The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-09-19
of Clear Lake Grant & Wilson Rally in
the Janesvillc Gazette

The following is taken from the report
of Clear Lake Grant & Wilson Rally in
the Janesvillc Gazette
SENATOR Il. d. HOWE
was then introduced by l.. b. Hudson,
President of the Milton Grant and Will
son club and was greeted with hearty
applause. In a speech which lasted an
hour and ten minutes, he laid before his
immense audience the various questions
upon which the arguments of the pres
ent cam paign are based, adductlng that
clear, logical reasoning which carries
conviction with the utterance OF every
sentence He opened by a!ludlng to the
fact that he had heard that there were
some liberal republicans in this locality,
but was constrained to believe, from the
appearance of the crowd before him that
the term signified merely a liberal dose
ofrepublicans The honorable speaker
said that he had come to give the crowd
few good reasons why they should vote
for Grant and Wilson, and most faith
fully did he fulfil his promise to make
that point clear. The position which
the liberals occupy In relation to the re-
publican party was aptly illustrated by
the story of Issac, Jacob and Esau. Ja
cob had taken advantage of his father
Isaac's failing sight and palmed himself
off on the old gentleman as Esau and In
order to make the deception more COM
plete had made gloves of the skin of a
kid, to counterfeit Esau s hairy hands.
Isaac was suspicious, though he admitted
that the hands were Esau s-but the
voice was unmistakably Jacobs. SO
with the liberal party-the hands may
appear like republican hands, but the
voice is democratic in every accent.
Their candidate Greeley swhite locks
and rotund form looked sort of republl
can, but his voice betrayed him. Start
ing with this li.tle pleasantly, the speak
er finally took up the record of the dem
ocratic party, reviewed 1t, went over the
triumphant acts of the republican party
and brought his subject down to the is
sues which have arisen under Grant 5
administration. The dangers which
threaten tie recent amendments to the
constitution, in case the Greeley party
should be triumphant, were. vlvidly por
traved and supported by logicul conclu-
sions drawn from the past acts Of the
men who now compose that party. Re
pnblcans say that thes amendments must
be enforced, while the democracy, with
Greeley at its head, are of a different
opinion. Mr. II owe made damaging
statement against tie democratic liberal
candidate when he asked his audience
what they thought Of the craftsmanship
f the man who, to sustain his assertion
that the states should be permitted to
secede, had compared the rebellion of
| 1861 to the revolution of 1776-one a
war to free human beings from the bon
dage OF monarch who taxed them mer-
cileSsly without giving them the recon-
pense of representation. He could not
| admit the claims to success of party
composed so largely of the men W ho had
made war on the government, headed by
the man who argued that their warfare
was Just. By giving the figures on sew
eral votes in congress, he proved tha
the democratic leaders there had always
arrayed themselves against acknowledg
ing the validity of the constitutions
amendments and against legislation tC
enforce their provisions. The senator
reviewed the Cincinnati platform and hae
entered upon a discussion OF the ciyl
service reform movement when he wa
admonished by the chairman that it wa
nearly time for the departure of thu
train on which he was to go west, an;
was compelled to cut short his interestin:
|, speech. As he retired from the stanC
the audience evinced their hearty approx
al of his words by loud and continuou
cheerings.