Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-19
THE LOCAL CAMPAIGN.
CASSIDY AT TnE COURT HOUSE.

-Au EhtnuS1astlc Me0t1n& onO u Ringing
Speech.
The court house was packed to its
utmost seating capacity and the main and
side aisles were thronged last night in at
tendance upon the Democratic meeting
convened to hear Hon. Lewis c. Cassidy,
Of Philadelphia, speak in behalf of the
Democratic cause. Mr.. Cassidy was es-
corted to the court house from the train
by detachment of the Hancock Legion,
and his entrance evoked long-continued
applause. After being introduced by
Chairman Hensel the speaker began his
address which lasted over an hour and was
listened to with closest attention.
He said he brought to the Democratic
party Of Lancaster the best of good cheer
from every part of the land. At every
point the army is organized and ready for
the charge and the victory. He said also
that he had received telegram from John
Kelly, of New York, who desired him to
say that the Democracy of that city are
entirely united and will present . solid
front to the enemy, and that New York
will surely maintain her place at the head
of the Democratic column.
1t has not infrequently been the fate Of
great generals to suffer defeat at the hands
of inefficient corps commanders, but the
white plume of the great commander who
planned the battle and won the field at
Gettysburg, never yet went down before
the assaults of the enemy, and will not in
the approaching contest. With Hancock
there is no such word as fail.
To tho Republicans present Mr.. Cassidy
said he wished to ask them if they did not
see there had been a change of front ON
the Republican side since COnkling and
Cameron and Logan met Garfield at
his home at Mentor recently? Is it not
apparent that the result Of that visit was
an agreement to re-establish the Grant
regime in 1884? These men despised Gar
field, and should he be elected, they will
get control of the several departments and
rule the government. Do they not boast
of the BOG votes they held solidly for Grant
at Chicago, and has not every movement
made by them from that time to this show
that their one great aim is that the third
term shall yet be perpetratcd
Carl Schurz, in his recent speeches, says
that the Democrats want change merely
for the sake of change. This is not true !:
VIC want change that we may get back
to honest government. Grant inauguratcd
a system Of fraud upon the people that
made his administration a stencil in their
nostrils. Begin with his attorney gen
eral, Landaulet Williams, whose pecula-
tions and corruptions were so unblushing !;
with government money he supplied his
private wants and used public property
and public officials for his private convent
ence. His secretary of the navy carried
Off whole navies, wasted enormous sums
OF government material, and was so deeply
implicated in the Secor swindlc that his
name has gone into history as "SecOr
Robeson - and though his offences were
known to all they were attempted
to be covered up and an investigation
of them prevented. Then there were
the great whisky frands, through
which millions were lost to the govern
ment and when public clamOr finally
compelled an investigation and the prose-
cution of the leaders of the whisky ring
the offenders we're found at the very pOr-
tails of the White House, the presidents s
private secretary, Babcock, being one of
them. The doings of Boss Shepherd and
the District of Columbia ring, and the
safe robbery, and other villainies were adj
verted to by the speaker to show that fraud
existed in every department under Grant
and spread to all parts of the country, de-
moralizing and debauching the people,
and making possible the great fraud the
theft of the presidency which soon after
wards followed. The connection Of Sher-
man and Garfield with this great fraud
was graphically described, together with
the rewards paid by Hayes to tho perjured
thieves who aided in the accomplishment
of the crime. The frauds inangurated
under Grant were carried into Hayes's ad-
ministration, and would he continued
under Garfield should he succeed to the
presidency.
Mr.. Cassidy said he had never believed
for one moment that Garfield had chance
of an election, and did not believe it now.
The American people arc intelligent and
honest and cannot forget the great fraud
and will never put into tho presidency the
one man who more than any other
aided the cOnsummation Of that fraud.
James A. Garfield, having been sent South
facturc fraudulent evidence, returns North
and then becomes membeo of the cleo
toral commission, thus acting as attorney,
witness, jury and judge in the case. Gar
fields only defence for his action was, 1--WE
had the cards in our own hands why should
We not play them; you would have done the
same"
Referring to the declinatiOn by Mr..
Tilden of the Democratic nomination at
Cincinnati on account of advancing years
and i'll health, Mr.. Cassidy said some of
the Republicans claimed that the question
of the great fraud did not come up in the
present campaign. He reminded them
that they had themselves put it in the
fight by nominating as their candidate the
one man, who more than any other secured
the consummatiOn of the fraud.
Mr.. Cassidy next discussed the business
scare that the Republican leaders attempt
ed to inaugurate, and called upon his
hearers to remember that the great bust |
ness panic of 1878 occurred under Grants |
and while the same |
tariff for which they now clamOr so loud |
ly was in operation !; Republicans and the |
tariff had failed to prevent the panic or re-
store prosperity, and it was not until the |
Democratic party came into both houses Of
Congress, and commenced the work of
economy and reform, that the country again |
began to prosper. Secretary Sherman
could not even float his per cent bonds |
until the Democrats came into power. 1t |
is all nonsense to talk about danger to bus |
mess on account of Democratic ascendency.
The Democracy are conservative and law
abiding. They even submitted to the |
great fraud of 1876 rather than unsettle the |
of the country, trusting to time |
and the patriotism Of the people to right |
the wrong. History fails to show like case |
Of fOrDearancc. Had such an outrage been |
attempted in France the streets Of Paris |
would have run with oceans of blood :;
Dr. had it been attempted in England, an