The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-10-07
HUBBARD ON THE STUMP.
OUR DICK WAKING UP ILLINOIS.
He Delivers One of His Characteristic and
feiling Addresses at Lexington,
Which Produces the widest
Enthusiasm Points,

III monster Democratic meeting at
Lexington, Illinois, the other day, "Our
Dick' was present with Mcdonald, Har-
rison, and others, and delivered big
compaign speech. The Chicago Times
contains the following account of il:
"Gov. Hubbard, of Texas, was intro
duced by II. j. Dement, to the vast audi
ence ut ON" of the stands. Dement, told
the people to sit down on the grass. inst
IKE the disciples used to do. Gov. Hub
6ard SAID he came from far distant
State to talk over the issues of the dav
Vast interests were at stake in this cleo.
tlOn. After the great war had gone nv
Tor aquarter of century, after the tri
uinph OF the Democratic party in con
trOlllng majority Of the States of tho
Cnlon, AFTER presidency mad been
stolen from the Democracy, no apology
was needed. Cheers. lie felt as much
at home in Illinois as he would on the
banks Of the Rio Grande. Southern
Democrats more than any other men
would be opposed to another war. The
Northern Democracy from the great
States Of the West had been the first fo
extend the hand of fellowship to the
impoverished south at the close of the
war Applause.
Gov. Hubbard then depicted the course
OF the Republicans toward the people of
the South after the rebellion, and said
THE SOUTH
had bCen called and was solid to the
party and people which came to its res
cue. Cheers. He was not here to deal
in personal abuse or carry Goals to New
castle by exh0rting Illinois Democrats
to do their duty, A host of orators had
gone to the South to brace up its people.
Surely one humble citizen of Texas had
the right to come to the home of Doug.
las and other great men and talk to his
fellow men. Applause. The history
or tho Democratic party was writ
ten before the era of bad blood
and cruel war The record WAS made
and would never die. Applaase.l 1t
lived immovable as the rock of ages.
The party amid war, misrule, in peace
and misfortune, had lived perennially
fresh In its principles. Men died, but
princiuleS lived. ICheerS.l The consti-
tuition would never perish while liberty
had q votary or n lover, The names of
Mcclellan and Hancock would live as
the stars.
The speaker then paid handsome
tribute u the Democratic boy. in blue.
and told of the growth OF the Democratic
party and of the robbery of the Presi-
dency III 1876 The Same principles
which sustained Democracy seventy
1--WE years ago were alive to-day. 1t was
opposed to the
CAPITALIZATION OF POWER,
high taxation, and protection obtained
at the expense Of the tOlcrs of the land,
1t was said that the reference to an plcc-
tor commission of the election of lS7G
debarrcd the Democrats from speaking
of the matter. Ihrit was like Btuuuo'S
ghost and would NOT down. Applause.
Louisiana never had cast its electoral
vote for Hayes and Vice President
whose name the speaker had forgotten.
Loud laughter. The greatest issue Of
the campaign was to right the great
wrong of 1876 "a proSid ancy which was
nv lmplous hounds b'ught with basest
god. Cheers.
The speaker referred to the tariff and
other planks in the Republican plat
FORM, and said the record OF the party
showed II to be huge falSehoOd. The
republicans promised some years ago
To reduce the tariff p per cent, but on
applying the knife only cut il 4 per cent,
Inc treasury was now ull of money,
ana taxation was two high. There
would be no poverty, 10 public works
stopped. He had heard their orators IN
DAYS gone by say to the wOrkngmen:
Let we'll enough alone. Don't trust
viii never be out OF employment"
These men had
wiLFULlr TOLD FAsEHoops,
ana deceived the workingmen OF the
land, The speaker made most eff
tective and eloquent address. and said,
llthe expression was permitted, most of
the Republicans Who were now bowling
about the bloody shirt never had any
blood on their shirts in the war. Great
laughter Southern Democrats were
not intolerant, aud the speaker told the
audience that the enfranchised negro
never had as good a friend ~ tho man
who raised him. There were not 10000
men in Texas who wOu d put the negro
again in bondage, but there
we're 2,OOO,OOO southern men who
would not permit il. Chez ST.
Buffers talks were mere ricochet
movements, as they were called in artil-
lery practice, for Mr. Blaine. Laugh
teri. The speaker referred To the vast
wealth Of his State and said the negroes
wero being educated. The negroes were
the happiest people on earth. They did
not work to hurt themselves. Cries OF
mo, no'D A pol tax was imposed on
the negroes the same ~ on the whites,
but its collection was not enforced
Laughter. In a fow years the colored
people reiuvenatod would appreciate
the services ofthe men born under the
same sun and on the same sod with
them. ICheers.l The Republican party,
like slavery, would soon hc "a thing of
the past and Il "Reminiscences.
The speaker in closing spoke OF the
candidates on the National and State
ticket, and was greeted with rounds OF
applause.
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