Year: 1879

Mr.. EyartSS speech III Now loih-J


You may very we'll understand, gentlemen,
that people having this attachment to suf-
rage, and this intelligence of its vital impor-
tance, don't like very we'll, when election day
comes, to throw it away. They don't like very
well to see any of their neighbors throw it
away. They don't like very we'll to see any
other of their countrymen jostled and hustled
at the polls. so that they can't exercise the
suffrage; and so, when it comes to be practi-
cal question, you find the strong sense of the
American people requiring a very good account
from any citizen who thinks it worth his while
to stay away from the polls, or to vote so that
his vote won't count. Applause and laugh
teri 1t is bad enough to have to vote under
circumstances where your vote won't be
counted [laughterl, but it is great deal worse
to vote so that your vote can't count at all.
[Applause] Well now, gentlemen, we don't
vote in the air We don't vote for abstract
principles. We don't even vote whether the
Republican party, or the Democratic party, or
the Greenback party shall be uppermost in
this country. The only way that we vote is to
vote for some candidate that represents the
party that we want uppermost [applausel, and
the principles and measures and policies which
we want engrafted upon the political action OF
the government; and the only way we can do
that is by voting for some candidate that is
produced in the method of our politics for the
suffrages of his fellow citizens.


Now, when names do not wholly comport
with the private judgment of this or that citi-
zen as to what would have the best impersona-
Az nv M the
what is the voter to do? Why, do as every
sensible man does when placed in a situation
where action one way or the other Is to be
taken-give to the leading principle and the
leading interest the determination OF what he
shall do. Ii anybody does not think the main
tenance in power of the Republican party in
the councils and authority of the Nation is an
important thing, let him deposit his vote upon
some lesser consideration. Laughter Ii he
does not think it of any Importance whether
Mr.. Cornell [applause) or Mr. Robinson or
Mr.. Kelly is fit to be Governor OF the State OF
New York, why let him vote for all these, and
his ballot will be thrown out lLaughterl Ii
you do not think it is of anv Importance next
year how the State of New York goes this
year, why then vote in the air, but never lose
sight of this general duty, which never can be
safely neglected. If any Republican voter
thinks he can serve his party better now and
better in the future by voting for Governor
Robinson or for Mr.. Kelly, in Gods name let
him do so. [Applausel If he thinks the best
thing he can do with his precious gift OF the
suffrage, given to him for his own right ana
as a trust for all this country all over it-if he
thinks the best thing for him to do with that
precious trust is to fold it away in napkin,
let him be sure that when disasters come he
has nothing to answer for, that his conscience
will excuse him then for deserted duty


CLAIMS OF THE CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR


Now, gentlemen, there are several candi-
dates before the people OF the State OF New
York; for their suffrageS and as you never
know how man will vote until election day,
it is but fair that / should present fairly to
you the claims of these candidates. In the
first place, Mr.. Cornell stands before you
[applause] as citizen without reproach, as
man who has been for many years in the coun-
ellis of the party and in the political service OF
the State. The Speaker of your House, the
second place in the Government, a candidate
ten years ago for Lieutenant Governor and
elected but counted out [applause, he stands
before you as the representative OF Republlcan
principles, and rs the only candidate by the
deposit in whose favor of your votes you can
assist in making those principles supreme in
the State of New York. [Applause] He car
ries nobody on his back. Laughter The
power and strength of the Republican party,
as gained by the addition of the State OF New
York in the next Presidential contest is the only
political purpose that he represents, and that
strength of the State OF New York is to be
given to the candidate of the next National
Convention, whoever he may be [ApplauseI.


Well, now we have Governor Robinson, an
excellent Republican for considerable period
of his life Applause and laughter], a favorite
of the party, and crowned with its honors and
ing fsa another aa 10y Gover2o ANA
tunately following still another Governor
mean General Dix [applausel, in whose ad-
ministration is rooted that growth OF dept-pay-
ing, tax-producing, job-crushing, good govern
ment, the flowers of which adorn the brow OF
Governor Tilden, and the fruit of which is
spread upon Governor Robinson's banquet
table. Laughter and applausel But who IS
that Governor Robinson carries on his back?
Who is this Jockey? [Great Laughter Who
is this jockey in black and white renewed
laughter), so arranged that now the white shall
be black and the black shall be white?
Who is it that rides this steed in the race for
the Governorship? Nobody can tell [laughterl;
that is, until after election. [Renewed laugh
teri If after election the Governor is elected,
then it will be Tilden that rode him, but if he
is defeated, then it will be Pelton lgreat laugh
ter and it won't have been any race at all,
but "futile dalliance" renewed laughter],
opinion as to who this jockey is until after the
election. Indeed, when think of our fellow
citizens and my friend Governor Tilden as
future candidate of the party for Presidential
election, feel great distress both for him and
for his countrymen. [Great laughterl For
the first, that whereas we have always heard
that it was very bad thing to have candi-
date that had to be put ON self-defense, Gov
ernor Tilden would carry that point so far that
he would have to be put upon continuous
series of self denials, which are not very agree
able in politics. But am distressed also for
his countrymen for really do not see what
security they will have after the election n,a is
that they chose and not Tilden. Great
laughter.1 And how can they get along with
that?


Well, Mr. Kelyl Mr.. Kelly is riderless
horse. He does not need any spur and he
won't bear any bit. He is determined to
maintain the great principles of the Tammany
party-the great principles of the Democracy
of the city-namely, that Tammany Hall and
the city plunder belong to him. Laughter
and appIause.] And woe be to any Democrat
that undertakes to interfere with that.
ILaughter.] His motto to his own party is
''Tammany shall rule or ruin his motto to
the Republican party is Sacrifice Tilden and
I will die in neacev 1Iauphter.I