Daily globe., 1880-08-03
THE owAToNNA DEMOCRACY.

Hancock and EngltsI Club Formed--Synop-
sis of Speech of Judge Oogqs,Ueu.
Correspondence of the Globe.
OwAroNNA, Aug. 2.-Last Friday evening
the Democrats of this place met at City
hall. John Sewell, Sem, was appointed
temporary chairman, and @. j. Kiuyon sec
retary. The meeting then organized Han
cock and English club, electing the following
officers: Hon. Amos Coggswell, president; E.
Donaldson and B. s. Cook, vice presidents;
B, E. barley, secretary, and Jerome John
son assistant secretary. The executive COM
mittee, consisting of one voter from each
polling precinct in the county, will be re-
ported by committee specially appointed
at the meeting next Friday evening.
The following is a brief summary of the
speech of Judge Amos Coggswell:
Thirty six names to our club is q good be-
in this county, but will at the coming cleo
form but very small fraction of the great
Democratic party of this country who cast
one quarter of miAion of votes more than
a majority at the last Presidential election.
This great and glorious Democratic party
embraced both the rich and the poor, the
learned and the ignorant, ali who were in
favor of free government and eqaal justice.
The great Democratic principles as ex-
pounded by Jefferson, Madison, jackson,
Silas Wright and other statesmen, would
live ss long as free rep
resentative government existed They oon-
trolled and prospered this nation for half
century, and such growth and sucha pros
Al I'll
Peace and plenty reigued within our borders,
and it remained for the Republican party to
inaugurate corporation plundering of, and
wholesale stealing from, the people.
Gen. Winfield s. Hancock is the Demo
cratic candidate for President, and braver
man or an abler general cannot be found.
His record, extending over forty years, is as
true as steel. He is no less able
as statesman than as a military
leader. His administration in the South
after the war proved it. In his orders be
stated that the great principles of American
liberty were still the lawful inheritance of
this people, and ever should be-. The right
of trial by jury, the habeas corpus, the lib
erty of the press, the freedom of speech the
natural rights of persons, and the rights of
property must be preserved.
Because he subordinated the military power
to the civil, was good reason for electin2
him President. His letter to carpet -bagger
Pease, the so called governor of Texas, was
document which shows that he believes in
local self-government. He believed the peo-
pie should be allowed to choose their own
local officers without the interference of the
military, and for this reason he was soon rs-
moved from his command in Louisiana by
the Republican party. He believed in home
rule and that the general and State govern
ments are supreme in their own sphere and
that the people shonld be allowed to manage
their local affairs without the interference of
United States marshal here, or a soldier
there. He cared not so much about the
amount ths Republican post traders stole:
about their salary grab thefts: bnt he de-
plored the fact that they
were doing all they could to
promote sectionalism and hatred and thereby
prolong their existence as party. What we
want is a government in which the South
would be represented. Hayes by his policy
of making Confederate soldier pos m +ster
general, admitted the necessity of this pol
10y. The government wanted the good will
of every section of the country, and Repub-
lican governments were only strong when
they possessed the affection and loyalty OF all
the people living under them. 1t is my belief
that those great and desirable objects will
be best attained by the success of the DEM
ocratic party, and firmly believe that at the
election in November, Winfield s. Hancock
will be triumphantly elected President of
these United States.
Judge Coggswell was frequently applauded
during his address, and all who were present
expressed themselves as well satisfied that
the Judge had made very able speech in
behalf of the Democratic doctrine.
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