The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1880-08-26
4 ROUSING RALLY.
COL. FoRNEY's SPEECH FOR HANCOCK.

Philadelphia Times: The first ward
was out en- masse last evening to listen to
Colonel Forney. The occasion was the
dedication by the Hancock Legion of
| their new hall.
Colonel Forney began with some ap-
propriate historic allusions, and said:
The hero of Gettysburg who triumphed
in war, now brings the South with him,
not as prisoners, but as friends who
| pledge themselves to maintain the Union
and preserve emancipation. The only
men that remain obstinate and implaca-
BILE are the Republican office holders and
Republican Office seekers, who are unfor-
giving because they are paid to be unfoT-
giving.
1t is the happy fact of the present time
| that while an immense amount of money
is squand cred in what is called the civil
service, there are millions of men who
earn their livelihood, not only by mere
| physical labor, but by their skill of hand,
by applying art to mechanics, by making
industry science, and by elevating what
are called the trades of the day to high
er plane, until the word artisan dignifies
and signifies human product without
parallel.
| 1t is among these millions that [ find
the antidote of the disease of official in
reference in our elections and in the
management of our parties. Do you
think the skilled workingmen of the =.
| S., free to think and fearless to act, in
the present struggle sympathize with tho
! Office holders? Do you think they read
the blghted record of James A. Garfield
and accept the party cry that it is not a
faithful picture of his public life? Do
you think these men have read the thrill
ing history of Winfield S. Hancock with
out enthusiasm? Above all, can you con-
ceive that they are cold and unresponsive
to the present condition of the Southern
people? | know that no class of Ameri-
can citizens have improved more than the
high class of workmen. Before the civil
war these men were largely Democrats:
yet when the war broke out the mass
rushed to the defense of The government
1t Is fact quite reconcilable with this
theory that most of the leading manufac.
turers of the North were old line Wings.
But when the war broke out masters and
men, with very few exceptions, became
Republicans. Now things have been re-
versed, and the Democratic party is re-
ceiving back the contributions it made to
the country twenty years ago, and the
name of General Hancock, like that of
General Jackson, comes to the mind and
to the heart of every intelligent working
man in this country with double charm.
Because Hancock means a higher and
nobler and purer evangelism than party,
and because Hancock means comradeship
and unity of hearts and of hands, the
visible and the invisible relationship be-
tween states and sections, the friendship
that binds the mechanic of Philadelphia
to his friend il New Orleans, to his
friend in San Francisco and to his friend
in Boston. Such are the magicians si-
lenty and resistlessly working to the
same common end.
GENERAL PEARSoN's ADDRESS.
General Pearson of Pittsburg, said: 81
have always been Republican, and come
from Pittsburg, where the party was
founded in 1854 l was an alternate to
the Chicago Convention, but was so dis
gusted at the manner in which Gen.
Grant was slandered that I came home
before the adjournment. I have yet to
cast my vote for Democratic nominee.
The Republican party have so far for
gotten the common decencies of life as
to throw mud at the man who had barred
his breast before the bullet of the enemy.
For this left the party and avowed my
intention of supporting General Hancock.
l have been vilifed and illuminated, but
the result has been to make sixteen of
my relatives 'sfop' over to Hancock. /
have been pronounced disloyal, but
things haye come to strange pass if [,
by choosing to be Independent in action,
am traitor, while Mosby is loyal because
ne is Republican. Garfield is man
With dirty hand and shirked his duty
at the front in order to take place in
Congress"
A STRANGE PLANT.-A curious plant
has been discovered in Wisconsin which
produces kind of cotton and fax from
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