The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-09-28
INGERSOLL'S SPEECH

COHteHueu from f2TSL rage.
Democratic party is made up of the worst
elements of society. The worst wards in
New York are the ones that will give the
largest Democratic majority. There is
not penitentiary in the United States
that Tilden and Hendricks cannot carry
five to one. In the Democratic party can
be found the vicious and foul. The man
who wishes to answer an argument with
blows, he is in the Democratic party. All
men who sympathized with the South in
its efforts to destroy the Government are
now in the Democratic party; all the men
who shot our soldiers at the dead mark are
now for honesty and reform, and if Til
den should be elected President of the
United States all these men would be
found shouting for Tilden and Hendricks,
Now, my friends, keep out of the Demo
caatic party; do not vote that ticket;
any young man who is going to deposit his
first vote-do not place your future in
the hands of that party The Republi-
can party, on the other hand, is the party
of reason, of progression, and education.
The Republican party is the one that be-
lieves in the equality of human lives.
believe it. / believe it. | am willing to
give to every human being every right that
claim for myself Every man who won't
do that is rascal My friends, | believe
the world is going to get better. | do. |
believe we are getting better all the time
Samuel j. Tilden says we are nation of
thieves and robbers. | don't believe it, if
we were he ought to be President. ZAP
plause. / believe we are getting better
and every day the Republican party is
in power VIC will be getting better. And
how? By free labor and free thought
Free labor will give us wealth. Free
thought will give us truth. Free labor
has done everything there has been done
in the United States, because the problem
Of free labor is to do the most work in the
least time, and slave labor is to do the least
work in the most time. T voice: "How
about free schools?" want free schools,
and want them divorced from sectarian
influence Tremendous applause and
cheers. | want every schoolhouse to be a
true temple of science, in which the chill
dren shall be taught the laws of nature,
in which the children shall be taught ac-
tual facts, and / don't want that school
house touched or that institution of sci
ence touched by any superstition what
ever. Applause. Leave religion with the
Church, with the family, and, more than
all, leave religion with each individual
heart and man. Let every man be his own
Bishop, let every man be his own Pope,
let every man do his own thinking, let ev-
cry man have brain of his own, let ev-
cry man have heart and conscience of
his own. TApplause.] Weare growing bet
ter, and truer, and grander. And let me
say, Mr.. Democrat, we are keeping the
country for your children We are keep
ing education for your children. We are
keeping the old flag floating for your
children; and let me say, as prediction,
that there is only air enough on this CONT.
nent to float that one flag. Cheers.
Well, you have heard from me, and you
will hear from Ohio and Indiana, and
those silver bugle sounds, Hayes and
Wheeler, and the nation hearing these
next November will say that the men who
saved our country shall rule; will say that
the men who saved the ship of State shall
sail it. And now, ladies and gentlemen,
| thank you again and again. Loud and
long applause