The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-18

it down. You will be told the Republican party
has done many good things. 1t has given us a
tariff, and a sound currency and a national
credit. Under it the United States has at
tanned to be the greatest Nation on the
earth-great in good things-and if we elect
James G. Blaine, as we shall, no doubt,
Ohio has settled that [applausel, our material
interests will be still further improved. The
national honor will be improved, and as the ma
tional honor is improved my liberty is improved.
1t is said enough has been said for the negro.
You have given him your Constitution. Well
you must protect him under that Constitution.
What If we are we'll fed, well clothed and we'll
housed, if we stil lack true freedom1 If they
think this is all it is a mockery. Tonight there
are nearly seven millions of people enfranchised
by the Constitution but deprived of the right to
vote by the rebel Democracy of the South. Talk
of debating this question! 1 would as soon
think of debating with a man who was stamping
upon my mothers grave. Boys you feel right
tonight. Laughter and cheers. SO do l. We
have heard from Ohio. l feel glorious. | have
heard your Hendricks. He is one of the smooth
est and most plausible of men. have heard
him talk; but III the whole course of his exist
ence he has not done a single thing in the inter
ests of humanity or of justice. He has always
opposed everything looking to the elevation of
our people-opposed humanity-opposed prog
ress and liberty. One hour of Hendricks in the
presidential chair would be more hurtful to
the interests of the colored men in this country
than years A voice: eyes, sir; yes sir"
That brother (~alluding to the voice) is %continu-
ally taxing Une Dfedu OF lie OUT OIL my mouth.
Of the many who ought to stand with us in
in this fight know of no class that has greater
reason than the sons of the Emerald Isle. The
Irish people have been heretofore swept into the
arms of the Democratic party, but time and the
logic of events bringing enlightenment on their
past and on ours, has brought them at last into
friendly cooperation with us in maintaining the
honor, welfare, prosperity and glory of this Re
public. 1t has been charged upon the Irish that
they did not love liberty for anybody but them
sewer, III WAS a HA Daniel OIOn-
nell, the Liberator, that grand Irishman, forty
years ago refused to purchase the freedom of
Ireland with money sent to him by the slave
holders oil the South. He said he would not
stain his hands with gold coined out of the blood
Of American slaves. Irishmen have that feeling
about them, and they gloriously exhibited it at
the Ohio election They shall again tell us of Ire
land, of her Grattans and her OConnells, of her
Shiels and her Burkes, and her Emmets, illus
trious in patriotism, in literature, in arms; illus
trious in her efforts to obtain her liberty. L
think the place for her gallant sons is in the Re-
publican party. [Great applause.
DR. LEVI RIrTER's SPEECH.
DR.. Levi Ritter was then introduced. He said
he wanted to call attention to the fact that the
Democratic party was now, as it was during the
war, opposed to the government; that it again
showed opposition to the United States govern
ment AT the Ohio election it counseled opposi-
ton and force against the United States mar
shals who, representing the government, were
protecting the ballot-boxes in the interest of a
fair election, where every citizen entitled to vote
should be protected in that right, and where
those who were not so entitled would be arrested
and punished. They are now preparing at Chi
cago for resistance to the United States
marshals-to resist them, they say, to the death.
They propose to do anything to overthrow the
law in the North as it has been done in the
South-to get into power. The Democratic
party is against the government now as IL was in
New York city during the war, when the govern
ment was trying to raise troops. That party in
cited a mob there to resist the draft. and
a Democratic Governor addressed that mob as
friends. Yes, we suppressed the rebellion and
saved this Union, a Union where we generously
allow a Democrat to run for President. We
saved the Union and built up the institutions of
the country-among them orphan asylums, where
a Governor Of New York can keep his
children. Laughter. The Democrats of this
State undertook to oppose Morton, to discourage
enlistments, to organize a conspiracy to release
the prisoners at Camp Morton. Governor Nor
toms monument should be of cast steel, for
he was true as steel. When the time comes
to make a statue for Thomas A. Hen
bricks, we want to make a mold
out of plaster of Paris and molasses. Applause
and laughter. In the solid South, to-day, the
Democratic party opposes the government and
the Constitution, for no white man nor no col
ored man is allowed to vote the Republican tick
ct or, if voted, to have them counted, In the
wake of this Democratic party are the
bleaching bones of patriots who have been slain
as remorselessly as though slain by Attila and
his Huns. And now they ask us TO make the
North solid for them. =
At the conclusion of DR.. Ritters speech brief
remarks were made by Mr.. Chambers, of Vim
cennes, and Elder Sweres, of this city. The
meeting adjourned at a late hour.
THE PRoHIBIFIoNIsTs DISCOURAGED
E. B.. Reynolds, ex-president of the Indiana
Grand Council of Temperance, says that the re-
suit of the Ohio election has had a depressing
effect upon the Independent Prohibition move
ment in Indiana. The vote polled in Ohio shows
the folly of an independent movement, and the
Prohibition vote here will now be at least one
half less than it might have been. He thinks
that it will be rather an insignificant factor in
the election.
PERSONAL AND LOCAL NOTES.
Ex-Speaker J. Warren Keifer will deliver sew
eral speeches in Indiana before the close of the
campaign.
A. L. Morrison, United States Marshal of New
Mexico, is in the city. He will deliver several
speeches in Indiana.
Alarge and enthusiastic meeting was addressed
at Jones Chapel, in Pike township, last night, by
Thad S.. Rollins and Ovid B. Jameson.
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