Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-10-15

OF CHICAGO: A geat audienco and n great
city always overwhelm me alike especially
when that city is the twice. builded wonder Of
the world and that audience the sons and
daughters of the Northwest. lApplause.l But
u is not because this marvellous city has risen
twice within the years which / might count
on my hand, and it is not because you are the
builders, that am thus impressed, but be-
cause chicago itself is nothing compared
with that spirit which underlay Its creation,
and yo9 are but the indices of the freedom
which has made the Northwest what It is
Applause 1t is because Of not only what
you are, and of what Chicago is, but OF what
another section Of our country is not, that l
am thus impressed, and / feel called upon 70
ask you here tonight to consider two ques.
tions: Why are you whatyou are2 and why is
the South what Il is2 N
It seems to me that every man, especially
every young man, before casting ballot,
should ask himself this one question:
WHICH OF THE CoNTENDING PARTIES
Of this country will most certainly, most read
tly, most surely and completely subserve my
upon the very basis of our individual inter!
est not that Interest which Is n qualification
OF greed, nor that interest which Is satisfac.
ton of ambition, but that interest which leads
10 the development Of tlie highest manhood
Tor good and glory of the country. And am
the more inclinedto do this from the fact that
an old and honored citizen Of your own State
has recently formulated the reasons which in
duced him at the fifty ninth minute, the
eleventh hour Of his life, TO give the remain.
derto the Democratic party. His words and
ms reasons are worthy of consideration, both
charter member of the Republican party. He
is your Demporatio candidate for Governor
Lyman Trumbull. Applause and hisses.l 1
say that the reasons given by this man for
leaving the Republican party are worthy of
him If we determine the motive to be that of
sincerity, and that we must Judge from the
reasons given. The first reason that he gives
why he first abandoned the Republican party
IS that its claim 70 have saved the Nation, and
TO have put down the rebellion, to have freed
the slave, to have restored peace, is q lie.
IT is A STRANGE CLAIM
70 come from those lips. II IS q strange time
TO make it. The heart and core of his life has
been Republican. The fame which he has
achieved, all that will endure, is Republican
And now he comes with this arraignment Is
the Republican party mas in every convention
by the mouth of the Presidents it has chosen,
by the mouth of every Congressman it has
school house throughout the land, has de.
clared that the putting down of the rebellion
was its policy, and has accepted its response
bihty-all sponsibilities-therefor, now for
the first time comes the claim in the mouth
of Lyman Trumbull, in the mouth of Benia-
min +. Butler, in the mouths of other men by
scores and thousands, that the Republican
party is not entitled to this credit. Nay, my
fellow citizens, they go further, and, with the
that the merit for these benefcent acts-bless
God!-rests with the Democratic party.
Laughter and eppl9use.l They tell us as a
reason therefor that the Democratic Generals
led our hosts to victory; that Democrats
touched elbows with Republicans, and stood
forget to tell us that when they did so, that
when they took the oath of service, they took
also leave of absence from the Democratic
camp for three years or during the war.
Laughter and applause.l They were so far
estranged from the Democracy that we were
compelled to invent q new name to distin-
guish them, and we called them
"wAR DEMOCRATS"
Just as you speak of a"flghting Quaker"
and a Free VIII Baptist" and "white
SaSo & aa1 9oo applause 4 aus
crat was not found in them, From that mo-
ment they fought the Republican fight, kept
the Republican faith and voted the Repubh-
matters not how many of them there were.
Mr., Trumbun tells us that Lincoln received
but 100000 votes in 1850, and he tells us that
there were of volunteers two million seven
hundred and odd thousand-the more the
better. Democracy and. Republicanism of
that time were not to be judged by the men
that left them, but by the men that stayed
with them. Laughter and applause.l The
grand march with which John Brown went on
TO victory, no more eertlhes the patriotism OF
merits of those who stood behind than does
Nhe flight of righteous Lot from Sodom estab-
lish Che character of that city as a good place
20 raise family, Applause and laughter
IT matters not If there was but one Republican
in all that war; the idea which underlay it
was Republican; the spirit which prompted
our resistance was Republican, and we need
lApplause. Thank God, there were
NO "wAR REPUBLICANS"
Laughter and applausel To be a Republi.
can at all was to be ready and willing to fight
it out on that line If it takes all summer ZAP.
pause.l We need not call the roster of oul
braves. Every mans thought and prayer and
hope In the Republican party was upon the
success of that great cause. [Applausel Ev-
cry man throughout the length of this land
that prayed for liberty, and union, and right
and Righteousness, whether he was Union
ist that shut close his door and hung out the
red string from the window before he uttered
his prayer in q whispers. whether 1t was the
colored man than bowed beneath the shadow
of the midnight canebrake; whether It wa,
you people of Chicago in your magnificent
temples-eyery one OF those people prayed
for the Republican party. lApplause.l Ant
every force and power and thought tha
wished well to Confederate success every
heart whose hope was under the stars anC
bars; every bounty. Jumper and deserter; ev
cry man who, fearing draft, looked on the
Canada side of the Falls and sent back tearfu
prayers prayed for Democratic victory
Laughter and applause.l Why, you remem
Der that when Lee came over the mountain
Io%F he soiS tbe e Go HpIi
came was that he might help elect George B
Mcclellan. [Applause and laughterl NJ
rebel ever planned his movements to aid Re
publican success, thank God. Applause.
No Knight of the Golden Circle pleaded fo
our victory. No man dreamed OF poisoning
the aqueducts or contamnating the clothinJ
of hospitals to aid Republican success, Jap
plause'l Fellow citizens, the man who say
that the war to put down the rebellion wa
not, from first TO last, from A to lizard,
REPUBLICAN WAR
IS tolerably economical of the truth. ZAP
plause and laughter.l That is my opinion
anyhowi i may be wrong. "a, voice, "Ho'
other reason why the Republican party ough
not to be trusted, ought not TO succeed, ant
ought not to be counted heir of the old organ
ization; and that reason is that Horace Gree
ley, Mr.. Adams, Mr.. Seward, Mr.. - ah, yes
Mr. Trumbul, have left that party, andthere
upon he tells us the Republican party be
came at once cess pool of iniquity. [Grea
laughter.l II is unfortunate for the Republ
can party, and especially for such organiza
tions as your Club, Mr.. Chairman. that tn
Republican party is party of progress. w
need big funeral every now and then. w
have 60 have it, because the world will NOV
must be crushed under it. A party of progress
always drops its dead carcasses along her
and there. lCheers.l But a party that al
carries its corpses with it. [Applause am
laughter No man likes 20 be fossil, an
the war made heaps s ftn1 81 i0ssiSs: bS Lagghter
great name. The orator who stood in tn
forefront yesterday found himself forgotte
to-day. The statesman who thought he SneV
more than the supreme Being did at HIS ag
Qaughterl found that the new thoughts tina
were crowding upon him-the new question
that were coming up for solution-were pas
his ken, and looked with Jealous eyes upo
these new men. He said, "These things ar
because l wrought through weary years
and the sturdy soldier, stepping to the front
said "rhese things are because fought.
And so one by one we ind some great name
dropping nom the Republican roster. an
an instance Of that dread disease which /
known throughout the country as
A"s SORE HEAD"
Hce he fact that Fo6ng men never leave In
Republican paIty9 Never. Just l0ok over tn
whole list that Democrats claim as convert
men among them. Corpses corpses laugh
teri going into the Democratic graveyard re
newed laughterlP seeking that eternal home Q