The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-10-08

IltNt INN lll 70 lING NIlN N. lNAlAA|Il
tho Republicans would have hundreds Of .
majority i'm the city of Lexington and the /
county Of Fayctte. So close was the election /
IN the opinion OF the Democratic leaders, that .
they got up q big barbecue 10 draw out the .
Democratic voters. They invited some Of the .
great gums of the Western Stltes Ward, Hunt /
and piatt oil OHIO and Voorhees, from ludi. /
ana. What fory Because they know that If |
there was fair election 1t would a. any rate /
fraud that election w8sl An OLD man who had ]
voted the Democratic ticket for forty years ]
famous proceedings that he turned around and /
voted the opposition ticket Bands of Demo- /
Gratis we're appointed as police, and they drove /
Republicans from the polls and assisted at re- |
peuting aud other kinds of fraud. Reliable
men have told me that whole carriage loads
of Democrats we're taken from one precinct
20 another and we're voted In each. / know
that q good many were taken from my county
Madison, aud voted at the election in Fayette
County, and am credibly informed that the
same is true cf other counties. Aud now what
was the result2 10 was admitted beforehand
that the election would be close Did the
Democrats b5ut the Republicans eleyen yotos'
No, sir; the returns showed that the Demo
Gratis lhud % majority Of l,lUO Could that be
so in a fair elegtiOn2 Most certainly not But
the Democratic managers were not s6illlul.
They ovcrshOt the mark aud counted too
large q ma 'Ority for themse YES.
Now, am going TO do thing don't often
do an going to speak Of my own expert
In 1875 I was invited by the Democratic par
ty of Mississippi to go down there. Mississippi
was then q Republican state. I went down
the o. aud spoke o thousands OF COIOrCi men,
where there would not be a dozen Of white
Democrats on the ground, and they would
/ stand on the outskirts, perfectly impOtent to
/ carry one vote. did not bear arms to pro.
| teCt myself against the blacks. But argued
/ with them. 1 told them that they had com
mon interest with the Democratic 'and-Own-
/ ers, and not with the cargoGbagEers And
| we carried the election by $4,000, They never
! paid me a dollar Of my expenses In all Of these
/ eighteen years, and / have never asked for
/ anything. ] have risled my life and my
] |NnmnrTHffu
! eighteen years. But i'm all the democratic
! party OF Kentucky and I'm all of the States of
| enough or mean enough to offer in gratitude
! for the services 7 rendered. Allow me t0 say
that the Democratic party is the meanest par
] ty chat ever was.
Gentlemen, if am the old lion they say
am, 1 will show them that haye not lost my
teeth or my claws. I will yet see them go
| down as party God willing, as j have seen
/ slavery go down. loud applause.D
Well, now, see how they have treated me
and mine, because have always been opposed
to slavery. My son, Bruce J. Clay, ran for the
Legislature in Madison County in los. The
Democratic papers will say that ! am now
about tD SANDER my neighbors But am
dOy What gratitude did they show tor my lH-
bOrs IN the Democratic parry My son was q
Republican. ] said TO the people Of Madi-
son County: "Thcre are not a dozen Repub-
licuns iu the Kentucky Legis stature. Let my
son 60 there. l have worked for you these
many years, and ask nOthinr for myself L
/ don't want any Ohce. | would not go TO
/ washington If you were, 10 want TO send
/ me there. But let my boy have this honor, l
ask. He is an honorable man; he is an hon.
] psU man: he loves his country: he reyereuCCs
the fathers, and he stood by the old hag.
| Now send him TO the LEGISLATURE" Now,
what did they say to him? Why, gentlemen,
{ he was insulted. He was outraged. The
3 Democrats took the COIOre1 men of my
, neighbOrhoO3 and formed camp, and had
! them guarded with pistols and shOtguns 10
prevent them getting away and so mat the,
could carry them in a body to vote against
my son. But some of thCm escaped and came
! TO me and told me that they wanted to vote
T for my son. They came to me for protection
Z j said: II am a Democrat; why do yOu come
TO mey' They said they wauted to vote as
they pleased. "Ail right said; 81 will pro
% teCt you to the best Of my ability Wher
z / know ! am right I never ask myself
| about the difficulties. formed q camp anl
guarded these colOred men. Now, the NIGH
- before the election my eldest son Green ID
j. / Democrat went to the adjoining precinct
.' / He was accompanied by friend, Dl. Robert
e | son. And what do you think These frend
D of human rights ana equulity-thpse Demo
Z | Crats-tttecu or twenty OF thCm-Ouened fire
I : ON my son Green and his friend, an pursue,
o small pocket pistols They returned the fire
l. and then had to set spurs to their horses T.
