The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-11-01
their friends, and no, before. IA voice. That

are afraid That the negroes are going TO pass
them in the race of life. And, Mr.. Democrat, he
will do 1t unless you attend to your business.
The simple fact that you are white cannot save
you always. You have got to be industrious,
honest, and cultivate a sense Of justice. II you
don't, the colored race will pass you as sure as
you live. | am for giving every man q chance.
Anybody that can pass me is welcome la
voice, There can't many do It'll / believe,
my friends, that the intellectual domain of the
future, like the land used to be in the State OF
Illinois, isopen to presumption. The fellow that
gets a fact first, that is his that gets an idea
first, that is his. Every round in the ladder OF
fame, from the one that touches the ground to
the last one that leans against the shining sum-
NIT of human ambition belongs to the foot that
gets upon it first. Applause. Mr.. Democrat
Il point down because they are nearly allie the
first round of the LADDER, IL you can't climb,
stand on one side and let the deserving negro pass.
must tell you one thing. / have told it so
much, and You have all heard it, l have no
doubt, fifty times from others, but I am going
to tell 1t again because / like it
Suppose there a great horsc-race here to day,
free to every horse in the world, and to all the
mules, and all the scrubs, and all the donkeys.
At the tap Of the drum they come to the line,
and the judges say, Is il a goi" Let me ask
you, what does the blooded horse, rushing ahead,
with nostrils ~distended, drinking in the breath
OF his own swiftness, with his name fying like
~ 49, "AhA Ab1 f1ALC Ethh4AbL b6L
all over him rs If \ net of life had been cast
around him-with his thin neck, his high
withers, his tremulous fsnks-what does he
care how many mules and donkeys run on that
track. prolonged and deafening laughter.
But the Democratic scrub, with his chuckle-
head and Top ears. with his tail full of cookie
burs, jumping high and short, aud digging in
the ground when he feels the breath of the
coming mule on his cockle-bur tail, he is the
chap that jumps the track and says al am
down on mule equality" lRenewed and up
roarious laughter.
My friends, the Republican party Is the blooded
horse In the race. IA yoice-'Anything may
follow that wants o." Laughter. stood a
little while ago in the city of Paris where stood
the Bastile, where now stands the Column Of
July, s~urmounted by the figure of Liberty. In
its right hand is a broken chain, in its left hand
a banner; upon its forehead a glittering star
and as looked upon i; / said, such is the Re-
publican party of my country.
The other day going along the road I cam
10 the place where the road had been changed,
but the guide-board was as they had put it
twenty years before. II pointed diligently in
the direction of a desolate field. Now, that
guide-post has been there for twenty years.
Thousands of people passed but nobody
needed the hand on the guide-post, and il
stuck there through storm and shine, and 1t
pointed as hard as ever as if the road was
through the desolate field, aud l said to my
self, "Such is the Democratic party Of the
United States" Laughter and applause.
The other day | came TO 4 river where there
had been q mill ; a part of it was there yet.
An old sign said, "Cash for wheat" Laugh
ter. The old water-wheel was broken it had
been warped by the sun, cracked and split by
many winds and storms. There hadn't been a
grain of wheat ground there for twenty years.
There was nothing in good order but the dam I;
il was rs good a dam as / ever saw, and l said
to myself, Such is the Democratic party"
tRenewed laughter.1
was going along the road the other dag,
when | came to where there had once been a
hotel. But the hotel and barn had burned
down nothing remained there but the two
chimneys, monuments of the disaster. In the
road there was an old sign, upon which there
were these words Entertainment for man
and beast" The word imam" was nearly
burned out, There hadn't been a hotel there
for thirty years. That sign had swung and
crcaked in the wind the show had fallen
upon il in the winter, the birds had sung upon
1t in the summer. Nobody ever stopped at
that hotel but the sign stuck to It, and kept
swearing to il, Entertainment for man and
beast ;" and | said to myself, "Such is the
Democratic party of the United States"
Laughter. And I further said, " One chin
ney ought to he called Tilden and the other
Hendricks" Renewed and continued cheer
ing and laughter.
Now, my friends, both Of these partic. have
candidates. The Democratic party trots OCT
Samuel j. Tlden. Who is hei He is a man
that advertises his honesty and reform, the
same as people advertise quack medicines. In
every Democratic paper in the United States he
has advertisements Of his honesty and reform.
Samuel J.. Tilden is an attorney-alegal spider
that weaves webs of technicalities, and catches
in its meshes honest incorporated flies. He has
stood on the shores Of bankruptcy and clutched
the drowning by the throat. Samuel j. Tilden
is q demurrer that the Confederate Congress has
filed against the amendments TO the Constitu-
ton of the United States. Samuel j. Tlden is
an old bachelor. In a country depending upon
the increase of its population for its glory and
honor lcheerS and laughterI, to elect an old
bachelor is a suicidal policy. Renewed and
prolonged laughterl, Think of a man sur
rounded by beautiful women, dimpled cheeks.
coral lips, pearly teeth, shining eyes think of
a man throwing them all away for the embrace
Of the Democratic party. Laughter Such a
man docs no: know the value of time. Laugh
ter.
Samuel J. TiIden belongs to the Democratic
party of the city OF New York. That party
never had but two objects-grand and petit
larceny. Laughter. They rarely elect a
man to Office except for a crime committed.
They don't elect on a crime credit it must be
a crime accomplished. They have stolen every
thing they could Law their hands on, and, my
God, what hands When they had stolen all
the people could pay the interest on they
clapped their enormous hands upon their spa
cious pockets and shouted for honesty and re-
form. Samuel j. Tlden has been a pupil in
that school. He has been q teacher in that
school. He was reared in Tammany Hall
which bears the same relarion to q penitentiary
as the Sunday school to a church. tApplause.
More than this, when the rebellion began they
called a meeting at Union Square, in the city Of
New York. II was of great Importance how the
city of Nov York should go. No man refused to
sign that petition in the city Of New York but
one, and that man was Samuel Y. Tilden. Aman
that will not lend his name to save his country
never should be the President of that country.
You offered TO save your lives, andshe would not
give his infamous name.
Now, my friends, l want you to vote the Re-
publican ticket. IA voice, We will do It'll
/ want you to swear you will not vote for a man
who opposed putting down the rebellion. /
want you to swear you will not vote for a man
opposed to the proclamation of emancipation.
/ want YOU to swear that you will noe vote for
a man opposed to the utter abolition OF slavery.
/ want you TO swear that you will never vote for
u man VINO called the soldiers in the f ED Lin
coin hirelings. want you 10 swear hat you
will not vote for a man who denounced lincoln
as a tyrant. | want you TO swear that y gu will
NOT vote for pappy Of human urocrax : 10