The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-09-15
rmEIR RECORD
AreIIIng speech.

brilliant speech, which was puD-
lished in the Tribune and from
which we CLEAN the following:
Mr.. Tilden is in favor of reform.
Mr.. Tilden-bless me-is in favor
of undivided nationality. The
Democratic party is in favor of pu-
rifying the civil service of the Gov
eminent. How do they propose to
do it5 Have they told you? They
are in favor of an honest currency.
What currency do they propose to
give you? Have they told YOU?
They say they are in favor of the
resumption of specie payments.
How are they to resume? Have
they told you?
Their platform is full of denun-
Citations from the beginning to the
end, and a curious feature of the
platform of 1876 is that 1t denoun-
ces every Democratic measure since
1860. Applause. They insist up
on it that the Republican party
which they arraign has impeded
that desired result. What financial
since 1860? None whatever, except
in 1868 they did invent a platform
and put forth principle insisting
upon it that the national debt
should BE- paid in greenbacks, a
policy that would result IN the re-
pudiation of the national debt and
the destruction and swapping of
every national interest.
They insist, as 1 have said, that
the Civil Service shall be purified.
How? BY putting them in Office
1 ask you to run back through the
history of that period, not while
they have been in power-but yet
their leading men have been in
office-and give me the name of a
single leader belonging to the Dem
ocratic party anywhere who at any
time has proposed any measure for
the reform of the Civil Service ?
When? Where2 You cannot guess
these connundrums. No single liv-
ing Democrat occupying prominent
political position since 1860. has
proposed a scheme for the reform
of the Civil Service. They have
had the power this winter in one
branch of the National Govern
ment.
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vice No measure has been intro
duced for that purpose. They have
had control over the appointments,
and such raft of Confederates, be-
lieving that the Lost Cause was
finally won, was never before seen
as gathered in that city of Wash
ington to catch the crumbs that
might fall from the Speakers table.
Tray, Blanche and Sweetheart, suit
lers, commissaries, prjVates, and
officers in the Confederate service
from the beginning to the end,
knowing that their victory had
finally been achieved, rushed to
Washington by countless hundreds
and made night hideous by their
bowls for places, demanding their
reward for services. They got it.
Fitzhugh was appointed Doorkeep-
er. He is ga bigger man than old
Grant" Laughter. Bounced be-
cause his shameless incspacity be-
came so conspicuous that no one
could overlook it. What became
of his subordinate who knocked
down his grocer because he present
ed chiValric Confederate of the
South little bill of which he had
so long neglected payment? Take
the entire machinery of this Con-
federate House of Representatives
and see how they have reformed
it; and to-day, as l am assured, the
nation is filed with tramps, Con
federate applicants for Off ce, hoof.
ing it home after they had been
disappointed.
II Now, then, gentlemen, suppose
that instead of this accession &c
power being confined to one branch
it had taken root in all. Do you be.
lieve for one moment that the per.
sonnet of our civil service would
have been improved? 1 am tolG
that Tilden has reformed the civil
!, service, or proposes to. When
! Where? Where, during the mos
, trying period through which thil
nation or any other nation ever
passed, was the great reformer o.
1876 Piled up in safe, secure be-
hind barricades of laW-books and
railroad bonds. He peeped ou
from the corners of his safe and re
: turned, signing that the result O.
the war was failure, and humbly
beseeching a treaty of peace.
: The Democratic party says to us
Let the dead bury the dead. They
: have an extreme reluctance aboHi
their record. If we had a record
like theirs, great God, would we
not be ashamed of it as they are
Laughter and cheers IF they had
q record like ours, written with al
I S9S oIO Hu tho fsnnor nf thu I
: mighty God in letters of fire against
the sky, that all the world might
: read it, would not they combine
= together and rejoice, and be JUST.
fed in doing SO? [Cheers.l Take
the glorious old parry of the nation
the old party Of freedom which
when it first came into existence
crystalized about itself the hopes
+ and Hottest aspirations of the coun.
e try. See how it made with its frs
r success, Republic unparalleled
in historyl See how it sent con
o quering legions, thousands anC
hundreds of thousands and MILL
ons, into the field See how it say
ed its great nationality, the sacred
I custodian and the priceless treasur,
!. of free government for all thu
e world [Cheers.] See how it lifted
t 100000, of human beings from
n the night of barbarism and slavery
+ into the pure atmosphere of Amer.
lean freedom. Loud cheers.] Ani
see how, having made them FREE
men, it made them citizens anC
8 boldly took and clothed them
D thank God, in all the rights ant
D privileges of citizenship. The OLE
: party four years ago stood q perfec
e storm of SANDER and calumny sucl
: as no party ever before encounter
q ed. That is the record of the par
ty. 1t found q currency almos
worthless steadily, gradually, an,
{ surely all the while it has been ap
e preciating its value. 1t has mad
P here nationality greater and NOR
: powerful than the world ever saw
e before. Yet we are told--told b
o Senator Doolittle last night, and
q speak of him in terms of the high
= est respect-thAt the party has bee
ruined because it passed q legal ten
: der act and pledged the faith of tn
v nation that the 5 90 bonds shout