Year: 1874




tions of fraud and peculations, and
that investigations showed that ad-
ministration to be reeking with cor
ruption in all it's parts. Now you turn
and accuse the men who saved the
country. and who have administered 1t
better than it was ever done before,
after preserving it from treason, who
saved to all of you your property, who
have kept the national faith unimpair-
ed. You forget the enormous debt
heaped upon us by the Democratic re-
bellon. You have forgotten their
treason, their NAL administration, and
turn around and say there are corrupt
men in the Republican party


[ ask you to reflect before you hand
this government over TO their keeping,
whether you will better your position
by putting the Democrats IN power!
The Democrats say thatyour taxes are
high, and that times are hard. | ad-
NIT it. But did we never have high
taxes and hard times during Demo-
cratic administrations? Have you tor
gotten when you wore hickory shirts
and buckeye hats? Laughter. Have
hard times never existed before? 1
have my own theory on that subject,
but Will not stop to discuss 1t now.
The times are getting better, and IN
the hands of the Republican party
will get better much faster than under
Democratic administration. APP
plause. Your government has been
stable and safe in the hands OF the
Republican party. 1t never was safe
in the hands Of the Democratic party,
and never will be. Their object is to
get control Of the country, aud then
they will either put the Southern
States into a rebellion again It the
rights of part of The people, or man
age to have military governments
established, as they are trying to do
now, when they can not oyerturn
State government by force. They
would educate the people to military
government until they can establish It
permanently They would destroy
our government entirely if they could,
and if that is impossible, would sub
stitute military government, The
true and only way for you to do is to
keep your government in the hands OF
those who have administered it well
and honestly. When you find dis


honest man in power turn him out;
but do not turn out the party. 1t is
the easiest thing in the world to put
the man out. Then put an honest Re-
publican in his place: but do not put
in Democrat, for you may get cheat
ed


l will not detain you longer: My
watch has stopped. ["Go on, 60
on, Go on. Several other ques-
tons l would like to discuss, but |
| will not detain you, except to say that
| before you vote l ask you to examine
the history of the government, when
the Republican party received 1t, and
| compare its condition now with that.
or with the administration Of any par
~ that has had the control of this
government. You will then say to
me that you are better off now than
ever before since the government was
founded. You trusted the Republl-
cans, and they were faithful; trust
them again. What invitation does
the Democratic party offer you? Have
they the power to make the country
better? Do they say they will do it?


Have they ever told you how they will
do it? Have they discovered their


plan? Remember when as stenants,
| they quit the administration OF the


government. and delivered it to you,


with ruin impending over the whole


country, and corruption infesting ev-


cry department of the government, and


you will never employ them again.


To-day, YOU have peace through out


your borders, except where the Dem


Gratis have raised mob rule. ou


have wise laws, the power to-enforce


them, and men with the will to exc


cute them. Were the Democracy


again placed in power, there would be


an outbreak OF troubles-storms that


might wreck the government. Demo


cratic administrations in the past


brought the nation into the greatest


perils: these have all been swept away


by the Republican party. If any Of


you arc disposed to join the Democrat


ic crew and go floating about in the


old craft they have wrecked-lf you


would collect the Democratic primer


pies now drifting around en- the heav


ing billows and disturbed waters o


rebellion and treason against States


you have the right to do SO. But


mark my word, you will not sail mt
harbor of peace. but into & sea .


destruction, wreck the rights of th'
people, and have government de
spised and scofled at by every civil
lied nation in the world. Lout
, and continued applause.