The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-09-09
H0ADLY'S SPEECH,
Delivered at Hamilton, Ohio on Saturday
Evening.
- Fair and Thorough Discussion of the Live
Issues of the Ohio Comprehension Sher-
man and MIR. Foraker Handsomely
Handled by the Governor
of Ohio.


ing is the speech in full, with the exception
of The Governors remarks on some purely
local matters. He said
Fellow Citizens of Butler County:
Two years ago opened in your midst the can
vass which resulted in Democratic success. Sur
rounded now by the friends who gave me then
the magnificent majority of 1895 in this Gibraltar
of Democracy ask fora renewed expression OF
confidence, and for an increased majority, which
shall express with emphasis your opinion that
Democratic success, as proved by results, means
not only good government, means reform, Union,
personal liberty, economy, no fraud no dis
guises, no cOncealmcnts- open dealing and can
did treatment OF the public III afairs-State and
National.
The Ohio election will express the opinion OF the
people upon my administration and that of the
SXtySiXth General Assembly. 1t Is the first State
election after the Inauguration of Cleveland and
Hendricks. 1t viii therefore be regarded aS the
expression OF popular Judgment upon the policies
OF the President and his advisers. OF these / ask
your approval confident that Democratic success
means good government, state and National,
which ought not to be rebuked by defeat.
The leader of the Republicans OF Ohio has care
tuly prepared the appeal of his party and sent il
from The stump through the press to the country
He waves the bloody shirt-he indOrses the policy
of alienation and hate-he seeks to transplant and
cultivate in this country the feelings of the Eng
lish aristocracy toward the Irish to array section
against section, to govern the South from the
North as Dublin Castle governs Ireland IS a con-
quered province, and all this in the year OF grace
49, twenty years and more after the close OF the
The average life of an ordinary generation
is thirty years Owing to the casualties OF war,
which cost our country at least million lives.
the duration of the generation now passing away
has been less than this Twenty-Five years have
elapsed since Mr.. LincOln's election. Five-siXths,
perhaps more, of the men who devised rebellion,
the men who fought ITS battles ana the men who
Overcame it, have passed away The great civil aud
the great military leaders. Lincoln aud Grant,
both sleep in graves believed by the tears OF the
whole Nation South and North; for both died
with words upon their lips and feelings in their
hearts OF charity TO all, malice towards none
Seward an summer Chase and EpgSpu1pu DOuu-
lass and stephens, Lee and breckenridge, these
are historic, not living names. Alone OF the
authors OF rebellion. JEFF Davis survives Boys
born when the war broke out have been voting
for three years past BOYS born after the war viii
vote next year. Boys TOO young to bear arms are
now mature men OF thirty-hve There IS new
South and new North. new generation, tull
OF new life is at work. \ very large portion of
the people of the south have never seen a slave,
and have lived under no other regime but that of
universal suffrage. Is il not time for the Sher-
mans and the FOrakerS 10 accept the results OF
the and no longer to continue in battles
Eight million bales of cotton, the probable crOD
OF this year. is in sight. There are no idlers in
the south why crOak in the North? White men
south j. developing new industries weaving cot
ton cloth, digging coal and iron, forging steel.
God and nature, religion aud the human heart,
the forces against which sherman and Fora
ker contend, and Foster plots
To the policy OF alienation, we oppose Union:
for hate we substitute love; we welcome the new
South and the old South. old men and boys, faith
eTs and sons. not as allies merely in a crusade
affection and blood. We bid them all, white and
black, join Us in the great march OF Union and
liberty, TO the peaceful conquest of the future.
Let us have peace" said General Grant many
years ago. His eyes at last saw 1t. 81 have wit
messed said his dying voice 'since my sickness,
Just what have wished to see ever since the war
harmony and good feeling between sections"
And again, rejoicing in the present, he prOphe-
sled the future in words OF glowing hope. 1--WE
at home, and a national strength that will screen
us against any foreign complication.
