The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-07-17

pies by the RopuDllcan party. They tell |
us they have civil-SerVice reform, and |
yet they demand in the next breath
from every Federal office holder of the
100000 the tribute to the corruption
fund that shall be paid out to the voters
Mt the polls. They tell us they have
Puritan government, and yet not soil
tary 1elon has been condemned in the
flock of those who have stolen their
millions from the treasury. Your
Springer committee only on Yesterday,
and day before, tell us Of the perjury, of
the corruption, Of the subordination,
that run all along through the ministers
of justice in the prosecution of the Gov
ernment. We want real reform; re-
form, my countrymen, that shall mean
what it says, and that will say what it
means Icheersl, moreover.
| shall briefly close, fellow-citizens.
IL IS not my business as your
presiding officer to-day to enun-
ciate anything that shall he
embodied in your platform. But | wish
to say one thing in this State assemblage
OF freemen to your committee on re-
furm-that YOU will endoavor to unite
upon the basis of principles which we
nave advocated for the Years that are
gone, and that you will have no Delphic
oracle, speaking with double tongue in
the platform which shall be named by
you. Loud applause. Let the Green
Mountain men of New York and the
men of Maine, of Texas, of Louisiana
and Georgia, from the Carolinas to The
Golden coast, demand that the COM
mlttee on platform shall say in our
noble Vernacular Of purest English
tongue what they mean, so that the way
| tarlng man, though fool, need not err
in reading it. In doing this Won will
declare against the cOrruptions of the
| goVernmGnt-that is, we will declare
against the enormities of It's system of
ciVll service, its department of so-called
| justice, It's postal service, the robbery i'm
nigh places by the men in power
| 1t will say moreover that
the burdens of government
shall be placed alike equally and egui-
| tably upon all classes of our countrylnen.
having respect for the greatest good to
the greatest number applause that the
| nullufed milllOnS OF surplus revenue
shall not be allowed to accumulate MS n
corrupt bait applause, and that there
shaI be radical reformation and reduc-
| ton in the taxes rs well as the meth
DDS OF taxation in our country. An
| pause But, fellow citizens, i'm con
| cluSi0n, let me say that harmony and
concllllall0n should rule your councils.
| more never was time ill the history of
the Democratic party when the enemy
invites the victory as now. The great
and unnumborcd hosts OF dissatisfied
men OF the Republican party are heard
in the distance, in New England. i'm
New York, on the lakes and i'm the
West, and everywhere, and while The
Democratic party should not deviate
one lota from the principles of its party.
IL should with open arms say to these
| incn-hundredS Of thousands - God
grant there may bo-"Here, here is Tho
party of the Constitution, the Union.
that loves our common country; come
| hither and 20 with us for honest rule
aud honest government"
Inc Democratic party, while il. NAV
| nave us local differences, when the on
Sctol the charge comes will be together
aud whoever you may nominate, of ali
the great and good names that are be-
fore you from the East to the West, and
nom the North to the South, he who
stands back in the hour of peril-for-
sOoth his own State or himself, shall not
| nave received the choice, yea, the choice
oil ms hearts, less than II good Demo
crat and hardly patriot. In the conn
| try's hour of peril, the Democratic party
Is loyal to the Union. The bloody shirt.
IN the vulgar parlance of the times,
| mas at each recurring election been
haunted in the face of Southern Demo-
Gratis and i'll your own faces. With Lo-
| gan on the ticket, presume il will be
again. Blaine could hardly afford il
Laughter had he INDUCED much i'm that
| unpleasantness. Laughter and an
plause. They will endcavor to Stir I'm
the bad blood of the past. NV country
men, the war Is over for quarter of n
century, and they know it; why, our
boys nave married the young maidens
OF the northland and children have been
norm To them since those DAYS. IAp-
plause and laughter They will con
lnue To 90 To the altar, and side by side
at dying beds they will talk of that
bourne whence no traveller returns; will
lie dowrand be buried together. WHY,
the boys in the blue and the gray have
slept together for quarter of a century
upona thousand fields of common glory;
let their bones alone. They are reprc-
senting the best blood of the land, and
though differing in the days that should
he forgotten, the good men of all parts
IN oar county to-day, thank God, have
united in the great common progress of
our race to forget the war ana memories
of the war time.
| thank you, fcll0w-oitilens. for your
"NtV"tluil' i'WNtlNI tldI your iurbCar-
anco Will be extended TO ne what mis-
takes | shall make, doubtless, Won will
treat light and kindly with 4 corrective
mead; hoping that success may crown
your efforts; that you may send a ticket
90 our country upon whom all may
unite, Is the wish OF him whom YOU
nave hunorci with your suilragcS this
d3N' Loud and long continued ap.
phusc.
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