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ele noe » VOLUME XL. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1880— CLOTHING, NEW HANAGKNENT ORDERS. DOORS OPEN TO ALL. WORKINGMEN, MECHANICS, MERCHANTS, BANKERS, AND OTHERS. Ten Thousand New Patrons WILL BE ADDED TO OUR LIST WHEN THE PUB- LIC KNOW HOW LOW WE ARE SELLING GOODS. Hen’s and Boys’ Underwear, 50c. | Boys’ and Children’s Suits, $4, Good Cardigan Jackets, $1 Wool and British Hose, 25¢. Inquire for Men's Suits, $10. Cass & Melton Suits, $15 to $25. | Men's Overcoats and Ulsters, $6, $5, $8, $8, $10, $12, $16 Boys’ Overcoats and Wisters, $5, _ $6, $7, $8, $10, $12, $15. Professional Suits, $20 to $35, | $7,$8, $10, $12, $14, $15, $20, $35 Elegant Silk-Lined Satin-Sleeve Overcoats, $32.00, Gloves, Mufflers, Scarfs, Ties, Handker- chiefs, Hosiery, 8zc., 8c. JAMES WILDE, UR, & 6 a7 A Clothing Home for the People, COR. STATE AND MADISON-STS. RANT REE Mana NEW YORK, Oct, 1, 1880. DP. PERRY, 173 Madison-st,, Chicago: The price of KEEP’S CUSTOM SHIRTS has this day been reduced ‘6 for $9.00, ‘Let the people know it. BEEP MANUFACTURING CO. ENERAL NOTH The Silver Islet Consolidated Min- ing and Lands Company, 52 Broadway, : New Vorit, Sopt, 15, 1991, Notice ts hereby gtvon that the Directors of thts Gempany, by uthority, specialty, conferred by tho Share! lers, hereby cull tor a Cuntrivution or Ane seaatnent! of Ony Duligr por Baro, piurubly on tho Hirst any of Nuvember noxt. Stockholders are re- quested ta read and conform to tha sttpulation t ursed on thulr Shure Certificates, us falltiry to pay is wilhwut remedy, Tnterast, ut to rato of 7 nee cont t 8 allowed on payments mi if 0 1st Nuvamibor. be A MfitoNG Pails Vicu-President, N, 1.—Iomittances for Contributions atuuld bo a computed with the Certifeates of stuck, tnt mont may by noknowtedged thereon, but, where this Is lmpricticable of inconveulont, receipts will be res turned for nttinchiment to cortiticates on which pay men Ve made, irect all regiatored mall mattor for thls Compan: to Nu. 02 Broadway, N. ¥. i eaeaty The above notice ts tssned pure of thy Mirocior passed July 0, Tor operating exponsys ut thy wl i As the prospuctive product of the leh ni discovered canny, be realized i me ta prov! Turtho gale” YSFARD LMARNED: Posie! Now York, Supt, 15, 10, = OREGON RAILWAY & HAVIGATION COMPANY, NAGSAU-AT, NeW Youttt, Sept, 1, 1890,—The Board dye declared a yuurlurly allvidend uf untey o Ht able {d stockholders of record Sept. Pomel nroparing form syocinl meting holders to be held at Vartund, Ores aoe, watch speolal nite will bu wien by elrvutlar Lotiar to der ransfer buaks wilt be vlosud from Bope a ine Now: oe HORACE WHYTE, Trensurer, OREGON RAILWAY. & HAVIGATION COMPANY, 20 NABSAU-8T,, NEW Yottt, Sept, 23, 159, ADDITIONAL NOTICE, ruling of the Guvorning Cams change tig tenn mitioy of tu Sow York Suck tat a0 of thu Now York rtock ta Books of thy Oreyon iintiway & sat a Tou) ones and aot RE porew Uf aubserip tion to new ate Fecord Oct 2th iy ord Hf ster OVPICH OL VIS LITTLE CHIEF MINING CO., New Yous, Sopt. 2, ls, nnual Meeting of Btuehbaldors Ox this Little Wine Co, Joctlon OC Trustuys will be Hold orcas Dory, Eh iv, Na. b ty ny, Oct b Indy at itc'vinck Noun tn fat books will close oh ah September and itu Ociabur, + ADKAHAS L. KARLE, Bocrotary, OCRAN NAVIGATION, “WORTH & i LLOYD. — New York . Paris. ‘Stearuura on ytges Poutuampwn and Br ran, low Vork fur London und Parisat towest eutes eaxe™® bockod for Tati OF TAs %. ayy MAGE—F row Now York to Santh- supton, 3 Huh Sacon er ) at ruduce ndun, Levee, Mremen, tet Gheun, SAUDI, SD} ak raws “Ok MCLS “yt yyy itvorkae Fuies by the H ba tron nHQHEM CERMAL LLOYO guiy Aveute oulberised tw salt “the ry CLAUSSENIUS & CO. 2 8outh © umenai Adunrgss urea JW, ESCUEN HUNG, 10s Fifth. Hocat AGENT, a, om TATE LINE ood ‘en bi Hutura tickets 4 3 Bowl 4 the eke ns OY Aecurdiog Wo ‘eccomimudauoa. Seouud Cabtty Stovrade, AUSTIN, BALDWIN & Co, 4 Drosdwas Aid 1d Kasiduiplt-at,, Cl JOUN Bia iWenvoru sinuacen ott CMSTO VOM SALE, FOR SALE. TO NEWSPAPER EN, A first-class Chambers’ Folding Ma- chin a the Kubler Attachment, Wilt fold'w'sheet B6x60 or 24x30. In