Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-09-30

PURPOSES, ia StrC d6yss one DaitU' ~
whisky. I could name the drug
store, I.ut for policy reasons / viii
not do 50. We challenge Mr.. Eli.
oft to name the drug store, the pro-
prietor, the party 10 whom sold, the
.,hysician. and his informant; and
! further suggest To the Grand Jury
that Mr. Elliott would be valuable
witness. SIR. f., claiming to have
sucf, information, must specify or
stand convicted OF falsliy in this
statement.
These statements can be demon
s.rated to he true. Falsus In uno,
etc. IT you believe ia license law
vote our ticket /; II you believe IN
prohibition vote the Republican
ticket. Vote ~ your conscience die
tate-. TIf you believe that man
should tell faI-ehof,d-, vote for Mr.
Elliott, If you believe that our Kep-
rpsentatives should be truthful men,
vote for the Republican candidates. !
The Republican party OF to-day IL
not the Republican party of ten years
ago. They tell u the party IL being
educated, and casting out its corrupt
men. This education has cost the
cpuntry five billions Of dollars. Credit
MobiIier gave a fortune to every
member Of Congress who would take
II. We lost one billion by not taxing
the bonds. And we saved the nation
by making such bonds as could be
sold to raise money To put down the
rebellion and they could not haye
been sold If subject to local taxation
which would enable Democratic au-
thorIties I'm localities to tax them to
such an extent rs to destroy their
vaiue. Such education has taught
us to put no faith I'm the Republican
party's promises of reform. They
repealed the salary law, except as to
the Presidents salary, because the
people demanded it, How have they
condemned corrupt men. Kirk
WOOD voted for the salary grab.
fKirkwood did no such thing, Mr..
Elliott, as you know. Ifyou had the
honesty and manhood which you
profess, you would not make such a
charge without saying also that the
law for which Mr.. Kirkwood voted
was passed In 1866; that nocomplaint
was made by the people against 1t at
the time that it was never known As
a salary grab that every member of
Congress accepted the increased pay,
and none OF them were ever blamed
for II by either party. That the law
known ~ the "salary grab" was
passed only little over two years
ago, years after Mr.. Kirkwood had
retired from Congress. IL Mr.. Elliott
Is an honest man no will explain this
la his speeches hereafter or say
nothing about the matter.
Speaker referred to the defaulters,
Rankin, Henderson, Ruan, Bryan.
aud Brandt. Said that out OF 10 de-
faulting treasurers In Iowa only one
had ever been punished, and that
was Bryan, OF Jackson Co., who was
a Democrat. [Specify, Mr.. Elliott.
Tell us who the 10 were. And then
tell as something about Eads, the
last Democratic State Superintendent
OF Public Instruction, who stole over
$lO0, 900 from the School Fund, and
was not punished, although your
party was in power In the courts.
Tell US who the Democrats In this
county were who got their share Of
this grab.
The glorious past of their party is
all that Republicans have left now
upon which to claim votes. The
men who made the party great have
died or left the party. Charles Sum-
ner died In disgrace and infamy,
Greeley died, Chase and Carl Schurz
left the party because 1t became SO
corrupt. Mr.. Elliot ought to know
that Carl Schurz Is striking heavy
blows In Ohio to-day against the De-
mocracy, and the financial doctrines
advanced in this speech, and for the
perpetuation of Republican rule.
/ ask the Changers tonight why
you left tho Republican party and
started one Of your own. Remember
the epithets they applied to You,
calling you soreheads, prostitutes,
etc, because you dared 10 vote as you
pleased. They laugh at you to-day
and shake the blue blouse over you
for the purpose of catching ysir
votes. Remember the epithets they
applied 10 you. You were called
mudsills, Grange dead-beats, block
heads. They now ask us to return.
Fellow Liberals and Changers, $ for