The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-07-19
HOADLEY AT HAMILTON,

Hamilton Oh the evening OF July 7th.
He was met at the depot by the lead
ing Democrats of the city, with band
of music, and escorted to the residence
of Hon. James e. Campbell, and in
the evening addressed al immense
Meeting in the German Society Hall.
| The following are extracts from his
speech:
| HOW THE TWO PARTIES PUNISH THEIR
| KASCAT.S.
Let US trace, for moment, the. diff
| ferences between the parties As Illus
trated by the way in which they treat
criminals. There have been four great
criminal, public, political prosecutions
in our country since the war. The
first was the trial for tho i,n npeaehment
of Andrew Johnson, which every man
now recognises as having been mere
persecution. The second was the trial
of Babcock, McDonold, Joyce and
Avery, the corrupt tools of the whisky
ring, which grew up and was fed into
power during the administration of
| Ulysses S. Grant, by the direct. COM
plicity of the Republican government.
That prosecution came to naught. Bah
|
were pardoned. That is the record of
that infamous conspiracy against the
| Treasury of the United States. The
other of those great political prosecu-
tions has just this moment came to
naught. The Secretary of the Repub-
lican National Executive Committee,
| Stephen w. Dorsey, in partnership
with the Assistant .Postmaster-G g eneral
robs the Treasury of the United States
and after two Intellectual trials, on the
first of which the jury all but convict
ed, has at last been acquitted and rel
egated to serve his base masters once
more at another election in Indiana,
as he has served at the last. [Ap-
| plause.l
My friends, another political prose-
cuti0n remains to be described, not
inaugurated for the Republicans, and
therefore not unsuccessful. In the city
of New York there was banded togeth-
er ring under the leadership of Tweed
to rob ths people of that city. Were
they detected? They were. Were
they prosecuted? They were. Were
they convicted? They were. Was
Tweed sent to the penitentiary? He
was. Did he serve out his years there?
He did. Did he die there a cen victed
felon, convicted by the Democracy, for
treason morally against the State and
his party? He did. Who sent him to
prison Samuel J. Tilden and the
Democracy of New York. Applause. ]
Who cut out and eradicated the cancer
from our party and restored the party
to health and purity? Samuel J. Til
den and the Democracy of New York.
The Republicans hate to prosecute
their thieves. The Democrats strangle
theirs.
WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
| SHOULD BE.
You know 1 have some knowledge
of the Republican party; at least they
say have. I have been there, so the
Commercial says. So l wrote out my
idea of what the first plank of the Re-
it was written by truthful historian,
one who was not engaged in rogueing
the beauty, but actually engaged in
washing her face:
Resolved, The Republicans of OHIO
! land it might as we'll be of the nation)
adopt the following declaration of prin-
ciples:
IL. That the Republican party, in
fostering and encouraging the most
gigantic corruptions known in modern
times, in perverting to base, selfish
uses the agencies of ofGovernmentwhich
the people intended for the general
welfare, in the theft OF the President
and Vice President, remaining not on
ly unpunished, but actually rewarded
with the spoiis of office conferred by
the beneficiaries of fraud on it on the
perpetrators establishment and main
tenance 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 the Star
Route" frauds by high officials of the
administration of the Republican ma
chine; the use of the money so stolen
to corrupt elections, and the escape OF
the conspirators from punishment, in
marked contrast with the concign
punishment with which the Demo
cratic party, led by Samuel J. Tilden,
visited the New York city ring thieves,
! Tweed, Sweeney, Connolly aud &c
net: the use of the civil service of the
Government through Jay Huobellism
and other like agencies, 70 corrupt the
ballot bcx in the destruction of the
American navy, whereby the glory
won on every sea by the national flag
by the battles OF two wars, by Hull
and Decatur and Bainhridge and Stew
art, who conquered the navy of Eng
land, and by Farragut and Porter and
Foote during the rebellion, has been
converted into shame by Robeson and
Chandler: in the obliteration of oul
mercantile marine, so that the high
seas are hardly touched by an Ameri-
can keel, while trifiing streams known
only to the geographer, are secured. in
search of river and harbor jobs; in the
| IL, ,,f Il
cultivation of sectional animosities
long after the war had ceased. and
when the cultivation of fraternal af
fections and the methods of peace haC
become duty, furnish urgent reasons
for a change Of government, and fully
explain the reasons why SO many O.
the best and ablest Republican leaders
including the honored names of Sew
ard, Chase, Greeley, Sumner, Adams
Trumbull, Palmer, Curtin, Cassius NJ
Clay, Julian and Rufus z. Spaulding
have fed from affiliation with the Re
publican party as from the contagiol
of pestilence. TGreat applause ! This
is the way read history. The series
: of jobs and frauds which have put t.
| shame the leaders Of the Republican
, party and driven those great men, wht
A were the pride and honor and glory o
: the Republican party during the rebel
lion, out of the party; that is the tru'
!, history, and not the false statement o
self-adulation with which the Repub
lican platform teens.
. THE LIQUOR QUESTION.
The Republican platform further ap
proves the action of the General AS
sembly of Ohio, in the submission O
the constitutional amendments rela
tive to the liquor traffic and itapprove
I the taxation of the liquor traffic 70
revenue and for the purpose of provid
ing against the evils resulting from
s such traffic. That is the Scott bill
1 This platform approves the Scott bill
as it is. 1t does not avow whether tha
bill Is tinality Or not. ] start in m,
. consideration of this whole subjec
l from this rule of morals that which
t is intrinsically or per Sc wrong ant
! sinful, should have no com promis,
with at all, The law of the life of {
good man is to fight against immorali
t ty, wrong, every minute of his life
3 and the law of the life of good citi
&c, 49, Er,IDt