Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-07-24
The Speech Of Ex-Governor Hubbard.

/ Mr.. Chairman. Gentlemen or The Demo-
cratic Convention Of the Union tcheers)-I am
profoundly grateful for the confile which
you have repoSed in me in ratifying the nom
1na mat OF the National Exeea fa COMMITTEES
four years. by your authority. l accept it,
my fellow Democrats. not as tribute 70 the
speaks to you to-day, but rather as compii-
ment to the great State from whence come
taDplause1-a state which more than any
other American State is absolutely cosmopoi-
ltan In every fiber of its being. LApplause.)
In its early days and struggles thither came
TO our relief, as the winds sweep across the
sea, men of Illinois and New York. men OF
Maine and New England, men Of Georgia and
along the coast, and gave their lives at the
Alamo and San Jacinto for the freedom OF
Texas. tAppause-)
can only recall to you in the brief moments
sser
glorious Spartan women-sent to us the twin
cannon that belched into glorious victory at
San Jacinto. But, fellow-Demcrats, that lex
as with her over two millions of people,
gladly, at each recurring election, places in
tie tie bailot-box oyer one hundred thousand
Democrats, we have met upon an occasion of
great and absorbing interest-to our party, as
would not justify me nor demand that 1
should attempt to speak to you OF Its great
history and its distinctive principles through
two-thirds of the most glorious history of our
country. / could not stop to discuss, if
would, its magnificent policy of progress the
part which it has taken in building up our
country, its prowess, It's territory, and its
wealth. / can only say to you to-day, in brief.
that the Democratic party, in all the essential
by the trainers of the Constitution. nearly
three-quarters of a century ago. tApplause.)
Piles underlying liberty and self-government,
the right of representation and taxat on going
hand in hand. economy in the administration
of the Government, that lay the burdens as
least they may be laid upon the miIIions who
constitute our countrymen-theSea and others
are principles underlying the Democratic
III. frnT N
EARTH though their authors may be numbered
with the dead. lCheersl I thank God. fet
power for a quarter Of century we are to-
day, in all that makes adherence, and conf
for aggressive war as when the banners of
victory were perched upon our heads. The
Democratic party, fellow-ctizens, since the
wartime, commencing with reconstruction,
with our hands manacled, with our ballot
boxes surrounded by the cleaning bayonet,
with carpet-bag rulers. with the voice stiHed
the voice of freemen who pay their taxes
to the Government-the Democratic party
has lived to see, through all this misrue,
our States, the Democratic party has resumed
its control and its power 1t has your House
of Representatives. and but for treason stalk
ing in the Senate chamber we would have
that. too loud applause, We have had the
Presidency, too. (Renewed .appiause.) But
with impious hands-the hand Of the robber-
our rights were stricken down at the ballot,
and through perjury, and bribery. and cor
rnption. men uttering falsehCod through pale
lips and chattering teeth, stole the Presidency
from this country. lAppiause.) Some of the
men who participated in it have passed be-
of their stewardship. But history will not lie
when it records, as it has, that the Electoral
Commission announced in The Senate cham
Der and the House that it would consider the
question and the evidence of fraud returning
the vote of Louisiana. When the law was
passed. remember tit is the blacklist page
of our countrys history-(appausej-an all
good Republicans to-day are ashamed of it
loud applause'-they turned their faces as
the past and refused to consderthe evidence, |
all reeking with ignominy, and bribery, and
the
the laws the suffrages of his countrymen.
That is a wrong that we have met here to
Thatlis true. We are told that the law has
given the verdict to them. That is true. |
When a jury is in its box, under the statutes
who holds the scales of justice unevenly, |
holds with guilty hands parchment from the |
Executive of your State, and allows the jury |
sitting in the box to condemn man TO death |
under the egis of law, he does what all the |
years have cursed and damned as legal muir
der. tApplause.) Oh, the great sin of that |
Electora! Commission, remains to-day I'M |
punished, and ever will be unavenged SO long |
as the Republican party is in power in this |
country. tAppiause.3 i thank God that there |
is no statute OF limitations running in favor |
of that party. tAppiause.) And in that con-
nection. my feliow-Democrats. be it said to |
the credit of the Democratic party that they |
and of the pirate. none of that spirit which |
sought to ingulf this country, fresh as it was |
upon the heels OF 9a great and d fratricidal war
dricks-there the Speaker was interrupted by |
long,continued applause, the delegates rising |
great leaders, Tilden and Hendricks, with the |
dignity of heroic statesmen. with the courage |
of men who love their country better than it's |
pelf and its power accepted the wronged and |
injured verdict of perjury and of fraud, and |
they grander to day in their defeat than |
of justice and right. tCheers.) Thus we have |
succeeded in the face of Federal power. We |
would have succeeded in 1870 but for Federal |
god and Federal greenhacks, fresh and UNI
cut from neutrality-suspicious. and laugh
ter,-m' ney earned and held by. Star-route
contractors and the longing friends of Il venal |
administration tApplause)
Fellow-Democrats. we want reform, God |
knows. not only in the personnel-in the men |
ment as it is. 0heers.) We want men there
whose very lives and whose very names would /
there who in all the departments of the Gov
in its departments of justice, in its
postal affairs. In its interior department,
eye of the mister of justice. and see that |
every cent that belongs to the Government /
shall Z remain with the Government. Cheers.)
tribute that is due the Government, that there
be no assessments upon 100000 ofHce-holders
! corrupt political fund. The se-these. we
thank God, will be corrected when the Demo-
cratic party vs. shall get into power. ZAP
# principles. by the Republican party.
They tell us they have civil service reform.
every federal officeholder of the 100000 their
tribute TO the corrupt fund that shall be paid
put put to the voters It at the polls They tell US
, solitory felon has been condemned in the
lock of those who have stolen millions from
ee only yesterday and the day before tell us
If the perjury, of the corruption. of the sub
,rnations that run all a.ong through the
We want real reform-a reform,
ny countrymen, that shall mean what it says,
shall briefly elose-feliow-
,itizens, 1t is not my business as your presid-
9 h 70 amshng that
iod that would exist burned deep in your
.earts, il every one that had been adopted for
criptd rire doctrines which we have inherited
rom the glorious ancestry that has become a
'art of the traditions of the fathers.
But wish TO say one thing, In this great as
emhlage OF freemen, to your committee on
platform, that you will endeavor to unite up-
IN the basis of principles which we have nd
'ou will have no Delphic oracle speaking with
ouble tongue in the platform which shall be
J reen Mountain boys, the men of New York.
he men of Maine, of Texas, of Louisiana :
cast, demand that the Committee on Plat
orm shall sayi in our noble vernacu ar of pur- ;
st English tongue what they mean. SO that
he way-faring man, though fool, need not [
TT in reading it. In doing this we will declare ,
gainst the corruptions of the Government.
hat is. we will declare against the enormties .
I It's system OF civil service. its department
+ so-caled Justice. its postal service the rob
~ IN high places by the men in .power. 1t
5iil say, moreover, that the burdens of the
iovernment shall be placed alike equally {
nj equltably upon all classes of our
having respect for the great
Sc good to the greatest number-fapplauseJ: (
Pat the hundred millions OF surplus revenue ,
nan not De allowed to accumulate as cor