Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-08-13


The Republican Rally.
LAEGE AND ENTHUSIASTIC MISUNDERSTANDING
Address BY GEN. STEWART L. woODFoRD
A IoUslNG MEETING
gathering Tuesday evening was measur-
edby the capacity of the City Hall, and would
have been twice as large if the hall had been
twice as large. The seats were all filled, the !
galleries, entrance WAYS and standing room
back Of the seats, were all crowded to their
utmost, and hundreds of persons came to the |
doors and went away unable to obtain adj |
mission. The stage was covered with chairs, !
which were occupied among others by His |
Honor Mayor Hatch, Hon. Daniel Roberts,
Hon 1orrey f. Wales, Col. lie Grand B. |
Cannon, Prof. S. H. Peabody, Capt e. A. |
Woodbury., Gen. W. W. Henry, Hon. NJ r. |
TYLER, Hon Levi Underwood, l.. L. Law
renee, Esq, Hon. John N. Pomcroy,
and many other prominent citizens.
At the right was delegation from the Gar
field and Arthur veteran club. The Glee
Club and Sherman Military Band were pres
lent music. A number of ladies were among
the auditors. Hon. r. S. Taft, president of
the Garfield and Arthur campaign club, pre-
sided and the exercises opened with music
by the band; Garfield and Arthur cam
paign song, to the time of johnny Comes
Marching Home" by the Glee Club, and
song by Major F. NJ. Clark of Washington,
who took the lead of the vocal music. which
were heartily applauded.
Gov. Taft then briefly and happily intro
cluced Hon. Daniel Roberts, who spoke as
follows:
NJ. EOBEETs's Address.
We are called once more to the breach
and hope for the last time. / hope it is
the last time that the loyal people of this
country will be called upon to settle once
and forever the questions now at issue. Let us
succeed now and the laws of population end
its distribution will settle the questions for
all tine. Last evening you heard distin-
guished citizen of North Carolina-digniied
by the title of Colonel which / consider
an infamy and not an honor won as it was
in fighting against his country-tell You that
you were at war with the scenery of our
Stlte tuhI HotWltilStauulnS tuc DtdutJ VI
our lake and hills and valleys our people
are governed by the spirit of hate. l
deny it. We do hate rebellion - but
we forgive the rebels. We do hate
the principles of slavery. Mr.. Waddell said
that the war is over. True, so far as the
conflict in the field is concerned-it ended
under that historic apple tree at Appommat
tox But is the farmers work ended
when the harvest is reaped? The results of
the war must be preserved. They are in
part secured against what opposition we
know. There was no help from the party
which calls itself Democratic. They say,
why this sectional strife?' They come up
with 1873 electoral votes from the solid South.
How came they by these votes? Partly by
the abolition of slavery and the consequent
enlargement of the franchise. Have they
given these votes TO whom they belong OF
have they stolen them? Many of the States
of the South are Republican on n fair count,
but by bull-dozing and false counting and in
timidation our opponents carry them.
They now say, Give us 4! more
electoral votes and you will give us
the control OF the Government. 1t is not
question of love or hate but of trust and con-
fidence. Are the members of the Democratic
party safer guardians than we of the citadel
of liberty they sought to destroy? Are they
safer guardians of the currency and of our
business interests? People who repudiste
their own debts are not the safest custodians
of the debt of nation. 1t is not safe for US
to entrust the interests of labor to those who
never knew what labor was. Again | say,
Once more to the breach. Applause
The glee club then gave selection and
Mr.. Clark sang Democratic ditty," both
of which were loudly applauded.
Gov Taft then introduced to the audience
Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, who was re-
ceived with enthusiastic applause. General
Woodford spoke somewhat as follows:
GEN woODFoRD's ADDRESS.
There are certain facts in the present can
vass on which thoughtful men cannot dis
agree. One of them is that, whatever are
the moving causes, the South to-day is solid
in the politics of the Nation. We may be-
lieve that South Carolina is rs Republican as
Vermont, and yet We know that South
Carolina will record its vote next November
for the candidate of the Democratic party
We may believe that Louisiana, Alabama
and Arkansas are as Republican as Ohio and
Michigan and Iowa, and yet We know that
those States will record their vote next Nov
ember for the candidate of the Democratic
party The solid South, with the addition
of a very few Northern States, can elect the
candidate of the Democratic party. The
entire nation is now looking to VERMONT and
will take the pulse-beat from your SSeptem-
her election. Let your majority be small
and Gen. Hancock will certainly be elected.
Let it be between twenty and twenty three
thousand and the National contest will be
close. Let it touch twenty-three thousand
and James A Garfield will be elected. APP
plause.
All thoughtful men admit that q triumph
of the Democratic party in November will
put the solid South in control of the Gov
eminent If it furnishes 1888 electoral votes
and the North A. it will have furnished
three-quarters of the capital and will claim
three-quarters of the dividends. Put your
selves in its pIace-would you not pay your
selves for what you lost? If this victory of
the Democratic party is a victory for the
solid South, why should we give it to them?
Why do l dread the solid South? l dread
it in the light of history. With Patrick
Henry, have no lamp by which my feet
are guided save by the lamp of experience.
The Democratic party has ridged the land
with graves and piled up an enormous Ma.
tional debt. Ever since the reconstruction
acts it has attempted to obstruct every effort
TO save the financial credit of the country.
honor sucl, men as Senators Bayard and
Lamar but while one or two Democratic
leaders have been true the great body of the
Southern vote has been against resumption.
The solid South is an organized force against
the business and the industry and the pros
perity of the country. Wade Hampton said
that whether the Cincinnati convention nom-
mated soft-money man or hard-money
man, free-trader or protectionist, he
would get every Southern vote. When that
convention nominated distinguished Union
general, who has no opinion, or at least does
not express it, on the great issues of the day,
Senator Hampton pledged the vote of
the solid South for him. He said they
must vote for the questions for which Lee
and Jackson died. You Northern men put
your confidence In steady work and full
wages. You more than all others need right
treatment Of the questions of money and IL
nance We have peace and prosperity Tut
the Government in the hands of the solid South
and il will l.gisate for its own interest and
silence the industries Of the North.
The methods by which the South is made
solid are the shotgun and the tissue ballot
Mr.. Waddell may say that there Is free
ballot, but the report of the congressional in
vestigating committee shows that one thou
sand colorcd people were whipped and tor
tured and shot TO death by the ku klux In
the State Of North Carolina The Southern
system ia hurtfu to the South itself. In the
midst of all this law breaking the young man
grows up with disregard for the law itself.
This terrible education is worse for the
South than for us and for the Nation. Dix
on was Il good man rs long as his guns were
turned ON their political opponents
when he ran for office against the regular
party nominee he was at once shot. linus
tice breeds injustice. The men of the South
are not only trampling on law but disorgan-
izing the business of their own section |
see before me many men OF foreign birth.
Why didn, you go TO the South. Because
Southern society doesn't welcome labor. |
plead for the South itself 1t has enormous
natural resources but its people, with
their faces turned toward the graveyards OF
the past, refuse to look upon the spirit OF
liberty and labor plead for them, that
the tide of emigration may set in thther.
Shall We trust the Democratic party-the |