The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-07-14
NO. 49,



the campaign at Hamilton, Ohio, on
the night of July I, by brilliant
speech, of which the following is a
telegraphic synopsis. The coming
election in Ohio will be very close,
and the eyes of the whole people of the
country will he updh that state and
for this reason the remarks Of Judge
Hoadley will be found interesting tu
Democrats ~.
HAMILTON, o., July THE ar.
rangements for the outdoor meeting
for the ratification of the nominations
of the Democratic State convention
tonight were interrercd With BY rain,
and the meeting was held in the Ger
man society hall, which was insitfiii
cient to hold the crowd gathered from
the city and brought in by several
trains. General +. Vandorveer pre-!
sided at the meeting. 1t Is stated that
he had a dispatch from Senator PEN
dleton saying he could not be present
on account OF i'll health.
Judge Hoadley was greeted with
cheers when introduced and 6egau
by saying he was here as the repre-
sentative of the old Democracy of
Butler, as old as Jefferson but so new
that, God willing, it shall newly oc-
cupy the offices of this state and ma
tion, paying high personal eompli-
ment to his opponent, Judge Foraker!
He said that ticket was nominated to
follow the old beaten paths. lie was
willing to be the butt Of all the per-
sonal attacks as to character and be.
lief, but had no quarrel with the per.
sonnel of the opposite party' but
would hold high conflict with the
principles of the Republicans.
He then proceeded to consider the
Republican platform, saying he wish
ed to avoid making a keynote speech,
as last years effort in that direction
by Governor Foster was disastrous.
Taking the first declaration of the
achievements Of the Republican plat
form he said the party had the habit
of getting back to the future aud to
point with pride to the past. He had
some knowledge of that.
He then continued to read a hu.
morous paraphrasc of the platform as
it ought to be written. lie included
among these achievements the theft
Of the presidency, the whisky ring, the
Star-routo frauds, the destruction of
the navy aud of the mercantile marine,
river and harbor steaIings, etc. These
furnished, he said, reasons why Chase
and Greedy and thousands of good
Republicans should leave the party.
To illustrate the difference between
the two parties, he referred to four
great political prosecutions since the
war. The first was the impeachment
o. Johnson. 1t was malicious. The
whisky conspiracy was a great failure.
The third has just come to nonght
The fourth was not imauguratcd by
Republicans, and therefore not a fail
urc. This act of purifcation was done
by Samuel J. TIIden, Of Now York.
The Republicans failed to punish their
thieves; Democracy strangled theirs.
Referring to the tariff plank in tho
Republican platform he said it was
not in line tonight to aiacuss this
but he would soon do so. He believed
the Democratic views expressed in its
platform was Gods truth. Speaking
of the wool tariff plank, he said il was
singular that the Republican party
condemned its own action in this re-
gard. The confession that it was
wrong IN cutting down the wool tariff
was a good reason for the punish
ment Of the Republican party. lie
dealt with this subject by ridiculing
the declaration that the wool tariff
should be restored at the first possible
opportunity.
Passing to the resolution about the
prison contracts system, he said this
was a rebellion of the Republican party
against its own legislature. The
abolition of prison contract labor was
specifically defeated by the late Re
publican Legislature.
In regard to the liquor traffic and
Endorsement of the Scott law, he said
the platform approves the Scott law,
as it is starting with the proposition
that that which is lnstriuslcally wrong
is not.
Wrong is not subject of compro-
mise, but when acting in the wrong
when abhscd, the duty Of The citizen
is to regulate it. A crime against d
woman is, per Sc, wrong, aud deserves
no compromise in it's treatment, but
drinking glass Of wine, beer or
whisky is wrong only when it reaches
abuse; and any effort to prohibit it is
reyolutipn of private right and Is
wrong. If he believed, with tlio Pro
hibitionists, that all alcohol is poison;
that the Savior converted water into
poison at Cana; then be would go
with The FrohibitioDiats with all his
force to have prohibition1 believing
that intempcrance consists not in the
use but in the abuse Of alcohol He
believed in graduated license system
that should bear proportion TO the
amount Of the traffic and to the amount
Of injury the traffic may do. The
Scott ,aw makes no distinction. but
says any man, for two hundred dol
lars, may make as many dTunkards as
he can, License could be revoked in
cases Of abuse. II was his honest
opinion that the bill that withdraws
the lram-shoP law is not temperance.
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THE Orange Tribune said two weeks
ago that there was smallpos 40 Sabine
Pass. The Ecuo made tile sane state
mcnt, on the authority Of Tic Tribune.
last wppkis Tribune enrgerts fhe firet