Daily Republican., 1882-09-30
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.
MASS MEETING AT THE OPERA
HOUBE-RPEKCHEB BY
PROMINENT MEN

, As previously announced the Demo
cratic Mass meeting took place Las
evening IN the Grand Opera House
, BStOTe the opening.of the meeting tn
main auditorium Of the building wa
well filled, while quite n number occu
pied seats in the gallery. About
O'Clock the First Regiment Band ar
rived, filed into the building, and occu.
pied seats in the orchestra where they
dispensed excellent music Throughout
the meeting. At the conclusion of the
first tune Of the band, FL. B. McIntire
arose and called the meeting to order,
when DR.. G. Elton Buck was elected
president and there were seventy nine
vice presidents and four secretaries
named.
After the officers were announced
President Buck arose, thanked the
audience for the honor conferred upon
him, but said he would not occupy the
time with any remarks and took his
seat after briefly alluding to the cheer.
Ing news from New York, Pennsylya.
MIA, Virginia and other places, with
the PROSPECT Of still more cheering
news in November.
THE SPEAKERS.
Attorney General George Gray was
the first speaker and occupied the at
tention of the audience for over an
hour. He prefaced his remarks by
Sayingithat no citizen of our country at
This time need offer any apology In at
tempting to discuss what is commonly
called politics, and the speaker had not
the least doubt but that every man
present was there for an honest Dur.
pose In the campaign which we are
now entering. After the preliminary
remarks the speaker entered into full
discussion Of the two political parties
by saying that politics was a serious
business, and that there was not man
In tho audience who had anywhere In
their houses or homes anything that
concerned them more dearly than the
politics OF their country. The Repub-
lican party Of to-day represented the
principles of the Federalists and Wings.
that there Is power above that of the
people themselves. He thanked God
that they still lived under peoples
government, which was Democratic
government, and put the question to
his hearers, "What shall be the tone
and plan by which the Government
shall be conducted ?" Good govern.
ment cannot come from corrupt sources,
and 1t is for you, my hearers, to say
what shall be the government in our
State during the next two years.
The speaker designed to show with
OUT any apparent success that the Re-
publican party worked solely to accom-
plish their selfish ends and did not cou-
suit the wishes of the people in regard
to how the government should be con.
ductad, but formed a school in politics
and aimed TO govern and direct the
various offices without the aid of the
people. On the other hand the Demo-
cratic party was now about 80 years
old, and that they always had opposed
this centralized power of the govern.
ment, consulted the wishes of the peo-
pie and keep the politics of the country
before them. That, said the speaker,
was the origin of the Democratic party
and 1t has always maintained it. A
part Of Its creed was the upholdinE of
free institutions, their creed the truth
and Whatever had been their mistake
in the past, 1t has and will survive as
the party Of the people and honest gov
ernment everywhere. Applause. Its
history, the history OF our country, is
one on which We can look with pride.
Its officers have shed lustre on the
offices which they have held. A party
almost IS old as the government itself, |
and why should we not look back upon
our efforts with pride. The speaker
spoke at length in reference to the great
areas OF land owned by the govern
ment which had been taken from the
people and givcn to millionairas, capi-
talists, monopolies, etc, eince the Dem.
ocrats went out of power. An area Of
country equal to six New England
States had been given to spectators
and giant monopolies. Land that was
gained by the blood of the American
people, which ths Democratic party
endeavored TO preserve for settlers. Mr.. |
Gray then dwelt at length on the alien
and sedition laws, and after referring
to the Star Route thieves, took up the
question relating to foreigners and pre-.
sented himself in an unenviable light
before his hearers.
He said that the Democrats always
opposed solid front and to day, the
right of foreigner to vote this country
is due solely to the Democratic party.
The safety of the Catholic Church today
wasalso due to their partyand to this end
they worked during their term of office
and allowed Foreigners the privilege to
vote in this country without regard to
church affairs. The Dem Ocratic party
was frugal and economical in public
affairs aud never forgot the trusts re-
posed in it. The government that is the
best is the government that governs
least. Their style of goverL ment was
the old Jetfersonian Democracy. 1t did
not believe il so much royal style, fuss,
etc, aud quOte1 Jetiersons ride 10 the
capitol on horseback as being their idea
Of the thing. The policy of the Republi.
can party was at war with the genius of
the government and the constitution of
the United States. The Republican
partywas born ofthe late war and has
been perpetuated by its subsiding pas
sions, which it was now trying to revise.
The Democratic party wished to for.
get all that the war had brough' us and
saved US. With 10000 office holders,
the Government in Washington were
little by little drawing all the powers of
the people in the different States.
Craving them by fraud and force for a
end. After comparing the
white vote with the colored vote and
the latter with the foreign vote, the
speaker said the negro vote was as
solid for the Republican party as the
south was for the Democrats. Mr.. Gray
then turned his attention to national
politics and declared the Republican
party c0rrapt, rotten and reeking with
faud and it should long ago have been
crushed under the heel of the people.
1t was without a creed and depended
for its success on sectional feeling. AS
long as they control the negro vote as
II club to weld against the Democrats
they are satisfied, beyond that they are
AZ nothiDg.