Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-10-15
JUDGE TOURGEE.
The Author OF "a Foops Errnnd" Makes
One of the Best Speeches of the Campaign
Mt Chicago.

or CHICAGO: a great audience and n great
city always overwhelm me alike, especially
When thut city is the twice .buildpd wonder Of
the world and that audience the sons and
daughters of the Northwest. lApplnuse1 hut
II ls not because this marvellous city has risen
twice within the years which | might count
on my hand, and it is not because you arc the
builders that l am thus impressed, but he /.
cause Chicago itself is nothing compared
with that spirit which underay its creation.
and you are but the indices OF the freedom
which has made the Northwest what Il "a
lApplause.l IL is because of not only what
you are, and of what Chicago is, but OF what
another section of. our country is not that I
am thus impressed and feel called upon TO
ask you mere to- night to consider two ques-
the South what IL is?
It seems to me that every man, especially
eNeIy young man. before casting n ballot,
should ask himself this one question:
WHICH OF THE CoNTENDISa PARTIES
OF this country viii most certainly, most read.
ily, most surely and completely subserve my
interest as a citizen2 For would put it low,
upon the very basis of our individual inter.
est not that interest which is a qualification
OF greed, nor that interest which IS a satisfac
ton OF ambition, but that interest which leads
TO the development of the highest manhood
Tor good and glory of the country And [ am
the more inclined to do this from the fact that
an OLD and honored citizen of your own state
mas recently formulated the reasons which In =
uuced MIN ut the fifty ninth minute the
eleventh hour of his life to give the remain
uerto the Democratic party His words and
from what he was and what he is He was a
charter member of the Republican party He
Is your Democratic candidate for Governor
Lynun IfuInDull, Applause and hisses.1
say that the reasons given by this man for
leaving the Republican party are worthy of
nm nm II we determine the motive TO be that of
sincerity, and that we must judge from the
reasons given. The first reason that he gives
why ne first abandoned the Republican party
IS Ihat ITS claim to have saved the Nation, and
70 nave put down the rebellion, to have freed
the slave, to have restored peace, is u lie.
1T IS A STRANGE CLAIM
70 come from those lips. 1t is u strange time
70 make it. The heart and core of his life has
been Republican. The fame which he has
achieved, all that will endure, is Renublican
Ana now he comes with this aTraigninent Is
II tIueF Nineteen years after the fact after
the Republican party has in every convention
by the mouth of the Presidents it has chosen
by the mouth of every Congressman it has
elected, upon every stump and in every
school house throughout the land has de-
clared that the putting down of the rebellion
was its policy, and has accepted its responsi-
Dllty-all responsibilities-therefor now for
the nrst time comes the claim in the mouth
OF Lyman Trumbull, in the mouth of Renia.
MN r. Butler, in the mouths of other men by
scores ana thousands, that the Republican
party Is not entitled to this credit. Nay, my
Fellow citizens, they go further, and with the
cheek OF a Government mule they declare
that the merit for these benehcent acts-bless
Gou RESTS with the Democratic partv
Laughter and applause They tell us as a
reason therefor that the Democratic Generals
leu our hosts to victory; that Democrats
touched elbows with Republicans and stood
With us in the fore front of battle But they
forget to tell us that when they did so, that
when they took the oath of service, they took
dso leave OF absence from the Democratic
camp for three years or during the war
lLaughter1nd applause They were so far
estrahScd from the Democracy that we were
compelled to invent new name to distin
gulsh them, and we called them
WAR DEMOCRATS"
Just as you speak of a lighting QualSel''
and a " Free win Baptist" and white
ea1s % the tGr distinctive ana aea applanselbe' n
cl'at was not found in them. From that mo.
ment they fought the Republican fight, kept
the Republican faith and voted the Repubfi.
can ticket Laughter and applause. 1t
matters not how many of them there we're
Mr Ilumbull tells us that Lincoln received
but l,600,000 votes in 1860, and he tells MS that
there were of volunteers two million seven
hundred and odd thousand-the more the
netter. Democracy and Republicanism of
that time were not to be Judged by the men
that lett them, but by the men that stayed
win them. Laughter and aDDlnusel The
tlct that Democrats caught the rythm of that
grand march with which John Brown went on
10 victory, no more ccrtites the patliotism on.
merits of those who stood behind than does
thG light OF righteous Lot from Sodom estab.
llsh the character of that city rs a good place
20 20 r!lse u tamly, Applause and laughtei.l
IL matters not ii there was but one Republican,
IN AL that war; the idea which tlnderlay il
was Republican; the spirit which prOmOted
our resistance was Republican, and we need
ed no name TO tell us who went TO battle
Appinuse.l Thank God, there were
NO "wAR REPUBLICANS"
Laughter and applause.l To be a RepubH.
