Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-09-28
GREAT SPEECH OF BOB
! INGERSoL TN NEW
= ga YORK.
Z character and Record or the
~ Democratlc Censtitution-
!" II Hugssng, Shot-Gan Re-
= formers.
Enect Of Democratic Rule.

ssszes ax s<sf 80
EJECT Of Democratic Rule.
what the Republican Party
n fs has Accomplished.
Col. Robert g. Ingersol, the bril-
liant Illinois orator, made number
cfspeecl1es In Maine before the re-
3 cent election, and on his way home
ward delivered an address at Cooper
I Institute, New York city. The
Zsi6saae says he had "the largest and
most enthusiast audience which,
during the past ten years any single
speaker has attracted" The Times
Gays: ST was one Of the best polit-
icaI speeches ever delivered in the
= city Of New York" Hon. George
AOpdyke, Presidentof the meeting, In
tfuduced Col. Ingersol, who spoke
az fellows:
afT LADIES AND GENTLEMEr: l am
Just on my way home from the gal
liant State OF Maine, and there mas
followed me a telegraphic dispatch
d which ] will read TO you. tCheers.I
i lift was not good you may swear !
! wonld not read II. Laughter.
Every congressional district. every county in
Maine, Republican by alarge majority. tChecrs
. and cries Of "Tnden and reform."l The victory
Il Overwhelming and the majority VIII think,
exceed 1900.
A voice-We are on tho home
stretch. Laughter.l
Mr.. Ingersol-That dispatch IL
signed by that knight errant Of polit-
icsl chivalry, James q. Blaine.
fCheers.
MY friends, two political parties
are asking the votes Of the people,
one wishes to retain the power
that II has held for sixteen years,
the other wishes Office. Laughter
The Democratic party, with the hun
. cry. starving eyes Of wolf, has been
looking In at the national capitol
and scratching at the doors Of the
! White House for 10 years. Laugh
teri Occasionally IL has retired to
scme congeniaI eminence and lugu-
briously howled about the constitu-
tion. Cheers and laugbter.l BY
J George, that is IL exactly. Laugh
teri The Republican party comes
10 you with Its record open, and
asks every man, woman and child
In this broad country to read its
every word; and i say to you there
Is not line, paragraph, or page
In that record that Is not only an hon
or to the Republican party, but TO
the human race. Cheers. On
every page Of that record Is record
cd some great and glorious action,
done either for the liberty OF man or
the preservation OF our common
country. fApplause.l We ask
everybody TO read its every word.
The Democratic party comes before
you with its record closed, record
of blot and blur, and stain and trea-
son, and SANDER and mslignity, and
asks you not TO read q solitary word
OF what It has done, but be kind
enough TO take its infamous promise
for what IL will do. Allow nue. to
say here that character good charatc-
upon record, and not up
on prospectus. Applause A
man has good or bad character by
what he has really done, by what he
has really accomplished, and not by
what he promises to do. Ifpromises
would make good reputation Sam
lel J. Tilden and the Democratic
party would have one in twenty-four
hours. laughter ] propose to
ell you this evening, my friends a
little Of the history OF tho Republic
an party, little history Of the Dem
,cratic party, and first the Republic
an party.
The United States Of America Is q
rec country; 1t Is the
,NLY FREE COUNTRY UPON THIS
EARTH;
I is the only republic that was ever
among men. We have
cad. we have heard, of tho republic
4 Greece, Of Egypt, OF Venice; we
AVE heard OF tho FREQ cities Of
europe. There never was repub-
lie In Venice, there never was re-
,nblic In Rome, there never was
In Athens, there never was
j free city In Europe, there never
was government not cursed with
saste, there never was = government
rot cursed with slavery. There
never was government not cursed
with almost every kind OF infamy,
until the Republican party of the
United States made this free ma
Ion. fCheers.l j want no grander,
10 higher, title Of nobility than this,
bat I belong TO the Republican
,arty and did a little toward making
his Republican party a fact. In
order for you to ascertain what the
Republican party did for us--for us
II mean TO refresh ourselves, for we
all know II, but II Is we'll enough to
say u now and then In order TO re-
fresh ourselves. In order TO under
stand what this great party has ac-
complished, let us for q moment con-
rider the state Of the country whom
the Republican party WAS born. |
When tho Republican party was
horn there was on the statute book
on the Unlted States of America