The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-09-04
Address of Mr.. j. p. Deliver
on Ticking the Chair In the
Iowa Convention.
Annual "Elegy OF Grief" for the Hawk.
eye Democrats-An Eminent Man
Who Is Dead and Doesn't
Know It.
Uonsciences with Alum in 'Em-Tight
Pants and Hay-Fever-Deserting
Learned Profession to Be-
come a Hangman.
from the Chicago Tribune.l

the Republican convention of Iowa last
week, which is attracting much attention.
The speaker Mr., j. p. Dolliver, is young
man of 20, who was notified of his selec-
ton as Temporary Chairman only few
minutes before he was called to the chair.
1t was delivered with such telling effect that
it carried the convention by storm. 1t
is filled with effective shots. Mr.. Dolliver
has rapidly developed great popularity as
speaker, and is now recognized in Iowa as
the leader of the young Republicans. He
has been invited to go into the national
campaign, and in n few days will take the
stump in West Virginia and later in the
canvass will speak in Ohio and Indiana;
Gentlemen of the Iowa Republican Convention:
Out of the abundance OF my heart thank you
for the honor which yeur favor has conferred
upon me- IL builds up mans political constl-
tuition TO take a front view or the lighting
strength of the Republican party OF Iowa. III
any OF you have friends that are bothered with
polieicai dyspepsia who find trouble in selecting
from the printed bill OF fare OF Republican
politics, advise you To bring them here and let
them look in the lace of this magnificent assem-
bly,. Your conventions have always been de-
Lucrative, your nominations representative.
your campaigns popular, and your ballot boxes
too full for utterance OF straight Republican
tickets. Consequently, a Democrat has not been
seen on the streets OF an Iowa city after o'clock
on election night for a quarter OF century.
The music OF the telegraph Office has been their
annual eegy of grief They look upon bule-
board as an enemy of free government, and
accept the first half of Franklin's maxim, early
to bed" when the returns are coming N.
DEMOCRATIC BANKRUPTCY
The first act of the Democratic party Is TO file
schedule in bankruptcy. Already their prop
erty is out OF their own name. Their national
standard Is in the hands OF a man whose name
Is not disclosed by the Democratic national
record. Four years ago his name could have
prudently been used as alias under which TO
travel incognito all over the known world out
side of Buffalo. To elect him President would
flyxala
1t takes the cheek of the Democratic managers
20 play the whole American people for suckers.
1 thank God that we belong to party that
saves the crown of its public honor for the
brow of its actual leadership. With the Demo-
cratic party nominations are made not so much
to represent the party as TO disguise it. In its
long struggle for existence the men who have
made the history OF the party go to the wall IL
As the only party that ever existed whose candt-
dates and platform never throw any light what
ever either ON its management or Its faith. In
fact, modern Democrats of the practical school
have no creed except the oath OF office. All the
important Democratic principles are unit for
use. They have been lett ont in the field just
where they were used last, with not even
bunch OF swamp grass thrown over them-in
sun and rain, until rot and rust have done their
fatal work.
1t is true they talk piously of the need of re-
form, and with an inexcusable libel accuse the
integrity of the Republican civil service. They
work their favorlte classical allusion TO the Au
Rean stables for all there Is in it, These, they
assert must be cleaned out Yet from the gen.
oral appearance OF the crowd that ia on hand TO
do the business the average citizen is likely to
conclude that their'intention is to steal the fork
rather than clean out the bran.
1t is true they pre-empt all sides OF the tarih
question They profess to settle that issue by
jargon Of words without precedent in the an
mails of nonsense and confusion. You might as
well try 70 fit the hundred-headed dog of the
ancient fable with a straw hat as TO place a can
did and Ineligible tariff platform under the
feet of the Democratic party They approach
that question and nearly every other like man
emptying hard-coal asnes in high wind, with
their eyes shut and their backs to the subject.
AN EMINENT DEMOCRAT.
What must be the thoughts of man like Mr..
