The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-10-15


| As rule, in this country, the party has always
certified to the candidate. If Gen. Garfield
| would certify that he would veto certain law
| if it was passed by the Republican party, the
| whole party would feel insulted. We would
say to him: I'VE will take care Of our
selves; when you become President exercise
| your power as in your discretion you believe
| you ought, but do not certify to the moral
character of the Republican party" Why did
| Hancock think it necessary to certify to their
| character? Because he knew it is bad. He
really thought the American people had more
| confidence in him than in the Democratic party;
| for that reason he steps to the front and says
| to the country: 50 / will not allow these raga-
mullins behind me; will not allow these reb-
| them to pass law that I don't want" He
says: 81 admit they are bad !; look at them.
I admit you cannot trust them but between
this hungry horde and the American people /
| promise to throw the shield of my veto" He
says: ''Ladies and gentlemen, / will protect
you from this party. All l want of these
men is to make me President. and then
will protect you and let them go to the devil
| Gen. Hancock might die; death might veto
him. From the grave he could not carry out
hispromise, and who comes in thtn? Mr.. En-
glish. Death has never elected a good Presi-
dent in the United States yet death has always
made frghtful mistake. Read the letter of
acceptance made by Mr. English, and tell me
whether you are willing to trust that man.
Read his history-a man who has done nothing
but loan money, take deeds of trust on the
"life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness of
the people, and then forclose the deed, and
yet, after nominating that man, the Democratic
party passes a resolution that they viii save the
people from cor1norants. It won't do we don't
want him. had rather trust party than any
man; so would you-you had rather trust the
Republican party than simply Gen. Hancock.
He says: 81 am shepherd Twill take care of
the sheep; I admit that my followers are
wolves" Well I say rather than have the
wolves we will dispense with you. What are
the ideas of this soldier? What are his ideas
about money? He was hard-moRey man, they
tell me. Mr.. Bayard-the representative of
hard money, man who once in the Senate
wanted to pay the bonds of the United States
in deprecated money, and to pay them at the
same price at which they were originally sold
that man now says As fast as we redeem q
greenback let us burn it up; let us put the
greenback out of the country" when he knows
it is good as gold. What are the opinions, /
say, of Gen. Hancock? I say he is for hard
money, and yet, when Greenbacker
carried Maine he congratulated him.
Why should he do that if he is be-
lighted because believer in paper money car
ried the State of Maine? don't know. May
be, after all, he was not SO glad that the Green
hackers carried that as that the Republicans
lost it. What does that man believe in? Does
he believe in free trade? ] don't know. What
kind of a tariff does he want ? l don't know.
What is bis opinion about things of interest to
every man here? I don't know. You do not
know. l would like to hear from him. wish
we had heard from him years and years ago.
In 1868 he was opposed to all legislation that
has made the negro citizen. In 1868 he was
opposed to all the legislation growing out of
the war. Only a little while ago he was i'll IA
Yor of soft money; only a little while ago he
said we never could redeem only little while
ago he was a Democrat of tina. school, and now
we are told he is in favor of the constitutional
amendments. Now we are told he is in favor
Of an honest vote everywhere. 1t won't do
On the other hand, we have a man who is a
trained statesman, who has discussed these
questions time and time again, and whose
opinions are well known to all the intelligent
people of this Union. He was rs good Sold
ier as Hancock was. The man who makes up
his mind in time of profound peace to make
war the business of his life, the man who makes
war his profession, the man who is adopted by
the Government, is, in my Judgment no better
than the man who in time of peace would
rather follow the avocations of peace and Who
when war comes, when the blast of conflict
blows in his ears, buckles on his sword and
tights for his native land, and, when the war is
over, goes back to the avocations of peace 1
say that Garfield was as good soldier as Han
cock, and say that Garfield took away from
the field of Chickamauga as much honor as one
man can carry. He is trained statesman.
He knows what he is talking about, and
he talks about it well. I have known
him for years. know him as we'll as I know
any other man, and | tell you that he has more
brains, more education, wider and more SPLEEN
did views than any other man who has been
nominated for the Presidency by any party
since l was born. Some people say to me
How can you vote for Garfield when he is a
Christian and was preacher?n | tell them
" 1 have two reasons: One is | am not bigot
and the other is, Gen. Garfield is not bigot
He does not agree with me / do not agree with
him on thousands of things but on the great
luminous principle that every man must give to
every other man every right that he claims for
himself we do absolutely agree. I would des-
pise myself if | would vote against man in
politics simply because we differed about what
is known as religion. I will vote for liberal
Catholic, liberal Presbyterian, liberal Meth
odist, liberal anything 10000 times quicker
than would vote for an illiberal freethinker
believe in the right. 1 believe in
doing to other people in these matters as I
would like to have them do to me. Gen.
ual every way. He is poor man; he is rich in
honor, in integrity he is wealthy, and in brains
he is millionaire. | know him, and if the peo-
pie of Illinois knew him as well as I do he would
not lose 100 votes in this State. He is great.
good, broad, kind tender man, and he will
do, if elected President, what lie believes to
be right. / like him, too, because he is a GER
tificate of the splendid form of our govern
ment. 1 like him because under our institu-
tons, he came from abject poverty to occupy
the position he now does before the American
people. He will make Hope the tailor of every
ragged boy. He will make every boy think it
possible, no matter how poor he is no matter
how hungry he may be, he will make every
one of those boys believe that there is
in their horizon some one reckoning them
to glory and to honor. That is The reason
Ike this country, because everybody has a
chance. like it because the poorest man can
live hoping his boy may occupy the highest
place. This is the reason like this country.
That is one of the reasons want to see Gen
Garfield elected. He believes in honor he be-
heves in liberty he believes in an honest ballot,
he believes i'll collecting the revenues, he be-
heves In good money, he believes in Govern
ment of law, he believes that this Is absolutely
a nation, and not a confederacy. and believe
in him. Throwing aside. throwing to
the winds all prejudice, all partisanship,
all hatreds, beg of every one who hears me to
consclentlously decide each for himself what
under the circumstances, as man, as
a patriot, as lover of Justice, he ought
to do. That is all want you to do Be honor
bright. Do not be led away by the appeal Of
gentlemen who once belonged to the Republi-
can party. Vote to sustain the greatest posi-
bic cause, human liberty. l know and appre-
ciate what our liberty has cost. We are reap
ing to-day the benefits of the suffe ings of ev-
cry hero who ever died. We are today enioy-
ing the benefits conferred upon us By our he
role dead. We are to-day great, a united and
splendid people simply because somebody was
great and grand enough to die that we might
live. Now, do you believe. if the dead could
rise from their grayes-the men fallen on all
the battle-felds OF the war-cou!d they rise
| from the unknown graves that made this CONT
nent sacred, how would they vote next Noven-
Der? Think of it. Let rs be true to the
memory of every man that ever died for us.
Let me ask you another question. How do
the men who wished to destroy this Govern
ment wish you to vote now? How would every
rebel in the South, could he have come to the
North, have voted in 1864? How would every
| rebel in the South, if he could have visited the
North--hoW would he have voted in 1868, in
1872, in 1876? How would Jefferson Davis vote
if he were in the North to-day? How would
the men that starved our prisoners at Ander-
sonville and Libby--and Andersony:lls and
Libby are the mighty mighty wings that will
bear the memory of the Confederacy to eternal
infamy-how would the men who starved our
brave boys there vote if they were in Illinois
nOw2 Every one of them wOuld hurrah for