The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-08-23
sPEECH OBJ JUDGE WEST,
Delivered at BeuofontAins, Thursday Evening,
August 10.

Republican oOmPaign meeting. IL was q mag
niheent Grafton, and one Of the finest audiences
that ever greeted any speaker IN this city
filled the large Courtroom TIL scores
had TO bring seats from outside
and a large number had to stand through
out the entire speech. Attention was close ana
earnest throughout. and the audience fingered IN
their seats as If 10th 10 depart after the Judge mao
concluded his remarks. Prominent citizens were
here not only from all parts Of our own county.
but from oil neighboring counties, and Piqua,
Sidney, Urbana and Marysville were all repre-
sented.
Judge Lawrence was chosen Chairman Of the
meeting. and introduced Judge West with a few
timely words.
Colonel Henry Wilson. Of sldney, Hon. Griffith
Ellis, of Urbana, and Hon. william Garyey, OF
PiQua. were Vice Presidents.
The Lappe Band of Sidney, aud the colored band
OF Urbana, came with the citizens OF those towns,
and With tho ellefontaine band fur
nished excellent music to entertain
the throng OF citizens in the public square before
the meeting and in tho Courtroom before the ap.
pearance Of Judge West.
The appearance OF MI. West upon the platform
was the occasion Of a beatty demonstration OF APP
plause, which was frequently repeated during his
speech. The portions OF the speech relating TO
the labor question and TO the Presidents Southern
policy were listened 10 with the closest interest,"
and were most heartily applauded. Tho meeting
was certainly suspicious of a successful campaign,
and Judge Vests friends natter themselves that
his speech will be received with most hearty ap-
probation and commentator throughout the
State. Logan has given her chief q hearty greet
ing, and sends him forth 10 the State for an
earnest welcome and a rousing victory.
Judge Vests Speech.
MY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORs-I have been as
signed TO make the opening speech OF the cam
paign at home. THIS is fitting and appropriate.
Just twenty-seven years ago to-day l came among
you fortuneless and a stranger. You upheld my
hands. stimulated my hopes, encouraged
my aspirations. Many times have yOu
testified your confidence by adTanciug me
from honor TO honor; many times have
you testified your willingness 10 advance me
further. Now, when this last highest tribute ID
rendered, it is meet thai /, who nm so deeply in
debied TO you for what ! am and what I have
been, should make this acknowledgment Of my
gratitude by addressing you first in opening the
campaign. I do it the more cheerfully because In
YOU will be found q sympathetic response to the
oplnlOns / shall utter. HOWeve they may differ
from the views of others, you know they are con-
ytctons Of sincerity, deducted from reason and
reelection. and honestly believed TO be prOmOtFe
OF the common welfare.
And, first of all, lei me assure Won, my friends,
and through yOu, the good people OF our noble
Commonwealth, that II the nominations at Cleve-
land shall be ratified in October, 1t shall be my
pride and my endeavOr TO execute the high office
In the interests Of all and for all; not harshly, but
IN kindness. tempering justice with cleueDey,
and throwing about every night OF person and
nroperiv inc equal and absolute protection OF la W.
The Cleveland Convention reatfrmed as an en-
tirety the national platform of 1876. On II last year
we fought and won. The principles II enunciates
and their discussion are fresh IN the recollection
Of all.
were added at Cleveland; one IaVOrlnR inc ramon
etizaitst9Ip n fiNNHSfiopal Bureau of InGnsiTv' The
deep interest awakened by the labor agitation
ranks the latter first In Importance, and it Will be
Recent and existing Industrial disturbance have
developed an alarming phase in our American civ.
i~lizatlon and social condition. The unhappy
contest between opposing sections of the
country was fraught with scarcely greater
peril. That was a struggle for divided
dominion and separate ascendency this Is
the bursting of tho volcano beneath our feet, up.
heaving the foundations OF social order and
Threatening with humiliation the fabric OF indus
trial and commercial freedom. Thoughtful men
look on wltn apprehension, and ask, Is the his
tory OF the Ola World civilization TO repeat itself
herea Is there an irrepressible conflict between
labor and capital. inseparable from augmented
population and diminished employment, whose
anarChial tendencies can be aveTtcd only at the
expense OF military sub1ugutl0n3 Tbs is the
grave problem presented for sOiution-the over.
shadowlnE issue or tho hour, which courage must
encounter and prudence decide. 1t can not be IL.
pored if we would; II should not II we could.
