The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-10-08

spect for the laws made by men who are elected
by fraud They viii have no respect fer the
decision of Judges when they believe the
Judges were elected by fraud, and
then then comes the dissolution of our
form of government and then comes
the destruction of human liberty for hundred
years. Every Republican should make up his
mind to be perpetual sentinel of the ballot
box: every Republican should make up his
mind that, so far as was in his power an IL
legal vote should never again be cast in this
country. We fell into it it took q long time,
but We got there. In the first place, In the
cities no man was allowed to vote who came
from foreign country until he had been here
five years. They began allowing them to vote
when they had been here four, and if the Dem
ocratic party did, probably the Wing party
would have done it if the foreigners would have
voted the Wing ticket, but they wouldn't.
After while they allowed them to vote
IN three years, In two years, and it
was not long until they met them at
Castle Garden and marched from the ship
directly to the polls. All over our country we
have had contest with regard to the removal
OF county-seats, when all the people at one side
OF the county were for removal, and all the
people on the other side against removal, and
the North side would hear that the South side
was going to cheat, and the South would hear
that the North was going to cheat, and, as a re-
suit, both cheated; and thus, day by day, little
by little, the sanctity of the ballot-box has been
destroyed, and that party was considered the
smartest party that could get in the most lille
gal votes and get them counted. All that must
be stopped, Or this country cannot endure, and
it is the mission of the Republican party
to stop it, and that is another reason
why | am a Republican. That party has
thrown every safeguard around the ballot-box
In every State in this Union where any safe
guard has been thrown. That party has al
ways been in favor of registration; the Demo-
cratic party has always opposed it. That par
ty-the Republican party-has done all it pos
slbly could do to secure an honest expression of
the great will of the people. Each man here,
who is in favor of an honest ballot-box, ought
to vote the Republican ticket every man here
IN favor of free speech ought to vote the Re
publican ticket Free speech is the brain of
this republic, and an honest vote is its life
blood. There are two reasons, then, why am
a Republican,:
First, believe in free speech.
Secondly, want an honest vote
Can you trust the people of the South with
the ballot-box? Areyou willing to let Alabama
keep that sacred observation-disclosures that cast in
1876 about 900 votes for Tilden, but only a
little while ago cast Democratic majority of
92,0002 Alabama to-day is a Republican State
sentiments and you know it.
Mississippi is to-day Republican State !;
North Carolina is Republican State; South
Carolina is q Republican State Florida is
Republican State; and everybody who knows
anything knows what say is true. How are
they kept in the Democratic ranks? Are they
kept there by the men who are trying to pro-
tect the ballot-box? They are kept there
by the shotgun, they are kept there by
the tissue ballot they are kept by force and
fraud. Masked murderers in the dead of night
ride to the cabin of the freedman and shoot
him down regardless of the shriekings of his
wife and the tears of his babes. That is
the way the Southern States are kept
solidly Democratic. All, but they say
to me, "Are you willing that the black people
should control the South?" If the black peo-
pie are in favor of liberty and the white people
are opposed, then want the black people to
control. If the black people believe that this is
a nation, and the white people there say it is
simple confederacy, then I want the black
people to control the South. If the black
people are in favor of an honest vote, if the
black people are in favor of freedom of speech,
if the black people are in favor Of absolutely
guarding the ballot-box from fraud, and if the
white people are on the other side on
these questions, then I say let the
black people rule that country. think
more of a black friend than do of white
enemy. think more of black man who loves
liberty than do of a white man who hates it.
think more of black man who upheld our
flag in war than of any white man who has
tried to tear it down. That is my doctrine. l
think more of the man trampled down than I
do of the trampler. / think more of the man
stolen from than do of the thief
There is another thing. We have not only
got to have free speech, not only got to have
an honest ballot but we have got to raise
revenue In this country. We owe to-day
one billion nine million dollars,-a Demo-
critic debt. Democracy is the greatest luxury
we ever afforded. Applause and laughter, and
cries of Hit them again. We have got to paw
that debt Why? If we don't we will be eter-
nally dsgraced in the eyes of the civilized world
When our money is only worth 80 cents on the
dollar every American falls 20 per cent. below
par. When our money is at par, We
are. When we cannot pay our bonds
we feel that we are dishonest people, but
when our bonds bearing only per cent.
are worth ITO in the market, we feel proud :;
and when we go to another country and see
one of those bonds that bond certifies that an
American is an honest man. Who are you GO
ing to trust to pay this debt? that is the ques-
ton. Whom are you willing to trust with the
honor of the United States The men who de-
Tended her flag will defend her honor. The
men who tried to tear her flag down will tram
pie Americas honor beneath their feet. Who
is going to pay? The Democrats solemnly
swore that we never would pay. In the year
of grace, 1878, standing in the center OF
nart1 and knowledge the st DemooT T6
exception of two or three OF the New
England States, in which it held convention,
solemnly resolved that the United States could
not resume specie payments. Well we did.
We did. They resolved that the war was fail
IRE, and Immediately thereafter we succeeded,
and the old flag was carried in glory over every
inch of the United States. They have never
made a prophecy that was fulfilled. Their
prophecies and their promises are exactly alike.
Whom can we trust to pay this debt? Whom
can we trust to give US good money? A
greenback to-day is as good as gold. Who
made it so? The Democrats in their conven-
lions solenlnly resolved that it would never be
good. Well, they helped little, I have no
doubt, because everybody knew that what they
resolved would not be true. AL you have to
do Is to copper Democratic resolution. Now,
in order to pay this debt-and will come to the
money question, after which we have got to
have revenue-it has got to be collected. Will
you trust to collect the North Or the South, the
Republican or the Democratic party ? Recol-
lect the Democratic party has been fasting
for twenty years. It has suffered all the ago
Mes of official famine. Not a bite for twenty
years. The Democratic party to-day is a vast
aggregate official appetite. Who are you going
to trust? Will we trust the Southern States to
collect the revenues of the Union? In four
years, with the Internal Revenue Department,
we have collected of internal tax 1850, 0G0, 000a
a cost of about 8 per cent. This in four years
During four years we have captured, destroyed,
and hbeled 1874 illicit distilleries in Southern
States. Remember it !; we have captured and
indicted 1904 Democrats in Southern States,
charged with defrauding the revenue of the
country. The Southern people, resisting the
collectors of the Federal tax, in the last four
years, have shot and killed twenty-five rev.
nue. officials and have wounded fifty-five
and now in the Southern States-that is, in
many of them-every Revenue Collector, every
officer connected with that branch of the Gov
eminent, is provided by the Internal Revenue
Department with breech-loading rifle and a
pair of revolyers. Are they the gentlemen to
collect our revenues? VIII you depend on them
topay the interest on 81 400 000 600 and the cur
rent expenses of this Government? It won't
do. Ineard story of couple of Methodist
ministers who had been holding a camp meet
ing, and after they had preached week one
said to the other: Let's take up subscrp-
ton" g Good, +" said he. Sohe passed his hat
gave it TO brother, and he passed
it around, and finally came back and
handed it to the preacher, and he turned it
over on the pulpit, and there was a lot of old
nails, matches, toothpicks, buttons, and not
one solitary cent and the other preacher said
looking at it. "Let us thank God, and the