Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-10-29

| and example OF long line OF DemOcratlc
JEFF Davis says II is not for him TO say when
| the Democratic party Will go back 70 It's old
pwSRSds %mn she SGTa1o one% o wRSay S
| the doctrines and traditions of the Democratic
party, as taught by a long line OF statesmen
| and PATRIOTS"
THEY BOTH MEAN THE SAME THING.
| Who do they mean when they say that they
pledge themselves to tho Constitutional doc
trines and the traditions of the Democratic
party ms taught by a long line of statesmen
| and ratfiotsY They don't mean Judge Trum.
bull, do they? [Lpughter.l They don't mean
John NJ Palmer, do they2 They don't mean
any of our new born Democrats that have left
the Republican party; they have no reference
to them. Who did they refer to; who were
those old Democratic statesmen and patriots?
Judge Trumbull and | are both alike; they
| don't refer to either of us-they don't refer to
while a Democrat; he never got to be states
man until he left the Democracy and went to
where man could be statesman llaughterl
but they refer to such men rs Franklin
Pierce. to such men as James buchanan, TO
such men-I won't say JEFF Davis, but will
say Lamar and Singleton, of Mississippi, and
| Hunter-I will say that class of men because
| they were leaders when the Democratic party
went out of power, and the same class OF men
are leadersito day of the Democratic party.
| They are the men that control the Democrat
| ic party to-day, that are embraced within
these sentences that have read might go
farther back and take in Calhoun, but they
would object TO that. lLaughter.] SO will
| merely take in class of men that they can't
object to-a class of men that control the
| Democratic party day, the men who were
in the Convention that nominated their can
| ddates, the same men that drew up the plat.
| form of that Convention, and the same men
that indorsed the platform OF 1886; they are
the same men that declared secession consti.
| tutiOnal; they are the same men that promul
gated the doctrine that slavery was universal
and freedom the exception; they are the same
| men that control the party to day; and when
Judge Trumbull says the Democratic party
| have left their traditions and doctrines and
joined him, he knows that he makes mis-.
| take; he knows that he is dodging; he knows
that he does not state it exactly rs he would
| state it if he was under oath; and n man talk
| ing to his people ought to state things as hon
estly as If he was on oath.
senator Logan then reviewed at some
| length the financial questions ut issue, the
| Constitutional amendments and southern
war claims Passing on to the question of
| candidates he said:
Then they give us another reason why they
ought to have control of the eGovernment-be-
cause, they say, they have nominated an hon.
est man for President hope they have. 1t
one honest man in the party. Laughter.
They also say they have nominated him be-
| cause he is statesman and
| BECAUSE HE Is A SOLDIER.
Well, he was soldier; admit 1t. l have
nothing to say against him as such. have no
charges to prefer on that account: But when
they say he is n statesman deny it. say that
| he is rs far from stasesman as any man in
| his party. He was not nominated because lie
|
cause he was soldier. They could have
| nominated him any time in the last fourteen
years If they had wished to do it, because he
| was a soldier, for he has been candidate be-
fore every Democratic Convention from 1864
up to the last one, and he could have been
| nominated because he was Il soldier at any oil
| these Conventions. But let us see If he Is q
| statesman. | say not, l say that he is Il dis
| obedient man to the law. say that Hancock
nullited the law; that he did not obey the
| laws, and l can prove it, In 1867 and 1868
when he was sent to New Orleans to execute
| the Reconstruction acts in the States of Lou
isiana and Texas, he denied the lawful power
| under the Reconstruction acts. He denied the
power of Congress to pass the Reconstruction
acts providing that no person who was en-
| gagged in the rebellion should hold Office un'
der those acts, and when Phil Sheridan had
turned out the Levce Commissioners be
cause they were rebels-not only
rebels, but plunderers-when he turned
those officers out in New Orleans, Gen. Han
cock issued an order revoking SheTidan's or
der, and undertaking to put those rebels bacl
Gen. Grant, his superior officer, issued an or
der revolSing Hancock's order and preventing
those rebels from taking possession of the of
tice under Hancock Applause.l Was tha
the act of "a statesman Statesmen are sup
posed to obey laws as well as make them
Gen. Hancock was nominated because he de
clined to obey those laws, and not because III
was statesman because he was nullitier o
the laws; because he was opposed to negro
supremacy, as he called it.
