Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-12
Republican and Democrat.
Reasons for Being One and Not Being tn

Reasons for Being One and Not Being the
 Other.
 From Colonel ngersoll's speech in 1876.l
 am Republican. Daughter and cheers. ) I will tell you why. This is the only free government in the world. The Republican party made it so. The Republican party took the chains from 4,O00,O 900 of people. The Republican party, with the wand of progress. touched the auction block and it became a schoolhouse. (Cheers) The Republican party put down the rebellion saved the na- tion, kept the old banner ahoat in the air, and declared that slavery of every kind should be extirpated from the face of tho continent. (Cheers) What more? I am Republican because it is the only free party that ever existed. It is a party that has platform as broad as humanity, 8 platform as broad as the human race, party that says ye shall have all the fruit of the labor of your hands, party that says you may think for yourself Q party that has no chains for the hands, no letters for the soul. A voice -"Amen." (Cheers.) At this point the rain began to descend, and it looked as if a heavy shower was impending. Governor Noyes-'God bless you ? what is rain to sol diers ?" Voice-''Go ahead; don't mind the rain" It was proposed to adjourn the meet ing to Masonic Hall but the motion was vot- ed down by an overwhelming majority, and Mir. Ingerson proceeded. I am Republi- can because the Republican party says this country is a nation, and not con federacy. I am here in Indiana to speak, and have as good right to speak here in Indi- ana as though had been born on this stand not because the State flag of Indiana waves over me- I would not know it if I should see it. You have the same right to speak in Illinois, not because the State flag of Illinois waves over you, but because the banner rem dered sacred by the blood of all the heroes, waves over me and you. Cheers am in favor of this being nation. Think of a man gratifying his entire ambition in the State of Rhode Island. Iaughter.) We want this to be a nation, and you can't have a great, grand, splendid people without a great, grand, splendid country. The great plains, the sub lime mountains, the great rushing, roaring rivers, shores lashed by two oceans, and the grand anthem of Niagara, mingle and enter, as It were, in the character of every Ameri- can citizen, and make him, or tend to make him, great and grand character. am for the Republican party because it says the gov ernment has as much right, as much power to protect it's citizens at home as abroad The Republican party don't say that you have to the government. The Democratic party says the government can't march it's troops into the South to protect therights of its citizens. It is a lie. (Great cheers The government claims the right, and it is conceded that the government has the right to go to your house while you are sitting by your freside with your wife and children about you, and the old lady knitting, and the cat playing with the yarn, and everybody happy and sweet the government claims the right to go to your freside and take you by force and put you into the army; take you down to the valley of the shadow of hell, send you by the rudder, roaring guns, and make you fight for your flag. Cheers. Now this being so, when the war is over and your country is fT,r a lot of Democrats want to trample on your 1 rights, want to know if the government l that took you from your fireside and made l you fight for it, I want to know if it is not | bound to fight for you. (Cheers.) The 1 flag that will not protect it's protectors is a | dirty rag that contaminates the air in which 1 t waves. The government that will not de- l