The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-07-09

~ VAO u1OVI0V N01ty SA0At &C
into power once more. We read o
Democratic principles by the Repub'
lican party. They tell us they have
civil service reform. and yet they de.
mand In the next breath from every
federal Office holder of the 100, OOi
their tribute to q corruption fund
that shall be paid out at the polls.
They tell US they have the govern
ment and yet not a solitary felon has
been condemned in the dock of those
who have stolen their millions from
the treasury. Your committee only
on yesterday and the day before tell
Us Of perjury, of corruption, of sub
ornation3 that run all along through
the mantle of justice. In the gov
eminent we want real reforms re-
fOrn, my countrymen, that shall
mean what it says and that will say
what it means. (Cheers.) 1t is not
the business of your presiding officer
to-day to enunciate anything that
shall be embodied in your platform.
Thank God if that would exist it
would be burned in your hearts if
every one that had been adopted for
80 years were burned up. It is the
doctrines which we have inherited
from aglOrious ancestry that have be-
come pant Of the traditions of our
fathers. But I wish to say one thing
in this great assembly OF freemen to
your committee on platform that you
will endeavOr to unite upon u basis of
principles which we have advocated
,Or years that are gone, and that you
will have no Delphic oracle speaking
with doubtful tongue in the platform
which shall be named by you. cloud
applause.)
And that there shall be a radical
reformation and reduction in the
taxes as we'll as in the methods of
taxation 10 u country (applause.)
But, fellOw-citizens, in conclusion let
NE say, harmony and Cancellation
shOnld rule your councils. There
Fever Was a time in the history of
the Democratic party when the enc
my invites victory as now. Great
and unnumbered hosts of dissatisfied
men of the Republican parry are
heard III the distance: in New Eng
land, in New York, in Texas and III
'he West and everywhere. and the
whole Democratic party, should not
deviate one iOta from its principles. 1,
should with open arms say to these
hundreds of thousands of men, God
grant they may be here, here in this
party Of he cOnstitut GU aud Union
thet loves our common country:
Come hither and go up for an honest
rule aud an honest government.
The Democratic party, while it
may have its local differences, will
De together and by whoever you may
nominate of all the great and good
names that are bef.'re you from the
east to the west, from the north to |
the south. He who stands back in
the hour of peril. forsooth his State or
himself, shall not have received his
choice, yea, the choice of his heart.
is not a good Democrat and hardly a
patriot. This is the hour of our
country's peril. The Democratic
party is loyal to the Union.
though the bloody shirt in the vul-
gar %parIance of the time, has at each
successive election been planted IN
the face of of the Democrats and in
your own faces With Logan on the
ticket I presume it will he again.
Blaine could hardly afford it (laugh-
ter) as he bad Lot indulged in that
unpieasaDtness. daughter and ap-
They will endeavor to stir
up the bad blood of the past, but my
c~Ountrymen, the war is Over for half
of the country and they know 1t.
Why. u boys have married the
young maids of the North and chill
dren have been born to them since
those Gays. (Applause.) They will
to 60 to the Other side; by the
lying beds they will talk of
bourne from whence nc traveller
and will lie down and he
buried togt ther. Why, the buys in
Glue and gray have slept together for
quarter of q century on a thousand
ields of common glory. Let their
bones alone. They are representing
The best blood of the land and though
lIff-rlng in days that should be tor
the good men of all parties in
country to-day, thank God, have
united in the great common progress {
If our ace. 1 thank you, fellow cit Z,
zens for your attention, trusting that I
torbearlngs will be ex- t
ended to NE. What mistakes
shall make Doubtless you will !
reat lightly and kindly. Hoping {
hat success may crown your efforts {
nd that you may send a ticket to
he country upon when all may .
mite is tie wish Of him whom you i
honored with your suttrages : :
his day. !
peech of Carter Harrison on the Unit
Rule. {
Garter Harrison here got the floor ,
.mid loud and continued applause. I