Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1880-02-05

VANDERBILT.
have done thus far with those
three pusillanimous, miserable
wretched llce-who pale into con-
tempt before that colossal railroad
highwayman and robber, that
bloody figure of carnage and ruin,
who dines upon the carcase of his
victims, and whose mansions are
built and cemented by the walls, and
the cries, and the blood of the wild
ows and orphans and those VIII 0
perish from the want of starvation.
| refer to the thief Vanderbilt. He
to wants an Emplro. And next up
on the list Is
CYRUS W. FIELD
and tho whole Field crew. Ficld
wants the Empire. But again wo
come to the
REV DR.. HALL,
who dispcnscs giIded religion to
four hundred million dollars every
Sunday morning. HAL says; "It is
terrible, brethren, il is terrible be.
cause of those awful communists.
The miserable fostering, contempu.
bic whelp !-IIow dare he, In this
age OF intelligence, cast stigma on
Gods noble and best freemen-the
workingmcn.
SAM TILDEN.
But last, though not least, is the
fsh-thc political dcyll-fsh with
false teeth, false wig, false heart and
false glzzard, he's got no soul, the
fraud. the bottom fraud, the cipher
fraud, The election fraud, the fraud
of all fraud Sam Tilden. prolonged
applause, laughter, cheers, hsse.
and groans. He stands or sits in
his office like u great spider, with
his suckers spread out all along The
country, fixing and oiling the ma
chime. Yon may feel astonished
that Tllden wants tho empire, but
he IL one of the play-actors in thi,
great drama that to-day is beng
worked unknown to both you and
me. lie ard all his kind arc being
used with the perfect understanding
that the Republican nominee will b,
lnauguratcd if not elected. and the
interests of Tildcn are identical
with tho leaders OF the Republican
party. There is no difference. Thoy
use the people 10 lift themselves in.
to power and to fill their own pocl
els, and we in the past have sub.
mlttcd TO it. | favc seen men al
the polls pulling each others han
out because one was Republican
and the other Democrat.
DIVIDING THE sPoILs.
Little did these poor unfortunate
men know that the thieves, the
: .blooded thieves, who manipu-
lated the machine, met like all 9th.
cr highwaymHn, behind the light
OF a midnight lamp, and there and
then divide the spolls among them.
selves.
My friends l am going to give
you the class of people who want
an Empire and why they want 1t,
and those who don't want an En-.
pre-, and why they don't want It..
In the past, as | have just stated
VIC have been fooled and psychol
oglzed by nice oily tonguod blathcr.
sixties and classical frauds. Iuvarl.
ably they appeal to the intelligence
of the audience
"fou arc intelligent freeman
you know our principles are right ;
vote for mo and it will be all
right And we rushed off to the
polls and voted for these men, whal
did they do? They voted to In
crease their own salaries to com.
mence with /; and the next measure
was, "How shall wo collect the mon.
ey to pay us our saleries" DON'T
you see? And to day they forced
you TO pay money for their protce.
ton while you the people have
oeoh IN inc past, are to day and
will bc in the future, ignored with.
out you make provisions for self.
protection?
Labor pays all taxes. Now q great
many young men are becoming vo-
ters. probably 100000 will
vote next year who have
not had an opportunity of
voting yet. These young men
have been educated in our free
public schools, and on, will sit down
in his room OF an evening and think
of Vanderbilt and his hundred
millions of dollars, and think of
himself and his empty larder; and
he will consider the ballot and say
to himself, "What is this ballot
what does it mean?" And, after
listening to the Labor reformers
who address tho monster meetings
that are being held from one end of
these United States to the other. he
comes 10 the conclusion that thus lit.
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