The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-10-10
GREAT REFORM MEETINGS.
TIE STIRRING ADDRESS OF THE
HON. RICHARD O'GORMAN.
A Brilliant Arr.,snmept OF Grant. Corrupt

The Tllden and Hendricks Club of the
Thirteenth Assembly District met last evening,
John Graham Hyatt, ESQ, presiding. The Hon.
ThomasJ J. Creamer and several other gentle
men spoke, and then the Hon. Richard O'Gor.
man was introduced. Cheer after cheer, each
multiplying the sound OF Its predecessor
greeted Mr.. o'Gorman. He said;
81 thank you, fellow citizens, for the kind
and generous welcome you have
eiven me. have liycd In this
Sixteenth ward for nesrly twenty years.
am sure that do not feel other than kindly
feelings toward any one In It. 1t Is pleasant to
me 20 believe that you have no other feelings
toward me. lApplause.1 1t Is some time since
have addressed you on political subjects. My
way Of life has led me into discussions Of
another kind. But the period has arrived when
all citizens are called upon to consider by what
principles and plan Of government this repub-
| lie shall be governed for the next four
years. No citizen can fail to take one side or
the other without neglect Of duty. You have
Invited me TO address you. and, II my voice can,
even In email degree. help to convert evil and
aid in the restoration Of practices ana priucl-
| pies that are right and good l should not feel
| at liberty TO remain silent.
"FeIlow citizens the questions 10 be discussed
now are not tbeoretic questions OF government.
Thev are not mere party questions. They are
questions that appeal to every home II ! mayuse
the expression, they are the questions OF bread
and butter. u ore or less food. comfor and hap
| piness for all the people. You know that there
is In every country what is called a Govern
ment. more OF less good and useful. We have a
Government In the United States composed ola
| President, Ministers, Congress, and the Ju-
| ciciiry.
THE eloquent gentleman who preceded me
said that there was danger of monarchy. Not
| quite yet, think There is danger that the peo-
q m haN AIafN aNU arN fIAaA In
siituiions that we call our Government. Tue
Government is not the N asier Of the people. blt
people, invested with certain powers to be used
for toe pubic safety. prosperity. and hap
poets that the Govsfnmen, shall watch
over I. and eefend it, and protect It's
the people II Ill classes To the land pay the
| Government money In the shane Of taxes, whicn
are supposed 10 os applied wholly for the puolic
Now, how much DO you suppose thst the PEG:
| pie Of the United states paid into the hands Of
the las. ten years OF peacei Perhaps
your IMAGINATION can. scarcely realize the
Of dollars. Do you know that for the last ten
yesrs the ordinary expenses OF the Federal Gov
ernmeni have been more than the whole eI
pense OF the whole Federal Government for
texeuty-two years, from its creation down to
| winch. understand. Is so much taken from The
wages OF labor or the pronts Of ca9itsi, from the
uonl Have you got nsv, Only navy In
nsme.
| disastrous defeat from tue indians in the West,
| or be occupied IN controlling elections in the
soldiers TO for let me remind you thai these
soldiers are not the soldiers Of the Government,
found TO execute oEiy what 1, your ash5srsis ate
hut then there is another army TO which you,
money Is annually paid mean what may fair
" De called now the Grand Army o. the Repuo-
lie, one hundred ~nd ten thousand object holaers,
al
Is not protected abroad. trade lsnsuishes a,
that appals society ia the old world has M ace
its gri a anpe pesraDce-paupersn, starvation, con-
| fronts US Ia the great eliies.
But, / am told, these evils also Arict Europe.
!, may be so; spt u wa, wa, ] = escape sSeh .,il:
for ases sucn disaster would not reach toe Young
republic. What hAs brought 1t about novf lhe
fertility OF the land has not left. lne
as ever. The hsrvesis 6ave been eountltul el
As before; nay, We have in the United states
harvest of nearly ninety mill n q olars worth Of
precious metals, diRRed out of the mountains
poverty 10 Europe. VITA a wise government,
such misery should not assai US for centuries
TIE cause Is incompetence in our Govern
ment, tnai the parry IN power uses the
for tne PEOPLES good: but for tneir own.
change Is Necessary. Every one sees the neces-
shy. New NE, new yisor new brains; new sou!
change will answer: II must be complete 10 he
erectye. When Hercules set to work TO clean
out the Auseao stable, he succeeded, not by
half measures, but by turning into II a iu riyer,
In whose torrent the nuisance was swept away.
change must oe made, and one Of their orators
ssys, We will reform our own rascais In our
party, ILaushtsr.l The lsoor may % sreaser
need OF reform than there are reformers.
o. stAIsIe better next lime, our Re5uSican friends
say. Iney Aamit that tney have Done
ne flr n.
stance. Is he an apostle II reform Or schuy-
Ter ColiaI. Is ne an apostle " Iefotmf he
spostles Of reformf They mean TO h0ld their
och es. ana put their hands INTO your pockets
just as deep as you will let them. tApplAuse.l
II = constitutional cn4nce Is not made now, |
warn you tnat taI.tion viii increase unul this
country becomes ike one Of those doomed
iands 10 wuleh toe gentleman who spoke before
IL referred.
One OF the fairest Islands in the Mediterranean
y tne island OF s.cly, ano yet tnat Island has
been Tor centuries land Of rot ruin, and desc
imposed upon i. by tie Roman Empire two
thousand years ago. some people sly
tnAt our msfortunes come from over
production or msnuiaeture. Nonsenfe; We
have not been pro ucing half enough. There
are plenty Of people TO buy our productions, II
We could only eeI permission TO BUY and sell In
freedom. GIVE US free trade, ano We will lnd
buyers for ali tnat We can produce. tAppausel
oienIly discussed IN Congress. Ihe question Of
hn4nee has not been half enough discussed.
aas people are not resdy for ne
wiz take these questions up. not
party, but as national questions II The
peFB Of reform goes into power | supp. se. II
viii not be omnipotent. There viii be a strong
Repuolican opposition. 1he freedom VI every
STATE Ceprnds upon the existence Of two
p..flles as evenly balanced as possible. 1ne I'd
InnisiTstiOn pArty Sc ~ u thlnk that II tiey
aTe turned out Of once, the country will ne
ruined la England, when II seems that tue Hin-
Is Ey Goes hot retain the could deuce Of the psopie
Is rot able TO com msnd working majority. Il is
turned cut. and new ministry enters It's place
IL Is defect IN our constitution that this can
not he uone mere. You have, ind ed, the chance
10 cna ange your ministry every fouT years, gnj II
IL lime that you made IL now.
After ali that have said 10 you, fellow ctu-
zens, II Is scarcely necessary TO tell you that " Is
my Intention T. vote for the Pre-idsnt and Wee.
President nominated oy the Democratic party,
now the true parry Of reform. l"No! now
tneer'.l Let me advise you 10 do tie same n
lCheers.l