The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-08-30
MR.. BUCKALEW AT LANCASTER.
MS SENATORIAL REC0RD...TlIE H0LCOMBE IN.
TERVlEW...lSSUES OF THE STATE
CAMPAIGN.

Mr.. Buckalew addressed very large
at Fulton Hall, Lancaster, on
evening, August Goth, which
being reported by shorthand writer,
we are able to lay before our readers.
The speech was as follows:
FELLOW CITIZENS OF LANCASTER
COUNTY: l Iappear before u Lancaster-
county audience for The first time. AL
though l have known many OF your
people many years, ii has never hapen-
ed that l was with you in your popular
assemblages in any one of the great
election contests through which we
have passed in the last twenty-five
wears. But am here tonight to salute
you all, hope, as friends, and hope,
also, as fellow co-workers with me in
an enterprise in which we are Jointly
interested. 1t is not one peculiar to
the speaker who now addresses. you.
1t is one that goes homo to each and
all of you. The question is, Can we,
in peaceful times, undisturbed by the
clangor Of war or any disturbing
force from abroad, can we secure to
ourselves in this country just, honest
and successful governments in our
States and in tho government of the
Federal Union ?"
Gentlemen: might say many pleas
ant things concerning your county as
introductory to my remarks to night.
| might go back to the tinC when Ben
jamin Franklin appealed to the farmers
of Lancaster county for transportation
and supplies for the ill fated expedition
of Braddock into the wilderness, and
when his appeal was promptly met. |
might go on and point to successive
periods of your history when your
county exhibited her patriotism, her
energy and her devotion to the country
in times of emergency and peril. !
might dilatc upon the. .peculiarities of
character in your population, as settle
menis were originally made and as socle'
ty grew up and increased in magnitude,
with a corresponding swollen volume
of various interests, and an accompany
ing prosperity such as is vouchsafed to
few sections Of our own Commonwealth
or of othor States. But, gentlemen, l
shall not dwell upon these points, how
ever pleasant it might be for us to pass
some time speaking of them and listen
ing to them. Although my mother was
of Irish decent, never had my tongue
upon the blarney stone, and therefore
you will excuse me. Laughter.
AN ELECTION CRY.
L pass on to matters that may be If
not more interesting and pleasant at
least more suitable TO the occasion. In
work written by Disraeli the younger,
a work Of imagination, he depicts the
| trouble and difficulty of a pair of Eng
| lish politicians about generation ago
and early in the reign of her present
| Majesty the Queen of Great Britain.
They were named Taper and Tadpole,
and their difficulty was to obtain an
election crv. Now, it would seem as
important that an election should have
Il cry as that a sermon should have q
text, or newspaper Il motto. Well
Mr.. Disraeli's politicians after racking
their ingenuity finally settled upon
their election cry, which was this
"Our young Queen and our old inStitu'
tions." There was pleasant colloca'
| ton of language, vague and general III
signification suited to the necessities OF
campaign there was no difficulty in set
ting upon cry for Democrats and Re
formers in this State. 1t was plain
matter. The language lay before them.
They could not miss it. Therefore, the
cry was raised early; it continues t.
this evening, and it will be reiterated
hereafter. "Down with the Ringsv
i Applause l-"Down with the RingsH
Great applause.
THE REFORMERs' CRY.
But what does this mean? Why, i
carries upon its face words signitican
to every intelligent citizen in the Com
monwealth. 1t means that Govern
mcnt has gone wrong. 1t means tina
men in public station have consulted
their own interests instead of those o
the public. 1t means that there is obi
um, suspicion, and some measure o
disgrace in public affairs in this State
connected with those who hav
been entrusted by the people with tn
exercise of their sovereign powers. Gu
cry was really made for us by our oppc
nents. They brought into existenc
the wrongs out of which this common
WatchWOrd arose, and l trust that s
effectual and complete will be the dc
cision of our people this year, that
repetition of this cry, at least in on
State, will never hereafter be required
TApplause. That the lesson now to b
!, administered by the people will nc
: only be wholesome in character, bu
also so enduring in its consequences
that public men will hereafter not tran
gress-will not render such popula
action as we now have necessary an
proper to vindicate republican institl
lions from reproach. Renewed al
plause.
THE RING CRY.
But our opponents have been trouble
: for an election cly, and they have gof
r without one for about three sorr.
r weary months, from early in Apr
:; until a very recent date. They kne
not what to say in some brief senten'
i'm which to sum up their side of IL
issues of the campaign. Wei ,gentleme
they have asserlained that this wal
must be supplied, that it is not pract
!. cable for them to carry it on successful
Ii ly, or even respectfully, campaii
without grouping around some commc
expression or watchword, the prime
plies, or if you please, the passions Whie
inspire them. Mr.. Il believe l shou
say Major,) Russell Errett, the Chai
man of the Ring State Committee,
II an address issued within a few day
70 informs those who follow his guidan
" that they are no longer to parry blow
they are to give them, and he procee
to do what all good teachers of doctri
do, or ought to do. He proceeds
illustrate his advice by an eXampl
he proceeds to make an assault himse
And what he does, and what he pl
poses that others shall do, may be Inc
Gated by the watchword for which
would seem that he has been seekin
and which is Il familiar one to all
you. He proposes, substantially, II
tho cry Of his people shall be as
q. was i'm war times-'loyalty," and IL
. charges against all opposed to them
ed lack of patriotism shall be freely
dulged in through all the avenl
y. through which party can speak
mean its speakers, newspapers n
Il members.
In pursuance of this design, and
revive if possible the passions of
war, he proceeds in his address to ma
an assault upon me, and he does it
oi terms not usual in political controv
sizes between gentlemen. He proce'
~ to do it without provocation, and W
|. a wilful and deliberate intention
stating what he himself knows to
M untrue. This is strong language, bu
" do not utter it unadvisedly. l 81
~ proceed to prove that 1t is just. =,
says to you, men Of Lancaster, ana
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