The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-09-14
HON. D. ". HOORHEES.

HON. d. ". VOORHEES,.
Extract from His Speech at Indianapolis
monday Night Grantts''t and Hayes.
What is to be gained by a change
Where is the republican newspaper that
dares defend the present administration
T can commence with the papers now
supporting Mr.. Hayes. Take the New
York Tribune, the Springfield Repubi-
can, the Cincinnati Commercial, the St.
Louis Globe Democrat, the Chicago Tri-
hume and all the first class leading re-
publican newspapers in the United
States, and a file of them for the last
four years will convict Grant and the
cabinet officers and all the crew about
him with more corruption than I would
dare charge upon any set of human be-
iDgs. There is nothing that they have
not charged against them. But Mr.. Nor
ton singles out the disgraced and outcast
secretary Of war, who had been in part
n Ir5.i zszasatlers TO cheat the poor
soldiers, and charges UlIe,- aal5 - Sc
the cabinet from the democratic party,
and nothing better could be expected Of
him. That is true, for whenever a dem
ocrat goes out of the party-and nobody
knows that better than Morton laugh
ter and applause]-he makes the worst
kind of an officer. [Cheers:l On the
contrary, when a republican comes into
the democratic party he remains an hon
est man. There are, for example, such
men as Horace Greeley, Trumbull, Sum-
ner, and scores of others. Great ap-
plause. The surroundings of the adj
ministration are the worst the country
ever had, the worst of modern times.
The very air is laden with corruption, in
every direction. Wherever you follew
you will find it. At Cincinnati the ma
tionaI convention of the republican par
ty dared do no less than indorse Grant
and his administration, although you
can not find twelve men-enOugh to
make a coroner's jury to inquest the re-
mains of radicaIism-in indianapolis
who will indorse Grant and his admins
tration, and also the Cincinnati plat
form. [Cheers.] They would have ig-
nored him in Cincinnati if they had dared
to do it. But that little square jawed
man has more iron in his little finger
than there is in every fiber of Hayes
body. They didn't care to ignore him,
and they have to carry him in this fight.
[Applause.] He is the old man of the
sea, and like Sinbad the sailor, they
could not shove him if they would.
Laughter and applause. Now, gentle
men, reform lies in another direction.
What reformation could we have by
electiLg Hayes president? The powers
that have surrounded Grant and con-
trolled his administration are still strong
enough to control q thousand men of
greater nerve and force than Hayes. /
served with him in congress. l know
him to be very nice and polite and ex-
Cellent gentleman. I have not word of
invective or personal vituperatiOn in
this canvass. In all the affairs of life
/ know nothing against him, but l do say
that the republican voter who expects
him to be strong enough, if he should
be elected president, to control the ele-
meuts that have controlled Grant and
his administration, he is very much mis-
taken. He can do nothing of the sort.
The Mortons, Conklings and LOgans and
that class of men will continue to con-
troll and subordinate Hayes as a man
rules boy. [Great applause And if
there be corruption now, as nobody
doubts, it will continue to prevail. l
know there are honest men in the rePub-
fcan party of indianapolis and Indiana
who would gladly continue the reign OF
their party if at the same time they could
have a pure civil service, but will not be
parties to it until there has been an ex-
purgation of the elements that control,
aud new regime established upon the
ru AS, CApplause.l i say to you that
1.-THE democratic party does no better
than their party has done, four years
hence l will help to turn 1t out,