The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-06-13
GRAND RECEPTION 70 EX-Gov.
HENDRICKS.
THOUSANDS oF PEOPLE PRES
ENT,--GREAT ENTHUSIASM.
Patriotic Speeches by Tilden and Hen
bricks, the Rightful President and
Vice President.

given to Ex-Governor Hendricks this even
ing by the Manhattan Club was the oc-
casion for large gathering OF the best
known Democrats of the city. The rooms
were brilliantly lighted up. a brass band
played outside and large crowd assembled
in Fifth avenue.
Shortly after o'clock ex-Goveruors
Tilden and Hendricks were announced
amid great cheering and clapping OF hands.
The Chairman, A. j. Vanderpool briefly
J introduced the distinguished guests.
!. New YORK, June l2.-Goy. Tilden 10
, his speech at the Manhattan Club recep-
ton, said; Everybody knows that after
the recent election the men who we're
elected by the people president and vice
president of the United States were count
J ed out and men who were not elected were
counted in and seated. | discaim any
thought of personal wrong involved iD this
transaction. Not by any act or word of
mine shall that be dwarfed or degraded
into personal grievance which is in truth
the greatest wrong which has stained our
national annals. To every man of the four
and quarter millions who were defrauded
of the fruits of their elective franchise it is
as great wrong as it is to me, and no less to
every man of the minority will the ultimate
consequences extend Evils In govern
! ment grow by success and By impunity
They do not arrest their own progress
They can never be limited except by ex-
! ;ternal forces. 1t men in possession of the
government can in one instance maintain
themselves in power against an adverse
decision at elections, such an example will
be initiated. The wrong will grow iuto
J practice if once condoned. ln the worlds
history the changes in the succession of
. governments have usually been the result
of fraud or force. 1t has been our faith
and our pride that>we had established a
mode of peaceful change to be worked out
by the agency OF the ballot box The
question is whether our elective system in
its substance as well as its form is to be
maintained. This is the question of ques-
e tions until it is finally settled. There can
t be no politics founded on inferior questions
j of administrative policy. 1t involves the
fundamental right Of the people. 1t in-
Q vayes the elective principles. 1t involves
the whole system of popular government.
The people must sgnally condemn the
great wrong hich has been d)ne to th, m
They must strip the example Of everything
+, that can attract imitators. They must re.
: fuse aprosperous immunity to crime. This
is not all The people will not be able &c
trust the authors or benefciaries OF the
wrong to devise remedies, but when
= those who condemn the wrong shall have
= power. they must devise u measure which
) shall render a repetition of the wrong
forever impossible If my voice coulC
!. reach throughout our country and be hearC
in its remotest hamlets | would say, "B'
of good cheer, the republic will live; thu
AZ institution of our fathers are not to expir,
: in shame; the sovereignty of the peoplt
% shall be rescued from this peril and be re
established. Successful wrong never ap
&C pears so trlun Dhant as on the very eve 0
ss its fall. Seven years ago a corrupt dynast,
10 eliminated in its power over million o
the people who live in the city of Ne'
York. 1t had conquered or bribed O
1attered and won almost everybody int
~ aequiescence. 1t appeared to be il
i vincible. A year or two later its mem
~ bers were in penitentiaries or in exile
~ History abounds in similar examples
~ We must believe in the right and in th
~ - future. A great and noble nation will nc
= sever its political from, its moral life.
q At the conclusion of the governors ad
dress, Gov. Hendricks, being loudly calIe
oe for, rose and said: | thank you for th
of honor you do me. l appreciate it Con N
70 part as an expression of personal respet
,;S and confidence, but more as a declaratio
"A and assurance or your support of tt
L" principles and politics of which, in honor
able association with your distingushe
X citizen, | was made the representative
the political contest of last year. | beg
t's assure that l appreciate the honor 20
of show me more highly because of yoJ
Ie. devotion to the political principles whic
experience has shown 20 be essential
the prosecution of good and pure gover
lat ment and the prosperity of the peopl
Very earnestly the Democrats of th
m- great city and state and of Indiana, as
,rd also other states, contended for and d
yh. manded the restoration of local self go
MS ernment in all states where it had be-
denied. They insisted upon a reducti
throughout the entire public service
the expenditures. not by hundreds nor J
by thousands but by many millio
ary annually. Therein was involved also
to great reduction of the vast army of ofht
re- holders and the substitution Of an hone
for dishonest administration. Conter
ing for results so notably right and hon,
arg able their cause was grand and their Y
tory glorious. | will not disturb t
1a- pleasure of this occasion by undertake
vas to recount the means whereby the will a
I'D, judgement Of the people were defeatt
The result as declared in Louisiana and
Florida and at Washington is not and C;
not be made satisfactory to the coun
tor the obvious reason that it was
re- true. A great and sincere peo
flty will rest their final judgem'
'en- only upon the truth q
De never upon fraud. Successful, thou
technically, even should the president q
cabinet adopt a part or the whole of
an policies and purposes for which the De
! ~ locFatic party has been contending for N;
tie years, and which became SO distinctly
,-no fiaed the last year, even that cannot
NV move or quiet the public discomfort
Democrats will make no factious opp
tho tlon nor will they seek to embarrass
co., defacto administration, but will sustain
zone in what is right because it is right and
tire. the welfare of the country, aud not at
aeh. because of any fealty to the party t
dis stands defeated and condemned by
oaS people. The people cannot allow the
ebIo lection of their chief magistrate to becC
.er;, thing Of chance or of sharp praet
,Ilad Fraud, first triumphant 10 American
tory, must be assigned to its proper p
among the crimes against popular gov,
man ment and made 50 odious that no p
seat will dare to attempt its repetition.
resi- who is elected president must be inas
f in rated. Until that is settled and d
Ben sure no Democrat can be seduced 1
bring his devotion and allegiance in any
} up Not by the alluTements of Office or
by the strong appeals in the abandonI
by the administration of the vicious
take dangerous policies and the adoptio