The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-10-31
INGERSOLL-
The Largest Gathering
ever seen In Chicago.
Monster Meeting at the Expo
sltion to Welcome the.
Great Orator.
POUHs HOT SHOT INTO TINE
DEmOCRATIC CAMP.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
We publish the following portions
Of Hon. Rob't Ingersoll's speech at
Chicago, Saturday evening. Oct. 81.
That paper speaking Of the meeting
says:
"The Republican mass-meeting
which Colonel Bob Ingersoll addressed
Saturday evening was the grandest
outpouring Of the people this country
has ever seen. IL was immense. An
hour before the doors were opened
hundreds eni thous Inds of men and
women, all eager 10 hear the great Illi-
nois orator expourd Republican truths,
crowded the sidewalks and street in
front OF the Exposition Building, and
half an hour later the throng had in.
creased ten or twentyfold.
Mr.. ISGERsoLL's 8 SPEECH.
Ladies and gentlemen, DemocrsIs
aud Republicans have a common inter.
est in the United States. Applause.
We have q common country. And
appeal TO all, Democrats and Repubh-
cans, to endeayor TO make a conscien.
tious choice to endeavor TO select as
President and Vice President of the
United States man and party, so to
speak, which in your Judgment will
preserve all Aat is dear TO us, either as
Republicans or Democrats. The Dem.
ocratic party comes before you and
asks that you will give this govern
ment into its hands, and you have the
right to investigate as TO the reputation
aud character OF the Democratic organ
ization. The Democratic party say,
Let by-gones be by-gones. never
knew man who did decent action
that wanted it forgotten. Applause.
l never knew a man who did some
great, shining act Of self-sacri6ce and
heroic devotion that didn't wish TO
have that act remembered. Not only
so, but he expected his loving children
wonld chisel the remembrance of il up
on the marble that marked his last
resting place. But whenever a man
commits some crime, whenever a man
does what mantles the checks of his
children with shame, he is the man
that says "Let by-gones be by-gones."
The Democratic party admits that il
has q record, and it says that any man
that will look into it and tell il, is not
a gentleman. i don't know whether,
according 10 the Democratic Standard,
am gentleman or not; but do say
that in a certain sense am one of the
historians of the Democratic party.
IApplause. don't know that il is
true that man cannst give you his
record and be gentleman, but admit
that q gentleman hates TO read this
record. A gentleman hates to give
this record TO the world, but / do it,
not because like 10 do il. but because
/ believe the best interests of this coun-
try demand that these shall be histo-
~ gwen Uf si4O UcIsoSsatfc party.
the first place, / claim that the Demo
cratic party embraces within its filthy
arms
THE WORST ELEMRSr IN AMERICAN so
cIETY.
fChaers.l I claim that every enemy
that this government has had for TWEEN
ty years has been and is a Democrat
[Cheers. Every man in the Dominion
OF Canada that hates the great Repub-
lie would like to see Tilden and Hen
dricks successful. Every titled thief
in Great Britain would like to see Til
den and Hendricks the next President
aud Vice President OF the United
States. / say more: Every State that
seeded from this Union MS Demo
cratic State; every diu that drew an
ordinance Of secessib, ~, a Democrat;
every man that tried 10 tear the flag
out Of heaven was Democrat; every
man that tore that old banner of glory,
that shot a shell, was Democrat;
every man that shot o Union soldier
was a Democrat. The man that fired
on Sumter was Democrat. Every
Uaion soldier that has n scar upon his
body to-day carries with him a souvenir
OF the Democratic party. Cheers.
Every man that denied to Union pris-
onsrs even the worm-eaten crust OF
famine was Democnt. And when
some fnmisbed Union soldier, crszed
by agony, by pain, and by want, saw
in his dream the face of his mother,
and she seemed to beckon him, and he
insanely followed her beckoning, and
in 30 following got his foot an inch be-
yond the deRd-line, the rebel wretch
that put his bullet through his head
was and Is Democrat. Applause.
I ho men that burned orphan Rsylums
in the city of New York were Demo-
Gratis. Every one that hred that city,
knowing that il IL bnrncd the serpent
flames would leap over buildings and
clutch children from their mother's
arms-eyery wretch that did it was aud
is Democrat. Applause. The man
that shot Abraham Lincoln was Dem
ocrat. Every man that was glad Of twas
a Democrat. Cheers. Every man that
was sorry to see the institution Of slav-
cry abolished, every man that shed
tear over the corpse OF human slavery,
was and is a Democrat.
1 do not say that they are all that
way, bat nearly all who are that way
are Democrnts. The Democratic party
to-day is q political tramp, Llaugbterl,
crawling up TO the back door Of the
White House. begging for official food.
| The Democratic party has not had
/ bite to eat for sixteen long and weary
years. Laughter. The Democratic
party is all teeth and empty stomach.
/ ICheers. In other words, the Demo
/ cratic party is a political tramp. with a
yellow passport. This political tramp
begs food, and he carries in his pocket
old, dirty scraps Of paper as kind OF
Gel tificatc OF character. On one OF
these papers be will show you the ordi-
nance Of 1889. On another one Of
those papers lac will have part Of the
fugitive slave law; on another one
some Of the black laws that used 10
disgrace Illinois; on another Governor
rilden's letter TO Kent; on another GER
tificate signed by Lyman Trumbull
that the Republican party is not fit 10
associate with. Laughter. That
certificate will be Endorsed by Governor
John NJ. Palmer and my friend Judge
Doolittle. He will also have in hi.
pocket su old wood-cut, somevh hat torn
representing Abraham Lincoln falling
upon the neck Of S. Corning Judd, anc
thanking bim for saving the Union a.
Commandcr-in.c of the Sons o
Liberty. Laughter and applause.
This political tramp will also have
letter, dated Boston, Mass, say ing: %.
hereby certify that for fifty years 4 re
garded the bearer as a thief and robbie
but ! now
LOOK UPos HIM As REFoRMER
Signed Charles Francis Adams. laugh
ter.
Following this tramp will be a blood
hound, and when he asks for foo,
the bloodhound will crouch for om
, ployment upon his launches; aud IN
drcol Of anticipation will run from bi
/. loose and hanging lips. Study the e,
preston OF that dog. Translate IL int