The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-09-28
Political.
Speech of Hon. j. Il. Hu66eN.


IIubbell, present member of Congress
from the Ninth District, and the Re
publican nominee for reelection.
The room was well filed by an at
tcntivc audience. II. III. HOLSTER wa
chosen chairman, and introduced Mr.
Hubbell to the assemblagc.
The speaker opened his remarks b.,
a brief review of the growth Of on
country during the century just past
showing the vast increase in pOpula
ton, commerce, manufactures, &c.
He defined the present political cam
paign as between the Democratic ant
Republican parties. There was tho
grecnback party and the temperance
party; but neither could expect to carry
n single electoral district, or single
State. The grand argument of tho
Democratic party was that the times
are hard and we need u change. He
then proceeded to show the utter false.
ness and fallacy of the statement by
the Democrats. He firmly backed his
statements by figures, showing that
within the decade, from 1860 to 1870
under Republican rule, the number OF
manufactures in the country had near.
ly doubled, and the value of the pro-
ducts of those manufactures and the
value Ofagricultural products had doub-
led. This had been done in spite of the
Democratic party's false assertion that
the country was going to ruin finan-
cially and otherwise. He next showed
the great increase i'm miles of railways.
Could any candid man, looking ut these
figures, believe, for one moment, the
cry of the Democrats about "harl
times" corruption, &c., through the
Republican party? Does the showing
of the vast growth'in wealth and pros
pcrity of the country under Republican
rule, point to need of u change? Most
assuredly not.
Next, he spoke Of the pedigree" of
the Democratic party; going back to
Jackson's time; when, after Ills inaug-
uration, he declared that to the "vic-
tors belong the spoils;" went strictly
against civil service reform. Thcspcak-
or then showed up the corruptions of
Barry, Swartwout and Jesse HOyt.
The second named had stolen about
81, 800, 600; but when the investigating
committee came to examine into HOyt's
affairs, they found that in one instance
he had stolen $500, 900; but had covered
up his tracks so well that they could
not find out how much he really had
taken, in all. Another investigation of
the action of Democratic officials had
shown that out of sixty Receivers of
public lands, fifty had proved to be de-
faultcrs, and to have stolen the sum of
SS25,000. The plan carried out by the
Democratic party from 1920 down to
1850 was to allow thieves in their party
to go UNPUBLISHED. When the Rcpub-
lican party went for the corrupt men
and thieves within its confines, the
Democrats raise the cry-"Scc the dis
honesty among the Republicans"
He next related Il laughable incident,
where II Democrat made speech ut n
convention. After drinking and spcw-
ing until he had become pretty patri-
otic, he went to the convention, and
arose to make speech, and said that
"what you want is honesty, economy,
rctrcnchmcnt and reform, and we're
the boys to give it toyou. The Rcpub-
lean party have been in power for Is
years, and have become full of corrup-
ton. They have had their hands in
the public crib clear up to the elbows.
Now, stand back and give us Il chanccw
y thing which we could not forgive
the Democratic party was their treason
and Inauguration and encouragement
of the rebellion. lie spoke Oft Dem
ocratic party as II party, and not of
Democrats rs individuals. For, thank
God, there were many Democrats who
put aside partisan feeling and went
forward and fought nobly to save our
country. In the opening days of the
rebellion, they sent our war ships away
to foreign ports, sent our small army
away to the South, in fact, did all they
could to cripple the government. Yet,
in spite of all their trcachcry, the coun-
try was brought safely through the war,
by the Republican party.
The speaker next reviewed, briefly,
the grecnback question, and challenged
his hearers to show an instance where
the Democrats had voted for green
backs. The records of Congress showed
that they had always opposed our whole
financial system.
lie next spoke of the fiendish out
RACES in the South, where inoflcnsive
citizens were shot down, like so many
wild beasts, simply because they were
Il disturbing element in the political
arena of the South. The Democratic
party excused these crimes, and came
before the people claiming that they
were in favor of "honcsty, economy,
and REFORM"
He next spoke OfTildcn's dishonesty
i'm the income matter, and the Demo-
cratic party bringing him forward as n
"reform" candidate, saying That it re-
him of Il story, and when he
was reminded Of the story, he always
told it. There were two brothers, Tom
and Bob, who were pretty hard cases.
At last Tom gained u sober moment,
and made up his mind to "reform."
AS the thing worked upon him, he re-
solved to "rcform" Bob, too. He says
to him, "Bob, you're u terrible drunk
ard" "(Hic) I know it," says Bob.
"You're going to ruin as fast as you
can travel" again says Tom. Cant
(hic) help it," replies Bob. AT last, the
bright idea struck Tom, to 90 obout