Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-06-30
A Speech from TiIden-COngra rat uia.
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A speech from TiIden-COng ra1uis.
lions and Rejoicings Hendricks
Undecided Yet.
Gov. Tilden was serenaded in Albany last
night by the Jacksonians. Five thousand
citizens assembled at the executive mansion.
Many private dwellings and the Argus
building were Illuminated and decorated
with flags and Chinese lanterns.
TILDEN'S SPEECH.
Gov. Tilden stepped out on the porch and
addressed the concourse as follows
Gentlemen of the Jackson Corps: cordial
ly thank you for this manifestation OF your
Kindness. do not forget that last year you
enrolled me among you as an honorary
member. / regard with satisfaction and
pride your excellent discipline and training
as military body. recognize in you many
representatives OF the workingmen OF Al.
bany, and when / say workingmen do not
forget that in our country the number who
live upon the income OF what they have
accumulated or inherited is extremely small,
and that nearly every citizen OF our vast
republic lives on the produce OF his daily
toll. In America we are nearly all working
men. Therefore the interest and prosperity
OF that class may almost be said TO be the
iI terest and prosperity of all. APPLAUSE
No country which the sun ever shone upon
has had so many blessings as our own.
Stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
and from the great lakes Of the North to the
Gulf of Mexico, with genial climate, with
fertile soil, with every natural and artificial
facility for travel and transportation, with
all the arts and industries of old civiliza-
ton planted and fiourishiug amid the bound
less natural wealth OF a virgin continent, we
ought TO be to day the most prosperous, tue
most happy and cOntented people in the
world. BIT what Is our actual condition?
All business depressed, every industry Ian
guished, labor without employment, and the
wolf al the door OF nearly every home In the
land, gannt and hungry. IApplause
What is the matter? We know that for
the last eleven years since the peace the
earnings OF labor and income OF capital have
been consumed or wasted in governmental
expenditure The taxes drawn from the PEG
MI of hQ rod ava hoo lQ
than the entire net savings OF the whole
Si4 ,0O0, 600. These taxes have increased
within short period four fold, and its in
fiuence is felt upon every business and every
industry and in every home throughout our
broad land. At last we are reaching the
worst condition OF the countries OF the old
world. The government no longer exists for
the people. The people exist only for the
government Our centennial product is evils
license and wrongs, TO escape which our an
cestoTs abandoned their homes in the old
world and planted themselves in a wilder
ness. Now ! ask what is the remedy for
these public evils, for this private distress,
for this disorder In business. which carries
stuff ring In every household? "a voice in
the crowd, "tbe election OF TIlden.'') Jap
plause II Is comprised 10 one word, RE
torm," reform OF public administration
[Chesrs
What pext do we find in the public admin
istrstioL? Everywhere abuses, peculatiens,
frauds and corruption, until we are almost
be coming ashamed OF the Institutions OF our
country and instead of holding them as ex-
ampi6S Tor the imitation OF the oppressed
people of other countries, we are confessing
them as a scandal In the eyes OF mankind.
What else do we ind? We find the Office.
holding class have become SO numerous,
powerful and INSCRIPTIONS that they as,
sumo To control elections. and If the people
are Indifferent, or at all equally divided,
| sufficient to perpetuate their own power.
Upon this subject there is q differ ence OF
opinion. One class say, elect the nominees
of the party under which these evils have
IN m
class, which is interested In perpetuating
these abuses and wrongs; adopt negations
agree without danger of harm to any or to
the system by which they fatten on the suf-
| feripgs of the people That is one opinion.
demands change Of men for the sake of re-
form in the administration. Fellow-ci ti-
zens. don't intend to argue the question. 1
Judgment and to the judgment Of the people
I am heartily with you in sympathy and
action. am happy to meet You to night. 1
You hereafter. IA VOICE. "Neat NoVem ssesns
Cheers Again thanking you for your kind
attention, bid you good evening.
Jacksonians, after fling past the Governor
and shaking hands With him, left the
grounds; but the crowd remained nearly an
hour after, and q constant stream OF citizens
to him.
HENDRICKS HKs1TATEs.
Gov. Hendricks having positively declined
TO be candidate for Vice President In re-
peated kilograms TO his friends on Thursday
night, Will not consider the bject OF the ac-
ceptance OF the nomination until the return
OF the Indiana delegation from the conven-
ton.
CONGRATULATIONS.
Governor Tilden has received a number OF
dispatches from various points congra:ulat-
ing him, among them one from "Nichoas
The Greeley household and nv friends ara an
for you;" one from Joel Parker, saying
'sThe democrats of New Jersey will support
Roee 81 hs 1hs
win, saying: "The man is the platform, and
the ring breaker Of New York wiz prove the
desire honest money. diminished taxes, pure
administration, unfettered trade, and the
restoration Of q true national feeling In the
10 his support" one from Gov. Hendricks,
saying "I congratulate yen and earnestly
desire your election" one from Mayor Kem-
Be- 81 m vs ssSins virginia is good for
Dispatches from New York, Philadelphia,
sna osSsT pSo%nsDa cisss snd
towns state that the Tflden ticket II well re-
ceived, and in many places sslutes Of one
hundred guns Were nred: 1ilden and Hend-
Ga, Montgomery, Ala, and other places I'm
the south last night Clubs for the Campaign
are forming everywhere. At New Orleans
and Shreveport, La, great enthusiasm pre-
walls.
MISS BENNETT RErIREs TO A CoNvENr.
The society In which Mr.. James Gordon
Bennett moves II much exercised over the
retirement OF bis sister, Miss Bennett, TO
ut Mauhettanville, where she expects to de-
vote her life to Self-sacrince. II successful
In her poetulate, her reception, some months
Services Of the kind ever held. Misa 6ennetf