Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-24

governors election. He asked the aid of the
convention to allow them to go home and say
they had been fairly treated as they always had
been in previous years by the Democrats of the
national convention.
PLEA FROM THE SOUTH.
The strongest speech in favor of the Tamma-
ny delegates was, however, by Gov. Hubbard,
of Texas. He said;
Gentlemen of the convention: i stand be-
fore you as the partisan of no man or men in
the factions which are arrayed against each
other from the State of New York. (Oh eefs. }
stand before you representing a great State
which the census takers will show to be two
million before many months shall pass.
(Applause.) l stand before You representing
the great Democratic party of this State, in the
interest of equity and of justice, though We
gave one hundred thousand majority for, Til
den. Cheers We came to this convention,
men of this con gentiOn prepared TO vote for
Samuel J. Tilden. Tremendous cheers, wav-
| ing of hats, handkerchiefs and other articles of
ornament and use by the delegates and the gal
leries.) We came prepared to vote for Han
| COCK, (cheers). or Hendricks,
| (mild cheering), or Thurman, gentle applause),
or Bayard (more cheers) or any other of the
great, even unmentioned names that may come
before this great assemblage of freemen.
Therefore, have to say that the Democracy of
my section of the Union, looking to the best
interests of the whole country, for we are
''solid South" thank God, on the Democratic
side. (Cheers.) We come up here with the
olive branch forgetting the memories of the
past, burying the discords of the great war in
common grave, honorable alike to both Sec
tions of the country, (applause.)
Let me say that the minority as presented by
the committee, ,smacks of that internal spirit of
jnstice, of fairness, that you cannot ignore,
(applause), for we are not in the hey-day of
our power, that we may throw
away votes by the thousands and
tens of thousands as husks before the swine.
No, no, the time my come before the ides of
November when the great Democratic press of
this country, and our people from mountain
and seabOard, may cry out as the contest thick
ems, 'Oh for Blucher," oh for tae right and the
seventy thousand votes of New York. (Ap-
plause.
do not question the regularity of the men
who sit here. 1 do not question the technicali-
| ties by which you come. You may be so regu-
lar that you bend backwards. Qaughter.) I
honor every one of you, but honor minorities
nevertheless. They have rights in this Demo-
cratic convention, and in this great country, as
well as majorltles, and We cannot, my country
men, enter this contest and ignore the great
States of New York, Indiana and New Jersey,
the battle ground of the contest that is TO
come, (applause) and the Democrat to- day who
/ ~,
cause of the principles which have come down
like holy tradition from the fathers-men
who 60 into q race tor principle and not for
men.
Tilden will die and Kelly will die. and the
old leaders will pass away. Their memories
will live and the principles of the Democratic
party will live while your mountains stand and
your rivers roll down to the sea. applause
L do not know the men in this contest aud you
should not know them. l was member of the
convention of 1856 that sat in this goodly city.
| l recognize a few of the large number that
with me, the gallant Preston, of Kentucky, who
responded to that outburst of enthusiasm m when
| Breckenridge was nominated. I remember
| being upon the committee of credentials when
two delegations from the State of New York,
! the hards and the softs came up from that
great old State with regular, yes, with regu-
lar Qaughter) credentials, and this body of
the fathers then decided, upon the principles
of equity, and justice and fairness, that both
should come in and cast the vote of the great
State of New York.
| If you invoke precedent which the LAWYERS
invoke in the courts, here you have precedent
| for allowing history to repeat Itself in this
great presence and On this great day fraught
with the destiny of our country and of the
Democracy. They only ask representation
of 20 votes. Suppose that the minority should
stand here today pledging you to go into this
|
| you have heard fresh from their lips to vote
Tor whoever you may nominate suppose that
! they had called up larger number in
| the recent gubernatorial election than was Civ
en- to Gov. Robinson, and a noble Roman he is
! (applanse) then how the tables would have
been turned. But yet, regularity would have
been against them. CLaughter). No sir il is
votes that we want "a voice, that's it,") and
it is useless to talk about technicalities family
quarrels and seditions at home and this thing
and that other thing. 1t is when the banners
are out and the war commenced, and the bu-
GIGS are sounding; it is then that we do not
find it in our hearts to put back soldier who
says from the mountain districts and the low
lands, he is with US, and ask him the question
''In what school have you been taught; what
papers do you hold in your hand; are you
willing to fight, to die for the cause?'
"Yes SIR"
March, in sir" TAppIause
appeal to the men of New York that sit be-
fore me, the great necessity now is not q
State issue, Is is an issue broader than New
| York, as broad as she is. It is an issue in
which the destiny of the country, the right of
| good government and opposition to the concen-
tration of power in the hands of a few gen.
uine reformers. The civil SERVICE and the lib
critics of the State and of the citizens, all are
involved. They are involved in the simplest
solution perhaps, of this one question. Be-
|
| to lose New York. No sir.
Suppose on the other hand-and have but a
moment to speak with you-suppose on the
other hand that the regular delegation from
the State of New York should say because you
have allowed these men representation, we will
not vote your ticket. They would not say it in
this presence. If you cannot unite amongst
yourselves, my countrymen, then l call upon
this assemblage of the wisdom and experience,
men who fought in many hard fights to come
and declare the bans, stand by the wedlock
and swear that whatever else may be bred you
sha'n MT breed discord any more in the Demo-
| cratic party.
Gentlemen of the Democracy, in conclusion
allow me to say that in this contest which we
are approaching, the South, a large part of
which, in the territory at least 1 represent, ask
nothing We ask no Presidents, no Vice Presi-
dents. We do not even ask au organization in
your convention, and when we come upon
bended knees and ask You among yourselves to
wave the olive branch and to save US
from the foot of the tyrant for
our dissensions in the past, then we hope that
we have right to expect that the great Demo
cratic party will place their foot ON schism and
discord. (Applause). have nothing more to
say except this, that whoever may be noml-
mated. whoever may be the choice of this great
body of freemen, will receive the solid support
of every State in this union south of Mason
and Dixon's line known of old, (applause),
commencing with Tilden and ending with the
dark horse, applause and laughter), and if we
fail we call upon You to book it in the iudg-
ment, the deep damnation of our taking off.
1 congratulate in conclusion, my countrymen
that an opportunity Is offered to do an act of
Justice that may carry yoa all safely, gloriously
and successfully in the next contest that is now
before us, 1 thank You for the attention which
you have given me. lApplause.
THE CASE OF THE REGULARS.
In behalf of the majority report John Z.
Fellows, of New York, addressed the convention.
He affirmed that this was question whether
the State of New York was great enough to
create its own representatives, or whether her
sister States should wrest that Lower from her,
and dictate whom she should send here. He
i deaired his mart 20. hnnde