The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-07-02

AnncYcd is the speech of Gov. Wiltz,
cation:
of CoIorado:
I am truly sorry that l am so sick
that l will not be able to address you
at any great length upon tho topics of
tho day; that will not be ablo to speak
to you upon the subject that has brought
you here to-day, and was SO we'll OK
planned to you this morning by your
very able President. I heard him
speak to you, and L felt as he did, that
there must be good reason for so many
intelligent citizens of Colorado assem-
bling here to-day. They have not
come here for the purpose Ofsecing each
other alone. They have not come here
because this great country is going on
smoothly as it did go when it was gov
erncd by our forcfathcrs. They have
come fully determined to take part in
this great national contest, and to show
by their presence here to-day that they
mean that the will of the American
people as expressed in November, 1880,
will and shall be carried ont. Loud
and continued applause
This body of Democrats, like those
that have assembled in other States of
the Union, means to elect the President
in 1880, [cheersl; the man designated
in Cincinnati, no matter who he will
be, for l know the delegates of this
party will put up none but true,
staunch and honest and pure Democrat,
who will receive the united vote of the
party all over tho country, and when
he receives that majority have seen
since have left my home, in the East
.as. wall &c tho WnSf l<nnxly nr
OF the sovereign people weH enough to
know and to say to you that tho Dem
ocratic President will not be cheated
out of his office. Long continued ap-
plausc and cheers. The wrongs per-
pctrated against our party and against
the principles which have not hereto
fore governed our people, will be per
pctratcd no longer. Seven to eight can
never rule this great American people
Or this country. EApplause.l 1t has
happened once, but can happen no
more. We never believed for one mo-
ment, until that occurrence, that there
were men in this country so low and !
so mean as to steal from the people |
their vested and their sacred rights. |
[Applausc. But now we know that
such is the case, and we will prepare
the Democratic party to put in office |
whoever we may select.
Now, ] say to you, my fellow-Demo-
Gratis of Colorado, that the State that
come from, over which there was so
much trouble in 1876, so much trouble !
in 1872, so much trouble since tho
movement known as thcrcconstruction
act, will give the American people no
more trouble. IApplause.l We thank
you of the WcSt-wc thank the people
Of the North, we thank the good pco-
pie of tho East for tho valuable ser
vices they have rendered to us, and at
the same time we say to you Demo-
Gratis that in giving us Il helping hand
when we were so low and had go much |
trouble around us, you did nothing but
save yourselves. IApplause.l Had
you allowed il to go on and paid no at-
tention to the great trouble that was
forced upon the sovereign people, you
would have suffered as we did our
selves. ] was tho Speaker Of the House
of Representatives on tho ith of Janu-
ary, when for the first time in the his
torp of the American people Federal
soldiers entered the legislative hall,
and there, by force OF arms, with fixed
bayoncts and loaded mu5llctry, with
the State House surrounded by caval-
ry, by infantry and by artillery, and
filled with all that was low and mean
IN tho 0ifxy nf Nau I)rl..pG the Hftv