Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-05
Senator canklisg's Speech,
At TIE UTICA CONVENTION

I
son is counted to swell representation, anu
vet tho coored vote is trampled out and iS-
nored. TApprause This arrangement gives
to the Southern States but AZ Electoral votes
less than a majority. A new count IS about
to take place. a new apportionment ls 10
be made. Fairly made, the sceptre Will be
taken from the States lately IN rebellion. and
it will pass to the North and to the west.
But with Democratic President next time,
and Democratic Congress to make all these
adjustments, YOU will have an apportionment
under which the Republican Party may not
carry this country again for lO or ~ years
Moreover n close result, however clear, may
lead to disputed Electoral count and open
the door to Il train of evils which no
prophet can forctcll. The last Electoral
count, when one house was Republican and
one Democratic; the extra session. with Its
revolutionary plot the doings in Maine, and
other things, are enough to warn the bilhu
and the deaf Preparations are already on
foot to place the choice of the next President
in the hands ofa Democratic House. a naw
found in a single Electoral certificate OF any |
State, with either of these two Democratic |
houses TO refuse to count it, and the result IS |
given into the hands of the House of Rep
| resentatives, where the election must be made
by States and what do you see: Although
| the House is Democratic, counted by States
it is Republican. And, therefore-yes,
venture to saw therefore-Mr. Washburn, OF
Minnesota, who was elected by more than
1000 majority, and Orth, OF Indiana, are
marked to be deprived Of their seats. why
Because they hold the casting vote in their
delegations Minnesota has a majority oil
Democratic members, and Indiana has
majority of Democratic members; and, II
the election for President is thrown into the
House, the vote being taken by States the
election of the said Democratic President Is
insured.
Have the Republicans of New York no
opinion who, in thepresence oil such crisis'
among the men Rebublicans can trust, Is
most certain to be electcd-most certain 10
be lawfully ard peaceably seated after he IS
elected? Next year when we come to have
counted the Electoral votes we shall need
two things: first, decided, unmlstakable re-
suit and, second, man with the country oe-
hind him, a man in whom this whole country
has so much confidence that no revolution
ary plot or conspiracy will uphit lis hahu 10
strike down his election. Applause.
Now, Mr.. President in the name OF the
history of the last Is years of war and peace,
looking over all of those tragic events tran
spring while the country has been rocked
as in the throes of a political earthquake,
who is there-I ask every member OF this
convention to lay his hand on his heart and
answer-who is there in this broad land
upon whose name, upon whose achievements,
upon whose character and strength, the he
publican Party and the nation, more than
upon any other, can safely repose: ZAP,
plause, and cries of Grant" and Blaine ]
If there is such man, l will fall short IN
the duty assigned to me by the scat which
nv constituents have honored me; every
other member of this convention will fall
short in his duty if there be such man, II
we do not express our judgment and our
convictions accordingly. Mr.. President,
how history does repeat itself. l remember,
and YOU remember, when Abraham Lincoln
was renominated, [applause,l and You re-
member what preceded that denomination
The lights We see now, the sounds we Fear
now were all seen and heard
. then. Newspaper people took canvas
ses of the people, and found that three
) fourths of them were opposed to Lincoln
Anybody but Lincoln Anything to
beat Lincoln. :" The people knew better.
t Everybody knows better than anybody.
} You may have in county, and a republican
t county, corps of trained officers with theii
D salaries in their pockets camped i'll par,ic-
D ular political district, and making their head
, quarters in the saddle, carrying an active
: campaign on the high roads and by-roads iol
5 a month, and you may produce from tiia
I district an anti-Grant or an anti-Lincoln dele
r CATION You may go into metropolitan dis
$ trict YOU may have the question larry stat
o ed and an overwhelming and iInmlstakao'
s verdict for Ulysses ;. Grant Applause
: and then you may find from that very dis
X trict A delegation so skilfully brought 4
Il pass that a majority of them are against him
l. and you may see Il distinguished delegate
r from that district rise in open convention
s and serve notice upon the others that if they
s undertake to throttle or stitle the voice %
Y that district he will revolt in open conven
t tion. All that may be, but,
3 The shadows murmur, while the deeps are dumb.
1t Mr.. President, down below this iiutterin:
I surface, deep down in the hearts and JudS
o ment of this people-broader. deeper. strong
T, cr wiser than words of mine, and, If | mn,
u saw it without offence, than of any othe
II member of this convention-is the con
d science, the judgment, the conviction OF til
masses of the Republicans OF New ork an
y of other States. Do VIC not know that IN
l. Judgment and conviction Of our constiil
l. cntS are that the safest man among all th
eminent men in the Republican Party; th
t safest man first, as 4 candidate in the elec
L. ton. and. second afterward to be lawfully
ic peaceaby. and quietly seated, is that ma
y who carried the flag through the storm q
u battle. and who having been tested an
IT weighed, has been found worthy OF the cor
&c iidence and admiration of the America
e. people? No third term objection to him
u The objection TO a third term is that tn
II occupant of the Presidency can wield hi
III official power TO renominate and elect HIM
y self This man is Il private citizen: he ha
~ no official patronage or power; he mas Dee
:, absent in distant lantls-no able even 10 eN
Il al
SO official patronage, let me say-and | speak i
lr the hearing of men who know 1.-THE oil
oi cial patronage of the nation has not bee
50 used for him Friendship for Ulysses
III Grant is not and ii has not been for MOI
:h than three years, passport 10 official favor
10 therefore no man can suppose that the dai
ger of employing official influence applies
nc a case like this; there is nothing of it. III
ey statutes of our State forbid in all the
iu counties Of the State the reelection OF
Is Sheriff. Why? For fear that holding
pi his hands the instrumentalitics OF the Sheri
III; he NAV Weld them for oppression in order
m mnu re.elcct himself: but was it ever held, whf
ne a man who had been Sheriff had been ont
u Office for term of years. that you mic'
IL not re-clcct him? In this blessed County
IT. Nncida, man who had been Sheriff hefo
3 hos more than once, after another term h'
he ;n,orvcued, been renominated and re-elcC
or ell and ,,obody ever thought of an obJe
NJ t;n, In him. believe that there IS a m'
IN Who more certainly than any other. can W
in Tins next lection. | believe he can p'
Is a l,rrcr vote in the State OF New \ ork TN
's any other man whose name | can spell
ess hrii.vc more Republicans are for HIM TN
pei for any other Republican, and believe ID
on NOR, Democrats will vote for him than W
te, vote for any other Republican. | belle
he that if anv namc-if that of any man-c
i've preaN pre- my o;,hor Vir,inia North Carolin
,p- ,.',,i M T-nI;na ,lahama. or Flarida-evc
if - ~ ,,Iich il , Republican State as mu
by as Massachusetts-Ia applausel- believe
us there be one man, the lustre and glory
NV 'he'N " - ,rhns., ,nSiti