The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-10-14
what Is 4. that makes CHICAGO what she is to-

night7 Answer me that question. sir. Where
do you get your Life? Chicago draws into this
sn' Mss g q the
little republic, republic that nurses men IN
to freemen. that makes men strong and free
forward upon some petty question and says:
Here, I have a thought Tor you. my neigh:
By by that he learns @ i his i strength and his man
hood, and II Is the absence of that system or
any GO. relative Of that system W whieh has M made
why slavery should have been abolished at
the North than at the south. The idea that ft
cry Is not profitable anywhere; but It was as
apparently profitable in one place as anoth-
North made slavery impossible. At the South
we are not troubled with any such thing.
man asked me the other day. and 1 was glad
ed men in at the South so easily. Well, now,
will tell you il Is one of the easiest things in
either-not a BIT. We do not have any thing
like townships there that elect Justices of the
elect Constables, or any of those local officers.
They are all appointed either by the GOV
ernors or the predominant party In the Leg
islatures- Take North Carolina for instance.
The Democratic parry In that Legislature ap-
points $500 observation-disclosures OF the
ceaSev thosa ates sne ~ ase nee se I'M ee toy
gether. and they elect the County Commision-
ers. and they appoint the Inspectors of Elec-
ton, and they appoint the School Committee
men, and they appoint the Road masters, and
they appoint every thing that any body else
appoints almost. Now you see that makes
peace in the family. Every man with n ballot
Is the appointee of a Democratic board. Well,
Il keeps trouble out II makes the thing easy:
Republicans on the Board there?" Why.
bless God yes, lots of them, and almost always
and the others do the counting. IL is because
the South is a centralized Government, be-
made the North free and intelligent, that she
Is " hat she is. 1 tell you, people of Chicago,
II the South had been settled by men who
brought that old idea of self government that
came over in the Maynower, If It had been
settled by such men, half the Northwest
owe your existence as a city such as You are q
city rat outgrows its own Dragging. ILaugh.
south never had free @ government cove m @ tim in her bor e
der. With the finest climate, with the most
magnificent opportunities, she goes on grow:
Intolerance fastens on her heart just as the
gray moss fastens on her oaks. There is no
seuse She iscks C the installations Of Oft the North.
Now,
WHAT DOES THE REPUBLICAN PARTY PROPOSE:
Coming back to this question. say am al,
said We're the two greatest onensss Of that
man whom he prosecuted before the Roman
Senate. He said that he had oppressed the
allies of Rome. and in sight of the Roman
Il
publican party has seen the allies of the Ma
ton murdered by the thousand, and scourged
9Ts 1wn sS s ase xSa. isn
told me. have seen hundreds of bleeding
blacks % have seen @ I'm many & z mangied form n,,
that ku klux in their midnight array; and q
finer body of cavalry ! never saw upon the
battle-field. know what speak OF; I do
not insult your intelligence, however, by call
ing your attention to q part when the terrible
shs
the logical outgrowth of a lack of self govern
ignorance, poverty, intoierance-a Chi.
nese wall set up against the stranger
yh1. dSs sns e aSen
shen ns il Said Peace Is and W even the
uncharitable as Mr.. Lyman Trumbun when
he said: Gould impudence go farther than
that the Rebel should ask to rule the Ma
rule the Nation II he would do It fairly. We
were always willing he should have the power
bullet. III But the Republican party says and md
means that there is no use of putting the bal:
whip I'm the other scale. That is what we
complain of. Now, what remedy does the
Republican party ofer1 All. that Is the beau
here in Chicago, and, catching the very spirit
and essence of the Nazarene's religion. IL says
the Nation. i we Si pledge % our own @ prosperity"
For what? "To give &C the ignorant of the
Ssaa nossr since
declared for freedom. And now. fellow -citi.
zens, let me say to you that that
EDUCATION MEANS DEATH TO KU-KLUxIsM.
death to intolerance. Il kills the rife club
and that IS the significance of the Repubiican
party to-day-that we meat TO make the
we are at the North Is that hate9 II it be,
God grant that Il may forever more abound.
Is that sectionalismS II it be. God grant tina.
freedom to Nation bound in the chains OF
Chairman, there Is no such thing as avoiding
It. Il may not come to day; it may not be
that the American people are yet enough
awake; but IL is as certain to como as God is
n have We waited Wal long. the colored man has waited
deep down below ali this runs the river OF hu
man liberty and free thought, and that is
what the Republican party means shall pre-.
vail. And so II has put two self made men at
the head of its ticket. thank God that they
are there. 1 hope that the North will never
vote for q man for President who has not at
some time of mis- life
EARNED HIS DAILY BREAD.
loud applause.1 want that his hands
should have blistered or his brains shonld
have sweat before he is counted worthy to
stand at the head of our column (Applause.
We have two men of that stamp, and we have
the rich soil of free thought. I will not refer
to our leader; he has been most eloquentiy
pictured here tonight; but 1 want to call
your attention to that man whom i suppose
the General. being his townsman, was toe
modest to refer to; that man, whom am al
most as proud to greet rs our leader as Gen
Garfield himself. Chester A. Arthur. Loud
apPlause.i say am glad of 1t, not becaus:
he Is a man of the most equable temper; not
because he Is a man of the most refined and
cultivated character, but because he is man
who has faced violence for principle. DC
YOU remember the first act of his public life
when he came STRIPPING to the Bar OF
New York City, and went into the prison and
took by the hand colored man condemned
to be rendered back into slavery. and led him
into the temple of Justice, and after one of the
most gallant fights in our legal annals, sent
him forth, soul redeemed from bondage:
loud applause.1 am glad that the Repub-
fican party has remembered to put one there
whose life Is linked with liberty In that first
struggle. am glad that we put these men,
both of them representing this great idea
upon that magnificent platform, and say tC
the Solid South we mean that the North shall
be as solid as the South until every free boy
along the Appalachian range may come up tC
honor, may come up to preferment, may come
up to knowledge, may come up to excellence
as easily as have these men-the product oi