Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-08-03
LANCASTER, WISCONSIN. THURSDAY. AUGUsT3, 1876

power. IF Missouri will do thi;
thing, and hold out this promise tc
pay for all emancipated slaves, why
will not all the Southern, all worse
rebel States do it, and will not they
do it?
| THE CONFEDERATE HOUSE.
Wh,n these things came to my
knowledge | could not do less thar
halt for further developments, watch
ing suspiciously every movement
made therefore which | could see had
a tendency toward drawing the De
mocracy North and South nearer to
gether, a union which | could sec
would inevitably put the old rebe
element at the head of and virtually
in control of the party. Events have
eliminated rapidly since then, and
had not long to wait to see the whole
programme. Democratic House soon
gave me light enough. (CEeers.)
For sometime ] had been ready to
answer the question "Have you
left the Democratic party ?" have
(Great applause.) And ! am otter
asked now: "Is it so ? VIII you
vote for Hayes and Wheeler p 1t is
so, and | will work for them as vel
as vote for them. (Renewed ap'
plause.) My Democratic friends ask
me for my reasons. There are plenty
of them, and all of them cannot be
told in these few remarks. And it is
not necessary to tell all First, let me
say that my abandonment of Democ'
racy was not caused, as has been
charged by the press of that party.
because of the currency or tariff ques-
tons. Ihave no objection to those
planks in the st. Louis platform. But
my reasons are as have already in
Dictated, and will now state further.
A RESUME OF HIS REASONS.
The Democrats who press me for
my reasons may know them. On the
road the other day met an old Dem
ocrotic friend-One of the Van Buren,
county Democrats, whom Dave She
ward, in his screed In the paper the
other day, said never had any faith
in my Democracy after | went to the
war. (Applause.) Quite excitedly
he wanted to know if it was true, the
report that | had left the Democratic
party. | answered, sit is fact. .
He asked the reason for it. | told
him they were quite p!ent, and suffi
cient; and as we had plenty of time
| would tell him some of them. Some
thing of what | have already stated
here was first said, and then | said
that the first thing that | didn't like
in the Democratic House was the
appointment of FItzhugh, the Ser
geant- at. arms of the Confederate
Congress, as the Door-keeper of the
House, and the displacement of
Union soldiers many of them Grip
pied in the WARMTH the ex-mem-
bers of the rebel army. CGreat APP.
plause.) He wanted to know if they
didn't have right to DO this. an
swered that they had, but that | also
had the right to disaproye OF their
doing it, and denounced the deed.
(Applause.)
Another thing | didn't like was
Ben Hills rebel speech and its bold
utterance of treason, and didn't
like the rebel yell in response to it, all
over the South, for | had heard that
yell before, and knew what it meant.
TGreat cheers They tell me-the
democrats that | am "scared of Ben
Hill" / don't think | am ; | don't
think | was scared OF" any Of the
the Hills when | met them in the
South | do not remember that |
was. Great cheering Then | told
my friends, how worse than all of the
many bad and unblushing acts of the
democratic House, esteemed as in
famous the act of appointing to the
clerkship of the leading committee of
the House the man Hambleton, who
named his son John Wilkes Booth,
after the assassin of President Lin
coin. Immense cheering. This out
rageous act, in trucking to the rebel
element, the Northern democrats
dare not disown, and for all know,
this man is still the clerk of that COM
mttee. The little child, SO dishonor-
ed by its name and the significance of
it, had the good sense, thank God, to
die. Applause.
DEMOCRATIC BITTERNESS.