The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-07-08
THE FIRST GUN
In the Ohio Campaign Was Fired by
HOadly
At IIamiltOn-A Pace Set for the OPP
position
That win BE Hard TO Follow.

HAMILTON, o., July Arrangements for
au open-air meeting for the ratification of
the nominations OF the democratic state
convention tonight we're interfered with by
rain, and the meeting was held in
the German society hall, which was sui
licient TO hold the crowd gathered from
the city and brought in by several trains.
General f. Nanderveer presided at the
meeting. He stated he had dispatch
from Senator Pendleion, saying he could
not be present on account of Ill health.
Judge Hoadly was greeted with cheers
when introduced, and began by say.
ing he was here as the
representative OF she old democracy as old
as jefferson, but so new that, God willing
it shall newly occupy the offices of
this state and nation. Paying a.
high personal compliment to his Oppo-
nent Judge Foraker, he said the
ticket was nominated to follow old
beaten paths. He was willing to be the
butt Of all personal attack as TO character
and belief but had no quarrel with persons
ON the opposite side. He then pro
ceeded to consider the republican plat.
! form, saying he wished to
avoid making Il keynote speech, as last
wears effort III that direction by Governor
| Foster was disastrous. Taking the first
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publican party in the platform, he said the
party had the habit of getting back to the
future and pointing with pride
to the past. He had some
knowledge of that past. He then continued
to read humorous paraphrase of the plat
form as II ought to be worded. He included
among these achievements the theft OF the
presidency the whisky ring, the star-route
frauds the destruction OF the navy and OF
the mercantile marine, river and harbor
stealings etc. These furnished, he
said. the reason why Chase and
Greeley and thousands OF good Repub.
leans should leave the party
To illustrate the difference between the
wo parties he referred TO four great pOlit-
lcal prosecutions since the war. The
first was the impeachment of
Johnson. 1t was malicious.
The whisky conspiracy was II failure.
The third come to naught; the fourth was
not 'naugurated by the republicans and
therefore was not failure,
the Tweed corruption in New York. This
act of publication was done by Samuel j.
Tilden. The republicans failed to punish
their thieves. The democrats strangled
theirs Referring to the tariff plank in the
republican platform, he said he was not in
4 position to discuss this, but would soon do
80 lie believed the democratic view express
ed in its platform was God truth. Speaking
OF the wool tariff plank, he said IL was singu-
lar the republican party condemned its own
action in this regard. The confession
that 1t was wrong in cutting the
wool tariff was good reason for the pun
ishment of the republican party. He dealt
with this subject by rldiculing the dec
laraton that the wool tariff should be
restored at the first possible opportunity
Passing to the resolution about prison con
tracts, he said this was rebellion OF the re-
publican party against its own legislature.
The abolition OF prison contract labor was
specifically defeated by the late
republican legislature. In regard
to the liquor traffic and the endt rsement
ofScNtt, he said the platform approves
the Scott law, as it is, starting with the
is intrensically wrong is not
wrong u subject OF compromise, but
when acting in the wrong, when abused,
the duty of citizens IS to regulate it. Crime
against woman is per SO wrong, and
deserves no compromise in its treal
ment, but drinking glass of wine, beer
or whisky is wrong when it reaches
20 abuse, and any effort TO pro-
hibit is revolution of private right,
and is wrong. 1.-The believed, with tho pro-
hibitionsts, that all alcohol is poison
that the Saviour converted water
into poison at Cana, then he
would go with the prohibitiOnsts
with all force to have prohibition. Believ.
| ing that prohibition consists not in the use
but in the abuse of alcohol, he believed in
Il graduated license system, that should
bear proportion to the amount of the
traffic and to amount of injury the
traffic may do. The Scott law makes no
distinction, but says any man, for
$500, may make as many
drunkards as he can. License could
be revoked in case of abuse. 1t was his
honest opinion that bill that withdraws
the dram-shop law is not temperance.