Racine Argus (Newspaper) - November 4, 1879, Racine, Wisconsin PACTS FOR THE PEOPLE 4 RACINE ARGUS T m DEMOCRATIC TICKET JAMES JENKINS 01 Milwaukee H KING Or Green OF RYAN Of ANDREW HABEN Of J M SMITH 01 Iowa rr PUBLIC SEARING Or Kock JENKINS IN 1862 Hia Eloquent Patriotic t tUo Late War A Speech Rinsing with in the of the Rebellion A Thrilling Response to coln's Call Three dred Thousand More and Answers to and falsifiers Soad What our Candidate for ernor Slid to Fifty Thousand People in 1862 The gloomiest period of the civil war was during the memorable summer of 1862 It was then that confederate forces were most exultant Flushed by repeated victories the rebel lead- ers at Richmond contemplated j forward waging an offensive warfare The repulse of in the doah valley and the sore discomfiture of Gen McClellan on the Peninsula en- the enemy to abandon their defensive policy and they resolved to remove the ol war to the ers The of the nation was threatened and loyal where shuddered and grew faint A cull for more troops was determined on The president issued his celebrated proclamation for three hundred and more The several states were to respond to this call for help Wisconsin was assigned her quota and nobly did she answer On the of July one of the darkest moments of ill the war an im- mense masa meeting was held in the vicinity of Milwaukee Not less than fifty thousand people were in at- tendance The object of the meeting ivw to enlistments The crowd was 10 large that five or speakers stands had to be erected to accommodate the vast concourse ol people Atout one of stands the men asked to congregate to be by Matt II and On that occasion Mr Jenkins deliv cred the following brilliant soul-stirring patriotic It it a complete and overwhelming refutation the adroit insinuations and of republican pi- pers us to Mr Jenkins position during war He conflated here to-day from Of ill nod la lire lo take counsel nn tit oui country ones and lowers dark 01 civil var This in nor or or of It 1 1 lot M a al the m IM common listen Hut for lu of the rebellion It time to ciuw Iho the mismanagement tlie criminal neglect end tbe damnable robberr tlut too characterized tho conduct or the war unit far Let dead bury in dead act In tht present Hearts within and God o'er head Our lu In danger Come up to hti aid The capitol la threatened will ou permit it to be held by Our breve crney la by tbe overwhelming force of tho enemy but Shall It wait In you the lire blood or la ebbing away or inns country's call bo and The of our country's ii us all lia awful be to him not ita cry of despair Woe lie to him wlie gives not now a helping hand lu thli on time of trouble Ita c need Upon tha youn men ol nation doca lust with peculiar weight Thi faith energy tbe the or youth art Iho great which the of an Sea to it then man tost you nro acting your part nobly iu thr of life 11 Ha not like dumb driven a hero in the Deprive of olllfe of tte of life if it need hr to contribute jour in the great work of tue salvation your country Ko can bo too Life at best but a poor offering upon the altar country lie that his life IU the o hli liberties It man no cry ol peace entice from the or dary Au peace can only be cow When the lime comea for we lourt dictate that H not bn forced upon by IQ tho ment can bo uo back Toe deep or thu eternal of cowardice will rest upon us an a nation If we now fall iu our duty lo our country will re- cord us ii people Tor if we now basely permit our iry to If we fail her in tbU hour of peril dead of the of would cry out ID their lor at thu of their Upl Men cr Give to our It Let there bo no faltering no If men are n million aud continue to tend until wicked rebellion it and until Gur Is once ajala united under that hac and never ahull to a foreign foe oar once continues Ita march In iu puts of under God tho S oppremcd ol all tin foe of the land of the free on Oh aUlp of state Sail OR Oh Humanity all Ha With all ita hopea or future yearn Is nu thy In and te in roar In tin abore Sail OD nor leur te breast Our hopes are all with thee Our hearts our hopes our our lean Our faith triumphant o'er our frari Art all win all with STATE RIGHTS As Expounded by Hon G Jenkins Democratic for Governor of Wisconsin A Clear Logical Profound and Eloquent Address Treatment The Philadelphia Titus although in- dependent in politics gets in some fatal thrusts upon tbe Hayes tration in the following Another chapter in the annals of the Hayes administration is opened to-day by tbe statement of a ber ot the infamous ing board although a ed roan is the member of the board had the least to fio with politics and is the one who neither before nor since the counting process has made a living outside of politics He waa a well-to-do undertaker aud it was hoped when he was appointed that he 1 I Mil no a or or ot oni en- used la ni fo Tht In has now kj of the bit o H cn ni bj i bj th of Iht too and 1 of would give a wild flavor of ty to a board otherwise composed of two politicians and professional I gambler all of whom were notoriously on the was thg cat with whose paws they proposed to pull chestnuts out of the tire and