The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-09-12
sEAron HOWE At LANCASTER.
Senator Howe. at the monster rally at Lancaster,
showed the charges of the opposition against Grant
to be not only very small, but very unfoundcd.

Senator Howe, at the monster rally at Lancaster
showed the charges of the opposition against Gran
to be not only very SMALL but very unfoundcd.
He began by saying that he believed in truth, ant
that it had heretofore made the people OF til,
United States free, and that it would now If the
Republican party does live by the truth, then le
it die. am willing One of those great occasions
when you are called to elect President and Vice
President is before A mistake in the selection
may hurt You fearfully, and wise selection vii
help you. The path of true wisdom was never Sc
plainly marked as now You are asked to decide he
tween Grant and Greeley, and Wilson and Brown
For this afternoon. Will dismiss the seconds from
discussion ask your suffrages for President Grant
You know what he is; you have seen him work. You
have not tried Horace Greeley. (Voice rom crowd
AND never Will y No guess what kind of
President Greeley would make. From the wild chap
ter of the waverng steps in his life, might ra
| tonally expect anything from him. Yet Horace
Greeley is not stranger to you. lie has been be
fore you long enough to deyelope more eccentrici
ties than any other you think of.
understand that we have only two Republican
parties the field this year. / have been for many
years. endeavorng pursuade the people, that there
should be only Republican party in the field and
onIv two Rennf1ican candiIates in tho fa,5 o f.,
Grant He is the best man of the two. He is the
best man for any employment, except editing news
paper, and that is often an unciyil employment. Not
a Democrat in This or any other State, would have
asked, four years ago. for Greeley. They would have
preferred Grant, and said any thing to beat Greeley
What is the for this change in Greeeys ivori
lie is the same man as four years ago, with the eX
ception, perhaps, of little less hair, and
nat he better, should let out the
job. WHAT has nc done? He has taken gifts, has
he. know that Grant has taken gifts. You saw
him do it, and were proud of him when he did it
| He stood not alone in this. There have been but
few mon in the world notorious for gift taking and
the reason is that few are worthy of them Wash
:. irgton, Bismarck. Gladstone light and many other
famous men have taken gifts You saw Grant when
he returned from the battle field, and felt that he
was the most illustrious the earth. You
wanted to see him; all the world wanted to see him
You were grateful to him before Liberal Republican,
ism was thought Of He found home on his re-
turn no house. Now, there were capitalists, who
felt that the services of Grant had helped preserve
their property and they impelled to subscribe
towards getting him house. When they got $50, 600
they found they could not stop the subscription and
they until the reached $4,000 You all saw
1t; every Republican it, and there not a
growi from any one On the contrary all wanted to
contribute. Two years afterward you called on
to vote for Grant for President You did not think
of Greeley then; Trumbull, or the cry of gifts
but shouted, give Grant. Where were your con-
sciences then, my Liberal Republican friends? Has
the become different or is it your moral charac-
fter that is different? This is the up
before you to show that Grant is less worthy now
than then. He is also said to have passion for
nephews. Quite pumber of scholars, sitting at
Charles Summers feet, have discovered the term Ne
potism, and suppose that this is next to Bucaneer.
We are all Nepotists. In this Christian Wisconsin,
are you going to take fright because cries
out Nepotist; The Constitution gives the President
the right to nominate. You will have men women
to fill the offices. Is it for him nominate
his own or his wifes relatives, than mine Mr..
Trumbulrs? You think it is bad taste for him to
nominate his relatives but there has not been
incumbent who has not done it. 1t is just right
to appoint one mans relatives another's, long
as good service is done. Cramer Grants brotherin
law and Minister to Copenhagen, has been villain
ousy assailed but have examined into his life and
acts and find that they bIameless. But if the
President noninates, the Senate confirms and bears
large share of the responsibility of the appoint
menIs.
| lie made raid on San Domingo What is meant
] by this? He merely negotiated treaty that was not
ratified by the Senate Ii it was crime to negotiate
the treaty. is it not vrtuous i'll he Senate to have
jected it AT one lime, men base enough to
| charge President Grant with mercenary motives in
| tl,.tt
this i'll Congress- and if he did to benefit him
self, must have acted to benefit the country. do
not banker alter San Domingo more than my Demo-
cratic friends do for Horace Greeley. But you paid
seven millions for Alaska, and never srowed about
But when only one million and half was asked for
San Domingo, those originating the Alaska purchase
turned on u.s. Every administration tried to get
some southern island and no fuss was made about it.
