Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-11-02
SPEECH By HENRY WATTERsON.

|
Gently delivered an eloquent speech al
| Toledo. from which the following ex-
tracts are taken:
public affairs in the United States is somethi ne
| more than anomalous. 1t is in the highest de
gree whimsical and picturesque. / should in.
| suit your intelligence and discredlt my own ii
should perpetrste the conceit of attempting
| to overreach your creduIity with the pretenSe
that there is crisis. There Is no crisis;
the prevailing incertitude and indifference the
absence of organized conviction indicates a
rank, unwholesome growth. which, whilst Whilst, CIV CIV,
to deceive the short-sighted, superficial OBJ
server. Our body polite. however, is not going
to the dogs. 1t has at least escaped the dogs OF
war. Our National unity is stronger than ever
it was. Among the people there are no
longer any irrepressible conflicts Peace
pervadeS the States and the sections which
compose Federal fabric. The war is over,
and the issues that begat it are settled irrev-
thought of or regretted in the South than in
| the North, and secession raises a smile even
in its very haupts. The frictions and collis-
ions growing out of the war have passed into
history. Our Government has survived the
deluge. mistaken and untarnshed. our con-
stitutional system has emerged from era of
mischievous theory, which, beginning with
false notions of reconstruction to end with
illusory notions of finance, for long time
threatened it. All the while the people have
got on, somehow, in spite of their demagogues.
And now, with General Butler the Demo-
cratic standard-bearer in Massachusetts,, and
General Chalmers as the Republican standard
bearer in Mississippi, surely the country is
safe; it is more than safe, because what those
great warriors and statesmen lack of making
it so we may confidently look to see supplied
by General Malone.
L congratulate you, fellow-citizens, upon
and shall not mar it by any forebodings that
do not spring from the most ordinary sugges-
tons of prudent sagacity:. rejoice in being
able to feel and to say that we are fellow
citizens, that we have a rich. prosperous and
common country, and that, come what may,
the future of the Republic is full of a.splen-
did promise. But We have not reached the
millennium; not even here in Ohio, albeit the
home of the Truly Good. We possess great
full administration of this belong certain obi
cations and duties. 1t is these which bring us
In the report of speech delivered the other
evening by Senator John Sherman, for whom,
let me say, have very great respect, find the
Der the Senator'S first appearance in the Ma
tonal Capitol as Representative in Congress,
is to me not without touch of pathos. Sena-
ment to the Republican party is all the
stronger s; t1 and it is 50 because beiieYe that
and progress. Ii L could believe that the
Democratic party was fitted to be intrusted
with the power of this great Nation, would
here because believe the Democratic party
cannot manage this country of ours l have
little while ago that, in his opinion, any
thing was justifiable to keep the Democrats
out of This ,i is precisely the
States. 1t is the spirit which sees nothing
wrong within, everything wrong without, the
party lines. Yet there is scarcely criticism
which might pass upon the present Admins
tration with which Senator Sherman would not
concur. Does he indorse the alliance with Ma
hone in Virginia? Does he indorse the alliance
with Chalmers in Mississippi? Does he indorse
the course Of the President in forcing his
ans of New York? Upon two leading meas
ures at least in the last Congress he voted
against the Administration, and he is every-
the River and Harbor bilI' which the Presi-
dent vetoed. Now, fellow-citizens, am not
growing old and my hair is not turning gray,
but will love no party better than love my
country, honor, justice and truth. | have
seen the Republican party violate its obi
because it did so have seen one after another
of its fathers and founders leave it. Seward,
Chase, Blair, Sumner. Greeley. all died out
side the party fold: Fessenden and Trumbull
were ON the eve Of quitting it when the one
went to his grave and the other went into re
# tb ust as the party did
ing the last few years. The work appointed
to do it did thoroughly. 1t gave freedom to
the Union. Somebody had to save the Nation
al credit, and being in power and having the
fiscal responsibility of the Government on
its hands, by sort of Gods mercy, it did not
take the wrong shoot, though many of its
foremost leaders notably Senator Sherman
and the late Senator Morton. started out orig
they afterwards denounced. And what has
it been. doing since? Designating all
its traditions, it has been cOnSpiring and re-
spring to keep itself in power. By stretch
of State rights, which would make the ghost of
and refused to count Electoral votes. Pro
Tossing to be the sole guardian of the National
honor, it has leaguel itself with repudiation-
lists, and become vehicle of reputation, in
recent
A. Hubbell was its one official CiviEservice Re
former, and likely specimen he was, do ad-
init. But, as if jealous of Mr. HubbelPs name
and fame. the Republican President of the
United States-although as Vice-President he
and elsewhere-resolved to submit his claims
to a competitive examination. With the
Treasury at his heels he appeared. in
where. by the aid of Goulds millions,
terpos ton of forgery and fraud, he was able
to secure the last and greatest triumph of
Civll-service reform, the defeat of a Gov
ernor who had made himself obnoxious to cor
dictated by the ADMINISTRATION. These are
rough words, fellow-citizens, but they are true
ones, and they. expose the Republican ten
dency, which. if it be not checked. will ulti-
mately wreck our admirable system of checks
and balances.
That tendency is undoubtedly the consolida-
ton of interests designed exclusively for
the many in the hands of the few; the con-
centration at Washington of powers hitherto
of the Stock Exchange into department of
the Government | do not mean that
there is any present purpose to create a
new place in the Cabinet for Mr. Gould or
Mr. Vanderbilt under the title of Sec
rotary of the Loaves and Fishes and Keeper
of the Presidents Pocket-book. In politics.
as in private business, there may be such a
tn ng a silent partnership which. as we
have just seen in New York, can be rel ed on
to work with effect. But do mean to saw
that the policy of the Republican party has
steadily courted the money power, that it lis
shaped to produce aggregations of vast
wealth, and that it looks for its perpetuation
to the union it has achieved between the
politicians md the capitalists. There are two
IA ways from Washington to New York
which are known to the public. But there is
q third which has not yet appeared on any of
the maps or in any of the guide-books nj |
though it is the most important of all. 1t is
airline connecting the White
House with Wall street.
This is not mere figure of speech Just |
consider for moment what money can do |
and how much money the policy of the ReDuh |
lican party has enabled corporations and indi- |
viduals to amass. Forty years ago the most |
forid Imagination among the writers of ex-
travagant romance, racking its invention for |
q fable of untoward riches, put the entire for |
tune of the Spada family, collected through |
concealed for ages, and finally
unearthed by the Count of Monte Christie ~ |
IN 111illions nf -