Daily Republican., 1880-01-31
A YOU'VE DOUGLAS.
a Sen OF the Late stephen A.
DoaglAs hpeaks.

IA Sen OF she Late stephen A
DeasIas speaks.
Stephen A Douglas, Jr., = son OF tn
Little Giant, whom ths son greatly re
ssmblss, has been lecturing recently Il
Central and Southern Illinois, the fol
wing being an extract from his speecl
a. made before q large audience in Mat
toon, last week, and reported in th
journal" Of that city:
lam 3 stalwart Republican. Natu
rally enough, could be expected to fee
q warm affinity for the Democrats
party. Every association Of my boy
hood and every atom Of respect for LILY
| father made II so. After the war
went to North Carolina to settle the es
tate OF my mother, which did not re
uire much work, for between the ra
wages OF the war and the bankrup
courts, little was left.
When went there | was predjudicet
in favor OF Democracy, and oonsid
cred myself q most enthusiastic anc
loyal Democrat. On the principles o.
that old party, believed. rested the
true foundation Of our Government,
and in the party that had always ad.
vocated them | expected to see them
perpstusted. As time wore on and
made the acquaintance Of Democracy aa
interpreted In the South, / wondered
how the word came to be 80 effsotuslly
lost. II was the course Of those who
misre presented themselves as Demo-
Gratis that converted and msds me q
Republican. However | still claim to
adhere to three great principles on
which my father based his political
creed: These are First, loyalty to
the country; second, hard money, and
third, the sovereignty Of the people.
The idea OF this third principle is that
the majority shall rule. This is disrs
garded In the South, ald thorein is ,he
cardinal principle Of my fathers Dem
ocracy constantly being set aside.
At leas. 40, 900 fraudulent votes were
counted against rs In North Carolina.
Before the election, Jim Vance, the
Democratic candidate for Governor, ad-
mitted that II Judge Settle, his oppo.
mont, received 98, 600 votes in the State,
which was the hgure claimed Tor him
by his Republican supporters, he
(Vance) was defeated. The Republi-
can vote Eas 10, 900, and the Demo-
Gratis made theirs 123, $50. | would be
willing to swear that in my own ooun-
~ 600 more voters we're returned than
there are voters In the county. ! knew
the people OF the county thoroughly,
b ad canvassed 1t several times myself,
and knew exactly what the lawful vote
ought to be. They turned out the
grave-yards and had them all back
again before the polls closed.
The people OF North Carolina and in
fact most of the SOathern States, are
purely local in their politics. They
will often take much more interest in
the choice of q Constable than Presi-
dent. In that campaign the interest
centered in the contest for Governor.
Little comparatively was said about the
President because the people did not
take so much interest In that branch of
the CONTEST. Yet the Democrats con-
trived to pat Tilden's vote several
thousand ahead OF their candidate for
which every man in the
5 ate knows must have been by fraud.
Speaking of the candidates for l'resi-
dent, MIR. Douglas said: "The people
Of the South want Grant. They have
in him. They believe that
he will furnish the protection that the
Republicans need. They do not say
Just how they expect him to regulate
things, but they think he can and will
10 IL. Blaihe's opposition to the'Forcs
bill Injuries him with the Republicans,
and. while they admire him for his
bold utterancss and gallant course, yet
hey want Grant. Grant is their man.
Every Southern man who has Q diff
,ulty with another and gets worsted,
,as a respect for his successful oppo-
lent.
That ia the case with the feeling for
}rant. He never says or does anything
nat any body can make handle OF,
md seems always to do lust the right
hing without any parade or ostenta-
ion. Just take that Dennis Kearney.
Everybody stood back in amazsment At
he boldness of the demsgogue and
and actually felt apprehen-
i've that he would lead the laboring
,eople of the country to do some dread
ul thing.
But when Grant reached San Fran
is,o, and Kearney sent up his card,
irant quickly sent it back with in
fractions to say, that II Kearney rep
ss ented a political party be did not
i'm to see him. II he was simply one
4 the people he could attend the pub
10 reception That settled K-arnsy.
Ie has been steadily gliding into OBJ
curity ever since that time. Grant
lever hops. The South believes he can
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