The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-07-18
The Campaign in Ohio.
SPEECY OF Ron. JOHN A.
BINGHAM
AT ELYRIl, OnIO. JULY 10. 1s72.

SPEEC4 OF Ron. JOHN 4.
BINGHAM
AT ELYRIl, OHIO, JULY 10, 1872.
ELYRIA, ,Lorain Co, O., July H.
y large and respectable gathering
assembled in the Town Hall at this
place last evening, to hear an address
from Hon. John a. Bingham. The
audience numbered about seven hun
dred, and included many ladies. Ma
| cellent music was provided by the
/ Elyria COrnet Band. The meeting
| was under the auspices of the Grant
and Wilson Club, recently formed
here, which is already quite strong
organization. They are at present
having things their own way, the
/ Greeleyites having made no attempt
/ at organization.
John c. Hale was called to the
chair, and introduced Mr.. Bingham,
who spoke Us follows:
Mr.. Blngham's Speech.
MR.. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GEN
TLEMEN:-It gives me pleasure to re-
| spOnd to the invitation with which
L have been hOnOTed, to speak TO the
| people of LOrain county. L pray you
TO understand that address you SIM
/ ply in the character of an American
citizen. In all that say 1 desire to
be understood as speaking for no par
ty save the party Of my country, its
| Constitution and its laws. 1 trust the
time may never come when it shall
be written of America as it was writ
ten of Rome when lettering to her
fall, that Cesar had his party, Brutus
had his party, Antony had his party,
but the Commonwealth had none. It
was precisely, because in the hour of
the supreme trial of America and
American Institutions our great Ma
tiOnal Commonwealth had a party,
that our National life was saved.
THE TWO PARTIES.
To-day, there are in America but
two controlling political Organiza-
tiOns, and the only question before
the American people in this contest
of 1872 is to the representatives Of
which of these controlling parties
shall be committed for the next four
years the administration of the Gov
ernment OF the American people.
Those parties, you know right well,
are designated by the Republican and
the Democratic. OF the first I may
be permitted to say, and in saying
it To repeat only what has passed into
histOry-that the Republican party of
the United States is the party of the
Union, the Constitution, and the su-
premaey of the laws. Applause It
Is the party that saved the National
life through four years of unpreceden-
ted conflict within the Jurisdiction
anu limits of the United States. 1t is
the party that OYerthrew the Demo-
cratic rebellion organized in 1860, and
prosecuted in the years 1S6I.2-3-4 by
wager OF battle. Let no man say that
IN the utteTance just made have pro-
nounced libel against the political
organization known as the National
Democratic party. l know the time
was in our history when there was a
party known by that name that was
in all respects patriotic, that did ali
here to the Constitution, the Union
and the laws, and maintained their
supremacy against all cOmers but I
know as well, and you know as well
that the Democratic party of modern
times is not the organization known
in the days of Jackson. I have very
high authority, my fellow-citizens, for
saying all that have said OF modern
Democracy.
THE BALTIMORE CONVENTION.
That is the confession of the organi-
ZatiOn itself, in the presence of all the
people of the United States, through
its delegates in Convention assemb bled
at Baltimore on yesterday and to-day. |
1t inscribes no Democratic name for /
the Presidency upon its banners, and |
sets forth no distinctive Democratic |
principles in its platform. Surely |
there are living to-day in Americ;i /
men renowned in your National cOun- |
ellis, men Of large experience in public |
affairs, men Of commanding inUellec- |
tual force, who have all their lives I
be en- identified with the Democratic /
organization, not only of the past, but !
of the present, and especially the 4
Democratic organization of the last |
eleven years of our history. Yet no /
man of that character or that quality 1
is named in the Convention at Balti- /.
more, now closing its deliberations, as
idency. Don't suppose from this that |
the party has not a nominee for Pres I
ident. Don't suppose that it did not I
assemble to make any Democratic 1
nomination, for they declared through
the National Committee, in the per- |
son of its Chairman, Mr.. August Bel /
mont, that its delegates should assem-. /
BILE in the city of Baltimore on the 9th /
day of July, 1872, for the purpose of
putting in nomination, as the can I
didates of the National Democratic I
party, a nominee for President and /
a nominee for Vice President Of the
United States.
A REMARKABLE INCIDENT.
They have made their nomination. /
Strange and incredible as it may ap- /
pear, they have nominated as the 4
Democratic candidate for President of !
the Uuited State Horace Greeley. /
[Laughter.l II is one Of the most re-
markable Incidentg of these remark /
able times in which we live. A I
man who, it is said, has published in 7
his Tribune, that goes into the homes /
of all the people: "We did not say 1
that all Democrats are hOrse-thieves, |!
but we do say that all hOrSe-thieyes !
are Democrats" [laughterl; a man I
who had also published in the col /
umns Of the same great journal I
ave are in nothing indebted 10 the !
Democratic party, and We ask that it /
may be inscribed upon our tomb that l
we lived and died in nothing its debt 1
or - a man that has also said, within I
the last four years, looking back over !
the struggle which is about closing in !
our American affairs between the !
party OF the people and the party Of 4
the Democracy, that ''the brain, tine l
heart and the soul OF the Democratic 4
party is the rebel element Of the South /
and their natural allies of the North" Z
A CONFESSION.
And yet this party comes and puts !
this man in nomination as the DEM I
Oeratic candidate for President Of the I
United States Why is this, my fel- I
lOw-citiZens It is a confession that,
before the great tribunal of the Ame- 4
rican people, the party, Is a party, 4
are guilty of their eOuntry's blood. It /
is an acknowledgment that, with any /
representative man of the party as its 1
candidate who adhered to its fortunes J
through good and evil report from
the year 1850 to 1872, the party was