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J. VAN 8LYKK * SON, PtTBMSHMl rymal Acceptancc of tbe Bepibli- Nominee for Yi President >lAMt mm* "--m* Iha QmmUi Haw Tow, July IS, 1880. -. ... Dui Bib : I accept the position assigned by the great party whose action yon u- tiiotmce. This acceptance implies the approval <"®f the principles declared by the convention, 'trat, recent usage permits me to add some flx- "gtression of my own views. Hie right and duty "to secure honesty and order in popular election* ; dfe a matter so vital that it must stand in the . ' front. The authority of th« National Govern- naent to preserve from fraud and force the i -elections at which its own officers are chosen ' A a chief point on which the two parties are &n<* intensely opposed. The acts of ^ongress for ten years have, in New "lark and elsewhe e, done much to curb violence and wrong to which the , ~ - "inllot and count have been again and again . •lubjected, sometimes despoiling great eitiee, s *4omet»mes stifling the voice of a whole State, •*.- ~©ft<en seating not only in Congress, but on the bench and in Legislatures numben» of men •^,v yJlkwer chosen by the people. The Democratic partv since gaining possession of the two houaea ^f Congress has made these laws the object of hitter, WRRcless awwiit, and, despite all resiat- ; ^ ,-*nce, has hedged them with restrictions, cun- v = :Jungly contrived to baffle and paralyze them. | " tlhis aggressive majority boldly attempted to *extort from the Executive his approval of vari- ' . «#«.s enactments destructive of these election /"%kW8 by revolutionary threats that a con- si '.. ^pitutional exercise of the veto power |: "Would, be punished by withholding appropria- k. Jfions necessary to carry on the Government, j;:' . 4Uid thoxe threats were actually carried out by Ksfusing needed appropriations and by forcing v, • .4n extm session of Congrene, lasting for monthz *eud resulting in concessions to tliis usurping Remand which are likely in many States to sub­ ject the majority to the lawless will of a minor- • "ijy. Ominous signs of public disapproval alone j. -llubdued this arrogant jjower into a sullen sur- xCendcr for the time being of part of its de­ mands. The Republican party has strongly , Approved the stem refusal of its representa- •tives to snifer the overthrow of statutes -believed to be salutary and just. It < Ifeas always insisted, and now insists, that Cie Government of the United States of Amer­ ica is empowered and in duty bound to effect- "ttally protect the elections denoted by the con- iititution as national. More than this, the Be- •publican party holds as the cardinal point in its ««nreed that the Government should, by every "tieans known to the constitution, protect all (jaierican citizens everywhere in the full enjoy­ ment of their civil and political right*. As a agreat part of its work of reconstruction the Re­ publican party gave the ballot to the emanci­ pated slave as his right and defense. A large -Cfhcrease in the number of members of CongreM ..||nd the Electoral College from the former .^t!iv»-holding States was the immediate rjsesult. The history of recent yerra abounds in evidence that in many ways and in many places, especially where their number has * been great enough to endanger Democratic •control, the very men by whose elevation to .... Tflitizensliip fids increase of representation was •Effected have been debarred and robbed of ^eir voice and their vote. It is true that no 4State statute or constitution in so many words •denies or abridges the exercise of their political rights, but bodies employed to bar their way are no less effectual. It is a suggestive and startling thought that the increased power derived from the enfran­ chisement of a race now denied its share in jgoverning the country, wielded by those who -Jjitely sought the overthrow of the Govern­ ment, is now the sole reliance to defeat the "party which represented the sovereignty and - g a t i o . . . . of the Union, of our in the i it will hmnidetvbrfi«lit|«( Then to toe mates* mm gif»n Qftt U» pabUft to Congrew within Uwpaat lour years, woold od if Domo WIWplWftllBfclug iotm Legislature by electing should aooeeed in control of theNatii tbe Executive alao. There is danger in in trusting the --control of the whole law-making power of the Govern­ ment to a party which haa in almost every Southern Stale repiflKated obligations quite as sacred aa those to whWi the faith of tho nation now stands pledged, I do not doubt that success awaits the Repub­ lican party, and that its triumph will assure a font, economical and patriotic administration. I ton, respectfully, your obedient servant, C. A. Arthur. To Hob. Geo: F. Hoar, President of Utt n-flpfcn --• Convention. ILLINOIS SEWS. . Dbcatttk has pat $141,000 in water­ works. The hay crop of Central Illinois this season will be folly doable that of last. The farms of the Champaign Indus­ trial University made a profit of $5,507 last year. A rattlesnake four feet and one inch long, with seven rattles, waa killed be­ low Buffalo Book, La Salle county, last week. Two WKiiii-known citizens of Bock Island were nearly finding a watery grave the other evening by going out for a tub race without knowing how to swim. The Board of Supervisors of Kendall county have levied an optional tax of $5,000 for a soldiers' monument, and it is hoped every tax-payer will contribute his proportion. A telegraph repairer named Powers, at Boodhouse, accidentally struck a torpedo with a pike-pole, when it ex­ ploded, and pieces of iron entered his side, causing his death. A Logan county farmer, while on Salt creek bottom, a few days since, noticed a muskrat come up out of the creek and make for a corn field close by, cut off a stalk with its sharp teeth, and drag it down to its home under the bank. Seeing others follow suit, he watched them and found five were at work, each one cut­ ting his own stalk and palling it to the family residence. The prisoners in the Tazewell county jail set fire to their bedding, in the hope that they might gain their liberty, but as nobody had a key but the jailer, who was at a distance, they were compelled to await his return. When he arrived on the scene the culprits were so ex­ hausted that they could hot have es­ caped if they had been given an oppor­ tunity. The Centum. Be vised returns from forty-two Illi­ nois counties are as follows : Tie Democracy Historically ud ^ Legally Considered by Emeiy A. Stork. - i fts Mwniltakk Bwsrtl l< twealylean. Mbelttoo • •£. 4*006,000K*veg «n from chattels with schools, and totected the polls B declared the Five times from and inrinding i860 haa the Democratic party of the nation appealed to the people of the nation for an approval of its pol­ icy in the past, its position in the then present, and for confidence in its future. Five *m>«» since and including 1860 have the people of the country turned a deaf ear to these ap eala, *"*1 repudiated and rejected its protestations of toy- ! gagement«.r It has made the Boone Bureau Callioun ..... Carroll Champaign.. 