Carson Daily Appeal

SOLID TRUTHS BY SENATOR CONKLING.

On the evening of October 3 at Utica, N. Y., Senator Conkling addressed a large and enthusiastic meeting of Republicans. That speech is reported in the New York Herald of October 4, and we make the following extracts from the said report:

SERMONS IN STONES.

It has been said there are sermons in stones--there are sermons in the stones which have been hurled at Grant and his administration; and when the passionate discords and selfish hates and rivalries and hollow pretensions of to-day are dead, these stones will be gathered to raise a monument to one of the truest, most fearless patriots who ever served his country. Extenuating no case of fraud or crime and knowing with shame and sorrow that individuals holding official trusts have been guilty of detestable jobbery, I still ask whether the nation is likely to profit by being given into the keeping of those who in field and forum have been on the bad side in the vital trials of the last twenty years? Is there nothing more deserving of consideration than the filthy doings of a few disgraced individuals? Shall we look at the docket of the police court to learn the movements of a State or of a nation? Shall we judge a community by the pickpockets who infest it?

REPEALING SPECIAL PAYMENTS.

Look out and see what has been done now recently. The public credit, has been raised till we have negotiated bonds bearing only four and a half per cent interest to take the place of those which have exacted six per cent. Here is a saving of interest and taxes worth celebrating. Will the party which has preached repudiation and inflation be likely to improve on this? Legislative and administrative action has been taken to make every dollar of paper in the pockets of the people as good as gold within the next three years. The democrats voted against the act, denounced it and in the branch of Congress in which they had the power passed an act of repeal, and both their candidates and their platform indorse this action. Will democratic ascendancy hasten specie payments and the restoration of business on a solid, lasting basis?

DEMOCRATS SOLID ON SOUTHERN CLAIMS

Southern claims, estimated at upwards of $2,000,000,000, are coming from every region on which the Union army camped, or marched, or fought. I cannot remember a case in which the vote of a democrat in Congress has been cast against a bill to pay a Southern war claim; as a rule such bills have always received the solid democratic vote. Many such claims, being within the law, get through both houses; some got through which should not, and when the President discovers such a one he vetoes it. Is a democratic President likely to veto such bills? The South demands that $68,000,000 collected as a tax on cotton shall be paid back. They ask it in thirty year bonds to bear five per cent interest in gold, the principal and interest of which at the end of the time would amount to $170,000,000. They say cotton is a product of the earth and should never have been taxed. Petroleum is a product of the earth too, of the Northern earth, that was taxed in all its forms and stages, and nobody proposes to refund the millions it paid. Yet bills are pending to take the cotton tax out of the treasury and return it to the cotton States. Would you select a democratic President to veto such bills? A House bill proposes to refund the Southern portion of the direct tax levied on all the States in 1861. The Southern share was $2,500,000; the North paid $17,000,000. But no one proposes to reimburse Northern States. How would a democratic President treat this matter?