Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-10-15

goo0 nnturo Of the country. i would like 70 /
pnScas np papT q9e' wbg aug baRS Voc tsd t9s %
half a dozen times " start a Democratic !
comic paper, and 4 has 70 come over 20 the
not know how II N here I'm Chicago. know
that down IN our country ! know that in the
can pick out the Democrats Just az easy as
you can the bulldogs, and In the same way, by
their surly yisages. lLaughter.l Now and
the people say 20 you he Is a hrst rate fellow
he ought 10 be n Republican, and the eNcep.
ton proves the rule. The Republican party
has shown itself from first 20 last one Of the
most wonderful forbearance, and here again
j must say that Il seems 20 mo that you peo.
pie OF the North have forgotten what II Is that
the Solid South means. II means those prtn-
ciples, and those measures, and those ideas
which have made the south what IL s. In op.
position 20 those which have made the North
What II Is. The product Of one has been ignO-
rance-you do not stop TO think how great.
One voter outo every fourof the white voters
OF the south cannot read his ballot to-day.
Forty five out of every hundred Of the voters
OF the South all put together. cannot write
their names TO day. And this IS the fruit Of
southern ideas. / do not mean slavery alone.
We made that mistake when the war was
over; We said that all the difference between
the North and the South was the mere effect
of slavery, and that was dead and gone.
THAT WAS A LIE,
because you can not kill the institutions Of
century, or two or three centuries, with line
upon the statute book. But even that II Il had
been true was not all the truth. Will tell
y
| Of that, something that was equally potent
| What IS IL that makes Chicago what she is to-
nightr Answer me that question, sir. Where
/ do you get your lifeY Chicago draws into this
| great vortex the hrst lives OF 10000 surround.
| ing townships. And what is the township A
| little republic, republic that nurses men IN
| 20 freemen, that makes men strong and free;
| q republic where the youngest man comes
| forward upon some petty question and says:
] Here, have thought for you, my neigh.
| bors. Let us have this or this, or this" and
| by that he learns his strength and his man
! hood, and It is the absence of that system or
/ any co-reative of that system which has made
| the South what it is. There Is no more reason
| why slavery should have been abolished at
| the North than at the South. The idea that II
was profitable IS an absurdity, because slav-
| cry Is not profitable anywhere; but IL was as
! apparently profitable in one place as anoth-
North made slavery impossible. AT the south
| we are not troubled with any such thing.
a man asked me the otherd day, and was glad
| that he Qid, now twas possible that we count.
] ed men I'm at the South so easily. Well, now,
will tell you; Il Is one Of the easiest things I'm,
the world, and there is nOthingmean about It.
/ either-not BIT. We do not have any thing
like townships there that elect Justices of the
Peace, that elect Township Trustees, that
elect Constables, or any of those local officers.
They are all appointed either by the Gov
| eInors or the predominant party in the Leg
islatures. Take North Carolina for instance.
The Democratic party in that Legislature ap-
points $500 magistrates-Jusuces OF the
Peace-throughout the State; and in every
| county those Justices Of the Peace meet to-
gether, and they elect the County Commission
ers, and they appoint the Inspectors of Elec-
tion, and they appoint the school Committee.
men, and they appoint the Road masters and
| they appoint every thing that any body else
appoints almost. Now you see that makes
peace in the family. Livery man with ballet
Is the appointee of a Democratic board. Wen,
it keeps trouble out. IL makes the thing easy.
o but you say: "Don't you ever have any
Republicans on the Board thereY" Why,
bless God yes, lots of them, and almost always
one that can't read. He sits and looks wise
and the others do the counting 1t is because
Hn ia NUsHNN f-fNWHfa nnaunN
cause 1t lacks all the features which have
made the North free and intelligent, that she
is what she is. tell you, people of Chicago,
If the south had been settled by men who
brought that old idea Of self government that
came over in the Mayhower, If 1t had been
settled by such men, half the Northwest
would have been a wilderness to-day. You
owe your existence as n city such as you are, a
city that outgrows its own Dragging. lLaugh-
teri say you owe that TO the fact that the
South never had free government in her bor-
der. With the finest climate with the most
magnificent opportunities, she goes on grow
ing old as You grow young, and the fungus of
intolerance fastens on her heart just as the
gray moss fastens on her oaks. There is no
getting out of il. The South is the South be-
cause she lacks the institutions of the North.