good order, ot a very low price. Appl. tuts otes, ‘Y low p pply at NY | “CRITLEMEN'S Furnishing GOODS! WILSON BROS 1, U6 79 Slat We call special attention to the following Departments, all of which are full of New and Desirable Goods, and of- fered at reasonable prices: Underwear, Hosiery, Neckwear, Cloves, Suspenders, Silk Hdkfs., Linen Hd’fs, SLEEVE BUTTONS, SCARF PINS, CARDIGAN JACKETS, SILK UMBRELLAS, Silk & Cashmere Mutlers, Mile and Fancy Shits Linon Collars and Cull, &c., &c., &e. N Receiver's Notice. T offer for ai iy der Of the Supertar Court of Coe eee ater ae Muotvaat halt woh) af the suutheust quart o'r uf, m peventeon (74 1 Towaett unary butt Meulye, (Li, ak of Abe set UP 7 Cee rhea Cite Cauntys ne whi rag. -Alt nich flys w the railrund bids must by wade to me at my office, Itoot Mendolph-at, Lotore Uetoher mints 10. TEIN, Kucotvar, Ne Loan On improved property in Chicago ur homediato ve cinity, at current rates, MEAD & COE, 143 LaSallo-st Money ““Jmproved Calutoid Cujys, Collars, and Bosoms, Do not wilt inwarm- est weather, BALNNES? Hat Store 8G Madigon-st. ( Lribune Building). PRESIDENTIAL. The First Great Gathering of the Campaign in Chicago. Grand Turnout of Republican Men and Women at Me- Cormick Mall To Listen to Speeches by Stew- art L. Woodford and Judge Tourgee. A Brilliant Address by the Soldier and Statesman of New York. A Oogent Statement of the Reasons Why He Fears the Solid South, Splendid Eulogium of Gen. Garfield, the President That Is-to Be. Judge Tourgee’s Speech a Succession of Telling Points Against the Dem- ocratic Party. The Audience Kept in a Roar of Applause by His Hard Hits. Great Overflow Meeting at Tur- ner Hall Addressed by Promi- nent Spenkers. Irving Hall Democrats Determine Not to Yield to Kelly’s Dic- tation. Marshal Dudley’s Methods for Prevente lug Frand in Indiana Unpopular Among Democrats. He Proposes to Do His Duty, No Mat- ter How Much Ho Is Tra- duced. CHICAGO. : MWCORMICK HALT. A GUAND DEMONSTRATION. MeCormicic Muil was lust evening the scene of the most enthusiastic and at the same Cine the most suecesstal political demonstration dat has yet been furnished durhig the cam- palgn in this elty. Lt was a Republican ratly of which the party should be and will be proud, for, though It may be matched be- tween now and electlon-diy, it cannot be sure passed, it was given under the ausplees of that band of stalwarts known us the Eighteenth Ward Auxillary Club, which is composed of the best of the elty’s business-men, whose Republicauisin ls not a matter of sentiment, but ty based un Ue eternal logte of facts, ‘The attractions were brillant ‘The ora tors of the evening wore Gen. Stewurt L. “Woodford, of New York, and Judge Tour- gee, of National fame and reputation. ‘the furmer, the disthizulshed ex-Lieutenant- Governor of the Enplre State, once before, If not twlee, spoke in our elty; but the vee caslun was wt special oue,—n- Soldiers’ Con- venuon, ‘fo the majority of our citizens he was personally unknown; but Jong before his advent here he was known to be ons of the stalwarts, Whose reputation, galned both in tue forum and on the battie-lield, would Insure him a greeting and 8 weleome worthy of thy Capital of the Republican Northwest, Judge ‘Yourges’s fame ay an uncompronise ing Repupilvan had long preceded whan. . Hs suvcessiul polilical novel, “A Fuol’s Ere rand,”—the most successtul, by the way, of uny since the first appearance of “ Uncle ‘Tou’s Cabln,”—found uiousands of reuders here, and its talented author was’ in spirit, If netin form, as well known te cur people as it hw had lung been in our midst. ‘Chis tiw inore Whetted the public npputitu to seo in the flesh one who chad contrivuted so valuable oan aequisition to the arguments why the Republicans should be tutrusted with the tusk of conduct lug this Nation tu its greatest development, and securing for ft that predminenece amung Une nations of the carts that ean only be ob- tilned by w government truly “of the peo- ple, by the people, and for the people,” huss who ntlelpated seeing dn Judge Tourges the venerable jurist, as the mujority of people ure acetistomed te pleture hin, found themselves