The Indianapolis journal., 1884-06-16
Emery A. StOrrs Again Pays His Respects
to the Democracy, and Makes Few
Remarks About Tilden.
Butler Confident of His Ability to Sc
cure the Votes of the CelOred Men.
Ex-senator Mcdonald Would Not Have OPP
posed the Old TickeC, and Considers
Indiana Solid for His Nomination.
CINCINNATI REPUBLICANS.
Ratifying the Chicago NOminations-Speech
by Emery A. StOTrs.

by Emery A. Storrs.
CINCINNATI June IA Blaine ratification
meeting was held at Music Hall tonight, which
was addressed by Emery A. Storrs, of Chicago;
Major Mckinley and j. B. Foraker, of Ohio
Three thousand five hundred or four thousand
people were present, and there was much enthu-
siasm. Nearly every ward was represented by
a Blaine club. In the course of his speech Mr.
Stons said:
''The Democracys sentiment is Mr. Tlden
and at the expense of being somewhat tedious |
wish to read to you quite briefly, one of the
most tender, one of the most pathetical and one
of the most cheerful contributions to political
literature his recent letter of decnation Here
intend to be Enthusiastically fair. Last week.
in the city of Chicago, did do great injustice to
him. intiTnated, in speech which it was my
good fortune there to deliver that his intellect
was impaired and that his sagacity had become
falhble was mistaken. 1 am mistaken, and
no better proof of my mistake can be furnished
than the fact that within three days after the
nomination of Blaine and Logan he sent in his
letter of declinaton. All this demonstrates
that Samuel J. Tilden is just as keen and sharp
in this day as he has ever been. He has seen
the storm coming up from the West, and Sam
uel j. Tilden is in out of the rain.
Laughter | shall not read all his letter; the
life of man is limited to about seventy years, Or
dinarily, and you cannot expect me to consume
all that time in reading a brief and sobbing
eplSUle from Jne great railroad WTecker OF the
continent He is the spirit Of the Democratic
party manifest in the flesh, and whoever is nom
mated will but be the reflection of Samuel J.
Tilden. Twenty years'-and then l going
to ask you who the man is that wrote this
twenty years of continuous maladministration
under the demoralizing influences of intestine
war and bad finance have infected the whole
governmental system of the United States with
a cancerous growth of corrupt practices.
| have a right, and every human being living in
this country, knowing what it it is and hopeful
of what it is to be, has right to denounce that
as a wicked and malicious SANDER upon the most
glorious period in our history, or in the history
of the world. | do not take to this kindly Mr.
Chairman, what has been the history of this
country during those twenty years, that this
man, whom l will not now further attempt to
criteiA denounces as cancerousc maladminis-
tration In that twenty years this
great party, for which this lib
| eral State speaks here to-night-in that time
they have crowded thousand years of the most
glorious history that this world has ever wit
messed. Within that twenty years Abraham
Lincoln has been elected President. Long and
loud applause. Within that twenty years this
party of maladministration has lifted four mill
ions OF human beings from the night and saw
agery OF cattlehood into the clear, and lofty, and
bracing air of American citizenshp and vet
with such an achievement, that shines with
clear light against the sky, the railroad wrecker
embodying the sentiments of his party, speaks
of 1t as career of maadministration. Within
that time this intestine war to which he refers
this intestine which he declared in 1864 to
be a failure-that war has triumphed and a ma.
ton has been saved, and the greatest achieve
ment recorded in his -0ry to the credit of the
party represented here tonight Within that
twenty years. that splendid, that glorious TWEEN
ty years, the national honor has been saved
against the assaults of his own party, who have
sought to destroy it. In that twenty years the
national credit has been maintained, when he
and his party would have debauched our honor
by reputation of the public debt Within that
twenty years this administration, which he
critcises as maladministration has taken the
newly made citizen by the hand, has made him a
citizen, has given him the right of suffrage has
embodied that right in the Constitution, and, by
the grace and love of God, means to secure him
in its full enjoyment. That is the maladminis-
tration of which Mr. Samuel j. Tilden speaks:
and he closes with this tender and touching ap.
peal, which, as | will have occasion to show you
has made the eyes of the Democrats suffuse with
tears, choked their utterance and almost smoth-
cred them with sObs He says at the close:
Having given to their welfare whatever of life
and strength | possessed or could borrow from
the future, and having reached the term of my
capacity for such labors as their welfare now de.
mands, but submit to the will of God in deem
ing my public career forever ended Samuel J.
Tilden.' In his back room where this letter was
written, made famous by the receipt of cipher
dispatches, upon the walls of which are hung
the skeletons of wrecked railroads and other
corporations, Samuel j. Tilden submits
himself tc the will of God. That is
very kind of Mr. Tiden. This tender epistle
goes all over the country. The mayor of Chi
cago reads it, and this distinguished mamie is
a genuine, straightforward Democrat not sup
posed to be over and above sympathetic-but it
goes right to the official heart of the Democratic
mayor and he says as he reads it: My eyes
were dimmed with tears, my utterance was
choked, my heart filled with sobs and great
grief overcame me-. This is the sentiment of
the Democratic party l am anxious to see the
representatives of the horny handed and the
hartfsted in New York who have made night
hideous with their yells in many campaigns |
am anxious to see the Democrats in our city,
whose ears have heen bit off in some Joint de-
bate, who noses hf We been broken in some cleo
ton contest, marching to funeral music, and
engaging in great sympathetic campaign. AS
l see it to-day winding in and out on the tariff
question l am reminded of an experience of the
boys in that old county of Cattaraugus in the
State of New York, where l was born Our
mothers were good thrifty women and when
our trousers were worn on one end they were
turned and worn the other way so that when
you watched the towheaded boy. you could
not tell whether he was going to school or com
ing home"
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