The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-08-08
The CAMPAIGN.
Speech OF Gen. Tuttlc, Of
Iowa.
WHY AN HONEST DEMOCRAT
CANNOT SUPPORT TlLDeN.

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Gen. Tuitle, Of Iowa, was Demo-
crat before the war, and siuce the war
he has acted with his old party. But
to use his own words, when the rebels
took command he could stand il no
longer, and in speech TO his neigh
bors at Des Moines, on Thursday
night, he gave his reasons in an of
hand talk, which Is reported as follows
by the Iowa State Register:
Mr. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN oP
THE HAYES AND WHEELER CLUB
When i concluded to change my party,
thought that l might be- allowed to
do il quietly. Ii was private act, and
required no public announcement, and
there WAS no one to whom 1 was oblig-
cd 10 account for such On action. But
ss my course has been SO assailed, and
I have been called 80 severely TO nc
count, may as we'll embrace this OPP
portnnity 10 tell both the Democrats
and my Republican friends why / have
left the old Democracy, and why am
hero tonight. The act Of my change
was q private one. but nv reasens for
doing no were public ones, and they
may be told, and shall be. Cheers.
I am no speaker, and make no preten-
siops OF being. Bat can talk to you
as neigLbors. have been considered
doubtful by many Democrats for near
ly two years. Laughter. Iudeed 1
never have been Democrat, IL the ia
sues on which they are Sighting this
year are the principles OF the party.
Great applause. But nearly two
years ago the conrss Of duty was de-
velopsd much more plainly than il had
ever been before. What 1 had seen
before that was wrong. continued TO
hope would be found ~ be mistakes
that would bs mended.
REBEL DEMOCRATS.
Nearly two years ago was In st.
Louis. Now there is nothing peculiar
in simply having been at s. Louis.
Bat was there also in 1861. lCheers.
That was just after the first battle of
Bull Run, and Sc. Louis Was thorough
ly, wildly. insapely rebel. IL was
worth q mans life then almost to he
seen in the Union uniform. A Onion
officer about tho hotels, where congre-
gated the noisiest sscesssion elsments.
was hooted at and derided, and told
With sneers. "Yes, you'll go South, aud
you'll come back az the Union soldiers
have just como back from Bull Run,
with your tails tnckcd." Bat, as ! re-
member it, none of our troops from
Iowa ever came back in that shape.
Laughter aud applause. That was
the feeling in ST. Louis in l76l, and
this feeling found there again, in the
same spirit aud in the same places. re-
expressed by the very same men, when
| was there in 1874. Ii was then
heard the ut W. that tho Democrats bad
elected majority Of the National
House, and these same fellows who
swarmrd about the hotels, talking trea-
son and deridiug Union soldiers in
lSGl, were sxultlnt and delirious with
JOY this last time. j remarked to n
gentleman who had been "A coinrsde
with ule ia the war, This looks like
the same set uf fellows who verc spout
ing treas on here at the beginning Of
the late war. What IL H. that is exoit-
ing them go, md what ails theLl?" We
asked a squad al them what u Was that
made them feel so goOd?" / heard
one Of them say, I'VE have got them
this time; we can beat them this time.
We asked who they meant by ''th.Inr"
They replied, ''We'n elect the next
President, aud then we've got them.
Then wen get pay for oil our property
de- ,coyea IN tho war, and then Wen
get pay for our lost slaves. We have
the HOure overwhelming now, and in
1876. the Centennial year, we can get
The Senate and Democratic President
Then We can appoint our committees
TO suit ourselves, and choose our Own
Southern claims committee, or South
ern claims court, and MAKE good our
losses by the war. They meant that
they would get pay for ali the property
destroyed by the Union army, and pay
for all their emancipated slaves.
THE Ex-R.BEL PROGRAMME.
Said one, "0ive Us possession Of the
Government, and the North will DO the
rebels next time. This Was the talk,
and the talk in earnest, "a WAS the
talk Of the same men ia 1861. They
mean IL. They talk it over cnolly and
seriously. Said they had siready an
united south, which would be- nearly
enough, aud that their Democratic al
lies in the North dare not deny them
the little more, the few more votes,
that they would need. Thus ir their
idea to-day--to gain by legislation, by
means Of diplomacy and trickery. what
they failed to gain by means OF force.
I believe it; know il. All their ex.
pressions suggest IL. aud all their ac-
tions prove IT. What else do they
G.an? Why IL il that the State Of
Miseouri has issued TO every former
owner Of slaves in that State certih.
cate for 81 ,OO0 for every slave, payable
when the General Government will pay
II? This very thing, the total amount
IL the value Of their emancipated slaves
is now estimated IA part Of the State
debt of Missouril usej 10 think that
this was = Republican falsehood, the
certificate matter. But il il an actual
/, fact, and these certificates or showings
Of losses sustained throughout tho
State are being saved up "a carefully
a. money against the day when the De-
mocracy, and the rebel element ruling
il iR the National Government, shall
have attained to power. IL Missouri
will do this thing, and hold out this
promise 10 pay for all emancipated
slaves, why will not all the Southern,
ali worse rebel States. do IL. and will
not they do it1
TnK cosPEpKRArE Horxr.
When these things camo 10 my
knowledge I could not do less than
halt for further devclopments, watch
.ug snspiciously every movement made
lhy reafter which could SEQ had ten.
ieLey toward drawing the Democracy
North aud South nearer together, a
union winch, l could see, would put
the old rebel element at the head of
aud virtually in conirol Of the party.
IlApplausc. Events have culIniDaied
J RAPIDLY since then, aud I had not long
To- wait 10 see the whole programme.
/ The Democratic party soon gave me
Ig II enough. ICheere.
for sOne time / have been ready tn
answer The ansstiop; Have you left
the Democrsi &c partsg" have. [Grrat
sppisrse. And am often asked DOW:
J rs IL so9 Will you vote for Hayes
anl wbeelerf" II is so; and I will
work for them as well ss vote for them.
tR ,newed applause. My Democratic
fri -nds ask nae for my reasons. There
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