The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-09-13

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FRANK KBRNAN's SPEECH
MI. FRANCIS KERNzN iien spoke as folows-:
greeting which you give me accept my sincere
thanks: 1t affords me YER. great satisfaction to
: body Of the people Of The State Of New
York, and to unite with them in expressing
sorloa sEgpI psd2a s bpncpes
Cincinnati and confirmed at R.itlmore. TO the end
that those principles sn. be put Into practical ef.
here without eessr &c eas
IN to dgs q By
ana Vice President Horace Greeley and b. Gratz
Brown. Few portions Of our people have a deeper
interest in the questions to be decided In the COM
cial and financial metropolis. Corruption and NAL
administration are seriously detrimental to the
out the United States; for maadministratlon in
government like ours Is swiftly fatal TO the peace,
financial city, The Questions involved in the dis
cussion, the debate which Is now going on among
| clOSelV the uprmanenCe OF institutions. the
peace, happiness and prosperity OF the entire peo
ere ss &C. or
as every sasP II ,S Tie sas @
die and passion and mo patS
OF attempt to stir hate or Stteness among our
people. We should carry on this great discussion
sns1ssS having o saSnS 'iny IN s
common decision and try TO convince il &C., our y.
tn r1 pScS
prosperity by going with us and overthrowing the
misrule which runs ana exists in the administration
reform in The administration Of our az, 81,
with the view and purpose Of giving us an honest
The question is Whether we shall elect men to oice
WIN We y a See exs IN the
during the past few years. Now, that there Is
aDuSe, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., ucCcsSity IOT TeIOIu
l submit to every Intelligent man. needs
no other evidence than facts within his own obser
ness have crept into ali the departments OF the
| federal governments Why, you know that but
short time since It became clear That great wrong 9
merchants In this city by the government, and you
saw that when committee OF investigation was
to leave out the very men who made those charges
from that committed, But you, nevertheless, saw
| That that committee developed great ana Ss and
| Injurious abuses Have they been corTU0Ued re-
formed9 i ask the merchants ana business men
present administration has done its duty in reform
Ing those abuses: You have SET. seen the Ca9seys US
| You have seen them devoting themselves to de.
velOping strife and interfering In the elections OF
although as to casey a republican committee
made q report which the whole country saw re-
CURED that he SHOULD Pc removed t e as an example
there ei is no need Of rsio You zee another spec
OF our mepsc IN either Of e parties Of
former periods, would have aroused the indigna-
we all know that the man who accepts o7ice
is in honor and duty bound TO devote MS
the interests Of the people and dischareing the
duties Of his office; that he is servant an honored
ss ana dictate to ne Voters in regard to
exercise OF the elective franchise And yet you
tn to tn Se hd pa e
Secretary OF Of The treasury, the secretary Of
the Navy and the Postmaster General to neglect
| the duties devOlveu upon them which they are re-
CURED to discharge for your benefit leaving their
posts and going into North Carolina and into YER
mont to make political speeches in state elections
and attempt to coerce and dictate to the citizens
Of those states how they shall manage their local
New York, ask you how long your political
made them, if your servants thus become your
masters, not only as to federal affairs but IN local
State eectiOnsY But L said that we needed
| reforms administration fed
eral affairs, and call your attention to the
aoSS that a eed Is VIII
remember that there was great complaint made
Of these by federal ocers 3;
| Congress republicans who had aided to build
up that party, who held oilics within that party,
men who were appointed to office by members OF
Hna pS Who We're these me %sns why, the
great, gross and dangerous corruption going on in
the administration OF the federal government I'M
and Fenton, and Banks and Farnsworth, and Al
word, and Dorsheimer, and thousands OF others
that they had striven to reform the abuses in their
party and that they had utterly failed. through the
ZION. they justified their acts by their deeds
They found that the time had come when they must
which they acted. Thank God they stood by their
country and disregarded their party. These men
ferred to take all the hazards OF minority,
of defeat, Of the opposition OF those proud
| in power and place rather tnan ACT along WIN a
party that refused to reform gross and dangerous
abuses which threatened the very perpetuity OF the
government. And they declared these sentiments
to their fellow citizens, and we saw these men and
great mass of republicans from every state gather
| at Cincinnati to see how they could serve
their country by overthrowing the present
which every patriotic and honest man in this land
must approve and applaud. They put in nOmna-
| ton Horace Greeley and y. Gratz Brown as the
| worthy representatives of those principles, and
having done that they appealed to men OF all par
ties to Join them in electng those candidates They
knew very well that II that great party which
| had been antagOnstic TO the republican party IN
the past were governed by anything but love
| of country and refused to Join them they would
| fail and be counted out by the remnant OF the re-
publican party. To the honor OF the great mass OF
democrats, they did not prove wanting. IL was not