The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-24
CLEVELAND.
AN ENTHUSIASTIC RATIFICATION
MEETING IN FRONT OF THE
TEMPORARY CAPITOL.
Speeches of Prominent Citizens
and War Notes of Distin-
guished Public Men.

he Aroused by the enthusiasm whit
the nomination of Cleveland an
Hendricks has created, nearly tho
sand citizens attended the ratifcatio
he meeting in front of the Temporal
capitol at o'clock last night.
Hon. A. p. Woodbridge, VIII
D. presided, distributed among tn
r. audience number of hanC
h. Cleveland, which caused three thrill
ing cheers for the national ticket. Tn
tumult of cheering having suf
liciently subsidized, Colonel woodbridge
III introduced to the asSemblage
D GOVERNOR IRELAND,
t who said that he was in
q, formed that the meeting had beer
u called for the purpose of ratifying the
Il nominations of the Chicago conven.
7, ton.
This ratification meeting was neces.
, Sary in order that the democracy
: throughout the length and breadth OF
the union might know that the demo-
Gratis of Texas are wide-awake and at
work. 1t had been said that all that
could be said was that Cleveland and
Hendricks would be- elected in No
Yember; but significant is the fact
7 that nothing can be said against
l THESE gentlemen speaks volumes in
: their behalf, and the people
in November will ratify the blank
volume on the debtor side of these
gallant men. Portraying the charac-
ter and public record of Mr.. Hend-
ricks, he gave an ample and glowing
description of his vigorous talents,
his hardy manhood and the purity of
his private life.
referring to Mr.. Cleveland, he pict-
ured the patient struggles of his
youth, the fidelity with which he dis
charged the trusts of his early public
career, his professional integrity, the
persistency with which he has battled
against corruptions in the admins ira
ton of the government of his state,
the consistency of his principles,
and the magnifcence of his
political achievements as he has fol-
lowed the voice of his grand manhood !
| that has called him from the retired |
estate of impoverished youth to the |
summit of personal excellence and |
public distinction.
Contrasting the records of these dis
tlnguished men, matchless in brillian-
| cy, purity and public usefulness, with
those OF the nominees of the republic
Can party, he said that in New Eng
land, New York and other states,
bills of Indictment, not by the demo-
Gratis, but by the republicans them
selves, have been filed against them,
and they are to be tried in November.
Already Blaine and Logan are Whis-
pering in the solitary gloom of their
pickering camp Treason" But
it is the inevitable memories of the
past calling from the dark chambers
OF official corruption and oppression.
Blaine's letter of acceptance, he
said, was devoted principally to the
finance and the tariff questions. One
of his statements in that letter, he
wished for the credit of Mr.. Blaine,
for the sake of his intelligence and
his honesty he had left unsaid, because
it spoke no good for either his head
or heart. Blaine had announced that
the millions of money now in the
treasury has been boarded there to
save the people of the country from
taxation; and that not a dollar of it
had been Squandered or misapplied.
Portions of this money, the speaker
showed had been stolen by employees
in the service OF the navy, squandered
in jobs, or else recklessly misap-
piled.
He exploded Mr.. BIaine's theory
that the war tariff which has pre-
vailed since 1862 had proven beneficial
to the nation, by showing that nearly
all the wealth which it had brought
into the country had gone to the
favorites of few pampered indus
tries, and had left the seventeen
millions of toiling laborers in more
wretched condition than if no tariff
had prevailed, and they had paid IN
direct taxes an amount greater than
the sum they have indirectly received
through the unequal operation OF the
tariff system.
His attack on the tariff was
clear, concise and torcible, explos-
ing the enormities of its conse-
quences, and was heartily ap-
plauded. All the points of Blaine's
letter of acceptance were considered,
and the vital issues of the campaign
discussed with mastery perspi-
easily.
JUDGE HANCOCK's
address was magnificent in its
argumentative 'acumen, compre-
hensive scope and clearness of
expression, 1t was important, he
said. that the democracy of the coun-
try should have ratification meetings,
and that it is desirable at all times to
meet together in the interest of sound
government and reason upon the prin-
ciples that constitute the differences
between the two political parties.
After devoting considerable time IN
exposing the fallacies of the
tariff system, he said the time had
come when it is the duty of pa
triots to unite their entire strength
to relieve the people of its injustice
and it's Ubiquitous burden. He COM
pared the pampered expositors OF the
tariff to the priests in ancient oracles,
who, safter having delivered their
aguries, retired to their private cham
Der to laugh over their success in
humbugging the people.
| He stirred the hearts of the young |
democracy present, by the thrilling |
| eloquence of his appeal to organize |
democratic clubs in support of the man |
| who is the representative of the |
| Young and aggressive democracy |
of the day no less than of those exalt- |
ed principles which have been the
traditions of the party since the time
of Jefferson.
The republicans, he said, despairiDg
of any defense of the record of their
leader, had sought to estop the dem
ocracy from attacking him further by
the unprecedented announcement
that the republican party had con-
doned his offenses.
The democracy, he was g
fed, had selected men W
character they joyously held before the
the scrutiny of the nation is unblemin-
,, isned spotless, stainless, is the en-
bodiments of personal and official ex-
cellence, and worthy of the distinc-
ton which their countrymen have
CONFER ed upon them.
The speeches of Hon. Jos. ID. Sayers
) and Hon. E. T. Moore were the citi-
del and sparkling landscape of last
evenings scenes. presenting in lofty
and chaste eloquence the strength, Sc
curity and wisdom of the basic prin-
ciples of the great democratic party.
To attempt synopis of these gentle
[. mems discourses would but destroy
2, the marks of its genuineness. But In
T. few days both speeches will proba-
d bly, be published in full in these
n columns.
5. GOVERNOR LUBBOCK
7, Stated that he was admonished
J that it was growing late; but
" he hoped they would understand
II that he had speech ready thai