The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-10-30

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Now. my fellow-cItizens, If this platform
the approval of your judgment,
am I an not rightly right when ZEN ! = appeal Ipss n to ; you t to assert .sa
Of making a change in the administration of
the Governments tApplauseJ Is it possible
have for nineteen years thai are past, with
out Ending fault at all with any of the policy
n nna Sm MEET I not eoneact to OF To The fbpp party syt IN
nineteen years of rule, of high government,
over this country, it is time that that party
1t not right that we shall know more fully
what has been going 6nl We know that the
is paid out: and the records of this Govern
ment do show that in the last year the c0llec-
tions and the. expenditures added together
have amounted to $663, 100000. An enormous
sunni The story OF the collection, and the
story of the expenditures is written in thou
sands of volumes, by thousands of hands, and
these volumes are closed against one-half the
people, and these hands that have written
the story of the collection and the story of
all Altogether the business has been trans
welfare and safety of the peoPle2 Is it right
that. for year after year. until it climbs near
ly a quarter of a century, one class Of the
people, excluding all other classes, shall con-
troll public afairs2. Cries Of "No."l In En-
When the peoples house. the House of Com
MONS. by action or resolution shall express
dissatisfaction with administrative afairs-as
soon as that is emphatica.ly Adj
minIstration goes out. and q new set of men
representing truly the people come in and
under our system of Government and under
the Constitution the remedy is different. That
year. Then every fourth year the people
have to consider whether or not there ought
to be a change, and if they conclude that
alton whatever, then under the Constitution
they, vote for a change; tApplausel
Constitution itself, and when we vote, either
to continue the party in power or TO make a
change, 1t is in pursuance OF the possibilities
do you say. ought there now to be a change?
Think you it will he worse2 1t may be bet
ter: I don't know, but it may be better; it can
not be worse. App!ause.j 1t is the simplest
remedy that is given to man. IL is a remedy
upon any member of your family, and the
doctor you have trusted for long years, who
has visited our house in many a period of
great delicacy, If indeed he treats this case
that is on hand now from day to day and
from week to week, and there comes no re-
turning strength, no health-blush upon the
tinues to decline and decline. will you go on
and say: why, certainly, / will not caange.
it? Shall l consider the fact that there is no
returning health, and shall! 1 call in this young
doctor TOT Of Of the m nei { Z !, and try him2 No.
You don't do that way in respect to any
matter domestic and of great importance to
ment it is not as well rs it ought to be, what
will you say2 When you come to cast your
ballot, shall it be to continue the same party
in power, or shall it be to assist natures rem
edy-ac changer tApplauseJ Some gentleman
suggests that we may possibly be counted out
again. Gentlemen. there is no danger of that.
OF all the men in this country, the honest Re-
publicans are the most tired of that.
Just one or two more questions upon the
and 1 am done. In its platform the Repub-
lican party declares as follows: "We demand
fee ge fo its oia-t af cur str eagy aau f Z there a1 ID
any quality in politics that / admire more
than any other it is modesty, and when the
Republican party asserts that it demands the
restoration of our.navy. from whom is the de-
mand nader Why, they have boon In power
nineteen eem years ans s and tps dua bos as s,t the years
from the ocean. (Applause) All this while
they have been in power. They have con-
there been a Democratic Secretary of the
Navy for twenty years? Now, if there was a
Democratic Secretary of the Navy, and if he
this language, Look here. old fellow. we de-
mand a restoration of our navy" But when
selves they make the demand of themselves,
and 1 think they ought to respond to it
sn DO y9T' noti :srb the ,e sSnelading e. part part oft of the he
its old time strength" l recoliect the time
when an Austrian subject who had come to
make our country his home and his asylum,
and having returned again to Europe, in the
city of Smyrna he was seized upon and carried
was that an American ~sloop-of-war lying in
the same harbor turned her guns pom
the Austrian ship and informed the Captain
that it was to put Kosta upon land again or
the Austrian ship should go the bottom. TAP
plause.) Why. those were the days of the
S wy that st oeoarred Gi in our a pe eaxya Sa Raminfs,
tration. (Applauseg 1t was in Franklin
Pierce's administrator applause, and 1t was
in 1858 that Know-Nothingism was displaying
its craftsmanship in trying to brea. down the
Catholics and foreigners in this country. zap.
1 am in favor of restoring the American
navy, and the first step toward restoring the
American navy 10 its original strength is to
place the Democratic party in power again.
AppIause) There is no use in trying to re,
store the navy when you have the Robesons
can not be done. Rich as the American PEG.
pie are, they can not restore the navy with
such secretaries. Haughterl What sort of g
stagger they can make under the present
regime l don't know. There is a man by the
name of Chandler, who, if you crook youi
finger at him, takes otenSe ahout it.
l believe there was a ship-of-warl left flor
got its name. "A voice, ..Tallapoosa.") All
the Tallapoosa had long since quit its protein,
sions of fighting any foreign power whate yer
lLaughter9 1t had come to be a meek AND
humble instrument to the pleasure of the of
f fSn dss Of the nG country nn in sailing up and down
f1ict with a sailing craft. Oh, but it was a bad
day for the TallapoOsa Qaughter,) for the lit
tie sailing craft went into her, and she wen
down. UaughteIJ And how the Secretary
and his officials have been making their trip
up ana GOWN tn6 coast since IQaC Time i don
know. (Laughter.)
But 1 tell you what I want. = I want to SCI
the American navy restored so that no foreign
power shall dare to put any American citizen:
in the jails of Ireland great applause)
whether his name be McSweeney or some
other NAME. 1 think the best. way to have {
navy is to have a party in power that vii
build a navy up honestly, economically an6
we'll, and the say to the nations of the earth
Pierce's administration, by that great ma
William L: Marcy, which asserted for Ameri
cans that he who declares his intention to be
come a citizen shall be protected by smeri
can power all around the world. Applause.
Now, my fellow-citizens, there is but ont
more subject to which l want to call your at
tention. 1t is in one of the resolutions of tn,
Republican platform.
G"Resolued, That it is the duty of Congress tx
enact such laws as shall promptly and effect
uaily suppress the system of polygamy within
the Territories"
Iii now twenty-five years SINCE. in sub
announced by the Republican party at thei
National Convention. Since then it has re
peated its own Obligation to see that polyg
amy was brought to an end. How is it
Twenty-Five years ago it was proclaimed as
, remnant of barbarism. Now, if you visit tn,
Utah ttafhl'f than ever sUa b before o'yBB But Il S the ! Rspu i
this subject, why has ~,polygamy no
. do this and can do it, why is it that polygam,
is stronger to-day than it has been any da;
; t 4%ee01 Terrieory ye of a asD a naa 0 SGea mS re t. nasl
. passed through Southern Utah, thus travel
ing, perhaps. a distance of seven hundre'
!. miles north and south, and l was astonishe
to see now, instead of what L saw seve
a years ago, a country densely settled. witt
! wellcultivated farms and all the implement
= = of husbandry which we know of in this sec
!. ton of the country; with the mower. tn
a reaper, all in a~bundance; and well supple
4 and finished houses, handsome villages, an
when l met any one l was told that here an
a there there was a family in whic
: that strange vice governei-polygamy. An
party that has to deal with p~olygamy in tina
Territory has to deal with wealth and strengt
and population and capability. and 1t is q ver
1 different thing from what it was twenty-fiv
3 years ago when the American people truste
I TO Inc hePuDltca M fedge mat ney you'd wip
. Iy do not believe in polygamy, if you thin
while that strange institution is ~disappearin
from Turkey and other Eastern lands that
ought not to immigrate to the United States