The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-12
RINGING WORDS.

A Rafting Speech by an Illinois stalwart.
At the recent meeting in Chicago o.
the Illinois Republican State Commit
tee and prominent members of the
party, Col Clark E. Carr, of Galesburg,
electrified the assembly with the fol-
lowing piece OF concentrated stalwart-
ism:
50 far as our district .s concerned We nave
80 ilauy" illustiious statesmen there that We
sometimes have few little disagree ments b.
fore the nomination. But yJu have always
found, and you will always find in the future,
that when the great question comes upon
general result, We will be solid for the straight
Republican ticket. i have been very gad t.
See this disposition manifested OF bringing to-
gether all the patriotic citizens in the great
campaign. Since the close OF the war, many
who are as patriotic as those OF us who have
always voted the straight Republican ticNet
have drf,ed into other organlza joins
Some even Into the Democratic parry. 1t is ev-
ident hat 1t is the deliberate purpose or the
leaders Of that party to inauSurate the candi-
dates they may run for President and Vice
President, whether they be elected or not
From their cries of fraud ever since the action
OF a commission which they themselves ere
ated; from their grumbliugs, and mutterirSs,
and threa Jennings; IRON the remarkable fact
thar, no wi hstanding the perils Of four years
ago, with god working majoritles III both
houses of Congress, they have taken no step
III regard to counting the electoral vote IN the
future; from their action in Ger ain States;
from tueir attempts TO turn out Republicans
who we've elected, and put in Democrats who
were not elected, in order to strengthen th eir
majoritis in Congress; from all this il Is clt ar
that thev intend, aud will, IL they dare, on the
4th Of March next, inaugurate their candidates
though they be not elected.
This Democratic party, once 80 mighty, shorn
OF every virtue and of every patriotic aspira-
ton, has been a c instant menace = fre3 gov
eminent for quarter Of century. Besotted
with crimes, c aled with hunger, blinded with
rage, is reaching out for The pillars OF stare.
II 1t 10 permitted to grasp them 1t Will bring
down TO destruction tn fair fabric Of Govern
ment Who can depict tho miseries incident 10
max ng . sold Southy j would ash for no
greater punishment for a Democrat than that
he be condemned to read, rs he clngs TO the
torlorn hope OF success In the next election
through the solid South-Iwou'da sk no greater
punishment TOR him than that he be condemned
to read-if he can read-the history of ihe
triumphs Of the Ku-kiux. And now We zee
men and women driven from home aud
friends and kindred, because OF their devotion
to that country and to that flag which we
adore; and in tho only Northwestern State
controlled by the Democrats they are greeted
with the bludgeon and the pistol. We see a
man from that State who occupies the seat OF
great Senator, whose place the whole Confed-
crate Cougrt ss cannot fill we see that man Or
ganizing an investigat ng committee to inqu re
INFO tue righs OF ciiiZeus OF Que State to migrate
into and b, come citizens OF another.
Now, Mr.. Chairman, If l undeI stand the
signs OF the times, the great, patriotic liberty.
loving people OF America have determined t.
throttle tbi monster of the nineteenth c7ntnry-
the Democratic party. Aroused by simultane-
GUS assaults from every quarter upon the
Sumter Of nationality, put ing ASIDE for the
time bel, all questions o policy and mere OK
pediency, hope aud eiieve that tho patriotic
people will come together, turn out this Con
feierate Consr ~, and take posses ion OF the
Government i want to see the people Of ILL.,
nois and of this nation come together, as they
have before in times OF peril, and prove to the
world that this continent cannot be con-
trolled by brutality and by barbsrism.
want them to shnw that this great
nation cannot he bulldozed. 1t needs
that no angel from heaven nor devil from he'll
should como 10 tell us of the c,pability for evil
! of the Democratic party We have had a 10 &,
bitter, ami sorrow nj school Of experience OF
tho h0, rors it has MI ct,d upon this C unity.
| want the patriotic people Of the country "a
| unite, and give sucn majori'ies ~ 10 over
whelm it in defeat and al; me- They who to-
day intend, by Their m ijOrltles in Congress, IA
inaugurate men who were not elected, will
slink away IA did those towards in Maiue,
/ grateful if their names can be rescued from III.
fanny by oblivion.
I hope that We will take all pains in our
power to unite the natrio'ic people in the cam
parn Of 1850. hope that no Republican will
feel it necessary to apologize for or d fend the
Republican party. 1t needs no apologists and
no defenders. 1t is o grandest organization
that has existed in America since the Can't
mental Congress Let us expose the hideous
enormiry OF this Democratic party, and we
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