Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-30
NO. 45.
did not belong 10 that class. We are all
| CARPET baogers

/ AM A CARPET-BAGGER
from Ohio. Many of you are carpet.
baggers; you were not all raised in
this country. And there were some men
whom these people denominated as
carpet -baggers who were the carriers of
knapsacks; men who during the war
carried your flag down the Mississippi,
from Cairo to the Gulf-from Atlanta 10
the sea. When the war was over, in
| good faith they went south and settled
down to live among that people, as their
future home. These, with all others,
were denounced as carpetbaggers. Now,
when man from the north goes south
IN good faith, to live there with his
family for future home, 1, for one, am
in favor of protecting him in that home.
But under that cry northern men are
| driven out; we may as we'll meet it.
These speeches that have been made to-
day, could never have been made in a
dozen states in the south: and there is no
such thing as freedom.
A word more and / am done The
PUBLIC CREDIT IS NOT SECURE,
although every obligation of the govern
ment is worth a hundred cents on the
dollar; although specie resumption is
established; yet the public credit is not
secure. There is third party, called
"The National Greenback Labor Reform
Party" that have discovered new fl
nancial theory. They know just how
to manage this thing. They do not ex-
actly agree, but they are drifting toward
the idea of fat money,-do not believe in
| gold or silver at ala sort of relic of
ban barism, They think that you can
make money out ofpaper just as well and
Brick Pomeroy says they are going to
take piece of paper the size of green
| back or any other convenient size and
say
THIS Is 4 DOLLAR,
payable at no time and to nobody.
l will tell you my fellow citizens, there
is no use in talking about getting out of
| the national debt in any way, except to
pay it; that's the only straight forward
way to do. To-day the best thing that
could happen to the financial interest and
the business interests, would be for con-
gress to pass law at its very next ses-
sion, to punish with death any member
of congress that would make speech on
finance, for the next twenty years. What
we want is to let it alone, and we are on
THE HIGH ROAD TO PROSPERITY.
We have had an awful time in resump-
ton. The ship of resumption has indeed
had stormy passage. The heavens at
times have been Overshadowed-every
star lost to human vision; but the repub-
lican party, with true men, has stood at
the helm until, finally, they have guided
her into the golden harbOr of specie pay
mentS. The storm is past, and the heav-
ems are arched with bow Of promise
that no further deluge of paper money
shall cover this land; and now,
WHEN THE STORM is OVER,
a few men say that the way 10 settle this
thing is to turn the ship around and put
to sea on shoreless ocean, and go on,
and on and on forever. We do not thiLk
so. She is in port now. Resumption is
established, and, as republicans, we pro-
pose to stand on her deck, and any man
or party will be thrown overheard that
attempts to lift her anchor or haul down
her flag. Applausel. My fellow citi-
zens, | did think l would say a word
about the democratic party. (Cries,
eco onpO I will not detain you any
longer. l am sick. l ought not to talk
at hall. If was well would try and
make a speech; but my democratic
friends you are going
SQUARE INTO GREENBACKIsM,
and you are going over into fiat money.
l regret to say that the democratic party
of this country cannot be trusted with the
finances of the country The last time
they had them, they stole all we had and
now they will pay back with fiat ire
deemable money. They have one hard
ened principle, and that is longing de-
sire for the control of this government;
the democratic party as party has no
settled convictions on this subject of
finance. They are soft money in one
state, and hard money in another; soft
one day and hard another. They are like
THE FELLOW WHO HAD HORSE
which he recommended as a hunter. A
stranger came along and noticed that
once in a while his horse would drop
down, and he said: "what is tbs matter
with the horse ?" The fellow said, "that
is trick; there is deer around; he is
setter, and when he smells deer around
he will always do that. He is very
valuable horse" The stranger said, chow
will you trade ?" and he bought the horse
and started out with it. and he came along
| to the middle of a stream and the horse
dropped. With that he was little dis
gusted, and went back and said that he
had been cheated. "What is the Natter
said the seller, didn't he drop 90 ''Yes,
he did, right in the midst of a stream,
and like to have got drowned" "Well,"
says the latter, forgot to tell you, that
horse is just as good for trout as for
deer" So the democratic party are just
as good for soft money as for hard
money.
| tell you the
MISSION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
is not ended. We have something to do.
The same enemy we overcame on the
battlefield is to-day massed in our front
moving in solid column on the ballot
box, to recover that which they lost by
the sword. Until every law-abiding
American citizen is permitted to live in
peace and security within the limits Of
every state, until free and peaceful bal
lot is made secure throughout the repub-
lie, until free speech and free press are
everywhere established, until political
ostracism is unknown, until it is conced-
ed that we are nation sovereign and
supreme, until the public credit is placed
beyond the possibility of jeopardy,
until
ALL THE RIGHTS
of American citizens, high or low, rich
or poor, black or white, native or foreign
born, are everywhere recognized and es-
tablished, resting in perfect security un-
der the imperial agis ofthe constitution,
until that, the mission of the republican
party is not ended. [Applause.l And,
my fellow-citiZens, here let us today
pledge ourselves to the consummation of
these high purposes, and consecrate anew