Thrice has the Oh World remedy OF military
Intervention been applied In as many years with.
out eXtinguishinC the cause that invoked II. 1t
was applied by Governor Allen IN the Hooking
Valley; the enelHe was Btilled, and the public
mind settled back into its accustomed repose. II
broke out afresh 10 the valley OF the Tuscarawas;
. again IL was %repressed by military power ana the
public alarm was succeeded by the feeling that
all was well, Now it bursts forth in consuming
fires OF National proportion. The vicious seize
upon the cOmmOtiO II has caused as the occasion
for exercising their criminal passions for
s sPaGSins OF f innoc i@G0P bioaiy. US fSTSh these FOR reas s6s
and clemency expend themselves in vain. 1t Is,
however, gratifying TO know that so few, II any,
with hearts willing aud hands ready for honest
toil, joined them in their carnival Of destruction.
That destruction has been stayed, the uprising
from which 1t sprung suppressed by the National
arms, and quiet reigns.
Snail the public again fold its arms in fatal
security without investigating its cause or seeking
to discover and supply some peaceful remedy more
sRsil We anu rather securing foml Inan 'FG Ourselves 9s
he MANAGEMENT of our social affairs and
Oonflde our Institutions, our interests and our des,
tiny 10 the exclusive guardlansn ship of military pro.
%tectionf Shalt we, without an effort to reach some
peaceful solution OF our social antaRontsms, rather
suffer their violence to become the pretext for
strengthening our military establishment, and
through 1t effect the overthrow OF popular govern
ment and public llberty9 No, no. We must meet
the danger at the threshold, while disorder must
be repressed, rights maintained, and property
protected by the strong hand when the
H nSiS y Fn nt cnIsUr "" csn mSsS 20 of a, nonco tng
remedies TO impel US TO that state whore we shall
be forced to choose between military despotism
~ b1N NtiNh . NV An A1AAaA w Nhb "a
haustiOD OF all peaceful appliances, If these shall
fail to protect the rights and maintain the rela-
tons OF labor and capital, then, and then only,
must the Old World history be suffered to repeat
itself on American soil.
That there should be an irreeOncilable antagO-
nism necessarily tending to collision between
labor and capital Is most unnatural; their
rights are distinct, equally sacred. equally
entitled to invoke and have the protection
of law; they are mutually dependents; each
Is Indispensable to the other. Labor is the
source of oil productions; capital with Its increase
Is the exclusive product of It's hands, without the
remuneration which comes from the product OF
labor alone, capital must perish from exhaustion;
without the means and opportunity Of employ
ment which capital alone can furnish, labor must
perish from inaction and want. Whatever is de-.
structivo TO either, Is fatal to the other; without
the cooperation Of each, both must languish and
die. Since, then, the interest and prosperity OF
each are inseparAble from those Of the other, lie II
not the part VI wisdom TO devise aud apply
some method Of iniermanagement which, with
our t|renohlng upon the separate rights Of either,
shall secure the harmonious cooperation or both;
which, without disturbing their existing relations,
shnll repreBs antagonisms and secure the common
efforts OF each IN the common protection and ad-
vanOement of ALI To this suggestion there can
be but one rational answer-YeB.
Is such method OF intermanagement practicable
or possihlel Much reflection and the experience
Of others tell me n rs. The whole embarrassment
arises ont of tho question OF compensation. CAPT.
tl presoribes u fixed rate, changing II at pleasure;
labor feels that it Is ipsutficient; n sense
OF injury ana injustice IL %begotten; whether
81 be real or imag nary, the result Is the same. Dis