1870. 12,942 ... .32,415 5,862 ....16,706 .83,737 Coles. .-. 26,235 De Witt 14,768 Douglas 13,484 Edgar 21,450 Etifiigham 16,633 Ford 9,103 Fulton. 38,291 Henry 85,506 I roquols 25,782 Jo Daviess........ 27,820 Kane. 39,091 Kankakee 24,352 Knox 39,522 ationality of the American people in the great- 4st crisis of our history. Republicans chcriaL, THono of the resentments which may have ani« 'Jhated them during the actual conflict of arms. "They long for a full and real reconciliation be- i ^aren' "fween the sections which were need- 1 on Tjessly and lamentably at strife. They Sincerely offer the hand of good frill, but they ask in return a pledge of good "faith. They deeply feel that the party whose Career is so illustrious in the great and patriotic iltchievement will not fulfill its destiny until tjace and prosperity are established in all the nd; nor until liberty of thought, conscience, ,nd action, and equality of opportunity shall ot be merelv cold formalities of statute, but ving birthrights, which the humble may confi- ently claim and the powerful dare not deny. The resolution referring to the public service •Seems to me deserving of approval. Surely, no >ttian should be the incumbent of an office, the •duties of which he is for a cause unfit to per­ form. who is lacking in ability, fidelity, or in- •iegritv, which a proper administration of such 'Jin office demands. This sentiment would doubt- jBss meet with general acquiescence, but opinion lias been evidently divided upon the wisdom and .12,418 ...60,792 ...31,471 ...23,053 ...26,481 .32.726 Kendall. La Salle Livingston.. Logan Macon Macoupin Marshall 16,956 16,184 McDonough. 26,509 McHenry..i .23,762 McLean 53,988 Mercer 18,769 Montgomery. .25,314 Morgan Peoria Piatt ..J.. Richland Saugamon Scott Stark Tazewell..... , Vermillion....;... Warren ........ Whitesidea. Total in 1880..: Total in 1870... ,.28,4(!3 47,540 19,953 12,803 46,352 10,530 10,751 .....27,903 90,375 38,174 .,.,.*,588. 1880. 11.555 34,127 7,505 17,298 41,077 27,113 17,870 15,845 25,418 18,858 14,950 41,181 36.556 35,338 27,255 4C,:«7 20,500 38,336 13,176 70,280 38,885 25,255 30,407 37,791 15.137 16,228 27,862 24,894 60,130 19,409 28,103 31,717 57,277 15.471 15,651 52,973 10,627 11,171 29,876 41,583 22,800 30,969 Gain. dec. 1,397 1,712 943 590 8,340 1,878 3,102 2,361 3,968 3,205 t.,847 2,890 1,080 9,566 dec. 565 7,446 1,148 dec. 1,186 758 9,488 7,414 2,302 3,926 5,065 dec. 1,819 44 1,353 1,132 6,142 640 2,789 3,254 9,737 4,518 2,M8 6,641 97 420 1,973 11,208 dec. 374 3,366 .1,210,791 .1,076,188 alty and patriotism; and that the people of the country in thus rejecting the appeals of the Democratic party in the past have made no mistake is now so clear that no ordinarily in­ telligent Democrat, who will carefully examine the situation and honestly speak his sentiments, can say that the peopl • have not acted wisely. Since I860, in 1864, agai» in a great election in 1866, in 1868, 1872, in 1876, and again in the elections in 1877, has the Republican party been indorsed by the people of the country. In 188 ) these two great political organizations again come to the people and again solicit the confidence of that people. Is there, my fellow- citizens, any reason why tbe policy which we have indorsed in the past should t,e to-day re­ versed ? Has t e Democratic party met with such change in its practice, in its principles, or in ita membership, as should lead us to-day to give to it that confidence which for the years past we have refused to extend to it ? Hm the Republican party done anything which will juotify us in withdrawing from it tho con­ fidence which we have so repeatedly reposed in it V These are very grave and serious ques­ tions, and we must answer them. The duty of the citizen to attach himadf to one of these two great political organizations is too manifest to require comment. No man is so great as to be above politics; 'no man is so small as to be beneath the injurious effects and consequences of bad government. I have no sympathy for those highly distin­ guished men who declare, aa if they were de­ claring a virtue, that thev have no interest in polities. If they are telliug the truth when they make such statements they are unworthv citizens of «• great country, whose greatest merit is lliat it in self-governed. In making the se­ lection as to what party we shall attach our­ selves we must not expect that every little whim of caprice shall be gratified, nor must we ex­ pect from parties more than we do frum indi­ viduals--absolute perfection. We must weigh these parties, comparing them with each other as a whole, and if on the whole we believe, as I thoroughly believe, that the general interests of this country, its freedom, its prosperity, and the protection of its citizen in the enjoyment of all his civil and political privileges will be best promoted by the con­ tinued success and supremacy of the Republi­ can party, then, whatever smaller flaws we may find in its management or in its methods, as .jim then to and saved this nitloo. lt <iiti««iu[ «a ̂tnnsfonMdl lnt» men, fqn*" ~ am them titt from violence and equality of the cttfcsM, * protected his rights as y*1* State, or by the nation itself. vflpMr Its policy the national in the history ot fee worid. Pausing through the extremeBt financial jtistress, it has vet been true to itself, until it has reached the solid foundation erf mfe aMmnption. It has de­ creased the poblie expenditures; it has de­ creased the interest on the public debt; it has lifted burdens from labor; and to-day the result is scon in a prosperity more "wide­ ly spread and more substantial the country has ever before witnessed. It has kept all its promises. It has fulfilled all it? en- name of the kmew (Km history ot tOMkttMM which for ttttyfiliad M A Ml or those men wfio declare test so I po&inB United States of America respected and honored all around the globe. Moreover, it has made these States a nation. It has clothed that na­ tion with power to protect you and me in the enjoyment of all the higher privilege* of that great citizenship. So, when we consider that there is no slave throughout the boundaries of the great republic, we did it. And when we re­ member thai a great rebellion in the interests of slavery was crashed, we did it. And when j we remember that the United States of America i is not a mere league of States, but is a great na­ tionality, we did it. Such a history needs no | aids from rhetoric; for no rhetoric, however i glowing, can heighten its glories. Tlieee great I achievements constitute -our patrimony, andj 1 however poor in all other respects we mav be we may well say, "These are our possessions, and with them we are rich indeed." The demand to withdraw confidence from such a party, with such a long line of splendid and