The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-11-25
SPEECH OF B. F. JONAS.

tSenS OF the p0ftSh or CuGCh1tG-lt 1S
amongst You for the first time. Though
a resident of this State from boyhood
and Intimately acquainted with q large
time ever had the pleasure Of Visiting
thus portion of North Louisiana. come
here now with some of my friends to
paid us by your distinguished townsman,
John McEnery, who is the standard
bearer you have placed in the field to
and who has lately been welcome visi-
tor to the capital of the State. There he
has been received by acres of Democrats
words of ENCOURAGEMENT, PATRIOTS and
political wisdom from his lips. hoped
that he would have told you-but
a reception he met with in that city and
how he found Its conservative people,
who are associated by honor and duty
have engaged, come forth in number
have not seen equaled since the war to
greet and honor him. Cheers.l am glad
spite of the weather which I Know
must have kept a great many away.
You are here to day to inaugurate a
is engaged heart and soul. You are here
to elevate the conservative banner of
the people and engraft upon it the
names to be it's bearers.
The great Democratic council of the
country has placed in nomination tor the
Office of President of the United States,
fos es Chez
Brown, of Missouri. You are here in re-.
Spouse to that nomination. Until nomi-
mated by that Convention you could
preference. You could not pledge your
support to any ticket that had not re-
ceived the sanction of the assembled wis
dom of the conservative people of the
country. The Democratic Convention at
Baltimore was composed of over seven
hundred members, of as high standard
as ever assembled on any former coca
sion, and with an unexampled unanim-
ity they have placed in nomination
these two distinguished gentlemen, thus
nanimity and patriotism scarcely ever
sgualed in the history of the country.
They put aside all questions of self-in-
cal prejudices, and took from the ranks
come forth from these ranks at the time
they We're Disguised with its corruption,
and in order to redeem the country
made them our standard bearers. II
who can doubt that they will be. they
will be elected by the votes of the
Democratic party of the country. The
support over three millions of votes
and with the disinterested and honest
Republicans who are sick of the cor
zation of the present Administration,
who will flock to the same standard, we
cannot doubt that they will be elected
to the offices to which they have been
nominated by a majority unparalleled
in the history of the country as in 1910.
Every one who has returned lately from
the North tells us that this revolution is
in daily progress from the enormous i'm.
petus given it by the nominations at
Baltimore: 1t is now like an advancing
which will sweep the last vestige of po-
Htlcal corruption and centralizing deS-
potism from the land.
The past records of Horace Greeley or
Gratz Brown cannot for one moment
enter into this contest unless lugged be-
fore the people by the admirers of
rekindle old prejudices and forgotten
hostility.
l only look at their career since the
war-since Horace Greeley stepped from
he had long been "a distinguished NOM
Der. lie is no sunshine worshlper. No
man who rallied to the standard of the
Republican party when at the height of
it's power, and deserted it when IRIS posper-
ity began to fail. He built up the party
from consciousness that was right. and
assisted it in maintaining the war to
preserve the Union--a life long aboli-
ZIONIST, he advocated freedom; he en-
listed in that party for the purpose of
striking the shaclkles from the slave: a
great emancipation, he advocated the free
dom OF every man and every race; q
great advocate of the war for freedom,
w.
until he found it had been perverted
from its former purpose, and was WELD
ed for personal aggrandizementa and per-
sonal purposes, and the Government of
the country WAS becoming q byword, and
synonym among all nations for its cor
ruption and extravaganza, then he
went forth from it in the time
of its greatest. pride and power,
and said he could no longer support q
party of corruption and misrule. but
would assist in restoring the country to
IFS former n09ltlOn OF nurlGv. integrity
and good government. / believe he
neither sought nor expected the nominal
ton conferred on him. 1t was a surprise
to the people of the country and to him |;
and award to him the credit due him
cheerfully offer it as one boru in politi-
cal anita gonism to him, of being pure,
honest and above all selfish motives,
Not expecting the nomination, he put
himself in the ranks of the people to
assist in the great work of reform, and
they have put him at the head of their
army. We know he is honest, a man of
education and ability. He is a man of
large and comprehensive ideas, and bet
ter informed on the political history, the
resources and the domestic politics of
the country than any man now within
the limits of the land. And when you
add to that an incorruptib bio honesty aud
the fact that he is almost without poor
relations, you have a standard bearer of
whom any party may we'll be proud.
The nominee for Vice President was
born in kentucky, but emf grated to
Missouri. Brought mp n stakeholder in
his early youth, he became an adj
these facts, because our colored fellow
citizRna will hN ahartly told that those