River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-10-21

ana We Will vote Tor Ten. hfant ana not Tor HOf-
ace Greeley" Applause.
Well they said I'VE have tried everything.
Now We viii have man after our own heart
a man that does not come from the republican
party, man that is not better than our own party
who can tell about these tickle melodramatic
n0rtherners who are always running into scrapes
for want of prudence, thrift and forethought-a
people that you not keep out of the fire or out
of the water" And SO they presented our dis
tlnguished teowcitizens and my classlnate-,
Samuel j. Tilden. Laughter Wen, that was
very fine. Now they say: Look at HIM See
how we have come back to our true colorS Did
you ever see, say they, "a pattern that was bet
party was by Samuel j. rildenl Laughter
Now you can not object to that" Well the peo-
pie said: Let US look at that Didn't you
have an old ticket and popular suffrage on it
then twenty years ago-lS56s flor this Tilden
was in 1851 Let us look a ithnt
peating itself, and that the same that voted
for Buchanan are II vote for Tiden and we will
agree that, so far as We see, in record and in
temper, Tilden and Buchanan are as like a. two
peas. [Laughter.l Now, we have had that pat
tern before, the people said. and we will choose
Hayes. Great applause.
Weii, now, gentlemen, we come along down. At
their elections the democratic party has been
made up of the same constituents-the solid south
and the desscated democracy Of the north,
as such. And now they present again the same
combnation-the solid south and the dessicated
democracy of the north neither more nor less
and they have chosen candidate saying, " Hav-
ing tired ourselves with pleasing you By Offering
every pattern and patch we will give you another
candidate that is better than party" Indeed,
a very eminent public thinker and writer, who
seldom speaks within bounds, has thought to
brighten the people Of the country that espoused
the republican candidate by saying that our can
didate God bless himD General Garfield [tremen-
dous applause and cheerngl-this Is the crushing
criticism upon him-is no better than his party.
Wen, we thought so, we thought SO. We thought
the party as good ms could lie, and that, while
it could find in its ranks and in its lead many men
that were worthy of its hOnors and its votes we
really must be excused from saying We could find
any one man that was better than the great re-
publican party. [Applause.l
Now, this is an extraordinary business. The
democratic party, conscious of the beam in its
own eye and knowing that there isnot even
mote in the eye of the republican party laugh
teri, has sought to make balance of the beam in
the democratic party against the mote IN the re-
publican candidate. Well that is an eltraordm-
airy situation A whole party trying to make
balance out Of themselves against what they
charge as "A blemlsh in our candidate They try
to make II balance against the enormous iniquities
unrepented of and not yet laid aside; every ep1u-
let every plume, every rufile every cartrdge-box;
the democratic party in its relation to insttu-
lions and our prosperity they think to draw at
tention to what they call mote in our candidate.
NO BETTER THAN HIS PARTY
Nv ell, gentleman, when Mr.. Black desiring to
help his party, said that Garfield personally was
one Of the honest warmest- hearted. most guieless
men that he ever knew [applausel that he was Il
man of genius, of learning, Of eloquence, OF
popular power, he knew where to put the only
arrow that could pierce any harness of our candi-
date when he said: But good he is, he can
not IN politics and in government be any better
than his party" Laughter and applausel. Now,
Gen. Garfield [applause] stands before the Ameri-
can people candidate for the highest honOrs
upon plane Of longer and more varied eXper-
encei OF better proved capacity, of larger benevo-
lence, OF a comprehensive mind and IL tender
heart for his countrymens difficulties and dangers
and sorrows that any candidate that has been
presented TO the people of he United States by
either party since Henry Clay.
| had occasion to remark four years ago ON the
superciiousness Of our Eastern people here
New " DIRK and New England, and the Atlantic
board-of taking it for granted that because the
candidate, lifted up on the shoulders Of the grea
people of the west, was not us familiar to our oh
servatiOn and as clear in our estimate as one Of
our great men; of assuming that he was not so lit
as he should be and and voting in the dark
against him as so many did against President
Hayes. But now that he has stood in the light
four years; now that his countrymen and the pub
lie men of Europe have estimated his public ser
vices md when our people feel that the full rush
OF honesty, of fidelity, which brought prosperity
IN the very finger-ends of every man in the land,
they begin to think that if they had known
President Hayes as well four years ago they do
now he would have had larger majority.
lGreat applause and cries of That's sol We
had the same talk about him then that they
would like to engage you in now about Gen.