20 save Jhelt ny es5. rue uGAI HaS Iue SA-SluNt
| owners and their sympathlzers all arue
II themselves. My trien Is and relatives bcggc
me not TO 90 to the polls. "lf you do the
s said, lyon will be killed. Had been cor
@ telt 70 vote for my son ana Lh n let polite
e go, thCy would not have threatened to kill me
10 but the trouble was that had organized tn
D. colOred men who wanted to vote as the
Ii pleased I marched them to the polls an
sa to the officer of the election: "Here ar
n did let them vote The man who headed tn
!. opposite party, when he saw tlat ] wa
], not going 20 aKe maKe a nghL sea; We re Eeaa
e for you. knew what thdL meant Inc co
D. Ored men we're mt disuuyauta-e- They kne
'- tlat all the ~herths and Judges were agaius
N them. Had there been fight and any Den
.t Ocrats had been killed they would have t
l- die for 10; but if any Of them got killed tina
il would have been the end OF the matter
Ia TTHFH FFn4r HfaTlr at
e Democrats could easily have driven the co
e Ored men away, and they would have got hOl
Vt of Old 't ASH" Clay at last, damn them! But
10 had br8lns enough TO keep out OF their han0
y out OF the hands of Henry WaJtersOn. lGrog
De- laughter) Henry WatterEon went up to On
y CugO and made fool speech. always ike
y Wa.tersOn. He is good fellow, and he a
e, ways affords me amusement. call him eth
1 br liant erratic and combustible Wattersou.
(RengwCd lauEhtefJ Now did not thin
re WattersOn would turn against me. But
a made mouth a me, and called me adamne
y old AbOlitiOnistl" And he wouldn't let me di
IT cuss in his paper the proposed amendment
,e the Kentucky Constitution
70 When the Ereeuback craze started I advise
l. the Democratic party TO let it alone. tn
4 | Kentucky Legislature invited me to 20 dow
r to Frankfort 10 make a speech. 1 tried 20 70
TX the Democracy to stand by the old 5acksO
e ! currency, of incOny eUtibe gold and silver. 4
n this time the LgTt6r-JgWRt had not scente
20 the wind exactly; it didn't know how the thin
lt was going. A great many men IN the SouJ
N wanted 10 pay the debt b tn printing pres
r They thought they cOu set the presses
" work and in a few nights pay OF the debt an
g. be done with it. tried to convince them thl
~ that would not be honest. But because va
ga damned old AbOHionisJ' the great C0
le rigT-JOurItd never noticed my speech, and th
le South never knew that Cash Clay had mao
Z a speech n favor of hard money.
" We came to elect President of the Unite
IT States Said i: 81 am an Old soldier I'm pol
m tics. Now, while there are greIt many ia
.u Gals i'm the Republican party and am nl
10 hero TO yindicate any scOundrel-whocyer D
l- may be-"but there is a great deal of wealt
and sNOl industry i'm that party which MAX
SO il conservative. The business men are fru
10. of the Democratic party. While they beueI
of with Jefferson that ltls better to now an
Mt then change the AdWiniStr .tOu of the Co
,u erumCut. they are afraid if YOU get into pOwJ
no tlut yOI will break down the industries of M
le country t1ey are afraid thaE you VIII mai /
r war on the tarlu: that you VIII bust up Oh
o, banks and that you will destroy the ship
" Now, therefore, go for TildGn, He has 3,
ts wealth enough to give confidence, and he h'
yn honest government and yOu can elect nObOd
lu else And / hOnestl5 think, gentlemen, thu
Inn we elected him. Now because / am gOiu
Ot with the Republican party, you can not 81
is land or Blaine or anybody else VIII
rs ever comes against my idea of principle
I'M will receive whatever opposition ca
p give. Well, 1 think that we elected H.
ip Democrat party dOs Nothing but TO COul
be the vote. We had, ] believe, ma Orty Of II
Ir electoral vote, and ma Orlty also of the pO
nd ulur vote Why didn't the leaders OF tl
e- / Democratic party insist upon lIden beir
Id made presdeuts Because they were lucOI
81 petent leaders. They had the game I'm the
be hands. James B. Beck, Of hentucky, su,
Oh that Iildan didn't advise with his friends co
be hdentially. In other words he didn't tai
r- Beck into a back room and tell him what J
IN was going to give him. don't intend %
of into any personal controversy, but If nj
ln Beck didn't mean this, what did he meal
tn Illden had put his position clearly before %