Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-03-11
RINGING WORDS.

RINGING WORDS.
Rafting Speech by an Illinois stalwart.
At the recent meeting in Chicago OF
the Illinois Republican State Commit
tee and prominent members OF the
party, Col. Clark E. Carr, of Galesburg,
electrified the assembly with the fol-
lowing piece of concentrated stalwart.
ism:
SO far as our district is concerned, we have
80 many illustrious statesmen there that we
sometimes have few little disagreements be-
fore the nomination But you have always
found, and you will always find in the future,
that when the great question comes upon
general result, we will be solid for the straight
Republican ticket l have been very glad to
see this disposition manifested Of bringing to-
gether all the patriotic citizens in the great
campaign Since the close Of the war. many
who are as patriotic IS those Of us who have
always voted the straight Republican ticket
have drfted into other Organizations
some even into the Democratic party. 1t is ev-
ldent that 1t ia the deliberate purpose OF the
leaders of that party to inaugurate the candi-
dates they may run for President and Vice
President, whether they be elected or not
From their cries of fraud ever since the action
OF commission which they themselves Gre
sted; from their grumblings. and mutterings,
and threatenings from the remarkable fact
that, Notwithstanding the perils of four years
ago. with good working majorities in both
houses Of Congress-, they have taken no step
In regard to counting theelectoral vote in the
future; from their action in certain States;
from their attempts to turn out Republicans
who were elected, and put in Democrats who
in nr6ar IN ofr han ~,
majorities in Congress-; from all this it is clear
that they intend, and will, il they dare, on the
4th OF March next, inaugurate their candidates
though they be not elected.
This Democratic party, once 30 mighty shorn
OF every virtue and of every patriotic aspira-
ton, has been constant menace to free gov
eminent for quarter Of a century. Besotted
with crimes crazed with hunger blinded with
rage, it is reaching out for the pillars OF state
II it is permitted to grasp them it will bring
down TO destruction this fair fabric of Govern
ment Who can depict the miseries incident to
making solid Southy l would ask for no
greater punishment for Democrat than that
he be condemned to read, as he clings to the
forlorn hope of success in the next election
through the solid South-Iwould ask no greater
punishment for him than that he be condemned
70 reah-if he can read-the history of the
triumphs Of the Ku-klux. And now we see
men and women driven from home and
to that country and to that flag which we
adore; and in the only Northwestern State
controlled by the Democrats they are greeted
with the hludgeon and the pistol. We see
man from chat State who occupies the seat Of
great Senator, whose place the whole Confed-
crate Congress cannot fill-we see that man Or
ganizlng an investigat ng committee to inquire
into the right OF citizens Of State to migrate
into and become citizens OF another
Now, Mr.. Chairman, If l understand the
signs Of the times, the great, patriotic, liberty
loving people Of America have determined to
throttle this monster Of the nineteenth century
the Democratic party. Aroused by simultane-
GUS assaults from every quarter upon the
Sumter OF nationality, putting aside for the
time beipg all questions OF policy and mere OK
pediency, hope and believe that tho patriotic
people will come together, turn out this Con-
federate Congress- and take possession of the
Government l want to see the people of Iii
nois and Of this nation come together, as they
have before in times Of peril, and prove to the
world that this continent cannot be con-
trolled by brutality and by barbarism
want Thorn to show that this great
nation cannot be bulldozed. 1t needs
that no angel from heaven nor devil from hell
should come to tell us Of the bility for evil
of the Democratic party. We have had a long,
bitter, and sorrowtu school Of experience OF
the horrors it has inflc upon this country.
| want the patriotic people Of the country TO
unite, and give such malorities as to over
whelm it in defeat and shame. They who to-
day intend, by their majorites in Congress, to
inaugurste men who were not elected, will
stink away as did those towards in Maine
grateful if their names can be rescued from in
fanny by oblivion.
l hope that we will take all pains in our
power to unite the patriotic people in the cam
psign of 1880. hope thst no Republican will
feel it necessary to apologize for or defend the
Republican party 1t needs no apologsts and
no defenders. 1t is the grandost organization
that has existed in America since the Cont
mental Congress. Let us expose the hideous
enormity OF this Democratic party, and we
cannot fail of success,