Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-09
GOV. HUBBARD,s ELoQUENCE
A Stirring Speech Which Famed Pa
triOtism Into a Flame.


triOtism Into a Flame.
CHICAGO, July S.--Gov. Hubbard's
speech on accepting the temporary Chair
manship of the convention was received
with great applause. 1t was as follows:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen Of tie Demo
cratic Convention of the Union fCheersl: I
am profoundly grateful for the confidence
which you have reposed in me in ratifying
my nomination by the Executive Committee
who nave done your bidding for the last four
years. BY your authority ] accept it, my
fellow Democrats. not as q tribute to an
humble citizen and as your fellow Democrat
who speaks to You to-day, but rather as q
compliment TO the great State whence / came
Lapplausel, State which more than any
other American State is absolutely cosmOpOli-
tan in every fibre of its being. Applause
In Its early days and struggle thither came to
our relief, as the winds sweep across the sea,
men of Illinois and New York, men of Maine
and New England, men of Georgia, and along
the coast, and gave their lives at Alamo and
san Jacinto for the freedom of Texas. ZAP
plause. can only recall TO yOu in the brief
moment which / shall detan you the fact that
our neighboring sister State, her women, her
glorious Spartan wemen, sent to us twin-can-
non that belched into glorious victory at
San Jacinto.
TEXAS 100000 MAJORITY.
But above all we accept it as a tribute to
the fact, my fellow Democrats, that Texas,
with her 100000 Of people, gladly, at each
over 100000 Democratic majority. ZAP
plause.l Fellow Democrats, we have met
upon an occasion Of great and absorbing in
terest to our party as well as TO our common
country. The occasion would not Justify me
should attempt to speak to you of its great
history and its distinctive principles through
two-thirds of the most glorious history of our
country. l could not stop to discuss, if
would, its munifcent policy of progress and
the part which she has taken in the building
up Of our country, its progress, its territory,
and its wealth.
can only say to you to-day in brief that the
em Ocratic party, in all essential elements, is
the same as 1t was when 1t was bounded by
the trainers of the constitution nearly three
quarters OF century ago Applause
Men die as the leaves Of autumn. but not so
the principles underlying liberty and self
government.
DEMOCRACY'S GREAT PRINCIPLES.
The right of representation and taxation
going hand in hand. economy in the admins
tration of the government, so that the govern
ment shall make the burdens as small as they
may upon the millions who constitute our
countrymen, these and other principles un-
derlie the Democratic party and cannot be
effaced from the earth, though their authors
may be numbered with the dead. [Cheers
thank God, fellow citizens, that though
we have been out of power for twenty-five
years, we are to-day in all that makes ad-
herence and confidence and zeal as much a
party organized for an aggressive war as
when the banners of victory were perched
over our heads. The Democratic party, fellow
citizens, since the war, commencing with the
recons truction, with our hands menaced,
with oQr ballot-boXes surrounded by gleam-
ing bayonets, with carpet-bag rulers, with
the voice Of freemen who pay their taxes to
the government stihcd; the Democratic party
has lived to see through all this msrule.
THE PARTY's RETURN TO POWER.
A day comes when in great majority of
our States the Democratic party has resume ed
its control and its power. It has your House
of Representatives, and but for treason stalk
ing IN the Senate Chamber would have that,
too. Loud applausel. We have had the
Presidency, too, but with impIous hands-the
hands of robbers-our rights were taken
away, and through perjury and bribery and
corruption men uttering falsehOods through
pale lips and chattering teeth in
the very temples of liberty stole
the Presidency from this country.
Applause Some of the men who partici-
stand to give an account of their stewardship,
but history will not lie when it records, as it
has, that that electoral commission announced
in the Senate Chamber through the House
that it would consider the question, and evil
dence of fraud in the returning of the vote of
Louisiana. / remember it, 1t is the blacklist
page in our cOuntry's history applause, and
ali good Republicans to-day are ashamed of
it. Loud applause.l
THE UNCOMFORTABLE ACT.
They turned their faces as their consciences
upon the promises of the past, and refused to
consider the evidence ali reeking with lgno-
miny and bribery and shame and counted in
a man who had not received under the con-
stitutlon and laws the suffrages of his coun-
trymen. This is wrong that we have met
passed, that is true We are told
that the law has given the verdict
to them. That is true When jury is in its
box under the statute of your
vote, and a Judge upon the bench
whQshould hold the scales of justice evenly,
holW with guilty hands the parchment from
the Executive Of your State and allows the
fO
under the 2gis of the law, he does what all
the law writers of civilization for hundreds of
years have cursed and damned as legal mur-
der. [Applausel. Oh the great sin Of that
electoral commission remains to-day unpun-
ished, and will ever be unavenged SO long as
the Republican party is in power in this
country. l thank God that there is
no statute of limitations running in
favor of that party (applause), and in that
connection, my fellow Democrats, be it said
to the credit Of the Democratic party, that
they exhibited none Of that spirit Of hot spur,
and that spirit which sought to engulf this
country in war, fresh as it was from the great
and fratricidal struggle, but our great leaders,
Tilden and Hendricks Here the speaker
was interrupted by long and continued ap-
plause, delegates rising to their feet and
waving their hats sl-our great leaders, Tilden
with the courage OF men who love their coun-
try better than its pelf and its power, ac-
cepted the wrong ana injury of perjury and Of
fraud, and they are grander to-day in their
defeat than the men who wore the noWer AT
the expense of justice and right. Cheers.
Thus we have succeeded in the face of the
Federal power. We would have succeeded
in 1880 but for Federal gold and Federal
greenbacks, fresh cut from Washington
Applause and laughter Money earned and
held by the star route contractors and the
loving friends Of the yenal adminisfration.
They bought the Presidency.
REFORM DEMoCRACYis AIM.
Fellow Democrats, we want reform, God
knows, not only in the personnel of men but
also in the measures Of the government.
[Cheers. We want men there whose very
lives and whose very names would be a plat
form to this people. We want men there who
shall in all the departments of government,
in its departments of Justice, in its postal
affairs, in its interior department every
where, follow its servants with the eve OF
the ministers of justice, and sees that every
cent that belongs TO the government shall re-
main with the government Icheersl: that no
tribute shall be demanded except the
tribute that is due the government;
that no assessments shall be levied
upon the 100000 ofiee-holders. These
evils. we thank God, viii be corrected when
the Democratic party shall get into power
once more. Applause.l We read Of the
enunciation OF principles by the Republican
party. They tell us that they
have civil service reform, and
yet they demand in the next
breath from every Federal ofieeholder Of the
00,000 his tribute to the corruption fund that
shall be paid out to voters at the polls.
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