Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-09-28


York, headed by that honored man
who was at that time . staunch Dem
ocrat, Gen. John A. DIX. lap
plause. Rutherford B. Hayes -,
as / said q patriotic man; he went
and dispersed rebel meetings when
Mr.. Tilden refused TO disperse these
meetings. He bears now three
wounds in his flesh received while
helping his country in this manner.
He ia also o man OF good character,
and, as said before good character
cannot be made in q day, q good
character is made up Of all good
things: all the enobling things &C
complished go into this grand thing
called character, and the character OF
Rutherford B. Hayes rises before
the people to-day like dome OF
honor, of patriotism and integrity.
All the Democratic snakes, with
their poisonous tongues thrust Out,
cannot find crevice In the character
OF Mr.. Hayes in which to deposit
their malignity. Imagine man 30
good the Democratic party cannot
lie about him. / would alsosay Will
liam A.. Wheeler is also staunch
Republican as ever there was in the
party. TApplause.l There isno one
a greater advocate Of reform than he.
[Applause.l
THE PARTIES CONTRACTED.
/ have told a little about the con-
dition Of the country when the Re-
publican party was born, what 1t
achieved, and a little about Mr.. Til
den, and now am going to wind
this thing up. want you to recol-
lect that the very men who fought
for this Union, with very few ex-
captions, were Republicans. There
were some Democrats, but l cannot
tell you why they were there. With
these few exceptions the Democratic
party is made up Of the worst ele-
ments of society. The worst wards
In New York are the ones that VIII
give the largest Democratic MAORI
ties. There is not q Penitentiary in
the United States that Tilden and
Hendricks cannot carry five to one.
In the Democratic party can be
found the vicious and the foul. He
who wishes to answer an argument
with blows, he 10 in the Democratic
party. All men who sympathizs
with the South in its efforts to de-
stroy this government are now In
the Democratic party; all the men
who shot our soldiers at the dead
mark nre now for honesty and re-
form, and IL Tilden should be elected
President of the United States all
these men would be found shouting
for Tilden and Hendricks. Now
my friends keep :out OF the Demo-
cratic party; do not vote the ticket,
any young man who ID going to cast
his first vote--do not place your fu-
ture in tho hands Of that party. The
Republican on the other hand, ID
the party ofreason, of progression and
education. The Republican party ia
the one that believes in the equality
of human lives. i believe 1t. / am
willing TO give to every human be-
ing every right that ] claim for my
self. Every man who won't do that
is rascal. My friends i believe the
world Is going to get better. do.
/ believe we are getting better all
the time. Samuel j. Tilden says
we are nation of thieves and rob-
bers. ! don't believe it. If we are
no ought to be President. APP
plause.l / believe we are getting
better, aud every day the Republic
can party is in power we will be get
ting better. And how? BY free
labor and free thought. Free labor
will give us wealth. Free thought
will give US truth. Free labor has
done everything that has been done
In the United States, because the
problem Of free labor is to do the
most work in the least time, and
slave labor is 10 do the least work in
the time. A voice Show about
free schools?"l / want free schools,
and / want them divorced from sec
tartan influence. Tremendous APP
plausc and cheers / want every
school house to be true temple of
science, in which shall be taught the
laws of nature, in which the children
shall be taught actual facts, and l
don't want that school house touched
or that institution of science touched
by any superstition whatever. Zap
plause.l Leave religion with the
with the family, and more
than all, leave religion with each in
dividual heart and man. Let every
man be his own bishop, let every
man be his own pope, let every man
do his own thinking, let every man
have brain of his own, let every
man have a heart and conscience Of
his own. Applause. We are
growing better, truer, and grander.
And let me say Mr.. Democrat, we
nre keeping the country for your
children. We are keeping the old
dag floating for your children; and let
me say as u prediction, that there Is
only air enough on this continent to
aoat that one flag. [Cheers. Well
you have heard from me, and
voiI will haar from Ohio and Indi-