Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10


Who sits near the door-sill,
With tears. bitter tears in his eyes;
And he'll wait long ut home,
For the trade that won't come,
Because he will not advertise.
Tis sweet when the berries are ripe,
And the lily pads bend meath the snipe,
To sit ut your ease
With your fair Elose,
And give the musquitO wipe.
Ex-Secretary z. Chandler's Speech,
AT the meeting Of the Republican
convention of Michigan on the 18th
of June, at MISUNDERSTANDING Zach
ariah Chandler was, amid great en-
thusiasm, elected its permanent pres
ident, and opened the convention
with q characteristic address-earn-
est, able and effective. Mr.. Chandler
said:
A GREAT UPRISING.
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION
| thank you with all my heart for the
honor which you have conferred up
on me this afternoon in electing me
to preside over so large and so enthu-
siastic body of men as see before
me. Why, gentlemen. are there SO
many here to-day? Why has the
farmer left his plow and the mechan-
ic his tools? Why has the doctor left
his patients, the banker his bank, the
lawyer his clients? Aye, and the
clergyman his pulpit, to be present at
this convention Gentlemen, the
reason is obvious. You see
DANGER TO THE NATION,
and therefore you respond. Ap-
plause. The rebels have captured
Washington. Therefore you res
pond. Applause. After having
fought with the bayone for four long
years to gair possession of the capi-
tai Of your nation, and fought unsuc-
cessfully; through bull-dozing,
thu ough murder, through fraud,
through assassination, through tor
ture, they have gained possession of
one branch of your national Legisla-
ture, and are soon liable to get pos
session of the other. You have seen
and realized this fact and therefore
you come up as one man here to pro-
test against the outrage that has
been committed. Therefore you
come up here as one man to again
preserve this nation from its foes.-
Yes, gentlemen of the convention,
you can't trust the Democratic party.
Applause and laughter. l do not
care what any single man or what
any dozen men may say; they have
determined, through revolution, to
overthrow the Constitution and Mex
icanize the Government. They have
undertaken to call in question title
with which they have no more right
to interfere than you have to inter-
fere with theirs.
INVESTIGATE THE PRINCE OF FRAUDS
HAYES TITLE CLEAR.
They say it is for Investigation. If
these men wanted to investigate and
find fraud, could tell them shere
and ,chom to investigate and where
to find it. Applause and laughter !
1t is not fraud they are after. II they
wanted to find fraud they would 60
to that prince of frauds. in Grammer-
cy Park, and there they would put their
hands on it. Applause and laugh
ter. And, gentlemen of the conven-
tion, whatever our individual views
may be with regard to the admins
tration of President Hayes, we, one
and all, know he was elected Presi-
dent of the United States applausel, |,
and that, as Republicans, we will
unanimously defend that title from
all revolutionary attacks
THE GREENBACK PARTY-oRlGIN AND
PURPOSES OF THE GREENBACX.
But, gentlemen of the convention,
you have discovered another thing !;
you have discovered another danger
to the nation, hardly second to the
fret. While we have been asleep the
enemy have been sowing tares. We
have hardly deemed these things that
have arisen in our midst, and alarm
ed some Of our wisest and best men
we have hardly deemed them of suffi-
cient consequence to contradict. The
agents who are disseminating and
distilling these heresies throughout
all the length and breadth of this
land were SO utterly contemplate
that we hardly deemed them worthy
passing notice. But they have been
untiring, and some honest men have
become infected with the disease
There has been party created, as is
claimed, called the Greenback party.
1t is falsity. This new edition Of
the Greenback party has no right
whatever to the name. When the
Greenback party was established.
was there. Applause. We had ex-
hausted our means to carry on the
war against the rebellious States
We owed $4O,OOOOOO, and had not q
dollar in our Treasury to pay the
debt. We owed our soldiers for four
months' wages, and had not q dollar
with which to pay them. Our credit
had been used to the utmost, and as
q war measure, as last resort, we is
sued, and I voted for it. the first
greenback ever Issued under this
Government. We issued it under a
solemn pledge that it should be made,
as soon as we were able, equal to gold
or silver coin. Applause. Through
our State Legislatures, through our
votes In Congress, through our State
and national conventions, through
every organization known to the Re-
publican party, we declared and re-
declared and solemnly reaffirmed that
the very moment we were able to
make those greenbacks equal to coin
we would do so. The Republican
party has labored year after year, and
they have raised those greenbacks up,
until yesterday they were within l
per cent. Of coin. We intend, gen.
tlemen Of the convention, to carry out
that pledge 80 solemnly made. Ap-
plause. We intend to use green
backs, and we intend that every sin
gle greenbock afloat in this land shall
be equal to ono dollar, either in gold
or silver. Applause. Now, we are
the greenback party, par excellence.
THE CONFEDERATE ON THE GREENBACK
-HIs INCONSISTENCY AND RuINous
PURPOSES.
What has caused these Southern
gentlemen to SO fall in love with
greenbacks They fought for four
long years to render those greenbacks
utterly yalueless; and at. one time
they were down pretty low. But
now, to-day, they want to issue an
unlimited quantity Of greenbacks.--
Why? FellOw-citizens, if coin was
worth 5 per cent. less than green
backs, they would still be opposed to
the substitution of coin for green
backs. They want to get their hands
into the Treasury. The whole South,
the whole solid South, is solid for re-
pudiation. They have reprdiated
their individual debts through bank
ruptcy. They have repudiated their
State and municipal debts through
scaling-that is, cutting them down
to TO- and 90, and SO, and 40 per cent,
and then refused to pay the interest
on the scales. Laughter.l Look at
Tennessee look at old Virginia look
at every ono Of those States whore the
Democratic party has come into pow