St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-09-18

Hob. Lyman lluiHDuli, hcHIoCldtlC
candidate for Governor of Illinois, ad
dressed 10000 people at Belleville, Ill.,,
on the 3Oth ult. 1t was one of the
largest meetings ever held in the West.
The enthusiasm was unbounded. His
speech was long, able, and exhaustive
one. We make two short extracts from
it, where he refers to the Republican
party as a party Of false pretences, and
the Democratic party as the only truly
national party in the United States:
Another false claim for support made
by Republicans is that under their aus
pices the currency of the country has
been improved and its prosperity res
tered. How came the currency of the
country to he bad and its business de-
pressed? Who is responsible for the
years of adversely following the summer
ployment and carried want into SO
many homes? Let the Republican party
answer these questions before claiming
credit for IL return to sound currency
and better times. And let the people
remember that it was not till the Demo-
cratic party got control of the House of
REPRESENTATIVES and checked the waste
full extravaganza of a Republican adj
ministration that returning prosperity
began to appear.
think have shown by an impartial
statement of facts that the Republican
party, us now organized and controlled,
is not the representative OF the .prlncl-
pies which governed it at its birth that
it is now a party of false pretences,
seeking to maintain it's ascendancy on
II -, TO hiof, II Ic antjflpI
and bv an election machinery devised
to enable it to fill every election pre-
cinct in the land with it's active partisans
at the public expense.
The Democratic party is now the only
national party of the land. Cheers
1t finds its supporters both in the North
and the South, and expects to elect its
candidate by electoral votes coming
from each. Hancock and English can
be elected in no other way. Choose
them for your President and Vice
President, and it will put an end to
sectional strife, and the people Of this
whole country will be prepared to go for
ward as one people to the destiny that
awaits them, of soon becoming the most
prosperous and the most powerful nation
that exists on the face of the globe, and,
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people whose rights and liberties are
regulated and protected by constitu-
tional law. prolonged cheers.]
Little more need be said OF Hancock
and English than that they both possess
the Jeffersonian qualifications for office.
That they are honest no man questions.
| There is no smell of corruption or the
improper receipt or misuse of money
about the garments of either. That
they are capable, the able and efficient
discharge of public trusts abnndantly
proves. That they will be faithful to
the Constitution, we have the highest
evidence, in that they have ever made
it the guiding star of their political
action. They are both committed by
their letters of acceptance to the prinel-
pies enuneiated in the Democratic plat
form; but what is more satisfactory
still is the ability, craftsmanship, and
moral courage shown by Gen. Hancock
in his private letter to Gen. Sherman.
written years ago at most critical time
in our history, and without any view to
political preferment. In that letter he
shows a thorough knowledge of our
system of government; that he has
opinions, and is not afraid to express
them that he has the moral courage to
dare to do right, quality in which Gen
Garfield has shown himself sadly de-
ficient.
The Democratic party has now become
the party of reform, and, thank God
the signs from every quarter give prom,
!, Use that the time draweth nigh when II
will be afforded an opportunity. both IL
this State and the nation, to look into
the accounts so long kept by the Re
publicans. Loud and prolonged APP
Dlause.