! What do you think Horace Greeley said about San
| Domingo. Before ever Grant President, Greeley
/ said that he believed the people of San Domingo
would be greatly benefited by the annexation and
that it their manifest destiny. In 1869, Greeley
said that the United States would be ready receive
San Domingo whenever it ready be annexed.
! " hat has Grant done more than this?
1t is also said that Grant Steals and the universal
corruption of the Republican party is spoken Of
You have got live Republicans in this country Do
you think them more corrupt than the Liberal Re-
publicans and Democrats! The Senator named a
host of prominent Republicans i'll public hfe, and
among them Buckingham emphaticilly giving it as
the speakers opinion that more honesty naturally
came from him than could be gotten out OF the Cln'
cinn;lti Convention, if it were put under dy-
dros attic press don't want to abuse Horace Gree
ley, Dut do that he has done things that If any
one conc so, would damn you forever. He has done
this he has placed in the dust that cherished princ
pie OF his life-protection Over and again, has
he reiterated that the prevalence of this principle
depends the prosperity OF the United States and you
See him casting away THIS liieong advocated measure
TO get votes. What makes you think that those men
men in the Republican party, but not many az
last year. and II the opposition want recruits we
have spare 1t is true that the Treasury has
lost funds through dishonest officials but Will read
you statement, showing that the loss is remarkably
small. The Senator showed from this that the pei
of the losses from this for three
| less than s. in $4,000. Some of yoa bankers may
fare better than that. You loan out to picked men
but il YOU collect more closely than the general
government. am glad. You deduct frcm- the Gov
ernment losses those of the dishonest officials recon-
mended by Greeley and you would find weighty re-
duction. Greeley mistaken in the men and Is LA
BILE make srch mistakes, is quite proverblal You
| think that Mr.. Robson is a rascal. How many o
you have him and only heard of him i'll the pa
; pers, These liable to err and occasionally
caught in downright lying. They tell you that h'
cor a Co. claim, which examination showed to bt
one of those Just but bewildering claims that some
times bother legislative bodies and which the exi
gencies of the war had surrounded with perplexing
details. The Senator showed how it originated in th
building of some ships and that the committed
who investigated the charges against Robeson hae
unanimously reported that his acts were not in thu
least stained with fraudulent intent.
They say that Republican Senators opposed investI
CATION in the New York Custom HouseIfrauds. reat
that Trumbni said that he originated the Invesiiga
ton and that the Republican Senators opposed it.
saw that Roscoe Conkling moved the Investigation
The Senate Journal,-perhaps that lies,-The Con
gressional Globe,-perhaps that ies,-shows tha
| Conkling, and not Trumbull introduced the resolu
| ton and Republican Senator wagget
his tongue against it, That's the sort of statement
, on which You fed. If you believe such thing
you must shut your eyes on living, plain truths :!
said that the investigating com mittee on thl
sulject intimidated witnesses. Here the Senator a
OF the committee, gave complete and telling eX
PLANTATION of this investigation, during which lie eI
iogized the the opposition Gall Tom Murphy, ant
highly praised Mr.. Murphys good and consistent rec
ord a and official In speaking OF tn
much-abused George k. Leet, he did hesitate L
that he deserved better of this or any other coun
| try than Carl Schurz did. When the began
Leet left lucrative position in Chicago, and went a
private into a battery. Sohurz went into the arm,
only as a general officer Ieet from the rank
to a position Grants staff. The Senator thel
felinoly showed that the st of the agitation tn
subject Leet Co.'S transactions in New York wa
the effort of two rich foreign steamboat corporations
ehampioned by Carl Schurz to drive two poor Ameri
can boys a that friends of Grant and hi
administration had placed them on and sustaine
them in.
The Senator concluded with scathing review G
petty tactics of the opposition, and the rereate
applause cub. mated in rousing expression, shown
that the audience believed what Howe said, befor
the designing statements of SchurZ TrulnbulI and a.
s their disappointed tribe
General Gill, in-foIlowing, most amusingy CON
mented the opposition conventions, party steailn
and Grants tyranny, and told how he had seen HIM
the army, where man in power was likely to be t
rannical if any place, consderate and unassumins
He also ably and conclusvely showed that while th
Republicans have been in Office, three hundred mi
lions of debt have been paid and heavy tax abate
that the people were paying before Grants advent
office. He also, from Greeley's words, Shove
s his dangerous and designing position the tari
/. question, plainly and forcibly, that the adienc
eyinced that they and it, by significant an
oft-repeated exclaRa atons. j. X.
, THE New York Times, that first prin
= ted the Doolittle- Conatty letters, no,
: challenges Doolittle to deny the charges
: and offers to submit the proof of the au
:, thenticity of the letters to any committe
~ .Lat tlo noorSod himSalf nav annninf