The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-07-09
THE CONVENTION.


Conclusion OF Hubbard's Speech.
In all that wakes adherence and
confluence and zeal, as much as a
party organic d for an aggressive
war, as when the banners of victory
were perched on our heads. The
Democratic party, fellow citizens,
since the war time, cOmme nclDg
with reconstruction, when hnrd-s
marched with our ballot boxes, sur
rounded with cleaning bayone's.
with carpet bag rule, with voice
stuffed, the voice of freemen, who
pay their taxes to the Government,
the Democratic party has resumed
its control aud its power. 1t has
your House of Representatives, and
out for treason stalking in the Senate
chambers, we WOuld have
that, too. Renewed applause.
But with impiOus hands the
hands of robbers, u rights were
stricken down at the uailot and
through perjury and bribery and
corruption, me utteriDg falsehood
throu.h pale lips and chattering
teeth in the temples of liberty. stole
the Presidency from this country.
Capplause Some of the men who
Anticipated III it have passed beyond
that river and stand to give an &C
count of their stewardship. But his
tory will not lie when 1T records as
IL has that the electoral commission
announced in the Senate chamber
through the H'use that it would con
slider the question an evidence of
fraud returning the vote OF LOuisl>
ana when the law was passed re-
In mber it. 1t is the blacklist page
of our country's history (app'ausel,
and all coed Republicans to-day are
ashamed of it loud applause. They
turned their faces as well as their
conscience, and refuse to consider
evidence all reeking with iguominy
and bribery and shame and counted
in y maj who had not received under
the Constitution and law the suf-
frages OF his cOuntrymen.
That is a wrong We have met
here to right %(applause.) Eight yeal~
nave passed, that is through. We
are told that the lew has given a yer
dict to them. That is true. When
the jury is in its box under the st ,tute
ut your state and the Judge upon the
bench, who holds the scales of JUS
tlce, who holds with guilty hands
the D rcument from the executive OF
your State and allows q jurv sitting
in the box to cOn0emn q man to
death under that @gis Of law he does
what all law writer's of CIV
ilization for hundreds of years
have called and damned as a legal
Applause. Oh! the
great sin of that electoral commission
remains to-day unpunished and ever
will be unaveDged 50 long as the Re-
publican party is in power in the
country. IApplause.] I thank God
that there is no statute of limitations
running in favor of that party, and
ln that connection, my fellow Demo
Gratis, be it said to the credit Of the
party, that they ex.ib-
tied lone of the esprit of Hotspur ADD
none of that spirit which sought to
engulf this country-fresh as it was
upon the heels of agreat fratricldal
war.
But our great leaders, Tilden and
Hendrlcks-[the speaker was inter.
by long continued applause,
the delegates rising 10 their feet and
their hats. Our great
leaders. Tilden and Hendricks, with
The dignity of heroic statesmen; with
The courage of men who love their
country better than its pelf and its
power, accepted wronged and
virtue. of perjury, of fraud,
md they are xrander to-day in their
than the men who wore the
power at the expense of justice and
light. [Cheers They have sue
in the face of Federal power.
We would have succeeded in 1880
,ut for Federal gold and Federal
fresh and uncut from
Washington. [Applause and laugh
er. money earned and held by
Star Route contractors and the
friends of a venal admin
straticn. Applause. They bought
he Presidency.
Fellow Democrats, we want men !
lpon the ticket whose voice, whose
lam+s, would be a platform to
his people. We want men there
Who shall in all departments Of the
government; in its departments OF
in its postal affairs,
q its interior departments, I
shall follow its servants
With the eve of ministers of justice
nd SEQ that every cent that belongs
0 the government shall remain with
he government. No tribute shall {
demanded except the tribute that
due the government; that no as
upOn 100, 900 office holders {
hall pay 500, 900 900 annually five
billions to go into the political fund:
We thank God this will be corrected