The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-08-10
JOB PRINTING
A DISGUSTED DEMOCRAT.
GEN. TUTTLE LEAVES THE PARTY

GEN. TUTTLE LEAVES THE PARTY.
IowA's RENOWNED WAR DEMOCRAT CAN
STAND IT NO LONGER-HE FOUGHT FOR
TIE UNION AND DOESN' T PROPOSE TO
SEE PRINCIPLES ESTABLISHED BY THE
WAR OVERTHROWN-THE DOINGS OF
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, HAVE
OPENED HIS EYES.
Perhaps the severest loss which the
Democratic Party has yet suffered in the
West is that of Gen. James N. Tuttle, of
Iowa, who has abandoned the party un-
cquiyocally, and told in vigorous language
why he can no longer remain with it, Gen.
TuttIe was a war Democrat and as Il sue
crssful officer and strong man of great
popularity he has been the head of the
Iowa Democracy for fifteen years, their
candidate for Governor in 1868, and for
Congress in 1860. lie was always stronger
than his party, and has always maintained
the principles for which he fought. The
recent successes of his party and the doings
Of the House Of Representatives and the
st. Louis Convention have shown him what
would be the result of Democratic victory
in the Presidential canvass. He therefore
repudiates his party and its two-faccd ticket,
and announces himself voter and worker
for Hayes and Wheeler. This he did in
response to a screnade by the Hayes and
Wheeler Club Of Des Moines, on Thursday
evening last. We take the leading points
of his speech from the iolca State Register
The speech was impromptu, but is none
the worse for that, as it brcathes through
out with strong clear-cut sentences. Gen.
futile spoke as follows:
Mr. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN OF
THE HAYES AND WHEELED CLUB: When
l concluded to change my party | thought
that [ might be allowed to do it quietly.
1t was a private act, and required no pub
lie announcement, and there Was no one TO
whom I was obligated to account for such
an action. But as nay course has been so
aSsailcd and | have been called so severely
u account | may as well embrace this OPP
portunity to tell both my Democratic and
luy Republican friends why have left the
o't Democracy, and why am here tonight.
The act Of my change was private one,
hut nv rcascns for so doing were public
ones, and they may be told, and shall be-
Cheers / am no speaker, and make nc
prctensions Of being one. But | can talk 10
YOU as neiehbors. | have been considered
doubtful by many Democrats for nearly two
years. Laughter. Indeed, never have
been a Democrat if the issues on which
they are fighting this year are the princi
pies of the party. Great applause-] But
nearly two years ago the course of duty was
developed much more plainly than it ever
had been before What | had seen before
that was wrong | had continued to hope
would be found to be mistakes that would
b. monded.
REBEL DEMOCRATS.
Nearly two years ago | was in St. Louis
Now. there. is nothing peculiar in simply
having been at St Louis. But | was there
also in 1861. [Cheers.7 That was just
after the first battle Of Bull Run, and St
Louis was thoroughly, wildly, insanely
rebel 1t was worth a mans life ther
almost to be seen in the Union uniform
y Union officer about the hotels, where
congre-ated the noisicst secession clements
was hooted at and derided, and told, with
sucers, Yes, you'll 20 South, and you vii
come back. as the Union soldiers have just
come back from Bull Run, with your talk
tucked" But, as | remember 1t, none o.
our troops from Iowa even came back II
that shape. Laughter and applause. That
was the feeling in St. Louis in 1861, anC
this feeling | found there again, in the same
spirit and in the same places, re-expressed
by the very same men, when l was there
in 1874 1t was then | heard the news
that the Democrats had elected majority
Of the national House, and these same fel
lows who swarmed about the hotels talking
treason and deriding Union soldiers In 1861
were cxultant and delirious with JOY thl;
last time. | remarked to a gentleman who
had been a comrade with me in the war
This looks like the same set Of fellows who
were spouting treason here at the begin
ming Of the war What is it that is excit
Ing them so. and what ails them? We
asked a squad Of them what it was that
made chem feel 50 good ?" l heard ono
Of them say "We have got them this time
We can beat them this time" We asked
who they meant by ''them ?'' They replied
Wen elect the next President, and ther
we've got them Then we'll get pay fol
all our property destroyed in the war, anC
then well get pay for our lost slaves. VIZ
have the House overwhelmingly now, ant
IN 1876, the Centennial year, we can &c
the Senate and a Democratic President
Then we can appoint our committees t
suit ourselves, and choose our own Southern
Claims Committee or Southern Claims
Court, and make good our losses by tn
war" They meant that they would ge
pay for all the property destroyed b,
the Union Army, and pay for al thel
emancipated slaves.
THE EX REBEL PROGRAMME.
Sad one. Give rs -nossession Of th