The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-08-05

SENATOR PENDLRToN's SPEECH.
Ny FELLOW CITIZENS IL desire TO re-
turn on behalf of the Democratic party
of the state of Ohio their thanks to the
Democracy of Cleveland for their splen'
did hospitality Oh the occasion OF this
convention. l said last night that the
hospitality of the people of Cleveland
was as extensive as the beauties of their
city. To day has shown that however
beautiful your parks are, your streets
and your avenues and your abodes of
life may be, that the people, the instincts
of hospitality, the Courtesies, the kind
ness of your people are greater still. l
congratulate this magnificent meeting
upon the success Of the convention to
day. Five hundred men laid aside all
their partisan p~rejudices, all their per
sonal differences and came together with
a unanimity which has rarely ever been
seer aud talked without a contest as to
any single one of the candidates, They
did more, they performed a greater duty
TO the country when they successfully
invited your distinguished fellow citizen,
Judge Ranney, to take in his hand the
banner of the party %[applause]. To take
in his hand the banner of the party and
asserting their principles and announcing
their doctrines and %denounCing those Of
his opponents to use his utmost efforts
to plant it in victory on the second Tues
day in Ootober, for if we carry the state
of Ohio then the Presidential election ia
practically over.
If anything can be gathered from the
signs of the times, if any differences are
to be drawn from the spirit and tenor of
our party organization it is, as Judge
Ranney said, that we shall carry this
good old state of Ohio from one end Of it
to the other, from Pennsylvania to In
diana, from Cleveland to Cincinnati.
The feeling throughout u party is n
oil enthusiastic belief in our success and
that enthusiastic belief will bring us
many recruits.
l intend this evening, gentlemen, to
give you the reasons why in my opinion
Winfield Scott Hancock should be
elected President and why General
James A.. Garfield should not be elected
to that position 10 voice "Goodl"] This
is a very plain matter and l shall deal
with it in a very plain way. l say that
General Hancock ought to be elected
President of the United States because
he is a statesman, because he is a Demo-
crat and because he is a soldier lap
plause] and l have put his qualification
as soldier last not because | should I'M
dervalue either the capacities of the ser.
vice of a man who has performed we'll
his duty as a soldier in the wars of the
republic, but because l believe those
capacities and services, if they stand
alone do not entitle a man to be elevated
to the highest civil magistracy of the re.
public; but l believe also that when
superadded to the quality of statesman
and Democrat there eminent capacity
and when there has been high military
service, that they complete and round
up and fill up tho character which is de.
serving of the highest praise in the Citi-
Aenship of the republic. | say that
General Hancock is a statesman. l
agree entirely with what Judge Ranney
says: That a man who can command
large armies in the field and large de.
partments in the state is a statesman and
General Hancock has had an opportuni.
ty, brief though it was, of showing that
he grasped in the highest Comprehen.
sion all the duties and interests of states
manship. He was sent, as you remem-
Der, at the close of the war to the com.
mand of the Department of Louisiana
and Texas. He was sent there at a time
when the executive government in Con.
gress thought it wise to send military
generals to be in the states which were
required to change their constitutions.
He assumed command in those states at
q period of great disaster and great
trouble. He issued an order-twJ of
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high appreciation of the powers and du.
ties of a statesman. l make 10 apology
for reading them to you. l want you,
every oAe of you, to know the claim
upon which the Democratic party rests
its desire that you should give it your
vote. | want these gentlemen of the
press to spread broadcast throughout the
land the orders that he issued, so that
the people may know not only that he
understood the principles of statesman.
ship but that he used with wonderful
accuracy and precision the technical
language of the trained statesman and
writer. Listen to this order that he is
sued on the day after he took command
in New Orleans: The General CON-.
handing is gratihed to learn that peace
and quiet reign in this department and
it will be his purpose to preserve this
condition of things. AS a means to this
great end he regards the maintenance of
the authorities in the faithful execution
of the laws as the most efficient under
existing circumstances. In war it is in.
dispensable to repel by force and over.
throw and destroy opposition to lawful
authority. But when insure Ctionary
force has been overthrown and peace
established and the civil authorities are
willing and ready to perform their du-
ties the military powers should cease to
lead and the civil administration should
resume its natural and righttul domino.
ton [applause]. Seriously impressed
with THESE views, the General announces
that the great principles of American
liberty still are the lawful inheritance of
this people and ever shall be; the right
of trial by jury, the hGbea0 corpus, the
of the press, the freedom of
speech and the natural rights of persons
and the rights of property must be pre-.
served. Free institutions, while they
are essential to the prosperity and hap.
piness of the people always furnish the
strongest inducements to peace and or.
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