The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-08-05
IN A NUTSHELL.
Senator Hoar Reviews the Democratic
National Platform.
ave shows Its Inconsistencies with
Itself, the Party, and the
Candidate. d.. .. r.s

Senator HOar, i'll his speech at the Garfield
and Arthur ratification meeting in Faneuil Hall,
Boston, said:
But, my friends, I wish to call your attention
for few moments to the platform that our
Democratic friends have proposed, and upon
which they have put their candidate. The Re-
Puoucan party proposes to continue the finan-
clal policy of the past four years, and if de-
sired to describe that policy, OF to show you its
fruits, think I could not do better than to
conine myself to one simple sentence which I
read i'll morning paper last week. It was
this: 1.-The taker of the census in the city OF
Lowell reports that he cannot find a man in
the city who wants work and is unemployed"
NOW. II any of you have heard Democratic
speech or listened to q Democratic prophecy
during the last four years, when you hear
another Democratic speech or another Demo-
cratic prophecy, just remember that single
sentence, think that i'll the largest manufactur-
ing city OF Massachusetts, the census-taker
cannot to-day lind man who wants work
who has not got it. Every prosperous work
shop IN Massachusetts is a monument of
faise Democratic prophecy and batflcd Demo-
cratic policy. But our friends who have nOmi-
mated Gen Hancock have given us a platform
containing few generatics that do not gilt
ter. They do not promise or profess single
measure for the benefit of this people-not one.
You cannot find in the Democratic platform
adopted at Cincinnati single measure to which
the Democratic party pledges itself and on
which it offers itself to your confidence But
Maine and Louisiana, and Mississippi and
South Carolina, put their heads together and
undertook to nominate candidate for the
Presidency, and then they proceeded to declare
as their principle that free ballot is the mat
ter beyond all other matter, and that the Dem
ocratic party pledges itself to secure that.
so that If this gentleman be elected you are to
have in this country a free ballot, as exhibited
and .practiced by the Democracy of Maine,
Mississippi, Louisiana and South Carolina.
! should like to read you one of the speeches.
noticed some of our excellent friends applaud
when l mentioned the name of Gen. Ham
cock, and they will certainly, therefore, like
Wade Hampton's speech better than mine.
Wade Hampton said: s.Mr. President and
gentlemen Of the convention: On behalf of the
sold South, which was once arrayed against
this great soldier of Pennsylvania, I stand here
and pledge you its solid vote. It will prove no
laegard in this great race for constitutional
government, home rule, and for freedom all
over this great land, and, in the name of South
Carolina, that State which has so lately re-
turned and come into the sisterhood of States,
thaC state which was SO overwhelmingly Re-
publican that we scarcely dared to count the
Democratic vote, in behalf of that State here
by pledge myself, if work, if zeal, if energy can
DO ANYTHING, that the people of South Carolina
will give as large Democratic majority as any
State III the Union" Well, now, my friends,
may be sure, and if there is any Democratic
soul that takes comfort in it, let him take it. I
think the Senator exaggerated little the labor
and energy which would be required of him.
Tissue ballots are not heavy; a 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 the national credit. This solid
South. IN which you can scarcely find State
that has not repudiated 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
lng-press and throwing it off among the people
as the sole currency for the working men in this
country now gets up and says that if their can
dldate is elected it proposes to have honest
money, leaving, OF. course, to them the def
milton. want, however. as O comment upon
this free-ballot matter to read you an article
published since Gen. Hampton's speech and
since the Democratic Convention at Cincinnati.
cratic paper in South Carolina. s.Starting, saws
the Charleston Neacs, with the assumption
that it is the settled purpose in South Carolina
that the intelligent and responsible citizens are
to rule whether they are Dominally the major
ity or not, what course shall the people of the
State take to make this safe, and to avoid the
horrible strain of such elections as tho last with
their uncertainties and manifest unpleasant
ness?" Now, I suppose you understand that
question, how many tissue ballots were needed
to stuff into the ballot-box to bring out DEM
ocratic majority? and "the manifest unpleas
antness" consists Of the nnpleasantness OF the