The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-09-10
GOV. HOADLY.
he OPENS THE CHIC CAMPAIGN
BY a STRONG SPEECH.
Tho Issues NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
and FOraker's Bloody
Shirt Tactics.

HAMILTON, O., September 5.--CiOv. HOadly
| formally opened the campaign here this even
| ing in speech which occupied tao hours III
It's delivery. He faced Il large audience and
| beginning his address said:
Fellow citizens OF Butler county: Two
years ago / opened in your midst the canvass
which resulted in democratic success. .Sdr-
| rounded by the friends who gave me then The
| magnificent majority OF 2,S93 ir tins gibraltar
| OF democracy. ask for 2renewed expression
OF confidence and Ter an increased majority
| ion that democratic success, as proved
| by r15ults, means not only good
government, but means reform, unlSn,
persOD' her'U- economy, no fraud, no DIS
! ar-i- sz.iment, open de Iling and can
u.csuC 81, pubic atfairS-S!ate and ma
Fii0nal. The Ohio election Will express the
opinion o. the people upon my administration,
aud that of the sixty sixth general assembly.
1t is the first stale election since the luaCgura-
ton of Cleveland and Hendricks. 1t Will
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 sue
cess means good gOvernment-State and La
tiOnal- which ought not he reDuked.
The leader of the republicans of Ohio has
carefully prepared the appeal OF his party,
and sent it from the stump through the press.
TO the country. He waves the bloody shirt.
He endorses the policy OF alienation al d hate.
lie seeks to transplant and cultivate in the
country the feelings of the English aristOcracy
iowa d the Irish; to array section against
section; to govern the south from the north,
as Dublin CdStlo governs 1lClttllu ID d COii-
querec province, and all this in the year of
grace, 1855. twenty years and more,
after the c,OSe of the war, The
average life of an ordinary
generation is thirty years. Owing 10 the
casualties of war, which cost cur country at
least million lives, the duration OF the gener-
alton now passing away has been less than
this. Twenty-Five yeas have elapsed since
Mr.. LincOln's election. Five-siXthS, perhaps
more, of the men who devised the rebellion,
the men who fought its battles and the men
vino OVercame it, have PASSED away. The
great civil and reat military leaders, Lincoln
and Grant, both steep i'll their graves nedewed
north. For both died with words upon their
lips and fell IS in their hearts OF
charity to all, malice toward none"
Seward and Sumner, Chase and FeSSenden,
Douglass and Stephens, Lee and Breckenridge
these are historic, not living names. Alone,
of the authors OF the rebellion, jefferson Davis
survives. Boys born when the war broke out
have been voting for three years past. Boys
born after the war will vote next year. Boys
too young then to bear arms are now mature
men OF 30. There is Il new south and new
north; a new generation full OF new lie IS at
work. A very large proportion OF the people
of the south nave never seen slave,
regime but that of universal suffrage, Is it
not time for the ShermanS and the FOrakers
to accept the suits of the war and no longer
to continue in battle. S,O00,LOO bales OF cotton,
the probable crop of this year, is in sight.
There are no iGlerS in the south. Why croak
side by side at work. The south Is developing
new Industries, weaving cotton cloth digging
coal and iron and forging steel. G,d and ma
ture religion and the human heart, are the
force against which Sherman and Foraker
contend and Foster pos "