The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-02
their friends, and not before. Ia voice" That

pOOpiC tllOuSdHus Ol bnt NOTU0crn democrats
are afraid that the negroes are going to pass
them in the race of life. And, Mr.. Democrat, he
Will do 1t unless you attend to your business.
The simple fact that you are white cannot save
you always. You have got to be industrious,
honest, and cultivate sense of justice If you
don't, the colored race will pass you as sure as
you live. am for giving every man chance.
Anybody that can pass me is welcome. A
voice, There can't many do it'll / believe,
my friends, that the intellectual domain of the
future, like the land used to be in the State Of
Illinois, is open to pre-emption. The fellow that
gets fact first, that is his that gets an idea
hrst, that is his. Every round in the ladder OF
fame, from the one that touches the ground to
the last one that leans against the shining sum
init OF human ambition belongs to the foot that
gets upon it first. [Applause.l Mr.. Democrat
Il point down because they are nearly all on the
first round of the ladder), If you can't climb,
stand on one side and let the deserving negro pass.
/ must tell you one thing. / have told it so
much and you have all heard It, have no
doubt, fifty times from others, but l am going
to tell it again because l like it
Suppose there great horse-race here to day,
free to every horse in the world, and to all the
mules, and all the scrubs, and all the donkeys.
AT the tap of the drum they come to the line,
and the judges say, Is it gol' Let me ask
you, what does the blooded horse, rushing ahead
with nostrils distcnded, drinking in the breath
OF his own swiftness, with his mane flying like
banner of victory, with his veins standing out
all over him as if a net of life had been cast
around him-with his thin neck, his high
withers, his tremuous nanks-what docs he
care how many mules and donkeys run on that
track. prolonged and deafening laughter. !
But the Democratic scrub, with his chuckle-
head and lop ears. with his tail full of cookie
burs, jumping high and short, and digging in
the ground when he feels the breath of the
coming mule on his cockle-bur tail, he is the
chap that jumps the track and saws g am
down on mule equality" Renewed and up
roarious laughter
My friends, the Republican partyi is the blooded
horse in the race. A voice-"Anything may
little while ago in the city of Paris where stood
the Bastilc, where now stands the Column of
July, surmounted by the figure of Liberty. In
its right hand is a broken chain, in its left hand
banner; upon its forehead glittering star
and as looked upon it said, such is the Re-
publican party of my country.
The other day going along the road I came
to the place where the road had been changed,
but the guide-board was as they had put it
twenty years before. 1t pointed diligently in
the direction of desolate field. Now, that
guide-post has been there for twenty years.
Thousands of people passed but nobody
needed the hand on the guide-post, and it
stuck there through storm and shine, and it
pointed as hard as ever as if the road was
through the desolate field and l said to N.Y.
self, Such is the Democratic party of the
United States" Laughter and applause
The other day came to a river where there
had been mill part of it was there yet.
An old sign said, Cash for wheat" Laugh
teri The old water-wheel was broken it had
been warped by the sun, cracked and split by
many winds and storms. There hadn't been
grain of wheat ground there for twenty years
There was nothing in good order but the dam !;
1t was as good dam as | ever saw, and / said
to myself, "Such is the Democratic party"
lRenewed laughter
was going along the road the other day,
when | came to where there had once been a
hotel. But the hotel and barn had burned
down; nothing remained there but the two
chimneys, monuments of the disaster. In the
road there was an old sign, upon which there
We're these words: Entertainment for man
and beast" The word "man" was nearly
burned out, There hadn't been hotel there
for thirty years. That sign had swung and
creaked in the wind; the show had fallen
upon it in the winter the birds had sung upon
it in the summer. Nobody ever stopped at
that hotel; but the sign stuck to it, and kept
swearing to it, " Entertainment for man and
BEAST" and l said to myself, Such is the
Democratic party of the United States"
Laughter And further said, % One CHM
ney ought to be called Tilden and the other
ing and laughter.l
Now, my friends, both of these parties have
candidates. The Democratic party trots ol.t
Samuel j. Tilden. Who is he? He is a man
that advertses his honesty and reform, the
same as people advertise quack medicines. In
every Democratic paper in the United States he
has advertisements of his honesty and reform.
Samuel j. Tildcn is an attorney-a legal spider
that weaves webs of technicalities, and catches
in its meshes honest incorporated flies. He has
stood on the shores of bankruptcy and clutched
the drowning by the throat. Samuel j. Tilden
is demurrer that the Confederate Congress has
filed against the amendments to the Constitu-
ton of the United States. Samuel j. Tilden is
an old bachelor. In a country depending upon
the increase of its population for its glory and
honor (cheers and laughter], to elect an old
bachelor is suicidal policy. Renewed and
prolonged laughterl. Think of a man sur
rounded by beautiful women, dimpled checks.
coral lips, pearly teeth, shining eyes think of
man throwing them all away for the embrace
OF the Democratic party. Laughter Such
man docs not know the value of time. Laugh
ter.
Samuel j. Tiden belongs to the Democratic
party of the city OF New York. That party
never had but two objects-grand and petit
larceny. Laughter They rarely elect
man to office except for a crime committed.
They don't elect on a crime credit it must be
crime accomplished. They have stolen every
thing they could lay their hands on, and, my
God, what hands When they had stolen ali
oho ptopIo coulu pay IHe interest on thew
clapped their enormous hands upon their spa
cious pockets and shouted for honesty and re-
form. Samuel j. Tilden has been a pupil in
that school. He has been teacher in that
school. He was reared in Tammany Hall
which bears the came relation to penitentiary
as the Sunday school to n church. Applause
More than this, when the rebellion began they
called meeting at Union Square, in the city of
New York. 1t was of great Importance how the
city of New York should CO. No man refused to
sign that petition in the city of New York but
one, and that man was Samuel J. Tilden. A man
that will not lend his name TO save his country
never should be the President of that country.
You offered to save your lives, and he would not
give his Infamous name.
Now, my friends, want you to vote the Re-
publican ticket. voice, - We will do it,"
want you to swear you will not vote for a man
who opposed putting down the rebellion.
want you to swear you will not vote for a man
opposed to the proclamation of emancipation
L want you to swear that you will not vote for
man opposed to the utter abolition of slavery
want you to swear that you will never vote for
man who called the soldiers in the field Lin
coin hirelngs. want you to swear that YOU
will not vote for man who denounced Lincoln
as tyrant. l want you to swear that you will
not vote for any enemy of human progress. Go
and talk to every Democrat that you can sec /:
get him by the coat-collar talk to him hold
him, like Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, with
your glittering eye; hold him tell him all the
mean things his party ever did tell him kindly;