The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-08-20
HOT-DROPS FOR CARY.
Will This Irredeem able Cham
pion Blower Swallow
the Medicine?


From the Lansing Republican.
This week the notorious Sam. Car,
will commence at Jackson a series o
speeches in support of the ticket nomi
Lated by the so-called nationals" a
Grand Rapids. He will traverse th,
state, from Detroit TO Newaygo anC
Vassar. making "a speeches at as man,
different places. His style is fiuenl
and rather amusing, but his facts ar,
few. his logic lame, aud his sincerity
aud truthfulness nowhere. His per
sonal character has been shown up in
Ohio so unfavorably that he can Meth.
CT run for Office there with any hope OF
success, nor will the people even turn
out in any considerable number to hear
him talk.
We have read a verbatim report OF
Cary's speech at Ypsilanti, June %,
made by +. w. Flowers, the former
well-known shorthand reporter for the
courts of Detroit. Mr.. Cary then de-
nounced "the internal subsidized press
which dare not meet him before the
people and attempt to answer his argu-
nents." We are representative Of
the press; and although never yet
Subsidized" on the Cary scale OF S33
per day, but believing in a specie basis
for the currency from our boyhood up,
because our wages were small and we
wanted them good for the full amount,
yet We are willing to extend TO Mr..
Cary "A hearing in our paper and "at-
tempt TO answer his arguments" If
the speech he delivers at Lansing is
worth the powder and shot, we will dis
pose of it as we did of Mortgage Wheat
Fields speech at Wyandotte nearly
two and one-half years ago. namely,
by publishing it in full. with suitable
comments for each division OF his sub
ject.
Mr.. Cary is very brave with bis chal-
lengos, but in several instances where
they were promptly accepted he show
ed a weak spine. In order to test his
stamina, we have prepared few ques-
tions, based on the statements In his
Ypsilanti speech, and hope he will an
swer fully and squarely.
Let honest-money men put some OF
these questions TO Mr.. Cary at his
meetings. il permitted so to do. he
invited men 10 question him on his
statements at Ypsilanti. But il not
permitted, let them circulate these
questions among Cary's auditors as far
as possible. He needs TO be we'll dos
ed with hot-drops. For the present,
the following are respectfully submit
tel and
GENTLY ADMINISTERED.
|. In asking men to forget oil their
old party ties and listen 10 you a.
American citizens only. don't you
come as the boughten advocate of q
party which binds its numbers with a
pledge that "if a national does rot
wish 10 vote his Own ticket or any por.
tion thereof, he shall not vote the tick
ct of either Of the old parties?'
9. Do You call such despotism from
a dark-lantern caucus, such fetters on
freedom Of elections, by the name Of
"refoIm?"
3. Did you ever hear Of anything
quite SO mean, since the old know
nothing lodges excluded men whose
fathers happened TO be born outside OF
the United States?
4. Why don't you preach to the ma
tional" party TO repudiate its bad lead
ers. its rascals like Brick Pomeroy,
Walter II. Shupe, Moses W. Field,
Sam Cary, and others, who have been
shown up IN the courts as having lied,
sworn falsely, and acquired property
uulawfully?
). Why don't you preach to that
party 10 repudiate Its ignoramus can
didates for Office, its Frank Dumon
aud Levi Sparks, who don't even know
the laws OF their country relative 10
the currency aud the public debt, and
its "Saleratus" Smith, who advertises HE
wares in the newspapers in this style:
Imitation is followed by reaction;
my saleratus will expand -four like q
greenbacker;" warranted 10 have eI
pansion enough for the whole green.
back party?"
6. Do you advocate the election OF
man who ia his business cards will
thus ridicule and destroy the ideas
which you and the party at large deem
so precious as to require peddling out
by yourself for about thirty times the
daily wages of a workingmsnl
g. WHY lbu A0ahN w Aht
Carolina secessionists in 1856, when
speaking in that state, by emitting at
their request TO mention that You
worked on a farm in boyhood, so they
would think you were well-born?
s. Do you make speeches merely 10
tickle the ears aud catch the pennies
Of your audiences. without regard 10
truth and principlel
g. You say that ''it is no matter who
brought on the rebellion and who
is responsible for its evil effects: Gil
war-engendered passions and animosi-
ties ought TO cease. Why then do
you begin a new war on capital, aud
stir new animosities against men who
save any money and engage in banking
by calling them "old cusses, ''pinch-
ing old ShylOcks, hard-money fools,
robbers of the people, frauds, cheats,
and swindlers, coupon-clppers living
on the body polite" !" deeply to be alb
horred, tools aud pimps Of corpora
tioDs, money power with its grip on
the throats of democratic aud republi-
can leaders, causing the commOtion Of
civil war, or repudiation and reyolu-
tionl"
10. Do You consider this and similar
language At for political discussion in
the interest of reform" especially
when you are condemning "passion
aud animosityY"
IL. What proof have you of there
being 1000, 900 unemployed laborers
in this country, degraded into tramps
by the gnawings OF hunger and the dis
tress Of their families?
H. Do you know enough arithmetic
TO perceive that this is one starving
tramp" 10 every % persons?
13. That II you tell the truth, Michi
gan to-day has 1900 Of these wretch
cd creatures, Jackson county 1000 OF
them, and the city Of Lansing 3s0l
Ia Where are they and who are
they?
10. What proof have You that there
are 1900, 900 more men only half en-
ployed in this country. aud 1000, ,00O
more who. IL they were to be sick Que
month, would see their families forced
into the pOor-houses?
10. Do you know enough arithmetic
I 10 perceive that 5000, 900 of idle, OF
| half-employed. or almost destitute Ia.
borers, make about three-fourths oi
the whole working force Of the coun
tryl
IL. Do you pretend 10 say. serious.
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