Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-07-25

him and offered him $500, 900 to withdraw
from the candidature. He refused. They
then told him he was an Irishman, and could
not have the position anyway: He replied,
81 will show you" He went and got the
best accountant in New York and contrived
to get him in under Boss Tweed. Six NOR tbs
transpired, and then he went round and said,
81 want nv 100000" He could not have
told him to get 1t If he could. What
did he dos He went to the Times office,
opened his budget, and all these men were
discounted and Tammany was busted.
The only difference between Grant and the
Tammany Society is this, that Grant sends
thieves to the penitentiery, and Tammany
sends her thieves to New York City offices
That is all the difference. tGreat applause,
and laughter.
Mr.. Greeley has held out, and the South
expects of him, that in the contingency of
his election, from eight hundred to a thou
sand millions will be voted to them in the
shape Of compensation, to pay for property
destroyed and negroes freed by the rebel
lion. There is where the issue cowes IN.
There is where the difficulty occurs, You
see, that from my standpoint, no considera
tion could induce me to go for Mr.. Greeley
He was never in our household-never with
us-aiMays denouncing us-despising US
hating us. His position to day is disgrace
full to us, as it is disgraceful to him, and dis
am not willing to see the Democratic party,
to which l belong, placed in any such false
position.
GRANT AND HIS POSITION.
There is another man before the country
a man who, swelve years ago, was selling
leather and shoe-tags in Galena. He came
from the common people he did not belong
to the aristocracy; he is not ali Adams, but
he has the fresh. honest blood of the COM
mon people of this country in his veins.
lCheero.1 He went into the army as pri-
Sate. He got down to Springfield, and that
noble man, then our great Governor, Richard
Yates, gave him a commission as Colonel of
a regiment. He went to Belmont, and meet
ing with an accident there, licked some rebels.
He went to Donelson-he met with another
accident-=and whipped some more rebels.
He went to Vicksburg, and another accident
befel him, and some more rebels were
thrashed. At Missionary Ridge the same
fate befel him. In Virginia, even up to the
time of Lees surrender, he was peculiarly
liable to the same kind of accident. In 1868
he had another accident happen. Laugh
ter He became President of the United
States and on the 5th day of November
next he will have another accident happen to
him. Tremendous cheering.l
He never said to anybody that he was a
Democrat; he did not say that he was Re
publican. He simply said that if elected, he
would attend to his duty right along, and,
gentlemen, l submit to you the proposition
that he has done it faithfully, fearlessly and
honestly. [Cheers.
When he was elected President, instead of
getting on his knees to Sumner or Trumbull,
he pursues "the even tenor of his way,''
doing his duty faithfully and impartially.
The Democracy have added to this country
every single acre of territory that has been
acquired since the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, nearly a hundred years ago, except
the Territory of Alaska.
Stephen A. Douglas used to say: "We
want Canada-we want Cuba, and the isles
of the seas--we want an ocean-bound Repub-
lic." And for the addition of Alaska who is
responsible if not VIM. Fl. Seward, and what
harm has the acquisition of that territory
done?
1t is said that Grant did not consult Sum.
ner. What of it? With all Summers classi
cal knowledge he never put q sentence q
phrase, or an idea in the English language
that, ten years after his death, will be spout
ed by the boys and girls in our school-house
when they make their speeches at exhibi
tions, as they now spout the Orations OF
Webster, Clay, Calhoun, or Patrick Henry.
Grant did not get on his knees to him; he
allied himself with the business interests oi
the country. have with me an official re-
port showing how he has administered: the
stance the last eighteen months of Andrew
Johnson's Administration and the first
eighteen months of Grants Administration.
On whisky johnson collected $4,000, 900 in
that time and Grant SS2, 900, 900. The demand
and supply were the same in both of the
periods; the people paid the same taxes
Who got the difference? Go through the en-
tire list of taxes and you find the same thing
You will find that during the first eighteen
months of Grants Administration he saved
to the people S102, 900, ,O00 as compared with
Andy Johnson's Administration. Under
johnson it was swallowed up and lost in cor
ruption-under Grant it went into the Treas
ury of the United States. Loud and long
sustained applause.
Compare our condition to that of England
as to our respective debts. In a hundred
years England has not paid sl0O,OOO000 ot
her debt; but during Grants Administrator
$3.50, 100000 of our debt have been paid. Un
der previous Administrations money was
stolen-under Grants Administration the
money has been saved. e.,
Then they say he likes a horse The fac
is that when he was In the army he was Ell
titled to twenty-five horses. When he go
home-soldier-like- horses he rode il
battle he took with him to Washington. Ht
has got half dozen spawned horses in hi'
stable now; oneshe rode at Missionary Ridge
one at Vicksburg, and one in Virginia
These internal cusses- want to make afus
about such things as these; they complain
that, in obedience to the feelings of commof
>
horses-those horses that he used when h
was fighting Horace Greeley's friends. [Grea
cheering
They say he has bu1l-pup. Gentlemen,
have been there, and I know there is not
dog on the whole of the White House prem
ises
Let us now look at the platforms of tn
contending parties. A great noise is mad
by the advocates of the Cincinnati platform
about amnesty. What did the Republican
party under Grant do on this question
They gave amnesty to all rebels except sey
enty or eighty. jeff. Davis and John
Breckenridge and their like are not include
in amnesty. When they do works meet fo
repentance they may again be admitted t.
full communion, but so long as their heart
| and souls and minds are opposed to the we
fare of our common country, and in favor Q
| splitting it into fragments, they can be a.
lowed to enjoy an otium cum dignitate in re
tirement from places of public trust and pull
lie confidence. [Cheers.]
One platform is peevish, scolding, whir
ing, carping, fault-fnding sort of a docU
ment; the other is sound, ringing, hopefu
document, that represents young America
If there be anything noble or great, tha
represents Grant; if there be anything sol
| did and mean, depend upon it you have you
finger on Greeley. Great applause.
The common men-the fellows that wea
striped shirts and poor clothes-al stan
side by side, and shouloer.to shoulder wit
| U. s. Grant; and, gentlemen, they will ,rt
instate him in the Presidential chair mex
November. Loud cheers 1t is fight bt
tween an old fogy and fossil on one sidt
and young America on the other.
Fellowcitizens, taking into considerable
who are the candidates before you, there
no alternative for any true Democrat but t
vote for U. s. Grant for President. [AI
| plausel am here as a Democrat. / d
not call myself a Republican. 1 have pr'
claimed to you what honestly believe to /
the truth; no sinister or interested motive
control my action or give color to my jud:
ment. The conclusions l have come to al
the result of the best consideration l hay
been able to give to the matter; and L b
lieve it duty owe to those with whom
have usually acted, and to the whole peop
of this State, to give reasons for my presel
action.
Gentlemen, 1 thank you for your atte,
ton.
Ia perfect storm of applause greeted Il
close of the speech