Year: 1876

ease in their own camp. Loud applaus


and laughter.


The nomination Of Governor Hayes ha
produced this happy result To hav,


been a member Of such a Convention


was honor enough and glory enough 70


a lifetime, and the thing, my fellow-citi


zens, that lends dignity and grandeur /,


that Convention. was the fact that annie


all the heat Of State pride and persona
/ friendships, the unity OF the Republican
/ party, and the good Of the country. wa


never lost sight Of in the strife. Wher
/ the hour for sacrifices came, they wer,
\ patriotically made Indiana desired 4
\ give, to tho whole country, her peerless
/ Executive, her great War Governor, oil
yer p Morton [applause, but when th,


hour demanded II. she withdrew him
/ from the contest, and cast her vote fol
Governor Hayes. Renewed applause.
/ Next to the altar Of sacrifice. came Ken
I tucky She had presented the great
| Secretary Of the Treasury prolonged and
/ deafening applausel J. whose strong arm
had broken all the corrupt rings. and
whose tireless vigilance allowed no guilty


man TO escape. Cheers lie honor,
US by his presence here, tonight, and
with the same unselfsh devotion that
has characterized his whole life, he rati
| fes with US the nomination Of Governor
Hayes. Applause Next came the
Empire State and withdrew her great
Senator, and threw the mass Of her vote
in the same direction, and Pennsylvania
surrendered her gallant Governor for the
same cause, and when the result was an.
nounced, the gallant State OF Maine do
sired it to be proclaimed that Governor
Hayes was the unanimous choice Of the
Convention. Loud applause.


Ii is the opinion Of all thinking men
Of all parties that the Republican party
was never so strong was never so thor.
oughly united. as il is to- day lapplause 1
and If she will be but true to herBelf and
the country. she will not only win in this
Presidentional campaign. but she will
hold the fort until the celebration
Of the next Centennial. Renewed
applause. She ought TO do il. She
is the only party. the political organ
ization so thoroughly National in .char.
acter as 10 proclaim that grand doctrine
of the Constitution that the United States
Of America is a Nation and not a mere
league Secession is but States right
theory put in practical operation. The
Democratic party Of to-day have as much
reverence for the resolutions Of l79S as
n
victory in 1876 would be no more Ma.
tional than was the last Democratic vic
tory in. 1856. IApplause.


There Is another thing that cOmmends
the Republican party to the people Of
the country. We not only denounce cor
ruption, but we punish IL wherever we
find it, and when President Grant said
to Dir. Bristow, Let no guilty man cs-
cape" the whole Republican party. from
one end Of the land to the other, shouted
their approval of the sentence. Ap-
plause. No party service, no high posi-.
ton in the Republican party. can shield
a robber in that party II he undertakes
to defraud the Government Renewed
applause. But, my iellow-citizens, that
Is not the case with the Democratic party.
During this winter they have set their
Investigation trans in Washington to
catch rascally Republicans. but they had
to watch their own traps with the utmost
,igilance. IL they left trap set over
night they were sure TO find a Democrat
in it in the morning Laughter and ap-
plause The Democratic party are very
willing to punish the Republican rascal.
but they always insist on withdrawing
the Democratic fellows. That position
does not satisfy the country the honest
men, the good men of all political parties
demand, that there shall be no politics
IN the punishment Of public offenders
Every rascal must come to the punish.
ment he deserves [applauseE and il is a
fact that will not be denied, that in all
the cities and towns where the Demo
cratic party have come into power under
this cry OF reform, they have so utterly
failed to perform their pledges that the
people will hurl them from power at the
next election. Renewed applause.


One day. sitting in my law office, a very
seedy looking individual, under the in
huence Of liquor. presented himself before
me, and squaring himself, with drunk
en- leer on his face, no said to me: "Are
you a lawyer told him that was my
profession. Said he, II want to lay a case
before you" Said /, Proceed" Said
he, Suppose a fellar sells you a thing.
it TO be so and so, and you
buy il believing il is so and so, just as he
represented il, and il turns out that IL
was not so and so. just as he represented
it. can ! sue him for the overplus Of the
ideaT Laughter and applause. told
him he could. Renewed laughter The
Democratic party have told US time and
again, that If We would put them in power





had to bring an action for the oyerplus Of
promises and the scarcity OF perform.
ances, and we always won the suit Ap.
plause.


One of the promises they are making
to US now, one of the seductive promises
OF Democracy, is. that if we will put them
in power they will lead Us out OF all our
financial troubles. The difficulty in the
case is that they differ among themselves
as TO the methods. One says "Lo here
another says "Loi there" | can best
illustrate it by stating a circumstance
that occurred in our State not long since.
Most Of you, | presume, have been in the
Indianapolis railroad depot You know
that on one side of the depot there are
about a dozen clock faces, with hands
upon them, and each hand indicating
the time when the train that that partic-
ular face represents will depart from the
depot. An honest unsophisticated Hoo
sier was one day seen with his watch in
his hand, undertaking TO set il by those
several faces. Great laughter lie re
tired in disgust. The average Democrat
OF to day, il he were to undertake TO set
his financial watch by the leaders Of the
Democratic party, would have precisely
the same difficulty. Tilden points this
way, VIM. Allen points that way and
Tom Hendricks points every way. Loud
applause and laughter.


One word more. The Democratic
party, or at least the politicians. those OF
them that have recovered to some extent
from the shock they received at the nom
ination Of Governor Hayes, now say TO
Us that he will create no enthusiasm .
that he is a very ordinary man, aud is
very easily beaten. Well, now, ! pre-
sumo there is some Democrat here to-
night: and if so, ! ask him what he
thinks Of this little Republican loveieast
that we are holding right in the beginning
Applause. And this roar Of enthusiasm
u but the rattle Of musketry on the
sKirmish line The guns will soon be
laundering all along the lines. Governor
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