The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-08-03

Mr.. BUTTERwoRTH, member Of Con-
gress from Cincinnati, made speech
in the House Of Representatives a
short time ago, the concluding por-
tion Of which we give:
Now, is the Democratic party the proper agency to
secure civil service reform? want to say to gentle
men and the country that men not judged by
single utterance by single act but by the whole
tenor and course of their lives. And parties not
judged by single resolution or platform, nor by
single act. Political parties rightly judged by
their record and by the imprint they leave their
country's history in the times in which they exist
and move; by the manner in which they deal with
the country's interests and honor.
Gentlemen, the history Of your party is written.
Its record is made up and is papable to all the
world if printed in letters of light and suspended
across the heavens, between Orion and the Peaides
Known of all men by that record you must stand
upon it. You came into the control of this House
proposing civil service reform, reform in all matters
that challenged public criticism. How did you get
here? speak it before my country in deep humiiia
tion but 1t is the record of this Republic that your
majority rode to this House fetock deep in human
blood. Nay, nay, this is matter of record and not
mere defamation. To get your majority more men
murdered for attempting to vote the Republican
ticket than fell in defense of flag at Gettysburg
In order to get and maintain your majority in this
House more men went down under the knife, the re-
volver and the shotgun, than fell fighting for the
Republic at Malvern Hill or Shiloh. And yet this
party talks to about civil service reform; about
political freedom!
There is not spot upon the escutcheon of our coun.
try's honor upon which do not find the traces of
your party fingers. There is not rent in your coun
flag that partisans did not shoot there with
hostile lead. The time was within ten years when
you did not furnish much protection to American
citizens in the enjoyment of their political rights
within the shadowfall of this Capitol pagan Rome
furnished to her citizens in her remotests provinces
and yet this party parades itself the champion of
civil rights and political equality before the law
Upon yonder wall hangs the map of your country
If asked you to and put your pencil upon State
where political riot goes unchecked where political
outrage and wrong go unrebuked and the perpetra-
tors go unpunshed there is not man in this House
who would have the brazen efrontery to put pencil
within the boundaries of an acknowledged Republic
can State. CApplause.]
The Chairman-The time of the gentleman has
pired.
Mr.. Butterworth-I want moment MORE.
Mr.. Burrows, of Michigan-If the chair will recog-
nize me-
The Chairman-The Chair will recognize the gen.
tleman from Michigan, fMr. Burrows,l member of
the Committee on Appropriations.
Mr.. Burrows, of Michigan-I will yield to the gen.
tleman from Ohio much time as he may want.
MIR. Butterworth-I think shall want only FIVE
minutes. Gentlemen will not accuse me of any un-
kind intention. I want to say to my brethren from
the South (and do not forget it, gentlemen) that the
mothers of the North that bound bandages around
your wounded soldiers, who watched over them
when sick and sosthed and comforted them in their
dying hours, who gave them tender care when
dying and Christian burial when dead, are not the
mothers who could or did teach their sons to hate
you. We fought your cause not you; and when tn at
went down in the red sea of war we gladly well
coined peace and hailed you as our countrymen. All
ask now in the language of the martyred dead is.
everything necessary for security, nothing for re-
venge.
To return once more to the map of my country. Go
with me to any country where political corruption
reigns supreme; go with me to the wards and pre-
cincts where the police election day are doubled,
where the police are troubled, where trembling
patriots walk up to the polls fearful lest they be
beaten over the heads with bludgeons or be thrust
away by ruans point out that ward, point out that
precinct point that country to There is not
| a man within the sound of my voice who will ever
| think of pointing to county, ward or precinct,
which is confessedly Republican. CGreat applause1
How is it, gentlemen that political rights are only
| safe where you not and threatened only where
you are, in undisputed majority? How is it? have
| travelled from Maine to the Rio Grande, from the
northwest of the Republic to Floridaat least
| in Notwithstanding for an answer to this
question. When my eye rests upon State, county
or precinct where there is clear Republican major
tty qniet order, equal rights, full and adequate
protection to every voter.
| But when want to find the opposite of that-you
know, gentlemen, 1t Is matter record, tnese
lots rexhibitng the tissue ballots used in South Car
olina1 attest the truth of what say-when want t.
find the of that say 1t in all humiliation,
have to go where Democracy reigns supreme and ex
| ercises almost undisputed power.
One word more and have done. Much has beel
said about the preservation of the country's homo
and integrity. In 1880 your party approached vic
tory away up in the frozen of this Republic
Maine. What was the result? The credit of thi
country chilled to the heart the National securf
sank in a moment Yes, your country's credit wa
shaken, and millions upon millions were lost upo
the bare suggestion that the National Government
might pass under control and its honor and In
tegrity into your party's keeping Nor is that al
What else? AS it was flashed along the wires ths
span the country that you were successful in Main
presaging victory for in October, there follow
ed swiftly after the message to the great manufat
turers of the country in these words Stop my order
If Hancock is elected shall countermand It," l
NV own city an order had been given for twenty-or
thousand dollars worth of machinery after the n
turns from Maine the order stayed until the r.
suit of the October elections determined that IL
country's integrity and its honor secure again
u the danger of Democratic ascendency.
No, my countrymen, say these things not in III
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