Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-27
PRESIDENT. Henry F. Peck.

N OAAON~S O@ S~AS \ follows:
 PRESIDENT.
 Henry F. Peck.
 vICE-PRESIDENT.
 Arthur D. Osborne, James H. Foy,
 B. F. Guyer, Hon. Frank D. Sloat, Thomas H. Pease George R. Bill
 A. W. Minor, H. J. Prudden,
 George T. Bradley, Edward 1a E FoEE Mooney, J. Francis Baker, Morris Stenert, sS - Matthew McMahon, Louis Feldman Henry B. Smith, Hon. Charles A. Bray, Rev E. Edwin Hall. Rutherford H. frowbridg, Henry G. Hotchkdss, Fred. B. FarnsWorth, George K. Jewell, William Landcraft Collis B. Granniss
 SECRETARIES
 James Bishop, ILL Augur
 Frank w. Canada. Charles R SDieeel John R. Ruh, Joseph F. O'Brien
 Tnomas TnsI111 5J,, J. Sullivan Patrick Crowley,
 MT. Peck made a few remarks and the Glee club sang "We'n follow where the white
 plume leads.''
 MT. Peck then introduced the speaker of the evening, the Hon. Emory A. Storrs, of
 Chicago
 MT. Storrs said: ''There is no man living
 in the far West who does not feel a pro
 found satisfaction in meeting the men and
 women in this historic town of New Haven
 I have no affections and but little modesty.
 have driven about the town where Yale is
 and I saw the dear, old venerable Woolsey in
 the street. You don't know how we revere that
 name in the West. We are Republicans in
 the West. We haven't time to vote; were too
 busy making empires We know but two
 parties, the diabolical Democratic party and the
 Republican party. We can't recognize Inde-
 pendents; they belong to no party. They
 think they are pious, but are simply bilious.
 l am from the riff-raf West so you'll have to
 excuse my plain talk tonight But all
 the ritf-raf westerners are sons and daugh-
 ters or New Englanders. We do not lack
 spirit in the West. I come from the only
 State that filled it's quota without a draft.
 Chicago, the place come from, is a Repub-
 hcan city. There are five Independents
 there. They had grand rally few days
 ago and the whole five were present. Since
 then one of them has bolted.
 In the West we believe that the party
 which Abraham Lincoln first led to victory is the grandest party that ever existed We
 believe also that the grandest representative of that party is James G. Blaine Applause and cheers for Blaine.) We don't believe in the reign of few college professors, do you?
 We don't believe in the rule of the minority. do you! There isn't single western State that is Democratic. Not one There isn't single great western State with all it's marvellous fruitfDlness that doesn't believe
 but that the grandest title in the world is that of American citizenship. I shall as- sume to represent that West tonight.
 ''There are but two parties. The Independ- ent movement is no party. Jefferson Davis, when he joined the southern Confederacy, was not an independent. He became inde- pendent pen on the South So Curtis and Schurz left the Republican party and joined the
 Democratic party. And speaking of the
 Democratic party, it's career in the past few
 years has simply been diabolic, internal. It
 has never done the right thing except at the
 wrong time. It was in favor of peace during
 the war, and after peace had been declared they wanted war. don't use strong language.
 I shall handle the Democrats gently.
 Ask any Democrat to point to anything that
 has been contributed toward civil liberty by the Democratic party. The party has op- posed everything that was right. It's hor- rible, deathly record. No party in the world shows record of infamy. so consistent as that. that It IS crime ungilded, unreIieved. There's no sunshine that shines upon it's record. I've made these statements hundred times and have never been inter rupted. You can't point me to any great measure that the party can claim any share in. There isn't single good measure for the last thirty years that your bad old party hasn't opposed. Now if there is, won't you name 1ts Tell me just one. Now tell me just one, good Democrats Isn't that an aw- ful record: What a bad old party yours is. Is there anything that looks to the advancement of the dignity of labor that the Democratic party hasn't op- posed? If there is, name it. Don't you know that we would have had no public honor 1t you had had your way. Is there a single time that you could have elected a president without disaster and setting back the tide of our prosperity at least a quarter of century? And during all the thirty years who ever heard of Cleveland? And who did not know of James G. Blaine and John A. Logan? And who didn't know that Hendricks was making copperhead speeches in the West? They say Logan don't speak good English, but when his soldiers heard him say Forward" they knew what he meant. He has made glorious name and if you take out his achievements from history you leave great chasm. But if you were to take away the actual achievements of Curtis and schurz you would haven't got half through with the Demo cratic record yet. It is a party of crime against civil liberty and free ballot. And it is against this bad old party that the Re- publican party is arrayed. I don't know much about New Haven, but if you've had any great fraud it has been under Democratic rule, I can tell you that
 GAS to the Republican party, joined it when I was boy. The first ticket I cast was for John 0. Fremont and the next in the ong line was for Abraham Lincoln. The party said at the outset freedom shall be na- 'ional and slavery shall be sectional, and it kept it's word. It said the debt should be paid. Isn't it being paid? It said It, It would protect our industries; hasn't tl done 1t? It has landed 50, ,0OO,- poo of people in the midst of an 1nexampled prosperity. It gave us nation al name and character and it comes to us to- Jay asking for our support Why should I give 1t more than you? am merely citi- zen. hold no office and seek no office. desire to ask every Democrat here tonight into whose hands may the honor and safety of the nation be most safely trusted? Snail t be trusted to the party that saved it or the one that tried to destroy it?
 "What is it to be an Independenta Are you to be independent of the Republican party? That, perhaps, is well. But when you join the Democratic party you are no onger independent. But the Independents. he college professors, the minority, are not 70 rule; l believe in the citizens. l nm willing to exchange the esthete for he horny handed and hard-fsted. believe it is better for the party to have the l thousands of Irishmen and Germans and ex- ,hange for them those who are too wise for l he general wisdom of the country. be- 1eve more in the integrity, in the honesty of l he people than in the sublimated doctrines 1 'f the professors. I welcome the coming 1 md speed the parting guest. They are com l ng, too, and there is no mistake about it 1 hat the party is to be successful. The signs 1 ,f victory are unmistakable. Everywhere | James G. Blaine is welcomed by thousands If people, and his honesty has been vindi- 1 'ated by majority of over 10000.
 'In one-half the States of this Union the ballot is fraud and I farce. There are Republican maiorities | n half the southern States, but they are | ounted the other way. How small seem | 'ther considerations beside this South of | Mason and Dixon's line there are millions of | nen who cannot vote. I'm waving no bloody | hirt. In Arkansas in 1876 there were 98-, 100 Republican votes and in 1878 none. It | 8 the saddest story in American history. And l rou and I are responsible for it. We vote as l Ve please and our votes are counted. But Ve are citizens of the United States and please to think of that. If there is any man vho hates this fraud any more deeply than l 10 it is James G. Blaine of Maine. cannot | ak of this subject without feeling like 1 missionary. The party which is bound to 1 'orrect this wrong is the Republican party.
 As to free trade I was a free trader until .S71. delivered some of the best free trade peeches ever read and they are in print 1 And could answer every one of the argu- nents tonight. The hard logic of events, he lapse and current of the years have changed my convictions. am not as broad humanitarian as MT. Sumner is. I don't