Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-25
CAMPAIGN In WISCONSIN.
The Democracy Open the Con-
test with it's Three Great
est Orators.
Speeches of Hon. A. h. Delaney, Col.
VIM. F. Villas and Gen. E. S.
Bragg.

meeting ever held in the Capital City
of the state. The following are the
principal speeches of the evening;
The chairman then introduced Sen
ator Delaney. The senator is an able
speaker, with a fine voice, clear and
distinct delivery, and every sentence
is clear cut, and his manner and mat
ter both command attention. Mr..
Delaney spoke as follows:
LADIES AND FELLOW CITIZENS; Deputed one
of the citizens of this state to attend the ma
tfonal democratic convention at Chicago, it is
perhaps eminently proper that the first account
shall attempt briefly to give of our stewardship
shall be rendered at the capital city of the com
monwealth had the honor in part to represent
at that convention. 1 kave never before wit
messed so magnificent an assemblage as that was
1t would be almost beyond the pale OF expecta-
ton for me to hope to ever witness such another,
a convention numbering among its members not
only the young and valiant OF the party, but also
many of the venerable and beloved sages whose
counsels have been heard In the past, and some
of whose names are ineffaceably recorded upon
the pages of their country's history. There was
Gov Waller, of Connecticut Senator Wallace, of
Pennsylvania, Hampton, of South Carolina,
Gen. Fellows, of New York, Carlisle and Waiter
son, of Kentucky, Morrison, of Illinois ZAP
plauSe) Thomas A. Hendricks and Daniel Voor-
hees, of Indiana, Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio
(Applausel and last and by no means least |
might name four citizens of our own state
Doolittle Bragg Jenkins and Villas (Applause);
convention which felt in its every fibre the duties
and responsibilities of the hour, and yet a con-
vention which has as we verify believe acted
with a self reliant manhood seldom equaled and
never surpassed in the history of American pol
itics; a convention charged with the duty of sug-
gestiNg ways and meaas for the deliver
ance, not to say the salvation, of
the American republic. l said deliverance.
Delverance from what? Not from wars wide
desolation. A decade has gone into the eternity
of the past since the war of the rebellion over,
and as its camp-fires has long since smouldered
and gone out so the democratic party says it is
time to eXtinguiSh the fires of sectional hate. 1t
is time for the American people to cultivate
patriotism that rises above state or section, pa
triotism that is broad enough to comprehend with
in its embrace the whole American people, pa
triotism that knows no north, no south, no east,
no " est but instead ono great sisterhood of
states, one vast homogeneous people fulfilling to-
gether the mghtiest destiny that has been yet
marked out Cor any race or nation (Applause)
The democratic party at its national conyen-
tiun among other things has demanded deliver
ance for the people from that system of corrup-
ton and fraud in official life which has grown
under the fostering care, will not say of the re-
publican party, but of some Of its leaders to gi
gantic proportions, and now prevades every de-
partment of the public service almost, and which
during the past twelve years has plundered from
the public treasury untold millions of dollars, Be
ginning with the last administration Of Gen.
Grant, it is matter of public notoriety tnat cor
ruption has run riot in high places Raids upon
the treasury organize " men in official life have
become 50 common thai lpninant party have
almost ceased their attempts % suppress and have
abaud Dncd efforts TO punish them. Verify
Vice is monster of such frightfu mein
Thas to be hated Reeds but to be seen
But seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity then embrace
(Applause9
lines, it occurs to me. which were II ost fittirgly
and potentIy illustrated at Chicago last month
ingly, but finally embraced James G.. Blaine
(Applause) The democratic party in its plat
form asks deliverance from all these evils. We
want no more whiskey rings. We want no more
star route jobberieS or kindred schemes for the
purpose OF extracting money from the public
treasury.
We ask that the government shall never again
be called upon to behold the evidence it has be-
held within the last few months, and that is that
even the judicial departments of the government
is becoming debauched by the corrupting infiu-
ences which fairly seem to infest the air about
the federal capitol to such an extent that an Am
erican jury in a criminal trial can convict the
smaller culprits, and at the same time find ways
and means to let the larger ones escape Gap
plause) We ask deIiverence from all these
evils. They the outgrowth and
effects of q pernicious system of public
service. and we demand that that ser
vice shall be restored in all its departments
to that simple honesty and economy which in
the early days of the republic characterized the
administration of the government. The demo
cratic party also asks deliverance from that
iniquitous system of federal taxation which
while grinding down the poor, at the same time
has been one of the most potent factors, as we
believe, in bringing down upon the country that
financial disaster and ruin which for the past four
months has continued to startle everybody. We
say that it needs no profound political economist
to understand the proposition, and that is this:
That after the and the eXtraordi-
nary sums of money necessary for its prosecu
ton were no longer demanded, and especially af
ter the vast national debt had been more than
half paid and the rest refunded at rate of liter
est about one half what it at the close of the
war-I say with these two facts before us, the
democracy say that it needs no profound political
economy to understand that the revenue of the
country should be reduced to correspond TO the
reduction in the government liabilities and ex-
penSeS (Applause) The dominant party has
demonstrated either their inability or their un-
willingness to meet this proposition Notwith-
standing the vast reduction in government LA
bilities and expenses the crushing taxes of war
times still continue, wringing hard-earned money
from the people, taking vast sums out of the
a.enueS of trade and piling it up in the treasury
so that to-day over one hundrsd millions of dol
lars there lie idle of no use in the world except it
be to tempt the cupidity of the horie of cormo-
rants that infest the federal capital. (Applausel
The democratic party says that unneces-
We, therefore, demand in our platform of priuci-
piles that the tax laws of the United States shall
he ovcrhaued, and that reduction of the taxes
shall be made to correspond TO the decrease in
the government expenses and the government Ii
abilities, and in that reduction we say that the
greatest possible amount should be taken OF from
the everyday necessaries of life that are used by
the common people, 10 the end that the burdens
of the poor may be lightened and te the end that
brawny armed labor, which from day to day. and
from ysar year, propels the chariot of capital,
may have its burdens lightened also. (Applause)
Our convention, speaking for the party. have
made one other plank in the platform to which
will aIluie. They have denounced. and think
justly, in no unmeasured terms that wanton and
reckless policy of the dominant party which has
given away to corporations and Spectators hun
dreds upon hundreds of millions of the pnblie
domain, the peoples land. land that should have
ton by the American freemen down 70 the latest
ages OF posterity. When think OF the gifts Of
vast areas as is charged in our platform, greater
than an the farms that are to-day occupied be-
tween the txo seas. which by this process has
been siven away, and then think Of the teeming
millions that to-day people our cities packed in
as they are in some portions of New York. no less
thal somewhere in the neighborhood OF 10000 to
the square mile. TO upon every acre; when 1
think of them and how many Of these and how
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