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

The Republican party has been termed n
sectional party. Yet strangely enough ~ y we
time the question Of a sectional Issue, There
IL no question ~ 20 n Republican policy. Itiq
ana yan5g 1 ana We esn tSe X ss 4ed fSe.
tor IN any estimate OF the future that that
policy, which has been the pillar OF IRE and
cloud which has led ne through the Red Sea
OF war ont Of the wilderness OF financial de.
preston into the bright Canaan Of prosperity,
that will be the policy Of the Republican par
" I'm the future, as ithns been I'm the past.
lApplause.l But when you come 20 consider
the probable or possible action Of the Demo.
cratic party there arises this question!
WHAT WILL THE SOLID SOUTH DO,
What win the Solid South think, what will the
Solid South say, in regard 20 this matterr
And so the voter, before he determines what
he shall do, must ask himself with regard 20
the currency-what will be the action, what
win be the feeling Of the Solid South with re.
gard 20 that2 When ho asks himself with re.
gard to the public debt and public credit, he
must inquire, will the Solid south protect that
credit, which Is destroying rs own by repu-
diation2 He must ask himself with regard TO
the protective tariff, will the solid South give
protection to our industry which has been
solid I'm favor OF free trade ever since the war2
And when he goes beyond that, and inquiries
with regard TO a free ballot, that most price.
less heritage Of n freeman, he must ask him.
self, what will the Solid South do or say
made solid by fraud, made solid by violence
and bloodI
But we are asked sometimes what fear
there can be II the solid South should pre-.
dominate. Let me tell you what you can al.
ways count upon. II you wish to know what
the Democratic party In power will do, you
have only TO ask yourself one question: What
can IL dog and you have got the answer
There Is one thing about the Democratic
party, there is nothing mean about Il. Il uses
all the appointed means of grace without
scruple. [Laughter.l II never did stand on
trihes yet. You and have known time and
again when the wiseacres Of the country have
told us the Democratic party will not do this
why, they told us that IL would not seize
III They told us that IL dare not pass the
Fugitive Slave law, but they made YOU here
in Chicago hunt the fleeing slave, They told
us that It would not-no, II could not-L re-
member as late as December, 1861, that a
Senator of the United States passed through
the country lecturing upon the impossibility
OF civil war in America. All the same II came,
didn'tit? [Laughter.l But then they tell US,
they have told US, that the Democratic party
OF the Solid South could never submit to the
outrages that were shown upon the ku. huE
record. On mo- Nevertheless, men bled and
died. Nevertheless the rife clubs and the
bulldozers' whip made themselves heard and
keep its graveyards out of the census. Laugh.
teri II means business all the time and If
you want to know what they will do, just in
quire what they can do. Now, let us think of
WHAT CAN THEY DO?
Well, in the first place, they can make your
supreme Court solidly State-r rights for gen.
Grafton They can put twenty.o one men on
there, in accordance with pending measure,
and give you bred Scott decisions the rest OF
your mortal lives. lLaughter.l Wen, it amt
much; it amt any thing to what they can do.
| They can split Texas into four more States,
and get eight Senators and four more Repre-.
