Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-20
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M nom must say GnaG TINS party has 8 very
singular way of estimating a mans char
acter for honesty. When tRey were afraid
they could not elect Radical, they took
up David Tod in 1861, and they chanSed his
name. They baptized him in the old times
Pot Metal Tod. Well, they took that
name OFF by some hoeus pocus-got law
to change it. L suppose-aDd they baptized
him Honest Davy Tod. Butafter Honest D..
Wy had served them as Governor two years,
they got tired of him and kicked him out,
ana refused to -renominate him. Then they
nominated Honest John Brough. They
dldnt speak about Brough as respectfully
Tneli ne ano were young men, and when
l went round stumping with him. They
rldiculed him then, and reeollect going
into a town with Brough in 1910. and we
were forthwith surrounded by a troop of
boys, who went on to, sing a song with 3
chorus like this
IF flesh is grass as some men saw .-r.- .ts.
Then Johnny Bryughs a load of hay" Laughterl.
But they thought they could win with
b ough in 1868, so he was honest John
Brough all at once. Well, they elected
MIN Governor, but, at the end of two years,
they refused to renominate him. In-othtr
words, they got tired of him, and kicked
him out. A Democrat does very well
when he deserts his party and goes over to
their side until he geLs one mess of grub,
but after that, they have no further oceas-
ion for him. Laughter Now, says General
Hayes, we beat TVallandIgham by hundred
and one thousand majority. But if he
were only mathematician, like Michael
Cassio he would know that that hundred
and one thousand majority was made ND
OF the most shameful frauis ever commit
ted in any country that pretended to have
popular elections in it. If he will add up
the vote reported that year, he will find
of 100000 in Ohio to have given that vote,
whereas. We had only a population of
about 100000: Talk about that vote Tue
Democratlc vote was somewhat increased
---lts natural increase-but there were not
lSss than 10000 fraudulent ballots Oh the
side of Brough. affirm itthat there were
not less than $4,000 fraudulent ballots on the
side of BrOugh.- | say once more that,
according to all reliable election statistics,
1t would have required population of
3O0,OOO to have given the reported vote
OF 1868, whereas. we had about 2 100000.
1t won't do to hold that thing up to u. It,
won't do to say here was a great, popular,
condemnation of the Democracy-not the
least bit of it in the world. No, my friends,
the time for all that has gone by; the time
to frighten the people with a raw head
and bloody bones in the shape of Vallan-
digham has all gone by. L have said. again
and again, when l have seen their speak,
ers this year try that experiment on the
people, that it reminded me of a man ham,
mering cold anvil with hot iron-all
the impression was on the hammer. IAp-
plause. -s t.,-r ..a-+-...i s.-..rf- :.
THE DEMOCRACY AND Mr.. LINCOLN.
But there were some of these things that
might as well be recolected, which think
justified the Democratic party In the course
it took. Why, my friends, when the war
broke out how was it? Before the war we
did everything we could do to prevent dis
solution and civil war. We for years had
been at that work; and when it became i'm
mlnent, we begged and entreated our ru-
lers to adopt some measure of Cancellation
and compromise, and save US from the ter
rible effects of civil war and disunion-
They were deaf to our entreaties aud heed
less to our petitions. They rushed into
this war with madness on both sides-the
madness of secession on the part of the
South, and the madness of rejecting conciI-
iatiOn by our rulers at the Nnrth 1Ap-
plause, and cries of That's SOL That is
the truth about it. When the war began,
what did the people do--what dd the Dem
ocratic people do--what did the lead
ers of the Dem 0cratic party do? What did
the Democratic legislators do, in Congress,
In State Legislatures--everywh in fact /?
With scarcely an exception-xith excep-
tions too few to need notice--they voted
every man aud every dollar the Govern
ment asked. What did our party do in the
State Convention Itpassed not one sim
gle resolution TO obstruct the Government.
D.
porting Linc0ln's administration Never,
from the day it was inaugurated until the ?
day it went out, did we get one thing from
1t but abuse and contumely. 1t is the most
singular thing in all history that an admin
istration thus supported by its political op-
ponents-thus supported by men who had
voted against its coming into power-that an
administration thus supported should
never utter one single word of acknowl-
edgment toward men who thus laid down
party and came to its rescue. That is the
fact, and not only did they not thank US
for the support we gave them, but they
began train OF prosecutions in less than
six months after the war had Commenced,
and kept them up during its continuance
After 1861 when that administration was
defeated throughout almost all the States,
when those who ruled it had resolved that
they would make it a war for the abolition
OF slavery, to set the black man above the s
white man-when that came to be the case.
in order to get the support Of the army,
what did they do? appeal to every SOL
dier who hears me, and to every one who
reads what l say when printed, for tho
truth of this Statemeet: That, with Very
few exceptions, all Democratic newspapers
and documents, and generally all Demo-
cratic tickets, were carefully excluded from
the camps. L know myself as member
of the State Central Committees that we
sent to General Rosecrans' army thiIty
came of them? Not one of them was re-
ceived; and when we came to trace out
what had become of these tickets, we found
that little Michigan Lieutenant-a little
S ,cond Lieutenant-who was provost mar
shall at crOss-road village down in Ken
tucky-whieh, as Benton once said, good
strong man could have run a stick through
aud carried off on his shoulders [laughterl-
that this little provost marshal assumed to
himself to guard the purity of the army,
and had burned our tickets in the public
square. That is the way we were treated;
while on the other hand, the camps were
flooded with Radical papers and docu-
ments telling the soldiers that the Demo-
Gratis OF the North were their enemies
that they were Copperheads, try ing to
poison Uncle Sam; that they were leagued
with the rebels of the South, and sympa-
thizers with them, until actually the SON
in the army began to doubt the fidelity of
of his own father-the son in the army be-
gan to feel cold toward the very mother
that gave him birth until really that state
of things was brought about; and then, al
ter having poisoned the minds of the army
against us, the Democracy of the North,
then, all at once, these people set up the
cry that the boys in blue We're all on their
side. Laughter. They don't boast so
much any longer. [applausel tor when the
b b'ys in blue did come home, and did find
ouG what had been the actual course of the
old Democratic party at home, you pretty
soon found out where they began to ar
range themselves. And this year, when
they are calling upon you to put down the
white man, and give the negro the rule
over him, because the negroes down South
were all loyal (HeaYen save the mark y be-
cause the negroes did the H. hting and
whipped the rebels, and these poor white
boys did nothing, suppose, wnen that is
: the case-when they ask to dsfranchiss
ma VI fOllpht ha Exyto