Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-09-25
be done in order to bring good and stable
government TO our country.

be done in order TO bring good and stable
government 10 our country.
DEMOCRATIC PATRIOTISM.
We'll, gentlemen, we are proud to come
forward and lay aside our party pride aud
prejudices. Il is . deep feeling with as for
time TO change our old party, bat We SAID
10 our Republican friends; "We will mee'
you more than halfway. We will tske =
man you have ever been associated Win
and We will take him although IS haru'
[ Applause.) Will you meet Us hah-wAy OF
will you make . small sserince
where We have made great one :" (Crles
Of "Yes,p and applsuSe.l Your great 'rou-
BILE has been you have had too much power
In view Of the great sacrifice We make you
should meet US in the spirit which ! know
apimAtes Democrats. You ask us how we
(LAughser and applause.) IL is an easy
thing for you 10 say that the man who has
been ons Of your oraces, whom you have
never condemned till now, may be put into
the Presidential chair for the purpose Of do
ing what? We have different political
opinions in many respects. He donb agree
With us on many questions now more than
before, and We don't ask that he should. We
feel in the condition Of the man who fought |
at Saratoga. When the bullets few about
him he did not stop to consider whether a
centralized policy or a local State policy, or
whether tAriffs or free trade should prevail,
he was battling for a Government, without
which oil these questions had no significance.
So We say to-day, We don't agree on these
questions, but upon something underlying
them more important You can have no
efficient tariff or free trade, and no local
rights, and no wise administration of civil
affairs until you have all over this country
full, free, fair, unbiased vote given by men
who mean TO come back TO the former sim
plicity aud integrity which characterized
them. We propose TO make good Gov
ernment. I aver that there is nothing more
patriotic or self-sAoridcing in the history of
our Government than the action of the
/ Democratic party in this respect and | re-
joice to see that il is met by honorable men
and in an honorable way. What we ask of
Horace Greeley is that when he goes to
Washington be will let US see the books,
not that We want to punish any one III the
spirit Of vindicsiveness. As | said before,
when We laid bare the frauds in New Y ork,
We made this whole country more moral
than il was before. When We exposed aud
punished the corrupt judges we Admonished
the whole whole legal profession and the
whole community of the absolute necessity
Of 9 pure judiciary, and the country is safer
and more moral to-day than before. / AJAX
our Republican friends IL things have been
right in the Federal Government? Let Us
: have q man in the Presidential char who
7 will lay them bare. Then if they are al
. correct you viii feel pride and satisfaction
J in your party that you can never gain in any
b other way; but on the other hand If there are
taxes aud abuses which dsmorAlize the com.
0 munity, and lead young men 10 suppose that
q there is a better way TO earn wealth than by
i honest lAbor-if these things are laid bare
= and as q result the public mind be aroused,
1 public morality be elevated, and both parties
L brought to higher standards, | ask you il
9 YOU as well az We will not be benefited
b And nov a word about
OUR STATE EoMINATIoNs.
We have placed At the head of the ticket, Q
! man who at the Democratic Convention de
nounced Democratic wrong-doers, a man
whom everybody that knows him, | CT re not
Of whaLpoliticsl principles, knows be is an
: honest man. | have never heard but one
objection TO Herman. That was that oms
body said he had religion. ! found al
I, ways when came to trace the objection
that the real objection was that he had NOR
atty. | Am q protestant, very strong in mJ
belief 10 looking over the history of ny
State find that we never had Catholic
:, Governor, though Catholics constitute Abou
: one-third Of the population, and yer,
2 large share Of the voters Oue thing | can
not bear TO have said, they have been votinl
for Protsstanta for nearly hundred year,
aud | cannot bear to have il said that Prot
4 estents are more bigosed than Catholics
and cannot vote once for Catholic in re
g turn. (GreAt applause Every publ
:, man in the State has asked Catholics 10
n their votes. ask them If they cannot r.
:, oiprocste the favor BY voting for an homes
man. Mr. Herman WAS brought up in our CON
mon schools; his views upon thst subject ar
: large and enlightened. Francis Herman
. position on the school question can be bss
n understood when it is known that be stoO
:, at the head of our excellent system OF cou
:, mon schools in the City of Utica for man
- years
- In conclusion Governor Seymour sal
:. that the election Of Greeley would ten
;. 10 bring peace to all parts OF the land. Fl
hoped the day would soon come when u
NpuA0 HAnhA AfVh h1O Ac1hANHN wv %
- a harsh word Of any State in the Union,
o. be animated with hate or dislike of any DO
~ ton of the country. Ii was not In tha
- spirit'thAt the foundations OF our Govsrnmel
- was laid. He put it to every sensible ma
- if be believed tFsf the same sum spent fC
y, the purpUse of maintaining military terro
a. ism over the South had been spent for Il
y purpose of improvement, making railroad
:, and other links to bind us together ar
:, build up the commerce so profitable to the
y and to US, il they believe that the same sta
" of feeling between the different sections
~ the country that now prevails would ext
- However the coming election may result
hoped that it would not retard the progre
- Of this great country.
"A, Mr.. Dewitt c. Littlejohp. of Oswego. 4
We great Republican leader of the Greel'
IN, forces in New York, addressed an immsn
=, ~, meeting in the evening. There was graz
ret torch-liRht procession before the meeting