of sufficient
importance te declare iu its national plat
form of the Chicago convention of that
year :
" 6. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravagance which
pervades every department of the federal
government ; that a return te rigid econ
omy and accountability is indispensable te
arrest the systematic plunder of the pub
lic treasury by favored partisaus; while
the recent startlingdevelepments of frauds
and corruptions at the federal metropolis
show that an entire change of administra
tion is imperatively demanded."
But in 1870 this same class of expendi
tures had run up te the enormous figures
of $800,000,000. Making every allowance
for the increase of population, interest en
the war debt, pensions and all unusual and
extraordinary expenditures, granting for
these $300,000,000 as a proper sum en the
same basis of expenditures as $150,000,000
in 18G0, the fact remains startling and
stupendous that there is an excess expen
diture of $500,000,000, which cau only be
fairly attributed te the incompetence,
the extravagance or the dishonesty of
these in control of the government. These
figures are se great that the mind can
hardly comprehend their magnitude, save
by comparison. The entire railroad sys
tem of the United States cost only $2,
000,000,000. Let every mile of it be ob
literated and it could be entirely rebuilt
and re-established with the revenues
wasted in four years by the dishonesty,
incempetency or extravagance of our pub
lic rulers. The whole country has been re
joicing in the magnificent harvests we
have had and the splendid value of our ex
pert breadstuff's for which the waste of war
in Europe opened te us a foreign market ;
and yet the annual undue excess of our
public expenditures due te the waste, dis
honesty and incompetence of our federal,
piatc and local officials is greater than the
value of our exported breadstuffs.
The cost of government in this country
per capita is greater than in England,
France or Germany, which wc are taught
te regard as tax-ridden and debt-oppressed
counties. In view of of these alarmiug
facts a few plain principles seem te be
se obvious as te defy successful contradic
tion :
I. Occasional changes of party are ei$en
tial te the aoecl government of the movie.
Twenty years of continuance in power of
the same administration, without political
revolution, it might be asserted were
enough for any party. It will be
admitted that Chase, Sumner,. Seward
and Greeley mere than any ether
men founded the Republican party, and
yet in 1872 when it had been in
power only 12 years they were agreed
that its deposition had become necessary.
The history of all countries, and mere es
pecially of this free government of the
people iith its flexible institutions, was
pregnant with this lessen of frequent
change being necessary in the control of
public affairs te the preservation of con
stitutional institutions.
II. Where abuses hate come into being
they will net be corrected within nor by the
party under which they arose. A most for
cible illustration of this was afforded in
Xew Yerk Some years age Governer
Dix, an estimable gentleman, Republican
of high standing, experienced publicist,
was elected governor with a large popular
majority te support him and both branches
of the Legislature in political sympa
thy with him. And yet notorious as
the canal ring frauds were he was
powerless te initiate any movement against
them. It was the common scandal of the
state that gross abuses existed in this
branch of this branch of its public works.
They cost $4,000,000 annually, and the
total tax levy was $13,000,000. In 1874 a
Democratic state administration came into
power. Before six weeks had elapsed came
that message from the governor (Tilden)
te the Legislature exhibiting the methods
of the canal ring frauds. AVithin six months
the canal ring was dead. Before the clese
of that administration the expenses of the
canal ring were reduced te $700,000 and
the tax levy of the state te $7,500,000, and
during four j-ears of Democratic governors
in Xew Yeik. the taxes and public expen
ses were uniformly kept down. Last year,
by the divisions of the Democracy, Cernell
was elected Republican governor, and al
though that administration has been in
power only ten months an increase in the
tax levy already manifests itself of $1,500,
000. Could anything mere litlv illustrate
the tendency of the two parties than this
contrast in the Empire state of the union,
whose electoral vote is te decide the presi
dential contest ?
III. There tcill be no reform in govern
ment, no relief from the burdens which
waste and corruption impose upon the
peepk, until they teach the political leaders
of both jiarties that they icill be held te a
strict accountability for their discharge of
or failure te (uncharge their duty. Punish
ment is intended mainly as a terror te evil
doers? and only the punishment and re
moval of faithless public servants will
teach the useful lessen that the public
held them te a rigid accountability.
Taking a view of the expenses simply of
the federal government, what are known
as the civil and miscellaneous expendi
tures, apait from all the war, naval, pen
sion or any special class of expenditures,
we find th.it in 1SG0 when the Republican
party viewed them with alarm and deemed
their enormous amount lit cause for a
chauge they were $17,500,000, aud for ten
years previous te that had averaged from
fifteen te sixteen millions. In the years
succeeding lhcj steadily mounted up te
$27,000,000 iu 1S64 net an cxtraeidinary
increase considering the inflation of
values and the advance of geld.
