The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-09-23
WHOLE NUMBER 500.

the light of the facts as to their candidate, /
submit it will not do for the Republican leaders
and organs to talk about ISLANDERS and "mud-
throwing and " Giddings' old district !" nor
will it answer for them to come to us with the
magnanimous proposition to call it quits be-
tween their candidate and ours The Demo-
cratic party this time has nominated candidate
who is pure and clean, candidate who is
"capable and honest up TO the Jeffersonian
Standards grand man and hero, whose shining
armor of truth breaks and turns even the mis-
sile of their political malice, and it has no bar
gains to make, no offsets to allow. 1t is the
misfortune Of the Republican party If they have
a candidate whose public record can be success
fully assailed, and for whom no sufficient de-
Tense can be made So I say to them II we
must have +" statesman" for President, give
us q clean statesman and an honest one.
And, finally, fellow-citizens, there is one fur
ther great reason why the Republican party
ought to die and be swept from the earth. And
that reason is because it has become the great
disturber Of national peace, and the great OBJ
stacIe to national pacifcation. We must have
an end to sectional feeling and bitterness ! and
now is the time to have it. There was reason
why these Southern delegates at CINCINNATI
called for the nomination of Gen. Hancock, 1t
was to put an end to this eternal cry of the
Republican party against the South. it was to
/ show the people of the North that they meant
to be loyal, and that they were willing to vote
for a man for President who marshaled the
forces of the Union against them ON the field Of
battle "Give us Hancock" they said. the
man who fought us bravely in the field--true to
his Government and his duty. Surely he was
loyal and no bloody shirt can Be waved
against him." This is what they said, and this
is why the South will be "solid for Hancock
at this election. If tho people of the North are
thoughtful and wise they will accept this prof
fered token of loyalty and good vii, and make
the hero, who was lion on the heights of Get
tysburg, the President whose mild and just
rule shall usher in lasting era of peace
and fraternity between the once-contending
sections.
The South wants peace and goodwill She
| is building up the waste places of war she is
just starting upon new career Of enterprise
| and business prosperity. the North wants
| Southern trade and Southern money. The
| whole country wants rest and repose, and unity
| and brotherhood. Down with these war cries /;
| down with these ISLANDERS and this sectional
hate; down with the party which engenders
| these things, which can, only live and thrive on
the memories of fraternal bloodshed, and
which would poison new generation with the
hatreds and anmosities OF their fathers. There
is danger in al! this to the future peace Of the
country. The men of the South whoi fought
| in the war will never again take the sword, NO
matter how much they may be goaded OF
taunted. But who shall answer for their chill
dren if the Republican party continues to bear
| rule, and the successors of the Baines and the
Chambers, the Fryes and the Hales continue
| this ceaseless aggravation! Can the American
people afford to keep party in power which
thus threatens the Union With future conyul
| sions2
Democrats of Indiana, in this great battle fol
nstional purity and national peace, you hold
the center Of the line. l pray you to stand firm
for the right firm as did our glorious leader a.
Gettysburg. Here will be the thickest of tht
fight-here you will receive the mighty shock o.
the enemy's grandest assault. ALI around yol
his forces are now massing for the charge
Close up the ranks, stand to your guns, do You
duty like men and patriots, and you shall sen'
the broken legions Of the foe flying in wrecl
and despair from this great central battlefield
of the campaign. God grant that when tn
sun shall go down on that coming October da
you may have won here victory which shal
thrill the land from end to end, and cause tn
anxious hearts of patriotic men everywhere t
leap for joy that the power of the oppressor
broken and the republic may live and be i'm
mortal.