only lately lias he be- gun to see badly his paws were burned While with his eon father-in-law and coterie of have been drawing o year Wells and including his father who must be a Hundred years old about a year and Konner and family about year from the account of their services in the presidential tion of poor aye returned to hia to find the business gone to tbe mischief and then to crown all he was required to foot the bills for keeping himself and associates out of the penitentiary where they be- longed The details of this story aro told in his pleasant way in our ington dispatches but the worst refers to bis adventures in the effort to induce administration to take the burden of debt off his shoulders reasoned as most men would that the men who were enjoying spoils of the crime that he committed bad an interest even greater than his own in covering up the dirty done in their behalf To a certain extent the administration seems to have shared this view The president received him courteously and passed him on Crary aid he would pay tho whole amount himself but he wasn't able and Sherman actually planked down magnificent sum of one hundred dollars When pursued further wore even more finally through the kind offices of some of tbe legal gentlemen who represented Mr before the electoral commission seventeen hundred and fifty dollars were raised They drew amount however and hence Casanave shakes the duit of his feet from the capital covering the administration with profanity and half inclined to turn It B state's evidence It is an entertaining storr and still most disgraceful to those who figure in it from the highest and he tht Is not yet Mr and Fellow Citizens Ladit and Gentlemen Called from the more congenial suits of private professional life to sume temporarily ths position of an for the of the people of Wisconsin I have yielded all personal to undertake what seemed lo me to be a public duty In the of that duty I appear before you to express my opinions on certain topics of public interest opinions being valuable only from representative character which 1 at present sustain It not improper for me to premise that the opinions which I hold be honestly expressed I am DO trimmer I have been ed to hold and express my sentiments at dictation of no party or set of men and I shall not now sink my as a man to attain to any of- fice on earth What shall say shall bo my honest it pleases or not STATE RIGHTS There appears to be up in this country a conflict touching the ture and form of our government a conflict which was had at the crania of tiie constitution and which it had been fondly supposed waa long ago mined Upon the one hand it scorns to be that the national government should absorb powers not granted by the fundamental law The cry is heard for a stronger central government Just what is desired the partisans of lhat theory do not deem it advisable to state but by by most imperceptible ments have been mado upon powers not granted to the federal government which will result unless checked by tlie people in a change from our present system of government into a vast centralized government of almost unlimited power Upon tho other it is claimed that the system adopted by the fathers of the republic and which finds sion in the constitution they adopted is all sufficient in point of strength to maintain tho union is essential to perpetuate the liberties of the people It is well 10 ascertain juat what our of whether it be nt for its nance and whether change to some other system is either or tends to promote tho liberi mid well being of the citizen Upon the of the revolutionary tno of statesmen were having dis- and opposite methods for the for- I mation of our government the L lead by that distinguished patriot and able statesman Alexander sought to establish a upon of the British system having the of centralized and the subdivisions of government shining by the reflected light of the tral power the by the im- mortal such tem to liberty believed that the nearer government get to thn ple it and the stronger and sought to establish a central or tional to which should be grunted sufficient powers for its tenance reserving to the states cr to the people all powers not granted to the national government or forbidden to the elates In the contest which en- sued the latter theory was practically successful Our constitution was so framed submitted to and adopted by the several statis and in order to place beyond contention the character object of that instrument the several elates and Iho people thereof within two jearg after the acceptance of the constitution duly adopted an ment to that instrument known as Ar- ticle X which expressly that not delegated to the United States by the nor ed by it to the states are reserved to the respectively or to the ple With reference therefore to con- and to the relations which states bear to the union it it manifest and has been BO held as well by the court of the United States as by the courts of last in every state of thu union of this question that the federal constitution ii a grant of power to the United States ment that as to all granted