The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-09-23
SPEECH ORA. c. BUELL..
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Eage business was inaugraic'' last lall
and the suddel collape' ol that l.adlcal
deaths shend and bloluy hmles ~ stlll
fresh in your minds. Ne,"rthc,tss ss, l
think can entertain you with
BRIEF HISTORY
Of the last sad days of the bloody shirt
in our politics. You recollect mat the
Congressional debates on the finances in
the winter of 1874 had thoroughly
split up and demoralized the Republican
party, and that it went into the campaign
Of last fall without any well-dehned line
of policy in any direction, its leaders at
war with each other, and its rank and
file scattered and confused. The party
managers had been confronted by sim
liar situations before, and they thought
they could meet this one in the old-fash-
ioned way. They imagined they could
heal all differences and rally all their
forces as of old by inaugurating cru
sade against the South. Accordingly
Senator Morton went down to Arkansas
called Clayton to him and instructed that
worthy to prepare new schedule OF
0utrages. Clayton, in pursuance of Nor
tons instructions, called what has since
passed into history as the Outrage Con-
Vention at Chattanooga. | was at that
time correspondent of the st. Louis Re-
publican, and was instructed to proceed
TO Chattanooga and keep watch of the
Outrage business. When arrived there,
/ found Clayton, Dorsey, PinchbaCk,
Spencer, Joe Brooks, Davis of Texas and
UNly Tnolr Mn(NlNNrn ot thn hnoh nf a
motley mob of carpet baggers and mig
gers, devising new and extraordinary
programme of peril and manufacturing
large assortment of outrages for the
Northern market. The thing turned out
TO be a trifle ill-timed. 1t had been
called to meet the day before the cleo
tion occurred in Ohio and indiana. Clay
ton assured me that this was a good
thing, because the news of Republican
victories in those States would come to
Chattanooga just as the Convention got
fairly to work, and would impart much
enthusiasm to the proceedings. Well,
while the people of Ohio and Indiana
were silently filling their ballot-boxes
with
DhhTh-h N AhkhNlb OF hhDlSALlSh
And carpet. bagism and niggerism and
all the other miserable isms which we
are going to bury here in Ohio next
month, Clayton and his gang were gett-
ing their heads together in Chattanooga.
That night about ten o'clock met Clay
ton in the hotel and asked him if he had
heard any election news from Ohio and
Indiana. He said yes, he :" had some
private dispatches; that Job Stevenson
was certainly elected in Cincinnati; that
the Republicans had held their own in
Ohio, and gained in Indiana" Well"
said l, how long will your Convention
be in session? How long will your show
last?" "0h," he replied, nearly all the
week, presume. We want to do our
work thoroughly" The next morning l
met him again. His previous advices
had been altogether too previous, so to
speak. Job Stevenson was not elected
as much as he had been. The Republic
cans had not gained perceptibly in Indi-
ana nor held their own in Ohio. But
why pursue? l suppose there are some
Republicans, possibly some friends of
Job, in the audience, and why should l
lacerate their feelings? "Well, Clayton"
said ], chow long will your Convention
remain in session-all the week, did l
understand you to say?"'
"Oh, the whole thing has gone to he'll" )"
responded Clayton; eve will adjourn to-
dayW
And thus the bloody shirt assed from
our gaze like a nightmare. 1t was i'm
possible longer to divert public attention
from the official practices of the Repub-
lican party by dinning into the popular
ear the howls of Ku-Klux, treason and
outrage. And this is the dire extremity
which has forced the Republican party
into its present attitude. This failure of
an old and worn-out sham to serve them
any longer has compelled the Republican
leaders to invent
NEW PRETENSE.
The failure of calumny against the
people of the South to distract the atten-
ton of the people of the North from the
practices of the Republican leaders has
compelled them to invent the new cal
umnies which you now hear howled |
against the Democratic platform in Ohio.
Anything to cover up the record; any
thing to disinfeCt the past and dispel the
stencil of our history from the public !
nostrils; anything to save us from the |
consequences of what we have done and |
give no opportunity to do more of the |
same sort" is the dispairing cry Of these
desperate demagogues as they sink into |
the ingulfng vortex of their own infamy, |
borne down by the insuportable weight |
of their own crimes.
Having now stripped the detestable |
party of the fimsX pretenses wherewith |
it has sought and now seeks to hide the |
hideousness of its record and cover up
the deformity of its history, let us pro-
coed to dissect the naked body and to
discover the location and nature of the
foul diseases with which it has infected |
the whole nation by its contact. | need |
not amplify upon special departments of
the record of this party. The Credit Mo-
bilier steal, unctious with Christian states
and sleek with pious fraud, the
District of Columbia Ring, with its wild
extravaganza of plunder and its sublime
impudence of resistance when finally
dragged to the bar of justice; all the bri-
berries, the purchases Of Senatorial seats,
all the enormities whose recital has made
the public press reeking calendar of
crime in high places for the simple rea-
son that our statesmen give no other news
to publish; all the interminable catalogue
of iniquties whose exposition from day to
day has shaken our faith in mankind, al
most sapped the foundation of our trust
in God; all these things speak for them
selves and need only to be named. Shall
attempt, within the time allotted me to-
night, to recapitulate, even by the bare
titles ofinfamy, all the crimes against law,
all the subversions of liberty, all the
abuses of power-executive, judicial and
legislative the steals, all the grabs,
all the briberies, all the jobs and all the
rings that have been enacted or that have
been nourished under the auspices of tl,e
party in the Nation and in
The States where it has held sway? Why,
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