very much disappointed. He bs a man of medium hight, carviesly neat Tn dress, rather dark complexion, black mus- lache, and prominent features, Ja hiis man ner of talking he suggests reminiscences of the late Artemus Ward, is gestures are few, He speaks freely and unconstralnedly, aud ls very syldum at a fogs for the right word. ls manner of dellyery, while bordering on the duonotone, Is not unpleasing, and: the vocal iuilexions as a rule are Huntted to ubout three shadings, aArtumus-lke, when he has said a guod thing, he gives the audience an oppor tunity to thuroughly appreciate It, and when they do, and Jt Is very seldom thoy fail to, generous bursts of Inughter invariably fol- low, during which the speaker preserves a countenance as unmoved as that of the Sphynx, His contrast of the two great po- litical partles was pecullarly happy because truthful throughout, ‘i ‘Yhe gudlencey was a magulticent one jn every respect. ‘Tho mala fluor was given up exclusively to the sterner sex, who filled every chair and packed the lobbies, until it became an exccedtugly ditiicult matter to find space suiiiclent to turn round In, ‘fhe galleries were vecupled by au assemblage that would have done honor to grand opera on the occasion of the prima donny's benetlt, Nearly one-half was composed of ladles, young and old, In the most of cases in eyen- jug dress, and they were us eager Isteners to the polished purlods of Geu, Woodford and the cutting sarcusms of Judge ‘ourgee as were thelr escorts, Wheu a brillant and sparkling polnt was mude, br ao clear-cut opigram rang out on the evening alr, tho daluthly-gloved Lands were jbo tliat ty ce spond, and frequent were the waving of handkerchiefs and fans, It was nlinost half-pest 8 when the orators of the evening arrived at the hall, but the an- dlence showed no signs of Impatience. hey felt that a trent of unusual brilllancy was In store for them, and without be- traylug the slightest sign of unensl- ness they sat chatting among themselves untll the musle of a brass band outside sn- nounced the arrival of the distinguished yisitors, who o mjnute later marched upon the stage fram the rear_entranee, accom panied by Gen, Logan, Jesse Spalding, \W. Patterson, and Gen. Beem. ‘Thelr aps pearance was the signal for a prolonged burst of applause, which was thrice re- newed ag the gentlemen advanced to thelr seats, “At this juncture the Union Veteran Club, to the number of about 300, who had escurted the orators of the evening from the Pacific Hotel, entered the hall and took possession of the seats which had been re- served for them, The parade of the Garfield Guards, who were out in strong forea and Ineffeetually tried to obtain admission to the hall, was handsome and .creditable, and one of the fentures of the evening. ‘They: were equipped in thelr new uniforms, consisting of the red- white-and-bluc cap with handsome pluines, bright blue capes, and carried the unique and renowned ballot-box:torch. ‘This torett, new coming Into general use throughout the country, was much observed and warmly praised. ‘I'he ono central Idea of this fight Is a pure ballot and an honest count, and this typleal emblem for a torch touched a re sponstve chord in the popular heart. In ad- ditlon to its novelty It Isa great Improve- ment ou the old style, as it does not leak, and is In every respect perfeetly safe. ‘The de- lun is not only elegant, but in good taste, The antlquated tin torch has lad Its day, and the new batlot-hox torch tins become a fenture of the campaign, and {ts popularity is nssured, On the platform were observed John Wentworth, Willlam Aldrich, Isane Ny Are nold, Judge Jameson, Messrs, Frankiln Mac- Veagh, ex-Ald, Quirk, W. JL King, Leake, George Sehnelder, J. MeGregor Adams, C, R. Larrabee, R. 8. ‘Tuthill, It 8. Critehell, W.D. Houghteling, E. C. Larned, Judge Hopkins of Morris, LL, aud James I Hosmer of Burlington, Vt e, STEWART Le. WQODFORD. IY INTRODUCTION TO THE AUDIENCE, The inceting was called to order at 8:30 o'clock by Jesse Spalding, Esq., who nom- innted as Chairman Robert W. Patterson, Jr, Esq, of the Young Men's AuxiMary Chub, Mr. Patterson, in taking the chalr, sald: