Year: 1876

/ they said, "let US put down that tyrant
| Lincoln" They were for peace, they
said, and all the time they had Jake
| Thompson's pistols in their pockets.
| Laughter. That was the first meeting
held in the interest of an uprising to aid
the South. But Vallandigham told them,
well elect Mcclellan and that'n accom-
plish at the ballot what it is proposed to
do by force. Jake Thompson laments
the failure of his attempt to burn New
York with Greek fire. That's what the
Democrats were doing in 1868. Recollect
when speak of the Democratic party /
mean the men who did these things.
am sorry to see men, good and true and
loyal, who are with the Democrats still
and who are trying to make them re-
spectacle. My voice has no word against
those men. do whatever they do, who
faced shot and shell for the Union. / do
not stigmatize them. do not allu3ge to
true and loyal Democrats, but to those
Democrats who are Democrats from mere
cussedness. Laughter. How came it
to this2 Is a man to be ashamed for
having fought the Democratic party with
shot and shell2 Will the time ever
come when the scars worn by Governor
Connor shall be a disgrace to him ? Shall





tion the struggles of our boys and de-
fend their scars? 1t never can come :
But say if the Democratic party gets
the power, the Union soldier will have to
hide his scars. If Samuel j. Tilden is
elected President, he will be the tool and
instrument Of the Southern Democracy
Did the Southern Democracy ever allow
the Northern Democracy to manage
They never did, and they never will.
After the war was over the Republicans
told the negro he was free, and that he
must be a citizen and have the ballot.
The Democratic party voted against all
these measures. Mr.. Hendricks spoke
in the United States Senate and said
there was no power in the people to
change the Constitution and make the
slave free. He to-day believes these per-
sons were unlawfully deprived of their
property, and he will vote to pay them
fer their property.


PLAIN TRUTHS FOR THE DEMOCRATS.


l know the State in which an audience
like this can collect can never elect a
Democrat for Governor. know you will
re-elect Governor Conner by a rousing
majority. Applause. There is not q
State prison in this country but votes for





prison in Maine last year there was but
one convict who ever voted nything but
the Democratic ticket, and Ill bet q
thousand dollars he was wrongfully sent
up. loud laughter and applause The
weeds are hard to kill. And it's hard to
kill the Democrats. They can only be
by education and thought.
When a man begins to grow continental
in thought and have sympathy, then he
says he will give every other man the
same chance in the world that he asks
for himself Nature has made inequali-
ties enough. Some people are born with
few brains-some of them you can find in
the Democratic party by close inspection.
Laughter. Why should men add arti-
fetal inequalities All men are of the
same race. All men who are for other
men must stand together. Governments
should be for all, and should protect
white and black alike.


Now don't forget to tell the Democrats
the whole truth-tell them in Christian |
spirit, Just as / do. When they tell you, |
let bygones be bygones, don't do it. They |
have copied our platfotm but don't trust |
tit hasn't the right signature. 1t |
makes all the difference whether a bank |
-upt or a banker signs a note. The Re |
publican party has done what it could. |
FELL the Democrats the tFuth-Im afraid |
Tou will forget it, Laughter The Re
publican party will pay the debt and /
protect all men. Remember that, too. /
want every man here to recollect Til /
len is half a man, half a pair of scissors. /
Laughter Where would we have been |
{ we'd all been old bachelors7 Loud /
aughter and applause ] am glad that
We have a party on whose brow is the /
,ternal sunrise; that we have a party of
reedom, pledged to the progress and
Elevation Of the human race, and pledged
o stand by the divine rights of man.