Year: 1876

would be pending merely financia


questions. a il all questions involved


in that description didn't carry will


them tests of the moral power, tn,


honesty, and the integrity of the peo


pie. Ther'. is no bigger test of our fit


ness Tor republican government thar


the financial test. A great people


4O, 600, 600 of people can carry on q


war. Everybody knowns that. Sum


mon them to the defense of the nation


against domestic or foreign foes, and


we have seen that it is no difficulty to


call one or two millions of soldiers in.


to the field, but when the care and ex.


citement of battle have passed and the


people have returned home to take up


their implements of agriculture and


manufacture, TO toll ON for years, to


pay the debt, then comes the test, and


insidious demagogues come forward to


teach us short ways to get rid of the


burden. There is taught the moral


stamina of the people. You can fight,


but can you resolutely determine that


you will pay every dollar of your debt
according to the terms of promise
That you will return to a sound cur
rency, based upon the economic laws


which have been acknowledged by


wise men since there began to be an
economic science? That is the great
test for this people. [Cheers. We hear
much said at times about the great and
mysterious, the great and puzzling
problem of financial science. These
difficulties vanished very much when
we apply to them some very simple
test. Tell the truth and fulfill your
promises. Do that and you will solve
half the trouble. rCheers.l What did
your bond say9 Read it and do it.
What does your loan or legal tender
note propose to do, and what did you
promise to do when you issued it? Do
it; there is no mystery in it, no extra
ordinary difficulty in its performance.
hold it to be in all..our political affairs
perhaps the test of our many high
duties to bring back our currency to a
sound basis to resume specie payments
[cheersl, and it is not alone as ques-
tion of the honor and integrity of the
Nation, but as an eternal perquisite to
the return of business prosperity. Our
business men are now utterly unable
to make definite calculations in regard
to the future. They are awaiting in
some measure the results of this cam
paign, that they may decide on
their personal campaigns; and / can
say to you also, there is profound anx-
iety throughout the whole Republican
party that we shall give new assurance
to the country that all its affairs are to
be administered with high honor and
integrity, aud that the sacred trusts of
officeholders in this country are indeed
sacred trusts, and are not to be trified
with by corrupt and designing men.


Loud cheers. lido not in any sense
despair of the Republic or the Re-
peblican party. The great mass of our
people have in their minds fidelity to
every beautiful, ever noble, and every
high ideal. We have uplifted under
the providence of God within these
fifteen years to see a new glory in the
institution, and a new glory in that
flag, and when the sanguine and hope
full and honorable young men see men
in high Office trifiing with those noble
duties, trading offices and giving them
to unworthy men for low personal or
merely partizan motives; when he sees
men in Office winking at corruption
and overlooking it, and pardcning it
because of partizan fidelity, he becomes
and that general discon-
tept prevails now throughout the coun-
try in tine minds of our noblest men,
and it must not be disregarded by this
if we desire success.
Cheers.


Speeches We're also made by Ex Gov.
Noyes, Rev H. HI. Garnett, (colored),
of New York, Ex Gov. WIN. A. How
ard, of Michigan, Fred Douglas, and
Loring, of Massachusetts,.


Committee ON Permanent Organiza-
reported for Permanent President,
Mcpherson, of Pennsylvania,
a Vice President from eachState, ,andJ.
NJ Bean, of Wisconsin, for principalSec-
retary, with one assistant from each
State.


The Committee on Credentials after
discussion excluded the
Spencer delegation from Alabama and
the Shepherd set from the District of
Columbia.