St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-10


selves communicated to the body. Laughter and
applause. They protfer the infection TO eure
the disease They have rendered nothing ade
quate or worthy to the feryent aspirations and
high hopes Of this patriotic and progressing
people to a country which reioices in restored
unity and concord. They tender the renewal OF
sectional strife to nation which feels the i'm
pulse of mighty growth and yearns for leader
ship in noble prosperity. They offer the inspir-
alton of national calamity and misfortune to
proud and sensitive people, demanding deliver
ance from dishonOring corruption, demanding
decency in seating and cleanliness in holding
their public stations. They offer the gilded arts
of skillful demagogueTy Applause to the gen
erOus order of youth, noby ambitious to achieve
free mans manhood. They prefer the
elevating sentiments OF the party
machine to men to toll, seeking only
an equal opportunity to earn freeman living.
They cry, ''be your masters, Williams, and you
shall have bread TApplause. The burden Of
their campaign is already made manifest. shout
ing in common political parlance, ''soap."
Laughter. Its inspiration and ammunition.
Laughter and applause. The bosterous cry
of The drill sergeant, the black list for hesita-
ting, rewards to the willing, that is the proliti
Clans share while from the ranks Of them who
amass the fruits of others labor the eopious
streams of pecuniary profit will summon the
booty of sweetened sophistries to the ear Of the
weak and ignorant, the air already is filed with
various interests and factions of weak and unedu-
Gated men, and some are INDUCED to expect adj
vantage from the chOatic possibilities of foreign
war, others for relief gain froU legalized erup
tons upon the national treasury. The history
of the Republicans will have been read in vain,
if such prospect does not alarm and warn Us.
Twice already has liberty sunk beneath the
waves of fraud and venality. She has seen her
chosen servants, her chosen high
priests, chosen by a majority Of votes
exceeding all which were cast to elect Washing
ton Adams, jefferson, Madison, and I think I
might add Monroe, displaced by chicane and
her people temporarily enslaved by fraudulent
usurption of their places. Applause She has
seen national election perverted by the stream
ofmoney which flowed from Gaping woands at
Washington. Can she rise a third time, il
again submerged by her enemies! Gentlemen. no
patriot can contemplate the contemporaneous
events without the profound conviction that the
duties of this hour rise far beyond partisanship.
Where is the one supreme question before us?
How shall we most surely rescue the republic?
| know you will pardon me for saying it is no
time for personal devotion or a personal
vass. No man has the slightest claim
to our personal preferences, and we
have no personal preferences. No
personal objections. We weigh as a feather
even against our resolute choice on such ticket
will certainly unite all friends of constitution
al liberty purity and reform in solid array for the
mates the expectant hope which is turned to
this convention from every quarter of this
Union. \ great change has been wrought in
recent years in this country. Not alone in nnm-
bers, in personal and material characteristics but
also in the minds of the people and in the COM.
position of its political forces. We have ceased
to fight in fratricidal war; the sin of slavery has
been purged the crime of secession has been
punished, both are at an end and the chained
mans sorrows are forever closed and stand in
memory only s safeguards for the national JUS
tice, peace and union forever. Cheers. The
horrors of the dreadful hour of internecine con-
fiict must stimulate suitable honor and reward
to the noble men whose lives offered then
for their countrys salvation, but these people
will not go backward thther for luminosity and
springs of action to destroy the fruits of their
labor and sacrifices. The hours of peace and COLI
cord, the embrace of friends after bitter war, the
restored joy of happy liberty and enduring union
are their highest honor, the most noble chap
let that ever crowned soldiers memory who
dares to bleed Again he who fans dying spark
of enmiy strips the tenderest love from the laurel
leaf of glory, [cheers, and doubly wicked he
who perils a nations peace and happiness TO
serve by such ends a vain ambition.
Cheers The dav for such attempts has passed,
Il new generation is on the scene of action, an
educated and intelligent generation. They un
derstGnd our institutions, they comprehend the
tremendous growth and capabilities of this coun-
Try ana lHey accept inc Responsiveness NulNu
have devolved upon them. Their realizing sense
is keen, that the welfare and progress of this
people demands, aye, have demanded, an utter
and radical change in the administration of the
government. Applause.
AT this stage of Col. Villas speech, Benjamin
f. Butler appeared, escorted by one of his old
aids Mr.. Drinkwater, and was received with up
roarous applause, mingled with some Kisses from
pc ople who did not seem to realize the Interrupt
ton After the confusion was over Col. Villas
resumed as follows:
They have heard repeated promises of reform
with each recurring election, and with disgrace
and shame they witness each new admins
tration, discover deeper iniquities than
those it promised to amend.
lApplause. There is growing conviction that
the one reform which will work all others, and ia
IL e only one and that is the utter defeat of the
party in power, applause and there is but one
hope 1t is vain to look to any new party or
ganizaton. Applause. The prosperity and
progress and hope OF this Republic rests to-day
upon the wisdom and patriotism OF the Democ-
racy now here in convention. Loud applause.
II is adequate to the great responsibility, 1t Is
the party which brings down the traditions and
represents the principles upon which the govern
ment was founded as homestead of equality
and liberty Applause. 1t is the party OF
Thomas jefferson applausel, of James Madison
Tapplausel, and of Andrew jackson applause as
they taught and led it; it stands to-day the party
of the people for honesty, capabiity and fidelity
in the public service, for strict principles of POI
litical economy, their public affairs
for encouragement Of every art and
industry, the development OF trade and
manufacturers with equal justice to all APP
plause. 1t stands us they inspired 1t, the party
of the people, for the generous diffusion OF
knowledge, the elevation OF every man, for COM
mon right and equal opportunities for all, the
resoute enemy Of monopoly, of class fayoritism
and corporate oppression, the friend OF labor the
inspiration of youth, the nursery of freemen.
Applause. IT has shared the yicissitudes the
fraties, the faults Of humanity, il has prohted
by the sweet uses of adversities laughter, and
il stands forth to-day with disciplined patriot
ism fitted to invoke and receive the restoration Of
a power which for half century it welded, to
the nations grandeur aud glory. Applause.
More than five million OF freemen Il greater
number than cast the ballot for Lincoln, Brock
enridee,. Douglas and Bell all combined, who
composed this patriotic aggregation. For nearly
twenty years it has been recruited steadily and
constantly from the upright and fearless, who,
preferring the rewards Of self respect 10 the
allurements Of power have shaken the dust
from their feet and departed from the Sodom OF
so-called Republicanism.
II las exchanged for these the venial and the
time serving of its own former possession who
sought the spoils Of Office where they were to be
found II has received and continually receives
new accessions of those who come in the same
character which we have received before, and II
there be any who cannot abide its high purposes
and fortitudc and ability to wait for the culmina
ton Of its principles, we are ready to continue
the like exchange. Applause. 1t has enlisted
and caught the fire of the young manhood Of this
nation and their spirit Of victory rules its coun-
ellis and rides in front OF it, battle. Applause.
The fatality Of laundering has become a Republi-
can possession Applause and laughter and the
doom of Gods award to folly let us pray may be
theirs the triumph OF the party Of the Repub-
lies hope cannot be longer stayed. confident
expectation may be placed ia your wise delibera-
ton. We may hope from your wisdom the first
step to be taken and 10 see again our nation
stored to its real station among the powers Of the
earth, 10 see its name public and commercial
again as Of vote break the
,..yoa ~ every Goa and epread its fac