The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-09-21

speech at chicago. on the evening of the
18th. TO AT least , 900 people. The Chica-
go Times, commenting on 1t. calls Mr..
Trumbull the Charles Francis Adams oil
the West, and says it was "a speech oi
Great dircctncss, tremendous force, ami
srlf-respecling CANTOR" In the CON-
mencement OF his speech he says:
IL in this assembly there are any who
take this rosy view of public affairs, anu
are satisfied with the present situation, 10
them | have nothing 10 say till the scales
tall from their eyes. and they sec the cor
rupiion which everywhere abounds IN
public lite. and their ears are opened TO
hear the cry OF distress coming up from
| n whole people whose liberties are endan-
! gered. whose peace is disturbed, and
whose industry is paralyzed by the usur-
pations. hate, and dishonesty oil those in
authority. | should have no hope OF
awake ling them to sense of their own
or.their conntry's condition.
| He said he would not detail the 'proili-
gacy. corruption and disregard OF the con-
stitution and laws which have pervaded
the public service in the last few years."
and spoke of the sickening spec tacle Of
members OF Congress prostituting their
positions to adyance Credit Mobilier and
| railroad schemes in which they had Il
personal interest.
In reference to reform. he said the Re-
publicans admitted the necessity oi'it in
their platform, and In Hayes letter of ac-
ceptance.
We extract the following:
1t has appointed and retained in civil
| positions military officers in direct vio.a-
| ton of law. Cuder the pretensc OF en-
| forcing the fifteenth amendment. which
simply prohibits discrimination in the
| right 10 vote between citizens on account
of race. color, or previous condition OF
| seryitulc, ii has passed enforcement acts
for supervising and controlling elections.
| The fifteenth amendment does not con-
fer or pretend to confer the rights OF
| suffrage in any one. 1t simply prevents
| discrimination on the right to vote. on
account of previous condition OF servl-
tudc. This is the extent or the power OF
the national government over elections.
| Ii has no right to interfere with the cleo
| tons of the people for any other purpose.
| The features of the enforcement acts
which undertake To regulate elections,
| except 50 far as to prevent discrlinlila-
ton. have been held invalid by the SUI
preme court of the United states.
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY AND NOT GRANT
| ALONE RESPONSIBLE.
Who is responsible for this corruption,
these usurpations. and the present de-
| pressed condition of the country but the
Republican party: some say Gen.
Grant, and tliatthe evils complained OF
are all chargable to Grantism, and VIII
be remedied by the election of an honest
man-Gov. Hayes-to the presidency.
Not so. 1t matters little who is presi-
| dent SO long as he is the mere instru-
ment of the party which elects him.
Grantism and Republicanism to-day are
one and the same thing. The Republic
can platform indorses Grant. and its cam
didatc, Gov. Hayes indorses the plat
form. Grant, unless backed by the Re-
publican organization, would amount to
nothing.
| THE CONTROL OF THIS ORGANIZATION
has fallen into the hands of corrupt. bad
men, who use it for their own selfish
purposes and 10 perpetuatc themselves
| in power. All the corruption and steal
ing OF the last four years has been carried
on by Republicans, who have generally
been sustained by the corrupt cOmbina-
ton wh,h has governed the country.
Prior 10 the election of the present oppo-
siton house of representatives, when
| eyer committees of investigation were
called for, they We're invariably packed by
the friends of the parties to be investi-
! gated, and the result was that iniquity
| was covered up, and rascality went on.
Witness the Investigations set on foot
four years ago. In every instance the
corrupt leaders of the organization call
ing itself the Republican party came to
the rescue, and withdrawing reports
were made justitying palpable violations
OF law and covering up the grosscst ini-
guilty.
| REPUBLICANS WHO SEEK TO REFORM
ABUSES DENOUNCED BY THE PARTY.
Not only so, but the persons who set
on foot the Investigations were denounc-
ed as enemies OF the country who sought
to bring disrepute on the Republican
party. Its trusted leaders in its days of
purity, they who organized the party
and carried forward the measures which
gave il its renown, were denounced as
recreant TO the party, simply becau Sc
they sought to preserve it from dishon-
esty and corruption. Where are the
great men who surrounded Lincoln in
the days of trial and danger to the re-
public? Seward and Chase, the greatest
of them all went down to their graves
under the disiavor of the party they had
done more than any other two men to
build up and sustain. Three members of
Mr.. Lincoln's first cabinet still survive
and where are they to be found. Two
Ct them, Montgomery Blair and G.. We'll
les, both thoroughly honest and upright
men, about whose garments there is no
smell OF corruption, are in the Opposi-
ton, Who is the third one, and where is
he: His name is Simon Cameron. whom
President Lincoln dismissed from his
cabinet In the early stages OF the war and
banished to Russia. He is now to be
found, as might be expected, among the
leaders in the Republican camp, while his
son Don ILLS the war department,
from which his father was elected.
REPUBLICAN CLAIMS UNTRUE.
The leaders of the present Republican
organization lay claim to all the great
| deeds of the government during the last
II years, and particularly do they claim
| that it was tho Republican party which
| carried the country through the late civil
| war, and suppressed the rebellion, and
they represent all who did not belong to
that party as in sympathy with the rebel
lion II not open rebels. Let US examine
this claim and
SEE HOW MUCH TRUTH THEIR Is IN IT.
At the presidential election in 1850
there were four Candidates-I.lpcoln.
Douglass, Breckenridge, and Bell. Lin.
coin received a little more than One-third
oil the popular vote and was elected. To
be exact, Mr. Lincoln received SGT, 352