sentatives and twelve more Electoral votes
out of it; and then they can marry the Nor
mon Church, which admits of polygamy
| [laughterl, and make State out of Utah and
the Saints. Then they can step over into New
Mexico and strike hands with the Greasers-
natural.born Democrats-[laughter and ap-
plausel..,men that hate water, and schools as
| the Devil hates holy water. l say they can
make out of these each State, and give
! themselves 1856 solid Electoral votes instead OF
! l3S. 1t amt much; but your children would
never see that Senate changed-never. Well
| they tell us this can not be done, because they
! say Hancock is a patriot; Hancock Is great
man; Hancock will stand by the country
| Fellow Citizens, man is always Just as big as
| his friends, just as good as his friends, and
| Just as strong as his friends, and no better
| You act on it every day of your lives. You say
| that man is known by the company he
| keeps and you conduct Your business upon
| that very principle. If your debtor spends
| his time in gambling hells, you do not give
| him any more credit, that IS certain. Now,
| say that Winfield Scott Hancock, If he should
| become President by the 1873 votes of Solid
! south, will do what the Solid South demands
/ He must do 1t. A man is not "a great man sim
| ply because he buys his trousers by the acre
! Laughter and applOusel; man is not neces'
sarily great patriot simply because he failed
| to desert during the Rebellion. 1 tell you, fel
! low. citizens that every man who jumped over
| the counter and got under musket in 1861
| gave more, and showed more of patriotism
than Winfield S. Hancock. IApplause.l The
clerk gave what the widow cast into the treas
ury of the Lord-an that he had;
WINFIELD S. HANCOCK JUST MADE AN INVEST
| MENr IN HIS LINE OF BUSINESS,
| that was all. The one tore his life out of It:
projected orbit, and faced pauperism as wei
as danger; faced poverty for his children a:
| well as Rebel prisons for himself; the Other
| had only to sit still and look handsome, ant
do his duty tolerably well, TO reap honor and
| glory. loud applause.l do not believe
| that there could have been found any mar
who could stand in Winfield 5. Hancock''
| place and do other than he did. What was
he? A Captain in the Federal army at the be
ginning of the War, the pet of the Command
| erin Chief, sworn to sustain that nag, ma
tive of Pennsylvania, where in the name o
| God could he have gone except go where hi
did2 Loud applause.l There was nothing
else for him to do, except to herd with de
serters and bounty jumpers, that IS all. Hi
could not get around it in any other way
Now say, fellow citizens, that this man, how
ever great he may be, will obey the behests o
the controlling power of the party which
elects him, If it should. Why? We have thre,
men in our history who have abandoned th
! councils of their party-Filmore, Tyler an(
Andrew johnson; and every one of them ha
| gone down TO history as renegade. WinnelI
$. Hancock will never do it. But they sa!
"he was a great soldier, and therefore he wa
nominated" That is not the reason he wa
nominated, fellow citizens. Did you eve
think what voice it was that presented him a
Cincinnati? 1t was the voice of Louisiana
Did Louisiana choose him because he was
Federal soldier? 1 will tell you why the,
chose him. They chose him for the same rea
son that the old darlkey jumped into therive
and pulled out the boy who had fallen over
board from his boat. When he was commend
ed for his bravery somebody 6t Ess said d rs Is
"Wel, what made you jump in and pull hin
out thenF' "What made me jump in arte
him? Bress God, he had all the bait in hi
pocket" Applause andlaughter.l Winfield
S. Hancock was nominated for the same rea
son. tLaughter.l 1t was not the soldier, bu
pinned to its coat.tail. The uniform was u
for Northern votes Order No. 40 Is pledg
and promise to the Solid South that he woul
give them all they asked, even 70 the half 9
his Kingdom. Order No 40 means nothing t
you. You great hearted, good-natured pee
pie of the North have made haste to forget a
that there was in the War, and all that ha
been since. Did you ever think
WHAT ORDER NO. 40 MEANsH
what it was? Let me give you one idea of 4
The Reconstruction acts empower Generals
command of districts in the South to regulat
affairs within the Provisional State Govern
ments. They were not State Governments
The act declared that there were no legt
Governments there. And every one of thos
district commanders is remembered at tn
South to day. [Applause.l That magnitcen
Thomas [applausel, who turned his back up
on Virginia, who refused to listen to the pray
ers of his family, whose members on that &C
count refused to look upon his dead face, wa
one of them. Gray eyed, calm. hearted Mead
was another. Terry, who caught the hot iro
from the forge, and first showed the mettle {
the soldier there Ord, the scholarly and quit
patriot; Candy, who folded his arms upon tn
lava. bed and met death as he hadlived, calm
ly as a summers eve-all of these were anon
those men, and every one of them, eNceI
Winfield s. Hancock, is cursed TO the bite
end to-day by every one of the solid Demo
cratic South. Now, what did Hancock dc
Did you ever think of IL? He was authorize
10 say to this Judge who was melting out IN
Justice, "Colne down of of that bench" II
was authorized to say to that Governor VIII
was pardoning criminals, "Step down an
ih who held the process of a court in his hanC
and would not execute it, "Get out, and / wi
put a man there" What did he say? He saiC