Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-04
REPuBLlCANIsM VS.. DEMOCRACY.

the campaign was delivered at Los
Angeles. California, August 2lst, by
Hon. William Williams, OF Indiana, ex.
From that speech We ex-
tract the following:
Before proceeding to the discussion OF
the great issue of the camgaign-snd let
me state that it is the one grand issue
upon which the hearts of 60,000,00O OF
people to day are pulsating faster and
great event when II 100000 OF loyal
voters shall next November decide the
issue, an iesue in It's grand elimination
which Is exoelled only in the mind of
Milton IN his description of that awful
contest between the archangel and the
adversary of man-let US inquire what
legacy this young party got from these
old demoorats2 They had control of
she government 40 years, with but two
and now let US see what
kind OF capital they gave Us upon when
to commence business. They gave us
first, o country $90,000,0O0 in debt, with
q dishonored national credit and bank
rupt treasury. Why, the doors of your
treasury were thrown wide open, and
the spider was reclining on his gossamer
couch in its empty wall Laughter. |
james Buchanan had taken the last 800
gold piece as his salary. and if you had
been near the president about that time,
you could have heard il singing, as it
went into his pocket, "Farewell, vain
world, I'm going home" daughter ]
They gave us more. They gave us a
country with her industries paraly zed;
they closed up and drowned ont the
fires OF your great rolling-mills and
factories, and had chained up the great
water wheels 10 the valleys OF the New
England mountains.
The looms and the spindles was silent,
and the laboring man, with his wife and
and her baby 10 her arms, stood with
psllid cheek, beholdlng the vast desola-
tion that surrounded them. They gave
as currency go debased that it required
US when we left Chicago for New York,
at every state line to suffer 5 per cent,
discount in order to pay our hotel bills
Laughter They gave Us dishonere6
national credit. In 1852 MIR. Cobb,
secretary OF the treasury under
Buchanan, went down to New York
with Sic, 600 900 of 6 per cent. govern.
ment bonds to get some money to run
the government. They had no surplus
then, You know. Laughter. He went
down to Wall street and perambulated
back and forth, and could fnd no man
who wanted to bny them at par, and he
wrote bsck letter to Mr.. Buchanan,
saying that they didn't sell very we'll
[laughterI but il he could get the states
TO indorse them, he thought they would
go. Why, the idea of asking little
state to indorse the government bonds
of 4O,000,0U0 of people. Why, it would
be just like asking poor devil like me
to 1ndorse Hellman's note. But he
finally succeeded in selling $l5. 100000 OF
bonds at 8711a cents on the dollar. Now,
my old democratic brother, don't you
think that was a pretty slim financial
transaction? laughter.
But they gave us more. They gave
as country with 4 100000 of human
ehattels put up on the auction block to
sell the blood and bones OF humanity,
They gave us more still. They gave as
q country rent with civil war, and James
Buchanan's last valediotory message
wss that there was no power in the con-
stitution to save the country! That is
the legacy they gave us. Laughter.
A pretty poor capital, my democratic
brother, TO stert business on, for young
party, was it not? Laughter and ap-
plause.l
On the 4th Of March, 1861, I stood
upon the east portlco of your naEioDal
capitol, surrounded by 10000 anxious
human faces. saw tall man, old Abrs
ham Lincoln-God bless him u Cheers
raise up that long bony arm and take
the oath to preserve, protect and defend
the constitution and the union. I tol.
lowed him to,the white house. pale and
anxious. and he took mp James Blu
chanan's message and read: There IL
no power in the constitution tc
save the life uf the nation" He
rose mp aud said: "ThiH is the land oul
fathers gave us, and that God has de-
creed by our towering mountainR, Ions
rivers and broad lakes, shonid be one
people, one government, one constitu
tion and one flag. [Cheers.] There il
power to save the unionp' Applause.
He called for volunteers, and the farmer
left his plow, the mechanic his shop, tht
lawyer his Office, the merchant hi
counting room, and the watohman from
the walls OF Zion came down! and IL
your great northern colleges the studen
threw aside his Greek. his Latin and hi
grammar, and, imprinting kiss upor
.hfs brow u vile and mother, they wen
ont and bore mp with their staiws.
arms the ensign of the republic over tn,
ramparts OF treason, and left no stain o
dishonor on the national flag. Cheers,
After four years OF terrible and destrue
tive war, your MANNED surviving col
diera came back home. bearing the OF
flag, baptized in the blood OF 100000
patriot sons, and not star erased from
its szure field We did that-we repub
licans, and you democrats understand
that. Laughter and applause.
We did moro: We passed the Morril
tariff bill in 1861. We relit the fires o
the old furnaces that had gone out; W
added $50. 900 new factories; we unchain
ed the great water wheels. and we Sc
the great American people to work t
make boots, hats, caps. blankets an,
clothing for our soldiers who were fight
fpg the battles Of our country. Why
you know we hadn't guns enough; o
first, to arm the boys. Southern dem
ocrsts had stolen them ail, nearly
Laughter We had to send off and ge
these old Belgian nuskets which we,
more likely to kick and kill the me
that held them than to kill the enem
in front OF them. Laughter. But "
started. and built in twenty.four yeai
Z 156. GOO manufacturing establishment,