National Republican., 1880-07-20
BUCKEYE REPUBLICANS.
An Enthusiastic Gathering at Shcldon's
Hall,
Speeches from Hon. s. s. sheliabarger and
General Grosvcnor OF Ohio and Hon.
II. F. Page Of CnIifornin-fho Is
sues OF tho Campaign
FOrcibiy Stated.


a rousng meeting Of the Ohio Republican
association was nold at Shoidons hall last
| evening, Hon. 9. s. Shellabargcr, president of
tho association, In the chair Prior TO com.
mencing business those present were invited
10 enroll their names, and upward OF
100 persons signed. 1t was then an.
! bounced that tho remainder of tho evening
would bo devoted to addrcssts by woll. known
speakers, aud the chair was first called out.
| In response Judge Shellabarger gave history
Of the work performed by the republican
party, especially its financial achievements.
In concluding, he said this country did not
rank among the first OF the world in a fnan.
cial sense, but was tho first
General Charles Grosvenor was next intro.
| ducod. He said II was hcrcsy to say that The
| republican party had been formed for a
| special purpose and WAS then 10 pass
out of existence. This campaign would
demonstrate the fact that it was necessary,
because of the inability of tho democratic
| PARTY TO give good government Twenty
years ago the former had takon what was Lett
by tho last maladminstratiOn of the democ-
racy and led II back into the right path, and
now it was asked 10 surrender all it had
worked and fought for into Tie hands
Of its enemies. Among other duties
it yet had TO perform was 10 ae-
complish the eternal damuation of tho dcnoc.
| racy. This was one of the causes Of its
birth, aud after laying the party out it must
stand by its ashes and eXtiuguish any signs of
revival. The campaign would be one of
| intellect What was called the bloody shirt
issue" naturally followed the war. bot WAS
now done away with 1t came ont of the war
| and had to be fought out. Tho democratic
party would mover again attempt to settle II
question on n battlefield, but seek by
trickory what it had lost. At the
beginning Of tho war the democracy as
serted that the constitution was merely an
article Of copartnership and any state that
| DC sired 10 do 50 could 20 out of the union aud
| should not be cOorccd. This same spirit was
alive to-day, for had not the southern briga-
dicrs recently declared that congress could not
| legally enforce II law against tho will Of q
state 1t used TO be thought that all that
was necessary was TO nominate popular mau
| for the presidency and the masses would FOL.
low him, no matter what his principles were
| This was all changed now candidates were
| not of vital importance, but party rights
| and party supremacy. He paid high tribute
| TO General Garfield, whom he styled the "in-
carnation of American citizenship" On the
othor hand, when llanc Ock, the present mes
siah Of the democratic party, WAS killing tho
| friends OF that party on Cemetery hill at
| Gettysburg, the very men who now support
| him were fighting him in the roar and de.
mandiug that the war should cease. The re-
| publican party was going forward for the coun. &.
| try's good, while tho democratic party
was just the reverse. However, the latter
was good imitator and followed behind tho
republican party picking up what it dropped
| In 1868 the democracy declared tho constiti-
tional amendments fraudulent and now, al
though only twelye years had elapsed, they
! took the other tack. said that they worn right
and that it had always supported them Their
present candidate had never voted tho
democratic ticket, but in 1864 cast his
vote against Mcclellan and in favor OF
Lincoln. He had been nominated at Cincin.
natl by the rebel brigadiers who suddenly
e-."ai,4A Great admirnti,,, lar a man WHO
had trampled over thousands of their follow.
| ers at Gettysburg and Spottsylvania. This
meant something else than love for a union
soldier. They had not abandoned tho idea of
q raid upon the United States treasury, but
had simply discarded tho old crowbars, Thur
man and Tilden, and selected bright,
shining jimmy In Hancock to force tho
bolts. Any man who fought in 1861
| 20 Kill the democratic party and then
Joined its ranks must incur the pom
atty for such action. General Garfield repre-
sentod his party aud its principles in the
fullest sense, while Hancock represented moth
| Ing. He was simply sham. For twenty
years he and his soldiers had kept them out
of power and now from the barrenness of
their hopes they select him for II standard
bearer. The campaign had now resolved
itself into the fight of an honest
party with strong platform against
a demorlized ono striving to hoist
| itself into power uuder false colors.
Atthe conclusion ofhisremarks, Gen Grosvo.
nor was enthusiastically cheercd, after which
Hon. Henry Il. Page was introduced. lie said
the issue was not Garfield or Hancock, but
whether the grand principles Of the party that
had brought tho country up TO its present
standard should bo cast aside and turned
over to an enemy who had sought
to destroy it. The policy of the re-
publican party had been sustained by
the people Of this country for twenty voars
and they were too sensible to make a chaneo
now. Every democratic convention north or
south since 1861 had claimed that tho povern
ment had no right to coercc state when IL
wanted to secede, and this was what thov we're
fighting for now. He predicted that Indiana
would redeem herself in October, and that
California would give a larger majority for
Garfield than she did for Hayes. Oregon
had sounded the slogan, and before
the sun went down on the event.
ful day in November the news wonld
be sent from the shores of the Pacific to the
Atlantic seaboard that the north had arisen
from its seeming lethargy and met and con.
quered the south rs IL had fifteen years ago.
There was no disguise attempted. In this
contest tho north would again be called upon
TO meet solid south, and she would do with
her in so as she did in GO. Wade Hampton
had sounded the keynote at Cincin.
natl, and solid south meant
solid north. After tho next election
tho IIamptons, Lamnis aud Gordons would
not be the leaders in tho senate of tho United
states. The party that had cared for and pro-
tccted tho people would be retained in power
and the rebel brigadiers and their followers
sont back and kept in their solid south.
When Mr.. Page concluded a vote thanks was
rendered the speakers, and the meeting not
being in the hgmor for business, adjourned.
JULIUS LANsDURGH, the only importer of
China mating in the District.