The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-16
SPEECH OF EX-G0v. M. HUB.
BARD,

i Is SPEECH OF EX-GOv. RIM. HUB
BARD,
8 Of Texas, on being introduced as
o Temporary Chairman of the Ma
l. tional Democratic Convention.
!. Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
e Democratic Convention of the Unior
: cheers II am profoundly grateful fol-
e the confidence which you have reposed
t in ME, in ratifying the nomination of the
| National Executive Committee, who
I have done Your bidding for the last four
t years. With your authority Iacceptit my
3 fellow-DemOcrats-n as tribute to the
humble citizen who speaks you to to-day
but rather as compliment to the great
State from whence come, State which
more than any other is absolutely cosmo-
politan in every fibre of its being. Ap-
plaues Inits eaIlyday and struggles there
came to our relief as the winds across the
sea, men of Illinois and New York, men
of Maine and New England, men of Geor-
gia and along the coast, and gave their
lives at the Alamo and San Jacinto for
the freedom of Texas. Applause. !
Above all, | accept it as tribute from
my fellow-Democrats that Texas, which
has over 100000 of people, at each re-
curing election places in the ballot box
over $1,000 Democratic majority, APP
plause. Fellow-Demecrats, we have met
upon an occasion of great and absorb
ing interest to our party, as well as to
our urcommon,country. The occasion would
| -, ~, chat I ohn,,l1
attempt to speak to you of its great his
tory and its principles through two-thirds
of the most glorious history of our coun-
| try. | could not stop to discuss, if |
would, its magnificent policy of pro-
gress, the part which she has taken in
building up our county, its prowess, its
territory and its wealth. can only say
to you to-day in brief that the Demo
cratic party, in all essential elements, is
the same as it was when it was founded
by,the trainers of the Constitution nearly
three.quarters of century ago. APP
plause.
| thank God, fellow-citizens, that
though we have been out of power for
quarter of a century, we are to-day in all
that makes adherence and confidence
and zeal as much party organized for
aggressive war as when the laurels Of
victory were perched upon our heads. |
The Democratic party, fellow-citizeps, |
since the war times, commencing with
reconstruction, with our hands manacled, |
with our ballot boxes surrounded by |
the cleaning bayonets, with carpet-bag |
rule, with the voice stifIed-the voice of |
freemen who pay their taxes to the gov
ernment-the Democratic party has lived
to see through all this misrule the day
come when, in great majority of our
States, the Democratic party has resumed
its control and its power; it has your
House of Representatives, and but for
treason stalking in the Senate Chamber,
we would have that, too. Loud APP
plause We have had the Presidency,
too, renewed applauseJ but with
impious hands, the hands of the rob-
ber, our rights were stricken down at
the ballot, and through perjury and
bribery and the corruption of men utter
ing falsehood through pale lips and chat
tering teeth in the very temples of liber-
ty, stole the Presidency from this coun-
try. Applause Some of the men who
participated have passed beyond that
river and stand to give an account of
their stewardship. The story will not
die, for history will record it. When it
records, as it has, that the electoral COM
mission announced in the Senate cham
ber through the House that it would
consider the question and the evidence of
fraud in returning the vote of Louisiana
they turned their faces, as well as their
consciences,. upon the promise of the
past and refused to consider the evidence,
all reeking with ignominy, and bribery
and shame, and counted in man who
had not received under the Constitution
and the laws the suffrages of his country
men. That is a wrong we have met here
to right. Applause]. Eight years have
passed that is true, we are told that the
law has given the verdict to them that
is true. When jury is in its box under
the statute of your State, and Judge
upon the bench, who holds the scale
of Justice, unevenly holds with guilty
hands parchment from the Executive
of your State, and allows the jury sitting
in the box to condemn q man to death
under the egis of law, he does what all
the law writers of civilization for hun
dred of years have cursed and damned
as legal murder. [Applausel. The
great sin of that electoral commission
remains to-day unpunished, and will
ever be unaYenged so long as the Re
publican party is in power in this cOun.
try. Applause. | thank God that
there are no statutes of limitation running
in favor of that party, [applausel, and (
in.that connection, my fellow Democrats,
be it said to the credit of the Democrat 1
c party that theyexhibited none of that
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sought to engulf this country, fresh as
it was upon the heels Of great fratri- I
cidal war.
But our great leaders, Tilden and Hen
bricks here the speaker was interrupted
by 4 long continued applause, the dele
yates rising to their feet and waving
their hats our great leaders, Tilden and
with the. dignity Of heroic 3
statesman, with the courage of men who {
ove their country better than its pelf b
md its power, accepted the wrong and I
injury of perjury and of fraud, and they 3
ire grander to-day in their defeat than f
he men who wear the power at the ex- a
Dense of justice and right. ICheers. &
Thus We have succeeded in the face Of 4
Federal power, we would have succeeded {
q 1880, but for. Federal gold and Federal Y
yreenbacks fresh and uncut from Wash :
ngton. Applause and laughter. I 4
With money earned and held by star !
.oute contractors and the loving friends 8
If venal administration, they bought 4
he Presidency. Fellow-Democrats. we :
want reform, God knows, not only in the :
personnel inthe men, but as well as in the
Of the government as it IS !
Cheers. We want men there whose
fery lives and whose very names would :
70 . platform to this people 1
We want men there who shall in all /
he departments Of the government, in
q departments Of justice, in its postal
Gfairs, its interior department, every-
where shall follow its servants with the J
sye Of the ministers Of Justice and zee
hat every cent that belongs to the gov
,mment shall remain with the govern.
nent. Cheers We read of the enun-
,iation onsof principles BY the Republican
party. They tell Us they have civil
service reform, and yet demand IN the
next breath from every Federal Office.
holder Of the 100000 their tribute "a
their corrupt fund TINT shall Be paid
out pl the voters at the polls. They tell
ns they have pure govtrimenl, and VI
4 solitafy felon has been condemned in
the flock ok those who haYe sleItn their
mi||lans from the treasury fhs lof1,4n
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