Lapizs AND GENTLEMEN: On behulf of tho Young Men's Auxitinry Club, L take pleasure in bidding you nt welcome to this hall, Less than a yenr ago, you will remember, we heurd in ts phice whut proved to bo almost the lust word of that great Senator and stalwart Repubiicun, Zachariah Chandler. of Michigan. [Loud ap: piinee.) Hls-voice fs silent now, but the prine nles which he udyocuted are hinpertsturtl Applause.) We buve with us to-night two solid Republicans and honured guests, who are worthy to uke up the muntie of the prophet. Their knowledge of the Southern question Wwrbips, muro extensive and weourate thaw ig own, for .thoy ‘have been in country is goldivrs of the United Stat Government, and bave since had peculiar knowl- eof the disposition, tempor, and polltical methods of that peuple, J take pleusure. 1 i tradtteing to you the distinguished lawyer and Btatesimin of New York, tie Hon. Stawart L. Woodford, [Loud applause.) Mr. Woodford was received with cheers, which were continued ‘for, several minutes, Ne spuke ns follows: . Mu. Cuamaan, Grnzess uy Cricaan: It ian grent privilege to be permitted to declare the creed antl recount the deeds of the Republican party, [eries of “ Hear,” * eur") belore the you men of this, the great inland inctropolls of our Nution, 1 ant oppressed, however, with the »thought that 1 stand in BRIN holland before the enme presence where the xreat ‘stahvart of Michiguu uttered the Inst words’ of public speech that ever fel! from his’. putrlotic ips. (Applause.) When he hud Jeft that great gathering early twelve months ago, as be sit inthe chamber thut wna uo soon’ to be the ehutaber of bis death, ho suid to your townsinan, Mr. Spalding, that he wis content with the work he hud: tried to da in the canvass then closing, buthe added, “This canvuas fs only preparatory to that larger can- yas of 1820, Whose rests are to determine tho character of our Institutions tor 2 generation to come.” Ho did notovercstimate the tinportanes of the canvass on whieh we enter, LE cannot res gard the peuding struggle as in any just and’ lunge Reise on contest: between Han- covk, the soldier, and Gurticld, Fonte who was soldier and (8 atutesman, LApplause.) Be- bind Hancock stunds the Democratic purty. His possible cleetion fuvolves all that Democratic victory can possibly mean. Bebiind Garteld stands tho Republican party {uppluuse). and bls election means far ua wud for this greut Nation, all that oa 1 vietory ean possibly mean, [Applause.) “Nay, ina juater and larger senry, this struguio ts nut between the Demo- enttic party and the Hepubliean party; It 1s bos tween all ‘the forces of our clvilizution that make for nationality and prepress on the oue sldv and all the forces that look Imekward to: A DEAD AND DECAYING PAST. [Cheors.] Twenty years ago come next March the Democratle parts: with i st Prealdent ro- ured from power. Ut left a wsury bankrupt, a Nation rent with factions, To-day’ that party naks return to power, when tho Na don is one, when the credit of the Government stunds bigh, whon tho tag floats over on lund oo where po) mun ig master and no mun is sluve, fAppinusy.) What ls thors inthe reconl of Dewocrucy for the twonty yenra Ubat are gone that should loud you or me, that should tend any thoughtful man, to consent to ita restoration to power? in 18h they sought to plunt slavery in Kansas. ‘That slavery Is not there to-day I$ no fuult of the Democratic party. Kansas a free; tho whole Jand js free, because Republicans Dewo~ erits and prevented tho consummation of tho scheme, (Apphiuse.) In 18, when we entered onthe second Republican canviise, the entire Southorn wing of the Demovratio purty sald, No matter how fulr tho election, no matter how large your mijority, no mutter how constitue tional the result, tf you Hep iallcny elect Abra- ham Lincola wo Southern Democrats will break down the Natlon thit we can no longer rutu, And coupled with that throat there camo an veho of poloigy. from Northern Demuerats, and you recollect fi well, We were a pencofl peo~ ple. Nefore us there hud floated no deenm of military xlors, We were tratned ee tothe firm nad the teary, and yet