The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-19
General E,yinG's Speech of Acceptance.

| ScncFal Ewing, Ill iCccl)lHiS lhc uoillLu-
! ton for Congress rendered him by the De-
mocrats OF the Twelfth Ohio district, said:
thank the delegates for the extreme cor
diality OF the nomination have received to-
| day. 1t was with great reluctance that j,
late n the campaign, announced my name
| as 4 candidate. SO wrote letter that has
been read in your hearing to-day. l sent a
copy to Mr.. Walling, and told him l did not
intend it as pledge. Afterwards, in July,
wrote Mr.. Walling that | had yielded to
the solicitations of many friends, and was q
candidate.
| Now. why am a candidate: Not because
! | am conspicuouSly the candidate to repre-
! sent the district. or that Mr.. Walling is un'
| fit to represent the district, but because the
| people Of this country are stirred to their
depths by issues with which my name hap
pens to be associated. [Cheers. | shall
represent this district, il elected, not as Il
soft-money man OF an infationist, but as a
national Democrat. [Cheers.l The ques-
| ton is not in the Democratic party between
| Soft-moncy men and hard-money men.
Paper money we must have, and the issue
is whether we shall have paper money or
money that costs them five per cent.
| ICheers.l We might use silver money in
large quantities, but the Republicans have
taken away the quality Of silver money.
They did it because it had deprecated twen-
ty per cent, and they only gave it legal
tender quality in small sums, with which
the poor laboring man is paid.
Nor am an inflationist. l stand on that
question on the letter of acceptance OF that
great statesman, Samuel j. Tilden, who
SAYS sit is the duty OF fhe Government
to furnish such amount Of currency as the
wants Of business require" That is ma
tional Democratic doctrine, snd that is the
| Ohio Democratic doctrine.
First, the restoration Of the silver dollar,
then the repeal of the Republican resump-
ton law, then the payment OF the debt by
economy without additional taxation, that
is the Democratic plan.
What is the Republican plan ? You have
had sad experience of it the last year in the
throwing out Of employment Of one or two
millions OF people and paralysis of business,
the result OF the resumption law, and the
contraction of the currency of fifty millions
already taken place in that act, and the fur
thcr contraction TO take place under it.
Read Mr.. Tilden's letter, and see the ire
siStible argument by which hc' shows the
folly, the misery, OF that policy OF resump-
ton which contracts the currency. l want
no better issue before the people, and no
better platform than Mr.. Tilden's letter oil
acceptance.
only feel my inability to depict the
hcartless effects OF the Republican mode OF
resumption, such as none but theorists or
knaves would propose, and no people but
fools or slaves would submit to.
We enter the canvass with everything to
encourage us Owing to misunderstanding
ines which resulted from misunderstand-
inSs, and to Misrepresentation Oh the one
part and the other, there was want OF
harmony ia the party; but Mr.. Tilden's
letter OF acceptance has put an end to all
that.
The Republican policy on finance has
been one of secrecy, while they kept the
peoples attention engaged with war affairs
and the South. So they passed the act of
1869, and the silver repeal bill OF 1873, and
solutely in secret, and with the firm belief
! that the people weremad enough to endorse
| their action. But the people are thinking.
In Columbus, last Saturday, where there
had not heretofore been more than thirty
votes for the Democratic ticket, from tsSe
to three hundred colored voters came to the
polls and swore in their tickets as Demo
Gratis. That illustrates how the people are
thinking. Let us unite this fall, and in Oc-
tober roll up a Democratic majority. [Crles
Gwen do it'll
We will do it. Last year, in spite OF the
misapprehension OF our position ana conse-
uuent opposition of political friends OF the
East, and in spite of the religious fanaticism
excited against us, we came WITHIN nVe
thousand votes Of eleeting our ticket on the
highest poll ever made in the State. There
are many counties in which know we shall
gain this year.
General Ewing concluded by some words
Of cancellation TO those Democrats who had
opposed his nomination, and the ConYen-
tion adjourned Cincinnati Commercial.