Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-10-28

served ia the confederate army AID con-
federate Congress; that therY were
fifty or sixty of them. Yes, thas Is SO,
true. How could it be otherwise, un-
less YOU desired to destroy yout Union
of States? This government ista gov
ernment of States. Each State Is guar
anteed by the Constitution certatn rep
resentatsves, and the people 81 these
States are guaranteed the ri bht to
choose Ithose representatives. ] Now,
would you have them choose y llggers,
scallawags and carpet-bag robbers down
there, or would you have them choose
men of known and high character, even
though they have been in the cohfeder-
ate army?
But let us come little closet. Let
us see whether they have been h4rt any
by this Democratic Congress. ! come
to talk facts and figures to yous Six
teen years of Republican rule4 have
piled up step by step, your gove,h hment
expenses, until you have beet the
heaviest :burdened people for yotr civil
service l,eneath the sun. On ttr ad-
journment of this Congress few days
ago, solemn fact went into history. It
went into history that the first reduction
in the appropriation of the phople's
money that has been made for sixteen
years was made by this much-a fused,
traduced maligned Democratic House
of Representatives. ConSresss ad-
journed after relieving you ami the
other taxpayers of the United States of
thirty millions of taxes, as compared
with last;year. Go home and tel2 that
to our Eeighbors. Walk erect,i look
them in the face and tell them whit the
Democratic party has done to W 10 the
public confidence. It has done what
The Republican party has never done.
It has reduced the burdens of thd peo-
pie in the support of their government
in one session thirty million ddlars.
Thirty million dollars, my Republican
friends. Show me where you haze re-
duced it cne dollar. If it had notibeen
for Republican Senate and Rebubli-
can President the reduction WOULD have
been sixty. millions instead of thirty mil
lions. And there is not a single branch
of the government that is going to suf-
fer. All will go on as we'll Or letter
than before. Some useless Office s,old-
ers will be- put out and lose their phces.
Some forkign Ministers and CoEsuls
will have 20 come home and ear4 an
honest living instead of loating about
foreign capitals, where they hav3 no
more to do than I would have ,bout
your farm if / didn't know how to Flow
THIRTY MILLION REASONS. /
I don't come here and ask yo3 to
trust the Democratic party, my Repub-
licans and Independent friends, wit bout
giving you good reasons for it. There
are thirty millions of reasons in the
measure I have spoken of to you'd l-all
solid reasons, every one of them fol
lar in the market. daughter and ap-
plause.) Nobody will dispute that, Ibut
when you stick that fact at speaker of
the Morton stripe, he will tell yor that
there has been nigger killed d. own
South, sor something of the kind. Are
newed laughter) can tell you If a
good many white men killed in Ihdi-
ana, but white man living here inf the
interior of the State don't amount to
It takes black man Acre
on the other side Of the river to raj ke O
frst-class muss when he gets into
trouble. It does seem to me that co
pie had better look at home and ref brm
in quarters where they can save mon ley,
so that, instead of giving your wifd IS
to go shopping, you will have $40 Iext
time,
1t is something remarkable that lhis
party, talking loud and
long about its patriotism, only sue
ceeded in making the appropriations
every year little higher until this
old Democratic party Eot
there with it's representatives, and bot
very we'll organized, either. We ian
do great deal better next time. They
have just been learned how this Iast
season. Give the Democratic partf a
full chance;;' give it a President, as We'll
as House of Representatives, and, laf-
ter while, Senate, and you will Zee
old-fashioned times, fashioned econ
omy. And remember the power is in
your hands. IF the Democratic patty
should betray you and become faith
less and corrupt as the Republican
party is, you can just give it whipping
and turn it out, too. But this year is
a good year to give this Radical urchin
a good licking and turn him out and
pull some one else in.
"But," says some one, "we have
head that Mr.. Tilden has no right to
the title of q Reformer" Since Mr..
Tilden's nomination I have carefully
examined his record. Governor Nor
ton and General Harrison say that he
was secessionist during the war. Ny
only answer to tLati two things: First,
that such a charge was never made till
he became candidate for the Presi-
dency: and SECOND, that two years ago
he was elected Governor of the great
and patriotic Of New York against Gen.
John a. Dix, an officer of war of 1872,
and distinguished officer of the late
war, by more than 5O,000 majority.
Queer people i'll New York! They
don't know that he was Secessionist
down there. He has lived there sixty
three years-that is his age. He was
there all during the, war, and made
speeches during the War, but they
don't know that he is secessionist
there or else he vi s|ould not have beaten
Gen. John A.. Dix for Governor Of
New York, would he? Is New York
-" secesh" by Sc 900 majority? Morton
ought to have. gone there two years
ago and told tl:cm not to elect this Sc
cessionist over Gen. John A. Dix. i
they had only found it out then they
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