Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-07-09

Wuch tut party butil NV iuli
power once more. tApplause.
Arraigniug the Republican rarty.
We read the enuncation Of principles
by the Republican party. They toll us
they have civil service reform, and YET
they demand in the next breath from every
federal offceholder Of the 100000 his
tribute to the corrupt fund that shall be
paid out to the voters at the polls. They
tell us they have Puritan government,
and yet not solitary fclon has beer
condemned in the flock of those who have
stolen their IN lllions from tho treasury
Your Springer committed, only on yester.
day aud the day bStorc, tells us OF the
perjury, of the corruption, OF the suborna-
tions, that run all along through tn
ministers of justice III the prosecution oi
the government. We want real reform,
my countrymen, that shall meau what 1t
says aud that will say what it means.
Cheers.
Fellow citizcus, it is not my business as
your presiding officer to-day to enuuCiatC
anything that shall be embodied IN your
platform. But | wish to commend one
thing in this great aSS5mblago OF ireemen,
to your committee on platform. that you
endeayor to unite upon the bASia OF prin
cipleS which we have Advocated for the
years that are gone, and that you viii have
no Delphic oracle, speaking with double
tongue, in the platform which shall bo
named by you Loud applause Lot
the Green Mountain boys of Vermont, aud
the men of Maine, OF Texas, Of LOUISIANA,
aud of Georgia, the men from the Caro- =
linas to the golden coast, demand that the
committee on platform shall say IN our
noble vernaculsr Of purost English tongue
xUh haf hAp ~ n "A y ID
man, though fool, need not err in read
ing il. In doing this we will declare against
the corruptIons Of the government
that is, We will declare against the enormt.
ties of its system of civil service, it'
department of so-caIIed justice, It's postal
seTvice-the robbery in high places by
men in power. 1t will say, moreover, thai
the burdens of the goyoTumeut shall be
placed alike, equally aud equitably, upon
all classes of our couutrymcn, having
respect for the greater good to the greatest
number Applause, That the one hun
dred millions of surplus revenue shall no
be allowed to accumulate as corruption
fund applause |, and that there shall b. {
radical reformation and reduction in the
taxes as well as ths methods OF taxation
in our country. Applause
But, iellow-C.t ,Zens, IN conclusion let IN,
say that harmony and conciliatiou shoulc
| rule your councils. There never was
| time IN the history OF the DsmOoCatiC
party when the enemy invites the victory
as now. The great and uuuumbered host
of dissatisfied men OF the Republican
party are heard in the distance, in New
Englaud and in New York, on the lake.
aud in the West, and everywhere and
while the Democratic party should no
dC viate one ioLa from It's principles, il
should with open arms say 70 ,these met
hundreds Of thousands God grant Their
may be- "here is the party OF the con
stituton and the union, that loves oul
common country. Come hither, and g
with US TOR honest rule and hOlest govern
mept."
The Great fasty Harmonious
The Democratic party, while it ms
have its local differences, wdeO the OuSc'
| OF the charge comes Will be together; auC
| whoever you may nominate, of allthe grea
and good psmes that are before you-frou
the East to the West, from the North to tn
South-ho who stands back in the hour o
peril because his own state or himseI
shall not have received the ChOice-ycl
the choice OF his hearts less than a goo
Democrat and hard y a pl:rip; in this ou
| country hour OF peril.
The DemOC party IS loyal 70 tn
Union. The "blOody shirt, - in the yulga
parlauce Of the times, has q: each recuI
ring election be'n tiauDted in the faces G
Southern Democrats, and iu your ow
faces. With Logan on the ticket,
presume it will bs again. Blaine couL
hardly afford it laughter J, as he did no
indulge much IN thai 'unpleas&H'nass ass'
daughter and applause. They vii
endeavor TO stir up the bad blood Of tn
| past My countrymcn, the war is owe
for quarter Of a century, and they know
It. Why, our boys have married III
| young maidens of the North, and Childrul
have been born TO them since those days
| Applause and laughter They will con
ttnued to 60 to the altar and stand side b
side at dying beds They will talk q
that bourne whence no traveller returns
will lie down aLd DO buried together
Why, the boys in the blue aud the gra
have slept together for quarter Of
century upon thousand relds Of comm0
glory. Let their bones al,lc They ar
| representing the best blood of the land
aud, though differing in tho days tina
should be forgotten, the good men Of O
parties in our country to day. THANK God
have united in the gteag common progrcs
Of our race 70 iorgo' tho WAT memDries 0
the war times.
| thank you, fsllow-citizen3, for you
attention, trusting that your fOrocaranc
will be extended To me. What mistakes
shall make doubtless you will treat light
aud kindly. Hoping that success mo
crown your efforts that you may send
ticket to our country upon VII ,m all ma,
unite, is the wish Of him wnom you hav
h0nored with your suffrages this day
Loud and long continued applause.