The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-06
IN A NUTSHELL.
Senator Hoar Reviews the Democratic
National Platform.
Fac shows Els Inconsistencies with
Itself, the Party, and the
Candidate.


candidates.
Senator Hoar, in his speech at the Garfield
and Arthur ratification meeting In Faneuil Hall,
Boston, said
But, my friends, I wish to call your attention
Tor few moments to the platform that ont
democratic friends have proposed and upon
which thcy have put their candidate. Tho Ro-
publican party PROPOSES To cotittnus The Gnat-
cial policy Of the past four years, and II do
sired to describe that policy, or TO show you It's
fruits, think could not do better than TO
confro myself to one simple sentence VIII tch
itad in morning paper last Woek. II vas
this: "Tho taker Of the census in tho city OF
Lowell reports that he cannot find man in
tho city who wants work and Ia unemployed"
Now u any Of You have heard Democratic
fpccCh Or listened 10 q Democratic prophecy
during tho last four years, when you hear
auothcr Democratic speech o. anStl,Sr Demo.
cNat'" ptapl.ECy, just iOnOmbCf tiat sliglo
sentence, think that, In the largest manufacture
ing city of Massachusetts, tho collsls-takcr
cannot to-day find man who wants work
who has not got il. Every prosperous work
shop IN Massachusetts, Ia q monument of n
falSo uon,actatic iirophcos altd boiV,cd Dcmo-
cratic policy. But our friends who have nomi-
mated Gen. Hancock have given liz u platform
containing u few generalitios that do not gilt
ter. They do not promise or profess Il single
theasliro for tho benefit bf this peBple-not t'nc
You cannot find In tho Democratic platform
adopted ut Cincinnati single measure 10 which
the Democratic party pledges itself and on
which II offers itself TO your confidence. But
Maine and Louisiana, and Mississippi and
south Carolina but their hcada togctlet and
undertook to nominate a Candidate for the
Presidency, and then they proceeded to declare
AZ their principle that n free ballot IL the mat
ter beyond all other matter, and that the DEM
ocratic party pledges itself tn secure that.
30 that il this gentleman DO elected you are to
have in this country froo ballot, AZ exhibited
and practiced by the Democracy of Maine,
mississippi, Louisiana aid South Carolina.
] should like to read you one az the speeches.
noticed some OF our excellent friends applaud
when | mentioned the name Of Gen. Han
cock. and they will certainly, therefore, like
Wade lIamptOns speech better than minc
Wade Hampton said: "Mr. President and
gentlemen OF the convention: On behalf of the
solid South, which was once arrayed against
this great soldier of Pennsylvania, ] stand here
and pledge sou its solid yufe ~ will prrve no
laGgard la this great race Tor constitutional
government, homo rule, and for freedom all
over this great land. and. III the name of South
Carolina, that State which has 30 lately re-
tuIitl una come INTO tHO hlsttiiOOu Oh StutcS,
that State which was 40 overwhelmingly Re
publican that We scarcely dared to count tho
Democratic vote. ip behalf OF that State here
by pledge mysolr, II work, il zeal, IL energy can
do anything, that the people of S5uth Carolina
will give as large Democratic ajority az ally
State in tho Union" Well, now, my friends,
Senator Hampton will keep that pledge you
may be sure, and if there IL any Democratic
sonl that takes comfort IN 1t, let him take it. |
think Inc Senator EXAGGERATED u little the labor
and energy which would be required OF him.
Tissue ballots arc not heavy; very dainty
South Carolina knight can stuff good many OF
them into ballot-box without fatigue.
