Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-10-08
EMORY A. sTORRs.
A Stirring Speech by Him in san Eranois-
oo-The Issues OF the Campaign Boldly
and Clearly stated.

Leaving tnAt WOuutfIul tltN OF mine. enc
throned on the edges of the great inland seas,
coming away across 1900 miles Of plain and
mountain 20 this gem on the Pacific coast,
this jewel which rests upon the edge of that
wonderful ocean, find they are both pnth.
otc cities, both born Of patriotism. Will you
allow me TO carry back TO my fellow. citizens
Francisco to Chicago that this wonderful city
is true to her birth which made her q free
state, and is true 70 that great party which
made US natonP Applnuse.l Coming here
on professional business, II Is n pleasure 90
me to address the Republicans Of the Pacific
Coust here assembled. I come, not as a mis-
sionaryi but as n messenger 90 speak in be.
half OF the interests of that great party which
has made of this continent IA Nation, and
which has made us all citizens OF that great
Nation. am never tired of telling the story
Of the Republican party. hope, my friends,
that you may never weary of hearing the re.
Citul of its magnificent achievements, It Is
great party, born of the best thought, the
hottest purposes and the loiticst impulses OF
our people. It is II great party, which has
crowded into about twenty years of time
thousand years, reckOned by achievements, of
THE MOST MAGNIFICENT HISTORY
that this world has ever witnessed. [Great
Sheerlngl ltis great party which had the
brains and the courage to deny that slavery
was national, and to insist that freedom was
national. lt Is great party which confronted
slavery and rescued leugues and leagues of
territory from its grasp and dedicated them
for all time to free Thought, free speech, free
soil and free men. lCheersl It Is great
party which confronted gigantic rebellion
IN arms and put it down; party which rose
70 the call of a principle; party willing TO
die Tor a thoughti party which placed mi.
lions of men I'm the tield that freedom might
not die upon this continent; party which
bound mp 3 900 miles of seacoast with its fleets
and covered continent with its armies so
that the globe rocked beneath its tread a
party which carried for four long years the
bright star of freedom shining Respondent on
It's torehendi party winch succeeded in say'
ing the Union; party Mr.. President, which
made promises and never failed to keep them
Igre9t applause party which found @ OOO,-
600 of slaves and made them 100000 of free
meni party that lifted 1000 900 OF human be.
ings by one splendid, supreme, sublime effort
from the night OF savagery and barbarism, of
African chattelhood, into the equal, pure
lofty, bracing atmosphere OF American citi.
the nation a structure full Of the decay,lng
dmbers OF servtude, removed them, and has
replaced them with the everlasting guaranty
of universal freedom; q great party, as have
said, true TO all its promises making the slave
free it made him citizen, and making him
citizen 1t clothed him with the right OF suf-
frage a great party which found at the close
of the war a gigantic debt; great splendid
and women; party which through daily sui
terlng, terriblel labor, sometimes sore distress,
paid the debt IA party that respectedtts honor
and the honor OF this nation infinitely more
highly than it respected its own convenience;
a party which gave us currency good all
over the world a party which lifted our ma
uonal fame and
NATIONAL CREDIT
on q loftier eminence than it had ever before
reached; party which threw its protection
over American industry and labor i'm all its
forms; party which set the wheels of ma
chinery running everywhere which kept the
promise of the greenback and paid 1t in gold
coin [applausel; party which through all
these difficulties has come grandly and safely
on, and landed our people where they stand
to-day-in the center of the sOlidest prOsperi'
" that any nation I'm all the history of this
World has ever before enjoyed n party which
has made of these states nation. LProlong
ed applause.l l come from the Atlantic "a
the Pacific and one flag covers us; recognize
that wherever am am citizen OF the Unit
ed States and when think of all these splen
did achievements and of our party, we did it
we did IL lapplausel, ana the poorest OF us
however little we may have of other worldly
possessions, these splendid achtev ements are
our patrimony; Renewed applause Ihl'
where, confronts to-day the Democratic par
ty, party that asks that the past be buried
and do not wonder at it party that insists
that no previous record shall be examined
/ am not surprised at 1t 4; n party that wishes
TO look to the future only am not astOnish
ed at It, tor If the party to which belong, anC
you belong were as leprous with guilt as theirs
Is, and were stained all over with crime az
theirs is; If the political history OF our party
were as theirs is, not merely criminal bu
crime itself, would ask, as they ask, that thu
past be forgotten. [Great applause. Ar,
not. The great effort of the Democratic part,
of to day is to unload its history, to run ava!
