The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-17
A RATTLING SPEECH.
The New Republican Orator i'll Iowa
What Mr.. Blaine Says.
Pithy EpIgrams And Hot Shot.

From speech of J. p. Doliver, (tsceaty7Sir gears
DID, Temporary chairman Io'cd
Republican Convention.
Out of the abundance of my heart l thank
you for the honor which your favor has con-
ferred upon me. 1t builds up mans politi-
cal constitution TO take a front view of the
lighting strength of the republican party OF
Iowa. II any Of you have friends that are
bothered with political dyspepsia, who find
trouble in selecting from the printed bill OF
fare of republican politics, I advise you to
bring them here and let them look in the face
of this magnificent assembly. Your conyen-
tons have always been deliberatiye, your
nominations representative, your campaigns
popular, and your ballot-boxes too full for ut
terances of straight republican tickets. Con-
seQuently democrat has not been seen on the
streets OF an Iowa city after 8 O'Clock on elec
ton night for quarter Of century. The
music of the telegraph office has been their
annual elegy of grief. They look upon a bulle
tin board as an enemy of free government,
and accept the first half Of Franklin's maxim,
''early TO bed" when the returns are COM
ing in.
The first act of the democratic party is to
file a schedule in bankruptcy. Already their
property is out of their own name. Their
t.onal standard is in the hands of a man whose
name is not disclosed by the democratic
tioual record. -Four years ago his name could
have prudently been used an alias under
which to travel incognito all over the known
world outside of Buffalo. To elect him presi-
dent would be like lending money to a stranger
ON train. 1t takes the cheek of the demo-
cratic managers to play the whole American
people for suckers. | thank God that we be-
long to a party that saves the crown of its pub
lie honor for the brow of its actual leadership.
With the democratic party, nominations are
''"de not so much to represent the party as to
,.suise it. In its long Struggle for existence,
the men who have made the history Of the
party go to the wall. 1t is the only party that
ever existed whose candidates and platform
never throw any light whatever either on its
management or its faith In fact, modern
democrats Of the practical school have no
creed except the oath of office
All the important democratic principles are
unfit for use. They have been left out in the
field just where they were used last, with not
even a bunch of swamp grass thrown over
them, in sun and rain, until rot and rust have
done their fatal work. 1t is true they talk
piously of the need of reform, and with an in
excusable libel accuse the integrity of the re-
publican civil service. They work their favor
tie classical alluson to the Augean stables for
all there is in it: These, they assert, must be
ance of the crowd that is on hand TO do the
business, the average citizen is likely to con-
clude that their intention is to steal the fork
rather than clean out the barn.
II is true they pre-empt all sides OF the tariff
question. They profess to settle that issue by
jargon of words without precedent in the an
mails of nonsense and confusion. You might
as well try to fit the hundred-headed dog Of the
ancient fable with a straw hat as TO place a
candid and Ineligible tariff platform under
the feet of the democratic party. They APP
proach that question and nearly every other
like man emptying hard coal ashes in high
wind, with their eyes shut and their backs 10
the subject.
Now and then you find republican who
enjoys the momentary importance that be-
longs to the kicker and the scratcher. The
shortest road to celebrity nowadays is to adj
vertise your conscience in the newspapers
There are republicans who treat their con-
science as if 1t were the stock in trade Of a
test that everybody's conscience has alum in IT
except theirs. They adopt the doctrine of
Matthew Arnold, and insist that in order to be
safe the nation must furnish the remnant with
complimentary tickets and front seat They
would have the country govern itself by the
advice of persons whose names, If | may bor
row phrase from your good friend, Governor
Carpenter, are written in the herd-book of
high political grades.
Only last month a convention was held In a |
New-York parlor in which the only credentials
called for by the committee were a written pre-
tense or holiness, and the only creed required
of the membership was II believe IN the
communion of the saints of Beacon Hill and
Franklin Square" Let them commune. l |
trust they will stick together till they get |
acquainted with each other. l |
have the curiosity to see the effect of genuine
candidate on an unusually sancti- |
fed nostril. This campaign will last long
enough to show to every sensible mans eye |
that no possible combination of tight papta-
looms and hay-fever can defeat the anxious |
will Of tfa real conscience of this pOuntry-- |
the republican citizens Of America.