Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1877-06-21
SPEECH OF MIR. HENDRICKS

Mr.. Hendricks having returned thanks for
the honor done him, alluded to the presden-
tial election and said the result as declared
In Louisiana and Florida and at Washington
Is not, and cannot be made satisfactory TO
the country for obvious reasons; that Ii was
not true; great and sincere people will rest
their final judgement only upon truth and
never upon fraud, successful through tech
nicality. Even should the President and his
cabinet adopt part or the whole of the pol
fcies and pun poses for which the Democratic
party has been c0ntending for many years
and which became SO distinctly defined last
year, even that cannot remove or quiet the
public discomfort. The Democrats Will make
no factious opposition nor will they seek TO
embarrass the de Jdct0 administration, but
will sustain it in what Is right because it is
right and for the welfare OF the country
and not az all because OF any fealty to par
ty that stands defeated and condemned by
the people.
TIE people cannot allow the selection of
their chief magistrate to become a thing of
chance or OF sharp practices The fraud
nrst triumphant In American history must
be assigned to its proper place among the
crimes against popular government and
made 0dious, that no party will dare attempt
ITS repet. tion- He who Is elected President
must be inauSurated. Until that is settled
and made sure no Democrat can he seduced
from his devotion aud allegiance in any way
mot by the allurements OF office, nor even
by the strong appeal in the aba ndonment BY
the administration OF vicious principles and
ter doctrines and just measures.
Democrats will not entrust their most
cherished principles TO the keeping OF power
which is attained by vicious and corrupt
means. They win rather continue their faith
In the right OF The majority TO rule in accOr-
dance with constitutional provisions. All
Democrats rejoice with unbOunded Joy that
free republican governments are once more
allowed to the States of South Carolina and
louisiana They rejoice in the good fruits
that must follow. They know that peace
and good order will prevail; that capital
viii be made secure and labor safe. content
ed and happy: that enterprise viii revive
and the cruel burdens CT the government
q nd public corruption will Increase and
lands advance in price. But they know in
the language of Governor Morton, il had be-
come inevitable. Good government IN the
States was not a free Offering upon the al
tars OF the country. For years the Demo
Gratis had contended I'm Congress and before
the people for free republican states through
out the south and finally became inevitable,
because tie right and truth were too strong
to be longer suppressed. In this Democrats
hnd reason to stand more firmly with their
party. Out OF power, with no patronage to
dispense and money to distribute, but ami
mated by spirit OF our Institutions and in
Spired by the sentiment OF the rights of local
Self-government as inherent in the pesple.
the Democratic party during the past ten
years has restored one State after another.
until now the tread of the soldier Is heard in
no legislative hall, but IN every State the
people are governed by laws of their own
choosing. Mr.. Hendricks concluded with
the declaration that this occasion had more
than personal significance. 1t proclaimed
that we had no sectional sentiment; no east
ern or western policies. The east and west
would alike promote the prosperity of each.