Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

| oic iVi Cic PeoPic 10 pay interest up
on, and then, clapping their
enormous. hands TO their burst
ing pockets, they began yell
ing for honesty and reform. Laugh
ter and applausc.l / understand
That Mr.. Tildcn was pupil in that
school, and that he is now teacher
in that school. l understand that
when the war commenced he said he
would never aid in the prosecution
Of that Outrage. i understand that
he said in 1860 and 1861 that the
Southern States could snap the tic Of
confederation rs q nation would
break treaty, and that they could re-
pei coercion rs nation would rcpcl
invasion. | understand that during
the entire war he was opposed to lis
prosecution, that he was opposed to
tho proclamation Of Characterization.
and demanded that the document be
taken back. | understand that he
regretted to see the chains fall from
the limbs of the colorcd men. I'M.
derstand that he regretted when the.
constitution of the United States was.
elevated and purified pure rs the.
driven snow. l understand that he,
regretted when the stain was wipetb
from our flag and we stood before,
tho world tho only pure Republic
that ever existed. It is enough for
me to say about him, and since TIE
news from Maine YOU need not
waste your time in talking Of him.
| On the other side there is another
man, Rutherford b. Hayes. want
TO tell you something about this man.
In the first place he is an honest man.
ne Is apatriotic man, and when this
war commenced Rutherford b. HAYES
said: Il would rather 90 into this
war and be killed in the cause of IL
than to live through it and take no
part in it." Compare, If Won
please, that with Mr.. Tildcn's
refusal to sign a call for a
/ Union meeting in this city Of New
York, headed by that honorcdl man
who was at that time staunch DEM
Ocrat, Gen. John A. Dix. Ruther.
ford 3. Hayes Is, as said, a patriot
lie man he went and dispersed rebel
meetings when Mr.. Tildcn refused to
dispense these meetings. He bears
now three wounds in his flesh re-
ceiyed while helping his country to
this, manner. lie is also a man of
Igood character, and, as said before,
good character cannot, be made in q
day sood character is made up of all
good things; all the enobling things
accomplished go into this grand thing
called character. and the character
of Rutherford d. Hayes rises before
the people to-day like dome of hon.
or. of patriotism and integrity. All
the Democratic snakes with their
tongues thrust out, cannot find a
crcvicc in the character of Mr.. Hayes
into which to hide their malignity.
Imagine man SO good that the DEM
ocratic party cannot lie about him.
would also say that William A.
Wheeler is also as staunch Repub-
lican as ever there was in tho party.
There is no one a greater advocate of
reform than he. '4s 51f"t
I have told little about the con-
dition Of tho country when the Re-
publican party was born, what 1t
achieved, and little about the Dem
4 ocratic party, and little about Mr.
Tildcn, and now am going to wind
this thing up. want you all TO re-
collect that the very men who fought
i for this Union, with very few exccp-
lions, were Republicans. There
were some Democrats but l cannot
tell you why they were there. With
these exceptions the Democratic par
ty 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 Pcnitcntiary in the Uuited
States that Tildcn and Hendricks
cannot carry five to one. In the
Democratic party can DO found the
vicious and the foul. The man who
wishes 70 answer an argument with
blows, he is in the Democratic party,
All men who sympathized with the
South in its efforts TO destroy this
Government are now i'm the Demo-
cratic party; all the men who shot
our soldiers at the dead-mark are
now for honesty and reform, and if
Tilden should be elected President of
the United States all these men would
be found shouting for Tilden and
Hendricks. Now, my friends keen
out of the Democratic party do not
vote that ticket, any young man who
Is going to cast his first yOte-do not
place your future ia the hands of that
party. The Republican party, on the
L oehCi btueS, 10 tIc party Vi rcuSOn. OIL
progression and education. The Re-
publican party is tho one that believes
in the equality of human rights.
believe 1t. l am willing to give to
every human being every right that
claim for myself. Every man who
won't do that is a rascal.
| My friends, believe the world is
going to get better. do. i believe
we are getting better all the time.
Samuel j. Tildcn says we are ma
ton of thieves and robbers. Idont
believe it. IL we were, hsA ought to
be President. believe we are get
ting better and every day the Repub-
lican party is in power we viii be
getting better. And how? by free
labor and free thought. Free labor
will give us wealth. Free tbNught
will give us truth. Free labor has
done everything that has been done
in the United States, because the
problem of free labor is to do the
most work in the least time. "a
voice; GLOW abont FREQ schools Pm
Iwant free schools, and l want them
divorced from scctarian influence,
Tremendous applause and chcers.l
! want every school house to be a
true temple of science, in which the
children shall be taught actual facts,
and l don't want that school house
touched, or that institution Of science
touched by any superstition what
ever. Leave religion with the church
4 with the fnmily and ,nnro tho,, al