But what is ti he thought of the fact that
in 1874 ten years after the clese of the
war, when values wcic settling down these
same expenses had amounted te $85,000y
000. Fiem 1808 te 1872 they averaged $06,
000,000 and from 1872 te 1876 they aver
aged $76,000,000. Allowing Ter the in
crease of population, altered modes of liv
ing and cerv ether legitimate considera
tion, $30,000,000 are tlie outside figures for
a proper expenditure iuthc "civil and mis
cellaneous.'" Hew then arc the ether $45,
000,000 te be accounted for? Clearly in
no way save by the dishonesty, incompe incempe
tency or extravagance of the public offi
cials. The seaker invited any Republican te
explain this startling discrepancy. He had
frequently asked leading men of both par
tics from both branches of Congress te ex
plain it aud none had ever been able te de
se. Senater Edmunds, of Vermont, sat an
auditor before him the ether evening,
and when he asked any Republican
present for an explanation all eyes turned
te Edmunds. He made no sign and in a
speech at Rutland next evening, when he
referred te nthcr points of the speaker's
address, Mr. Edmunds made no answer
te this inquiry. He had been asked in
Ohie if thest- expenses had net shown some
reduction under Hayes. True, they had.
There had been a decrease of nearly one
fourth from their highest figure ; in fact
a steady increase since 1874. Bnt
what happened them te effect this
change ? It was then a Democratic
Heuse raine into power. Tumultuous
applause. J The Xew Yerk 'Tribune at the
close of the congressional session pointed
out that the Democratic house had cut down
the federal expenses $30,000,000. But this
had been accomplished against the esti
mates of Republican cabinet officers and
the steady votes of Republican Mutaters.
The history of all the economics enforced
by Democratic Houses h.id been their cut
ting down of department expenses, the
refusal of the Republican Senate te agree
and the final i eductiens fixed somewhere
between Republican extravagance and
Democratic economy. Surely our national
experience demonstrated the tendency of
Republican extravagance and Democratic
economy.
Mark the contrast at Albany ! There
the Republicans had had the legislative
and the Democrats the executive depart
ment, and for four years the Democratic
governors hal been compelled te veto ex
travagant Republican appropriations te an
excess of two or three millions.
Turn te the Seuth, and under the Re
publican cai pet-bag rule of the Southern
states it will be seen that their debts were
increased $150,000,000. In the state of
Georgia, for instance, the clerical force of
the executive depaitment which, at its
highest, ought net te run above $17,000,
in a single year of Bulleck's administra
tion leaped up te $380,000. Every state
cursed by the reign of the carpet-bag gov
ernment showed a vast increase of the debt,
while taxation was doubled, trebled and iu
one instance increased ten-fold. As seen
as they came nudcr Democratic control
the stealing was stepped, the debt re
duced aud taxes diminished.
The ditto rent tendencies of the two par
tics aiisf e.-sentially from their different
theories of government. The Democratic
idea of a sirnplu form of government, with
constitutionally limited pewcis and pre
scribed functions, means a simplicity of
administration with economical expendi
tures. The complicated Republican idea
of impei ial government means imperial
revenues and imperial expenditures, op
pressive burdens and heavy taxes. Thus
it has been tli.it the people always come
back te the Democratic idea and for
three-fourths of the time give the govern
ment te these who administer it frugally
and lift the burthen of taxation.
Of some of the issues which the Repub
licans had projected into this campaign
the speaker thought it an insult te the in
telligence of the people te speak,
except that in the cars here he
had hc.trd men evidently sincere
express fears uf the rebel debt, South
ern war claims and slave prepei ty being
paid. Under whom? The Democratic
Heuse sinec 1871 had net paid a penny of
such claim-,. The Republicans up te 1874
paid $100,000,0") of such claims, aud even
Secretary SIici man only a year aga, claimed
credit for his party paying them. It lay
net iu his mouth nor that of his party te
decry the Democracy for what they had
done and which the Democracy had stead
ily refused te de.
Thcie is no rebel debt. luc Uonleucr Uenleucr
ate notes aie never te be due. for they
were piy.-.ble only two years after peace
was ratified between the U. S. aud C. S.
A. Fei ly-inue fiftieth of these bends were
bought and aie held abroad by European
money kings. Nobody iu the Seuth has
auy interest u burdening himself te pay
them. Five sixths of the present etcrs of
the Seuth h id -i.j slaves, and lest nothing
by their 'm.ineip.itien. There is net a
district in the whole Seuth in which any
preposition te pay these this would pre
vail even if the whole Xeith steed
aside te let the Seuth decide it aud
no constitutional amendment interposed.
The tariff question ha never been one
of partisan politics. It has been the earn
est desire of manufacturers te keep it out
of them. They pe appealed ti a Demo
cratic Congress and it se answered them.
It is the uncertainty of tariff agitation
that alone can disturb the business inter
ests of the country. Whoever is responsi
ble for that agitation U responsible for
whatever threatens ihem.Stabiltty, security
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