The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-07-06
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OUR CANDIDATE.
Serenade to President Tilden at Al
bany-His Address.

SAJ A-eAS @AN~~~~N NSSs
Albany, June 29.-The serenade to
Governor Tilden to night by the jack
sonians was great Success. Not less
than Eve thousand citizens surrounded
the Executive mansion. Many private
dwellings were illuminated and decora-
ted with flags and Chinese lanterns. The
Argus building was Illuminated and dec
Grated with flags; presenting brilliant
and effective appearance. Long before
the band which preceded the Jackson
ians, and the long procession following
them, reached the mansion, people gath
cred about the grounds, and when the
procession reached the scene, nearly ev-
cry available spot was occupied. Large
numbers entered the mansion to congrat-
ulate the Governor. AS soon as he could
release himself from these he stepped
out on the porch and addressed the con-
course as follows:
GENTLEMEN OF THE JACKSON CoRPs-I
cordially thank you for the manifesto
ton of your kindness. I do not forget
that last year you enrolled me among
you as an honorary member. regard
with satisfaction and pride your excellent
discipline and training as military body
recognize in your body many represen-
tatives of the workingmen of Albany, and
when say Workingmen / do not forget
that in our country the number,who live
upon the income Of what they have ac-
Cumulated or inherited is extremely
small, and that nearly every citizen of
our vast republic lives on the product of
his daily toll. In America we are nearly
all workingmen, therefore the interest
and prosperity of that class may almost
be said to be the interest and prosperity
of the country. (Applause.) No coun-
try which the sun ever shone upon has
had so many blessing as our own.-
Stretching from the Atlantic to the Pa
cifc, and from the great lakes of the
North to the Gulf of Mexico, with a ge-
nial climate, with fertile soils, with ev-
cry natural and artificial facility for trav-
el and transportation, with all the arts
and industries of an old civilization.
planted and started amid the boundless
and natural wealth of virgin continent,
we ought to be to day the most happy,
the most prosperous and contented peo-
pie in the world. But what is our actual
conditions All business is depressed,
every industry languishing, labor with
out employment, and the wolf at the door
of nearly every home in the land, gaunt
and hungry. applause What is the
matter? We know that for the last
II years, since the peace, the earnings Of
labor and the income of capital have
been consumed or wasted in government
expenditures. The taxes drawn from
the people of the United States have
been larger than the entire net savings
of the whole people. These taxes have
increased within this short period four
fold, and the influence is felt upon every
business, and every industry, and in ev-
cry home throughout our broad land
What next do we find in the public ad-
ministration? Everywhere abuses
peculations, frauds and corruption,
until we are becoming ashamed Of the
institutions of our country and instead
of holding them up as examples for the
imitation of the oppressed people ofother
countries, we are confessing them as a
scandal in the eyes of mankind. What
else do we find? We find that the office
holding class have become SO numerous,
so powerful, and INSCRIPTIONS that they
assume to control elections, and if peo-
pie are Indifferent or at all equally diVi-
ded, are able to exert corrupt influence
sufficient to perpetuate their own power.
At last we are reaching aworse condi-
ton than the countries of the old world.
The government no longer exists for the
people. The people exist only for the
government. Our centennial product is
the evils, license and wrongs to escape
which our ancestors abandoned their
homes In the old world and planted them
selves in the wilderness. Now ask
what is the remedy for these public evils,
for this private distress, for this disorder
in business, which carries suffering into
every household? CA voice in the crowd
--"I'he election of Tilden." Applause }
1t is comprised in the word Reform
reform Of the public administration
(Cheers,) Upon this subject there is a
difference of opinion. One class say elect
nominees of the party under which these
evils have grown up, by means of the
Office holding class, which is interested
in perpetuating these abuses and wrongs.
That is one opinion, There is another
opinion, and that opinion demands a
change, a change of men for the sake of
reform in the administration. Fellow
citizens, 1 do not intend to argue the
question. 1 intend to simply state it, and
leave it to your judgment and the judg
ment uf the people, I am heartily with
you in sympathy and action. I am hap
by to meet you to night trust I shall
have an opportunity of seeing you here.
after. Again thanking you for your kind
attention, l bid you good evening
The band then played several airs.
and the Jacksonians, after filing past the
Governor and shaking hands with him,
left the grounds, but the crowd remained
and a constant stream of citizens passed
the Governor, complimenting him. ao
CDEFnIT on TOHN KELLY ENDOR.