Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-10-29

- corrupt anu DISHONEST ho cunt stay in II
any longer Great God what pure man ho
- isn't hef Laughter and applause why,
he is ono Of those who Will be- trHns "a.
llnnghtorl He Is too pure for this earth on.
Now, ] say that the Democracy are the Same
party that they were IN 1850, Our friend
Judge Trumbull, and those other gentlemen
that have mentioned, say they are not Lot
us see. don't pretend to say that Jef Davis
belongs 20 the Democratic pnrty. won't ac.
cuse the Democratic party of being governed
by him, because he n not an American citizen
| llnughtcrl, ana Of course he don't govern any
bodyi but want 70 read paragraph from
York Worid, July ", 1878. speaking of tile
! Democratic party finally getting control OF
this Government, he says.
How or when restoration Of the Govern.
Inont TO the principles and the practices OF
the early period may be accomplished II ia
not given to us TO i0resee. / have snid we
! could not fOrCsee how or when this may be
brought to pass but II is not so difficult to de.
termine what means nro needful to secure the
result "
Now take the Democratic platform adopted
! at Cincinnati. The first paragraph Is this:
I'VE pledge ourselves anew to the constitu.
! tiOnal doctrines and traditions OF the Demo.
cratic party, as illustrated by the tenchinps
and example of Il long line of Democratic
statesmen and patriots"
JEFF Davis says It Is not for him to say whom
the DemOcratig party win go back to its old
! principles, ann the Democratic party say
" We pledge ourselves anew" TO what? "To
the doctrines and traditions Of the Democratic
! party, rs taught by long line of statesmen
and patriots"
THEY BoTH MEAN THE SAME THING.
! Who do they mean when they say that they
pledge themselves to the Constitutionnl doc.
! trines and the traditions of the Democratic
| party as taught by a. long line of statesmen
and EUuiOtsy They don't mean Judge Trum.
| bull, do they? lLuughter.l They don't mean
John NJ. Palmer, do they? They don't mean
any of our newborn Democrats that have left
| the Republican party; they have no reference
| to them. Who did they refer to- who were
| those old Democratic gtNtpsTupn and nut1ipf q
| They don't mean me. lLaughter.l Hence
! Judge Trumbull and | are both alike; they
| don't refer to either Of us-they don't refer to
| Irumbull, because he was not Il statesman
| while Democrat; he never got to be a states.
| man until he left the Democracy and went "a
| where man could be a statesman laughter
but they refer 70 such men as Franklin
| Pierce, to such men ns James buchanan, tC
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 purity
| went out of power, and the same class of men
are leaderssto day of the Democratic party
| They are the men that control the Democrat.
| &c party to day, that are embraced within
| these sentences that have read. l might 60
| farther back and take in Calhoun, but they
would object to that. Laughtcr.l So viii
merely take in n class of men that they can't
| object to-a class of men that control the
| Democratic party to-day, the men who were
| in the Convention that nominated their can,
| didates, the same men that drew up the plat,
| form OF that Convention, and the same men
/ that indOrsed the platform of 1856 ftc7f arc
| the same men that declared secession llusti
/ tutional; they are the same men that promul.
gntSsG g tIlY uoGtIlile lllut slltVeIy WIS uhlNers
and freedom the exception; they are the same
/ men that control the party to. day; and when
| Judge Irumbull 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 dOdping; he knows
that he does not state it exactly as he would
| state IL If he was under oath; and a man talk.
ing to his people ought to state things as hon.
estly as II he was on oath.
senator Logan then reviewed at some
] length the financial questions mt issue, the
Constitutional amendments and Southern
war claims. Passing on to the question oi
candidates he said
Then they give us another reason why they
ought to have control of the Govcrnment-be.
cause, they say, they have nominated an hon.
est man for President. l hope they have. 1t
would be very strange if they couldn't find
one honest man i'm the party. Laughter.
| They also say they have nominated him be.
cause he is Statesman and
BECAUSE HE Is A SOLDIER.
Well, he was a soldier; admit It. I have
nothing to say against him as such. l have no
charges to prefer ON that account But when
they say he is n statesman deny It. say that
he is MS far from stasesmun rs any man I'm
his party. He was not nominated because he
was statesman; he was not nominated be.
cause he was a soldier. They could have
nominated him any time in the last fourteen
! years if they had wished to do it, because he
| was soldier, for he has been II candidate be-
! fore every Democratic Convention from 1864
up to the last one, and he could have been
nominated because he was a soldier Mt any OF
these Conventions. But let US see If he IS a
statesman. l say not say that he is q dis
obedient man to the law. l say that Hancock
nullited the law; that he did not obey the
laws, and can prove it. In 1867 and 1868,
when he was sent 10 New Orleans to execute
the Reconstruction acts in the States of Lou.
isinna 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 LcYee Commissioners be-
cause they were rebels-not only
rebels, but plundcrers-when he turned
those officers out in New Orleans, Gen. Han.
cock issued an order revolIing Shcridan's or.
der, and undertaking to put those rebels back
in office, and he would have done 1t had not
Gen. Grant, his superior officer, issued an or.
der revoSing llancock's order and preventing
| those rebels from taking possession of the OF
flee under Hancock applause. Was that
the act of n 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 he
was statesman; because he was Il nulliherOi
the laws; because he was opposed to negro
supremacy, as he called 1t.
Gen. Garfield, It is true, was not reared MS
an aTistOcrat. Hancock was Hancock was
educated by the Government. find no fault
with him for that. He was on the charity OF
you and myself and of this country when he
was n boy at school ut West Point. You paid
| for his schooling. He was born in Pennsyl-
vania; he belonged to the Northern wing OF
| the United States Army. lie went into the
army and fought well; nobody doubts it,
What else would he have donG2 viii any
man tell me where. else he would have gone
except to follow the line OF ms promotion
except to go where he could get promotion;
By going there he was nude Major General.
1t is different with our candidate. He was
not on the charity of the Nation; he was not
educated from the dlippings OF the Treasury
of the United States. Our candidate was 4
poor boy, the son of n widowed mother, on Il
little forty acre trnct of land, trying to make
tNHNt laaaNsH HlF
the earth, by working day by days work, and
in this manner he made money enough to 20
to school. He swept out school rooms, and
| by this he got n common school education
| With tndomitable energy he worked his way
| onward, now farming now cutting
cord wood, now working on canal;
he went on until he got money
TO complete his education. He became
] President of college, from that became q
| General in the army, from that member OF
| Congress, from that q United states senator
| and from that candidate for President of the
! United states. In this man, my countymCn
| you find the
TYPE OF AN AMERICAN CITIZEN,
| directed by his genius, his brain, his energy
| his worth, under free school system, in oui
! free republic where all men have equal rights
/ lGreat applause.l There is no grinder mar
! statesman than James A. Garfield. Associated
! with him is Chester A. Arthur, Il man whom
! have known long and well; a soldier; a law
| yeri the man who was one of the first in New
| York City who dared stand up before n cour
| ana insist on lhe unconstitutlonallty of tho
| Fugitive Slave law [Great applause.l Ches
| ter A. Arthur isone of the first men and one o.
| the best lawyers in this country, although hC
| has not tor Few years been Il practitioner
! He is an able man and he is Il good man
| They may say what they please, he stands II:
] high in New York CITY ,as any man thai
| brcathes the breath of life and you will heal
that and know 1t when the voting time comes
| [Applaus0.
Now, then, my fellow citizens here ar,
their records here are their platforms; here
| arc their candidates; and here is our record
| here is our platform, and liure are our caudi
| dates. 1t is for You to say
WHICH or THESE PARTIES