Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04
GEN. LoGAN'R SPEECH.

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GEN. LOGAN'R SPEECH.
Gen. Logan was received with great
Cheering. and spoke as follows:
Nh. Chairman and EeIior-citizeRS Of
Illinois: | am somewhat travel-worn
by my circuitous route from the cherish
ed capitol of our nation TO my native
state and beloved home. The love for
homo associations is deeply imbeddeG
in our hearts 1t was on this my native
soil that my boyish pride was enc0urag-
ed up to the ordinary ambitions of
manhood. and if | hare, and can serve
my constituency fairly as well i'm the
advancement of their interests my
fondest aspirations and hopes will have
ripened into a most cherished reality.
My fellow-citizens and friends. my heart
beats in harmony W 18th yours in all IL at
pertains to our common humanity and
To our common citizenship. | made a
vow when | first entered public life TO
devote all my energies to the interests
of our whole people and to look for my
reward in the consciousness that | had
kept the faith. / shall ever remember
this great evidence of respect with a
heart OVERLOOKING with gratitude. | re-
turn to you my friends and fellow
citizens, my thanks for this grand de-
mOnstration. 1t means much more than
merely to be accepted as personal to
myself Ii is to be attributed also to
the great principles which | have been
chosen in connection with one of our
greatest and most brilliant American
statesman in part to represent. there
fore deem it proper at this time to ex-
anime some of the questions that divide
h.. a,e Il tsr~
The democratic party controlled this
government with ONLY few intervals
from 1887 to 1861, and during these
twenty-four years there was only one
important measure enacted in accord
with financial policy, now remaining
upon the statute books. viz; The indie
pendent treasury system. Its financial
policies in sll other respects have failed,
and have been abandoned by the country
The doctrine of state sovereignty by
which the nation was to be subordinatcd
to the individual states is now repudiat-
ed by the people. Under this doctrine
the southern half of the democSacy
entered into a gigantic rebellion against
the government. While the majority OF
the democrats of tRe north We're loyal to
the government, great many Of their
organizations sympathized with the
south. In 1850 when the democrats lost
control of the government they LETT 1t
financially wrecked, the people disheart-
ened and the country almost in ruins.
Their financial ideas and tariff policy
had brought the nation to its lowest
level without credit and almost without
hope for the future. If we may Judge
them by their record up to that time,
- for tba hNtlAF that
they could now so manage the affairs Of
the republic as TO meet the present de-
mands Of the people.
APARTY OPPOSED TO PROGRESS.
The speaker then went on to decar:
that the democratic party had resisted
every advance in finance and every
measure touching the security of human
rights. 1t had opposed the emancipa-
tion of the slaves and the homestead
laws. 1t had left the doctrine Of volun-
tary expatrations in such a shape that
citizens Of foreign birth We're seized and
forced into the armies Of foreign gov
ments until the republican congress
gave them the same protection which IS
afforded native-born citizens. In all re-
forms of the civil service instituted by
the republican party, opposition has
been shown by great portion OF the
democracy.
I'VE fna that candidate for vice
president--a gentleman from whom
the people ought to have expected bet
ter things. said tie speaker, declaring
in a speech made by him July u, 1884,
and since his nomination, that the only
remedy for dishonesty of administra-
tion in the government IS TO turn nut
the 10000 republican otiice-hoidere
and supply their places suppose ne
means with Embellishments Wher9
Union soldiers are holding office sup
pose he would replace them with Con-
federate democratic soldiers; and where
CIV liam republicans are holding eifice
suppose he would supplant them with
civilian democrats, in order that the
government may be honestly admins
"a TINS declaration from one Of the
nominees Of the democratic party shows
what that party means by cIvii-ser'lce
reform.
The speaker said dishonest men crep5
into an associations in life and declared
that while he would not charge lhe
democratic party with being dishonest
as a whole he did not thiLN II W,ould
prof, Gov. Hendricks to challenge
comparison of administration as De
tween the republican and democratlc
party. He then quoted. statistics show
ing the losses in the collection OF puohc