The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-07-01


vide him with a place as lucrative as
the present one. Laughter. This Ad-
ministration has hedged this country
about with a Chinese wall so that nobody
could come in or go out. They have
stricken away the commerce from the
ocean, from sea to sea, from land to land
They have undertaken to furnish Gov
ernment currency that from day to day
depreciates and leaves the void between
that and coin still larger There has
been granted to railroads, and for other
purposes, domain large enough to make
one of the great empires of the world.
| can hardly tell you the extent of it in
figures. But during this Administration
the public domain, a sacred trust for the
poor of all countries has been, in effect,
all frittered away. The direct credit of
the Government has been embarrassed
for these same enterprises, and one hun
dred millions of the debt rises out of it.
But more has been done-and still worse.
Acting on the principle of personal gov
ernment the Administration has, in ef-
feet sent into the South perfect army
of carpet-baggers, to rule, as they call it,
but to rob, in fact, those States. As a
consequence the Government has been
been obliged to back them up with the
army of the United States, and in carry
ing out this policy we have seen our ar
my, made only to defend liberty, invade
the legislative assemblies, drive out at
the point of the bayonet, the people who
had been elected; and finally, to cap the
climax, we see this same Executive ap-
pealing to Congress for carte blanche to
take possession of a State-house, and
run it himself with his carpet-baggers.
All over this broadsland, from one end
to the other there is deep, broad, swift
growing corruption, that has carried
away all honest fidelity, all faith in this
public administration. You all recollect
many instances But it has gone to such
point now that an old Indian, one of
the wards that we furnish food for, can
stand up in the face of the Government,
in the capital of our Nation, and say,
truthfully, "Your agents steal our food. !"
They say Grant is not running. But
two or three weeks ago the Republican
party of this State declared that they ap-
proved of the record of this Administra-
tion.
Now, gentlemen, don't forget-here
and when you go home-that the issue
you make with your opponents is on the
corruption and inj justice of this Federal
Administration, and that the great object
of your fight is to restore the Govern
ment to its original principles and purity
That is why we are here and will be at
the polls in October next. And let US,
in accom- plishing this great object, do as
our fathers did, day and night, till we
have carried this great purpose into eff
feet. Let US first restore the great edifce
that corruption has struck away, and
then we will talk about the matter OF
furnishing it afterward. Applause
After the Democratic convention had
nominated Gov. Allen, he made the fol
lowing speech:
l have been before many audiences in
this city and out of it, but never ap
peared before an audience in whose pres
ence felt more honor conferred upon
me than this. Never before have l met
avast concourse of the people who bore
in their countenances, in their general
demeanor, higher evidences of intelli
gence and fitness to enjoy public liberty
Applause. [ know full well that This
great assemblage has other work to dc
than to listen to me. You have more
serious labors yet to perform before you
take the cars for your homes. However
much 1 might be disposed, therefore, tc
speak with regard to public afairs-and
l dodge nothing Applause II should be
compelled to postpone the privilege Of
communing with the people to some time
not very remote, when we will have g
kind of love-feast, laughter and ap
plause,1 at which there will be three
guests, Reason, Intellect and Love of Lib
erty. [Applause.] For the present
can only say, as you all know, that by
common consent of the entire communi
ty, Democrat and Republican, the Octo
Der election in Ohio is conceded to be, OF
all hands, an era in the history of thi.
country which will long be remembered
and if the Democratic party succeeds, i
will guarantee public liberty for anothe
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well to all the cherished hopes of ou
land. The big battle is now, to sum i
up in one word, between the ballot-bo:
and the bayonet. Applause. We know
the issue; we know that the head of the
Federal Government has ordered tn
legislative body of sovereign State to b.
turned out and another set of fellows t.
be put in. Prolonged laughter and aI
plause. We know, furthermore tina
the Senate of the United States, organ
ically constituted as the especial protec
tors and guardians of the rights of tn
States, at their last session, after tn
President substituting the bayonet 70
the ballot in the State Government o
Louisiana, they need not talk abou
Grant. He is the least criminal of them
Laughter. probably did not under
stand the deep political consequence o
that act Laughter They have adopt
eQ IL as party measure Wnetner TN
bayonet or the ballot shall give law t.
the American people. They canno
dodge it, and we don't intend to ALLOW
them to dodge it. Laughter.l
This little assemblage, representa-,
about four millions of people, calling
themselves a Republican convention
good, honest creatures, but very soft il
the upper story. Laughter. : They un
dertook to stand between the extremes
They said that Grant was a good man,
most holy and righteous, that his admin
istration was all that any body could de
sire, and then they said "notwithstand
ing all that we don't intend to elect hin
for the third term" Laughter Well
they cannot get rid of their responsibilit,
as party for Grants doings, and for tn
doings of their Congress, for the innu
merable rogueries that are prevailing il
the Federal Government from the heaC
to the tail. Laughter. They can no
get rid of that when they solemnly in
tration not only the doings during al
gress were about as rotten as SO man,
stole to the right hand and to the lef
1t got to be so fashionable that it wa
considered a necessary passport to gooC
society. Laughter. Well, they hav,
indorsed all this, and above all they hav
indorsed his bayonet policy. They can
not dodge that. They knew that thu
President had violated the law of tn
country and the rights of the State. The,
knew it as well then as the Democrac,
knew it: but I will tell you nv friends