The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-07-12
NOMINATION OF GOV. TILDEN.
SPEECH OF SENATOR HERMAN BEFORE
THE CONVENTION.

CONVENTION, l uaNN sc NOuot 70 III
troduce to you Senator Herman, Of
New York. Long continued ap-
pIause.1 Senator Herman spoke as
follows:
Dir. President and Delegates Of the
Democracy of the United States: |
desire to say to you that ] rejoice
and feel a pleasure in every word
which has been said in commentator
of the distinguished men who have
been presented to you for your suf-
frages in this nominating convention.
Applause. They are my country
men; they belong to the glorious par
ty with which | act, and no man
would repel with more Indignation
any word or insinuation to their de-
triment, and no man feels more pride
in all their glorious fame than I do.
I Applause. But while, fellow-Dem-
ocrats, Iappear before you to address
my words, feeble though they may be
to yourjudgment, swayed by nothing
but your love of country, the election
which we are to have this fall rises
far above the ordinary elections
which we have. It is one in my
Judgment that touches the welfare
and the prosperity Of our people
throughout the entire Union; it is
not mere question of whether hon,
orable, honest and upright men shall
be elevated, but whether we shall Sc.
ect those men who are more sure tC
carry the election, that we may have
reforms and changes which are es
sential to our prosperity and our hap
piness. Applause. Don't we need
change and reforms, you warm heart
ed men from the South who have
been trampled down under this Con
stitntion, applause cad who have
been wronged as no people ever have:
Don't we need restoration of proper
administration, by which you men il
those States shall be allowed to man
age your own affairs, and shall bt
freed from plundering adventures
who are eating up the substance o
your people and taking from You al
real republican government? APP
plause. Don't we need change anC
REFORM lyon men throughout this fer
tile and glorious West? Your indus
try does not get its just reward
Your labor goes without that which
labor should always win. Your in
lustry is paralyzed and your capita
even is too timid to aid enterprises
F., Don t we need it in nay own section
Of the Union, where our closed fac
tories, where our dispirited laborer
sanl; in vain for that which shal
riva broad to their wives and chill
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d 1868 or 1879 in lanouace which v
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