Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1880-09-18

Dominating The Committee on Ways
and Means that makes wgar tariff; the
CommitAee on Post MEce that runs
your R1i serviee; the Committee on
banking dist OeAtHols our monetary
system;t Appropriations.
which gives out yu1r snoney-there it
stan6sihSidisg ,6y +ha throat alike the
Demoutttc,parE nd the business Of
fthe North.
Nov, eRe step further. This is a
.Ggyel0aeNtcfp Parties. When meas
are Is iftrodnceG members do not vote
on it estirely IN Congress, according to
.indepeaSeht Judgment. One hundred
and 61Gfive Democrats control the
.House; Ne0 Southerners control the
s155. foft>&wo Democratic Senators
eoatrofabe Senate: 30 Southerners con-
strol the y. The South, which, by the
tissue u ,llot and the hqdgeon, has
gained Ne State Governments now, by
ITS eyah and through its congressman,
vontyGs the legislation of this country.
'Tbg have only to add the Executive to
their number, and then increase the
number Of Judges of the Supreme Court,
sss slant the rebel Confederacy in con-
troll At Washington, and you men who
saved the nation have got to be the
servants Of the rebel South. Applause.
Voices: mo. Never.l think under
stand Why Hancock was nominated.
leo one step further. Not merely
has this party demonstrated itself unfit
for control BY its record in the past:
not only has this party in its compost
tion under the direct government Of
the solid South, but in its platform and
declaration of principles, it is directly
opposed to every interest of this great
North. God knows that my heart grows
sad when. fifteen years after the war. it
is necessary to fly the flag and call the
roll OF solid North to prevent the solid
South from doing the wrong. But
Justice To them. justice to ourselves,
Justice to this great heritage of free
government that has been left us, de-
mand that You and l settle this solid
South question now and for ever.
lGreat and long continued applause.
If they form the old lines in gray, We
have got to form the old lines in blue.
(Applause. Cries Of "good" "bully.'1
II they coerce by force the republi-
cans Of the south, ifby tissue ballots
they misreturn the verdict Of the
south, then, by honest ballot, honestly
cast, honestly counted and fearlessly
enforced, the great north must save
the nation once again, as once it saved
it before. Great applause.
Not only will your business be more
secure, not only will your industries be
more carefully guarded, but the very
south itself will be blessed by Our vic
tory. Have you ever thought of the
terrible condition Of community
where every young man came to man
hood reading in the constitution those
thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments, goes to the polls and
sees them unblushingly violated. sees
manhood disregarded, the law dehed,
the old flag insulted, and all that one
race may be put on the neck of anoth-
er, and that through force and fraud
that which they lost in battle may
somehow. and in part, be saved in
time of peace. What is the effect up
on the young MANI What is the effect
upon the souths That system, gen.
tlemen, is educating the young men Of
Carolina and Mississippi to disregard
law. That system of fraud is sowing
the seed of disaster, Of blood in the
future, of which these misguided men
have no conception. Justice never
bore any blossom or any fruit except
peace. liberty and content. Injustice,
the wide wrrld over, has never borne
any blossom or any fruit, except wrong
dishonor and blood.
This government is based on the
free consent of the governed. / read
in that democratic platform that the
right to an honest election is the right
preservative Of all rights. read in
Hancock's letter of acceptance that
full, free ballot and fair count are nee
ersary to the welfare Of the people,
and your heart and mine give response
A full, free ballot and fair count.
What has become of the republican
majority Of South Cardinal Shot to
death by the rifles Of Orangeburg and
ElIerton. A full and free ballot and
fair count. What has become Of the
republican majority Of Mississippi
Dead under the shot guns Of Kemper
county. A full free ballot and fair
count! What was that miserable ira
yesty Of election in Alabama the
other day7 A full, free ballot and fair
count! And yet a democratic SUI
preme court in Indiana tears down the
registration laws, and invites the mob
Of Indiana, on the 9Th day Of October
to stuff the ballot boxes with fraudu-
lent votes. A full, free ballot and fair
count! What were the politics of the
supreme court in my native city of
New York that'in 1868 naturalizcd
10000 men within two weeks laugh
1esl. and then for fear some good citi-
zen entitled to naturalization had been
overlooked gave out ten thousand cer-
1ihe ates xth the seal Of the court and
aud the signature Of the clerk, and al
lowed the deHO1atic ward committees
to fill in The blanks. Laughter.] A
full, free ballet snd fair count. My |
'er.oc-,.'c. brother. ubat were the
e-ils n IL, Ecr@TlrI ur i. - re !
csrcl.ns :ac:ics apop TIE porheas,
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