they are reserved 10 the states or to the people and that therefore the constitution of a state is not a grant of power for the power ex- isted in the state and with its people before and independently of any con- but is limitation upon au man judge and lawyer in the land The supreme court of this state at the time of such distinguished jurists as Luther S Dixon nnd tbe lamented Byron Payne asserted this j Beloit 10 Wis page 225 in I the following language We suppose j it to be a well settled political principle that the constitution of the state is lo be regarded not as a grant of power but rather as a limitation upon the powers of the legislature and that it is competent for the legislature to exercise all legislative power not forbidden by be constitution or delegated to the general government or prohibited by the constitution of the United States Here then ive find the true touching the frame-work of our system of government A doctrine sanctioned by the framers of the constitution a doctrine sustained every reputable judicial tribunal in the land A trine asserted to sustain the action of the electoral commission which ed the to Mr Hayes in its refusal to go behind the returns of in- dependent states to investigate alleged in a presidential election A doctrine I believe and which I understand the democratic party to uphold That doctrine is simply Iu all mailers of national concern in respect of ail powers granted to it by the the national ment is supreme The states have no right to interfere with the subject In nil matters not delegated to the general government by the constitution or its amendments tha states aro Tho federal government has nothing to do with those subjects Aud as to whether a particular power be- longs to the national government or to ptate the constitution has created the i court of the United Slates tho tinul arbiter and judge to whose de- every party and every citizen every malicious or generous must bow This ia the most wholesome and com- doctrine of rights rightly adopted and sent to the senate for its politicians and I believe with President concurrence Assembly Journal 1859 in noblest sentiment ever page and wern concurred io by serves his party best the senate Senate Journal page serves bis country republican senator voting in aud every democratic senator voting against them and among tno gentlemen so voting in favor of these resolutions of nullification defiance was the present live of tbe state Governor Win E I Smith then a senator from the county of Dodge Those resolutions were bald opponent entertained ions at the present time I fled these however to day disgracing the books of the blot upon the fair escutcheon of repealed expunged or publicly repented of And I assert that it any man or party which supported resolutions to denounce as disloyal or dangerous the doctrine of the rights of the states expounded by the ot tho republic und held by democratic party and enforced to-day throughout the length and breadth of this laud by every judicial tribunal therein Another matter of interest the nation at the present time concerns the subject of fair and peaceful elections to this I believe that there is no discordance of sentiment good men ol all parties It is lo thu permanency of our that crery citizen or low rich or poor without to race color or previous condition of servitude je cured to him the vota wilhout interference nr There should not nly be no of right but every be actively should be no pering with the billot box There should unlawful votes permitted to be cast There should be no wicked ing of voles cist or false returning of the results The very of upon cd and honest expression cf electors and an honest If intimidation and fraud fire to be permitted to control understood Under it the national our elections we may as well admit that maintained in its vigor self-government preserved existing power The one is a delegation or srant of power the other ii a tion or limitation upon an existing power This is no new doctrine It is the very primer of constitutional history Reckless political writers dealing with this question in tbe heat of a campaign may rave as they will It is a doctrine recognized by every local in its entirety Under it al and state government move ruch in iU appointed orbit without notion and without clashing like unlo the harmony of the spheres Under it a government for people and by the people is sustained and the manifest evils flowing from centralized power are avoided Under it tho of its fulfillment E Out of many one Oat of many one nation Oat of many states one indissoluble union States separate and yet one People separate and yet one Stales dent in local affairs dependent and united in national affairs 11 Separate tbt waTen One ui aea Partisanship has sought o falsely charge this with the paternity of secession and rebellion but such at- tempts will signally fail To strike at this doctrine of state rights as ed by the fathers of the republic is to strike at the foundation of our ment To overthrow doctrine is to overthrow our whole of ment There was however a doctrine of a doctrine of secession and disunion