The Russellville Democrat., 1880-09-02

cratic party laid just claims to rart of the honored cause. until then. gen Itlemen, tha. noble republican spirit
 prevailed. It was then, gentlemen, that petit disscntions began to prick the canopy of peace, and which ulti- mately would have rent it asunder,
 had 1t not been for the sacrifice Of the greatest statesman and patriot of modern America, Samuel J. Til. den, laying down his political life on the altar of his country, for the
 peace of you and I, and the prcser-
 vation of the union.
 Fellow w-countrymen, we all know
 that monarchy is a government in
 which the supreme power is lodged
 in the hands of monarch. Is this the case with our own America! No. And God forbid that it ever shall be. Turning to the late record
 of the republican party, yet fresh in
 our minds, and the sound of whose
 mammoth guns still roll ou. their defiance from the marble walls Of Chicago, there we find the germ of centralization. There we see the
 decp laid schemes to overturn our republican institutions. and on their stalwart battlements establish third
 termism, the fore runner of future
 empire. But thank God, that feel
 ing did not peryade the entire party,
 and that there remained Tn the hearts
 of some of her most ardent followers
 . little of that feeling that inspired
 Washington, and which lived deep Tn the breast of Hon. Archy Camp
 bell, chairman of the national repub-
 lican delegation from West Virginia, giving nerve to his patriotic opinion
 and stamina to his determined will
 to put his foot upon the tyrant's
 throat and pull from it's treacherous
 body his true party's constitutional rights, placing on the ecaffold to rot
 this embryonic monarchy. Thus, gentlemen, we see the more conserv
 ative leaders of the republican party
 themselves see, in Grant and third termism, a step toward empire, and
 are trying to beat down that form of government which a principle plant.
 ed deep down in their breasts says that is not the constitutional liberty of Jefferson. Yes, fellow-citizen the true republicans and green
 packers, though few there be. fear, in comparison to the number that
 bear those familiar names, are drift
 ing into the good old Jeffersonian principles, the platform os our time honored party, to maintain those principles of freedom. the pride of America, and the talisman of our boasted civil liberty. But what is this national greenback party? Who does it represent? And what does
 it propose to do. l gave you It's pedigree in the outset, and it is com posed mostly of republicans, to- gether with the discontented of all other political parties. Is party that works either on a salary or commission; is the petit tool of the republican party, and goes un- der the assumed name of "the Da- tional greenback party" But what is there in a name" An empire by any other name would be as offen- sive. Who represents this branch commission party2 Gen. Weaver, of Iowa, some one says. We'll, who is Gen. Weaver, and what has he done, that he has grown so great? It is the prevailing opinion, if not an established fact, that he is the agent Of the republican party, sent south to procure if possible, split in the democratic party. But how do we arrive at that conclusion. The evidence afforded by one os the del egates to the Chicago convention is prima facie evidence of the fact. But what kind of evidence is that? Why that evidence which upon it's face appears to be good and true evidence, and which is taken to be true until the contrary IS proved. Did General Weaver prove anything to the contrary when here? Did he dispel the doubt in your mind that shrouded his first and only visit to your state? No, most certainly not. l Well, then, that evidence is admit | ted as prima facie evidence of the fact. But on the contrary, didn't he declare himself and party as run nIng on your democratic platform of 1878? and is not this evidence of his wanting to secure votes from your party in the south, by offering you the same inducements as your own | party. These, fellow w-countrymen, are presumptions of fact, and in their turn form q chain of evidence too | positive to be broken, and too satis- factory to be lightly thrown away. Are we thus willingly blindfolded and robbed of the greatest privilege we have, viz, of voting? And thus easily made the dupes oi misfortune at the beckoning of an unprincipled demagogue2 What more can the gresnback party do for you than the democrats. or republicans either, have done, as far as shat IS concern ed2 Supposing General Weaver is elected our next president; does he propose to reconstruct and run the entire government according to his own individual notions? Does he AL l. I