Another thing they propose. They propose,
they say, to have honest money in the future
and to preserve thu national credit This solid
South, IN which you cah fcatce'y it'd State
that has not ropudiated its bonds, and from
which, think, but two or three votes for the
last four or five or ten years have been cast
against schemes for printing money on print
ing-press and throwing 1t of among the people
as tho sole currency for the wOrk king inch in this
country, now gets up and says that If their cali
didato Is elected it proposes to have honest
money, leaving, Of course, to them the def
milton. want, however, as u comment upon
this frce.baliot matter 10 read you an article
published since Gen. Hamptm's speech and
since the Democratic Convention Mt Cincinnati,
in the Charleston Nrtrs. the lhadlnG Demo-
cratic paper i'll South Carolina. "Starting, says
the Charleston Nacs, "wth tho assumption
that it il the settled purpose in South Carolina
that the intelligent and responsible citizens arc
to rule, whether they are nominally the ma or-
ity or not, what course shall the people of the
Stat" take To make this safe, and to avoid the
horrible strain OF such elections as tho last, with
their uncertainties and manifest unpleasant
ncssT Now, suppose You understand that
"the uncertainties" are the uncertainties Of the
question. how many tissue ballots were needed
to stuff into the ballot-boX to bring out DEM
ocrafic rita ,orityS and "the manifest unplCas
antness" consists of the unpleasaltncss Or the
work which was put upon tho gentlemen who
took part in the Hamburg massacre.
No. my friends, il il not enough to nominate
n brave soldier We want to know what the mon
are and who the men to whom that brave SOL
der will DO bound in honor to commit the
powers Of this Government ihtrlistcd to him.
l remember in 1850; when We nominated
Fremont, wh had lip in Worcester n very w6r-
thy and distinguished officer In tho militia,
who, think, must have been relative of Mrs.
Malaprop, he used to get his words wrong in
such u very amusing way: and, after We nomi-
mated Mr. Fremont, my friend, Gen. Devens,
whom you all know and lore; asked him if ho
was going to support Fremont. well Mr..
Devens," said the old soldier, ~ like Fremont
well enough if it wasn't for the clink ho has got
around him." Well, now, think there arc II
good many soldiers in Massachusetts who
served in the army of the Potomac, when they
hear the IiamG OF tllGlr I'D crmrade and COM
mander, will be prepared to make tile sairib Rit;
swer: "We like Gen. Hancock well enough il
it was not for the clink he has got around him.
] agree with the Democratic platform that the
question above all other questions in this cOun-
try is tho question of the free ballot. We can
so through again, II need be, another war, we
can so through again, II need be, another
period OF depression. and poverty, and want,
and hard times, like that through which we
have emerged but We cannot permit the ballot
box, by which the American people Expresses
its will, to be tainted with fraud. l have no
patience with the men, whether they are DEM
ocratic politicians, whether thoy are lndepend-
cnt essayiSts or whether they are Republican
Doctors Of Divinity, who would seek to divert
the attention. of the people from this issue. In
1868, 10000 fraudulent naturalization papers
were issued in tho State OF New York, and cent
in blank broadcast over Now York, and Con-
nccticut, and New Jersey. You know the his
tory of the political massacre in Louisiana;
you know the history Of Vicksburg; l should
like to ask these gentlemen who say that this
question, which the American people feel 30
deeply, il only raised by dishonest politicians
for political ends. or those men who declare
that 1t il better for the negro that Ito chuuld
not vote, to answer few questions. has
there been any massacre at Vicksburg? Did
Chsolm die on his bed, or was no murdered?
Have his mirdcrcrs been convicted, or are they
at large? Was Dixon shot in the back? Were
there any tissue ballots in South CarolinaP
Was there any attempt to steal an entire state
Government at once in the State of Maine or
mott Are thes. things public dangers, or are
they not? Gentlemen crticse what they call
the hpcoch of politicians, and laugh to scorn
:he Republican speakers when they tell you that
these things constitute danger to the republic
NJ friends, tho republic would bc in no danger
II all the powers of the earth should combine
to make an assault upon her doors she il in
danger only when her people, under the press
ure of great temptation or OF party spirit,
are themselves tempted to do WRONG. That is
what constitutes crisis in its history. II is not
the gale or the rock, it il tho teredo and the
dryrot which our ship of state alone has to fear:
These gentlemen pay their tithes of mint and
anise and cnnnin, and neglect the weightier
matters of tho law. They are blind guides,
and should like to have them take this for q
toxt aye blind guides, who strain at gnat
and swallow camel"
Republican Management VS.. Democratic.
From tho Evening Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
II = ~, Il.