Let then Danish these unmanly fears OF
Southern wrOng-dOing and esgerate
occasional personal conflicts into OF races
Danville and COpiah are worn out. Turn out
some new grist Oh grinders of the outrage MILL
Home rule and as little application of the ''eter-
nal principle of regulation as Is consistent with
the greatest liberty OF all will in time cure all the
Mr. Sherman will fail in his efforts to stir the
dying embers Of sectional luminosity. Ohio has
not forgotten what General GarheldEso well
said
The man who attempts to get trpra:politieal
excitement IN this country on the old sectional
issues will find himself without party ana with
out support. The man who wants to serve his
ing Thought and that is the restoration of bust
ness. trade, commerce, industry, sound political
economy. hard money and honest payment OF all
obligations; and the man who can add anything
in the direction of the accomplishment of any of
these purposes is a public benefact0r."
The Solid South, Have Senator Sherman and
Judge Foraker forgotten that there was once a
Republican Solid south, and what became OF it
the south OF Moses and Madison Wells, Of ParsOn
BrownlOw and Yarmouth OF Dennis. "the little
giant of Alachua, who invented tissue ballots; Of
the strumpet, Betty Higgins, and the chaplain
who joined efforts to debluch the Legislature aud
bankrupt the Treasury OF Tennessee; the Solid
South of Kellogg and Eliza PinkstOn2 But a few
years ago every Southern State, except Kentucky,
had a Republican Governor and Legislature.
Where are they nOw2 Some in exile and some in
prison, and their party, like Hans Breitmann's
barry, "all gone away, in die EwlSkeit lied
away, as marsh miasma evaporates before the sun:
Garland and Bayard, two members OF the COnfed-
crate Congress and one man who SympathiZed
with them, are at the head OF great departments
MT. Key at the head of the Postolice Department.
one Confederate in the Cabinet was all right, but
twO-tAo are Iamentable concession TO treason.
No, not quite thlS even Akerman was proper
| Attorney General. and Key most becoming Post
master General, but two at time, Garland and
| Lamar tOgeher-aye, there's the rub. The 'ars
OF CrOcOdiles are freely shed, as Sherman softly
sings. ''lnsatiate archer, would not one suffice
| MOSby, Madison Wells, MahOne and Chalmers
the guerrilla the Returning Board, the repudiatol
and the Fort Pillow butcher, all these have
| had their garments washed, but Lawton and
Jackson, Jonas and Lamar and Garland, the bes
and purest of the South. these to our senator are
the unregenerate children OF the political satan
| unfit to serve the Republic
| And Bayard. too is a bug-a-boo with which Il
| brighten epublicanS.-Bayard who '-sympa
thized not quite 50 long, nor yet so furioIlsly a
| logan, whose name il used to delight the New
York Tribune to adOrn with the prefix OF I'd. W.
| dirty work John A. Logan be ause he boasteC
/ of his delight in doing the dirty work" vi re
And all this thatJOhn sherman may De senator
/ or perhaps President. with our beloved Foster TO
/ Senator. and that Foraker may be Governor
What can an opposition Senator do for Ohio
| \ chronic negative, a continuing scOd, ruunin.
| sore OF petty party complaint, is not what vii
| best serve Ohio. Let us put equally sOunt
| Democrat by the side OF Henry b. Payne, To ioiI
| him i'm generous support of Grover Cleveland
helping 70 settle the silver question, TO settle tn
Mormon difficulty. 10 revise the tariff on the line
| OF principle stated in the Chicago Democratic
! platform, and 10 reform the civil service.
| Against Senator sherman s appeals for disuniOn
! we set the good work OF the Democratic party. il
| President and Cabinet, and their declared aim
| and purposes. / ask for reelection, not for m
| own sake but because il will be understood a
| OhiO's endorsement of these.
| No doubt there are dissatisfied Democrats. Yes
| and fortunately there are satisfied Republicans
| How much better would either have felt, ha
| Blaine and Logan triumphed2 In January, lS6.
| Mr.. Lincoln said to my friend Nj. d. Conway
Most OF us here present have been nearly all on
l lives working in minOritieS and may have 60
| into n habit of being dissatisfied
Speaking at q jollifcation meeting in this cit
last November plead for generous confidence j
| our newly elected President, and that every Dem
ocrat. educated though he might have been 70
twenty-fOur years in opposition, should treat hin
with sympathy and guard against carping crit
| cism. Leave that TO sherman and Foraker.
| Now, ask for more. / solicit approval. not fol
beaTance. Mr.. Cleveland has held Office ST
months. Congress has not been i'm session, ye
much has been accomplished. The spirit OF n
haU ha1l ffa4sN