illustrious achievements, coming from the party which has sought to prevent them all, will not, I am certain, be received with any more favor to-day than ft has been received to the past. thjt jtis better fortbensgrolfaat be should not vole, to answer a few qaesttms. Has time been any massacre at Tickabuig? Did Ohiaolm die on his bad, or was he mwderad? Have hia murderers been convicted, or are they at large ? Was Dixon shot in the back? *Were there any tissue ballots in South Carolina? Was there any attempt to steal an entirewste Government at once In the State of Mfttfte or not? Are these things publio dangers, or are they not? Gentlemen criticise what they call the Kpeech of ikotiticiana, and laugh to "scorn the Bepchlican speakers when they tell you that these things constitute a danger to the republic. My friends, the republic woold be in no danger if all the powers or the earth should combine to make an assault upon her doors ; she Is in danger only when her people, under the press­ ure of great temptation or of party spirit, are themselves tempted to do wrong. That is what constitutes a crisis in its history. It is not the qale or the rock, it is the teredo and the dryrot which our ship of state alone haa to fear. These gentlemen pay their tithes of mint and anise and cummin, and neglect the weightier matters of th*i law. Thev are blind guides, and I should like to have them take this for a text: " Ye blind guides, who strain at a gnat and swallow a camel." '• wit Hf tbe^conven- uSgaaut-aangB attS&BStfS £S?5 port the same to the Secretary of the National Executive Committee, to the end that a correct recera may be kept of the progress of our or- gawzatiou. , Jfesofeed, That these resolutions and the ad- dn» adkmted by the convention be prepared and pUoed everywhere possible in tho hands of i't I ' r ' t REPUBLICAIS. resB to the Irish Voters of the United States. IN ,A?KUT8HEL% Senator Hoar Reviews the Democratic Rational Platform. tiaews lt» I acsaiiliiciiole* with ItMlf, Um Party, mm* ' Senator Hoar, in his speech at the Garfield and Arthur ratification meeting in Faneuil HaU, Boston, said: But, my friends, I wish to call your attention for a few moments to the 'platform that our Democratic friends have proposed, and upon which they have pnt their candidate. The Re­ publican party proposes to continue the finan­ cial policy of the past four years, and if I de­ sired to describe that policy, or to show you its fruits, I think I could not do better thaik to ourselves and to it must we give our allegianc* , , t0 be the " oss- prcsumo \s It is not singular when we consider its lii'°111 *"• Our OWll tOWtl IllttraiU if tray that the leaders of the Democratic parti. rl'|ie enterprise. iv The pickle Ornp btilg fair uniisuiilly gootl oi»e. Anil now, the voice of the C r lieard, and it is understood af* j the quartette gathereth tog«tw happy is the mooting thereof.L £. E. Richarda' tpanklng bay- Stcadraan's "Bonney Bouncy £ adorn our streets quite freqiotiti- Jellcrson keeps his $400 team £ y"pter!" th'ey dcTnot promise or profess a single JEx- the tin* hav- practicability of the various reformatory schemes ••which have been suggested, and of certain pro­ posed regulations governing appointment^ to "public office. The efficiency of such •Jegulations has been distrusted mainly be­ cause they have seemed to exalt mere Educational and abstract tests above the tenerul business capacity, and even special tnesg for tbe particular work in hand. It ffloems to me that the rules which should oe ap­ plied to the management of the public service may be properly conformed in the main to such regulate the conduct of successful private business. Original appointments should be "A»ade upon ascertained fitness. The tenure (•f office should be stable. Positions of re­ sponsibility should, so far as practicable, be Siied by the promotion of worthy and efficient -Officers. The investigation of all complaints -and the punishment of all official misconduct should be prompt and thorough. These views, which I have long held, repeatedly de­ clared, and uniformly applied, when called up- •on to act, I find embodied in the resolution, which, of course. I approve. I will ada that by tbe acceptance of public •office, whether high or low, one does not, in my k judgment, escape any of his responsibility as a citizen, or lose or impair any of nis rights as a -citizen, and that he should enjoy absolute lib­ erty to think and speak and act in political mat- ••ters, according to his own will and conscience, ^provided only that he honorably, faithfully and "Jully discharge his official duties. The resumption of specie payments--one of "the fruits of the Republican policy--has "brought tho return of abundant prosperity and the settlement of many distracting questions. "The restoration of sound money, the large re­ duction of our public debt and burden of inter­ est, the high advancement of public credit, all attest the ability and courage of the Republican Jparty to deal with such financial problems as may " l̂iereafter demand solution. Our paper cur- "Tencv is now as good as gold, and silver is per­ forming its legitimate functions for the pur­ pose of change. The principles which should govern the relations of these elements of cur­ rency are simple, and clear. There must be no "deteriorated coin, no depreciated paper, and -every dollar, whether of metal or paper, should setand the test of the world's fixed standard. The value of popular education can hardly l»e overstated. Although its interests must of "fiecessity bo chiefly confided to the voluntary •offort and individual action of the several States, they should be encouraged, so far as "the constitution uermits, by the generous co­ -operation of the National Government. The interests of the whole country demand that the ^•Advantages of our common-school system should be brought within the reach of every ^citizen, and that no revenues of the nation or „ States should be devoted to the support of H$|pectarian schools. ' Such changes should be made in the present . "tariff and system of taxation as will relieve any ^overburdened industry or class, and enable our ..manufacturers and artisans to compete success- ' fuUy with those of other lands. lie Government should aid works of inter­ nal improvement, national in their character, sand should promote the development of our vrater-coursee and harbors wherever the general interests of commerce requii e. Four years ago, as now, the nation stood on .'the threshold of a Presidential election; the 'Republican party, in soliciting continuance of its ̂ ^ascendency, founded its hope of success, not ••I^Snpon its "promises, but upon its history. Its T Vlpubsequent course has been such as to strengthen ,• . ̂ claims which it then made to the confidence -f',i«4and support of the country. On tbe other hand, considerations more ur- f-dgent than have ever before existed forbid the '̂ fLooomutm