The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-07-22
SPEECH OF B. F. JONAS.

SPEECH OF B. r. JONAS. |
Ladies' and sentlsmen and hsllow-oit-
With Win great plesps sa that ind myself
a resident Of this State from boyhood |
number Of Your citizens, it is the first |
time ever had the pleasure Of visiting |
th,s portion 1,, ct North Louisiana. come
return the compliments which has been
paid MS by your distin g9ished townsman,
bearer You have placed in The ss1 held to-
do battle for your cause next November, |
and who has lately been . welcome WISH 1
has been received by acres Of Democrats |
and RefOrmers. who have listened to
words of announcement. patriotism and
that he wonld have told you--bnt I !
know he was too modest to do so-what
q reception he met with in that city and
how he found Its conservative people,
who are associated by honor and duty
with the glorious canse in which You
nave aos as fo ane IN R
greet and honor him. tCheers.l / arm glad
TO see go many of you here to-day, in
must have kept . great many away.
canvass in which I feel every one Of you
to elevate the conservative banner of
the people and engraft upon it the
Nance to ne lts bearers.
country has placed in nomination tor the
once OF fresldenG OF tne United States,
horace Greeiey, Ine RnllosoPner OF Cnap-
sponse to that nomination. Until nomi.
mated ~ that Gonvent,on yon could
SUPPORT to any ticket that had not RS
Ss oil
country. The Democratic Convention at
baltimore was composed OF over seven
hundred members, OF as hlgh e standard
as ever assembled on any Former coca
sion, ana Wltn an nnexamPied unanam
NV they nave placed IN domination
exMDaMng 70 the country rare mag
nanimitv ana paGrtotfsm scarcely ever 4
:s9naled in the history Of the country.
terest, OF personal preference, all politi-
cal Prelnqlces, and took from the ranks
OF 6neir late opponents men VINO had
come Iortn from 1nese ranks at the tune
q Cne greatesOPO Inat party because
Gney were Gisgusteu WIN 1ts cOrrup6iOn,
and a IN t, order to redeem the country
Greeley ana brown are ELECTED, and
who can doubt that they will be. they
Will oe elected by me votes OF the
Democratic party Of the country. The
democratic nom1natton carries to their
support over three mllilons OF votes;
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Republicans who are sick of the COR
rnption. nepotIsm, rapacity aud centrali-
zatlon OF the present ADMINISTRATION,
who VIII heck to the same standard, we
cannon aouot bhab they VIII pc elected
to the OFFICES to which they have been
nominated by q majority unparalleled
II the HISTORY OF the country as in lSto.
1h one Who n, mas returned e Lately from
in daily progress from the enormous i'm.
petuS given 1T by the nominations at
Ba1tImore; 1t IS now like an advancing
TIDE which nothing can Withstand and
which will sweep the lasJ vestige of po-
litical corruption and centralizing des-
potism from the land.
The past records of Horace Greeley or
Crate brown cannot for one moment
fore the people by the admirers of
Grant and Wilson who might seek to
rekind1e old preiudices aud forgotten
hostility.
only look at their career since the
war-since Horace Greeley stepped, from
the ranks of the Radical party of which
me had long been q distinguished menu
Der. He is no sunshine worshiper. No
Republican party when at the height oi
its power, and deserted it when its posper
ity began to fail. He built up the party
from consciousness that was right aud
tpreserve the Un:on--a life long aboli-
ZIONIST, he advocated freedom; he en-
listed in that party for the purpose of
striking the shaekles from the slave: !.
great emancipation, he ad vocated the free
dom OF every man and every race: II
great advocate OF the war for freedom,
he supported the standard of the party
until he found it had been perverted
from its former purpose, and was WELD
eel for personal ACCOMPLISHMENTS and per-
>onai purposes, and the Goyerument of
the country was beeomlng u byword, and
synonym among all nations for it's cor
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