The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-11-01

ton in prison. A public officer is intrusted
with the public money; a man in a situation
which ought to- have kept him above
all such things, steals half mil
/ lien of public taxes out of the pub
/ lie treasury. The poor man that took
I a pozc of bread is called a thief and is pun
/ ished The officer who steals half a million
/ Of the public money is designated by the
sOft word of WHAT efalcation." Laugh
ter He is only a defaulter-one of the
fashionables All he has to do is to take a
little interest with the officers at Washing
ton to have this defalcatiOn pushed aside,
removed outside and to be received in good
society. The naked Gods truth is this
| Washington City is this day sort of a po-
| liticsil Barataria, an island of pirates and
robbers. When a man wants to go To
| Washington he ought to announce IN q
hand-bill that he wants to go 10 Barataria
! Laughter The cabinet, the model OF
| public dignity and public repute; the cabi-
| net into which no evil genius ever stole
| during Democratic times, as we all know,
are only men. that is all. But they are
something else when they get there. Dig
nifty and fashionable society put out a law
| that the ministers, that is a law of fashion.
that their wives are not to call upon The
/ wives of the people that come there. First.
they must be called on themselves. We
never had any such laws in my day down
| there In my day and in the day long after
| that. no member of the American cabinet
| under any administration was tainted with
| the crime of stealing public money. Now
| the question is Who is not tainted2
| This state of things we have borne year
| in and year out and now we patiently lis
| ten to the appeal of the same men to be con-
| tinued in power for four years more, and
/ when this appeal is made to US we are re-
minded of the fact that the Republican party
have one hand upon the public treasury and
/ the other upon the sword. Well, We want
! to take both of these weapons away laugh
teri, though not for our own use. The Dem
| ocratc party remained in power almost en-
! tirely down to 1860 and what man of that
party was ever impeached-was ever ar
/ rligned before the country for stealing the
/ national money Not one. During this long
time the Democratic party never drew one
drop of blood for political offense. We
| never marched an army into single state.
| We never called upon armed battalions to
come and execute the will OF the president
| in determining who shall be elected in Il
| sovereign state. Now. / say to my Demo
| cratic friends once and again, that il is pos
sble for us as Democrats to vote for Tilden.
| We must have some positive participation
| in the ballot in November, and by that par
| ticipation show that we prefer Tilden TO Mr..
| Hayes, or Mr.. Hayes party. have great
| personal respect for Mr.. Hayes; but Mr..
| HAYES has nothing to do with this contest.
not thing. 1t is Grantism that are
making war upon. 1t is all
the worst clements of Grantism
that we will get in the laws for this Repub-
| lie if Mr.. Hayes is elected. Against Grant
ism / prefer Tilden or any body else.
| Laughter and applause.l Tilden is bound
| by his position as a candidate of the Demo-
| cratic party. that if he is elected he will
| place himself under Democratic Instincts
| that is, to consult the wish of the Democrat
4 II 4 4
| that | shall vote for him freely. Applause.
| But say to my Democratic friends that they
| can not do otherwise without, by remain
\ ing at home, adding one more to
| the numerous causes that are tend
ing to the ruin of this country.
! If you want to be free, rebuke the use of de-
structive elements, fratd, corruption and
arms. Our fathers, in the lives that j read
to you at the opening appreciated fully
what they were about when they charged
/ the king of Great Britain with maintaining
standing armies among them without their
consent, and with attempting to make the
military independent of and superior to the
civil power. These were the great charges
| that burden the colonies, the old thirteen
colonies, in one mighty effort to throw off
! that sort of domination. Shall
| cherish such in our midst at the
end of hundred years while a few suryi-
vors of that period still in our
midst? VIII We, knowing the charges true
against Grant to-day, as they were against
| George the Third q hundred years ago? Our
ancestors could have kept cut war and reyo-
! luton if they had Endorsed the like They
resisted his attempt of ruling this country
| by arms. They maintained that resistance
! through a seven years war; and we, their
posterity, are asked to calmly allow the
country to overlook these acts which
our fathers resisted hundred years
Il IL L..
president here in our own neighborhood
TO say nothing about the untold
millions they have stolen from the people,
to come here now, with unblushing effrOnt-
| cry never equaled before and ask this great
people to indorse all their bad conduct, all
their stealing by which they have nearly
undermined the government already, to in
| dorSe all their attempts To control the presi-
| dental election by the bayORet, to indorse
all these sins, and then go out and say to
| the world, ''Oh, we are free people," Are
you? Why? In this sense of the word, that
you are free TO bear any amount of evil that
| your president sees fit to infict upon you.
| [Iaughter.] | hope, however, that
| the time has not come for that. look for
great aid from the money-changers, the
money-owners, the bond-holders of this
country because, of all the different p0pula-
ton of this country, they have the greatest
/ interest OF any to maintain quiet and public
order. All this vast money power consists
of nothing but bare promises, and when
these promises hang upon the fidelity to law
and the certain execution of the public prom
ises, all is we'll; but the very moment that is
imperiled the whole structure of the pub
l lie credit of the government goes by the
board. j have spoken quite as long as in
tended, and have said all that proposed to
/ say. i thank you for your kind attention
tonight. lGreat applause.]
TRUE SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH.