The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1875-06-25
lery, such farce as this platform Of plati.

Ntth hlthit 10 70 iflto " fiOst unalysts UI ~.
II contains twelve different items, which
will only briefly refer to. The first il sort
81 questionable record. II is for the Union,
forgetting that We are not United States,
but the United States Of America, and these
States while dependent among each other
aye dependent on each other. think the
next clause in that platform looks
toward currency. On that all have 10 say
is TO look at the Gfteen years or ten
years OF Radical control in Congress and
see what their makeshifis have been. The
next has reference to the taIiii-tarin for
what? They call Il incidental protection.
Incidental rascality, with q view to general
robbery aud stealing; that is their tariff.
But ] can not discuss that tonight, for
have discussed that upon other occasions.
Then they have four or five platitudes in
their platform something about patents
that can't understand. think il must be
some job. Then they have the old platitude
about the soldiers, that they are always for
getting when IL comes to real work, but are
always praising in their empty platforms ;
and then they have come down TO the meat
Of the matter in their denunciation Of the
third term aud General Grant, or somebody
else. OF course they don't mean General
Grant, for they go on praising him in the
next plank as an able soldier and capable
and judicious statesman. Was there ever
such political jugglery or such a contempti-
BILE ambiguity? They first knock Grant over
the head with the third-term club and then
say, oh, what a nice Statesman Laughter
and applause.l But he has disavowed the
third term, you know; says he would not
take II ii offered to him, unless circumstances
imperatively called upon him TO accept the
nomination. He won't take IL, he says, "
IL is offered to him. think Shakespeare says
"ifs" are great peace unless circum.
stances, surroundings, or something or other
turns up that makes IT imperative. Who il
TO judge Of the Imperativeness OF IL? The
imperative duty, ] supp-se, IL would be Of
the National Convention, made up OF these
southern scalawags and carpet baggers, aud
some othef parasites that may be brought in to
Judge Of the circumstances. Who would Judge
of the imperative duty TO accept! Why,
Grant himself hut how easy il ~ for him to
create circumstances. Applause. How easy
for him to find a good chance Tor II down
here on the Mexican border I warned them
against it at the end Of the last Congress.
Why, in Cuba | presume there is a good
chance for he could say. Look at the eighty
millions Of export tax on sugar and cigars
for the last seven or eight years. oh, We
must take Cuba; that would be a circum-
stance. lie might say he wanted q circum'
stance created out Of the bloody shirt OF the
bloody Ku-Klux, or he might make it out Of
the Arkansas question perhaps, or he might
clutch Louisiana by the throat, or Mississippi
might be convenient circumstance. lap
plause.l
| have disgust for all such third term
promises ~ that, but then the Republican
party saws that they stand by George Wash
ington. and Grant don't stand with him, and
they stand with Grant. don'tknow where
they are in such a predicament as that who
do they stand by when they stand by Grant,
not his Cabinet? lie has get two or three
standing by crying reform. Why, they cant
reform ANYTHING until we reform Grant out.
Laughter and applause.l Your Bristows
and Jewels may be earnest and do their
duty for while, but when they go to talk
ing Of the land jobs and "boss" jobs that you
have at Washington, they will have to march
unless they march to Grants music.
Now, gentlemen, there is one way in which
the Republicans are right in indorsing Grant
as judicious and able statesman. They are
right in defending him, for he is exactly
their representative man. lie suits them
lie is the man that has made all this trouble
with the Force bill and attempts on elec-
tions. Those troubles that have despoiled
the South came from his red right hand.
The Republican party ought to be ashamed
of thus forever discardiug such true and
just exponent Of their principles.
Where is the rule Of civil conduct which
has never been barrier to the Radical
usurper and its obsequious Congress? Only
in one case-Arkansas--and then IL was
because the elections called dead halt.
The defeated Vermont Judge understood II
we'll What gave this moral power last fall
and this year? Independent men. How can
we perpetuate such results,
By every rule Of political divination or
motherly gumption, il is wise TO seek to add
to an honest, peace-loving suffrage as many
votes from the. other side as possible. The
so-called independent vote" whether
North or South, should not be discouraged
from an alliance with the Democracy. IL
does not follow that we surrender the Demo
cratic banner because we invite cooperation
from Others of similar sentiments ON the
eNseBfidI issues Let all who desire the genu-
inc rehabilitation Of the states, who would
lift above the waters the ark Of our safety
who desire better order and a surey estab-
lishment, be hailed as brothers. Why not
Was il not enough that We had the prof.
ligacy aud expenditures, the want oi lru-
gality and prudence, which civil wars ere
ate Must we add TO il the curses OF cor
rupt, irresponsible government Why, even
maxim for our better guidance In bodies
polite the power of the representative is
always limited; and that which prescribeth
limits thereof is the power sovereign for
power unlimited is absolute sovereignty"
l speak not altogether aPriOr. spent q
week in the canvass Of Connecticut. Ask
the men fro,s that state, from Governor ln-
gersoll down to the humblest and latest
Dcmoeratic deyOtee-" what carried Con
necticut" II was not alone because her
industries were marketlsss south aud every
where not alone because tixes aud tariffs
had eaten ~ her substance, aud her ciii-
zens were working on half time. II was not
because altogether the Deu ocracy had q
splendid and economical State adminisira-
ton, aSan example aud record. II was
because the best men of the Republican
party found hos0rablc frisndliness toward
their views, and no niggdrd regard isr such
allies as Lafayette ;. Poster, her ex-senator.
It was because TO regain hef industrial pros
psrity Connecticut capitalists aud opera
lives found the path of justice 10 other
States the path 10 her best traditions aud
most eDnobling liberties.
BY alluTug Ine goou men OF all parties To
our Democratic standard, aud making no
obsolete issues to deter hearty uuity-the
victory OF last year already prehgured in
Ohio will be revived IN 1876. The Cented'
nial wear will be, trust in God, under such
liberal politics, the year Of deliyeranee from
all expressions.
To enforce my thought more cogently, lei
me call attention To the vote of New York
state in ls7i. We gave the most unreseryed
invitation 10 Independent and Liberal
voters. We placed on our ticket lieuten'
ant, Governor OF the Liberal party, ,Dorshimer
We did more. We added To the actual
emolument of our strict Democratic orgaui
zation The votes compared, show the FOL
low results
The vote for Governor in New York IN
1874 was-1ilden, il6.3a2; Dix, 3o6,01i
majority for Tilden, 5O,Sl5. There wer,
over II 500 temperance votes, but they ar,
about "half and half
In 1872, Grant received ii0 s5a, and cree
" 3s7 ,279, showing that the Drmocrai'
added, from 1872 aud ls7i, $4,000 votes
Where did they come from nlx fell benin,
Grants vote Of is72, 1000. Why did the,
leave DixY
In 1873 the Democratic secretary OF Stat
received only 3ii ,Ool the Republican can
didate 33i,l2s. so that in 1874 We added
/ from some quarter, 10 the Demoesatic vote