Now,
WHAT DOES THE REPUBLICAN PARTY PRoPosEi
Coming back to this question, say am al.
most ashamed to tell you how proud 1 am OF
our position. You remember what Cicero
said were the two greatest offenses of that
man whom he prosecuted before the Roman
senate. He said that he had oppressed the
allies of Rome, and in sight of the Roman
coast had scourged a Roman citizen. The Re.
publican party has seen the allies of the Ma.
tion murdered by the thousand, and scourged
upon our own soil by the ten thousand
My friends, am not talking what somebody
told me. have seen hundreds of bleeding
blacks; l have seen many a mangled form
owing its torture to the Ku. klux. Ihave seen
that ku- Klux in their midnight array; and O
finer body of cavalry 1 never saw upon the
battle field / know what / speak of. l dc
not insult your intelligence, however, by call
ing your attention to part when the terrible
whole is before you. Isay TO you merely that
Ku- Kluxism, the Rife Club, the tissue ballot
and all that we have seen at the South, are
the logical outgrowth of a lack of self govern
ment, and of the presence Of slavery
nese wall set up against the stranger
, Now, what does the Republican party
. propose? You were proud of 1t when 1t said
to the slave, go tree?' we were all proud
Rebel may come home" We were never sc
} uncharitable as Mr.. Lyman Trumbuu whe1
, he said could impudence. go farther thar
| that the ex.Rebel should ask TO rule the Ma.
! tion?n We We're always willing he should
rule the Nation If he would do it fairly. we
were always willing he should have the power
II he could get it by the ballot and not by the
bullet. But the Republican party says nnC
! means that there is no use of putting the bal
{ lot against the revolver and the bulldozers
d. whip in the other scale. That is what we
complain Of. Now, what remedy does the
ty of It. II comes in its very last Convention
here in Chicago, and, catching the very spirit
and essence of the Nazarene's religion, IL says
1--WE pledge gifts, we pledge the revenues o
t the Nation, we pledge our own prosperity
. For what? ITO give to the ignorant of the
! South education" IApplause.l Never wa
5 declared for freedom. And now, fellow -cit
1 Zens, let me say to you that tina
: EDUCATION MEANS DEATH TO KU.KLUxIsM,
o death TO intolerance. 1t kills the rifle club
. IL spoils the tissue ballot; 1t simply means
. and that is the significance of the Republican
I party to -day-that we mean TO make thu
( South as free, as prosperous, as intelligent a
. we are at the North. Is that hate? II 1t be
+. God grant that It may forever more abound
4 Is that sectionalismy If IL be, God grant tina
8 | we may be sectional forever. 1t Is giving no
only peace, but 1t is giving prosperity ant
freedom to a Nation bound in the chains o
prejudice and intolerance. l tell you, MI
I. Chairman, there is no such thing as avoiding
n It. 1t may not come to-day; it may not bi
: awake; but It is as certain TO come as God 4
/; to be the God of right, loud applause.l W.
U have waited long, the colored man has waitet
e long, the white man has waited long; bu
e deep down below all this runs the river OF hu
u man liberty and free thought, and that i
- what the Republican party means shall pre-
. vail. And so it has put two self.made men a
:, the head of its ticket. thank God that the.
$ are there. hope that the North will neve
2 vote for a man for President who has not q
= some time of his life
= EARNED HIS DAILY BREAD.
8 loud applause.l want that his hand
/. should have blistered or his brains shonlt
z have sweat before he is counted worthy Il
& stand at the head of our column. rApplause.
r We have two men of that stamp, and we hav
: something more. They cast their, roots int
d to our leader; he has been most eloquent,
!. pictured here to.nighti but I want to cal
o the General, being his townsman, was to-
modest to refer to; that man, whom am al
: most as proud to greet as our leader as Gen
l. | GARFIELD himself, Chester A. Arthur. [Lout
II applause.l l say l am glad of il, not becaus
|, he is man OF the most equable temper; no