Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-07-05
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The methods the Republicans Intepd
to adopt In the coming campaign may
be pretty well inferred from the tenor
'of the convention oratory. That 1t
will largely consist Of personal abuse Of
the President is, therefore, 10 Be ex-
what Thusstoh omitted ID say 10 lis
opening speech Geyernpr Fofaler sup
pleniented "Wednesday evening. Now
it is nothing that prairie transformer
or school district orator in the hight of
political canvass should try to tickle
his audienceswi hard phrases,and
fall 70 cursing like n drab. One ex-
poets such things at award meetings,
and they have come to be looked on in
American politics very much as mat
ter OF course. There is always some
thing of the ruffian touch in stump
oratOry, and it Is generally duly dis
counted and passed for what It is worth.
When an, orator fails in elevated
thought and ennobling sentiment he
must resort to coarse humor and black
guard epithets or his audience will go
off i'm bad humor with him. Hence,
when he cannot excite them to noble
thoughts he makes them laugh with
degrading ones, and SO the immediate
purpose is answered. ~ 81 Z,
But in "a vast presentative AUDI
ence, where the intelligence, the cul-
ture, and the refinement of great
party is assembled, for an orator to
adopt the methods of the grog shops
and ordinary hummer gatherings,
shows how very far short he comes of
realizing the occasion; shows, indeed,
of what diminutive mental stature he
must be. AT such a time, if ever, a
man should be an. orator if he have it
in him to be an orator. Think how
Clay or-Webster, or Sergeant =. Prem
tiss, or Seward, would have moved and
stirred that grand audience, elevated
their thoughts and feelings, and carried
them away in his sweep of resistless
speech! ra. ru,... s s-ro9 af,...
Orator Foraker could not move his
audience by elevated thought and so he
must needs resort to the buffoon meth
ods of the stumper. He could not play
the orator, so he played the demagogue
and 1t seems from the report that his
illusions to the President of the United
States stirred up a mighty laughter.
fIe- said the Republican candidate
would be gentleman. This is a rather
indefinite term in this country and gen.
orally needs explanation. Usually any
person who behaves with politeness to
others and Is considerate of their feel
ings, is called gentleman; in fact
gentlemanliness is supposed to consist
largely i'm this. But evidently Foraker
himself does not come within this def
milton, and as, he looks upon himself as
d possible clark horse" he could not
have been thinkingo of that kind of q
gentleman. There are definitions Of a
gentleman that would exclude Mr..
Depew, and there are many that would
include such men as Grover Cleveland
and Judge Gresham, but would ex-
clude Mr., Foraker He further said
this candidatew be man of good
moral character. ,a. IL, ,.gt.-,,-... fl,g,
Z 1t is difficult to say which of the last
two Republican candidates Mr.. Fora
with this ,rasping insult to, his own
party, and whether he was alluding to
the moral character of Garfield or to
the moral character of the plumed
knight, whether he had in mind the
purlieus of Washington city or the
Mulligan letters. Both forms of i'm
moralities are bad in a candidate, and
it will be well if this convention,l avoid
ing the mistakes Foraker has pointed
out, will put gentleman in nomina-
ton who really has some moral charac-
ter, Judging by the efforts of the past,
it seems to be a difficult thing
The candidate Mr.. Foraker spoke of
is also to have social standing in the
community. II that simply is to be
the test the convention might as well
at once take Grover Cleveland. No
man in this country has higher social
standing than the President of the
United States. Do the best they can,
and assume that Depew stands highest
socially of any of the aspirants before
the convention, yet he could not be
elected over the President on that
issue. j..
Thus it may be seen what an utterly
futile and foolish speech this fantastic
Foraker made on an occasion when, if
he had been of the right metal, he
might have made great oration. ~