of its opponents to power, llieir , " V - Net gain in ten years 134,601 Including the known increase in Cook county, these returns indicate a total population in Illinois of about 8,- 100,000, against 2,539,891 in 1870. There are 102 counties in the State. Enumerator W. J. Usray found a rare and interesting census item in Decatur, when he struck the dwelling of Mr. Stanley March, whose wife, within the brief period of twelve months, has given birth to live children. The twins were born dead, and Mrs. March next gave birth to triplets. The triplets lived about thirty minutes and died. All the babes were small, but seemingly per­ fect in their organization. Mrs. March is in excellent healtli. The census gives Ottawa, town and city, 8,335; LaSalle, town and city, 7,871; Streator, 5,500; Peru, 5,093; Mendota, 3,728. Bloomington has been claiming Nor­ mal as a suburb, and now Normal lays claim to a part of Bloomington, figuring thereon a population of 5,956. Aurora is correctly reported in the census table of Illinois cities at 14,192. This is the total for the town of Aurora, the city proper being counted at 12,059. The comparison should be strictly lim­ ited to city populations in all cases, or admit township populations in all. The latter basis would add some 5,000 to Springfield, 3,000 to Bloomington ̂ and something in like ratio to other cities. : - f Illinois Clkaritie*. The Secretary of the Illinois State Board of Charities has presented the usual quarterly statements, showing the financial management during the last three months. The total expenses of the ten institutions are shown to have been $174,982.89. The average number of inmates during the quarter has been 3,051. The cash surplus is reported at $97,909.79, showing a decrease compared with tlie preceding quarter of $9,300, and in ordinary expenses of $12,450. The cash surplus has increased $3,800. The average number of inmates has de creased 110, which is due to the vaca­ tions in the schools for deaf and dumb and the blind. Tho following table ex­ hibits the itemised expenses: Attendance t 89,322.20 Food Clothing, bedding, etc ' Laundry supplies FueT Light Water. ne uiid medical euppUea. Freight and transportation ... Postage and telegraphing. Books and stationery Printing and advertising Muxic ami atmut'inent* Instruments und apparatus............... Hon rli'iM expenses Furniture Building repairs, etp Tools .............. Mschintry,etc '... ............. Farm, garden stock, sad froaada......... Baal estate Legal expenses 8kuv> expenses Banal expenses., Expenses not claggtM*. 89,400.78 9,KM. 14 1,493.91 fi,900.48 2,851.47 401.50 2,018.04 4,829.74 501.84 858.66 378.85 #57. ia 99.55 1,476.35 4,420.14 31,893.66 231.06 634.84 5,708.87 15,000.00 33.35 383.70 619.60 398.03 Total expennes.. •• '."V , *»2.89 »•; ® ifsxr;" J ^ ,;V' , 'zd* c I .f" * * ' - .J give our allegianc It is not singular when we consider its lir °,n My that the leaders of the Democratic pari are anxious to invent new issues -and to witl. _ . _ draw publi • attention from their record an ®**" their history. Ever since the war closed the have been loudly protesting that certain thin^u j, are past, and that, therefore, certain portioi of tl lieir career must be eliminated from poliifl) cat discussion. We have been constantly at Hured that the war is ended ; that ihc constitr tional amendment^ have been adopted; tliihe measures of reconstruction have been tix« i- and settled ; that the States have been restart to their former relations with the Union, a/TOJirket. that those issues, therefore, are dead is*tui«g ruin and that it is idle to waste time in then- diicir sion. To a certain extent this is true. Th Both actual contests of armed men in ihe tLid havm closed ; tlie war between freedom and slavery between State sovereignty and national unity which was thus waged" is ended. The Tiiir- teenth. Fourteenth and Fifteenth constitutional amendments have been adopted ; certain legis­ lation appropriate to the enforcement of these amendments has been made; but that, after all, has not removed from the lield of political debate the character of these two great parties. The character of a man who seeks public trust and confidence or private employment i-t al­ ways in issue. A pant larceny or auy other p..Bt piece of scoundt elism. althouch, in one sense, it ma be a dead issue and although t he party guilty of it may have suffered his legal penalties for it, is an issue whenever he callx for employment. pnW»n or private. If in its past history the Democratic party has steadily and continuously been politically dishonest and dangerous, that fact is an exceedingly essential one to be known. If it has steadily violated its engagements and broken its pledges ; if it has never made a worthy promise which it has kept, these facts are exceedingly pertinent when it comes before the people making new promises and seeking to enter into new obli­ gations in determining just how far we shall rely upon these promises and accept these new engagements. I think I am entirely safo in Baying that the Democratic party has never made an engagement in which the interests oi freedom were involved, which looked to the protection of the rights of the citizen, that it has kept. I think I am entirely safe in saying that every revolutionary scheme which "has discredited and disgraced our politics within tho last twenty-five years has been fathered by the Democratic party. I think no man will dispute the proposition that it is a great uni­ versity in which all the political heresies which have endangered tho perpetuity of our free in­ stitutions have been taught for the last quar­ ter of a centm v, and that the students in that university who have graduated as officers in the Democratic ranks have been in tho main men whoso policy and whose practice has been dangerous to the best interests of the country. I think I am entirely safo in saying--indeed,' I know I am--that wo cannot point to one single neat achievement in our history since 1856 from which freedom here and elsewhere has de­ rived the slightest comfort, from which civil liberty has been advanced, through which tho political equality of the citizen has been estab­ lished or maintained, that has had the slight­ est assistance from the Democratic party. I know I am safe in sayirig that no great measure of that kind can be found in our fundamental law or upon our statute-books to-day which that party has not bitterly, steadily and malignantly opposed. This is a fearful charge to make against any political organization, but the most fearful character of the charge is that it is true. That party has opposed every measure since 1866 which looked to freedom ; it has favored every measure which looked to the degradation and servility of labor. I have seen no evidence of a change of heart in the members of that party. Its principles are to-day the same that they were in 1860, in the main. It has advo­ cated no policy which, if adopted, would not have been destructive ; and, at any of the peri­ ods which I have named, had the people ot this country approved, by the election of the candi­ dates, the?'course of the Democratic party, the resnlt would have been disastrous to the last degree. Haa that party succeeded in 1860 liberty would have been degraded and disgraced throughout the .boundaries of the Union. Had that party succeed­ ed in 1864, our army would have been disgraced, and shameful defeat would have come upon us. and a humiliating and disgrace­ ful termination o* the was-, resulting in the separation of the Union, would have been the sure and inevitable result. Had Andrew John­ son's and the Democratic party's policy beon sustained in 1866 the fruits of our victory in the field would have been shamelessly returned to the rebels from whom we achieved them, and defiant rebels, those who had sought the de­ struction of the national life, restored to power. The victors would have been the defeated, and our achievements, with the immense sacrifices which they involved, would have been basely surrendered to our adversaries. Had the Dem­ ocratic party succeeded in 1868 all the recon­ struction measures of Congress and the consti­ tutional amendments, which were a part of that reconstruction scheme, would have been wiped from the constitution and from the statute book, and thus all our victories in the field have been rendered fruitless. Not only tliat ; had they succeeded, repudiation would have fastened its ineffaceable stain of dishonor npon our national name, and the repudiation of our national obligations would have been the sure and certain result. Had they succeeded in 1872. results equally disastrous'weuld have fol­ lowed. Had they succeeded in 1876, with the whisperer of Gramercy Park as the executive head of this great nation, to-day we would have been struggling under a depreciated currency, all the barriers which a loyal Congress had erected for the preservation of purity at the polls, and honest elections, would have been thrown down and we would have been back again further even than we are to-day in the hands of our old adversaries. The story of our achievements cannot too often be told. No people can become too fa­ miliar with the great deeds of their history, for if history is philosophy teaching by example.this ' f M f ' ' f . : f !> ' • ? « ' Adopted at tte Committal of the Irish v ftlpabUcui8, Held at India»* W apolte, July 14-15. 'v'#- STARTLING PACTS. Stopendons Frauds of OmDcm* ciatic Party. [From the Chicago Trilmn#.]' The testimony of Chief Saperriabr John L Davenport before the committee appointed by the Senate to investigate the charges of election frauds commit­ ted under Democratic auspices is full of startling developments that ouglit to appeal strongly to every man who is in favor of honest elections and of preserv­ ing the purity of the ballot-box. Hia statements show that many persons who held certificates of naturalization had never declared their intentions, nor sworn to the applications which appeared on file in court. Others were not asked whether they had done so or not, and maybe public cratie: ries lb countey, every interest. claim that we, ruined thai country? I stored apoa%,|iTTI I all our >iuttontf has : given ns feamnex in all purbt dt the ] count ! has! ! the pqini where ottr C per cent. sold •*88 cents to our 4 per < bonds sold*! a n niwiinu. | After twenty yapp of Democratic: [a loan of $18,0001000 exhausted • market for six mooihs. After Bepublican rule for twenty yc i a loan ot $150,000,000 waa taken ' i single day. f In twenty Tears wa find an increaae of j population of 50 per cent. WW n An increase of several agricultural 6xr ports of 600 per ceni , . , • An increase in exports of bread sad breadsto£fa of 660percaat. ••••«- ~~ An increase oi internal commerce off 700-per cent, r An increase in railway mileage 31,000 to over 82,000 miles. Our foreign trade has increased $700,000,000 to $1,150,000,000. Our exports, which were $20,000,OftO less than our imports in 1£60, were 'Mm "mm : Fiaxow-OoraTBTiuEX: With a high sense of the necessity of placing before the wortd in their. true light the motives which actuate us in avowing our support and co-operation with the principles of the Bepublican party by a distinct organization under the title of Irish- American Republicans, we feel called npon to State briefly the reasons which prompt us there­ to. For many years in this country the snp- t>ort of the Irish for any cause or party was sought through the channel of prejudice or af­ fection. Instruction was out of the question, and thus an unreasoning adherence was given to the Democratic party for a period of years long numbered with the past With the advent and rise of the Republican party in American politics a new era was reached. Intelligence and a critical examination into the arguments why the other party should receive a manly sunport became the guides of political action, and the Irishman, alike with his fellow-citissens of other nationalities, no longer give his adherence to party action because of the leadership of those whom they had previously trusted and followed. This convention, therefore, has for its object the i initiatorv action, which, with firmness and en­ ergy, followed by promptness and industry in sustaining the cause, principles, and policy of the Republican party, shall show to the world that, the Irish, of tiv-dav are capable of some­ thing more than being treated as mere political slaves, and they are capable of independent and intelligent thought and action, and that they are friends of that party which most truly represents that libertv, equality, and equal rights which they have only found in the land of their adoption. The claim of the Democratic party that it is the only true friend of foreign-born citizens is not susceptible of proof, as all students of American history are well aware that, during the entire administration of the Democratic party, it utterly failed to compel the acknowl- great. numbers were never asked about i $2&4,000,000 more than our frnpeaia in their age at elL They were naturalized ; 1869, in squads. On one day Judge Barnard alone naturalized 2,543, and on the same day, in the Superior Court, 2,077 •were put through this fraudulent pro­ cess, making 4,620 for the day! Nearly 40,000 persons voted in the election of 1868 upon these fraudulent naturaliza­ tion papers, the others voting in various counties in New York State, and in New- Jersey, Connecticut and in Pennsylva­ nia. In answer to a question how many naturalization papers bearing the seal of The Bepublican parly, since the dosed, besides paying the exjiensoo of paying . the Government, including 000,000 of pensions, have paid $8«8rOOOLOOO of the public debt, and reduced the an­ nual interest from $151,000,000 to $89,000,000. No Government is in better condition or has a better credit. The people are prosperous everywhere; labor is reward­ ed, our manufactures increasing, our commerce growing. This people ought the court had been issued in excess of i to be a happy people, and satisfied with the number upon the records of the { the present condition of things. The measure for the benefit of this people--not one. t edgment of those rights which the constitution V . /J_J . _ T"\ ' f.! „11 ^ u.