Year: 1876




ready refused paper They allowed silver to be lega
tender for i've dollars but larger debts must pa
IN gold Let us see what the next step they took
On the lst Of January they passed what was know
THE RESUMPTION ACT.


What was thatl 1t was proclamation that on tn
lst day Of January, 1872 now little more than tw
years in advance Of u.s. the paper money shouId u,
] longer be legal tender and then with silver out o
tne the way with paper no longer legal tender, ever,
debt in the land over s. would have to be paid il
gold alone. When the Democratic party met in st
Louis we had these and other questions to confront
The speaker here argued that this resumption o.
specie payment should be left to the natural laws
trade; that we woul0 be doing well TO make ad
vance toward reform and resumption by 1879, but
that Is impossible to resume at once. At St. Louis
we said that we would submit the contraction
OF the currency; to ceerce and force the specie re-
sumption upon the country before il was ready for it
We declared in favor of the repeal of the resumption
act. we declared II hindrance to resumption
HowI We pointed cut that resumption ought to be
brought about by economy and the stopping of plan.
GER and the laying aside OF public money against the
day OF resumption This Is the doctrine of the st
Louis platform If that law should stand it does
stand as yet aud the LIST day of Januarv 1872 should
De ushered In with law compelling everybody to
deem his outstanding obligations in gold coin, IL
will he the most woeful day that ever dawned upon
this land. when the sun of that morning rises in
the Eastern sky it will climb to ihe zenith the
saddest nation that IL ever looked down upon. We
have declared against the Republican party for this
resumption act. The Democratic House declared
responsibility Of il with the Republican party
The Democratic House Of Representatives passed
q bill to restore the silver dollar to its
and oppression never touched the bill
have other reasons why you can trust the Demo-
cratic party For the past eleven years the appro-
priations have been growing bigger and bigger until
this much abused and traduced Democratic Ho1se Of
Representatives assembled. Morton says Ii is dis
loyal and made up Of ex onfederates will tell YOU
what it mas done in spite of the Senate 1t has les
sened the burden eff the people 1000 600 in one
session. The appropriations $50 600 less than
they were last year under Republican rule. Ask me
WHY YOU SHOULD SUPPORT THE DEMO-


CRATIC PARTY


against the corrupt Republican party7 Why in
that measure have thirty million reasons and
and each one of them Is worth dollar. Applause
My Republican friend, why has not your party done
anything of this kind? The peopla have given a
chance to show them what we would do They have
let us sit down in one branch of Congress
with majority to try us before they allowed us
to go further The first thing we did was to inves-
tigate the rascals. and make them howl until the
whole land is filled with their believing; aud the
neSt thing to turn around and true to our Demo-
cratic instincts OF economy, cut down the expenses
cut down Robson in the navy yard, with his ships
lying around doing nothing; cut down the army. cut
down foreign missions and foreign consulates, we'll
dressed loafers going to stay abroad at high prices
with nothing to do but drink wine, friend he
suggests; cut down clerks hire and the number Of
Clerks II il had not been for the Republican Senate
the reduction Of expenses would have been $50 0O 900
instead of $50 OOOOO. 1t doing WELL but il would
have done beter If the Senate had been Democratic.
and il the president had been Democratic. Come up,
with the help Of the Lord, against the mighty, my
friends, and let us have Democratic president
time. and get Democratic Senate. [Applause.l We
will have reform, we will have relief, we will have
deverance from the burdens that oppress and curse
the land.


THE GOLDEN CALF.


I know by the looks of this audience that you are
all readers of the Bible-tha great old book beside
which all Other books are vaIusless You remember
he wal rirfrR Of he of
Israel-a fair escape from bondage bondage not
much worse than yours. They wandered 40 years
ever since the Republican party
got discouraged and worshipped a golden calf
they ask us day to do the And at lest
Moses died Mount Pisgah, after being in sight Of
the land OF Canaan, and the angels buried him, and
then the people were more discouraged than ever,
and they had amind 10 settle down in the wilder
s. As to the land Of Canaan, they said, what do
we know about tive don't know whether we will be
any better of there or not. We don't know but that
the people theremight kill us. We had better put
up with the evils have than fly
to others that we know not Of.
Joshua, you remember, sent messengers the land
to see what kind Of land it was.


SENT sPIFs OUT


so that they could tell the people when they came
back whether the land was worth strus Cling for
and after while the messengers come back with
hands and arms full. They returned with the ripe
grapes in their hand, and showed by what they
brought
milk and honey; the land not merely Of a promise,
but a land Of promise fulfilled and OF
abundanceto be enjoyed. So this year IL is In the
power of emOcratic speakers to come before you,
not asking you to take our word merely but we
come with the resumption act repealed, with the sill
dollar restored with 1900 of hard taxes
taken from your shoulders the fruits
the promise of deliverance that the Democratic
party extend to you If you enter into The promised
land with to full and complete Democratic victory.
[Applause. Help us go there. Help ger the
Senate, help elect Tilden, and these $50 900 900
will swell to three times thirty; the resumption act
will fade away, the silver dollar will be restored
dishonest men purged from Office, and a purified,
newly risen


GLORIOUS RE ILLUMINATED REPUBLIC
once more challenge the admiration of the world
We have right to ask you to believe us becsus
came not empty, but bearing fruits Christian
that have long prayers and sour faces
on Sunday, and do not live their christianity on
week days. have but little fer; and it would
be If the Democratic party having had the chance to
do something and had done nothing but make loud
pretenses Ii would have no claims upon your conf
dence. But it has not been There two
other things connected with this much abused Con-
gress. Disloyal sitl Well, if the rebels keep me
from paying taxes to those that steal at Wash
ington, 1 will like it any how. Laughter.
They say there 60 men that were In the Confed-
theory Of this government IS that it is government
Of states Each state has the right Of representa-
tion The people Of each state has the right to elect
elected their foremost men Morton and Harrison
and that kind of men mad because they did moi
elect negroes OF scalawags. Do YOU suppose that
MORTON AND HARRIsoN AND THEIR FOL-


LOWERS


are dissatisfied because man get
back into public life with blood
his hands, blood of the war7 That is not il. Why
the guerilla, John s. Mosby, killed Union
soldiers during the entire war, and who, if he
had been captured during the war, would have beer
enied the treatment due to a prisoner of The
is over, and he has Joined the Republican party
and his sins all forgiven Laughter.] 1t is moi
because they hate dsloyalty-t is not because they
hate them for being in the rebellion
They hate them for the same reason
that they hate you and me-because We
vote the Democratic ticket, and IL or any Of you
would join the Republican party tonight, there
would be wild hallelujah over Ii. They would say
how good this man has always been, and we have
ju { found it out. lLaughter.l My friends they
have got another charge against the Confederate