The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-10-01
HIRAM PRICE.


Hls speech o Upton last satur.
Aay-The DlalOyal Candidate
Cor Congress Literally Fleye~.
Hon. Hirsm Price was on hand at
the Court House last Saturday after
noon prompt to the appointed hour,
bat . township caucus already in
session hung on until three o'clock,
when the meeting was organized by
the election Of r. Swearingen IS
chairman. Mr.. S. at once introduced
the speaker, who came forward look
ing perhaps = trifle older than OF
yore, but rs we soon perceived, with
no abatement Of the force and fire
which has always distinguished his
public efforts. The Court Room was
well filed, the audience including
quite = number Of ladies.
The speech began with reminis-
cence of the first time the speaker
addressed the citizens Of Cedar; and
this taking him back to the dark days
Of '63 and ga, he drew q striking
picture Of the loyal mans hopes and
fears in those trying hours, and urged
upon our attention the self evident
fact that those events and those les
sons should not be forgotten by the
too-easily forgetting citizen Of
country whose very existence SO
lately hung in the doubtful balance.
1t is . well known principle in COM
mon sense as well as in law that the
acts of properly constituted agents
are the acts of their principals. In
this country the people are princi-
pals and the law makers and other
officials are their agents. The former
are responsible for the acts, then, of
the latter, and doubly responsible for
their proper selection. How can we
Judge Of man? Only by his own
record and the record Of the party
nominating him.
With this ground work the speak
er proceeded to consider briefly the
record of the Democratic party. He
FIRST glanced at its financial record,
holding up the fact that at the be-
ginning Of the war after being years
in power, Democratic admInistra-
ton found the treasury of the United
States bankrupt and actually had to
pay nine per cent. for loan and then
could get but half the modest sum of
20 millions which was wanted. Now
under Republican administration
the country can borrow any amount
at 5 per cent. and under. Reference
was made to the fact that Mr.. Sheean,
the present Democratic candidate,
made special hobby Of the question
Of national finances. The speaker
said Mr.. S. must not be blamed for
that as he could not talk about his
own record or that of his party and
was before the people ard must talk
about something. He then stopped
. moment to utterly demolish Shee-
ans assertion that national Banks
cost the people 20 millions yearly
showing from the records that the
balance was against instead of in
favor Of the banks to the tune of over
six millions each year. Sheean's
greenback, reputation theory was
served in the same way; and then q
few moments was spent in considera-
ton of the transportation question
and the SO called Anti Monopoly par
ty, which on this issue as every other
promises everything and performs
nothing-even standing with its pet
theory OF State rights right across
the path of all available legislation.
Alter thus treating the record Of
the Democratic party, bestowing 9
scathing satire upon its new Iowa
name, and giving a passing touch to
numerous Incidental matters, the
question Of the preservation of this
government in its integrity was
brought up as underlying all others.
That the spirit of treason and re-
bellion is yet rampant among large
classes in whole States is just now
painfully evident. The speaker illus
trated the necessity of such legisla-
ton as the proposed Civil Rights
bill by numerous incidents drawn
from his own experience of two win
tiers in the South, rs well as by the
terrible events Of the past few weeks.
1t was but . step from New Orleans
to Fl. Sumpter--from the incipient
rebellion strangled by Grant to the
other one fostered by q Buchanan.
Going back again a decade, the
speaker produced and read resolu-
tons passed in this very Court House
by Cedar county Democrats in 1868.
He read the same sort Of anti-war
resolutions passed by the same party
in Muscatine, and also the Jones
county mot another man nor another
dollar resolutions of J. l.. Sheean.
He also read = copy Of letter writ
ten at just the same time by Gen. G..
P. T. Beauregard to the confederate
Secretary Of war inquiring if the
Confederate Congress had yet "passed
the act authorizing the execution OF
the Yankee prisoners" and saying
that he, Beauregard, thought it high
time to raise the black flag and rec
commended the garrote as the means
Of numbering our fathers, sons and
brothers who had become prisoners
Of war. And right there and then,
if there was ever copperhead
skinned, Hiram Price skinned John
L. Sheean, the Democratic candidate
for Congress from this District.
A most eloquent peroration con.
cluded the speech amid uproarious
applause, which again followed the
vote Of thanks unanimously rendered
to the speaker.