Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-07-13

said he had nothing to do. He was willing
to take upon himself as the candidate of
his party every dart that may be hurled
against any one candidate in the campaign,
arrows of libel and calumny against char
acter or opinion, political or religious.
Against the Republican candidates he had
nothing whatever to say. 1t was with the
principles their party misrepresents that he
held high controversy and not with them.
Having INDUCED in this prelude, Judge
Hoadly entered upon the merits of the dis
cussion. From the text of the speech lib
eral quotation is made below, for the pub
lie information and instruction, and it
may be added entertainment. for the
speech reads like poem, history and
prophecy. Judge Hoadly said
l am not here to make what is called ''key
note'' speech; indeed do not know what ''key
note'' speech is. If l understand it rightly,
Gov. Foster made ''key note'' speech last year,
and the result was his party was defeated by
1000 majority, and if there is any one thing
should like to keep away from, in view of that
experience, 1t is key note speech. Applause
But am here to try in the way of criticism,
unf1iendly criticism, admit, but yet fair criti-
cism, l hope, to consider the document that is
the best Republican thought of the day. Now
let me begin and read the first of its platform
the first plank in the platform: "lhe Republi-
cans of Ohio, in state convention assembled,
adopt the following declarations of principle:
First, That the Republican party, in preserving
the life of the nat1on''-HOld on, was not Gen
erai Ward there? was not General Vanderveer
there sin preserving the life of the nation!''
They did it, didn't they? Was not General Ew-
ing there? was not General Rice there? A voice
-''And Hancock?,,l Was not General Han
cock there? GGreat applause. ''That the Re-
publican party IN preserving the life of the
ton and in giving freedom and equal rights to
all, its citizens, the reconstruction of the I'm
| ion, IL upholding the national honor''-hel3 it
| up so high 1t has gone out of sight. SIN the
generous provisions made for those who have
| suffered for their country" that is, meaning
Grant and Hayes, $4,000 per year, L suppose,
back salary grab, &c. Is thst what is meant in
keeping the national faith? That means the
trade dollar. Applause and laughter. cad
vanciug tbs national credit in the speedy pay
ment of the public debt, in the reduction of Ma
tional taxatiOn'' Isuppose that is the Scott bill;
| but that is national taxation. SIN the eleva-
| ton of the civil rvice,"-that means putting
no one but Republicans on guard tonight; that
is the elevation of the public service, - In the
enactment OF a series of wise public measures
which have given the country unexampled pros
perity, have given the best assurance of its pur-
poses for the future
This is the kind of literature that our Repub-
licsn brethren always start out with. The
first thing they do when they start a platform is
to get their backs to the future and their faces
to the past, and then point with pride to the
past Their national platform, adopted at Chi
cago in 1880, consisted in a series of pointings
with pride to the past, and this is specimen of
it, Nov, there are two kinds of past. There
is the past, which vain man OF bad character
| COLI old hot
there are some men who, if you will appraise
| them at what they are actually worth and buy
them at that, and then sell them at what they
think they are worth, you Will have made your
fortune. The same thing applies here. If
could buy the Republican party at its worth and
sell it at the valuation they put upon it in that
| platform, l would have two barrels instead of
one. AS l read that platform in the cars today,
| it occurred to me to apply the rule of Barns
poem:
go wad some power the glftie gle US
| To see oursels as ithers see u.s.
and try to write out my idea OF the past of the
Republican party. You know 1 have some
knowledge on the subject. They say have.
The Commercial says go. They say have been
there and seen them on the inside. So 1 wrote
out on piece of paper my idea of what the first
plank of Republican platform ought to be,
provided it was written by truthful historian,
one who was not engaged in rouging her beauty,
| out was actually engaged IN WdSnlng her lace.
Resolved, That the Republican party, in fos-
tering and encouraging the most gigantic cor
ruptions known III modern times, in perverting
to base and self sh uses the agencies of govern
ment which people intended for the general wei
fare in the theft of the Presidency and Vice
Presidency, remaining not only UNPUBLISHED, but
actually rewarded with the spoils of Office con-
ferred by the benefciaries of the fraud on its
perpetrators: in the establishment and mainte-
nance of the whisky ring; the conversion of its
profits to Republican party uses and the acquittal
from punishment of its promoters, in the waste
of public funds IN star route frauds by high
officials of the administration and of the Repub-
hcan party machine, the use of the moneys SO
stolen to corrupt elections, and the escape of the
conspirators from punishment, in marked con-
trast with the condign punishment with which
the Democratic party, led by Samuel J. Tilden
visited the New York city ring thieves, Tweed,
Sweeny, Come ly and Genet; in the use of the
civil service of the government, through jay
Hubbelhsm and other like agencies to corrupt
the ballot box; in the destruction of the Ameri-
can navy, whereby the glory won on every sea
for the national flag by the heroes of two wars,
by Hull and Decatur, and cambridge
and Stewart. who conquered the navy
| of England, and by Farragut and
, Porter and Foote during the rebellion, has been
converted into shame by Robson and Chand-
Ter; in the obliteration of our mercantile ma
rine, SO that the high seas are hardly touched by
an American keel, while triiling streams known
. | only to the geOgrapher are secured in search of
river and harbor jobs. In the waving of the
bloody shirt and the cultivation of sectional ami
lnosities long after war had ceased and when the
cultivation of fraternal affection and the meth
DDS of peace had become duty, furnish urgent
reasons for change of government, and fully
, explain the reason why so many of the ablest
and best Republican leaders, including the hon
Ored names of Seward, Chase, Greedy, Sumner,
Adams, Trumbull, Palmer, Curtin, Julian, Cassi-
us NJ. Clay, and Rufus P. Spalding, of our own
state, have fed from utilization with the Repub-
ican party as from the contagion of pestilence.
This is the way read history. This series of
jobs and frauds have put to shame the leaders
of the Republican party, and driven those great
} men who were the pride and honor and glory of
the Republican party during the rebellion and
the years that followed after the rebellion, out
of the party. This is true history, and not the
false statement of self-adulation, with which the
Republican platform begins.
The Street Corner Fruit Stands.