The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-09-09
Why an Iowa Man Win Vote for Hayes.

General james N. Tuttle of Iowa was
a Democrat before the war, and has
since acted with that party. He has
been the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor of the State. But, as he puts it,
when the Republicans took command
he could stand it nc longer, and in a
speech to his neighbor at Des Moines
last week he declared himself Republic
can enough to vote for Hayesand Wheel
er, and gave his reasons. Some of them
viii be found in the following extract
from his speech:
Nearly two years ago L was in St.
Louis. Now there is nothing peculiar
in simply having been in st. Louis. But
/ was there also in 1861. (cheers)
That was just after the first battle of
Bull Run, and st Louis IA thoroughly,
wildly, insanely rebel. 1t was worth a
mans life then almost to be seen in the
Union UNIFORM. A Union officer about
the hotels, where co~ngregated the nois-
lest secession clements, was hooted at
and derided, and told, with sneers,
Eyes, you'll go South, and you will
come back as the Union soldiers just
come back from Bull Run, with your
tail tucked" But. as l remember it
nom of our troops from Iowa ever came
back in that shape. daughter and APP
plause.) That was the feeling in st.
Louis in 1861, and 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 a ma
jority of the national house, and these
same fellows who swarmed about the
hotels, talking treason and deriding
Union soldiers in 1861, were exultant
and delirious withjoy this last time.
"Said one, Give us possession of the
government, and the North will be in
rebellion next time" This was the
talk, and the talk in earnest, as was the
talk of the same men in 1861. They
mean it. They talked it over ceolly
and seriously. Said they had already
an united South, which would be nearly
enough and that their Democratic allies
in the North dare not deny them the
little more, the few more votes, that
they would need. This is their idea to-
day-to gain by legislation, by means
of diplomacy and trickery, what they
failed to gain by means of force. l be-
lieve it; / know it, All their express
lolS IL. anu al thCii dSpioiS
prove it. What else do they mean?
Why is it that the State of Missouri
issued to every former owner of slaves
in that State a certificate for $1,000 for
every slave, payable when the general
government will pay it? This very
thing, the total amount Of the value of
their emancipated slaves, is now esti-
mated as a part of the State debt of
Missouri l used to think that this
was a Republican falsehood, the certif-
cate matter. But it is an actual fact,
and these certificates, and all certificates
showings of losses sustained through
out the State are being saved up as care
fully as money against the day when
the Democracy, and the rebel element
ruling it in tbs national government,
shall have attained to power. If Mis-
souri, will do this thing, and hold out
this promise to pay for all emancipated
why will not all the Southern,
all worse rebel States, do it, and will
they not do it?