Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-24
4 TRUE BILL.
REPUBLoAN1sM INDICTED
DAN DOUGHERrY,s RINGING SPEECH

liantly illuminated in honor Of the mass
meeting. At Tammany hall August Bel
mont was chosen chairman. Senator Bay
ard was received with prolonged cheering
and addressed the meeting at great length.
Senator Hill followed. Hon. T. J. Mackey,
Of South Carolina, Congressman McLane,
General Dan Sickles and Daniel Dougherty
also made speeches.
Speech of Daniel Dougherty.
Mr.. Dougherty said: This is an ex-
ceptional occasion, not night for dry de-
tails and elaborate argument. 1t is an
outburst of cxu!tation that the Democracy
of New York are united and therefore in
vincible.
We are not here to reason with one
another, but rejoice that day at last is
breakingg-the morning glow is in tho sky
in Maine, the long night of strife and dis
cord is past-jOy and conciliation come
with the dawn.
This Respondent sight recalls the scenes
| Of Cincinnati. Every shade of past politi-
cal Opinion-every type of Americans had
gathered there. Dwellers by the shores of
the mighty seas-citizens whose homes
are in the great cities, in thriving towns,
on the broad prairies, in the lonely forest
and on the lofty mountain top. Men of
the North and men OF the South sat side
by side. Followers of all pursuits were
present; the adopted citizen as well as the
native-born the colOred as we'll as the
white man.
In and about the convention were many
who had fought to establish confederacy
Of states in the South, and thousands who
on the CORY field had sworn that for the
triumph of the Union the last dollar should
be spent and the last soldier die those
who in former years had claimed the right
to carry their slaves to the lakes, and
others who had demanded that slavery
should be swept to the gulf a multitude
who had adhered through good and evil
report, through years Of monotonOus de-
feat to the Democratic organization, and
countless numbers who, at the outbreak OF
the rebellion, tore asunder all party ties,
and disda;ning proffered favOrs gloried in
sustaining to the last the administration
ofAbraham Lincoln. These varied differ
ences were buried and forgotten, these
many interests were united in the bonds OF
a common rotherhood-devoted heart
and brain to our common country. and
praying for its peace and prosperity under
ministration. The choice of the conven-
to the Union with his blood, who had
proved his fidelity to the constitution when
clothed with absolute power, and who, in
honor as in stature proudly eminent, stands
like a tower.
The nomination-unlike that of Chicago
was not the resust of management
schemers had no hand in it-our candidate
pulled no wires-it was conviction of con-
science, an inspiration Of patriotism. The
nomination for the vice presidency was a
tribute to distinguished citizen and to the
gallant Democracy Of Indiana, whose vote
in October will be the next harbinser OF
| victory.
And now the entire land, even to it's re-
motcst boundaries, as New York tonight,
is all ablaze with enthusiasm. Factions
arc falling, dissensions healed, and the
masses rallying to the support of the sol
der statesman.
In the fitness Of our candidates, in the
rectitude of our principles, we carry the
issues before the tribunal of the people.
We are ready to discuss with our political
opponents each vital question in the public
prints. We will meet them in friendly
contests at the hustings, in the school
house, ut the cross roads, and on the plat.
form, with pen and voice, with argument
and document, prove that the best inter-
ests Of the country demand that the Re-
publican party be driven from power.
The glory Of the Republican party died
with Lincoln. Its usefulness expired with
tho ratification of the constitutional
amendments that secured the results OF
the war.
We charge that even in the darkest
hours of the rebellion, many of its adher-
ents and some of its leaders were plumber
ing the government and robbing the SOL
diers by corrupt contracts. We charge
the Republican party with being faithless
to pledges made to the people. Civil
service with them is farce. They have
rewarded with places men guilty ofinfa
nous crimes. They have crowded custom
houses, postoffices, and every department
of the national service with officials whose
chief qualification is that they can carry
conventions in the interests of bosses.
We charge that these same bosses nOmi-
mated Rutherford B. Hayes and at Chi
cago, failing in the audacious attempt to
destroy the most sacred of our traditions,
by forcing General Grant for third term
were yet cOurtcd and conciliated by the
nomination of General Arthur for the vice
presidency.
We charge that the Republican party
purpOscly avoided all mention of civil ser
vice in their recent convention until they
were compelled by the independence of a
single delegate. Their candidate for the
presidency not only repudiates civil ser
vice, but in his letter of acceptance de-
clarcs opinions at variance with the con-
stitution, and tending to destroy the indie
pcndcnce of the legislative arm of the gov-
ernment and make it the tool of the exec
| utive.
Even now, President Hayes himself,
members of his cabinet, and officials with
out number, arc breaking his own order of
June 90, 1878. Their pledge as to the
public lands is 4 shameless mockery, for
millions of money and millions of acres,
the heritage of the people, have been given
| away by them in subsidies.
We charge the Republican party with
nominating for the presidency-I say it
with sorrow-a candidate with a tarnished
record one who from his own admissions
was liable under the act of Congress of
February 1G, 1853, to be imprisoned for
three years and to be forever disqualified
from holding any Office of honor, trust or
profit under the government of the United
States.
We hold them responsible for the high
crimes and misdemeanors of past admins
| trations, especially the last term of Prcsi-
dent Grant, endorsed and approved in the
platform of the national Republican con-
vention of 1876, an administration that
will be remembered only to be execrated.
We hold them responsible for frauds in
| the District of Columbia, frauds in cree
tion of public buildings, frauds Of the
whisky ring, frauds in frecdmen's bureau,