Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-09-13
LOGAN At TOLEDO.
He Gives His Attention to the Utterances
of Mr.. Hendricks.


Toledo, Ohio, Sept. ll-Gen. John A.
Logan was present this afternoon on the
grounds of the interstate fair associa-
tion and made speech to an audience
OF 1000 or 5000. He spoke about half
an hour upon the commercial, manufac-
turing and agricultural interests of Ohio
and their wonderful growth.
Gen. Logan spoke at the League park
tonight to one of the largest audiences
ever assembled at political meeting in
this city. Previous to the meeting there
was parade of the Plumed Knights and
other republican organizations, number
ing nearly 1000 torches. Gov. Charles
Foster was present and opened the
meeting with brief speech, after which
Gen. Logan was introduced to the audi.
ence with great cheers. Gen. Logan be.
gan by briefly reviewing the history of
the republican and democratic parties
from 1860 down to the present time,
claiming that the only monument erected
by the democratic party in this country
had been its course in relation to free
trade. II will not say" said he, "that
they are acting the part of agents
OF the British government, but I
do say, misguided though they are, that
they performed the same service for the
British government while they had the
power in this country that the lords of
England would have performed if they
had seats in the congress of the United
States of America" [Applausel. AS
another democratic monument the speak
er cited, he mentioned slavery and it's
attendant evils, including the war. The
democratic party of the north and south
had been free trade party. After the
war, when reunited, they continued to
be free trade party, and became one
in all things else.
In reply to portion of Gov. Hen.
bricks speech last night, Gen. Logan
said: "Mr. Hendricks, last, night, if he
ls correctly reported i'll the newspapers,
stated TO his audience that the repub.
lican party had been derellct in their duty
towards foreigners in our land, who
have been permitted to suffer because
of failure on the part of the republican
party to perform their duty. Now,
am sorry that Mr.. Hendricks made that
statement. For forty years, as is we'll
known to every reader of political his.
tory in this country, and
I speak of that time, because the
democratic party controlled this
government nearly all that time foreign
governments, led by England, an.
nounced the doctrine that once citizen
always citizen. That the doctrine of
self.expatriation was not the correct
doctrine; that citizen did not thereby
sever his allegiance from the mother
country, and it he returned to his native
land there they had control of him as 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 q
citizen of the United States should be
protected, whether he was native or
foreign born when he passed back to his
native country. Now tell you tonight
it was left for the republican party in
1868, after the war had concluded, to
pass the law that citizen OF this coun.
try foreign born should be protected on
his own mother soil in person and prop.
erty the same as If he were native.born
citizen, and never was that doctrine
enunclated in statute of this. country
by the democratic party, nor was it ever
done until, as I said, the republican
party announced that doctrine, and it
was because of the fact that persons of
foreign birth who had taken the oath
of allegiance to this country returned to
their former homes and were impressed
into the army. Now, then, why should
Gov. Hendricks say here last night that
the republican party had failed to per.
form Its duty toward foreign.born citi-
zens?
am sorry to have man running for
the high Office that he is make such q
statement when he must know that be
can be contradlcted by the very statutes
on the books, and the dates given, and
that the republican party performed an
act that he claimed never was performed
BY them.
"Let me return again to the fact, pass.
ing back to 1850 and 1861, and speaking
Of the democratic party failing to sup.
port the republican party in the proper
way in sustaining the armies Of the Uni.
ted States. I should like to call your
attention to the fact that when the
proclamation was issued suppressinR
slavery in this country the democratic
party everywhere opposed it in congress
and ont OF congress, and no act has eveI
been passed yet in favor OF human free
dom, and in favor Of the liberty that
God intended man should enjoy BY thu
democratic party in or out of congress-
| Applausel
The opposition Of the democratic party
toward the amendments to the const,tu