Year: 1874

600 inhabitants, will have 100, 000, 600; and the
great questions in relation to capital and labor
transportation, the industrial interests OF OUT
country, and other great issue now beginning
to agitate the public mind, all devolye upon
this epubhcan party for a glorious solution.


believe to-day with You, fellow citizens,
that we have met to put before the people of
the State OF Michigan ticket that will be borne
tr1umphantly through the canvass to the close
May wisdom guide you In your deliberations
and success crown your efforts in this State.


GOV. BAGLEY'S SPEECH.


Mr.. Chairman aud Fellow Republicans


served my time at the business in which
now am engaged with an old Puritan man Of
the old school, rigid in discipline. ! gave HIM
(as most boys presume give their employers)
great deal OF trouble, and it seemed pleas
ure to him to tell me that / gave him trouble.
He used to scold, and no doubt deserved il ;
but remember we'll, after had had week Of
pretty severe scolding, that / said to him one
day, Colonel do ecer do anything right ~
"Why, OF course you do" he replied; Z" if you
did not, should not keep you" I said to HIM,
"Why don't you say so then ~" Well, he
replied, sit is your duty to do right, and you
deserve no praIsefor 1t"


And you, my fellow Republicans of this
grand old State OK Michigan, although as critic
al of my faults and errors, yet how much more
generous you have been to me to-day! And
need / say how kindly, how deeply, how hearth
" appreciate your kind words and treatment


have Just returned from a trip across and
around this State Of Michigan. Leaving De-
troit. with it's hundred manufacturing chlmneys
piercing the sky; passing through the great
rich agricultural district of Central aud south
ern Michigan; crossing the fruit belt OF the
State, and seeing upon tie great lakes hun
dred vessels, owned by our own people GROSS
ing the great pine belt and entering the great
belt of hardwood timber. and then into the
Lake Superior region, with its mines OF -EJn,
copper, quarnes Of slate and sandstone thence
proceeding homeward, passing the salt basins
of Lake Huron and the Sagnaws, the thought
came to me every day, on that trip, with every
revolution of the wheels Of the locon otive and
the steamboat, OF the great and varied interests
of Michigan, and what noble empire had been
entrusted to us. The thought came to me,
how closely allied are all these interests one to
another, and how the prosperity OF one is the
terest is disaster to all.


And could not but think during that trip,
OF these mighty and valuable interests, which
had been intrusted to you, my fellow citizens,
and through you to me, to help foster, protect,
encourage, and develop. These things make
me appreciate most heartily the honor and Dig
nifty OF the position which you have once con-
ferred upon me, and which ! suppose. God
willing, you propose TO do again.


have but very little to say OF the past, nor
have ] many promises to make for the future;
but as look upon the whole past history OF
this State and it's government, and the devel-
opment and growth OF our educational and
charitable institutions, cannot but feel what
a grand, good, blessed, glorious old State Mich
gan is, and how well-throwing out the past
two years-it has been governed, with not
stain upon the escutcheon Of the State.


We have reduced it's indebtedness we have
reduced Its taxation; we have given hearty
support to almost every charitable institution
of which the human imagination could con-
ceive: we have cared for the deaf, the dumb,
and the blind the insane, the unfortunate, the
criminal, the pauper, and last Of all, we have
reached out the great hand OF the State to the
little children, whom we thought, from their
circumstances and surroundings. were going
in the road that leads all the way down hill.
We have done all this with decreasing taxa
ton and decreasing debt. Within the last two
years we have paid :724.000 Of the debt OF
the State Of Michigan


There are some latter-day prophets who tell
us we have got too much money IN the Treas
ury. II is the first time have heard the charge
made as a fault in any State or its officers ;
but it Is well to remember, whether this charge
comes from friend or foe, or from those who
know nothing about it, that all the money In
the Treasury Of Michigan comes there through
the acton of the organic law,-the Constitu-
tion.-which ties up (thank God, foreverD the
specific taxes OF the State for certain pur-
poses. remember very we'll VIM. A. How
ard saying, in his address at the laying Of the
cornerstone of the new Capitol, that it was
to the credit OF the State of Michigan that
the impious hand OF no Governor nor no par
ty had ever reached for the trust funds of this
State. I want to say to you that | shall not
be the first Governor to put my hands upon
the trust funds of the State of Michigan. IL
you do not want this money in the Treasury,
you must change the Constitution but just 30
long as your Constitution stands as it does to-
day, these funds will remain untouched by ev-
cry honest man.


thank you for your cordial friendship dis
played to me to-day, by the hearty unanimity
with which you have gwen me the second nom
State.


Tpr naner i'm Scrihners for Aup11st which