Year: 1879

North regret either. want this country
so divided politically that II the Republican
party may behave badly In any State, 1t Will
be safe to let the other party defeat them.
That Is the safety Of our nstitutione-parttes
watching each other carefully and jealousy.
But we have seen the spectacle Of a solid
South again ready to rule the people OF this
country and its institutions, and that solid
South to-day rules the Democratic party In
caucus, the caucus rules the Congress, and II
Congress rules the couHtry, then the country
is ruled by the majority of Southern people,
who are In 1t as against the majority OF the
people, 1t Is the situation OF the party we
confront, and when they meet us with solid
South the evil is on both sides. We are com
PEELED to meet them with solid North.
| don't speak against the Southern
people. There arc honorable men among
them everywhere, and II / had the ear of the
whole South this would be my advice to
them; 1.-THE worst adviser you have had was
the Northern Democracy" Let me delay you
now long enough to say that In 1851, when
the South raised this army against the Union,
II the Democratic part of the North had stood
up like one man loyal to the Government and
said, "You shall not be permitted to go out"
ave Join with all good men to prevent you
going out" how long would the war have
lasted. 1t would not have begun. But it was
becatlse here I'm our glorious State oil ONO
they were told that II we ever undertook to
20 South with our armes we would have TO





Before we crossed the Ohio Rivcr; 1t Is be-
cause all over this NOrthland the Democrats
made the Democrats South believe there
would be fighting In our own ranks instead Oh
the South II they seeded. That is what pre-
cipitated the rebellion and brought on their
defeat. And again in 1867, when we were Just
about closing the great era of reconstruction,
| the fatal advice of Andrew johnson to the
| Southern people when he said, Reject all
propositions OF reconstruction and stand by
| nd I uytIl ri Wit H.
| tions," that fatal advice cost them another
| serious loss; and now, to-day, while talk to
| you, this great mistake they are making at
| Washington has been made, not originally by
| Confederate Brigadiers OF the South, but 1t
was made by Northern Democrats telling
these Southern men "Stand by us and refuse
| the appropriations and we can coerce the
President into anything we please
Under their lead these Southern Brigadiers
committed the fatal blunder Of attempting to
refuse payments to carry on the Government
under the laws until those laws had been torn
| from the statute books. And then we came
up and said that as the people of the country
rallied to support and defend the Union In
1861, when you threatened to shoot II TO death,
so now from every hillside and valley, and
from every freside, the people OF this country
will go and bear their offerings, II need be, to
feed and maintain and keep alive the Govern
ernment of their country, because 1t is being
attempted to starve it to death by men who
have the custody of our funds.


The same spirit that defended It will feed it..
| / have no fear that these men will now be
able to starve our Government to death. They
have gone so far in this spirit that believe
they haven't now the courage to back out,
and every day they keep us tarrying in Wash
ington will be making votes against the Dem
ocratic party and for us. II you shall not see
us again until this fall you may know it is be-
cause we are serving you in the halls of Con
gress more effectively than we could be on
the stump here.


Now, fellow-citizens, let us therefore stand
together here as we came together to day
This fight will be over by and by, but behind
it will come that larger, more important, more
permanent question, the maintenance and
protection OF the public faith to which we are


pledged. Years ago, in the midst of our
mighty war, when God was letting the thun-
derbolts of war loose, we pledged the awful
faith of this Republic that its just debt should
all be paid, and, through evil and good fort


une, the Republican party has maintained
the honesty and good faith of the Republic
against repudiators here and repudiators
throughout the country.


Less than a year ago they announced the re


sumption of specie payments as an impossible


ity They said it could not be done, and nov


where are we! | point you to what hat


elapsed since the LIST of January. Out of that
great fund of coin for the resumption OF spe


Gle payments only 900 have been used


and at the same time 80, 900, 900 have come in


to the Treasury. The resumption fund is to


day SIS ,000, 600 stronger than it was on the Isl


day of January. Do they dare attack 1t now
They are attacking 1t, but they may as well


bay the moon and expect to bring that silver
orb down 10 the earth by barking at it, as tC


bring back resumption of specie payments tC


its former condition. Our bulwark of defense


is now our Ohio President, who will be trut


man to the faith in the future, as he has beer


in the past


Apologizing for OBTAINING you so long,


will say, in conclusion, the spirit of this con


venton which l have witnessed to-day, tina


said whether Taft or Foster, one man or thu
other, which ever will be chosen, we are TO


our choice. The Republican party is greater
than Foster, greater than Taft, is the righ


spirit. We Will rally In the old SPIRIT and
on the broad principle of love of humanity
, defend all the just rights that belong TO tht
State, but look up as we see the stars over thu


earth and the great central luminary of thu
universe. have often in my mind likeneC
our Union and our States to the solar system


which God arranged into the universe. Th'
earth has its laws terrestrial as the State ha
, its laws, according to which all things on tn
earth exist. What is the earth without tn
, system to which she belongs2 The centra
T sun folding all these planets in her clasp a
/. they roll in their orbits, preserves its unit
3 and glory, and illuminates with its light. s,


the State, each In its way, has its own laws
and own rights, and own individuality, too


within the State, but beyond the central sui
of the United States shines with it's equa
, right, and equal laws and equal liberty upo


all the States and all inhabitants of all tn
, States and no more can you knock State ou
of its Federal orbit of the Federal Union tha
, you can snatch Jupiter from its mighty ort
, Thanking you, my fellow citizens and bid
, ding you cheer and God speed in the can
paign now to open, bid you good night.