The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-07-30
IN A NUTSHELL.
Senator Hoar Reviews the Democratic
National Platform.
He shows Its Inconsistencies with
Itself, the Party, and the
Candidate.

Senator Hoar, in his speech at the Garfield
and Arthur ratification meeting in Faneuil Hall,
Boston, said
But, my friends, 1 wish to call your attention
for a few moments to the platform that our
Democratic friends have proposed, and upon
which they have put their candidate. The Re-
publican party proposes to continue the finan-
cial policy of the past four years, and if de-
sired to describe that policy, or to show youits
fruits, 1 think 1 could not do better than to
conine myself to one simple sentence which I
| read in. morning paper last week. 1t was
this: "The taker of the census in the city of
Lowell reports that he cannot find man in
the city who wants work and is unemployed"
Now, if any of you have heard Democratic
speech or listened to q Democratic prophecy
during the last four years. when you hear
another Democratic speech or another Demo-
cratic prophecy, just remember that single
sentence, think that, in the largest manufacture
ing city of Massachusetts, the census-taker
cannot to-day find a man who wants work
who has not got it. Every prosperous work
shop in Massachusetts is a monument of
false Democratic prophecy and a baffied Demo-
cratic policy. But our friends who have nomi-
containing few generalities that do not gilt
ter. They do not promise or profess single
measure for the benefit of this people-not one.
You cannot find in the Democratic platform
adopted at Cincinnati single measure to which
the Democratic party. pledges itself and ON
whlchlt offers itself to your confidence. But
Maine and Louisiana, and Mississippi and
South Carolina, put their heads together and
undertook to nominate a candidate for the
Presidency, and then they proceeded to declare
as their principle that free ballot is the ma
ter beyond all other matter, and that the DEM
ocratic party pledges itself to secure that
So that if this gentleman be elected you are to
have in this country free ballot, as exhibited
and practiced by the Democracy of Maine,
Mississippi, Louisiana and South Carolina.
l should like to read you one of the speeches.
| noticed some of our excellent friends applaud
when l mentioned the name of Gen. Han
cock, and they will certainly therefore, like
Wade Hamptons speech better than mine.
Wade Hampton said "Mr. President and
gentlemen of the convention: On behalf of the
Gold South; which was once arrayed against
this great soldier of Pennsylvania, / stand here
and pledge you its solid vote. 1t will prove no
la6gard in this great race for constitutional
government, home rule, and for freedom all
over this great land and, In the name Of South
Carolina, that State which has so lately re-
turned and come into the ssterhood of States,
that State which was SO, Overwhelmingly Re-
publican that we scarcely dared to count the
Democratic yote in behalf of that State | here
by pledge myself if work, if ZEAL if energy can
do anything, that the people of South Carolina
will give as large Democratic majority as any
State in the Union" Well, now, my friends,
Senator Hampton will keep that pledge, you
may be sure, and if there is any Democratic
soul that takes comfort in it, let him take it. |
think the Senator exaggerated little the labor
and energy which would be required Of him.
Tissue ballots are not heavy a very dainty
South Carolina knight can stuff good many of
them into ballot-box without fatigue.
Another thing they propose. They propose,
they say, to have honest money in the future
and to preserve the national credit. This solid
South, in which you can scarcely find a State
that has not rephdiated its bonds, and from
which, think, but two or three votes for the
last four or five or ten years have been cast
against schemes for printing money a print
ing-press and throwing it off among the people
as the sole currency for the working men in this
country, now gets up and says that if their cam
didate is elected it proposes to have honest
money, leaving, of course, to them the def
milton. / want, however, as comment upon
this free-ballot matter to read you an article
published since Gen. Hampton's speech and
since the Democratic Convention at Cincinnati,
in the Charleston Ne,rs. the leading Demo-
the Charleston Neaos, "with the assumption
that it is the settled purpose in South Carolina
that the intelligent and responsible citizens are
to rule, whether they are Dominally the major
ity or not, what course shall the people of the
State take to make this safe. and to avoid the
horrible strain of such elections as the last. with
their uncertainties and manifest unpleasant
ness" Now, | suppose you understand that
''the uncertainties are the uncertainties of the
question, how many tissue ballots were needed
to stuff into the ballot-box to bring out Dem
ocratic majority? and 1.-THE manifest unpIeas
antness'' consists of the unpleasantness of the
work which was put upon the gentlemen who
took part in the Hamburg massacre.
No, my friends, it is not enough to nominate
brave soldier we want to know what the men
are and who the men to whom that brave sol
der will be bound in honor to commit the
powers of this Government intrusted to him.
/ remember in 1856, when we nominated
Fremont, we had up in Worcester very wor-
thy and distinguished officer i'll the militia.
who. / think. must have been relative of Mrs.
Malaprop, he used to get his words wrong in
such very amusing way: and after we nomi-
mated Mr.. Fremont, my friend, Gen. Devens,
whom YOU all know and love. asked him if he
was going to support Fremont "Well, Mr..
Devens," said the old soldier. 81 like Fremont
well enough if it wasn't for the clink he has got
around him." Well, now, / think there are
good many soldiers in Massachusetts who
served in the army of the Potomac. when they
hear the name of their old comrade and COM
mander, will be prepared to make the same an
swer: "We like Gen. Hancock well enough if
it was not for the clink he has got around him.
/ agree with the Democratic platform that the