The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-08-13

money in the interest OF the laborer, th
mechanic, aud the legitimate bushes
! OF the country; or shall we on the othe
hand, have a deprecated and fluctuai
ing paper, in the interest Of the gam
bier and the speculator?" Wheneye
that qustion is presented to the Amer
can people, then we need have no ap
prehensions about the result. Tn
sound aud caudid judgment of th
American peo pie will render a verdic
that shall sustain aud endorse the plat
form Of the Republican party upol
this question. Applause.
What is il, gentlemen. that thes,
men ask of us? Why, when we hav'
finally reached the solid ground. thes,
men ask us to go back upon our recor,
and plunge more into
THAT ABYSS or SPECULATION AND GAM
BLING,
and irredeemable paper, from which
we have just emerged. When these
facts are clearly presented to the Amer
lean people. realizing as they do theil
momentous interest i'm this matter, th,
majorities they will give us next fall
will be an indication Of their approval
and endorsement of the Republican
party. SO much for this first element
Of success and for the platform upon
which we stand in this campaign.
The next element Of success is
WORTHY AND GOOD CANDIDATES;
and for that we depend upon the good
sense and Judgment of our nominating
conventions. Part of this duty to-day
is delegated TO us; but so far as our
task is concerned, il is not attended
with the least embarrassment, or the
slightest difficulty. The Republicans
of this Congressional district have al
ready named their candidate. They
have already unmistakably indicated
who the man is TO be: and our work to-
day is the merest formality. The Re-
/ publicans of this district are disposed
to stand by the man who has been, for
! the last twelve months, in their ser
vice. They know his record. They
know that he has stood in their behalf,
between a horde of disloyal claimants
and the national treasury. Aud. there
fore, our nomination OF him to-day. Is,
on our part, mere formality. It is
merely the endorsement of what the
men who have sent us here have al
ready indicated.
Well, now l come to
THE LAST ELEMENT OF SUCCESS,
and that is work, that is organization.
II makes no difference how sound your
platform may be, it makes no diff
ference how worthy and upright your
candidates may be, no cause, however
good. ever triumphed without work.
And from this day forward, the Repub-
lican cause is entitled to earnest and
untiring and unselish effort, from the
men who endorse it's doctrines and be-
lieve in its creed. Give us that and
there is no doubt with reference TO the
result next November. So long as we
have a political organization in this
land preaching financial heresies,
which, il they could be put into prac-
tice, would make q perfect wreck of all
the productive industries Of the
country; so long as we have horde OF
disloyal claimants attempting 10 make
raid on the public treasury. j1st so
long as these things exist, the time has
not arrived when we can afford 30
transfer the control Of this government
from the hands Of the Republican par
ty into the hands of any other party
under heaven. Great applause.
MR.. WILLIS SPEECH.
Mr.. president AND GENTLEMEN or
THE CoNvRNrIoN:-I thank you most
heartily for this renewal Of confidence
by you, as the representatives of the
Republican party for the Second Dis
trict ~ tho Dtsto Ul nncnlgan. IL -
no small honor TO represent $50, 900
people in the councils OF this great ma
ton. Two years ago l could simply
pledge to YOU that | would try to do
nv duty, honestly and faithfully. To-
lay | will simply, most emphatically,
renew the same pledge. Two years
ago you took me entirely on trust
To-day ! have somewhat Of a record
behind me; record that / cannot con-
coal il / would, and that | would not
il / could. Applause Whatever
that record may be, good or bad good
aud bad-cannot now he expunged.
however YOU or / might desire it. /
have always acted in the best light that
had at the time | acted; aud / tender
90 Won the assurance that though often
in doubt as 20 what was the best thing
10 do. / have always followed my con-
victions OF right. have always acted
in the line of what considered was to-
ward economy, and for the best inter
ests Of the people.
Mr.. President, / come before you to-
day with some added experience; with
a more just sense of what is required
Of Representative in Congress, and i
4 II. a..
meet those requirements. The session
Of Congress Just closed has been one
Of no ordinary interest. The nation at
large has been agitated and
TROUBLED WITH FINANCIAL QUESTIONS;
and, Of course, every hamlet between
the two oceans has been filed with
/ financial quacks, whose nostrums have
retarded rather than aided the conva-
lescence OF the body polite. Honest
men have differed; demagogues have
/ fiourished; aud for week at a time
the air has been perfectly lurid with
denunciations OF men whose characters
we're above reproach; men whose mem
ories and whose regulations are en-
! balmed In the hearts Of the American
people. This onslaught upon men and
measures has been instigated and spur
eel on by power that we had fondly
hoped had been relegated for all future
time 10 a subordinate position, aud
that was fast going TO the forgotten
things beyond; but to-day have more
Of an appreciation of what
"a SOLID SOUTH"
can do than / had two years ago. II
has, in effect, controlled all matters oI
important legislation during the ses
sion Just closed. Our army, which bu'
few short years ago IL was bound tc
respect, has been decimated, shorn oI
its powers, its officers have been de
graded aud its soldiers left without
pay. Our revenues, made necessary
by their attack upon the existence o.
our nation, have been crippled and di
minished. And, Mr.. President, th'
currency which was the outgrowth o
the civil war, necessitated by u, at on
time reduced 10 35 cents on the dollar
but which now is nearly "a sound a
any currency in the world, II this "Sol
ia South" may have its way. will be II
q short time sent on the dark aud de
vious track its own Confederate scril
!, took not more than n decade ago. AD'
on all these questions the south Ia
been a unit. / will notice but one II
, lustration. In the House. on the fina
vote for the repeal OF the third sectioI
of the Resumption act, the total vot
Of the south was SS. OF these,