once held by desperate men now happily overthrown and laid to rest in its unholy grave fitly in the following That formed by of ilia United not made the or or of delegated to tbac as In all other of compact bavins no common an equal lo Juried for HS well of aj of mode and of That tho principle and by tho parly which now rules in tbe of the nation the party ibat government la iho of tin of tbe delegated lo it atop nothing or tbo lion of tbo government and not the would of that framed thai being and nave the lo acd that ance of of all unauthorized acti done or attempted to done under color of thai It tDe These resolutions were adopted upon the assumption by the supreme court of the United States of appellate diction to finally paes upon the of an act of congress and to reverse a decision of a stato court adverse to the validity of the act These resolutions do not express the doctrines of tho rights of Iho states They declare the doctrines of the South Carolina nullification they assert the dogma of southern secession they breathe disunion and I regret to add they formulate the creed of the lican party of Wisconsin in 1859 These resolutions in substance were introduced in the assembly of the consin legislature by tbe chairman of its judiciary gentleman new the principal proprietor and man- aging editor of tho Milwaukee Sentinel the leading republican organ of the state paper just now is greatly exercised over tho constitutional ot the rights of states pretending to consider it dangerous doctrine The committee on federal relations lo whom was referred the resolutions so introduced reported to the assembly tbe resolutions I have quoted upon Mr Horn A democratic member sought to substitute a resolution as That we will tbe Untied Slaws on all doubtful mar undor constitution ol the United or under law of declared br aid conrt to bo con- our own private we are unequal to the tusk of nient To secure honest vote I have always favored aad do now favor such reasonable regulations as will pre- vent unlawful votes and punish an gal voter If to accomplish that end some personal inconvenience must be to by the lejal voter iu tering his name lie should cheerfully submit thereto in the interest of purity of elections aid the stability of his And in this connection I take this casion to denounce all intimidation of voters all public or social ostracism for political cause all outrages upon any for difference in political faith Throughout this whole land every zen should free and ed to his own notions ot political without fear or tion and to exercise all his political rights constraint And in com- mon with all good citizens I demand that any aud nil infractions of such right any anil all intimidation or lence inflicted upon uny citizen for his political faith shall ha punished swiftly and surely by the Jaw of the land There must be no political ostracism no cal assassinations CIVIL I desire also to express my firm be- lief doctrine much derided by the The advent of more prosperous times the shifting of the balance of trade in favor of the United States and returning confidence have enabled the government to resume specie payment upon the day designated by resolution of the congress Partial resumption has been reached and I believe it the duly of the to aid to make such resumption permanent It is idle now to enquire if such tion has been with the least injury possible A wise statesmanship deals with the present and the future cot with the past Resumption is here and must be maintained It is for tlie interest nf tho business of the it is for tho interest of ery producer in tbe that currency issued by the government should be con- vertible into coin at tiie pleasure of the The paper dollar which tho workingman receives for his labor should be clothed with tbe purchasing power of a gold dollar If he be paid in a debased currency if he receive for a dollar that which ii worth less than dollar which will not purchase an honest dollar's worth of bread he anci his family are de- of his labor A debased rency furnishes the opportunity of the usurer and the shark It is also the stone around the neck of honest labor that shall drag it down to its ruin So that I maintain whatever volume cf be placed in circulation the purchasing power of a paper dollar to that of a gold lar That I understand to be the plain meaning of the financial plank of our platform and the true position assumed by the democratic party of My Citizens the long night of fi depression is passing away The rising sun of a renewed prosperity is ing the eastern sky with its cheering rays They who have long endured the ing poverty the gaunt hunger and the fearful struggle with lite ruay take courage and go forward for a better time seems to be approaching Renewed confidence lias given new life Grest in- but arc bounding into Hope long mant illumines every face Labor comes every son of toil to liberal reward Science points the way to break through the old limitations to human endeavor nnd almost annuls the everlasting tions of time aud space The cent achievements of to-day lead but to grander projects for The people arc rushing