The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-14

4 udfo lioiest mouey anu nOneSt redemption of
the public promises, and now let any man saw
that he wants the laboring man of this country
| to take poorer dollar than the one we now
| have, and let him meet the people at that time
| II he dare. We have turned the guns against
| the ass and the fool that brays for soft money
| with a sound and full dollar. 1t is important
| that the party should maintain its lease of life
| to save the Government once again. You have
| seen them threaten to starve the Government
| to death, ana they had nothing lacking to do
| that but the courage It was an assault with
| lntentto Kill, but without the corrage to kill.
| That was all When we dared to strike out thev
| held back their cowardly hands. In the very
last days OF the session we have seen them
| parade their doctrine of State sovereignty more
extreme, think, than ever before, except in
tie days just preceding the war;,
Think of the spectacle: The Vice President
of the late Confederacy, Cabinet officer of
the late Confederacy, standing on the floor of
the House OF Representatives to teach brothers
Williams, and Burroughs, and myself the true
doctrine of the constitution! They say we are
mistaken in supposing this is nation-that
members of the House are mere agents of the
State. | stand here in the presence Of the
agents of Wisconsin. If one truth blazes out
of the fire of our war more clearly than another,
it is this: that this is q powerful and mighty
nation. And yet Rebel Senator tells us It is
not a nation, but confederacy of States An
other tells us that we have no United States;
no peace that we have any right to keep.
Wherever there is postoffice the United States
keeps the peace within its boundaries, and the
man who dares to stop the journey of themai-
carrier will find, if need be, that the arms of
the United States will protect its serv-
ants. They tell us there are no national
elections: that the Government has no voters;
that elections are State elections; and that the
States have the right to control all elections of
members of Congress. Have no interest in
an election in Wisconsin,? Suppose you elect
forty men in the Northwest by fraud who go
down to leglslate for me and the people. Have
we no right in their election? This Govern
ment, by its constitution, has created the
: House and Senate, and it tells how they shall
! be chosen, and Congress is empowered by the
constitution to regulate the time, place. and
manner OF holding these elections, and yet, in
the face of that constitution, these people tell
us that they will never sustain a government
that appropriates money until we give up these
Election laws altogether. Why do we have
them? Let me tell you, it is matter of proof
under oath individually that the election in New
York State in 1868 was carried by sheer and
outrageous fraud, that 81 1000 fraudulent votes
were thrown in the, city of New York alone
with which they were enabled to carry the
State by only 10000 majority. In fact, the
State went Republican by $4,000. The first
and foremost point in the Election law was
that the United States should. have a man
at this end of the balot-box and another at
that, one Democrat and the other Republi-
can, who should stay there from the time the
ballot-box was opened in the morning until the
last vote was counted at night, and be the
official witness of that grand transaction until
it closed. Was that fraud? Was that oppres-
sion? And yet every Democrat in Congress
voted against it, and fought against it, and de-
nounced it as oppression, and demanded free
election. Oh, oh, free! What kind of freedom
do they want but the old freedom of Tammany
Hail. the freedom to stuff ballot-boxes without
witnesses, the freedom to change votes with
out Witnesses, the freedom to steal Liberty
from her cradle, the freedom to destroy the
heir-apparent OF our sovereign? You may
Kill the sovereign In England, and you can
find another man to take his place, but if the
sad day comes In this Republic when the
sovereign is killed, or corrupted, or made
lunatic with fraud and violence, we have no
son to succeed him. for our sovereign is the
body of the whole people
Let me explain in one word the meaning of
this whole extra session. They have solid
South. ALI they want is the States of New
York and Ohio. With these they carry the
Presidency In their hands, and have captured
the Government from turret to foundation
How can they carry Ohio and New York? Only
in one way. II they can get free control OF the
cities of Cincinnati and New York, they can
vent them, for they can stuff more ballots and
steal more votes into the boxes after the cleo
ton is over than the good people can put into
them between the hours Of 6 in the morning
and at night. And hence the effort
to get into New York and Cincinnati,
and these two concrete purposes were
all they were after in the late session II an
Internal pit, had been able some night to pluck
from our statute-boo11s the provision of law
that would give them those two cities, or if they
could put IN a clause exempting those two from
the operation of the Election law, the appropri-
alton bills would have been passed without
word of debate. But they knew they must
carry those two cities or lose 1890 The Re-
publican party did not propose to lose 1880 or
any other year Of our Lord, on such an issue
as that, and we have come back home to tell
you that though they said not 81 Of $45,000,000
should be appropriated until the Election laws
were repealed, yet 81, 400, 600 have been APP
propriated, and not one Of the Election laws
has been repealed.
The contest that we have entered upon has.
up to this time, produced several very marked
and decisive results. Two years ago. all
through this Republican party, there were SEN
hmentalists, opinionists, men who said: $50
to the Southern brethren with the olive branch,
and they will come back to you with friendship
and love-" There were good Republicans and
necessary that every last extreme should be
tried to satisfy the minds of all, and when our
present President came into power an optimist
in the extreme sense of the word, sincerely be-
ieving in the gospel of good will, he went
South bearing olive-branches in both hands,
far more of them than you or wanted him to
carry. But in good faith bore them every
where, and while they spoke the word of prom
Use to his ear, he has seen, as you and I have,
that at least they have broken it to his hope
And the disclosures OF the last session have
opened the eyes of the most sentimental of Re-
publican sentimentalists, and throughout the
breadth of this broad land there is not now
Republican who is not stalwart The men
who went after Horace Greeley a few years ago
are coming back to rs in scores. There have
been days Of laziness in the spirit of the Repuo-
lican party. It was day of watchfulness when
they organized in 1854 when they chose Lincoln
in 1860, when they called for millions of men to
fight under the flag and save the Republic, and
there is to-day again such a revival of
the party as we have not seen since 1868. In
my own State, three months before the cleo
ton, the people are actually taking census of
the townships and making out q list of voters.
The campaign has begun, and begun at the
right end, among the people themselves. This
American people has been more profoundly