The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-16
nEM0CRATIC JOLuTY IN ONO.
v.IlnndiRham 60 be United States Soma
ser His Speech on the ISSUES or the
nAmpafgms

WON, fhe oSaoin,pati Commercial, Ian.
A very large and enthusiastic jolhhcation Of
the Democracy was held IN Hamilton, Butler
iubilant Democrats participated. The first part
~ the programme was q torch-lght procession,
In which were to be notlceo many very lngenl
oue transparencies. The best "hit' was ben.
Wade and found wanting" which represented
pair of scales with the Ohio Senator IN one end
and gentleman OF African descent IN tue other.
The latter was altogether too heavy for the ior-
mer and weighed him down, the moral being
that the darkey was too much for old Ben. in
the recent election.
President of the meeting, introduced Mr. Val
Iandgham to very large audiense, which
hacked the courthouse yard.
Just then q gentleman came forward and
offered the following Tesolution;-
ResolUod In the name Of 2O9O majority for Thurman
given BY the Democracy of Butler country that hav:
Districts embraced in the Third Congressional District
meyy Sy upon the ISIS ofthe
election Of Hon. G. l.. Vallandgham to the senate of
mend bis nomination aud election as the successor of
Benjamin F. Wade.
A Voice--"I nominate him for President of
the United States, by Cd"
The resolution was adopted; after which Mr..
Wilson proposed three cheers for G. L. Vallan-
dgham, the Senator who is to take the place
of the infamous Benjamin f. Wade.n
Mr.. Vallandi9ham then sad:-
My Old Friends OF Butler county, thank the
gentleman SO many years my personal friend,
/ thank you, the gallant Democracy of Butler,
for the cordial Endorsement with which it has
been received, The issue upon the question OF
Benator was made by the Republican paIty all
over Ohio, in every county, and against every
candidate for the State Senate and House of
Representatives, ! am confident that the will
of the people, expressed by the verdict of the
people Will be sanctioned and endorsed by the
Democratic majority in the Senate and House of
Representatives, and thus confident that that
will, respected, sanctioned, and endorsed, will
be heard, am content to leave the question
with the people and their representatives.
We are assembled here tonight to celebrate
one of the grandest political triumphs ever
achieved in the history of the world. We are
here to rejoice that we have redeemed the Sena-
torial District of Montgomery and Preble and
especially to congratulate ourselves that in the
Third Congressional District, not the old Third,
full of triumph already, but the new Third,
made up especially for Republican victories
we have triumphed by majority OF 49l. Will
Mr.. Schenck respect the voice of the people
Wall he resigny matters not whether ne will
or not. The handwriting Is upon the wall; be
may read 1t; and his political career termna'es
forever on the 4th Of March, 1862 at the period
when, ii your voices, gentlemen, are heard, my
Senatorial career will begin
Thank God we have in part almost in whole
white State. Upon The question of mere caudt.
dates for office, and upon the question OF
negro suffrage, Ohio is white all over 1t is
vain for Republicans to talk of reviying this
question. First, we have Democratic Legsla-
ture. Next, they never will TO the age of
SkcIulLJ, uuu JWO-tnlruS Oh the Legislature OF
Ohio to submit the question again to the popu-
lar vote. 1t is dead forever, and let us rejoice
not merely as Democrats, but as citizens; for
am here first to thank Il don't know whether
tney precisely deserve 1t, but let us accept the
day OF small thtngs) those Repub leans who
were inconsistent enough to vote for their
ticket composed of men in favor OF negro suf-
trage, and yet to vote by tens of thousands
against the amendment ITSELF
THE OHIO ELECTION A REBUKE TO SOUTHERN
UrIoNIsTs.
Among those things which afford me pleasure
in this season OF peculiar JOY, is the reoukc
administered in the Northern States TO a certain
class of politicians in the south. There are men
in those States, some of them original secession
ista, and all of them who embarked their for
tunes in the Confederate Government, who,
imagining to themselves that the Democratic
party was dead, have been base enough to unite
with the Republican party, and some OF them to
heap maledictions upon the head of the Demo-
oIacy and the men whom the Democratic party
delights 10 honor.
THE OHIO DEMOCRACY.
In 1867 we have ha d the most terrific struggle
that ever party had within the limits OF Ohio.
There has been nothing equal to 1t except the
campaign of 1868, in Ohio, and Governor Wises
campaign of 1866, against the Know-Nothngs
in Virginia. The Democratic leaders OF ONO,
men who would compare with the patriots and
statesmen OF the Revolution for sincerity and
devotion to principle, went through the State,
and for two months upheld Democratic doctrine
TO the people. l, myself, have addressed seventy
four meetings and spoken TO 10000 people, We
imported no men from abroad with two or
three exceptions, while the Republicans filled
the State with men from every portion of the
Union-from New England, from New York,
from Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Wiscon-
sin-every portion OF the country. Men were
brought here to teach the people of Ohio nd
to vote. The Democracy relied upon its own
brains, its own genius, its own craftsmanship
its own oratory-and it triumphed.
THE PRESIDENCY
have said the Presidential election is pend
ing. We have begun it. This is but the pre-
lude. The contest now will wax warmer and
warmer. We have done our duty. We have
cratic President In 1868; of that be assured.
THE NEGRO QUESTION.
Ny friends, this great problem of the negro
remains, and it will remain for 6tty wears To
come. One OF the reasons why opposed the
war was because | believed If successful il
would end in the abolition of slavery and that
we should then have three millions of negroes
thrown into politics to confound it for ages as
II is doing to-day. Human ken cannot npn a
tTate the dark mysteries of that problem, O lp
thing believe. In 1921 Thomas Jefferson said
that if any one thing, IN Gods providence WAS
settled in the future, it was the abolition M
slavery, and, on the other hand, II apy Other
thing was settled it was that the two
races could not exist in harmony and
that the only solution of the problem was in
the deportation or determination of the neprr
race. You cannot mingle those races You
cannot make them one, as you have made every
other race that has been brought into Americ5
All OF the same kindred blood in the beginning
For that reason, say that the result must b. I
war Oh races But torbear the further discus
sion OF TINS question. ''
Val" AND HIS 'FELLow.TRAIToRs."
/ began speech the other night. or at 3
nla n m rnfy,