The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-21
REPUBLICAN RATIFICATION.
The Meeting at West Rutland-A Crowded
House--speeches by Col. w. G. veazey, D.
E. Nicholson and N. P. Simons.

The town hall at West Rutland was
crowded Saturday evening, on the occasion
of the republican meeting, among the au-
dience being many ladies and good sprink-
ling Of democrats from that place, and a
party from Rutland II. X. Mead pre-
sided, and on the platform were seated |
Col. W. G. Veazey, N. p. Simons and d.
4. Nicholson, speakers of the evening; DR.. |
L. Sheldon, of West Rutland; Evelyn |
Plerpont, John A. Sheldon, G. d. Milling
ton and others of the Young Mems Hayes
and Wheeler club OF Rutland, under whose
auspices the meeting was held The
speakers desk was ornamented with hand |
some vases of flowers presented by West
Rutland ladies. The music was furnished
by the Sarsfeld cornet band.
Mr.. Mead presided handsomely, his in
troductory speech beng particularly happy
1t ran something as follows:
Ladies and gentlemen On behalf of
the Young Mems Hayes and Wheeler club
of Rutland, | return thanks for your at
tendance here this evening. To the ladies
we are especially grateful for the encour
| agement of their presence. We would
warmly welcome the democrats, of whom
see there are large number present. to
this discussion of the issues of the cam
| psign, aud we hope for your political con.
version by September. l have the pleas
ure to introduce to you
COL. W. @. VEAzEY
Col. Veazey's address opened with q de-
| scription of GIattan's struggle for the in
| dependence of Ireland. For years he had
| been lsboring to this end when the war for
| American Independence was declared. He
watched the struggle eagerly and was
thrilled with patriotism of Washington and
| his band In their success this noble patriot
and great leader saw Ireland's opportunity
and seized it. He called on the Irish peo-
| pie for support and 100000 men sprang to
arms in his cause. He said to England:
"You are weak; you cannot defend
yourselves; we can and will defend your
coasts against every foreign foe by this
power we demand the right which we can
gain by the sword" and Ireland was free.
The results and evils which always fol-
low great revolution followed this. The
price of labor tand the products of labor
were forced up by the war and fictitious
prosperity reigned. The country began to
go back to its normal condition the debt
hard times came. Men were thrown out
of work and industries ceased. Then,
eighteen years after the revolution, men
arose and SAID eve are greater than
Grattan we can make work plenty and
prices good; we are wiser, purer, better
than he; follow US aud we will brink back
good times" Men were out of work and
suffering, ready TO listen to anything that
! promised relief, and so these men gained
some followers the tools of England saw
the opportunity to regain their lost power
and seized it.
Finally bill was brought into the Irish
, parliament to make Ireland again subject
to England. On the very same day Graf
tan wa, reelected TO the parliament. He
was an old man, at home on his bed, sick
for union and of his reelection was told to
him. Feeble as he was, he arose and was
carried to Dublin. Cheer after cheer greet
3 ed his appearance and wild cries of "Grat-
= tan Grattan " heralded his entrance to
the parliament hall, as he who had been
the greatest orator of modern times went
totteiiug in, an old man leaning on bis
: friends to add his voice to the mighty elo
| qucnce of Burke and Ponsonby who had
been laundering all day against The bill
Yet by English influence and English gold
that bill was carried and Ireland once more
t under foreign yoke.
il This period of Irish history bears a strik
= ing resemblance to the history of this coun
try for the last 16 years. Previous to 1861
l. the democratic party of the south had con
r trolled the country for long period. Tha
d party was based on two principles; on,
known as Estates rights"-that a state wa
greater than the nation, part ereeter thai
the whele-and the other that slavery wa
the best system on which to found nation
In the north Grattans arose and we rallied
n TO their call as the lIish people rallied
h around their leader. Lincoln was elected
q and the south lott control. They appealed
a to the bayonet to gain the power they ba
# lost at the ballot box The war came ant
N ended. After it came the unnatural stimula
v ton and now has come the depression
o whichs hasaiollowed every war in ever.
% land.
e And this year the men have come VIII
" say "We are better and wiser than you
q Grst.an. we will lead you back to pros
le perity; follow us, we are fefurmers." TIL
n emlssaries of the very men who did al
they could to defeat us in the war are al
II around us with this reform" battle cry
q. Let us investigate their claims to the title
Is In the first place, | am not so stupid as t
If deny the necessity of reform. There ar
+, now, as there always have been and Away
40 will be. corruptions. But there are Away
N two classes of reformers, one genuine an
9. the others pretenders. Now that the den
al ocritic party assume this role it is our du
Il to investigate and see which class they ht
n. long to. The democrats say we are COZ
q. rupt, "You have bad men in your party
p, thieves your officials steal, and the Who'll
Ir lot ought to be kicked out"
N Bad men, have we? OF course we have
IN every large party has bad men in it. Til
m great mass of the republican party al
mr. good. Whatever else we may have thei
% are no cOpper-heads and no faint of disloy
n atty in our fold. Bad men have betraye
10 us and as fast as we have found them o,
IA we have exposed and punished them. Or
r. treat principle of the republican party he
te been; ''Let no guilty man escape" 1t
the only party on record which has eve
attempted to purify Itself. The party
r. party, is not corrupt. The loss in the il
VI come of government has been less undt
republican administration than under den
mr. ocratic. The average loss on thousar
"a dollars of income each year from 1884
III democratic administrations has bee
is SO 90; from 81 to rs, 81 cents. In Il
I'd disbursements of government money fro
- "a to 81 the average loss per year W,
$0.03; from 6l TO TO, rs cents und
Wy president Grants last administration
". cents. These are facts of record.
as Under this cry of corruption the congre
&c Just closed has investigated. That dem
u, cratic house appointed "a special comm
of tees of investigation. They have spent
re- this way over 800, 900 and they have save
NC not one penny of government none
CHI They have not found where one penny
m | IL has bpen etolen They found one ms
tie who had sold post-traderships on the plal
of and got few thousand dollars. That w
i'd private transaction between two indy
I'm dnals, not steal from the governmer
on That man has been indicted by the conr
his of the District of Columbia, and if gull
un l hope he may be punished. The inves
u natiGua tho most cnsual nhserYcr mn