Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-09-07
BEN. suTTeRWoRTH's SPEECH
Before the Hamilton County Republican Con.
YentiOn in Turner Hall

GENTLEMEN OF THE CoNvENTIoN-You belong
to an organization that since its formation,
generation ago, has taken no step backward.
You are confronted by an organization that
during the same time has taken no step for
ward. You belong to an organization that knows
that liberty without law is mere barbarism, that
law without liberty is mere despotsm. You
know as well that liberty with law is as fire
upon the earth, warming and serving the pur-
poses OF man-that liberty without law is as lire
stroys. Gentlemen OF the Convention,
you belong to q political organization
that appeals to the noblest faculties in men,
that appeals to their reason, their understand
ing, and their intelligence, to their patriotism,
and to their sense OF right; and these faculties
belong in the head and in the heart We do
not forget that we have appetites, and pas
sions, and stomachs, but we do not put them
in the forefront. They are the servants OF the
greater qualities of mans nature, and not their
masters, [Applause.l You belong to polit-
ical organization that has governed your
country for three decades, and there is not a
page OF your country's history that has been
written in these last three decades that the
good men before me have not helped to
trace. Nor is there line upon the page OF
that history on which we can not look with
that history OF the country of which every
Democrat in this country is not worthily and
justly proud There is not line or sentence
to-day, that you or l or any one of your po-
plausel, and, gentlemen of the Convention,
what YOU have done through the three decades
has been in all cases, in every instance, de-
nounced and decried by our political op-
ponents, and, Immediately thereafter, most
heartily approved of by them. I care not
whether they look at the gigantic struggle you
made for the preservation of all that is worthy
OF preservation of our country, in the four
years OF rebellion; whether they look at our
financial schemes; our measures for the
preservation OF our financial system and the
upholding of credit and commercial confidence
throughout the land or at the schemes for the
protection of the industrial enterprises Of the
country, or whatever part of the record that
you have established as the record OF the Re-
publican party, you will find that in each and
every one of them, in every. instance they first
opposed the measure and subsequently in
sisted that they were its most active promoters
and supporters.
Gentlemen OF the Convention, it devolves
upon US TO nominate a ticket here to-day that
each and every man OF the county, of what
ever party he may be, can say, "That is a good
faithful, intelligent public service in the sew
eral offices to be filed" With such ticket
we ought to win. With. such ticket may
say absolutely, We will win if nothing but
Gentlemen, we are confronted with the old
time ndversary-one word about that adversary
AS Republican organization, working intelli-
gently and patriotically. we must remember
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OF OF people or for one set OF principles but
for all true principles, all peoples and all
classes to be affected by our legislation. Our
| lines must be kept even and firm, with no
waverng, in full, unbroken, solid phalanx not
like our adversaries, with the standard of one
part of the party advanced far ahead of the
mass. Let US look at the questions at issue, to
which we shall address ourselvesin the coming
campaign. Two are most prominent OF ali.
The first is the question of protecting the in
dustrial interests of the country and the other
Is whether what has been done by our last
Legislature with reference to the traffic of in
toricants, shall be undone by the Democratic
ent condition of affairs with reference to each
Of these questions. The Democrats are after
free trade That means free whisky; that
means making drinking easy and manufactur-
ing hard. In the first place, we are not in
favor Of making manufacturing hard. If you
believed my friend Judge Hoadly, IL would
appear that we had suddenly become averse to
the protection OF our great manufacturing
the course Of the Republican party upon the
wool tariff. How long since the Democratic
party has become the special champion OF
the wool-growing interests2 When | was in
protecting any industrial interests of this
country, heard from my Democratic friends
nothing but No! mol upon every proposition,
and the woolgrowing Interests went down
WIN tHc baut MOI UOl lioIi AHSy uit
in favor of taking the tax off OF woolen goods
and want TO protect your wool-growers. As o
result, they would make wool extraordinarily
dear to the American manufacturers, while
they would make manufactured goods extraor
dinarily cheap. What an absurd ideal The
J Republican party proposes the protection oi
!, both interests, protecting the flocks upon the
hill and the whirling spindles in the looms
: Tho imposition is 80 great that 1t II
TO be practiced by the Democratic leader
that nobody can be deceived by it. unless ht
, is willing to be deceived himself. Between
, American labor and the ruinous competition
. Of foreigners the Republican party stands like
5 wall OF fire, aud all over the land the indus
i tries flourish and our farmers are prosperous
, while our gentlemen across the ocean main
: tain an Impoverished laboring class who ca
: meat once week and very coarse bread witt
: it all. the time. The only adversaries our In
e dustries find in tins country will be found II
: the ranks OF the Democratic party, supple
mented by the capitalists across the ocean. N
industry Ii this country will feel apprehensiy