River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-10-09
Senator Hoar Speaks Again.


Senator George f. Hoar of Massachusetts,
made another ringing speech few days ago,
which is thus reported by the Boston travel
er:
He proceeded to discussion Of the South
ern question. The Southern white Democracy
he said, have successfully accomplished their
purpose of practically DISTINGUISHING the
black men of the South and the forty Jour
electoral votes representing that eolored popu-
lation i'll the Electoral College are to be cast by
fraud and force, and without right by the old
Southern white slave holding Democracy
There is not an intelligent man on this con-
tinent that has the slightest idea that Grover
Cleveland could be declared President of the
United States, unless the votes of Mississippi,
South Carolina Florida, Louisiana and Viz
gillia, forty in all, shall be counted in his IA
Yor There is not an intelligent man on this
contine ut who does not know that the votes of
every ole of those states would be given, If
they could be freely cast, for the republican
candidate TApplausel
The gentleman who calls himself an indie
pendent, and who proposes, by reason Of some
dislike or disapprobaton of the Republican
candidate, to vote for Grover Cleveland, Is not
to help elect president of the United States;
he is only to make possible the contamination
of political crime by which the choice of a
minority of this people may be wrongfully
seated in the Presidential chair.
He will tell you that he thinks your candidate
has done wrong or offered to do wrong, or
made suggestion of wrong, and yet can
there be a crime against human society so great
as the robbery of 100000 of American free
men of their right to vote and as the seating
of usurper in the Presidential chair? | made
this statement in Boston at the beginning OF
the campaign, and was met by an lndepen-
dent Boston paper with the statement that |
was talking about an issue ten years old; that
was going back into the past to rake up for
gotten questions.
Why my friends, went down South three
months ago, myself, as Chairman of a commit
tee of the Senate, charged with an investiga-
ton into the political practices which prevail
at this momentum the State of Mississippi
A voice-How about Rhode Island?
Mr. Hoar-Well, how about Rhode Island?
Is there man III Rhode Island who can not
laws which her people have established?
loud applause.l
Mr.. Hoar then told in graphic manner the
story of the murder of Matthews and the Copi-
ah outraSes, by which methods he said, unless
Massachusetts be consistent q Democratic
President is to be seated ON the 4th of next
March AS further bearing upon this topic,
which his friends of the Boston Daily Adyer-
tiser said was ten years old, Mr.. Hoar read
few sentences from speech of one Long,
Democratic candidate for Presidential Elector
in the state of Florida, showing the Democratic
purposes and campaign methods. You want
bankrupt law; YOU want law by which the
Massachusetts, creditor, if he has debtors any
where in the country, can have his fair and
honest share with the other creditors But
these forty usurped votes that will be cast in
solid mass against that Bankrupt law.
You want navy, but these forty usurped
votes are to be cast in solid column every time
against the creation of a navy.
You want tariff for protection to the wages
of the American workmen, but those forty
usurped votes are to be cast IN solid mass
against the interests and desires of the Massa-
chusetts working people.
/ suppose YOU have considerable number of
foreicn-born citizens here-from Germany,
from Canada, but most of all from Ireland
These men are our brethren; they are Amer
lean citizens.
When it is proposed to have navy by which
we can protect their rights when they go home
to visit their relations in the Old World, and
when we undertake to maintain and improve
and perfect the policy which keeps mp the rate
of their wages here upon which the comfort
of their homes is to depend | think it is
pretty important present issue whether we are
to be encountered by forty fraudulent white
democratic votes in the house ofrepresentatives
tapplause) and by president seated in the
presidential chair as usurper by forty-four
electoral votes [Applause.l
Mr.. Hoar then proceeded to somewhat de-
tailed discussion of the tariff question, treat
ing it substantially as in former speeches, and
illustrating it by figures which he has used be-
fore
We are met to-day by our old adversary, tho
Democratic party, in the same manner In
which it has met us in years past. When the
question was whether slavery should be ex-
! tended into the Territorieo they met our ar
guments by calling Abraham Lincoln baboon.
When we had the question whether the amend
ments to the Constitution should be malil-
tanned. they answered by saying Grant was
drunkard We had the questian whether
elections should be free in the South, and they
answered us by making all manner of charg-
es against Garfield. But the American peO-
pie knew better Now the Democratic party
I IL trying the same thing again. / think the
choice and Judgment of the Republican party
/ should count for something IN determining
! the character of Presidential candidate. Jap
\ plausel
| / agree with the Boston Daily Advertiser,
/ which declared, when these things were fresh
| in 1876, that the men who were pursuing James
G. Blaine were the vilest set of political assas-
aims that ever dsgraced this or any other conn
/ try [applausel; and [ am prepared to indorse
/ that sentiment now, notwithstanding any recent
/ accession to their number. IIaughterL
/ In closing, Mr.. H0ar said: think that the
1 Union is safer with the men who saved 1t than
I with those who sought to destroy it / think
/ liberty and equality are better assured IN the
hands of the men who abolished slavery than
/ in the hands of men who tried to preserve IT.
/ think that the wages of the American work
man. that the comfort and dignity of the work
man s home. are better off III tie charge Of the
I men who achieved the independence of Amer
/ lean manufactures and who have built up these
mighty industries, than they are in the hands
/ of the men who have been striving to pull down
those industries and to put them under the heel
Of England TApplausel