Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-10-14

out to Calcutta to their employees,
bought them of the Waltham Com
rany. We undersell the Swiss
watch in Geneva, the German watch
in Berlin, the English watch in Lon
don. | hold in my hand one that
am proud to exhibit to GO audience,
watch that keeps admirable time.
1t is a stem winder is not cased in
gold nor even in silver; it is only
nickel-plated and / bought /. at re-
tail for $3.50. Laughter. | told
man that offered me $40 once for
1t that would rather carry it with
me to the Senate of the United
States as product of American
skill and an instance of what Amer
lean protective tariff will do. ZAP.
plause
Now, under the State rights the
DRY another thing is going to he D.
pen. The old State bank system
will be renewed. Now, mark that,
gentlemenl They will flood this
country with shinplaster currency.
In the South they tell you they
want money that won't run away.
They say the money the Repnbli
cans have given them is so good
they cannot hold it. If / were go.
ing to write an euIogy to the Re-
publican party, and were confined
to single theme outside of the great
humanitarian theme of the manu-.
mission of the slaves, | should hold
up the abolition of the old State
bank system as it's chief crown and
jewel. [Applause.] We had a
precious lot of money in$hese days,
but when one of the old banks failed
what did you ever get out of it =?
There wasn't enough lett to hold a
coroner's inquest. laughter If
inherited any politics, they were
of the Wing school, and l should
naturally have been opposed to An.
drew Jackson on the national bank
system but yet, from all l have
read of his noble fight, l am COM
PEELED to admit that jackson was
right, and that he did great deal
for the government. of the United
States when be destroyed the old
national banks; but yet, Jackson
had not the strength to root out the
old State banks and they lived a
generation logger until the Republic.
cans compl ted the work. Ap-
plsuse. From that hour to this
there has been no bad money in the
country. [Applause.1
The Republican party have been
upbraided because of their cruel
treatment of the South. Every
other part of the country, they said,
was prosperous, but we were max
ing an Ireland of the South. Well,
ten years have gone by and we have
reached the period of decennial emu
meration. and this oppressed coun-
try which has been ridden bv bad
government, as the Democrats say,
is having its census as we'll as the
north. Take Virginia which has
not only been oppressed, but has
had debt of great magnitude on
her shoulders, which she has been
on the point of repudiatiI g, it's peo-
pie VIGOROUSLY emigrating to the
West and Northwest, not a single
town with the exception of one
within its limits increasing in popu.
lation. Virginia turns up smiling
with an increase of population up to
the ratio of Massachusetts or Ohio.
Applause and laughter. West
Virginia reports a gain of 65 per
cent, and places herself alongside
Minnesota. [Applauss. Kentucky
rivals Indiana and Tennessee keeps
even with Illinois. Georgia.
think, is in excess of Pennsylvania;
Alabama is equal to Wisconsin, and
50 on throu Oh, and | don't hesitate
TO say, although there has been a
most persistent effort to keep it out
OF this canvass, that that Southern
census will disclose, and will inten.
tionally disclose, the fact from l.
100000 to 1000, 900, more of people
are in the South are not there. TAP.
plause. They are the lanes of PEG.
pie il the graveyard or of babies
yet to be born. Laughter To-day
in Alabama, the negro vote-unani.
monsly Republicans about the
same as the white vote, but Ala
bama turns up a majority of 90
600, and consequently presents this
claim, that every one of her white
men shall exercise double the power
in the selection of the President OF
the United States that the white
men in New Jersey does, for he
votes for himself and for the negro
too. In Mississippi, to. day, four ex-
Confederate soldiers will exercise as
much power electing Hancock, as
nine Union soldiers will in electing
Garfield. l don't know whether
you relish that or not. l don't. TAP.
plause.] Now, l say this cannot
continue. There is not q race of
people on the globe that is educated
| up to the standard eff recognizing as
decisive majority of one, except
the Anglo-Saxon. We have been
educated to believe in the doctrine
that majority of one is Just as
strong as majority of million.
| [Applause And say there is not
enough strength in the allied armies
of Europe, nor enough wealth in the
allied treasures OF the world to
make us submit to fraudulent min
ority. Applause and enthusiastic
cheers The Republican party
asks only an honest election, and if
we are beaten on fair vote, wen
fight to put the other side in as
much as we would to put our own
side in. But l want to say and re-
peat that the leaders Of The Demo.
cratic party, North and South, do
not tonight believe that they would
have the slightest chance to carry
the election this year if every man
in the United States who had a
right 10 vote did vote. Applause. I
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