-r..._ You cannot find in the Democratic platform adopted at Cincinnati a single measure to which the Democratic party pledges itself and on which it offers itself to your confidence. But Maine and Louisiana, and Mississippi and South Carolina, put their heads together and undertook to nominate a candidate for the Presidency, and then they proceeded to declare as their phnciple that a free ballot is the ma ­ ter beyond all other matter, and that the Dem­ ocratic party pledges itself to secure that. So that if this gentleman be elected you are to have in this country a l'ree ballot, as* exhibited and practiced by the DemoGney of Maine, Mississippi, Louisiana and* 4|Sph Carolina. I should like to read you one jHHM speeches. I noticed some of our eicellnnHMi aprtaud when I mentioned the name of Gen. Han­ cock,; and they will certainly, therefore, like Wade Hampton's speech better thto mine. Wade Hampton said: "Mr, Preaidfut and gentlemen of the convention: On behalf of the solid South, which was ouce arraved against this great soldier of Pennsylvania, i stand hero and pledge you its solid vote. It will prove lio laggard in'this great race for constitutioual governmeut, home rule, and for freedom all over this great land, and, in tlie name of South Carolina, that State which has so lately re­ turned and come into the sisterhood of States, that State which was so overwhelmingly Be­ publican that we scarcelv dared to couut the Democratic veto, in beliatf of that State I here­ by pledge myself, if work, if zeal, if energy can do anything, that the people of South Carolina will give as large a Democratic majority as any State in the Union." Well, now, mv friends, Senator Hampton will keep that pledge, you may lie sure, and if there is any Democratic soul that takes comfort in it, let him take it. I think the Senator exaggerated a little the labor and energy which would be required of him. Tissue ballots are not heavy; a very dainty South Carolina knight can stuff a good many of them into a ballot-box without fatigue. Another thing they propose. Tliey propose, they say, to have honest money in tlie future and to preserve the national credit. This solid South, in which you can scarcely find a State that has not repudiated its bonds, and from which, I think, but two or three votes for the last four or five or ten years have been cast against schemes for printing money on a print­ ing-press and tli rowing it off among the people as the sole currency for the working-men m this guarantees to all who swear to support and maintain it. The infamous and despotic doc­ trine once a subject always a subject was per­ mitted to exist as a principle of intcrnatioas law until tho accession to power of the Re­ publican party. Then, and not until tlu>n, England was compelled to recede from that insulting assumption, and thus the adopted citizen for the first time was clothed with all the rights and guaranteed the same pro­ tection outside the United States as the citizen born on American soil. So, also, to the Re­ publican party do we owe the enactment of that most beneficial law which has thrown open the public domain to all actual settlers, thus furnishing five and happy homes to thousands of our oppressed cohntrymen, who are fleeing from the horrors of British oppression. You are aware, fellow-countrymen, of the successful ingenuity with which the English (ioveiiunont labored to detstrgy the manufacturing inter­ ests of Ireland, which had grown up in the midst of our desperate and persistent strag­ gles for freedom. You cannot have forgotten the heroic efforts made for their preser­ vation by the great and patriotic statesmen of the last Irish Parliament, under whose fostering care these industries arose to such a state of perfection as to rival the best efforts of the most skillful artisans of Europe. Nor can you for­ get that the act of the Union contains among its othervarious principles one clause which en­ tailed more misery and destitution m our coun­ try than all the cruelties of Elizabeth or Crom­ well. That clause provides for absolute free trade between Ireland and all outside countries. Nothing mote was needed to complete the fell work. Under that blighting legislation all onr industries, save and except the linen trade alone, perished, never to appear again reduc­ ing us to the condition of mere agricultural,la­ borers, and leaving ua to be the helpless vic­ tims of British rapacity and insatiable greed. Compelled by such merciless laws to abandon tho homes of our fathers, we again encountered here in America the same foe in the Democrat­ ic party, whose ceaseless and persistent attempts to engraft in our free institutions the same English free-trade docti iue which wrought such disastrous results to our own country should quicken the indignation of every consistent Irishman. In marked contradistinction, we invite your earnest consideration to the policy of the Re­ publican party on this subject, showing that country, now gets up and says that if their can- under its fostering care, in less than a quarter ia '! «\vA«vidnd tn Kitva ImnAiif. a# a imanAA haa a n<) hrnnirhf didate* is elected il proposes to have honest money, leaving, of course, to them the defi­ nition. I want, however, as a comment upon this free-ballot matter to read vou an article published since Gen. Hampton s speech find since the Democratic Convention at Cincinnati, in the Charleston Ar«rs, the leading Demo­ cratic paper in South Carolina. " Starting," says the Charleston Xtncs, "with the assumption that it is the settled purpose in South Carolina that the intelligent and responsible citizens are to rule, whether they are nominally the major­ ity or not, what course shall the people of the State take to make this safe, and to avoid the horrible strain of such elections as the last, with their uncertainties and manifest unpleasant­ ness?" Now, I suppose you understand tliat "the uncertainties are the uncertainties of the question, how many tissue ballots were needed to stuff into the ballot-box to bring out a Dem­ ocratic majority? and "the manifest unpleas antness" consists of the unpleasantness of the work which was put upon the gentlemen who took part in the Hamburg massacre. No, my friends, it is not enough to nominate a brave soldier; we want to kno w what the men are and who the men to whom that brave sol­ dier will be bound in honor to commit the rwers of this Government intrusted to him. remember in 1856, when we nominated Fremont, we had up in Worcester a very wor- thv and