Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-10-23
EMERY A. STORRS.

EMERY A. STORRS.
Extract from Speech Delivered Recently
in Bellefontaine, o.
assume there are great many Dem
Ocrats here. hope so. because our mis-
sion is not merely to call the righteous
but sinners to repentance. [Renswed
cheers and laughter want to say to
to you that there is nothing In this
world half 80 impartial as fair and good
government, and there Is nothing that
brings prosperity like 1t. The Republi-
can party has forced good government
upon the Democrats tor the last twenty
five years. 1t has made them prosperous
against their will. We are great mis-
sionary and evangelizing party. [Roars
OF laughter. We emancipated at one
same time brought liberty to the same
number of white Democrats. Loud
cheering and laughter.] We have given
the Democrats prosperous homes against
their protest. We have given them con-
tented firesides while they protested
against 1t. But we like them too well
to send them into the bad days Of Demo
cracy.
My Democratic friends you have got
to have free ballot, and you cannot
help it. We are going to give you fair
count and you cannot help it. We are
going to dignity your labor and you can
not help 1t. We are going to make you
prosperous and you cannot help it. We
are going to have your industries pro-
tected intelligently and successfully,
and you cannot help 1t. You need not
protest against it. We are going to give
you four years more of splendid Ameri-
can politics. Quit kicking against it.
Take the good things this Republican
party offers to you. We're going to give
you horizontal prosperity. [great
laughterl, where every man is prosper
GUS according to his deserts. We're 60
| ing to give you horizontal ballot,
where every citizen votes alike. But we
won't give you a horizontal tariff,
which means that all American indus
tries are fiat just alike.
Now my fellow citizens. there never
was campaign more pregnant with
great and splendid issues than this. 1t
would be an astonishing thing for the
Republicans Of the old imperial state of
Ohio to hesitate for single instant
what their duty and mission Is to be. !
know where l am speaksng; know
whom am addressing. / know that ]
am speaking to ty-loving, God
fearing community of mon and women
This old, splendid state of Giddings
Wade and Chase! 1t is the state where
Grant and Phil Sheridan was born: 1t is
the state of the sainted and distinguish
ed Garfield, the friend Of James &. Blaine
loud and enthusiastic cheers.)
| Now. gentlemen, time is short. The
day OF election Is rapidly approaching
AS / look upon this magnificent demon
stratioD, and while witnessing other
large demonstrations, Democratic as
well Republican, IL has seemed to me
that the Old-time party bitterness has
absolutely passed away. | want the
young Democracy to share in the glories
of the past and the future. Why, my
Democratic friends, open your front
eminent stream into it, [ApDlause] Give
us four more years of the same kind of
| government we have had and sunshine
and prosperity shall CLEAN over every
farm and gild every plOwshare through
out your great state. We are a great
people, and stand in the midst Of a
most marvellous and unexampled pros
perity. We have great past. We have
| no slavery on the soil Of the republic.
We have solid currency We have n
commerce so extended that its sails are
whitening every sea.
We have fields all glad and smiling
underneath this splendid autumnal day.
Throwing aside everything of partisan
ship, and remembering everything Of
patriotism. looking back with reverence
upon the great names of our history, for
| your own sake for my sake, for Gods
sake, let us remember that there stands,
| typifying these glories of the party, a
man who is carrying in his hand the
torch of civilization, the man whom you
this day have been proud to honor,
James G. Blaine. Enthusiastic cheers.