Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20
tHendricks) referred to the emanci.

{ Hendricks) referred to the emanci.
patton proclamation as the browning |
act of injustice, and was voted against |
by every democrat in congress, and |
also by three republicans. II would
set the names Of these three men in
gold He would then resume specie
payments for the purpose of making
these three men illustrious.
Speaking of the emancipation proc
he said ~ don't know
whether it is going to be taken back
or not. will vote to have it taken
back the first chance 1 GET New
York has said by her Legislature,
"Take it back New Jersey has said,
"Take it back" Pennsylvania has
said, "Take it back" and he saws it
was wicked thing to do it. Oh,
think of the terrible man talking y
think of the man talking that way of
Abraham Lincoln, and he says to you
men in the work shops, 81 am going
to put you into dungeons if you don't
be still when ] shake my head" That
man Thomas A. Hendricks is not fit
to have his name spoken in the same
day with the martyred Abraham Lin
coin. He is not such reformer as
you and / can vote for. This man
Hendricks, candidate for vice presi-
dent, what will he reform
has he ever reformed himself?
When did he change? Tell me when
he uttered different sentiments than
these. l ask in vain and the whole
world is silent for reply. Now are
these the men you want for Presi-
dents? Now they say that every
thing that we advocated was right
and everything they advocated was
wrong. Now you that were right
get out and let me that is wrong get
in and keep it right, that il their ar
gnment. Now they are like the man
with the hard cider eff there is any
man that likes hard cider better than
l do and has less of it, 1 would like to
see him." if there are any fellows that
like reform better than Tilden and
Hendricks and have less of it l would
like to see them. applause.
Now my friends talking about ar
guments, want to see the fellows
that are going to support these
men. Down in Mississippi where
they burn school-houses, mob
school teachers where they chase
out ministers of the gospel if they
don't preach reform gospel and burn
up churches, every person engaged
in prosecuting and prosecuting of a
man on account Of his political opin-
ions, every man of them will vote
for Tilden and Hendricks as sure as
| there is a God in Heaven; there is no
doubt about it.
Now don't say all the people who
vote the Democratic ticket are bad.
Right here l think the Democratic
party did worthy thing in nominal
ing worth man for Congress in your
District. A man whom understand
is an cstimable man of an unimpeach-
able character; who adorned the
bench and was an ornament to the
law profession SO long as he has been
in the profession. / am glad to know
they did that. don't want you to
think that mean every Democrat
is bad man, but l do say
to go to community where morals
are at low ebb, that there you will
naturally expect large democratic
majority. Somehow or other go to
the lowest wards in the city where
decency is unknown, where vice and
crime prevail, where all the com.
mandments are daily violated, and
somehow or other they always ex.
pect, and that isn't the worst of it, ]
am blamed if they don't always gel
a democratic majority. They will al.
J ways get them just as sure as the
world. Go to Tennessee where l. G
Harris democratic Governor in 1861
was asked to furnish men and assist
the general government and he re.
} fused and said he would not furnish
man. /. G. Harris votes the
: democratic ticket to-day and has beer
nominated by that party for presi.
dental elector in that State.
They are all going the same way
Governor Ellis, of North Carolina
made the same reply when
called on for troops, and to-day he il
the democratic candidate for con,
gress in one of the districts in thai
state, and they will all go democratic
unless there is enough blacks to vote
against them, though they may force
enough democratic principle into the
negro at the point Of the bayonet: il
they do, they will 60 democratic too
They have a way Of forcing them te
vote for reform there is nothing like
it. There was no principle in the
constitution to allow the government,
to suppress the rebellion, but they
don't have any difficulty in forcing
reform principles into these colored
fellows there, at the point of the bay
onet, and make them vote the reform
ticket whenever they feel like it. In
i New York, at the time the draft
commissioners were there. the boxes
were burned and the officers were
thrown out of the window, and the
whole thing burned up by mob, and
during that seyenty-two hours of riot
every man who was engaged in il
and the very men who stamped the
| gallant O'Brien into a shapeless mass
will vote the Democratic ticket. In
Wisconsin during the same time they
had another row. They threw the
men out Of the windows, burnt up the
draft-boxes and buildings in Wash.
ington county above Milwaukee. and
they vote four to one Democratic and
it never fails. You never saw the
like. You never heard the like. You
can rely upon them coming to the
help of the devil against good works
every time. You can't find single
man who engaged in these things that
will not vote the Democratic ticket. Dc
you believe their administration
| xvOllid hn haftar fhou o,,rc
Down there in Hamburg, the negroes
were arrested, and they told them to
leave and get out at night, and as
they went one by one they were shot
until they had shot six; they came
over from Georgia and arrested them
and shot six Of them, and every man
engaged in that shooting votes the
reform ticket.
If these men had lived in those days
when martyrs and saints were burnt
and when torches were applied to
those at the stakes, if they had been
present when the flames spread
around the tortured victim in the
most circulating agony, would these
men have assisted in putting out the
fire? Not bit. They would have
buC utlulcS IOllcu
up to the heavens and turned their
backs to the place and deliberately
parted their coat tails and warmed
themselves by the fire Of the burning
martyrs. Every man of them votes the
democratic ticket to-day. (Applause)
Tell me such men represent reform
principles will you? tell you they
were born three or four centuries too
late. (The speaker then referred to
the platform.)
They say "we reaffirm our faith"
Think of it! Beauregard and sixty
one members of the confederate con-
gress, reaffirming their faith in the
permanance of the federal union. In
1861 according to these men they had
no such faith. Tilden said SO then, he
said 1.-THE federal tie could be SNAPPED
as nation snaps its treaty." To re-
affirm what never existed is putting
it rather strong. They propose now
to cram some of their faith down us.
! for one don'tpropose they shall do
it. I am Glad thew have soma prn