thore was something of New iuglaid trun in ane souls, and when that threat wis mad ply eaAVvO replys We will vote o eI Thoso votes ebnil be honestly counted, IE you Demos erate get the victory Wo Republicans will sube mit, but if we Hepublicans get the victory, by the God of our fathers, Abratai Lincoln shall be President of the entire Walon." {Appinusa,} We got tho victory. ‘Trav to tholr throats, the Southern wing of the Democrade party Innugue rated rebellion. Is it tor that we sbould trust tho solid South to-day? Four yours paased. You remembor their sore Fow,—you recollect their sacrifice, There came an hour when Northern courage had been strained und “Northern resources had taxel. Now, Jf tha Democratic be P of great administra Uve’ ability, which its leaders clita, In that hodr it would hove run the Haw biher and catted on the people to help arg the Hevellion which wo had not overthrgwn., What Wid they doy ‘They gathered in thefr great na- gional convention, It was in a Western city. cH recollect their plattorm. They: resolved ry TUB WAR FOR THE UNION WAR A FAILURE. Thoy appealed toe the cowurdico of the American, pennts, Wo had inade tho lasue, Wives woury jor the husband at the front wrote to bin tostuy a little longer, Suthers who were weary with abacnce from thelr dear boy wrote to bin to sta: 8 Histle longer, Old inen prayed: old men tool counsel, ‘The great North rogo, retlected Abrus hain Lincoln, and crushed rebellion by the bul- Jota of the North. (Applause,) Jeit tor whut tho Uemocrucy did then we should trust them now ? Tho Kobollion was over- thrown; some kind of reconstruction was ree quired, The Democratic party opposed cyery attempt, We offered the Pbirtwenth Ameyd- wont; three Dernocrats voted for it. We oltured the Fourteenth Amendment; no Democrat voted for it. Wooffered tho Fitteenth Amendment; Revordy Jobnuon alone voted for tt, The Leino cratic party resisted loyul reconstruction. la it for thut we should trust thom now? -{A voice: * Novor,” ond ite iuuse.) ‘Then they gathered in great conventions;. if Limisquoto thuir plate Sori, set me atralghl: -. Kewived, ‘That tho Neoonstruction acts, s0- cata are usurpatious, Fuvolutionary, pull, and ‘Thorr candidate fur the Vice-Prealdenoy suld they should bo cut from the Constitution Dy the sword. ‘Tho Democratic purty plodged itself by platform: and — pouluation, © if guccessful A ww was auentuLneE out of the EN PAGES. Ferleral Constitution, Twelve years have now this great “Demoerntic witentially gets upon ita knees. and itelf to maintain the constitutlonal » A distinguished Democrat, whoa name you my reeall when FT give st,—Wintleld Seott Hnaneock Uaighter and applause),—in the wummer of 165 gave In bik adhesion to the Democratic platform af 146%, which declare these amendments revolutionnrs, nultand veld, Toulay, twelve years after, that anine distins wished Demoeral anys that they cembosy the reaultaof the War. [Laughter and apphise.) When did they embody the results the Wart Jn 1etiey Noy then they were rolutlonary’s Gen, Hanentk says they Tho d therefore they em- {Applau Fighteen hundred and seventy-two came, and the erent Democratic party again gathered in convention; itlooked allover tho Ind. and It resulted that there wat not a Democrat in all tho country Nt to be Preeident—[laughter]—and they were right. (Laughter and fyplauses| Anilso they nominated the moat distinguishe editor of the flepubtican party. whos, pecatiar elulin to, penitentlal Demoerntic apport was that he had etd more hard things about Do> mocracy and Democrata, and told inore truth, than any other editor in all the country. Laughter and cheers.) They, were agin heaten, und tha canvass of 1875 drewon. Mr, Chairinan, | buve often thought thut the strug gle of 1675 was in some sense the most perilous through which the Keputitionn purty ever pissed, There ts vomething of the ther In uknost every inun, something that strikes back When we ure struck, When tags we ne Denoerats got whipped, a body the results of the 'W pa Se ee ae thoir throats, we saved nineteen Southern electoral votes for Hayes, Applause.) ‘To-day Gen, Hampton threatens a Solid South. HOW 19 