Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-04-11

THE PRESIDENTS BACKBoNE-THE RESOLUTIONS OF
THE ELEVENTH WARD REPUBLICAN CLUB OF
CHICAGO.
WASHINGTON March 28-C0ngressman Davis has
received copy of the resolutions passed by the
Eleventh Ward Republican Club on the z4th OF
tic President in the most emphatic terms that the
day of compromise has passed, and if he yields IN
any degree to the demands Of democracy ne will
be no longer recognized as republican Pre,ldent
Davis called upon the President this morning ana
presented him with copy Of the reso utions The
pleased at the idea that his republicanism
susceptible of a doubt He assured Colonel Davis
shape and would stand firmly with the republicans.
Now. ask gentlemen on the other side.
is that so? Is he already pledged to do
your bidding?
Mr.. White-Is not that good article?
Mr.. Sparks-Splendid!
Mr.. Davis, of Illinois Will the gentle
man allow me to interrupt him a moment?
Mr.. Sparks-Not now. Let me read on:
Davis. upon returning from the White House, sent
Resolutions received. President waited upon as
requested No reason to believe he will dissppoint
but say that am enlisted for the war;"
Mr.. White-Good.
Mr.. Sparks-And this follows:
Expressions OF this sort are coming. to the Presi
dent from republicans in all parts OF the country,
and they have been effective in strengthening the
Laughter.
So that it seems the President of the
United States has had soma sort Of politi-
cal spin al disease that it becomes necessa-
| ~ for the stalwart Republican doctors of
| his party to cure, [Laugbter] Now, sir, l
ask any fair-minded man to read these ar
ticles published in the great metropolitan
| journal of that party in the Northwest,
and tell me if the conclusion is not inevi-
table that an attempted effort lsthere pub
| licly and boldly made to whip IN and CO.
cree the President into the extreme meas
ures of the extreme members of his party.
| Talk about coercion! There is your cOer-
cion! [Applause].
It was feared that he did not have back
bone enough; that he Was little Timber
in the back. Ward meetings are called,
resolutions adopted, party machinery is
invoked, and leading political managers
are enlisted to send him communications
and tell him that there must be no com
promise with the Democracy" that she
must stand firm" And they further
threaten him that ''if he dees not on this
occasion stand firm, he will be SUBJECT to
the ostracism of his party" &c. There,
sir is where the coercion comes in, and not
to pass constitutional laws in an orderly
and ordinary constitutional manner.
Mind you, sir, this does not como from
New Orleans; this does not come from any
city where there is supposed to be any
strong Democratic sentiment. 1t comes
from the hitherto supposed stronghold OF
the Republican party, from the stalwarts
of Chicago. They assert and assure him
that they are aroused and united upon this
question. and that their party friends in
congress are right in their opposition to
h., oE - 1Du ff~o nj
| to the President: 1--WE have three Repub-
lican members in congress from our great
Republican city, and they can indicate to
you what the stalWart members of the par
| ty at Chicago want"
| Now, having made this bold, broad is
sue, and having made it on the questions
involved in the bill now pending before us
they have gone to the sovereign people OF
that great city upon it, and that sovereign
people thus appealed to, at their municipal
election on the LIST instant, have given ex-
preston to their sovereign will and recor-
ded their verdict. And now what is that
verdict?
| will read you what this same paper of
the End instant 1.-THE day after election)
says of the result; and l ask gentlemen to
mark it closely. This is it's whining, hui
initiating announcement:
Victory for the Democrats and bowling rebels.
[Lapghterl.
They made the issue; they said to the
President OF the United States, ''Ours is
the stronghold Of the party; we have no
Democratic Representative in the popular
branch of congress from our city, all our
Representatives in that body are stalwart
Republicans: there are three Of them, and
their post=ottice address is Chicago" The
election CON es off apd this bold issue is
made, and after election comes the last
scene, and the curtain drops with the an
nouncement, Victory for the Democrats
and bowling rebels" Laughter].
Then just below it, in tabulated state
| ment in the same paper and as a final
wind=up, [ find these words and figures:
For Mayos-Wright, (Republican,) 1913: Harri-
| son. (Democrat,%
Our Carter, laughter +
Harrison, Democrat) 24,96S; Democratic majority
That, sir, was in Chicago. laughter
and applause on the Democratic side.I
This, stalwsrt Republicans, beg to re-
mind you, was in Chicago, on your own
issue. This was in your own stronghold,
where you felt yourselves strong enough
to stitfen the backbone Of His Excellsncy,
the President, on this question. Laughter
and appiause.l But it seems, sir, from the
result thus indicated that these stalwarts,
in place of putting any stiffness into the
backbone of the President, got all marrow
and starch and stiffness taken out OF their
own. [Great laughter and applause on
the Democratic Side.
Now, geptlem n, here is our issue, and
Mr.. Chairman we 60 to the country upon
it. The issue, stripped Of all useless YER
biage and tawdry tustian, is, whether or
not in this country, in this free county of
l ours. in this grand Republic, whose source
/ Of political power Is the sovereign will of
1 the people, armed soldiers, the paid ser-
wants of that sovereign people, are to come
between them aud the ballot-box to con-
troll or drive them from the polls. APP
pIause.l
] This is our issue made to the country.
We have had on it the first popular re-
is startling in its character. Gentlemen.
you have insisted upon making this issue;
we cordially aecepg it and 60 to the coun-
try upon it, and we mean 70 stand upon it.
we know that that sovereign people who
stand Gehind US and stand behind you as
4 well. and to whom Presidents and Cabl-
i nets and governors and all who exercise
i official functions must yield obedience,
! c.SSnot sanction your pad folly and des-
n"tic zaaI i'll exalting the military into a
a p eyer the civil authorities, and
Knowing that, We confidently appeal to
them as sovereign arSlters between us.
[Applause.
MIR. Caswell-Let me ask the sentle-
man from Illinois how it WAS in the State
! OF Wisconsin on the same day which gave
a Republican majority of twelve thousand,
being an increased majority?
Mr.. Bragg-lf tie gentleman from H.
linois [Mr. Sparksl via allloW me, | will
reply to the question Of my colleague.
Mr.. sparks-I have been talking of the
Republican City of Chicago, that grand
metropolis Of my own beloved State. which
OF itself contains population larger than
that possessed by many OF the States of
the Union, and 1 have nos got down to