1t out on that line II il takes all summer An.
plause. we need not call the roster of our
Drilves. , Every mans thought and prayer and
nope IN the Republican party was upon the
success OF that great cause. Apnlausel Ey-
cry man throughout the length of this land
Iu1t I prayed Tor liberty, and union, and right
IluntgOnEn1GA a aNtrna a TTv,s,
ist that shut close his door and hung ont the
red string from the window before he uttered
ms prayer IN q whisper; whether il was the
cnluicd man than bowed beneath the shadow
OF the midnight canebrake; whether It was
You people OF Chicago in your magnificent
tcmplcs-evely one of those people Drnved
for the Republican party. IApplnuse,1 And
every force and power and thoughI that
wished well to Confederate success: every
heart whose hope was under the stars and
bars; every bounty jumper and deserter; ev.
cry man who, fearing n draft, looked ON the
Canada side of the Falls and sent back fearful
prayers prayed for Democratic victory
| Laughter and applause1 WHY van Iemen5
Der that when Lee came over the mountain
wnll-"came down horse and foot upon
Freder1ckstown," he said the reason that he
came was that he might help elect George b.
Mcclellan. Applause and laughter No
rebel ever planned his movements TO aid Re.
publican success, thank God. Applause
No Knight of the Golden Circle pleaded for
our victory. No man dreamed OF poisoning
the aqueducts or communicating the clothing
VI ibTlJLAtilo w ulh tAtDunllCull success. IAn-
plause Fellow citizens, the man who says
that the war to put down the rebellion was
not, from first to last, from a to lizard,
REPUBLICAN WAR
Is tolerably economical Of the truth. ZAP.
plause and laughterl That is my opinion
anyhow; ! may be wrong. A voice. "You
are right~l But Mr.. Trumbun gives us an.
other reason why the Republican party ought
not 10 be trusted, ought not to succeed, and
ought not to be counted heir of the old organ
iHltloni ana that reason is that Horace Cree
ley, Mr.. Adams, MIR. Seward. Mr.. - all, YES,
Mr.. Trlmbull, have left that party, and there
upon he tells us the Republican party be.
came nc once cess pool of iniquity. GGrcat
laughterl 1t Is unfortunate for the Ropubn.
can party, and especially for such organiZn,
tions as your Club Mr.. Chairman, that the
Repn llican party Is party of progress. We
need big funeral every now and then. We
nave 10 have it, because the world will move
and if men won't move with the world they
must be crushed under it. A party OF progress
always drops its dead carcasscs along here
and there. lCheers.l But n party that nj.
ways faces to the reRr, like the Democracy,
carries Its cOrpSeS with 1t. Applause and
!alngnter, No man likes TO be n fossil, and
the war made heaps of fossils. Laughter
IL piled a tumulus of victory high over many
a grent name. The orator who stood in the
forefront Yesterday found himself forgotten
to- day. The statesman who Thought he knew
moro than the Supreme Being did at His are
llaughterl found that the new thoughts that
were crowding upon him-the new questions
mat were coming up for solution--were past
his ken, and looked with jenous eyes upon
these new men. lie said "These things are
becnuse / wrought through weary years -
and tho sturdy soldier stepping to the 'front.'
sntd "These things are heOause | fought"
And so one by one we find some great names
dropping from the Republican roster, and
with every one OF these names almost we find
an instance OF that dread disense which is
known throughout the country as
..I " !" SORE HEAD"
Laughter and applause. Did You ever no.
tide the fact that Young men never leave the
Republican pnrtyE Never, Just look over the
whole list that Democrats claim as converts
year after wear, and you never lind young
men among theIn. COrpses oorpses laugh.
teri going into the Democratic graveyard IRE,
newed lnughterl, seeking that eternal home of
the useless dead. More merimentl But
You find n man coming from tho !
Democratic party to theRepublican he comes
with full veins he comeswith a life before him;
he comes with hope ohock full of days works.
Applause. IL Is this which makes the dis. |
tnctiye characteristic between the two par
tics. Forward" is always the Republican
battle cry. " As you were" the other which |
rings along the DemoeIatic line. lApplauso.l
The one lives i'm the present and for the flu
ture. The other, like a buZ1ard, finds nothing
good until it is rotten. Laughter and APP
plause.
IL seems too mel may be wrong about Il, !
admit that--Dut IL seems TO me that there IL !