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The. RaIlying Cry of Honest
3g3nf9D ,,fi 1E Voters. ~. " .*i
Extracts from two Eloquent Speeches
~ Gen. Franz sigel and Hon,
George w. Julian, ..eE4a3
Both of them Heretofore Leading Re-
ri publicans. ~ g.
GEN. SigeI's Speech.

reception which met the gallant soldier ant
patriot orator, General Franz Sigel, a
Findlay Street Market last night. Tn eigh
thousand attentive listeners to his politicf
teachings, the one thousand three hundre
voters who, with torches, conducted him I
the speakers stand, and the thousands
people who packed the streets along t
course of march, testified fully that t.
Spirit of Reform is abroad. And whenO
tober consolidation County will help foi
tell the downfall of Republican misrule a
ruin. 1t was a meeting more spontaneo
than are most generally gotten up. 1t "
simply a pouring out Of Cincinnati's &c
man element to hear one of their able coul
trymen discuss the political condition :
things past, present and prospective.
torchlight procession OF magnitude preluC
cd the speaking, and made the finest az
pearance Of the kind seen in this city TO
years.
Genera Sigel commenced his address
speaking in German-by a few remarks Elk.
planatory of his position in this campaign.
and then went into a general review Of the
policy Of the Republican party. After trac-
ing its origin to the anti-slavery movement,
and characterizing the composition of the
party before and during the war, he said
that during the last ten years it had not sue
ceeded in restoring peace and harmony in
the country, and relieving the people, by a
wise and liberal policy, from the terrible eff
fects Of that great struggle. Its tendency
was to remain in power under all circum-
stances, and to attain this end they made
the legislative, and judicial
branches Of the Government subservient to
its policy and purposes; entered into a con-
dition with one part of the South against
the other-through the instrumentality OF
the carpet-bag and military rule-and artiti.
cially created that uncailed for division be.
tween 'Eblack-liners' and 'white-linerS, =
which would not exist in the same degree
uif ont Sy1nh ara no and nrnNFnnntinvo
This unnatural coalition could never be bro
ken without a change of our present Admin
istration, and by the substitution OF a more
patriotic and really American Government
and policy for a. anti-American and Sec
tional rule.
REFORM OF II CIVIL SERVICE.
The General then spoke of civil service
reform, and said the present manipula-
tons of the Republican party, and the use
of eighty thousand Otfice-hOlderS, their in
fiuence and their money, in favor Of Gov
ernor Hayes was a practical negatiOn and
humiliation of the principles which Gov
ernor Hayes had announced in his letter Of
acceptance, and which he promised to adopt
and observe il elected. He silently and
passively submits to the strange spectacle
Of seeing even the President of the United
States stoop down TO the level Of a mere
partisan to pay his money into the campaign
fund, and throw his sword into the scale of
Ine hepuDIiCan party White u CdDlneL MINI
lister is intrusted with the direction and
conduct OF the campaign in favor of that
party. "~UncOnditiOnal surrender'-this
is the answer of the Republican managers to
the letter, the professions and promises of
Rutherford b. Hayes, and he has in fact
surrendered. There is essentially no differ
ence between the manipulationS Of Louis
Napoleon in 1851 for the purpose Of being
elected Emperor, and the ~manipulations of
the Republican party for the purpose of
eIecting Rutherford b. Hayes President Of
the United States. If he had begun his
promised reform by an open and frank dec
laration that he would not allow United
States officers to be used as political agents
and runners-th&t he did not want them to
pay a regular and forced tribute in his
favor. as this being against the recent law
of Congress, as well as against his own opin-
ion-that he did not like to see the veterans
of the Union army transformed into an ar
my OF political pretOrians; that he under no
condition would like to be elected By using
the whole machinery of the Administration
as a balance of power in his fayOr-he would
have made the first step towards civil SER
vice reform and gained the confidence of
the American people. But to promise and
then surrender absolutely, and buy, as it
were, his election through the money and
Influence of the same ~office-holders, whom,
in case OF election, he intends to continue in
office. and whom he intends to Hreform,'
is the most glaring example of human weak
ness and absurdity. 'tIask you,' General
Slgel continued, "if these same means
which the Republican party employed to-
day for the election Of Rutherford b. Hayes
are correct and just and allowable, why
should they not be so tomorrow? Is this
American coup d. etdt not amost dangerous
proceeding for all time to come? Is il not
the most absolute denial of all the promises
of the Redubiican candidate as far as : civil
service reform is concerned! In the name
of the American people, in the name Of
common sense, in the name Of the future
of the American Republic, | pro-
test and you must protest against this
shameful abuse of power, against this usur-
patton in favor Of a Presidential candidate,
and in defense of a monopoly of offices
which the Republican party held for six
teen years.
REFORM OF THE TARIFF SYSTEM.
The present tariff, General Sigel said. was
the product of corrupt influences, and there
lore needed a radical revision, an eQualiza-
ton and reduction of the enormou number
OF articles liable to duty. In its present
form and character it was unjust, paying
SOU, 600 600 annually as a tribute to certain
classes ofthe people, and laying this burden
on the consumer; 1T was a source of corrup-
tioA and defraudation, and by its compli-
Gated form, q preteXt for the appointment
of O large number of officers, who are the
very nucleus of the Republican army Of Of
hce-seekers. Simplify the tariff ard you
abolish one-half of the present number of
officers. This seems to me one of the. most
necessary steps for civil service reform and
to a reform of POLITICAL party life.t IEeon-s
nection with this point, the speaker referred
to the city of New York, and said that for
years there has existed in that city no Re-
publican party, but q 'tCustom-house par
ty,' and ''Tammany party and that
the terrible outrages Of the robber Tweed
and his worthy compaions were only possi-
bic to that extent on account OF the weak
ness and corruption existing in the Republic
can ranks and the dissatisfaction of a large
number Of Republicans with the manage
ment of the Republican leaders. Ii the hon.
est Democratic masses of the people had not
risen against the ring, it would never have
Deen broken, at least net by the EGustom-;
house parry, which in itself represents moth
ing but a ring.
REFORM THE REVENUE TAX SYSTEM. .
As to our Internal Revenue tax, General
Sigel said that the system was unjust, even
infamous, in conception and ineffective. in
He rafarrod RI Tho fant tbof