The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-09-21
reforming legislatures to change their political

character and ele~t army officers to Congress
But this was nen thing. This was new step
toward centralizat ton, when Federal officers con-
troll nominating conventions by The bayonet- The
whole country i aroused. Republicans as well
Democrats. But what have seen here, In our
own state, in free Wisconsin: Have you not seen
with yo r own eyes, my Republican friends, the
workings OF this Federal eentralizfng power-the
dictation of Federal patronage and Federal power
20 control the action Of your own conventions
Are you prepared TO scquiesces
Bear in mind there Is logical necessity which
controls the action of parties until they are over
thrown. II 9 false idea gets once enthrored in
party while it remains in power, moving WIKI all
the force and momentum which victory gives il,
that idea will rule it until il Is beaten and chasen
ed by defeat. No party when once il has taken
up its line march in given direction will ever
arrest lis own victorious progress. To arrest it,
in power is Oh the high road to Capitalization
The only thing on earth which can prevent il is to
overthrow it. [Applause and Cheers
repeat, no party in power once moving in a
wrong direction ever reforms itself 1t Is only in
defeat that II becomes chsstened. In adversely IL
is purified. The present Federal party, long in
power; corrupted by patronage such a. no party
ever welded before: intoxicated with the idea Of
all power in the Federal government, is on the
road which leads to imperialism 1t can only be
arrested in is revolutionary progress and purged
of its corruptions by being overthrown. lGreat
cheering.l And, fellow-citizens, there is but one
WY in which that can be cone, and that is by re-
storing the old Democratic Republican party of
Jefferson, of Madison, and OF Jackson TO power.
Tremendous cheers.
But can mat De COnes Ihats the question.
have no doubt that more than q, co Republicans
in Wisconsin who were brought up like myself in
the school Of Jefferson and jackson, il they could
be assured that the present organization of that
party was soldly fixed upon It's old ideas and pol
icy, and that the men placed in nomination would
be true TO them. would al once, with their whole
souls go to its supports They were only severed
from il on the slavery question. But that and all
that followed it are now settled ever, and there
Is no logical reason, nothing but species OF I'M
defined Ci=trust, which re- trains them.
Fellow citizens. how stronger pledges be
given than the platform, unanimously adopted,
and the men they have placed upon il? lshall not
speak of myself: but look at Gen. Bragg, and
Gen. Montgomery, and all the rest. Can it b.
possible for such men, suCh platform, TO go
backward: Can they go back upon the record of
their lives faithful soldiers of the Union cause:
No, fellow-citizeus. no. Let me assure you. my
Republican fellow citizens, there is middle
ground; there Is no halfway measure which can
arrest the present Federal party in its steady al
vance toward centrallzatl"n, but by bringing the
old Demo ratic-republican party, REQ rganized upon
It's doctrines in their original purity, again into
power. II holds in its ranks 600 OF men, Ii
is too great to be dissolved. 1t his been long
chastened by Cefeat. Aside from the city of New
Iors. no charge of corruption is made against it;
and even there, the old SIas Wright Democracy,
always distinguished for honesty and integrity,
are moving in strong force to rid that city Of all
corruption.
Everywhere 1t is reCrganizing, laying aside dead
issues and rising to meet the great crisis, to be
once more the guardian and savior of republican
liberty. Between these parties all must choose.
cannot act with both parties at once, He must
act with one or the other. One or the other IL
logically right on the great issue Of the hour, and
he must choose the or the other.
II Il as true III politics as IN religion. lie that
is not for me is against me- Let us act with the
party which is now right, and against the party
which is now wrong. Whatever others may do,
was never more clear in my convictions that II is
my duty to give my full answering, and earnest
support to the Democratic-Re Republican party of
Wisconsin [Great applause.
CONCLUSION.
Mr.. Dooittle then continued to address the au-
diencc in discussing the question of the tariff and
question OF taxation, which were considered in
an able and exhaustive manner.