The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-12
GENERAL LOGAN At TOLEDO.

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GENERAL LOGAN AT TOLEDO
Refutation of .Hendricks's Charges Concern
ing Treatment of Foreign Born Citizens.
TOLEDO, o., Sept. 11-General John A. Logan
was present this afternoon on the grounds of
the Tri-State Fair Association, and made a
| speech to an audience numbering 1000 or 5000
He spoke about half an hour upon the CONNER
cial, manufacturing and agricultural interests
of Ohio and their wonderful growth. He was
preceded by ex- Governor Charles Foster Gen.
Logan was received by the fair com nimittee and
committee Of local Republican organizations,
or arriving in the city this morning.
General Logan spoke at League Park tonight
| to one of the largest audiences ever assembled
at a political meeting in this city Previous to
the meeting there was parade OF the Plumed
Knights and other Republican organizations,
numbering nearly thousand torches. Gov
ernor Charles Foster presided and opened the
meeting with brief speech, after which Gen
! eral Logan wasintroduced to the audience amidst
| great cheers. General Logan began by briefly
reviewing the history of the Republican and
Democratic parties from 1860 down to the pres
ent time In the course of his remarks he said
!
Democratic party in this country has
been its course in relation to free trade Il will
not say, said he, that they are acting the part
of agents of the British government, but do
say that, misguided though they are they per-
formed the same service for the British govern
ment, while they had the power in this country,
that the Lords of England would have performed
ifthey had had seats in the Congress of the
United Strtes of America. AS another Demo
cratic monument the speaker. mentioned slavery
and its attendant evils, including the war Be
fore the war the Democratic party North and
South had been free-trade party After the
war, when reunited, they continued to be a free
trade party, and became one in all things else.
In reply to portion Of Governor Hendrickss
speech. last night, General Logan said:
'Mr.9 Hendricks, last night, if he is correctlya
reported in the newspapers, stated to his audi
ence, that the Republican. party had been dere-
lict in its duties towards foreigners in this land,
i who had been permitted to suffer because offail1
| ure on the part of the Republican party per
form their duty Now, Is am sorry that Mr..
Hendricks made that statement For forty
years as is well known by every reader of polit-
ical history in this country and | speak of that
time because of the fact that the Democratic
party con trolled this government nearly all that
Il Jlm6--the f0Felgn governments, LED DIV England,
/ announced the doctrine once a citizen. always
citizen; that the doctrine of self-expatriation
was not correct doctrine; that a citizen did
not thereby sever his allegiance from the moth
er country, and, if he returned to his native
/ land, they had control over him a citizen of
their own government. While the Democratic
/ party stood in control of this country for the
length of time | have mentioned, let my friend
Hendricks point out one single statute that was
enacted by the Democratic party declaring that
Io nicrT-hn n 10 II IJllIf0
should be protected when he passed back to his
/ native country. Now, l tell you to-
night that it was left for the Re-
/ publican party, in 1868, after the war
had been concluded to pass a law declaring that
a citizen of this country foreign born should be
protected on his own mother soil in per-
! son and property, the same asif he were native
born, and never was that doctrine enunciated in
astatute of this country by the Democratic par
ty,enor was 1t ever done until, as said, the Re-
1 publican garty announced that doctrines and it
i was because Of the fact that persons of foreign
birth who had taken the oath Of allegiance TO
u this country returned to their former homes and
i were impressed into the army. Now. then, why
4 should Governor Hendricks say that the Repub
lican party had failed to performits duty toward
foreign born citizensl ! am sorry to hear a man
/ running for the high Office that he is make such
i a statement when he must know that he can be
contradicted by the very statutes on the books
and the dates given and the fact established that
/ the Republican party performed the act that he
/ claimed never was performed byit
4 passing back to 1860 and 1861, and speaking
of the Democratic party failing to support the
| Republican party in a proper.way in sustaining
| the armies of the United States | would like to
| call your attention to the fact that when the
! proclamation was issued suppressng slavery in
| this country the Democratic party everywhere
! opposed it, in Congress and out of Congress,
| and no act has ever yet been passed by that
4 party in favor of human freedom, and in favor
i of the liberty that God intended man should
! enjoy
The opposition Of the Democratic party to
| the war amendments to the Constitution was
/ cited as further illustration. In reply to the
| statement by Governor Hendricks, in his speech
! at the fair grounds yesterday, as to the passage
! of the homestead act, Gen. Logan recited
! the history of those laws. During
! Buchanan's administration" said he, ssthe
homestead bill failed, and it was
! left to a Republican Congress, in the admi.
i istration of President Lincoln, to pass til
| homestead BILL and the bills for lands given for
agricultural colleges was signed by Abraham
! Lincoln
General Logan discussed at some length the
tariff plank in the Democratic platform, insist
\ ing that it meant free trade, notwithstanding
| some Democrats claim TO the contrary He
said it was impossible to tell from the reading of
the instrument itself what it meant. and he pro-
posed to his friend Governor Hendricks that he
refer it to Supreme Court Of the United States,
| in order to obtain proper construction of the
instruments Neither Of the letters Of the Dem
ocratic candidates for President and Vice-pres
ident interpreted it. I'VE are then compelled. ,
! the history Of the party itself TO