The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-11
BLAINE AND LOGAN.
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The Strongest of Arguments Pre-
sented by Joe" Hawley,

Ai the Issues Of the Day Reviewed With Flo
quence, Candor and Force.
AT republican ratification meeting in Bou
son on Tuesday night Senator Joseph R. Haw
aey OF Connecticut, spoke. He said
am frequently in the habit of stopping a
that mile-post and saying that my right of call
ing you fellow-citizens was first established b,
the republican. party. Before the war the fine
epun.theorists and advocates of secession ant
extreme doctrines sand states rights were il
the habit otsaying that there were no citizen:
OF the Unite States; they were citizens of sew
erai sovereign, independent states who owned
. sort OF qualified allegiance of the United
states; there was no national government
mat there might be 1 mistake about that II
is now established by the constitution that
every man born in the United States and every
man who has been naturazed--born in foreign
Parts-is citizen of the state wherein he re-
SIDES and of the United States of America So
whenever We go from one side of this country
70 the other, thank God, we are among our fei-
citizens and We have nation Applause |
Inc distinguished professional foreigner, Carl
Schurz, who has been enghtenng us upon
some matters, says "Does It not occur to YOU
that 1t would have been much better for the
republican party had 1t not gone through the
discipline of some interruption I" He thinks it
would have done us good to be punished
Whereupon he and his associates proceed to
punish us and the country by turning out the
party that has been in power FOR the las twenty
vhree or twenty-four years. Why is it wise to
20 this, and when was It'll Certainly not in its
earliest years, or when it took up arms against
the rebellion and exerted the right to coercc
rebels, or when it had the high and magnifi-
cent courage TO Immediately call for $500, 000,-
VOO and SOC, 600 men TO put down the rebellion:
or when they went on afterward for another
$lOO,OO0, OO0 and another 100, 900 men and sol
olers, and then going on for another and an
9th other and another sl0O, 600 and another
iO0,0O0 soldiers. Was it the time to interrupt
them then! Or when they had the great cour-
age and justice and religious sense to proclaim
emancipation; when they dared not only to
give the negro freedom, but to put the musket
IN his hands. Was it the time to interrupt
them just before Appomattox, when the dem
ocratic party in ls& called for peace at the 'eI-
pense OF the Union; when Lincoln thought it
unwise to swap horses when crossing the
stream; was that the time for interruptionf/
Would it have been Immediately after the war,
when they had work AS important as that Of
the war itsef-to reconstruct all these disar-
fanged states. and to imbed In the constitution
What they had won in the war; Was it time to
interrupt them before we had passed the thir-
teenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments
or established the financial credit of the coun-
try IYoufcouldn' thaye Interrupted them in
lobS, because the people of the country had
made up their mind that the great soldier
should be president. [Applause.l In shor,, l
am unable to find any particular time when it
would have been for the good of the country
or civilization that the republican party should
have been interrupted.
THE REPUBLICAN RECORD.
ana now, after twenty-four years of con. |
troll OF the government, each party stands in
oattie array with their platforms and candi-
oates. We are here to say to the enemy; Where
are you going to strike usl Take your choice. |
upon what deed in our history, or principle In |
our platforms On our left flank or our right
Hank, rear or front, where will you begin! l |
do not catalogue again our glorious Deeds be-
cause Xes are reproached often of talking too
much'of Che past The democratic party never.
When we come to talk politics we take man
into the moral Walhalla; We lead him into the
gallery Of heroes; we tell our deeds, we re-
count the great things of our history and we
say that never since the world began, save dur
Ing the life of our Savior on earth, was so
much done for good government and the good
OF mankind in the period Of twenty three Years.
Certainly we are not to be tlrne out because
OF the things of which have spoken. Perhaps,
however, we were not sufficiently the friends OF
humanity. 1t may be that we were simply an
abolition party, as some people say, and that
although active the republican party failed in
carrying out its broad and generous principles
wholly without regard to race, or color, or pre-
Vlous condition OF nationality, having regard
only to mankind. We have been always the
friends of universal education. We took I'D
for the first time the great trust of the public
lands and dedicated them thereafter, 100 acres
to each family that should choose to settle up
vi tucul. we Utull WIN them Otherwise in |
broad spirit of nationality in the construction
of railroads to bind the two sides of the con-
tnept together. We established for the first
time the doctrine OF self-eXpatration, and here
our adopted Citizens for generation or more
have been following the democratic party. alb
solutely, not to say slavishly. Why? l never did
know why, that party never having taken the
trouble to see that these men were American
citizens. Many of our friends coming {
over mere e tS and h returning to the
to hold the same obligations that they y
held while they were citizens there. One of our Q
first duties after the close of the war was to a
secure from each of the great leading nations /
OF Europe the acknowledgment that every one t
had right to leave his native land, and hay c
ing assumed allegiance to smother land, the Il
original country Of his birth lost its hold upon / 1
them. [Applaure.l Perhaps twas because this a
parry ddn' attend to the national credit, to the
finances an the business of the country. Per- a
haps it was simply the sentimental party OF v
liberty and democracy, dealing in glittering Il
Now. the national debt in 1865 +
amounted TO me neaSly GOO 10000 it is now
every man. woman and child; it is now s25. 80. "
And if we had not begun paying the national b
obligations with resolute determination to II
fulfill them to the very letter. paying every b
never been fought, We think that whatever is "
20 be done by great people can better be II
] one by free people than by any other - We IL
the fundamental principle of re- ID
publican government, that all men together b
know more than any one man. We put into 81
he field the greatest armies the world ever p
lad seen, the best fed, the best clothed, the b
pest equipped, the best generated for fighting a,
Il the best cause In which men ever fought In Sc
he world Applause. But the enemies OF IL
he republican party said: Wait until the cold W
lays Of peace come; wait until this people be- Oh
lin to feel the ache Of the old wounds. That d.
vas our great danger after the war-our great r.
Ian GER but the nation shonldered that great m
,urden as soldier would step of lightly with W
is napsack, and from that day until this Il In
las been the common pride Of the American tr
,eople, rich and poor, high and low, to see So te
40 600, 75,000000 100, 900, 125, 900, 900 tn
ear ago off that debt and we have been UNI so
or no necessity OF sending missionaries 20 In
urope TO preach republicanism; the monetary TO
Of this country are an Irresistible IN
rgument In favor of republcanism. FRI
TREASURY MANAGEMENT. nc
Perhaps we have plundered the treasury. on
ere are some figures which, perhaps you may me
ave heard quoted AS chairman of the con- he
ressional campaign committee i brought 1t IN
bout that these figures were brought down to WI
st year, as late period as could possibly be. Co
here is existing always in congress standing pr
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