Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-19
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TERRI HAUTE, Ind, July 1S.-ln accepting
the democratic nomination for congress at the
convention in Spencer to-day, Hon. d. W Voor-
heeS made long and deliberately prepared
speech. He said he gave honest republicans
the same credit they now give the democrats /;
that they would sufficiently rise above party to
vote against corrupt administration without
regard to the company in which they performed
so noble an act. He thought any one of four or
five democratic statesmen which might be
named could have been elected president over
Grant, and believing this, he exercised his right
as member of the democratic party, in point
ing out what he considered its proper course
lie bad no apologies to make for the past in
opposing Greeley'S nomination. What he had
said was directed to the Baltimore convention
and not beyond the action OF that body. He re-
GREETED that his views were not adopted at Bal
timore, and he would abandon public life, but he
felt his duties as a citizen compelled him to
accept the nomination and make one more
campaign. He thought the democratic party
Infinitely preferable, even with Greeley as its
candidate 10 the republican party under Grant
ana ms managers. No thought OF rGcreanCy or
intidelity to the democratic party entered his
mind; lie would submit to its councils, hoping
time would show its ways to be wiser and more
beneficial to the country than he predicted.
Others might be more enlightened than himself
on the points at issue, and their plans should
have fair trial. He then reviewed the national
political field, and said the republican party, but
for It's abuses of power, would have had before
it longer life than ever granted to a political
party in the history of the world; but its career
has been full of wckcdness, gradually but
surely FORGETTING the confidence of the people
and drawing the best elements out of its organi-
cation. He illustrated this with history of
Indiana democracy, which had reduced the re-
publican majority of q 900 in 1864 so that the
republicans barely saved their state ticket in
IS6S-aS he claimed by fraudulent returns by
few hundred majority. Then came the fifteenth
amendment, never legally ratified; fraud in
his Judgment on the American people, which
gave an increase of hundred thousand votes
TO the republicans; yet the democrats swept the
state by 5000 majority. He thought this showed
decline Of the republican party, and if the
liberal republicans could even moderately well
fulfill their expectations, the vote Of the state
would be cast against the administration party
IN October and November by larger majorites
than were ever known in her history.
lie voorhees, thought the administration of
pubic affairs in the south for the last three
years had been the worst ever known in the
history OF civilized people, and he could not
wonder at the demand from that section for
anybody to defeat the reelection of Grant.
They believe the election of Greeley will afford
them relief, and therefore they demanded his
nomination. 1t has been accorded more in def
erence to their condition aud their wishes than
to any other one cause If Greeley is elected
he will stand pledged by the strongest obliga-
tions that ever rested upon Il candidate to accord
the south the blessing of just, kind and frater-
nal policy OF government. Failing in this, he
would be accurSed amongst men.
VOORHEES, declared himself opposed to a protec-
tive tariff to negro suffrage, to the resumption
OF specie payments, to the redemption of bonds
in gold, and the exemption from taxation of ma
tiOnal banks.