Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-30

ne WI teii you that it was becau.a 49,.
onlon soldier. You ask southern ds,,. a.
wny HANCOCK was nominated. and he,,, ~,
you tnat 1t was because he .sra.r,. .aI, sell
enTugn 10 hurt [Applause.l e'
he uemocTatic party has never won . v;o
:. uness IN times of financial depression
wSep "us ior its arguments on hard time.
- ~. u'e republican party was pressed close
ue wall, and defeat threatened even lin
NIL man. snern-an telegraphed Lincoln. seI'il
make you the grandest speech of The o..
palgn. I'll capture Atlanta ;, Anaha az; s1 J. !,
| iCheers. And want to tel, Won me- - :.
cratic hearers, that when Atlanta was taken
your banner and the confederate banner ,ren,
uo"n IN the dirt together. TAppIause.
want TO confess right here in the most nrh,;1
| manner possible that in 1872, l turned nv
| Dack on my countrys soldiers. worked 70,
the success of the democratic party. In tb;s
very hall, spoke for Mr.. Greeley's cand;.
qacy. IL Is the one act of nv life for which
condemn myself. look back upon it with
SUTTON. But it gives me better acouaint.
ance win democratic measures than / ever
could have otherwise. Once there was bov
who made it point to tickle every borse au os
every animal who came into his fathers ward
to see what the creatures disposition was
One day along came mule. The bow tickled
that mules hind legs with a club. The mule
let ny both feet and hit the boy square in the
lace. The blow knocked him unconscious
DOCTORS were sent for and soon the fellow
opened his eyes. Father" said he edo
you think I'll get well:" sob, YES. INV
son But do you think I'll look as well
as dld before: ''No. my son, you won't
look as well, but you'll know a good deal
more the father replied. CGreat laughter.
That's the way with me. l don't appear as
I l..
did before. Prolonged laughter and ap-
plause.
When hard times came. crops failed. and
the mills shut down, the democratic banner
was again in the ascendant. They captured
the House Of Representatives and almost led
US to the verge of financial dishonor But
| resumption and prosperity returned, the
democratic party began to go down again and
will this fall be defeated
The democratic party saw the Chicago con-
vention, after 30 hctly contested ballots, de-
feat the Nations soldier and nominate a
statesman and an orator. They said The
! republican party has forgotten the past
They have refused to nominate a soldier.
Let us exchange the army blue for the con-
federate gray-we can change back again be-
fore the fourth of March. Quick. Up with
the stars and bars! Three cheers and rebel
yell for Hancock But they made a great
mistake. The republican party nominated a
candidate who is not only statesman and
an orator, but one of the best soldiers we
had. Applause and enthusiasm. He not
only was brave soldier in the war, but is a
man who for seventeen years has upheld the
principles for which he then fought. No;
the republicans do not forget their soldiers
and the soldiers do not forget the party that
supported them while they fought. All the
hra nd he, ~,
the Union lines will be found this fall,
marching shoulder to shoulder, boot to boot,
| sabre to sabre, keeping step to the banner of
the Union upheld by the stalwart arms of
James A. Garfield. Prolonged cheering,
and for several minutes a scene of wild en-
thusiasm.
Gen. Fitzpatrick next touched upon the
democratic platform. He showed the dsas-
trous results that would follow should the
principles of their platform be carried out
The democrats reached the climax of their
absurdities and follies when they threw Til
den overheard, the only man who had given
the democratic party II glimpse of paradise,
Applause the man who they said was de-
frauded of the presidency in 1876, and whom
they said they'd seat IN the Presidential chair
if they had to wade knee deep in republican
blood. There isn't democratic speaker in
the country who dares to refer to a democratic
platform two years old! And in two years
from now democrats will be just as ashamed
of the platform on which Hancock stands as
they are now of the peace platform on which
they run Mcclellan in 1864. Applause.
Now want to say a few words on the
| financial question. i haven't knowledge
| enough to know how a man can live without
| work / never have been through bank
! ruptcy. never have known how to make
other people pay my bills, but I do know
| enough to discuss Il financial question,
think, with men who have gone into bank
ruptcy; or men who have gone into court
! and who have sworn they didn't possess
dollar in the world. These are the kind of
| men who propose to teach us how to manage
the National finances-in my state. men who
| can't manage their own. Those fellows
teach us financed It's like a bald headed
man setting out to sell people fiat. sure-cure
hair restorer! Great laughter.
| l say to you republicans, who for hard
times or some other cause, thinking to better
YOUR condition, deserted the republican party
| and went over to this greenback party, which
fbas been swallowed by the democratic party,
I ask You to come back to your heritage, to
the grand old republican party, which has
| given this country a prosperity never known
before in its one-hundred magic years. The
democratic party presents to you Hancock
| and the solid South. The republican party
presents to you Garfield and the loyal North
| Applause Garfield is the candidate of a
party that will never finish its work unit! it
sends the banner, potent to protect the
humblest citizen, to every quarter OF the
South. [Great applause A.,
| Twas at the convention which nominated
| Garfield. saw the fierce fight rage from
day to dav. Some of us wanted great
soldier. Maine asked for statesman and an
orator. She presented the name of her great
commoner, who in season and out OF
season has battled for the rights
of men. and now stands pre-eminently the
leader of the party of freedom. Immense
apprause.l We denied your request; but we
gave YOU a statesman and an orator nit to
Stand by James G. Blaine. Renewed ap-
nlause. All that is brave in Grant, all that
Is tender and lovable in Blaine, all that Is
noble and magnanimous in John Sherman IS
concentrated in the magnificent character OF
Garfield. [Applausel And Arthur. lou
can't write the history of the republican party
! without mentioning his name. He was del
egate to the first Free Soil convention. lie
was brave enough to dare protect fugitive
| -. -, N,v, York in the dangerous ana eX-