Year: 1876




tion of good order. We have i,
common interest in the preservation
OF a common country. And | appea


to all. Democrats and Republicans, I,
endeavor to make a conscientious
choice-to endeavor to select as Presi
dent and Nice-President of the Unite,
States man and a party, SO to speak


which in your judgment will preserv,
this nation and preserve all that i.
dear to Us, either as Rpublicans ol
Democrats. The Democratic part,
comes before you and asks that YOU
will give this Government into il
hands, and you have the right inves-
tigate as to the reputation aud char.
acter of the Democratic organization
The Democratic party say. Let by
cones be by-gones. never knew a
man who did a decent action that
wanted it forgotten. | never knew Il
man who did some great, shining
act of fself-sacrificea and heroic devotion
that didn't wish that act remembered
Not only SO, but he expects his loving
children would chisel the remem-
brance of it upon the marble that
marked his last resting-place. But
whenever a man commits some crime,
whenever a man does what mantlcs
the cheeks of his children with shame,
he is the man that says LET bv-goncs
be by-gones.n The Democratic party
admits that is has a record, and it
says that any man who will look into
it and tell it is not gentleman. | dom
know whether, according to the Dem
ocrotic standard, | am gentleman,
but do say that in one sense | am
one Of the historians OF the Democratic
party. \ gentleman hates to give this
record to the world, but | do it, not
because like to do it, but because !
believe that the best interests of this
country demands that there shall be a
history given of the Democratic party.
In the first place / claim
that the Democratic patty
embraces within its filthy arms the
worst clements in American society.
| claim that every enemy that this
has had for twenty years
has been and is a Democrat Every
man in the Dominion Of Canada that
hates the great Republic would like
to see Tilden and Hendricks success
ful. Every titled thief in Great Brit
ain would like to see Tilden and Hen
dricks the next President and Vice
President of the United States. say
more: Every state that seeded from
this Union was Democratic State (;
every man that drew an ordinance of
secession was a Democrat; every man
that tried to tear the flag ont of heaven
was a Democrat; every man that tore
that old banner of glory, with shot
and shell, was a Democrat; every man
that shot Union soldier was Demo-
crat. The man that fired on Sumpter
was Democrat. Every Union
soldier that has a scar upon his body
to-day carries with him a souvenor of
the Democratic party. Every man
that denied to the Union prisoners
even the worm eaten crust of famine
was a Democrat. And when some
fanlished wretch, crazed by agony,
pa n and want, saw in his dream the
face of his mother, and she seemed to
beckon him, he iusanely follows and
and gets his foot an inch beyond the
the Rebel wretch that put
Il bullet through his head was and is
a Democrat. The men that burned
orphan asylums in the city of New
York were Democrats. Every one
that fired that city, knowing that if it
burned the serpent flames would leap
over buildings and clutch children
from their mothers arms-evcry
wretch that did it was and is Il Demo-
crat The man that shot Abraham
Lincoln was Democrat. Every man
that was glad of ii was Il Democrat.
Every man that was sorry To see the
institution of slavery abolished, every
man that shed tear over the corpse
of human slavery, was and j. 4 Demo-
crat. 4 voice, Good enough" !
In short, every enemy that this
Government ha. had in twenty years,
every enemy that liberty and progress
have had in the United States for
twenty years, every hater of our flag,
every despiser of our nation, every
man who has been disgrace to the
great Republic for twenty years, has
been Democrat.


do not say that they are all that
way, but nearly all who are that way
are Democrats. The Democratic
party to-day is a political tramp crawl
ing up to the back door of the White
House, begging for official food.
The Democratic party has not had a
bite to cat il sixteen long and weary
years. ',nr democratic party is a
vast appetite. The Democratic party
is all teeth and empty stomach.
In other words, the Democratic party
is political tramp, with yellow
passport.


The Democratic party has learnt
The Democratic party
forgets nothing, The Democratic
party does not know that the world
has advancedasolitary inch since 1860.
Time is a Democratic dumb watch,
and it has not given a tick for sixteen
years. / was little while ago at a
place upon the road where had been a
hotel. The hotel had burned down
over thirty years ago-nothing left
standing but two desolate chimneys,
up the flues of which the fires of
hospitality had not roared for thirty
years. The fence was gone, and even
the post-holes were obliterated, but
there was sign i'm the road, and on
the sign were the words, Entertain
ment for man and beast" The old
sign swung and ceracked in:the winter
wind; the show fell upon it, the sleet
clung to it, and in the summer the
birds sang and twittered, and made
love upon it. No one ever stopped
there, but the sign swore to it, the
sign certified to it, Entertainment
for man and beast" and l said to
myself. Sach is the Democratic