Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-04-18


from tie prayers ldh0rs and nOblest aspirations
OF the best portion Of our country, TO meet the |
needs Of an endangered country, and carry |
out in America the providence Of Al |
mighty God, tAppauscl so believing, he |
never consciously uttered a word TO drive a |
man ont OF its ranks; would rather on his |
knees asst him to pause, come back and 20 on |
with rs in the trinmphs Of the future do not
propose 10 utter reprOaChiul words Of Old COM |
rndes but OnOtCe kindly a few of their remarks.
We are told that one reason why tic Cincinnati |
convention Is called, is that the republican party
is under the control OF oNCe holders. Great God |
gentlemen, party Of three ard half millions
of men, controlled by few thuUsgnd Office
holders! never saw moment when office
holders were less impudeft IL this market To
be an office holder is to be bccgar The Off
ces of this country hardly pay a decent, Fespec-
table living TO nineteen-twcntiethS of the men
holding office. GhiTty-one thousand ont of
10000 are poor, petty postmasters; 1000 post
masters clerks, and 10000 of these postmasters
receive less than $500 a year salary. Why,
gentlemen, they talk about this cOnvcn-
ton at Philadelphia as convention Of
offcc-holders. Well, suppose we say the Gin
Cinnati convention is 10 he one OF Otfice-Seekers
daughter, The Philadelphia convention will
have fewer office-holdcrs and fewer members of
congress than any that met for thirty years OF
the party in power. (Great applause tell
you, it is officehUldng, OflicC-Seekiug petty am
billions that are destroying the unty Of the re-
publican party, and that threaten disaster
tapplause). bat, gentlemen, the great ideas,
the policy and principles of the party
are stronger than the party itself Mr., Trum-
hull tells us we have kept the disabilities on the
met IN the south. Well, gentlemen, stood up
alone in the seuate republican caucus and voted
against putting these provisions in the four
teenth amendment. (ApbisgSe.l I didn't be
lieve it was practically wise to do " and have
been for years in favor of letting everybody of;
and any man who behaves himself ms a pdtri-
otto, respectable man, and asks to have his
disabilities removed, | will vote for re-
moving them, (Applause) | will vote
for removing disabilities from John c. Brecken-
ridge. Mr., lrumbul told us that one set of men
in the south were kept out of office aud another
kept in
They have got nearly twenty rebel colonies
aud generals, aud men who served in the rebel
armies, whose disabilities were removed by us,
elected TO office, and Grant, in a message, rec
commended the removal of their disabilities, and
the house unanimously decided to remove them.
1t came to the senate, and Sumner proposed TO
pat in the bill provision of civil rights, giving
protection to poor freedmen, and voted for 1t,
and others did so, and it was put in the
bill, and when il was in the bill,
was lost, 33 to 10; and Irumbull and Upton,
who propose to go to Cincinnati for amnesty,
then voted against amnesty; and II they had
voted for it,, ii would have passed the senate.
MIR. Trumbull told us that he was going to Gin
cInnati for civil service reform. Why, the pres-
dent to-day proclaimed to The country the prac-
teal plan made by the civil service commission
appointed by himself Mr., Trumbull told us tits
contrary 10 law for military men to discharge
civil duties. We did not pass any such law.
We have law that will allow all military men
to be appointed to civil offices, but we have no
law to prevent men in the army being detailed
to civil duties. The first message e1er sent to
the senate was on the 18th Of August 1883, and
was borne by Mai. Gen. Henry Knox. lCheers.)
When Con .fartr apn pc n1a n a. iUtpd Mai
DOnelSon secretary. Abraham Lincoln took
John Hay, an army officer, and detailed him for
duty in the white house, ard Andrew
Johnson filed the white house with
| military men. Now, what is President
Grants great Otiense. He had three men on his
staff during the war when he was lieutenant
| general and general. He was made president
| and they were detailed to go to the White house
| aud get no pay for it, and help the president
| do his immense work; and that saves so much
| to the public treasury. (Laughter) That is
| all there is about it, tApplausel Mr. Wilson
| continued at length denouncittg corruption and
| thietery in office. Grants administration has
| arrested, tried and convicted more thieves, than
all the administrations from 1888 down.
As to the secretary OF tie navy, the facts are
not as Trumbull stated and Mi. Wilson eX,
pressed the belief that Robson is an honest and
| upright man. In the case in point he acted ac-
| cOrdng to law. both in examining the matter
| aud paying it. Fir Trumbull says we can re-
duce the expenses of the government $50 900, 600.
| Now Mr.. Trumbull has been seventeen years in
the senate, is an able man, and has fever pro.
| posed any plan by which even one million dol
| lars could be saved. We have reduced
| the expenses of the government nearly
a hundred millions in this administration
and will reduce the expenses whenever we can
and mean to cOntinde doing so. The people re-
member Gen. Grants great military record, and
remember that he paid three hundred and IF
teen million of the national debt in thirty
seven months, and will continue to pay from ten
to fifteen millions of it per month"; that he has
adopted an Indian policy that would immortal
| ze any administration. MIR, Wilson concluded
with renewed appeal to the discontinued
| republicans to return to the ranks; and,
| by q prediction that if the nominees at
| Cincinnati are not supported by the democratic
| party they viii not receive single electoral
| vote; but if they are supported by the democratic
party, then We will carry from twenty-five to
| thirty states of the Union II there is a cOmbi-
| nation al CnCinnaii-and don't care on whom
| they make-we will take more democratic votes
than they will republican votes. The nominees
at Philadelphia will be elected. Let every man
do his whole duty.
SENATOR MoRToN's SPEECH.
Senator Morton was the next speaker He
| pledged himself to the nominee of the Philadel-
| phia convention. There was no room for
| third party which would be mere adjunct and
| tool OF the democrats. The latter only wanted
two republican tickets in the field. The split
accomplished, then they would run their regular
ticket This was their only hope He was for
| the denomination Of Gen. Grant Grant was
entitled to it, aud a majority of tic
nation was for him, (Applause) until a
| nomination was made, it is an open
| question; any one can propose whom he pleases
| for president, but after the nomination all good
| republicans must support it. In closing he
hoped all would stand by their principles and
their country, and the best way TO do that was
| to stand by the republican party.
Mr.. Raiuey (cOloredl made brief speech,
after which the meeting adjourned with cheers
| for Grant.