Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-08-16
NUGGETS FROM CARY.
WHAT DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE
IN OHIO SAYS.
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gentleman present at Samuel F. Cary's meet
ing in Portsmouth, Ohio, took notes of the speech
then made by this man, whom the Democrats Of
Ohio are striving with all their might to elect as
their Lieutenant Governor. The notes were sent
to the Cincinnati Gazette for publication, and some
of them we reproduce below. To the credit of the
Portsmouth people it is to be aad that the audi
ence was small and that it was Disguised
"Hays said times are working better | say they
not; more than ,000, 900 OF men are out oil en-
ploymcnt. A hard Winter is approaching your
clothes and shoes arc wearing out My friends l
am alarmed for you. You can buy dress Tor
eight cents-that's cheap enough, but where The
devil are you going to get the eight cents
Nothing will revive but the interest OF bond
holders, and they look to that because the less
money there s, the better 1t Is tor those VINO nave
got it.
"There must be better times or the working
classes will starve to death. Reputation is bad,
but is better than starvation, and am alarmed tor
the working men,"
THE good Book says the man that won't work
shan't eat, but Republicans have abolished that
law and now say the man who does no. work shall
eat, while the poor devil who does all the hard
work shall go to bed without his supper.
"The Republican motto Is that the meaning OF
the Republican policy. financially, is that the poor
laboring men should get up at , 20 in the morn
ing work hard until so in the evening. IN order
that the bloated bondholder might lie abed until
10 40 in the morning.
"Six hundred millions more OF an unjust bulcen
laid on the people soon after Grants Inaugural
ton. Who did it, Eighty bank Presidents and
Directors of national banhs. A monstrous out
rage on the poor working man."
"Grant said in his Message the people want
more money but he hadn't consulted his masters,
the bondholders, and vetoed al their command the
bill to iucreaae the currency
"ITayes says in his speech here that the green
backs are dishonest money. You call them printed
lies. don't think the working man who wanted
81 or So Of those lies to buy something with, or
any man. unless he was bondholder, would call
them a lie"
"When | was here before there was contraction
of the waters not enough to carry oil the potatoes,
and cabbage and turnlps, &C., on the wheels OF
commerce. but the turnps wouldn't go-couldnt t.
But now come and find there's Initiation of the
streams-too much imitation. We want just enough
to carry off the turnips and things, and not enough
to drown them. Yes, we think there's too much
imitation in the streams, and we wish our Heavenly
Father had thought so few days ago.
"a boy in Boston was smart; he wanted to go
into a paving business. Says he, Father, give me
500 900 of your Government bonds, and then III
cut off the coupons every SIX months, and that 5
the best business l can go into
"Working men, why not issue greenGacks m
now take 24 100000 of gold interest paid into the
hands of monyed aristocracy
81 tell you Mr.. Merchant or Mechanic, if You
have note out for 81 900 your property, espe-
cally if it's in national bank, go, for Gods sake,
tomorrow before the sun sets, and notify him to
take your property, for if you don't, and the Re
publican Party is perpetuatcd, you will drag out
miserable existence, and be lett at last with a
debt on your shoulders to begin life anew with
"Now YOU working men don't comprehen that
you have to pay all this interest, but you do"
There isn't colored man in this crowd, worth
$500, who does not pay more tax TO the Govern
ment than A. T. Stewart"
81 wear pretty good sort Of a broadcoth coat
"a better one than most Of yon feel able to wear,
or do or can wear. If you take all the things out
of the pockets it woald probably weigh pound
pound and quarter, while you poor devils
wear a great cheap, thick wooden coat, which
cost you but Sc to buy, and one-half of that. Or
SO, you paid to the Government, while paid for
mine say $40, and because it is finer and better,
and weighs only pound and quarter pay but
sixty-two and half cents agai1st your S3. Is
that just :"