from its reputation and its character. Laugh
teri 1t is hard thing TO DO. Renewe'
lRughter.l They discover that character 4
always in issue. No man asks for employ
ment without he puts his character in issue
You don't employ men on their platforms no
ON their promises. The banker would no
employ the pilfering clerk of last month, evei
If his platform of next month embodied tn
Ten Commandments and Christ's Sermon OF
the Mount rolled into one. [Appause.l You
perhaps, by this time have discovered that
am
NOT IN FAVOR OF A CHANGE,
except I'm the better and qualified sense
lLaughter.l 1 am in favor of all changes tina
look to Improvement would be in favor Q
q change from hell to purgatory llaughterl
but not from earth to purgatory. lam Ii
favor of a change from one Republican TO an
other Republican, but not from any Republi
can to any Democrat. Applause and laugh
teri l can understand why the sheep grove
might be willing to swap one dog for anothe
TO watch his flock, but never could under
stand how he could swap a dog for IA vol
Now, If the wolf goes to the sheep gro wer witt
splendid platform, in which he announce
that he has lost all his former tastes for NUT
ton, and that his tendencies are altogethe
peaceful, and insists that they shall shalI
hands across the bloody chasm and be friends
country would be ready to make the bargai
which the wolf proposed am in favor @
conciliation, always have been and alway
will be, but am in favor of being coneiliote
myself. [Laughter.l insist that l shall b
cOneiliated, and insist upon Il that the old
time enemies OF the Union shall immediatel
begin conciliating the old time and life. Ion
friends of the Union. [Applause.l al
speaking of the old Democratic members
There may be many good men in the Demo
cratic party but the Democratic party as a
organization is unanimously, perslstently an
diabolically wicked. Applause Did yo
ever know an instance when the Democrat
party hourished in good timesp When th
times are hard the Democratic party pros
pers. If there is a great movement of grass
hoppers so that 1t devastates the field, theI
is an increase of the Democratic vote
lLnughter.1 1t there is n famine or food, &
calamity, look out for Democratic majortt!
Renewed laughter.l When the mills al
closed. when the rust Is over all your machiI
cry, when grass grove green In all YOU
streets, when lank and lean, and thin an
hungry, when with care and glazing want
his eyes the poor laboring man goes tottertn
around for employment, and his wife, bC
draggled and shiveTing, follows him, the sea-
prosperous times for the Democratic part,
When moneys close and tight, when wage
are low and employment limited the Demo
cratic party is prosperous. 1t nourishes
adversely. 1t
GROWS FAT ON FAMINE.
[Laughter.l But when the mills are all busy
when every little stream is just humping itse
to carry the busy wheels OF manufacturing II
stitutions; when the streets Of the cities al
all rushing with business; when the sunshin
of cOntentment glOws over the faces of all OF
laboring men and comfort Is in their homes
when power and prosperity is in our land, {
what use is the Democratic party? Laughter
asking the attention Of the people 20 what
calls its traditions. Permit me to say that "
don't have TO rely upon traditions TO taste
guilt and crimes upon the Democratic part.
The history of their great crimes has not bee
handed down by mere word of mouth frol
father to son. 1t has not been preserved b
minstrelsy and the agency of troubadouT
There is no tradition about 1t. There is not
all this land one single cemetery that has M
the grave of a slain soldier, who persisted I
Tint great cause that does not furnish ey
dence, evidently better than tradition,
the guilt of the Democratic party. Applause
There is not a single widowed wife nor
single orphaned ohild whose husband {
father died in the conflict who is not liYtn