Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-04-30

ihSHoo WOIh, duu budt caVcs 50 IuuCn
to the public treasury. Laughter. /
That is all there is about it. Zap
planse Now my Republican friends,
do You think you ought to retire to
Cincinnati because President Grant
has got couple of his aids at Wash
ington ? Are the men who fought
the battles of our country dangerous
men? lApplause. [ find men NOM
mating tickets, and trying to get the
boys in grey to work for them. They
are not afraid of men 10 grey, but
they have terrible horror of men ia
blue laughter]; the men who fought
for the old flag. God bless the men
in blue who fought for the flag.
Senator Trumbull told you about
the encroaching assumptions there
in power. / am not a lawyer
Trumbull is. He is a supporter Of
civil rights bill which went further
than any other measure we passed.
and he comes here and reproaches
US for encroaching and arbitrary
power, because we followed the
chairman of the House Committee
on the judiciary. [Applause. l
am not here to tell you that the Re-
publican party is perfect organiza-
ton. 1t has in its ranks three and
half million men. 1t has q great
number of the noblest, and purest,
and best portion of our countrymen.
IL has some men, of course, who are
not all they should be, and we know
it but gentlemen, l want no dis
ruption of it because it is not per-
perfect. | would fight on, work and
toll on, pray on, and make it better
if could, and make it worthy of its
great history and what 1 think is its
greater destiny in years TO come
[ Applause And, gentlemen, |
would as soon go home and disband
the little church in the town where
l live, where my wife was q member
and | an unworthy one, because some
Christian minister proved false to his
God, or some poor mortal did not
live up to the professions he had
made. Gentlemen, | speak to you
Tonight, and l ask you how you
stood with the Republican party /;
you have voted for the greatest
character of our century, Abraham
Lincoln great applause] you who
have held up his hands and stood by
him through blood for four years to
maintain your country and emanci~
pate a race you have repudiated
Andrew Johnson and his treason,
and could not be bought by the pat
ronage of the Government [applause]
| ask you, who reelected Abraham
Lincoln in 1864, when the men wrote
letters up as late as the I'd day of
September of that year, wishing to
get him out and have new candi-
date because he could not be elected?
Who stood by him ask you; who
voted for the great soldier in 1868 I?
TApplause, | ask you, who carried
your country's cause of liberty, JUS
tice, humanity, and Christian saliva
ton in your hearts. ask you one
and all to stand together. You who
have started for a new departure
come BACKBONE back. Our ranks
shall be open. We will work, we
will win another victory, and we
will rejoice together in the triumph
of our cause. Applause.
Gentlemen, there was a meeting
here the other night. do not pro-
pose to say anything unkind of the
men engaged in it. | do not come
here to initiate their example, to ut
ter reproachful words of old com
rades. or utter words of condema-
ton ola party with which | have
acted and whose measures have
sustained. But, gentlemen, | want
to notice kindly a few of these re-
marks. We are told as a reason why
convention is called at Cincinnati,
that the Republican party is under
the control of office. holders. Great
God, gentleman ! party of three
and half millions Of men-strong
men, Independent men controlled
by few thousand beggarly office
hoIdersi Why, gentlemen, to be an
office-holder is to BIO q beggar. Tho
offices of this country hardly pay a
decent.respectable living to nineteen
twentieths of the men holding office,
Now look as the great professions.
Look at the lawyers, and remember
the enormous fees they receive
Look at the great merchants. Look
at the men who build your railroads
and telegraphs, and the men engaged
in all other great business nowadays
by which talent and character can
| find their true action. 1t is these
men, these merchants, these mechan-
les, these builders of railroads and
telegraphs and planters of the great
industries of our time--it is these
men and great lawyers who build
great houses, have fine pictures anC
rich libraries, if they ever read them
Laughter. Are not these the mer
who have all the comforts and luxu'
ries of life +?
And now what about these Office
holders? Thirty-one thousand 0
about sixty thousand are poor, pet
ty post masters; seven Thousand
post-masters' clerks fifteen thous
and of these masters have less thar
5000 per year salary. Laughter.
Why, gentlemen, they talk abou
the convention at Philadelphia as |
convention of office>nolders. Well
suppose we say the Ciscinnati con
vention is to be an ofiice-seekiDl
convention [Laughter.l But vii
not say. Laughter and cheers.
However, you may think what yoI
like about it. [Laughter.] Blu
this much l do say, that the nation
al convention that will meet this yea
at Philadelphia will have fewer of
fce-holders and fewer members o
Congress than any that has met TO
thirty years of the party in power
[Applause,] And now take thi
homo and remember it; go to any
section of our country where there Il