Gold Hill Daily News

Senator Morton.
THE GREAT STATESMAN IN VIRGINIA
Two Masterly Addresses—A Mass Meeting in the Afternoon and a Crowded Hall In the Evening—An Epitome of his Speeches.
Yesterday was grand occasion for the Republicans of Storey county. Senator O. P. Morton, Indiana's war Governor and the giant of the Senate, spoke twice in Virginia. A stand was erected on C street opposite the International Hotel, and at half-past 2 o'clock Senator Morton began to address the great mass of citizens who gathered upon very short notice to listen to the distinguished statesman. He spoke of the importance to the country of the gold and silver production of Nevada and its bearing upon the national finances. It was the purpose of the Republican party to restore THE SPECIE BASIS. To redeem the greenbacks, of which we had but a few here in this State, in coin, and to make gold and silver the standards of value throughout the United States. There was great hope of the Silver Commission, and that it would find a solution to the question of how silver could be made the basis of a circulating medium for the whole country, if not for the whole world. When this can be done then can we pay our national debt, and the currency of the nation would be on a safe basis, which could not be disturbed by the panics and fluctuations in other countries. He had met the two Senators from Nevada on the floor of the Senate, and could vouch for the high repute in which they are held by the leading men of the Government. Their standing at the seat of government and the success they had achieved at home gave them great influence, and their great intellectual ability and experience in financial affairs would be of great benefit in the halls of Congress.
THE TWO PARTIES,
The speaker next compared the claims which the two great parties have upon the confidence of the people, showing that the Democrats had opposed every measure for the preservation of the Union and had done nothing for the advancement of free institutions. The Republican party was willing to stand upon its record. On all the great issues which divided the parties in the past the Democrats now acknowledge that the Republicans were right. The questions of the past upon which the Republicans had been victorious were reviewed at length. The violent opposition of the Democracy to each of the Amendments was dwelt upon. The Democrats offer nothing but promises for the future. Their conduct in the past is not a strong foundation for belief that they will keep their pledges. The speaker went into the statistics of corruption and proved that the Government has been more purely administered under Republican rule than under Democratic. After speaking for about an hour Senator Morton retired, and after a song from the Glee Club, the crowd dispersed with three cheers for Hayes and Wheeler.
IN THE EVENING
National Guard Hall was densely crowded, even the stage being packed with eager citizens. Many ladies were among the audience. Senator Morton delivered a long and able discourse, going over the whole ground of the issues dividing the parties. His address was marked by a calmness and candor of statement which won the friendly attention of all. Democrats as well as Republicans. He pointed out the TWO THEORIES OF GOVERNMENT Held by the Republican party and the Democratic party. The first says we are one nation, one people, subdivided into States for local government, but subservient to the Constitution of the United States, which is over all, and giving to the States certain specified rights, as it gives to the General Government. While it gives to the General Government certain rights, it reserves to the States all the rights not specified. That the States hold their rights by the same title as the General Government. That they are equally sacred as the rights of the General Government, protected by the same interests. The other theory is that this Government is a mere confederation of States, independent States, bound together by a constitution called a treaty of alliance. That each one of these States is a nation, and that they should be sovereign and independent nations. That the Government of the United States is but the agent and representative of these States. That the Government was not formed by the people, as a whole people, but by the States in their corporate and organized capacity; and consequently this Government being nothing but a treaty, it follows that these nations may withdraw from this alliance at pleasure. This doctrine was upheld by S. J. Tilden in his letter to Kent, just before Lincoln's election. After dwelling for some time upon the absurdity and danger of the Democratic theory, the speaker entered upon the question of reconstruction and pictured the condition of things IN THE SOUTH. The Democratic party always has been and is now ruled by the Southern element. That element has no love for the Northern Democracy. Their only aim is to repair their shattered fortunes, and they will pledge themselves to any platform to accomplish that end. Anything to gain power, is their real platform. Senator Morton next entered upon the charge of CORRUPTION Made against the Republican party. Two years ago a great tidal wave swept over this country, and many States truly Republican gave Democratic majorities, and a Democratic House was elected, with nearly one hundred Democratic majority. Of that number sixty-six were Confederate officers and soldiers. After showing up the Confederate House, its sham reforms, its sham economy and investigations, the speaker quoted from the Government records for the last fifty years to show the comparative stealings. The losses on each $1,000 collected during Jackson's administration were $10 55; during Van Buren's, $21 15; Harrison's and Tyler's, $10 37; Polk's, $8 31; Taylor's and Fillmore's, $7 64; Pierce's, $5 16; Buchanan's, $6 98, and under Lincoln, the first Republican President, $1 41; Grant's first term, 40 cents; Grant's second term, 26 cents. These are what the books of the Government show and cannot be controverted. "I don't believe this Government is corrupt," said the Senator, "I believe the people are growing better, I believe we are a better people than we were fifty years ago, better than our ancestors were a hundred years ago, I do not believe the government is a failure. There is no people on the earth that believe a hundredth part of the Democratic slander. We are the best credit abroad of any nation on the face of the earth. If the European emigrants believed those slanders they would not come here. For reason capitalists do not believe them, for our bonds are selling all over in coin, at 4 1/2 per cent. interest. In the last ten years we have paid $399,000,000 of the national debt, exclusive of running expenses, and we have taken up six per cent bonds and replaced them with four-and-a-half per cent bonds, saving over $7,000,000 yearly, and that after the civil war. Why, the last Democratic President borrowed money to pay the ordinary running salaries of the government, with no interest on a heavy war debt. $73,000,000 for the first two years, During the last year he borrowed $33,000,000 more, selling the bonds at a great discount at seven per cent. interest. And on this borrowed money we have been paying interest ever since. In regard to your oppressive taxation let me tell you that to-day there are only three things you are paying tax on to the Federal Government—national bank stock, whiskey and tobacco." The Democratic standard-bearer was ignored by an almost unworthy of notice, and a clear, forcible argument stand by the Republican party was presented why every voter should vote for Senator Sharon. In presenting him Senator Morton paid him a number of high compliments. Mr. Sharon made few remarks, calling upon all to stand by the old flag on the 7th of November. The meeting wound up with three cheers for Morton, three for Sharon, and three with a tiger for Hayes and Wheeler.