Gen. Garfield, it is true, was not reared a!
an aristocrat Hancock was Hancock wa
educated by the Government. find no taul
with him for that. He was on the charity o
you and myself and of this country when III
was a boy at school mt West Point. You pait
for his schooling. He was born in Pennsyl
the United States Army. He went into tn,
army and fought well; nobody doubts it
What else would he have done? viii an.
man tell me where else he would have gon
except to follow the line of his promotion
except to go where he could get promotion
By going there he was made Major General
I 10 rt xtfif nItIrl md nf la HHyu
not on the charity of the Nation; he was no
educated from the drippings of the Treasur!
poor boy, the son of a widowed mother, on
little forty acre tract of land, trying to maxi
II living for herself and children by digging il
the earth, by working day by days work, anC
to school He swept out school rooms, ant
by this he got common school education
With indomitable energy he worked his wa,
onward, now farming, now cutting
cord wood, now working on n canal
he went on until he got none
President of n college, from that became
, General in the army, from that member o
Congress, from that q United States Senator
and from that candidate for President of tn
United States. In this man, my countrymen
you find the
TYPE OF AN AMERICAN CITIZEN,
directed by his genius his brain, his energy
his worth under free school SYSTEM in on
free republic where all men have equal rights
[Great applause There is no grander maj
in America to day as type of an American
statesman than James A. Garfield. Associates
with him is Chester A. Arthur, man whom
have known long and well II soldier; II law
J yer; the man who was one of the first in NeN
York City who dared stand up before Il cour
and insist on the unconstitutionallty of tn
Fugitive Slave law. [Great applause. Ches
I ter A. Arthur isone of the first men and one @
, the best lawyers in this country, although h
has not for Il few years been practitioner
He is an able man and he is a good mar
They may say What they please, he stands a
|
breathcs the breath of life, and you will hea
, that and knowit when the voting time comes
lApplauso.
: Now, then, my fellow citizens, here ar
: their records; here are their platforms; her
: ! are their candidates; and here is our record
l here is our platform, and here are our candi
4 dates. 1t is for you to say
: WHICH OF THESE PARTIES
, and which of these candidates will best sub
i serve the interests Of this country. # 20
: want to go back to the days of State banks
, vote the Democratic ticket. If you want +
! go back to the days OF free trade and stagna
: ton of business vote the Democratic ticke
I the Democratic ticket. If you want to go bac
= | TO the days when the Government could nc
collect revenue enough to pay its running eG
penses, vote the Democratic ticket. If 20
. want to go back to the Constitution as 1t wa!
| without its amendments, vote the Democrat
! ticket. II you want to go back and rescind IA
the Reconstruction acts, vote the Democrat
ticket. III you want to 20 back to the day
. when barbarism fiourished and civilizatio
|
$ II you want to go back to the days of Law
II that make men equal to slaves in degradation
: vote the Democratic ticket. If you want
go back to reversal of the constitution
amendments and to the days when men wei
. degraded, when men put their feet upon I'll
y necks of their fellow men, vote the Demo
7 cratic ticket.
!. After referring briefly to the Democrat
Q candidate for Vice President, Senator Loga
o continued:
o These are the candidates offered to us /
y the Democratic party; but, my countryme
u the Republican party have proposed Il tick
y also. We do not offer n candidate for Pres
J; dent merely because he is soldier or mere
q because he Is "a statesman, but because he
!, both. We propose to the American people
8 man who is just as good soldier rs Winfield
!. Hancock; man that is a scholarly man,
u man of brains,
- IMAM WHO WEARS LARGE HAT
1 [laughterl, man that does not buy cloth I
g the acre to make his pantaloons, but If
,t buys any thing by the acre 1t is a hat. "
j. take a man who is not only n scholar, a p
d tT1ot and a soldier, but a statesman. When
V say statesman mean 1t in the true sense
II the term, for he has but few peers as state
IA man in this country. These one horse cal
teiOne Democrats flauphtprl that 20 arouI