The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-09-02


The following is full report of the
great speech of the Hon. VIM. d. Kelley.
of Pennsylvania, lately delivered at Sar
Francisco. AS it covers all the charges
made against the Administration, and shows
the wonderful progress which has been
made in the last four years in all the mate.
rial elements of greatness and prosperity
that have marked our career as a nation,
we reproduceit in full as one of the best
campaign speeches yet made
My Fello,o Citizens Of the Pacific Coast.
thank you heartily for this enthusiastic
reception. The part / am about to play in
the coming canvass will be small, and feel
the more the Importance of this occasion.
When left my home, some six weeks ago.
it was with no hope Of being able to raise
my voice for what believed to be the
cause of my country---that of Grant and
Wilson. [Great applause.l | believe my
self to be a confirmed valitudinarian, and
sought repose and possibly temporary relief
in the dry atmosphere of the Rocky Noun
tains. Finding myself SO far restored, and
remembering the beauty Of this coast, and
the hospitality of its people, as | saw the
enc and felt the other in 1860, felt was
doing wrong to The ladies of my family not
to permit them to see your beautiful city
and its environs, if no more of California.
Pressed by pursuasion on the one hand,
and the intrigues of the Greeley men on
the other, announcing i'll my absence and
silence that / have become Indifferent to
the Republican party and am yielding silent
support to, the Democracy of the country,
| am here tonight to address you. [Cheers.
Not to take part in your local politics, not to
discuss the questions Of municipal and State
policy that divide you, but to speak to you
az fellow citizens, having common country
and common interest. The election that
will take place on the second Tuesday Of
November, is of interest to every man
within the broad limits of onr country. to
every man dwelling between the rock
bound coast of Maine and the golden sands
of San Diego, between the gulf over whose
waters the summer brcezes ever play. and
the broad lakes whose March and Novem-
Der gales howl the requiem Of gallant
navies, This is all your country and mine.
1t is the land OF freedom. Upon no foot of
its soil, thanks to Providence and the Re-
publican party as its instrument, can
slave draw breath. IGrcat applause.l
he THE ISSUES OF TIE DAY.
The call for the meeting announced that
! am to speak upon the issues of the day.
What are these issues2 Who can ascertain
or define them! During the more than half
Of my life that have participated in Presi-
dental contests--for my first vote was cast,
after some speech-making, for Martin Van
Burep, in 1851 have acquired intimacy
with political affairs, and an able to say
that heretofore the issues were we'll defined.
each party had its platform, and the candl-
dates of each party have in the main been
men whose very name was the expression
of political convictions adhered to by the
party that nominated them. but where
shall we go to find the issue presented by
the Democratic party of to-day? What
Democratic statesmen penned the platform
ofthe Baltimore Convention What Demo-
crat thought Of nominating Horace Greeley
and b. Gratz Brown at Cincinnati? In
deed, no Democratic statesmen were in
that Convention. II was a Republican
Convention, and Democrats were notified
in advance that their presence on the floor
as members would not be acceptable. 1t
was not a Democratic, it was Republican
Convention. The platforms before you
were made by the Republicans; the candi-
dates before you were named by Republic
cans. "a 5iiv
AN INTERRUPTION FROM THE GAL
e u rt LERY,
Here the speaker was interrupted by a
person in the gallery, which was immedi-
ately followed by cries of Put him out"
from all parts of the house. eJ3a
The Speaker-Oh, no; don't do that Re-
member the old hymn
-.it-a g While the lamp holds out to burn,
Tho West sinner may retprn.:i
Laughter and applause. :. Never exclude u
noisy man from good ardent love feast.
THE individual in the gallery begins to
ask what are Republican principles. Cries
of "Put him out!''l
4he Speaka-Oh, no; do not. If the fell
low will only sit still will tell him. Don't
put him out. Next to the worst use you can
make Of a man is to put him out of good
place; tho worst is to hang him. He will be
quiet if he be q Republican. IF he will read
the platform of the Philadelphia Convention
he will know what Republican principles
are. If he be Democrat, and will read the
platform of the Cincinnati Convention, he
will know what they are, llaughterl, SO that
will not consume your time, but refer him
to those two authorities, from either Of
which he can obtain the information he
desires. No, you cannot learn what the
issues. presented to the Republican party
are. You cannot tell me and cannot tell
you whether the Democrats adopt Greeley's
system of protection and Charles Sun.ner's
Civil Rights bill, or whether Horace Gree
Icy and Charles Sumner are to be caught
in the Democratic maelStrom and carried
forward as the advocate of what the DEM
ocrats may hereafter disclose as their mea-
sures. They who vote for Greeley and
Brown
Here the speaker was again interrupted
from the gallery, and replied.l
AN ANOMALOUS GREELEYITE.
Now, cannot tell for the life of me why
Democrat, who has swallowed Horace
Greeley, white hat, coat and all, Should
hauseate at the simple remarks am max
ing. Laughter and applause This is an
age, or an era at least, of political wonders,
and | shall remember that, as one of them.
! say that the Democrat and | do not
speak otfensiyely---I want to calmly reason
the case---the Democrat who votes for
Greeley and Brown buys a pig in a spoke;
and say the Republican who goes over
and votes that way is even in worse