Thomas A. Hendricks as he sits in his law Office
and looks at the top shelf OF his library, and
counts the long row OF dusty Congressional
Globes from 1850 TO 1880, from the fugitive
slave law TO the resumption OF specie payments?
Dean Swift used to say that censure Is a tax a
man pays to the public for being eminent. IL
is not the fault of Mr.. Hendricks that the Con-
gressional record connects him with all the
blunders and treasons or recent politics. IL IL
the tax a man pays to his gener ition for the
luxury OF having been an eminent Democrat.
Victor Hugo, somewhere in the masterpiece of
prose fiction, relates a singular dream OF Jean
Vatican, in which the unfortunate man is car
ried back In his vision TO the streets of his
native village, and there, in the midst of the
gloom and ashes and dust OF things, inter-
viewed by gentleman, who solemnly asks him:
where are you going? Do you not know you
have been dead,a long tineI' have sometimes
thought that il Mr.. Hendricks could once get
himself enlightened by an appropriate vision
and wander back in his dreams to the familiar
scenes of his public career, he would need no
assistance TO enable him to hear more than one
voice solemnly asking the same questions:
where you goingI Do you not know you
have been dead a long timer"
THE FRAUD ISSUE.
Mr.. Hendricks is placed upon the Democratic
ticket-not to recall the history of the Demo-
cratic party. No thoughtful Democrat wants
that remembered. He Is on the ticket for the
avowed purpose OF reviving the SUPERSTITION that
surrounds the electoral count OF 1877. With
characteristic stupidity the Democratic man
ayers still think that the American people have
never slept well since that celebrated question
of mathematics was up for settlement They
seem to be afflicted with a sort of intellectual
shftessness that keeps them from the under
standing that the fraud issue died at Cincinnati
in 1880 by the hand of Thomas A. Hendricks.
The indictment of alleged momentous out
rage cannot be dismissed tor want of prosecu-
ton and the papers in the left under the
dust of eight years without losing interest to the
travelling public. With all due respect TO Col.
Vii 8, of Wisconsin, say the statute of limita-
lions does run. The descendants OF Cleopatra
might as well-bring SUIT against the estate of
Mark Antony for the Democratic
who wore ean@s BETWEEN the %beSs
of the Electoral Commission. In truth, the
American people, membering the long years OF
political rapine that have given the South to the
Democratic party. and finding Mr.. Tilden and
Mr. Hendricks the immediate and responsible
benefciares of these years or felony against
the ballot-box in the South, have never, TO any
visible degree, bewailed their memorable failure
TO catch the rail of the hind car In 1877 For
one thank the Democratic party for the fraud
issue Miserable and useless in itself, IL affords
the country a proper occasion TO recall that
strange decade from 1869 TO 1876, during which
the Democi attic party, upon the ruins of the re-
bellion, contrived their infamous conspiracy
against the civil rights of the people that in ten
States has left the ballot-box a fraud and the
election-day a farce Laboulaye, the great
French Liberal. now dead. just after the civil
war in the United States, took occasion to say
that "the Republican party OF America holds in
its hands the future of civilization. That was
true then II is true now. IL is more certain
that the Republican party shall have future
than that IL has had a history.
THE KICKERs.
Now and then you ind Republican who en-
lows the momentary importance that belongs 70
the kicker and the scratcher. The shortest road
TO celebrity nowadays II TO advertise your con-
science in the newspapers. There are Republi-
cans who treatther conscience as IL 1t were the
stock in trade of a baking powder factory.
They solemnly protest that everybody's con-
scfencc has alum in it except theirs. They
adopt the doctrine OF Matthew Arnold and in
sjst that in order TO be safe the nation must
furnish the remnant with complimentary tick
cts and a front seat. They would have the
country govern itself by the advice OF persons
whose names, IL / may borrow phrase from
vour good friend Gov Carpenter, are written In
the herd book of high political grades.
Only last month a convention was held In a
New York parIor, In which the only credentials
called for by the committee were written pre-
tense of holiness and the only creed required OF
a.. hol m I'M