The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-04-18

prove u may be Ln1l THIS VIII not b
be the result Of that convention. Ii
may be that new party will be in
carnated. Gentlemen, q new party .
is very much like new born child; /.
il is a charming thing in the house
hold, but we have to wait long before 1
we can put it to any present use. /
7 Laughter and cheers. Party is not 4
q thing that can be run up like brick 4
house. 4 party is q living OrganiZa- /
ton, and merges slowly into being 4
it grows in all It's members. 1t IS a
fraction if il be only in q State, 6ut III !
this nation il is a party, and Is made 1
up of the units Of the whole nation, !
with man 70 man standing together /
But il is i'm possible to eXtempOriZe a 4
party. You can eXtempOriZe mush- |
rooms, but you cannot exJempOrlze oak |
trees. 1Cneers. The great pIiDci- !
ples of this nation need more time for
maturing. You have foster mothers
and good nurses, and nobody can take
such good care of a child IS the moth
eF vino brought it forth. Nobody on
this continent can take such care of
this party as the men who fought for
its ideas and suffered for its ideas
Loud cheers. But why, gentlemen,
Is there u necessity for q new party?
/ read lately in that admirable paper,
the Nation, an article that Went 10
show that for party 10 succeed il
must do more than those can do for
it who called il into being. That is
very plausible, but il is not correct.
1 think that it Is very likely 10 change
frequently a Legislature but the poll
cy Of = party you do not need
again. Every step you take in things
that are impTacticaDie shows that you
are not in wise council. The opinions
expressed by newspapers, 10y dele
gates, by conventions, show that the
people are not prepared for new
party.
GRANTS ADMINISTRATION A SUCCESS
The Republican party has made
many mistakes; there is much OF the
legislation in Congress that should
like TO see corrected, and some stop
put to this everlasting Outcry Lcheers
and practical legislation attended to.
Cheers. a new party is not called
for, ana 1t would be impossible to or
ganize it in time to do any good. My
own intercourse with the people, with
what read in the journals, leads-me
to the conclusion that the people will
stand by it and put il through to vic
tory. Cheers. Now, what has been
the policy OF The administration in
the Imes that are past? With re-
gard to Southern affairs there has
been considerable criticism, but the
result of the policy of the Republican
party has been that for the past eight
years there was never before such or
der and industry manifested as there
is now, under circumstances so diff.
cult that the parallel is not found in the
worlds history. With reference to
the debt l was told in England that
it would never be paid, for such a
| thing had never been heard of as any
people paying so vast a debt. There
was tine MephistOpheles suggestion
that it should be paid in a certain way.
| The voice of the people decl9red, how
ever, that it should be honestly paid,
and forty millions of people declared
that So, ,O00, 100000 of debt should be
paid in taxes. That had been done
/ under the administration of General
Grant. The official exhibit of March
81, 1860, shows that S315, 100000 Of
4 ACbb A4Glo DENAA lltlAls w ANA NLAo STATE
ment comes the assurance that there
is to be a reduction of $50, 100000 of
taxation. This is the work of an i'm
beetle government. Laughter.] Was
there ever more quiet than on the
continent to-day? New political is
sues are constantly arising, and q
purely administrative officer should
be left free to administer. There has
never been an officer at the head of
| the government more sensitive to
public opinion than Gen. Grant.
When for reasons which Providence
| understands dOn't-there was a
rumbling of the peoples will as to the
cOllectoTship of the port of New York,
/ he was removed. When it was un-
derstoOd that there were malfeasances
/ in office, committees of investigations
were appointed. Gen. Grant is not
amenable to the charge that he does
not heed the will Of the people. He
does heed it-nOt Lincoln more.
! LCheers. Gentlemen, it is said that
Gen. Grant is no administrator. |
don't know that he is. / don't know
what the secret of that administra-
ton is. It was said that he was no
General; but Gen. Grant got the vic
tories, and the other Generals did not.
IL is said that he has no genius for
government. / don't know that he
has genius for anything, but there has
never been a better administrators. IL
is said that he is a cOnsOlidatOr. Well,
jealous IS | am of it, say that there
should be consolidation, but il should
be the consolidation of the Federal
government. [Cheers. believe
Gen. Grant learns, but never forgets
As to the one term principle, think
there Is just as much danger i'm the
two term or the three term priDcinIe
l think | may pledge Gen. Grant that
he will withdraw if Mr.. Summer will.
if Mr.. SchurZ will, if Mr. STrumbuIi
will, if Mr.. Greeley will, and if / will
withdraw. Laughter. Well, l will
set them u good example. [ will
promise them that l won't be the
next President of the United States.
Laughter. We say about the two
term principle that we would rather
try man who has had trial of four
years, and in view of all the weigh
~ considerations of the future, saw
that we would rather "take the old
horse again." Loud cheers.l 1 be-
lieve, therefore, that under Gen.
Grant we shall have a prosperity that
shall be the admiration of the world.
Mr.. Beecher sat down amid tre-
mendOus cheering.