Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-30
SQUARE REPUBLICAN TALK.
Extracts from the Speeches at the Madison
Garden New York; Meeting.

from the Opening Speech of Pres Choate.l
When look around upon this vast as
sembly, composed not only of veteran Re-
publicans, who through good and evil re-
port, in defeat and in triumph alike, have
adhered to the fortunes of the party, but
also of the hundreds and thousands of
those who We're lately estranged from us,
think we may well call it reunion of
the scattered and divided forces of the
Republican party. Applausel. The full
blooded lions OF the party and the half
breed lions Of the party have kissed each
other. The mugWump i'll his spotless
linen and the stalWart in his bloody shirt
they are lying in the same bed together
once more, ana dreaming of common
victory. Applause The wandering
prodigal- vi our party have returned to
the family hoard. Tney found no com
fort or consolation in The cold into which
they had ~nut themselves Let us hope
that DO one OF item thought to Till him
self with The hu9Ks on which the swine
did feed Tor alas, if any OF them ever
hoped for it, there was nothing but dsap-
pontmcut IN store, and though we may
not hope. fellow citizens, to Kill for them
the fattc~t calf, or 90 put the best robes
upon them, or To give them the chief seats
at the family taDle-dt any rate, not all ut
once-Why, at any rate, we can and do
welcome them to II return to their Old
allegiance, and we congratulate them and
ourselves that they once more stand IN
the places where they always belonged,
and from which would to God that they
had never departed. Applause
From senator Edmunds'S specchl
Only twenty years az this very time
nearly every Democrat in the Senate
r the Unit, d States, on the "yeas" and
mays" voted AGAINST securing equal
rights to men in this country They voted
just as the Tories do in England and us
the Bourbons do IN France. Nearly if
not quite every Democratic in
the Senate of the United States
voted against that great declaration
now in the Constitution of the United
States that no man should be deprived
of his right rs an American citizen to
vote for the man of his choice by reason
of his race or his color or his previous
condition in life.
What kind of Democracy, | should be
glad to know, is that which does these
things in the law-making assemblies o:
the people 50 that every good measure
repeat, i the work of the Republican
party, from The beginning of the war
which was the beginning of the Republi
party ncaIly-it was beaten in one elec
ton IN l~l6, it Is true, which it recovered
from i'm 1850, as it las been beaten in the
last election and which it will in the
Applause, But in every one of these
in every statute of your statute-books-
everything that has been put into you
Constitution has been the work of the Re
publican party against the almost sole
opposition of the Democratic party
Now let me allude for one single mo
ment, because | shall not keep you long
TO what my friend governor Foraker ha
stated touching the question of the free
dom and the purity of the ballot in tn,
Southern States. In the election of mem
beIs of Congress the people of the State o
New York have just as great interest il
the State of Louisiana and California a
they have in this State or in Vermont be
cause the LOusianian when he comes t.
Washington makes the laws for you, 70
me, just as much as for his own State
They are bound to protect our interest
Just as much as those of the people of tn
State of Louisiana, Therefore every fraud
every wrong committed against the RICH
of the people of that State to vote fairl
and freely as they chose is crime com
committed against me and against you
And should be glad to see any man VIII
had the courage to stand mp here or in tn