Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-10
RINGING WORDS.

A Rattling Speech by an Illinois Stalwart.
At the recent meeting in Chicago OF
the Illinois Republican State Commit
tee and prominent members of the
party, Col. Clark E. Carr, of Galesburg,
electrified the assembly with the fol-
lowing piece of concentrated stalwart-
ism:
So far our district is concerned we have
so many illustrious statesmen there that we
sometimes have few little disagreements be-
fore the nomination. But you have always
found, and you will always find in the future,
that when the great question comes upon
general result, will be solid for the straight
Republican ticket l have been very glad to
see this disposition manifested Of bringing to-
gether all the patriotic citizens in the great
campaign. Since the close of the war, many
who are as patriotic as those Of us who have
always voted the straight Republican ticket
have drifted into other Organizations
some even into the Democratic party. II is ev-
! ident hat it is the deliberate purpose OF the
| leaders of that party to inaugurate the candi-
| dates they may run for President and Vice
| President, whether they be elected or not.
/ From their cries of fraud ever since the action
! of commission which they themselves Gre
ated; from their grumbings, and mutterings,
and threasenings; from the remarkable fact
| that, Notwithstanding the perils of four years
! ago. with good working maJorities IN both
houses of Congress, they have taken no step
IN regard to counting the electoral vote in the
future; from their action in Ger ain States
from tueir attempts to turn out Republicans
who were elected, and put in Democrats who
were not elected, in order to strengthen tn cir
majorities m Congress; from all this il is clear
that they intend, and will, if they dare, on the
4th of March next iDaugurate their candidates
though they be not elected.
DpmOcratln m MIGHTY
| Of every virtue and of every patriotic aspira-
! ton, has been constant menace to free gov
| eminent for quarter of century Besotted
| with crimes, CT azed with hunger, blinded with
rage, it is reaching out for the pillars of state
If it is permitted to grasp them it will bring
| down to destruction this fair fabric of Govern
| ment. Who can depict the miseries incident to
making a solid South? l would ash for no
| greater punishment for Democrat than that
! he be condemned to read, as he clings to the
forlorn hope Of success in the next election
| through the solid SOUTH would ask no greater
| punishment for him than that he be condemned
| to read-if he can read-the history of the
triumphs Of the Ku-klux. And now we see
| friends and kindred, because of their devotion
! to that country and to that flag which we
adore; and in the only Northwestern State
controlled by the Democrats they are greeted
with the bludgeon and the pistol. We see
| man from that State who occupies the seat of
! great Senator, whose place the whole Confed-
crate Congress cannot ff1l-we see that man or
| ganlZing an lnvestgat ng committee to inquire
! into the righs of citizens of One State to migrate
into and become citizens of another.
Now, MIR. Chairman, if I understand the
signs of the times, the great, patriotic. liberty
! loving people Of America have determined to
| throttle this monster of the nineteenth century
the Democratic party. Aroused by simultane-
| Gus assaults from every quarter upon the
| Sumter Of nationality, putting aside for the
time beiig all questions policy and mere ex-
! pediency, hope and believe that tho patriotic
| people will come together, turn out this Con-
| federate Congress, and take posses ion of the
Government. I want to see the people of Hi
nois and of this nation come together, as they
have before in times of peril, and prove to the
world that this continent cannot be con-
trolled by brutality and by barbarism
[ want them to show that this great
nation cannot be buldozed. It needs
that no angel from heaven nor devil from hell
should come to tell of the c4pa bility for evil
of the Democratic party. We have had long,
bitter, and sorrowful school Of experience of
the horrors it mas inf cted upon this country.
| l want the patriotic people of the country 10
unite and give such majoriies to over
| whelm it in defeat and shame They who to-
! day intend, ny then nlajorltles in Congress, to
| inaugurate men who were not elected, will
stink away as did those towards in Maine
| grateful if their names can be rescued from III
| fanny by oblivion.
I hope that we will take all pains in our
| power to unite the patriotic people in the cam
paign of $780, hope that no Republican will
! feel 1t necessary to apologize for or defend the
| Republican party. 1t needs no apologists and
no defenders. 1t is tie grandest organization
/ that has existed in America since the CONT
mental Congress. Let expose the hideous
enormity Of this Democratic party, and we
cannot fail of success.