Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-10-10
Senator Hoar Speaks Again.

Senator George +. Hoar OF MassachusettS
made another ringing speech a few days ago.
which is thus reported by the Boston travel
or: :.>.,+
He proceeded to a 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-four
electoral votes representing that colored popu-
lation in the Electoral College arc 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 Vir
ginia, forty in all, shall DO counted in his "a
yor. There is not an intelligent man on this
coltins at who does not know that the votes of
every one of those states would DO given, If
they could be freely cast, for the republican
The gentleman who calls himself an indie
pendent, and who proposes, by reason of some
dislike or disapprobation 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 consummation
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 q crime against human society so great
as the robbery Of G. 100000 of American free
men of their right to vote and as the seating
Of a usurper in the Presidential chair? made
this statement in Boston at the beginning Of
the campaign, and T WAS met by an 1ndepen-
dent Boston paper with the statement that
was talking about an issue ten years old; that
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gotten questions. @@25$f%
. Why my friends, went down South three
months ago, myself, as Chairman of a commit
tee of the Senate, charged with an investiga-:
ton into the political practices which prevail
at this momentum the State OF Mississippi
A voice How about Rhode Island? r@ T<.FE
Mr. Hoar-Well, how about Rhode Island?
Is there man III Rhode Island who can not
cast his vote according to the Constitution and
laws which her people have established?
loud applausel .Est#$, H*= " S*..
Mr. Hoar then told in a graphic manner the
story OF the murder Of Matthew'S and the Copi-
ali ontrages, by which methods, he said, unless
Massachusetts, be consistent, . Democratic
President is to be seated on the 4th of next
March. As fufther bearing upon this topic,
which his friends Of the Boston Daily Adver-
tiser said was ten years old, MIR Hoar read 8
Democratic candidate for Presidential Eiector
III the state Of Florida showing the Democratic
purposes and campaign methods. You want a
Bankrupt law; you want a law by which the
Massachusetts creditor, # he has debtors any
where in the country, can have his fair and
honest share with the ether creditors But
these forty usrrped votes that will be cast in
solid mass against that Bankrupt law
You want 8 navy, hut these forty usurped
votes are to be cast iii solid column every time
against the creation of a navy. III E..5 81 ii
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