Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-09-28
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Aheporeeu aor Tic nepuoilCEn ny u u hAfn1
John Carey Esq. was called to the
chair. Gen. I'hos. Ewing, by invi-
tation, occupied place on the plat
form. 1t was not unpleasant to see
those courtesies extended to the op-
posing speakers, by both parties. In
tie afternoon meeting Gen. Noyes oc-
cupied a seat on the platform during
the speech of Gen. Ewing.
The Hall was occupied by large
attentive audience.
Gen. Noyes, after being introduced
by the President, spoke as follows:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: We are
in the midst Of campaign that is
important; not only because of local
interest at stake, but on account of
the fact. that the next Legislature
will elect a United States Senator
and re-district the State, and which
ever party shall succeed in this cam
paign will secure important advanta
ges.
Now, we as a party, come before
the people and ask their support be-
cause we believe that we are entitled
to it, while our opponents, as they
were expected to do, have sought ev-
erywhere for arguments against us
desire, in particular. to call your at
tention to the fact that they have not
in their platform attacked our admin
istration of affairs in this state, but
that their orators distinctly and re-
peatedly state that the issues of this
campaign are national and not local.
If after being so long at the head of
affairs here, our opponents can find
no grounds on which to base q COM
plant, have we not just reason to feel
proud of our record ]?
We are, in manner, obliged to
accept the line of battle laid out by
the Democratic managers, as they
were in the field one month before us.
They are very anxious that we
shall confne ourselves to the line die
tated by them. They desire that we
shall not look into their record.
1t does seem to me that no party
asking the suffrage of the people
should hesitate to hear its record for
the last ten years fully discussed ; and
yet Democratic politicians proclaim
that there should be no discussion as
to what took place during the war,
that the democratic party should not
be held to its record made during the
| war. But that war is so intimately
connected with what Legally goes
to make up their claims that we can
not avoid going into matters connect
ed with it. But, says General Ewing,
in his very able speech from this stand
to-day, "The Republican party did not
carry the country through that war
1t was the American people who car
ried the country through that terrible
struggle
While [ am aware that young men
invast numbers, springing from
Democratic stock, ,nobly came forward
at their country's call, and fought Of
| died in that war, / can not but re
member that many OF them are still
in the ranks of that party, with which
they affiliated during the dark day
of the rebellion, and there they ar,
likely to remain. But was it tht
Democratic party that fought th
battles of the war?
The Cincinnati Enquirer, the ex
ponent OF that party. in FEBRUARY, 1856
saids s:Lincoln wants money-Coer
ton is disunlon.
Ohio Eogle-"If blood must b
shed--let it be Republican blood.
Ashland Unson.-"Fight your owl
battles"
| The - "Soldiers, wives an'
daughters are taken under the car
of some charitable member of th
soldiers aid society. who find NOR
than one way of administering ccnso
lation."
i Hon. Geo. III Pendleton pride
himsrlf nPon the fact that he ha
never voted man or dollar to co
} erse the South. Soldiers! he pride
himself on the fact that he had lei
you without supplies and reinforce
ments. He, "the young eagle of th
. West, Ohio Democracy's favorit
son." At the same time. Mr.. Valland
igham. another prominent member c
the Democratic party was so bus
with his schemes to divide the natio
> into four sections that he could nc