The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-09-28
LONG JOHNS VIEWS.

Hon. John Wentworth is one of the
most remarkable men in this country.
| He is over six feet and six inches tall.
and his head performs the difficult feat
of maintaining its proportion to his body.
The date of his birth is lost amid the
fogs of tradition. He was member Of
Congress thirty years ago. He was sew
eral times chosen mayor of Chicago, and
in that position he WIS terror to all the
gamblers and thieves. An old Demo-
crat, and for years the editor of Dem
ocratic paper In Chicago, he left that
party about 1856 and became Repub-
lean. In 1872, if we are not mistaken,
he was a Liberal.
The circumstances attending his re-
cent speech in Chicago were peculiarly
characteristic. It was given out last
week that he would address meeting
at McCormick's Hall on Friday evening,
but there was no intimation as to what
party he would speak for. He hired the
hall, engaged hand of music, and de-
frayed all the expenses himself. It was
his own meeting, and he had right to
say anything that he wanted to say
About s O'Clock he stepped out Of an
ante-room on to the stage. Seeing the
hall crowded, he said that all those who
didn't have seats might consider them
selves e-presidents and come on the
platform. Then he began to speak
He said that it was the nature of our
elections that they could never decide
more than one issue at a time. He had
hoped that the issues of the war were
settled, because a return of prosperity
could not be enjoyed until they We're
finally disposed OF. This result, he ar
gued, might have been realized if the
Democrats had nominated a man who
sympathized with the war and the pro-
oiamation OF emancipation. It was not
enough that Gov. Iilden was a North
ern man; Northern men, in alliance
with the united South, had inflicted
upon this country all the evils that over
whelm it, had drafted the fugitive slave
law and repealed the Missouri comprom-
Use. Replying to the remark OF ex-Sen-
ator Trumbull that the South was pow
erless, having but one fifteenth of the
population Of the country, he said that
! each Of the Southern States, neverthe-
less, had two members of the Senate,
and quoted the pregnant remark of
President Polk, "Ihe South is with me
on principle, and the Nerth will be with
me on patronage"
some length the question Of rebel claims,
and showed how easy it would be for a
Democratic President and Democratic
Congress to pay them by a law creating
board of commissioners, and declaring
what should be sufficient evidence. He
recalled the fact that when Texas was
admitted, it had large debt. Objec-
ton was made that in the event of her
admission, the United States would have
to pay this debt. This was strenuously
| denied by the Democrats. Neverthe-
less, it wasn't many years before these
bonds were bought up by q ring in Wall
! street, and a bill was put through Con
gress which made the United States pay
! the whole of them. There is certainly
valuable hint conveyed by that little
fragment OF history.
The speaker proceeded to reclte Gov.
| Tilden's connection with the cOnsohda-
ton of the Chicago 6 Galena Union
Railroad. He could give these facts on
his personal knowledge, as he was hol-
der and officer of the corporation. He
| said that all the papers were drawn up
by Iilden himself, and that his profits
from that colossal swindle were not less
than 81, 10000 Speaking of the over
throw of Tweed, he said that Tilden was
entitled to just as much credit as the
whisky squealers of Chicago. OF course
he fought the canal ring /; but he never
fought a railroad ring, and never found
one that he didn't get into if he could
In conclusion, Mr.. Wentworth recap
itulated the points that he had made,
closing as follows
That it is the duty Of every loyal man
and every ODDOn emit of mOnODOiy TO SIM
statesman, and an anti-monopolist, and
the outspoken opponent to COMPRESSION
al rings"
The speech, which we have very mad
equately outlined, was one Of great pow
er, and we question whether Republi-
cans can find anything more effective to
circulate among the people of the West.