distinguished officer in the militia, who, I think, must have been a relative of Mrs. Mala prop, he used to get his words wrong in such a very amusing way: and, after we nomi­ nated Mr. Fremont, my friend, Gen. Devens, whom you all know and love, asked him if he was going to support Fremont. "Well, Mr. Devens," said the old soldier, "I like Fremont well enough, if it wasn't for tlie cliuk he lias got around him." Well, now, I think there are a good many soldiers in Maasaehusetts who served in the army of the Potomac, when they hear the name of their old comrade and com­ mander, will be prepared to make the same an­ swer : " We like Gen. Hancock well enough if it was not for the clink he has got around him.' I agree with the Democratic platform that the question above all other questions in this coun­ try is tlie question of the free ballot We can go through again, if need be, another war, we can go through again, if need be, another period of depression, and poverty, and want, and hard times, like that through which we have emerged; but we cannot permit the ballot* Ikjx, by which the American people expresses its will, to be tainted with fraud. I-have no patience with the men, whether they are Dem­ ocratic politicians, whether they are Independ­ ent essavists. or whether they are Republican Doctors of Divinitv, who would seek to divert the attention of the people from this issue. In 1868, 60,000 fraudulent naturalization papers were issued ia the State of New York, and sent in broadcast over New York, and Con- i' ' - , •£ of a century, America has created and brought to perfection manufactures of all the products which enter into the profitable industry of a people and their consequent prosperity and happiness. Thus has the Republican party shown itself to be the champion and protector of American industry, to the discomfiture of the avarice of British capitalists. We appeal to you, fellow-countrymen, whose history is a long record of desperate struggles for freedom, if your proper amiations are with a party which sustained for many years human slavery in its most degrading form, and only relinquished that relic of barbarism when the Republican party, by the hands of our martyred President, struck the shackles from the limbs of the slaves, wiped out the only blot on the otherwise stainless escutcheon of America, and extended the glorious principle of free lands for freemen over every acre of our great re­ public. We ask you also whether you an prepared to turn over the Government, with all its bright anticipations of the future, to the tender mer­ cies of the very men who exerted their best ability for years to effect its destruction. The accession of the Democracy to full power in all the departments of the Government, in the light of its past record of treason and re­ bellion, cannot but be regarded as a calamity, the magnitude of which can scarcely be im­ agined. RESOLUTIONS. The following resolutions were adopted at the Irish-American Republican National Convention at Indianapolis: Be solved. That we hereby accept and ratify the platform and resolutions adopted by the Republican National Convention assembled at Chicago, in June, 1880. ResolvedL That .in the nomination of the Hon. James A. Garfield for President, and the Hon. Chester A. Arthur for Vice President, the Re­ publican party presents for our suffrage candi­ dates eminently worthy of onr support, which we hereby unqualifiedly pledge them. Itesolvefl, That, while holding American citi­ zenship to be a general designation under which we perform our duties to the nation, we yet be­ lieve that, as Irishmen and the sons of Irish­ men, it is not only proper but our bounden duty to act specially as • Irish-American Republ­ icans, organized in every State and district, aud to that end organize a National Executive Com­ mittee to aid in coping with and defeating our Democratic opponents. Resolved, That the Democratic party by its past record, many changes of front, unpatriotic and partisan legislation in the late and preced-. ing Congresses, and by acquiescing fa the use of fraudulent tissue ballots, rifle and shotgun clubs, intimidating American citizens in the enjoyment of their constitutional righto, has court, lie replied: "About 18,000. The Supreme Court alone issued 39,000 certified blanks, of which 18,824 were used. The papers were issued in blank •with no name to them." The law re­ quires that the testimony showing five years' residence must be taken in open court by an oral examination of the wit­ ness, previously prepared affidavits not being in evidence, and yet, says Mr. Paveiiport, "In these cases in 1868 no record was taken by the court. On the minutes of the Supreme Court si* names appeared during the month of October up to Oct. 6. On the next day the court I adjourned, and not a line appeared in ! the minutes in regard to the other 18,818 ' persons." In r.uother part of this testi- | mony Mr. Davenport says: "Of the | papers seoured in 1868 and held by vot- j ers in 1878, about 75 per cent, were as- l sumed to be Democratic and 25 per ! cent. Republican, but all the natnraliza- j tion papers issued in 1868 were to Dem- : ocratic applicants, with the exception of | about 2,800, in which cases the natural- j ization process was honestly conducted I in the Court of Common Pleas." Fraud ! was piled upon fraud. False naturaliz I ation was not the only form of Demo- | cratio rusc«]ity. By repeating alone, j 25,000 fraudulent votes were cast in the ) , election of 1868, and every scoundrel ar- : rested for illegal voting was discharged j by Judge McCunn. As Mr. Davenport I expressed'it--and it is a matter of public I notoriety, never questioned--that elec- j tion was carried by repeating, false vot j ing, false swearing, false canvassing, | false naturalization, falsehood tlirougli- ! out. aided with money and with the | power of a criminal bench upon which I sat Democratic Judges whose corruption | and dishonesty knew no limits. That is the way in which the Republican ma- [ jority in tlie State of New York was I overcome, and that is the way it will be i overcome next fall unless some check is | placed upon the frauds practiced in New j York city. These outrageous frauds npon the ! ballot-box have been investigated beforfe | this, and they have been brought home . so clearly to the door of the Democratic f paHy that no one has ever questioned ] their paternity. And yet this is the party that is continually howling for re- j form and demanding honest elections in i ite platforms and party organs I If the } Democratic party ia iu favor of honest j elections, why does it oppose, tooth and J nail, every attempt to legislate for such i a result and to surround the ballot-boxes | with etery possible safeguard ? If it is i in favor of honest elections, why doea it j seek to vitiate every law and statute tliat I guards the ballot-box against fraud ? If i it is in favor of honest