The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-10-21

est war that modern times had seen. and when it
was waged against free and republican institu-
tons ny great military power-we thought that
was more clearly threat of military despotsm
than anybody had dreamed possible, and when
we got out of the war we thought that we were
delivered forever from any fear of such despotsln
And we were. [Applause.]
But it is not now by the ranks of war and it's
armament that We attempt to overpower you"
they said, 1T is by appealing to your open, gen
at the alternatives We offered We offered you, in
1854, great Union General-Gen. Mcclellan
he was great Union General-and united south
In arms And this desiccated democracy stood
upon its dignity at the north, and said: "What,
not take great Union General! Why, what q
Rhedgs Of fidelity, when you see, as plain a. day,
Union General, Mcclellan, the south will lay
down its arms, because they won't have anything
to fight for ther, that will end it." Did tho
people respond to that? The answer was: ''This
candidate is better than his party. lie was only
unready; but his party was untrue. [Applause. ]
But yet the great statesman, that the affections
OF the people had climbed about; that had writ
ten more glorious page in our history than any
on one since Washington [applause] that had made
liberty universal and had dispelled the shadows
OF color and the lines Of race, is the president for
army; man who had not been found unready or
untrue during the trials through which this coun-
try had passed." [Applause.] So the people did
not accept the great union general
Wen, in 1863 they said: ave offer you a can
dldate now from the noreh-nlways from the
north-Governor Seymour. candidate better
than his party" Well that was true. How un-
dor heaven should these people think-when ours
Is government not OF men, not Of kings, not Of
mobiles, but Of the mass Of the popular feeling and
OF public principle that is represented in the pres
idency-how, 1 say should they think that a
party could commend itself to the suffrage by say
ing its candidate was better than they! What IL
reason tor taking party, that it is worse than
the candidate [Laughter.] I don't know that
our countrymen have eaten of the insane root
and have gone mad, but don't think that any
answers they made to that proposition show that
they have lost their wits at all. Well, now, Gov.
Seymour was better than the party. In fact US
ne has gone on increasing III excellence, think
he is better than any party, or, in fact, don't
know but he Is better than all his fellowmen.
[Laushter.] That may be. know he showed u
very extreme instance of that forgiving spirit
and that humbleness Of soul which are said to
mark the Christian when, clothed with the sword
Of power and speaking in the name Of authority,
when your streets were red with the blood OF in
nocents, he spoke to the rioters as his friends
Now, that suits man for some departments of
life, but not for the command Of the army and
navy OF the United States. [Grcat applause.]
MORE OF DEMOCRATIC OFFERS.
Well, in 1872 they said: 'Those people are
very hard to please. We have offered them can-
didates that were better than our party; now We
will offer them another candidate, man whs
don't belong to our party at all. Laughter
These northern men," they said, care of rather
melodramatic temperament. They Ikea show,
and what could be q finer show than for great
party to take candidate for the presidency right
of from the top Of the other party. daughter
Well, they said, you must admit that, that cum
didate is better than our party" daughter. ]
They said: awe only presented you before 10y
al patch upon motl-eaten garment Of rebellion
and democracy" [Laughter.] 'Wel,' We re-
piled, I'VE admit that you have not presented a
patch but you have actually clothed yourselves
In another mans garment" and we added: :'Our
notion that the party that is in power ought to
be in power, is the transaction which the American
people pass upon in their presidential elections
and we will vote for Gen. Grant and not for Hor-
ace Greeley" [Applause:]
Nv ell they said, 1--WE have tried everything.
Now we will have man after our own heart
man that does not come from the republican
party, man that is not better than our own party
who can tell about these tickle, melodramatic
northerners who are always running into scrapes
tor want Of prudence, thrift and forethought-a
people that you can not keep out of the fire out
Of e; the water" And 50 they presented ou1 dis
t,ngu'shed tellow-citizens and my classlnate-
Samuel J. Tlden. [Laughter.] Well, that was
very fine. Now they say: "Look ut HIM See
how we have come back to our true colors! Did
you ever see" say they, IA pattern that was bet
ter matched by patch on it than the democratic
Now you can not object to that Well, the peo-
pie said: Let us look ut that. Didn't you
have an old ticket and popular suffrage on it
then twenty years ago-lS56? for this Tilden
candidacy was in 1860 Let us look at that
Somehow or other it strikes us that history is re-
peating ITSELF and that the same voters that voted
for Buchanan to vote for Tilden and we will
agree that, so far us we can see in record and in
temper, Tiltlen and Buchanan are as like as two
peas. Laughter. Now, We have had that pat
tern before, the people said land We will choose
Hayes" Great applause.
Well now, gentlemen, we come along down. At
| their elections the democratic party has been
| made up OF the same constituents solid south
| and the dessicated democracy Of the north
| liaughter] and the people have passed upon them
US such And now they present again the same
| colnbinaton-the solid south and the dessicated
democracy a , OF the north, neither more nor less
ana they have chosen q candidate, saying "Hav-
| ing tired ourselves with pleasing you by Offering
every pattern and patch, we will give you another
candidate that is better than our party Indeed
very eminent public thinker and writer. who
seldom speaks within bounds, has thought to
| tnshten the people Of the country that cspoused
the republican candidate by saying that our can
| didate God bless himD General Garfield [tremen-
! dous applause and cheering]-this is the crushing
criticism upon him-is no better than his party.
Well, we thought so, We thought SO. We thought
the party was as good us could be, and that while
it could find in its ranks and in its lead many men
| that were worthy of its honors and its votes, We
really must be excused from saying we could find
any one man that was better than the great re-
publican party. [Applause.]
Now, this is an extraordinary business. The
democratic party, conscious OF the beam in its
own eye, and knowing that there isnot even a
mote in the eye of the republican party (laugh-
teri has sought to mike A. balance Of tho ha.r, j.,
publican candidate. Well, that is an extraordin-
| airy situation! A whole party trying to make a
balance out Of themselves against what they
charge as u blemish in our candidate They try
to make balance against the enormous iniquities
rnrepented of and not yet laid aside; every epAu-
let, every plume, every rufle, every cartrdge-box;
every sword-belt, every holster still surrounding
the democratic party in its relation to nstitu-
lions md Qur nrQsneritY they think to 1lrn3x ut