Year: 1876

died of its own inherent worthless
ness.


Freshwaters sailors, whose experience
has been in Aat- bOttomed bateaux up
on some muddy shallow inland pond,
Won ask to man and command the ship
of State In the midst of storm and
peril.


For captain you propose a sleek and
snug attorney, who shall bring the
tactics of Tammany and the ethics OF
railway practice upon the quarter
deck where Lincoln stood q cold,
calculating partisan who made
the most of his scoundrelly as
sociates while they were prosperous,
and sold them out at handsome
profit when they fell into disrepute.


You would give the flag, symbol of
national honor, to the care of one
whose narrow soul never knew the
enthusiasm of patriotism.


You would give the great questions
of American industry into the hands
of one whose whole active life has
been a successful legal robbery of all
the great means of intercourse means
of intercommunication on which In
dustry depends.


You would give the great question
Of American currency into the hands
of one who represented by, the gam
bling element of Wall Street and the
foregn jobbers who have possession
of our bonds-the hard creditors OF
the nation and the harder creditors OF
our people as individuals.


For first lieutenant OF this old ship
10 aiofr h.
le-faced and uncertain. Some of Us
out West thought We knew him, but
the waters of Saratoga and the compa-
ny of Tilden have had so singular an
effect Oh him that he might safely be
made Chairman of our Committee on
Banking and Currency, which said
committee, as you know, Mr.. Speak
er, is the most utterly unsolvable
problem yet enunciated.


Hendricks is John Bunyan's "Mr.
Facing-both-ways," and therefore su-
premely fitted for the st. Louis plat
form.


Thus candidates and platform are
equally deceptive, equally intended
TO deceive, and the whole programme
of the approaching campaign is a
speculation upon the credulity and
g lllibility of the American people.
1t is the right and the duty of every
citizen to sound the note Of alarm
when danger is impending and both
as individual citizen and as one of
the Representatives of the people |
| arraign tetOre the bar Of public opin-
ion the party, the candidates, the
platform. and the Democratic majori-
ty of this House. / arraign them for
their bad and bitter record In the past,
f their sympathy with great wrongs
and their hatred to great rights. /
prove them by their own words and
acts as unfaithful stewards and false
guardians when in power. prove
them Obstinately and persi5tetnly in
the way of all the great developments
of individual justice and of national
publication from the sins and crimes of
a century. I prove them justly con-
demned and despised in the part of
the country they betrayed aud see
them now emerging from the sack
cloth and ashes Of sixteen years with
the same uncOnquered prejudice, the
same lust of arbitrary dominion, the
same greediness for places, the same
AOAiOA u4iN OOlIbCiA4 Nv 4OA AIS AAtS
reduced to practice, with the same
hollow professions and the same en-
ptiness of results which Characterized
their last appearance In public his
tory.


The great acts of the Republican
party stand in wonderful reliefin con-
trast with these; for sir, from 1860 till
1876 they saved the nation, and to
them as a party, is due the mighty
fact that we endure as nation to-
day. History cannot be Obliterated
for when you strike out the record of
the Republican party you blot out
with it the greatest glory and the
greatest triumph of the country.


Strong in the past. secure of full ap-
probation for things well done. that
party stands to-day rooted in the af-
fections of millions of people, and by
reason of its high and honorable
course in the times of anguish and
trial has won a reputation which
makes it's promises of value, and gives
assurance of the foil and honest re-
demPtion of all its engagements to-
the people.