elections, how is j it that it polls 40,000 illegal votes in New ! Y «-rk city; that it has been convicted of ! repeated frauds in Chicago, in Cincin- I uati, and in other Northern cities; that it has colonized Indiana and New Jersey with illegal voters ? How is it that it J openly stuffs the ballot-boxds in the | Southern States with thousands of tissue- paper ballots, making no pretense of- concealment? How is it that in States known to have large Republican majori­ ties, when no denial of it is made even by their own party- in those States, they have prevented the Republican vote from being cast, by force, terrorism, bulldozing, ostracism, bnitality, and every conceivable form of fraud ? Is this what they conceive to be advocating honest elections? Suppose that the Republican party should adopt the same methods of bulldozing and bal­ lot-box stuffing. Suppose that they should turn out thousands upon thou­ sands of naturalization papers, poll thou­ sands upon thousands of illegal and un­ registered votes, oppose every measure for preserving the purity of the ballot- box, and nullify every law that preserves the lights of the people in elections, how long would it be before the Government would be utterly destroyed ? How long would it be before our whole elective system would be nullified and both Gov­ ernment and society be plunged into chaos ? How long would it be before civil war would lead to despotism ? The startling facte developed by this investi­ gation should be a warning to the Amer­ ican people. It may not be that the terrorism and frauds in the solid South can be prevented at the next election, bnt they can at least demand that elec- j tions shall be honest in the North, and that the outrageous frauds heretofore practiced in New York and other North em cities shall not be repeated Hie demand of the Democratic par honest elections is hollow, speci* pndent clamor to cover . bauds. The Republicans btate in the North should rousejjjn^" ui time, and take such meas/®8 " , j. perfectly to and enforce those me*"*®8 m mo6t resolute manner. What the RjpA **** *»• The RepuV**11 P"1 ̂̂ r08toPed ̂ country aj/ P,8Ced lt °P°n ̂**** principle/** national wweignty, as found; Democracy kept your pathway strewn with thorns and thistles. The Repub­ licans have plucked the thorns and thistles and planted flower? there. Be careful not to pluck out the flowers and replace the thistles and thorns.--Sen, John A. Logan, at Aturfrysboro, lit tiTs. A» ** PIBMUFOKB*?*, 7~ ' ' [Wen. Bmtoock a* Sir JolmJ :;l jnm X was* lad, I went to scbeai, .• f. '- i Where Uncle Sam tends man; % fopl; I polished np my button* and vweptmy room, For which I vaa rewarded by a T V *; li IpoUahed up my That now I ai am the leader of the Den " « lJyj • .. . . - ; In right about face I made aach a mark . ! Thatlhey gave me the post of an Adjutant1* clajKf | 1 served tbe Ad. with a amileao biand, - ; And I copied all the ordatal* a Mg round kaad» ? In right about face I waa ao free That tbeymade me tbe lahM <Sf the Demtirwiwa. ' - | Aa a white oadet I made such a name iK- i'-tf. • i That a pet of the South I soon became !, ̂ ' Mi -' ) I Wore White gloves and a bran new * :Wm I At tkp bottom of my class at the Institute; v-ft Bo they dropped all the iesnes and nominated ' And now I am the leader of the Democraaee. , ; My political ignorance it waa ao great : That the; took me up as a candidate, : So why shouldn't t amy the pirty'a A< eel I Since t shall never have to thlak for I know so little that they rewarded ma By making me the leader of the Democeaee*. Of aivil life I know no more Than Tilden knows of military lora, So they abandoned him and his great" reform.", And fled to me aa a "port in a rtorm." u They abandoned ai! their leadera, and begged To come and be the leader of tha Dwaaocraaca ̂y In the Unimi war I fongbt «t> well \-v< That my name is greeted with the " rebel Teil."s<K - „ Of a " man on horaeback " they had a«ch fear >iif " That they nominated lis--which U rather queej*f'» 'Twas a right about face to nominate me, But now I am the leader of the Semocrasee. > I ' •Kf'r'fi s> i In shooting down rebs I became so expert ! That they hurrah for me and the bloody ahirt; >n; > | They cheer for me in a cheer bo loud ̂ - They may wake Mrs. S. from her bloody ahronA. I hung Mrs. 8. with so much glee | That they wanted me for leaderef 1 I No#, Americans aU, whoever you may Hi give you » bit of atraiagee: Never go to any but a military ^citool, And be careful to be guided by this r Keep away from the polls and let And yo» all may be leaden of the Indiana Democrats tor Garfield* v At the organization of the Garfield ancfArthur Club in this city Wednesday :: night 14.1 persons signed the roll. Of • these nine have heretofore acted 'With the Democratic party. Their names aare published, and they are well known, rf Another club was organized by the Be- * publicans in the west end of the city the same night. Among tlie membership $ are six heretofore straight-out Demo- crots, and one of the leading Greenback- il ers of the county, and a delegate to the \ Chicago Convention that nominated . Weaver. The latter was also formerly a Democrat, and lost a leg in the rebel army. Tliey all Bay Garfield is good , enough for them, tn the three other Republican clubs in the city arid county there are several heretofore- active Democrats. They may be called i straws. Tliev certainly indicate haw . things are going in this part of Indiana. --1Vew Albany Cor. Olnc-inna/i ; merete£ ' 3i' ̂: -- Instracttre Plgkrw^" The Washington dispatches malte an instructive contrast of two periods* in the history of the Government, of fit- ' teen years each, one Bepublican, the other* Democratic. Between 1865 atnd 1880, Bepublican administrations have paid off $837,000,000 of the national debt, , and reduced the annual volume of interest by $71,000,000. Between and 1861, Democratic administrat added $13,000,000 to the debt. In If the Government was paying 12 pe>*« on money borrowed for cu penses; now the 4-per-cent. at a premium all over the the Democratic party now i public servants who have over many things shall 1 favor of those who h»w . , in all things.--New fribtttte. Bill English, m> Copperhead u ? Choice exiraej^trom a speech in Oaa- grass of WilUAa H. English, present Democraticyd&tdidate for the Yiee f*lii dency, in. The iouM tmd most Godformkf.% stealing JSMOkmiata are to lefimmt in lidS- ana, MfMStr against ike natumal IkiH&erm- wby «de with the kadbra at tbe Black into Ittdiama, *m aim wy •» imaster.. * * * ••m BOflfloori ComJ*otai» mr. It was gemnlT fi»y?ver waa aokfeoto that it only meant Territorial WIVj. geoMtalhr eaoeedeA that ttfeferm ottoketakea in iW literal nconf Ottrwg a# mstewcwo/ flls ;v vj Mb • Jm . - , . niinok A convention of the HKnois waa held a* 20 th of July, Abqnt various poctipps o| tt tendance. colored RepuUMtti' - Mtljk candid^iEr* national constitution. Let oa keep V"'C*4 • - V ':s