The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-08-27

| licsn party to make its glorious record,
must be snubbed by the young men Of
the country, or words to that effect. He
forgot that be had been the dead weight
Of the Republican party in the State of
Iowa. The speaker charged that 9. S.Grant
was a third term candidate for the Presi-
dency. This charge against the President
and the Republican party is SO simple
| that e-en a Democrat can't believe it,
and the speaker did not look as if he be-
| lived it. We do not believe that there is
a dozen men in lama county who would
vote for Grant, third term; Hence the
idea is preposterous. The speaker al
luded to the small decrease Of the public
debt for the year ending June Both, 1874,
neglecting to state that during the year
Government had passed through the re-
cent panic, in the financial circles of the
States. the failure of Jay Cooke and
others which shook the Nation On ex-
animation We find that subsequent to the
panic, after order had been restored and
the vigor Of trade once more renewed in the
month of June ending the last fiscal year,
this administration paid g, $50, 1916, 81 of
the public debt and that the decrease Of
the public debt from March 4th. 1869, IN
til July LIST, 1874, is 1885,. ga, 01s, So, during
| the administration Of President Grant.
The speaker next charged the administra-
/ ~ nnl ri h.a
Credit Mobilier closing with the state
ment that these frauds were true for
you will find all of these things exposed
| in Republican papers" Granted. Where
else should they be found but in the Re-
publican papers, when it is part of
the Republican policy to work reform
within the pales of its party. We are
free to admit that such thing never was
heard Of before as party publishing its
own faults and Furnishing its official GRIM
inals. This Republican party for the
first time in the history of our Nation ad-
vocates, and practices the doctrine of re-
form within the ranks Of political organ
izaiion. But The speaker said, Because
of these things we have formed new
party" He didntapproveo Of party re-
forming itself, SO they formed new par
ty to reform it for them, and hurl the Re
publican party headlong from the giddy
heights Of its prosperity He saw no
hope of reform in the Republican party.
I'VE presume that was because they had
utterly failed to reform him. that was
why he left it, He stated that the Re-
publican party had done more for human
liberty and the General Government than
any party in the world, that they ha..
given suffrage to the Negro, and no power
on earth could take il away He said
that lit seems that the Republicans have
not forgotten that the war is ended
After which he made some general whole
sale charges against the administration,
and closed his harangue Of two hours
with the assertion that when the new
party shall have been in power ten or
sixteen years they will steal just as much
! as the Republican party Thus did w
NJ. Stone the leading spirit of the Anti
Monopoly movement in Iowa arragn the
Republican party before small band Of
the faithful less than 80 in number-for
trial. He acknowledged that the Repub-
lican party was the grandest old party
in the world had done more for human
liberty than any other party in the world
had given suffrage" and it could not be
taken away. But had not forgotten that
tie war is ended" Ii will do to ia K such
stuff in the north to a people that scarcely
if ever read a southern paper. We quote
from copy OF the Memphis appeal Of
recent date where we find a sensational
bitter article advocating the war of races
in the South headed As follows. viz,
Scenes OF THE WAR OF RACES AT THE
MULES OF RIFLES AND MrsKETs-MEa-
PHIs RESPONDS NoBLY-TRooPs TO THE
RESCUE" Where did these troops 60 to the
rescue:- They were volunteersFraiseds.in
the city of Memphis to GO into an adjoining
State in violation OF law TO help kill few
Niggers" who had refused TO succumb
to the yoke of oppression which was be-
ing heaped' upon them by the white
Democratic AniiMonopoly citizens. The
Helena World, Of same date August 18th,
1874, has the following flaming head
to an extended article on the me sub
ject KING WHITE AGAIN TO THE FRONT
THE BRAVE TENEssEANs SoBLY RESPOND.
one THOUSAND MEN AND Two PIECES
OF ARTILLERY ARE READY TO Go TO THE
SCENE OF ACTION" This sounds as if
the suffrage Of the black man could
not be taken away. In the article re-
ferred TO the appeal says, The white
people of the south will contend until the
question of race ascendancy is decided.
as decided it must be, by the subsistence
of the NEGRO from his present lofty
perch of pretension" We might 60 on
and quote at great length extracts from
southern papers like the above which in
its very meaning is intended 20 retard
the progress of the reconstruction of the
southern States. ard to defeat the Black
Man from exercising the right Of suffrage.
The Memphis Appeal is an Anti-Monop-
" Organ Wequote the following from
the same organ in refutation of the
theory that new party is now forming.
What folly to talk Of the Conservative
the Liberal, the Reform or other parties
They are not known and have neither
body nor form How much better pain.
simple Democrat than this rigmarole
signifying nothing" The Nashville
Union and .imerican, another Anti
Monopoly organ, and leading southern
paper says 'All recognize that the Demo
crazy affords the great nucleus for effective
work against Radicalism We have no OBJ
lection to Conservatives. Reformers, Liber-
ais. Anti Monopolists, Changers and Sever
eigns of Industry, adopting and enforcing
one principle of Democracy after another.
They may adopt all those principles
in their fulness and homogenity. When
they do that, they will have not section
al but national party-not a party for
one class of citizens, but for all, and they
will find that the name Democracy and
nothing else fits it." We find also that
these papers, and the opposition general
ly, claim that the recent elections in New
Hampshire, Connecticut. Oregon, North