Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-09-27
Greeley's Stamping Tour.
He is Troubled by Grant Speakers, and
Wishes They Were at Home.


SUNBURY, Pa, Sept. 26.-Mr Greeley spoke
at Wllliamsport, Pa, to-day. He commercially
calling attention to the administration cabinet
ministers and office holders, running and racing
from one end OF the country to the other, to
persuade people TO keep them in office, and said:
Il think that is something to which the people
ought not to be rcconciled. Then, of course,
ike master like man, the whole body of office
holders, $1,000 to 10000 men, generally able,
influential men, are devotng their time and tai
entS to le-electing their superioTs to office, and
thereby Keeping themselves in place. | venture
to say that since the 1st of MAY last fed
eral Office holders have done more work and
devoted more attention to keeping their place
than they have TO doing their duty. All of
them are enormously taxed, and their energies
employed, TO sustain this machine of power;
and themselves running and racing over the
country, giving up TO the party service and to
the presidential reelection the time and energies
that belong to the people, for which the people
have paid, and of which the people ought TO
have the advantage.
Now, take my excellent friend Gen. Hartman,
who is here TO make a speech tonight for Grant
and Wilson. He will make good one; he is a
good talber.. As | understand the case, Gen
Hartman is naval officer of the port of Boston,
a responsible person, with good salary, which
he doubtless earns; but here he is, earning it in
speaking in Pennsylvania. ] have found him
heaven can he earn the money we are paying
him in that position as naval officer at Boston,
while he is speaking all over the country He
is good, capable man, and makes good
speeches; but, say, he ought to make his
speeches on his own hook, as | do. He ought
not to be paid for making them out of the fed
eral treasury.
Now, there is another point to which the peo-
Pile are not likely to be reconciled and that is
the enormous use of money in these elections.
In all the elections ever held from George
washington down to the present time, there has
not been so much money spent by both parties
as in the election of this Grant party alone
They have the treasury at their back, this
vast army of office holders, their credit
mobilier men, with their large dividends,
dividends five times as large as the
capital invested. tell you that right down in
honest old Vermont, where people never heard
of money being paid before, their money was
poured out like water TO induce democrats to
vote the Grant ticket or stay away from the.
polls. So in Maine. A hundred thou
sand dollars was paid in Maine for
votes. Now, gentlemen, if they elect
their ticket this fall it will be because they have
500 to our one "
Mr.. Greeley continued at some length, touch
ing upon most Of the important topics Of the
political canvass, and finally returned to the
train amid great cheering.
He made the following speech at Sunbury:
Fellow citizens, you will not expect me at this
hour TO say many words, but understood you
would be glad to hear from me, and so | have
come across the river to say a few words. First,
| esteem it great privilege TO be able to stand
here on the same platform with two of the emil
nent generals in our great strugge two of the
generals of the Union armies in the great struo-
gle for peace and reconciliation, with which we
are identified | ask you to witness that the
soldiers of our great struggle are among the
most generous Of enemies, and readiest to give
generous and magnanimOus terms to those they
oyercame. Ii the matter had been left to sol
dierS of the two armies to settle, | be.
lieve this country would have been paci-
fed and reunited years ago. | say that those
soldiers, the men who fought each other in
that great struggle, learned, if they did not al
ready know it, to respect each other. | believe
the soldiers of the Union army, when they had
finished went hCme with no bitterness in their
hearts toward the great mass of those who
struggled against them, and with respect for
their galantry, their soldiership and their cour-
age; think that was true Of the great body of
those men who made up the Union army. 1t
was rather the camp followers, the commissaries
and suffers, who were ready TO see how much
could be made out of the body and bones of the
south after secession had been killed.
Well, fellow citizens, you testify with me that
this great movement must and will 20 forward.
(Three cheers.) You will agree with me
that if great peril should ever overtake
our country, and no nation ever knows
uON SOOl vi lIOtl WudJ QudIleI IL may De ell
countered, that we should be glad to have on
our side, sustaining our country and our flag,
the men who fought against us so desperately
in that last struggle. We should be glad TO
have them we should trust them, | venture to
say, as among the best Union men, after their
sad experience; the men who could not be
tempted again to desert the flag of their coun-
try (Cheers) They realize that it is a different
thing-fghting under that flag and against it,
know there are thousands among them who,
in the midst of that great struggle, when they
came to look up to the flag of the Union felt
sad to think they were not fighting with
that flag over their heads rather than
Haunting angrily before them. They were
dragged into the thing which, | always thought,
was not sanctioned by the deliberate Judgment
OF the southern people. 1t was conspiracy of
fraud and violence. Ii, at any time before blood
was shed, they had had fair chance to vote for
or against the Union, you would have had
a great majority of them in favor of the Union
But am not here to discuss issues. | am
here to say some words with regard to the spirit
of the people whom have lately visited. l have
Travelled over your state, Ohio and Indiana, and
| do testify that if any majority shall
be got in either of these states against the
liberal ticket in the election at hand it will have
to be bought and very dearly paid for. | know
what is the spirit of these people. | have seen
so many thousands of them at Pittsburg, COM
ing there i'll a rainy night just after the great
soldiers convention, held against us. / was
astonished TO find 10000 people in the street
prepared to render me and my companions a |
most enthusiastic welcome. At Cincinnati the |
numbers turned out were as great as that. | |
need not speak of Louisville, where it is all on
one side; but at Indianapolis, the centre of
Indiana, in my deliberate judgment, there were |
40 900 men who were participating in our organ |
ization and our display there, and rejoicing in |
their confidence that no possibility could defeat |
the liberal candidates in the eectiongat hand |
4 hn1io ~,
treasury or recently taken out Of the treasury |
to buy the state of Indiana. | don't be- |
lieve they could COLOMBO enough or repeat |
enough to prevent that state from electing Gov. |
Hendricks. was not disappointed in that, for |
expected it; but was disappointed in Ohio to |
find her much stronger and more decided than |
had believed her. have seen at least 100000 |
Of her voters in my journey, and tell you their |
enthusiasm and unanimity are such that | be- |
lieve they cannot be beaten.
If the election were held tomorrow, know |
how it would result They tell us we may carry
Indiana and Pennsylvania, but cannot carry
Ohio. tell you it is not So We have a very |
liberal republican vote there, besides the German
vote, which is nearly solid for us, of which there
are many, many thousands and at least fifteen
thousand who have always voted the republican
ticket are now among the most enthusiastic sup
porters of the liberal ticket,
OF your own state ! need not speak. You |
know what the heart of Pennsylvania is. She |
has always desired TO have honest, faithful,
frugal, trustworthy rulers, though she has not
always succeeded She has meant to have them,
and am confident she will get them.
So, then, without taking up more of your
time, ! simply come TO you and give you a |
cheering word. Let me assure you that all |
things are right, and that nothing but the power
Of money can deprive us Of victory on the Sth |
of October, They must pay voters, and they |
don't buy men who are resolved not to be |
bought. Now believe, fellow citizens, that there
are no 10000 men to sell their votes among the |
100000 that support the liberal ticket, If there
are entreat of them to make them pay we'll. |
If you are mean enough TO sell yourselves, have |
at least pride to ask decent price. (Laughter.l |
They rely on their money. They have no other |
reliancel and you can defeat them if you will. |
! believe that when the wires fash into New |
York on the 9Th of October the resultIof your |
election, you will cast no cloud upon the face of
the liberals of our great city; but that they |
shall rejoice with you in their confident trust |
that the Sth of October has settled the fight on |
this election, and that November will only re.
echo and reverberate your triumph.
Friends, will say no more (Cheers, which |
continued some time