Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1872-07-10

0iacS a1 Clle w euueH QOuSe,
at Cleveland at about s o'clock
on the evening previous to the
assembling Of the State Con
vention, were serenaded by
Gray's Band. An immense
crowd of people gathered in
front of the Hotel Balcony,
densely packing the streets in
that vicinity. A series Of
speeches followed, interspersed
with music, beginning with
Hon. j. r. Mckinney, member
of Congress from the 4th dis
trict. He said they had ap>
peared, tonight to consider
bqfestions of a national charac-
ter. He showed how differ
emily corruption was looked
upon in Jackson'S Time and
now. In Jackson's time, two
newspaper correspondents in
Washington, who held clerk
Ships,tproved defaulters to the
amount of $4,000, which seem.
ed enormous then, and was an
act sufficient to disgrace the
party. He compared that theft
with the thieving which was
constantly going on in the Re-
publican party. Men in the
Republican party did not steal
because they were Republi-
cans, for some of the worst
thieves therein were men who
had been kicked out of the
Democratic party, and had
gone into the dominant party
for the spoils and nothing else.
Corruption prevailed there be.
cause the Republican party
was called upon to use ten
times the amount of money
that any party had ever used,
and this enormous money-han-
ding had led to the evil. The
speaker called upon the people
to act in this emergency, shake
off party trammels, and insure
such a result in November as
should redeem their oppressed
country. The only way to
purify the government was to
practically exemplify the theo-
ny that all government must rest
with the governed.
General Durbin Ward fol-
lowed. He proposed to con-
slider two or three points in
the canvas. lst the policy Of
the respective candidates likely
to come before the people
Grant stands on a platform of
bayonet suppression of the
South. At the late session of
Congress he refused to give up
the proscriptive system; he re,
fused to grant general amnes.
ty; he refused till the last to
give up the right of the Presi.
dent to withhold the writ of
habeas. corpus; he refused his
assistance to all necessary
means to give peace to the
South. On the other hand,
what is the platform which the
which the candidate opposed
to Grant is likely to stand up>
on?-universal amnesty, and
removal from the South of all
disabilities heaped upon her,
and perfect forgiveness for the
the past, so that her people can
help you! to pay taxes, o. a
Gentlemen of both parties,
do you want morep description
and military rule after seven
years of peace? If you want
war, prescription and bayonets,
vote for Grant, the bayonet
candidate; if you want peace
and brQtherly' love, vote for
Horace Greeley. One ticket
means war; the other means
peace. One means sectional
strife; the other means broth.
erly love. ] appeal 10 every
man who helped to uphold the
flag in the South, whether now,
after seven years Of peace, he
is in favor Of a continued bay
onet rule? Will you take the
big G or the little 6? I will
simply say Of Grant that, for
the arat time in the history Of
the American Republic, he has
given us the spectacle of a
President accepting presents
from those to whom he has
whom hrs given offices, Did