The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-07-25
KEYNOTE OF THE CAMPAIGN.
Zach Chambers Great Speech at
Madison, Wisconsin.

Madison, Wisconsin.
At the grand mass meeting held in
Madison, Wis, following the republican
convention, last Wednesday, Secretary
Chandler being introduced, said it had
become popular to talk up state citizen
ship and deny national citizenship. He
was a citizen of the United States in
the broadcast sense. The republican
party was born of God, and it now
matters little where or by whom; we
were a n idea PARTY, but that idea
was liberal enough and broad enough
to cover a world. Are we q nation or
are we not? When the rebels surren-
dered at A%ppomatox they admitted
that the United States is the govern
ment. Then they made no claims, for
they had one They asked only their
miserable lives as n boon. We treated
them with a magnanimity never before
shown. They were bound by the laws
Of nations and the laws of war to pay
every dollar Of the cost of that war.
They staked all and lost all. We took
them to our arms, fed them, clothed
them and reinstated them, and now in
1879 they hold the same purpose they
did twenty years ago, and make the
same ~pretentious claim of state rights.
1 find In the senate to-day almost the
identical issues that were raised there
when | first entered IN 1857. Men have
changed but their measures have not.
They are determined to rule or ruin
the government; failing to capture
Washington by arms they boast to-day
Of having captured it, and l tell you
the country is now in more danger than
it was twenty years ago. King Caucus
rules now where King Cotton once held
sway, and is not a less dangerous
power.
His position on the silver question
had been misrepresented by the Chicago
Tribune. He thanked God for the
whole record of the republican party,
and reviewed its mastery of the finance
question. 1t had created greenbacks
and redeemed them. The republicans
came into power at the time when our
national bonds found no purchasers;
to-day our bonds are vast in volume
and command a premium at the lowest
rates of interest. After a record of SO
great achievements in the camp and in
the cabinet, we are told that the repub-
lican party has performed its mission;
outlived its usefulness, and ought to
die. Well, if ever a party was prepared
to die it is ours, but we have made
other arrangements and propose TO live.
Those who sought to destroy the nation
are the ones who now seek its death.
The mission of the republican party is
not ended and will not end until those
devilish rebels are brought to humility.
But we are told that the country is
being ruined, if not already ruined, by
financial burdens; that poverty and
idleness Cypress III people, and the
republican party is to blame for it; but
he declared that every man capable of
doing a good days work, could find it
n get good pay for it, and that never
a a days wages greater purchasing
lower han now. Chandler was vocif-
erously cheered as he resumed his seat.
Hon. Jas. A. Garfield was received
with cheers. He congratulated the au-
ditors on hearing so able a review of
the history of the party, and mentioned
b records of some eminent republic
cans-Joshua r. Giddings and Abra-
ham Lincoln, a man raised up of God.
While the republicans have been from
the first true to their principles, per-
fecting all they promised, and proud
to-day of their record, the democrats
on the other hand. steadily wrong,
have been forced from one bad position
to another. Can any democrat point
with pride to his party platform of '56,
or find in them any living issues? The
issues they then presented led us into
war n involved us in great national
debt. Looking for the cause of that
DEBT, 1 say the democratic party caused
1t. We are as a nation inst emerging
from difficulties, and the republican
party alone a proudly claim that the
brightest page of the country's history
has been written by the true friends Of
freedom and progress. The republican
party has yet work to do; we are con-
fronted to-day in congress by nearly
the same spirit that prevailed there in
the years Just before the war. They
tell us that the national government is
but the servant of the states; that we
shall not interpose as a nation to guar
antee an honest election in the states;