Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09
HOADLY ON THE STUMP
Pointing Out the IncOngruities of the
Republican Platform.

Pointing Out the IncOngruities of the
Republican Platform.
HAMILTON, OHIO, July THE ar
rangments for an outdoor meeting for a
ratification of the nominations of the
Democratic State Convention tonight
were interfered with by rain, and the
meeting was held in German Society Hall,
which was insufficient in size.
to hold the crowd which gathered from
the city, and was brought in by special
trains. General F. NandeVere, who pre-
sided, stated that he had received a dis
patch from Senator PendletOn saving that
he could not be present on account of i'll
health.
Judge Hoadly was greeted with cheers
when introduced, and began bv saving
that he was here as the representative of
the old Democracy Of Butler, as old as
Jefferson, but so new that, God willing, it
shall newly occupy the offices of this
State and nation. Paying high personal
compliment to his opponent, Judge
Foraker, he said that the ticket was
nominated to follow the old beaten paths.
lie was willing, but as to all personal
attacks he had no quarrel with the per-
sonality of the opposite party, but he
would hold high conflict with the prin-
ciples OF Republicans. He then proceeded
to consider the Republican platform,
saying that he wished to avoid making
keynote speech. as last years effort i'm
that. direction by Gov. Foster was dis
astrous. Taking the first declaration
as to the achievements of the Repub-
lican platform, he said that the
party had habit of getting
its back to the future and pointing with
pride to its past. He then read the
humorous paraphrase Of the platform as
rfrbf 70 10 II.
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, the river
and harbOr stealings, etc. These fur
nished, he said. reason why Chase and
Greeley and thousands of good Republi-
cans should leave the party. To illus
trate the difference between the two
parties he referred to the four
great political prosecutions since the
war. The first was the Impeachment
OF johnson. 1t was malicious. The
whisky conspiracy was a failure. The
third has just come to nanght. The fourth
was not inaugurated by Repub-
licans and therefore was not failure
Tweed corruption in New York. This
act of publication was done by Samuel
j. Tilden, of New York. The Republi-
cans failed 10 punish their thieves. De-
Referring to the tariff plank of the Re-
publican platform, he said thatit was not
in line tonight to discuss this, but he
would soon do so. He believed the DEM
ocratic view expressed in its
platform was Gods truth. Speak.
ing of the wool tariff plank, he said
it was singular that the Republican
party condened its own action in this
regard. A confession that it was wrong
in cutting down the wool taritfwas a good
reason for the punishment of the Repub-
lican patty. He ridiculed the declara-
tiOn that the wool tariff should be restored
at the first possible opportunity. Passing
to the resolution about the prison con-
tract system he said that this was a re-
belliOn of the Republican party against
its own legislation. The abolition
of prison contract labor was specifically
defeated by the late Republican Legisla-
ture. Regarding the liquor traffic and
the Endorsement of the Scott law, he said
that the Platform approves the Scott law
as it is, starting with the proposition that
that which is intrinsically wrong is not
the subject of compromise, but when its
acting is wrong it deserves no cOmprO-
mise in its treatment. If he believed with
the prOhibitOniststhata all alcohol is poison.
that the Saviour converted water into
poison at Cana, then he would 90 with
the prOhibitionists with all his force to
have prohibition. He believed in tenn
perance. 1t consisted not in the use but
the abuse of alcohol. He believed in a
graduated license system that should bear
proportion to the amount of traffic and
to the amount of injury the traffic NAV do.