Garfield. They had the same talk about him
then, | say that he seemed to be good man,
but they did not know exactly by what counsels
and advisers he would be surrounded They did
notk now who was to lead him and who was to push
him. and who was to guide him; and as they saw
various adventures, leaders of the party, that
looked as if they would like to have large share
in the government, some OF whom they dld not
like and some of whom they did like, why,
people said they would vote in the dark until
they knew who was going to manage him. Moth
ing has managed him but love of country, an up
right nature a sincerity in the homely virtues OF
American common life that will long he remem-
bered in the affections of the men and women Of
the United States. Applause.
Now, people begin to say-democrats-"o OH II
your party had only renOminated President
HAYES why, we could not have stood against him
he has the hearts of the people. But as for Gar
field we don't feel sure" In other words
they feel about Garfield now as they felt about
Pre- ident Hayes four years ago. And four years
hence they will feel about Garfield as they feel
about President Hayes now. lGreat applause
They used to be- in following the republican party
and adopting the credits as belonging to them
selves ut safe marching distance of about
twelve or eight years behind them, but now they
are beginning to crowd us, for they are only four
years behind. Ifthey will only keep on and study
our steps and learn our music, it may bring them
abreast of Us some time other Laughter
ONLY TWO "sUPERBsn IN HISTORY.
Well, now, having discussed Gen. Garfield who
is not better than his party, let us look Mt Gen.
Hancock who is better than his party. Laugh
teri Gen. Hancock is a great and faithful gener-
al of the armies of the United States. Applause
mingled with Kisses lie was faithful general
in the war and in his place in the army he has
been a faithful general since and no republican
seeks either to obscure or belite his claims upon
his countrymen. But when Gen. Hancock is
sought to be the "make-way" to bring up the
party whose candidate he is to the standard of n
party like ours that has seen Lincoln [applausel
Grant Iappause and a Hayes lrenewed APP
plause he has got to have great deal more
ayoirdupos to weigh lis down. Laughter.
What do these people think change of party
government meansl Is it, as some Of these pa
layerers would have us suppose, toss OF a cop
per or a~Saye of hand and all Is over! Is that
go! Is that what n change of parties means!
What a change of parties in great nation Ike
this meansl What change Of parties from the
one that preserved the country to the other that
attacked it's that all that it means! Does 1t
mean nothing to the poor freedmen of the south
whether all else being against them. the Federal
executive is to be against them, too! Does 1t
mean nothing to the loyal people of the country,
to the heroes of your fights to the leaders in your
cabinets, and to the memories OF the great states
men that have passed away whether the Amerl-
can people are to put that party aud those menu
cries and those living statesmen to an open
shaIne-and whether they are to eXalt over their
heads the party that in the name of the people,
and with the peoples power, we have resisted I'M
til we saved the country from war and preserved
it from disasters OF peacel | tell you, gentlemen,
that the relations of people to their public men
and of the public men to the people are reciprocal
and when a nation turns its back in prosperity
upon those who never turned their backs in the
field or in the cabinet against the enemies of the
country, the people have gone over to the side OF
the enemies Of the country. Applause Man
ners change at different ages but this affair OF
transfer of power from one party to another diam
etrically its opposite is with proper allowance for
the difference of manners and the amehoratiOns
of life pretty much the same thing. And, as 1
remember but one great character IN history that
received from his eountrymen the surname OF The
Superb only one "Iarqninius Superbus OF
ROme-I thought | would see whether history that
had repeated itself here with this magnificent title
would not find some other traits of resemblance
in the transactions of Tarquinius government
The king of Rome that preceded Tarquinlus
had made change in the Roman constitution in
favor of popular rights. He had endowed with
share in the suffrage and IN the commonwealth the
plebians and it was a thorn in the side Of the
naughty classes that domineered over them that
the poor plebians should be trusted with the sut-
fragc Now. | think that Lincoln did something
Of that kind for the poor plebians of the south.
TAppiause.l / think the republican party has
done not only something, but ali that IT. powers
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