Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-27
SALTWATER AROUSED.


A Live Hancock, English and sibley Clab-
Able Speeches by Gen. r. w. Johpsol
and, Judge Flsndrau.
The Hancock, English and Sibley olu
which has been organized at Saltwater /
one Of the live organizations Of the State
Hon. E. w. Durant presided. and it wa
largely due to him that the meeting ol
Saturday night was held.
Gen. r. w. Johnson, of this city, was III
first speaker, and, after the applause which
greeted him had subsidized, spoke in sub
stance as follows:
just thirty-one years ago on thi
4th day of October I arrived il
this city, then small village nestled away
under the hills. To-day you have large ani
fouriahing city, whose public buildings ani
Improvements testify as to your intelligence
enterprise aud public spirit. Everything has
changed. Your old men have passed away
and your young men have become old. SEE
in this audience many who have passed tht
meridian of their lives, and now with snowy
locks are descending the western slope. Soon
we too must pass away, yet it is com.
forting reflection that We can BEE here
tonight 80 many young Democrats who
are preparing to take our places and ssto
contend for the faith first delivered to the
saints"
Thirty years ago we had two national par
ties--the Whig and the Democratic. The
former has disappeared and sectional
party has sprung from its ruins, and has
controlled and governed these United States
for twenty years. In few weeks you, in
common with 100000 of free men, will
be called upon to decide upon your rulers
for the four years succeeding the 4th of
March, 1881. The candidates are before
you. We proudly present the name of the
patriot warrior and statesman, Winfield
Scott Hancock. The Republicans
present the name of James A. Garfield.
Which one do you prefer9-I am not here
tonight to SANDER eur political opponents,
but to present to you few reasons why you
should vote for Hancock and English and
Sibley. I have enjoyed personal acquain-
tance with Hancock for more than thirty
years. As mere boy in Mexico he dis
tinguished himself on dozen battle fields
and demonstrated his fitness for any COM
mand. There we had evidence of the germ
which was destined to bud, to grow and to
produce rich fruits which were to make him
one of the grandest heroes of
the nineteenth century. The long
list of battles through which he PASSED and
the distinguished part he took in each illus
trates the annals of the war; Wounded and
bleeding in several battles, he never withdrew
from the field but continued on duty until
the last enemy had surrendered his arms and
he saw the stars and stripes floating proud.
ly, grandly, over every portion of our be-
loved country. When the report of the last
cannon had died away on our distant from
tier and when the smoke cloud had risen
from the last battle field b. was the first gen.
eral officer to assert that the war wss over
and that We should return to our old tradi.
tion--the subordination of the military to
the civil arm OF, the government In this pat
riotic utterance he was in full accord with
President johnson, who at once assigned
him to the command of Louisiana and Texas.
The termination of the war had left those
states without law, and slawlessness reigned
supreme. His master mind seized upon the
remedy and he applied it, restoring law, order
and system out OF chaos. His course was
not approved of by Congress, but as he
held his position at the pleasure of the
President, law was passed taking the com
mand of the army from the constitutional
commander in, chief and transferring the
same to the general of the army. Grant is
snad his orders relieving him, and he was
transferred elsewhere. But the principles
80 dear to him and to every lover of free
dom are imperishable, and though sup
pressed, ignored and totally disregarded
then, are again coming to the front, and the
noble man who gave voice to them
will be elevated in November to the
highest position within the gift of the
American people. Some of the votes of Mr..
Garfield in Congress will show what you
may expect from him. He has voted uni
formly for railroad land grants, thus dis
tributing the public domain to such corpora
tions and placing it beyond the reach of
the poor man to secure q farm. He voted
againss the repeal of the duties on print pa
per, said they should be in
creased. This necessitates an
increase in the subscription price of
our daily papers, placing them beyond the
reach of the poor and THAR children. He
voted against the resolution of sympathy
with the Irish people in their effort for free
dom-in fact he has no sympathy with for
eign born subjects, and if the know nothing
party was in existence to-day he would be
the head centre of the organization. Will
the intelligent Swede and Norwegian voters
sustain man who would deprive them of
political rights and reduce them to mere
slaves?
Next desire to speak of our candidate for
Congress. have known him for more than
thirty years. He is a man of keen, high
sense of honor, who has never been guilty
of committing single ssct to cast q stain
upon his high character. His very name is
q synonym of purity and integrity. He
is really the father of the State,
having been here for forty-Gve years.
He has filled all the Offices Of honor
and trust within your gift and has
done 80 with credit to himself and honor to
his State. BY voting for and electing such
man you will honur yourselves and secure
the services of the best friend the State has
honest, incorruptable man, who will guard
your interests faithfully, fearlessly. without
partiality, favor or affectstion.
The Republican press of the country has
spread the idea broadcast that il the Demo
cratic party is successful this fall the rebel
debt will be paid. This is all nonsense, mas.
much as the 14th amendment to the consti-
tuition expressly prohibits the payment Of
that debt. In regard to rebel claims, 80
called, both Gen. Hancock and Gen. Sibley
have spoken in no doubtful terms. The
time has passed for the payment
of claims, and in case Hancock is elected
and Sibley represents us in Congress you
may rely upon it that no claims of that
character will receive their support or sane
ton. Let Us be true to ourselves and to
each other and vote the straight Democratic
ticket on the 25nd of November, and when
the silver gray rays of the rising sun on the
Sd change into gold and flood and bathe the
hills, mountains and valleys with liquid fire
the angel of peace will rise in the east an6
electrify the world by proclaiming again
"Glory to God in the highest; peace, good