onward in a of physical prosperity to no bounds can be assigned But iu the mad raca for wealth let us not forget or forego our duties as zens Let us remember that wealth and physical prosperity constitute but in a small degree ilia true greatness of a na ilon Let us not lose sight of the fashioned notions of truth honor aud in- While surrounding those we love with needed comforta let us rot that moral culture which alone can make u people great Ee slave to no garty Cultivate independence of thought e by no Seek the pure light of reason Be a man 10 do duty as a and in the best good of tho Study to know your duty and to do it Study to know your rights sud dara to assert Be not time servers ing to the reward of tho present nor crook tlie pregnant hinges of tht knee lhat thrift tuny follow fawning Be in- machine politicians of all parties the doctrine reform Tlie history of our country has tlie establishment of a vast army rf who do but little 01 the public being mainly engaged in advancing the interests of the political parly under whom they hold They are j not servants of tho people but of their party They manage nnd control lions at the expense of public The duties of their position are confined lo tho care of agents not selected by the receive the gains of of- lice and uphold the causa of their party This system is sought to be sustained on maxim that to the victors belong the a most unholy and theory lhat has worked untold cor- ruption in the body politic Any party long in power will become corrupt because tho that arc without principle or honor will at- tach themselves to whichever party manly nnd enduring for the right Then you build up here within the limit of this goodly commonwealth state in- deed not merely in physical but great in men that in time oT need shall prove tho bulwark of a tion without i record to and And every republican member of that Toted against this latter resolution and every democratic ber voted in its favor and it was de- Assembly Journal 1869 page Thereupon by a like vote the original nullification resolutions were pens to bo in power and obtain control of Hie gains of cilice They are tho which load and may sink the ship of stale To obviate this error to do with these political our should be reformed and restored to tbe honesty which the early days ot tbe republic for office should be determined by the Is Is he Wo have tho unseemly spectacle of the removal of nearly every employe of the government upon s change of ad- ministration as if the safety of the Union depended upon tho janitor of a custom house cleans the spittoons political opinions at one with tbe party in power This should all be changed and when one U found faithfully honestly and duties In a subordinate office ho should not bo removed because of his political the of departments if you will for hey give efficacy to a supposed needed of political but who merely the rou- tine and details of government ery should be judged by the ard efficiency and Ko banker would think of an honest faithful teller became of political cr employ a dishonest less incompetent miin because of ical agreement with him Bun your as you run your business The will be served you will remove from the arena of politics most corrupting agency that threatens the National life I know this Is not doctrine politicians from lear their party lose iti hired retainers but I rot a politician tnd am here to apeak my honest Parties will or labored mound nr mOAted rale Kot proud with and crownca bara and broad armed porta laughing at tbe rich tide Not and to pride No moo Hen know Eat know rights and dare main tain constitute And law collected will O'er and date Bits nood repressing 111 But a single personal allusion and I The question of who shall bo elected governor disturbs friends and political opponents much more than it docs myself Upon that question I the decision of tho ple calmly and without distrust Should they sea tit ta call me to the executive chair I shall be the governor of no party corporation or clique of men but of the people striving with such ability as God me to faithfully discharge the duties of that high office and to enforce the laws honestly im- partially and in hc best Interests of tho state If on tho other hand they shall prefer my worthy opponent none will bow to their decision with more cheerful sub- mission than myself thankful that I am not called from my chosen and loved profession to tread the ways of political life But whatever fata betide In the short and perhaps heated canvass that inter- venes I shall not sink the gentleman In the politician j but shall hope 10 to prove myself at to retire from the con test with tho confidence and respect of personal friends and worthy citizens of faith So far ladies and gentlemen as this large and brilliant assembly and your cordial welcome may properly be deemed personal to I thank you with a grateful heart for your gracious recognition and for your patient tion and bid you all kind Good night THERE are and colored children in whom the schools can offer no WE cannot have fertilizing showers on the earth a clouded heaven It U thus with our trials
