The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-06-08

Let thses b bat one sssaneot @
mating all earnest. sincere and unse
6sh republicans. and lss that b thl
each snail Vie With the other in carr
ing our grand Old party through d
cunning contest TO victory.
Tie chair said:
Il have been requested BY th
national committee IN designate Hon
Geo. +. Hoar. Of Maasachusett. q
Temporary chairman" (Tremendou
cheers.)
I Mr.. ..oaf then said: -.
GENr ENsX OF THE CONVENTION :
I thank you for this distioguisbe,
mark Of your confidence. The frsm
ers OF tho constitution expecte,
that the president would be chosel
b, electors who were 70 assembl,
in the electoral college; but tn
people, BY the custosSs. have establish
ell and have batiied the expectation o
the trainers Of the consultation. Th,
elsctor today Is but . scribe /; tn.
convention Of the great political
parties designate each . man for whom
the people vote directly through
their agents. the electors. aud Il
q choice between whom they IN
practically restricted. The functions
Of this convention. the referee, is u
name one of the two men from whom
the people Of the United States an
10 select their president.
Ifit performs its duties wisely. fear
Iessly aud hsely. it 10 70 name The
man wlmm the people will make thei'
Your tenure Of Office b
brief. bat scarcely any duty ia en-
trusted to the most honored citizen ol
the republic which. in dignity. in au-
in tsr-rescbing public I'M
portAnce, equals yours. Il IL twenty
years since the republican convention
met in this city. which, after .
strong but friendly contest. put in
Abraham Lincoln and
Hannibal Hsmlin. Lincoln has gooe ;
but his companion upon that ticket
il present to-day to give us counsel
from the stores of an experience
gathered from lite Of honorable pub
lie service. Lincoln las gone to is
rest. ~ have Douglas and Brecken-
ridge, his compctitors for the great
office IT the presidency; but the
psrties which confr0uted each
,,her then confront each other
now. unchanged in purpose, in
temper aud character. The demo-
ratio party WA ruled then as now BY
The south. The single purpose Of its
being MAS to give political supremacy
70 the people Of the south and Offices
without influence to their northern
,llies. In the pursuit at the end
every great public interest WA sacri-
iced as regarded expanding little for
public i'm ,rovemente. either in the
rest OF the inland river or lake. In
1850 The credit Of the naiiou was peor,
u treasury empty. its six pr cents.
ben below par. Our unProtected0man-
,factursr coutended .: . fearful died
vantage With the pauper labor Of Eu-
one, Oh whose work shops Ne depend.
d for . large portion OF the necessities
md comforts Ut life. Our little navy
v.s scattered over the four quarters
# the globe; four millions u ouI
in bondage to them. Ev-
.ry new state as il took its place in the
,reat family but added = new dungeon
o their gloomy prison houses.
At last, a. the democratic
,arty let 60 its hold On power. the
RATIONAL flag itself seemed about tn
Ne folded and laid aside to be re-
,.rded thenceforth - q miserable
'ymbol Of the futility and folly Of the
asst great experiment Of selfgovern-
nent. The democratic party conffonts
- to-day. - I said. unchanged in
purpose, in temper and in character.
united in nothing else. proposiDg no
other measure or policy. 1t urges
10 warfare upon the safe guards
y hich the nation has thrown around
he purity Ut iB elections. 1t can see
10 other evil except that . freeman
,hould cast . free vote under the
protection Of the national authority |;
{ takes the honest ballot from the
box aud stu6s the tissue ballot into
10 place. In New York ~as Issued
naturalization papers three
core thousand im number. In Maine
10 ambitious larceny tries to pilfer .
whole etate government at once. 10
Delaware it looks with complscency
% The shipping post. ss in war it finds
in the constitution nothing which
r,uld protect the national life. So
in peace il finds nothing there
which can protect the national hon
". Can you find IN the history Of
the democratic party, for the past
sixteen years. anything that the
party he's either done or
tried to do except 70 break down the
legal safe guards 50 Is to make
these things possible: The republican
party has no such miserable history.
Rebellioo subdued. slaves freed.
great public ways constructed. home.
stead laws, naturalization treaties. pub
lie credit reeetabIished, debe diminish
ed, sound currency restored. flag
above all; bot moi
for these things alone. or chiefly doe
the republican party live. The 70
publican party lives that every mau
within our borders may dwell secure
10 a happy home. may cast and havs
counted his equal vote. may send hi
child at the public charge to . fire,
school. Until these thing come to paa
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, froa
Cansda tn the Cult. the mission o
our PARTY Is not accomplished. nor IL