Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-06-19

! til he can vote, and speak, and think as
he pleases. Applause.] This is our
platform. These are our candidates.
! Your second choice, selected with a
ventions of this character, had every
trace of Democratic blood fired out of
him when the first shot exploded upon
! the walls of Sumpter. From that time to
| this undertaking, unWavering, and I'M
! faltering, there has never been a Repub-
lican idea of which John A. Logan has
not been vigorous and aggressive, an
! eloquent, and a courageous champion.
! T Applause We have the real spirit of
! the fiber OF the party embodied and IL
Illustrated by this great ticket. We have
a platform broad enough for every citi-
zen to stand upon.
THE DEMOCRACY.
| The night is closing down upon us, the
old diabolism of the Democratic party is
not yet gone. Another convention will
! be held here next month. Tilden will
probably be nominated It is possible
/ that he is already dead, daughter and
! applause,) but with the slyness and Sc
| cretiveness of the author of the cipher
dispatches, he might be dead two years
and never let any body know. daughter.
! We will run substances against shadows.
! We will run living, breathing men, with
! bone and flesh, and muscle and appetite,
against ghostly reflections, such as he.
| applause and laughter.) They tell us
! that he may carry New Z Ork. New Y Ork
is great, practical, business State. It
was my great good fortune to be born
there. 1t is the old Empire State. It
| stands like the angel of the Apocalypse
with one foot resting upon the sea and
the other upon the land, the mistress of
both. 1t has the spirit of Blaine and
Logan in it's bosom. (Applause.) The old
Republicanism of that State which chal-
! lenged the diabolism of Democracy thir-
ty years ago has still within its heart the
old undying and imperishable faith.
| (Applause.) It will carry this banner,
| you may rest assured, forward upon the
| storms and fires of the conflict upon
and to victory. (Applause.) There may
| those who will hesitate and falter by the
roadside. There may be those who will
weary in this magnificent march. The
campaign is now upon us. We have no
time for liniments or poultices. We can
not stop to heal the infirm. The lame
men must fall behind; the crippled must
| be relegated to the rear. The great,
healthy, splendid marching of the Re-
| publican millions taking up this banner
will place it, you may be sure, upon the
topmost eminences of magnificent vic
tory. (Applause.)
THE TWO PARTIES.
I have never seen the time, 1 never
expect to see it, when I can debate with
myself where is the choice between the
Republican and the Democratic party.
One, with it's shining and.glorious rec
ord of great deeds, and the other with a
career Ieprous with sin and spotted with
iniquities, never in all its history has
done the right thing except at the wrong
time. Laughter. During all the war
it was in favor of peace. After the war
had ceased it raised the devil in the
South. When the greenback was a ne
i cessity it spurned it as unconstitutional,
and when the necessity ceased it sWOTe
we should have nothing in the heavens
but greenbacks. Applause and laugh
1 ter. Thus it has been with that crooked,
incOmprehensiblep arty-the- demon of
political cussedness and the embodiment
of all that is wicked. 1t wants us to
look to Tilden as its prospective repre-
sentative, who weighs ninety pounds
and who is unable to hear, and is re-
membered only because he was the ar
: chitect of the most unsuccessful fraud
ever engineered in American politics.
Loud applause. He is pitied because
the fraud did not succeed. I have no
| IL
Democrats tell me, 1--WE will nominate
Tilden." That is a sentiment. say to
them, "For Gods sake, if you have got
sentiment, stick to it; [laughter]; it is
: the only one you have got; you have
; not had any in quarter of a century.
You are situated like the man with one
pair of pants; you cannot be critical; it
is these trousers or nakedness." Laugh
ter and cheers.
NO DEFENSIVE CAMPAIGN.
Now, gentlemen, this is no defensive
campaign. Don't you forget it. pre-
sumo that before the campaign is closed
you will hear something of the Mulligan
letters. remember very well, in 1880,
you might tell Democrat that his party
had opposed the war, and he was dumb;
you might tell him that it had opposed
the CONSUMPTION law, and he was speech
less; you might say to him that he had
wrought against the draft, and he was
| still silent; you might charge him with
having undertaken to destroy the Ma
tional existence, the National credit, and
the National honor, and he had not a
word to say; but along toward the close
, of the campaign this Democrat whom
you had thus addressed, silent and utter
J ly unable to answer your arguments,
: would awaken you at midnight by mys-
J terious scratching on the sidewalk, and
!. you would find as the only answer this
/ Democrat, prone on his belly. writing
with great anxiety and with great pain,
the wrong-side out, 329. Laughter
and applause.
IAave seen in one. of their platforms
! that they proposed to enter on business
with no capital except the purity of their
principles. Laughter. Was there ever
such a bankrupt concern with such q
capital? [Laughter.] They say thai
that is all that they have to offer for the
suffrages of the people. My God! my
: friends. A man that will work on these
. terms will work for nothing and board
! himself Laughter and cheers.] Won't
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