Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-11-01
colonel Ingersol in Wall Street.

meeting Of business men in Wall Street.
Thursday afternoon The following is part
of his remarkably brilliant and telling
| speech:
WHAT WOULD Follow HANcocKs ELECTION
! You know in Wall Street, there are some
men always prophesying disaster; there are
some men always selling ''short. Laugh
fer. That is what the democratic party Is
| doing to-day. You know as well as do that
| if the democratic party succeeds, every
kind of property in the United States will
depreciate C''That's so; true enough ]
You know it. There is not man on the
/ street who, if he knew Hancock was to be
/ elected would not sell the stocks and bonds
of every railroad in the United States
short" laughter l dare any broker
here to DENY it. There is not man in Wall
or Broad streets, or in New York. but what
| knows the election of Hancock will depre-
ciate every share of railroad stock. every
railroad bond, every Government bond, in
the United States of America. And if you
know that, say it is crime to vote for
Hancock and English. Loud cheers.
| belong to party that is prosperous when
the country is prosperous. That's me.
| daughter. / belong to the party that be-
| lieves in good crops; that is glad when a
|
there are forty bushels of wheat 10 the acre :;
that laughs when every railroad declares
dividends: that claps both its hands when
every investment paws: when the rain falls
for the farmer when the dew lies lovingly
upon the grass. belong TO the party that is
happy when the people are happy; when the
| laboring man gets So a day; when he has
roast beef on his table, Laughter:l when
he has a carpet on the floor; when he has a
picture of Garfield on the wall. Laughter
and applause. belong TO the party that is
happy when everybody smiles; when we
have plenty of money, good horses [''that's
you,"l good carriages; when our wives are
happy and our children feel glad. Loud
applause belong to the party whose BAN
ner floats side by side with the great flag of
the country; that does not grow fat on de-
feat Laughter. The dem-cratic party is
party of famine; it is good friend of an
early frost [laughter]: it believes in the Col
orado beetle and in the weevil. Renewed
laughter. When the crops are bad the
democratic mouth opens from ear to ear with
smiles of joy: it is in partnership with bad
luck; friend Of empty pockets; rags help
it. lam on the other side. The democratic
party is the party of darkness; belong to
the party of sunshine. and to the party that
even in darkness believes that the stars are
shining and waiting for us. Applause.
Why THE REPUBLICAN PARTY SHOULD BE
SUPPORTED.
Now, gentlemen have endeavOred to give
YOU few reasons for voting the republican
ticket; and have given enough to satisfy
any reasonable man. And you know it.
daughter Don't you go with the demo-
cratic party, young man. You have got a
character to make You cannot make it as
.t.o b,-p SCH a
luton. daughter. If our father voted the
democratic ticket that is disgrace enough for
one family. Roars of laughter. Tell the
old man that YOU can stand it no longer. Tell
the old gent that YOU have made up your
mind to stand with the party of human
progress and if he asks you why you can
not vote the democratic ticket, you tell him
every man that tried to destroy the Govern
ment, every man that shot at the holy flag in
heaven. every man that starved our soldiers,
every keeper of Libby, Andersonville and
Salisbury, every man that wanted to burn the
negro, every one that wanted to scatter yell
low fever in the North, every man that op-
posed human liberty, that regarded the auc-
ton block as an altar and the bowling of the
blood hound as the music of the Union, every
man who wcpt over the corpse of slavery,
| that thought lashes on the naked back were a
legal tender for labor performed. every one
willing to rob mother of her child-every
solitary one was democrat" Applause. |
Tell him you cannot stand that party. Tell
him you have to go with the republican
party; and if he asks you why, tell him it
destroyed slavery; it preserved the Union
it paid the national debt; it made our credit
as good as that of any nation on the earth.
T'sBetter," and applause. Tell him it makes
a per cent. bond worth 81. 10; that it salts
ies the demands of the highest civilization
that it made it possible for every greenback
to hold up its hand and swear: Il know that
my Redeemer liveth." Laughter and ap-
plause Tell the old man that the republi-
can party preserved the honor of the nation
that it believes in education; that it looks
upon the schoolhouse as a cathedral. APP
plause Tell him that the republican party
believes in absolute intellectual liberty: in
absolute religious freedom, in human rights,
and that human rights rise apove States Tell
him that the republican party believes in hui
mainly, justice, human equality, and that the
republican party believes this a nation for
ever and ever Applause that an honest bal
lot is the breath of the republicans life
T''good. good"l that honest money is the
blood of the republic, and that nationality is
the great throbbing beat of the heart of the
republic. Great cheers. Tell him that
flag that the patriots North carried upon the
battlefield of DEATH Cheers. Tell him
you are going to be true to the martvred
dead; that you are going to vote exactly as
Lincoln would have voted were he living.
I"Good, good" and cheers. Tell him that
every traitor dead, were he living now. there
would issue from his lips of dust, "Hurrah
for Hancock" laughter that could every
patriot rise he would cry for Garfield and lib
erty [cheersl tor union and for human
progress everywhere. [Great cheers Tell
him that the South seeks to secure by the
ballot what it lost by the bayonet l'No, no,
never"]: to whip by the ballot those who
fought it in the field. But we saved the
country, and we have got the heart and
brains to take care of it. TCheers.] I will
tell you what we are going to do. We are
going to treat them in the South just as well
as we treat the people in the North CGreat
cheers. Victors cannot afford to have NAL
ice. CHEERS The North is too magnani-
nous to have hatred. CHEERS We will
treat the South precisely as we treat the
North. Applause. There are thousands
of good people. "Good. Good" and
cheers. Let US give them money to improve
! their rivers and harbors; l want to see the
sails of their commerce filled with the
breezes of prosperity Tcheers1 their fences