Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-10-14
EMORY A. STORRS.
Extracts from His Stirring Speech De-
livered at San Francisco,
September 18th.

Extracts from His Stirring Speech De.
livered at San Francisco,
September 18th.
The great effort of the Democratic party
of to-day is to unload it's history, to rur
away from its reputation and it's character
Laughter. It is hard thing to do. Re-
newed laughter. They discover that char
acter is always in issue. No man asks TO,
employment without he puts his character
in issue. You don't employ men on theil
platforms nor on their promises. The banker
would not employ the pilfering clerk of last
month, even if his platform of next month
embodied the Ten Commandments and
Christs Sermon on the Mount rolled into
one. Applause. You, perhaps, by this
time have discovered that l am
NOT IN FAVOR OF CHANGE.
except in the better and qualified sense.
| Laughter / am in favor of all changes
that look to improvement. 1 would be in
favor of a change from hell to purgatOry
| laughter, but not from earth to purgatory
am in favor of a change from one Republi-
can to another Republican, but not from any
Republican to any Democrat. [Applause and
laughter. can understand why the sheep
grower might be willing to swap one dog for
another to watch his flock, but never could
understand how he could swap dog for q
wolf Now, if the wolf goes to the sheep
grower with splendid platform, in which he
announces that he has lost all his former
| tastes for mutton and that his tendencies are
| altogether peaceful, and insists that they
| shall shake hands across the bloody chasm
| and be friends doubt whether any sheep
grower in the country would be ready to
horO ,,x,ho no I
am in favor of conciliation, always have been
and always will be, but l am in favor of
| being conciliated myself Laughter.l I
insist that I shall be conciliated, and insist
upon it that the old-time enemies Of the
Union shall Immediately begin conciliating
the old-time and lifelong friends of the
Union. [Applause.] am speaking of the
old Democratic members in bulk, not of the
individual members of it. There may be
many good men in the Democratic party, but
the Democratic party as an organization is
unanimously, persistently and diabolically
wicked. Applause. Did you ever know
an instance when the Democratic party -four
ished in good times? When the times are
hard the Democratic party prospers. If there
is great movement Of grasshoppers so that
it devastates the field, there is an increase OF
the Democratic votes. Laughter. Ifthere
is famine, or flood, OF calamity, look out
for Democratic majority. Renewed laugh
ter. When the mills are closed, when the
rust is over all your machinery, when grass
grows green in all your Streets when lank,
and lean and thin, and hungry, when with
care and glazing want in his eyes the poor
laboring man goes tottering around for en-
ployment, and his wife, bedraggled and
shivering, follows him, these are prosperous
times for the Democratic party. When
money is close and tight, when wages are low
and employment limited, the Democratic
party is prosperous 1t flourishes in adver-
sity. 1t
GROWS FAT ON FAMINE.
lLaughter.] But when the mills are all
busy; when every little stream is just hump
ing itself to carry the busy wheels of manu-
featuring institutions when the streets of
the cities are all rushing with business;
when the sunshine of cOntentment glOws over
the faces Of all our laboring men, and comfort
is in their homes when power and prosperity
are in our land, of what use is the Democratic
party? Laughter. In its platform of 1880
it pledges itself anew, asking the attention OF
the people to what it calls its traditions.
Permit me to say that we don't have to rely
upon traditions to fasten guilt and crimes
upon the Democratic party. The history of
their great crimes has not been handed down
by mere word of mouth from father to son.
1t has not been preserved by minstrelsy and
the agency of troubadors. There is no ira
dition about it. There is not in all this Land
one single cemetery that has not the grave of
a slain soldier who perished in that great
cause, that does not furnish evidence, evil
IDENTIFY better than tradition, of the guilt Of
the Democratic party. [Applause.] There
is not single widowed wife nor single
orphaned child whose husband or father died
in the conflict who is not living witness in
fnitely better than tradition of the fact that
that father and that husband died to save
this nation that the solid Democratic South
undertook to destroy. [Applause.] Go back
to Lone Mountain, to the still and yOiceless
grave of Baker. Great applause.] Read Oh
the imperishable marble the record of his
glorious deed. Is that tradition? It is .
record which all the waters of the great seas
can never wash out, and which history will
never permit to fade, that that great heart
ceased to beat and perished grandly that the
nation might not die from the face of the
earth at the hands Of solid Democratic
South. Three thousand millions of debt,
millions and millions Of taxation and toll,
and the grief and sorrow of people have
been laboring to pay that debt. These are
monument as enduring as a pyramid, weigh
ing like an incubus upon Al, ,OOO, 900 of people,
placed there by the Democratic party of the
solid South, and no traditions are required.