THAT SOUTH MADE SOLID? Jn Alabatna tn 1st! tho Democrats votes. We Republicans. polled tae. and’ uf course carried the election. In 10 Demucracy polled H2,08 votes, They graciously permitted Us to poll S420, and they wot the election. In Demoeras willed BOL votes, and the ites publivins were counted that number. [Not ni.) This fall, when the Greenbaekers took up the strurvle, Democracy counted a musority over 00h against then Where — bna that Republican vote Kone? To Nemocrats stop voting fi Hllnois when. thoy get beaten? [Laughter.) Do Democrata stop voting tn Ver= tnont when they age beaten? If there ben Dent ocrat in this yeeat audience 1 nak bitin on his conscience to answer, Don't you — belleve that that. Republican vote hos been silenced by the shotgun or ott> counted ho tissue-ballot, [Applause.] In 7 the Democrats polled 08,000 mbieans 41.000 aud add, rnd we ot the vietory, In 18:6 the Democricy polled £3,000 and odd; we 34.000 and odd, and they got the victory. In U8 Democracy in Arkanans fetal wit. They didn't count for the Reput- vans a solitary vote, What hud beeomne of the Itepubllean party? Lf there bea Democrnt in this great audience Task bim agaln, upon his scenes, don't you belleve that they have by tho shotgun or outcounted by ‘There was in zed for th ented these figures, Denwerat pole flying, and drums were beating. and martial To joerney unbhish ing music filled the alr, ft was comparatively cusy and tries to get the Prosi« Jor a bold, brave man to go inte this aeiy an nid of ie fruudd Ub, ue of Jlinots, tight the battle of the country; but w! tine | YoU nOW what ic ¥ te races tlun bud Jost its power to. dutlite—when the you, nnd to: me ‘ou know = that aoap-bubble on which we building our ine | tat Httle | pleco of Paper i te fustrios had broken, and when fintnetal dint | expression of our bizhest privilege or ilustra- ter had come—it wus taxed the oimanbood of : the Amerie peaple, Forges wer . cold; linances we silents| the music of tho waterwhee! hu! died beside the watercourse; the banner of Mame had faded out above the roiling mls strony men, inen willing to work, men knowing how to work, looked nt wife and baby, looked at the awh hone Hat tho finlt-to inembered that the: there Was no wares; tind tn that he crutle party, true to Its necursed Instinet. which Nad made it the shive of slavery In 188, the apologist for trenson tn 18), nnd the servant of cowardice fn leo}—that Democratic purty went and talked to hungry stomachs against clear lnaing and Lonest consciences, and: PLEADED FOIt INFLATION OF THE CCRNENCY and for repudiation of the d mutt go we were compelled to join the struggle. We hid to talk to cunscleat we had te renson with brains; wo had to talk nygulnst hungry stom! had te plead for the old idea that honesty Is better for Nations, us it Je fur inen: and so we mudu the issuy, We went w pAcicuce, We went tu braing, and, thank God, our appeul wits answered. Onto led tho colutnmn. [Loud applause.) We gained the victor we stew ine lation; wo restored specie payments: Te it for awhitt Democracy did then thit we Miuuld trust them now? Then 1816 cume, and they gathered aealn in National Conventions they resolved that the Resumption act wus a hindrance to re- sumption. They announced the strange Idea that to break # promise fs the sure way to keep it.. They nominated Mr. Tilden, We again made the issue, and we ugain gut tho victory; and bee cnuse of our victory every dollar bank note, greenluck,—every paper dollur circulating in ‘the land,: a gold certificate the wide world over, and thy evedit of the United Stutcs ts tho highest credit known to the nations uf the world, {oud uppinuse.] Is it for whut the Democrney id tuen that we should trust them now? [Cries ot. Neyer!” and renewed apphiuse.) Now, fs it not strange thut utter such a record of sympnthy with treason, of sympathy with In- fation, that the Democratic party to-day uuml- nates the soldier of Gettysburg fer President and the boudholder ot Indlann for Vi 8 dent? [A ¥ “The hero of Gettsburg was Gen, Mende,” and laughter.) What means that musk? If there is nothing In the pust bistury of Democracy that commends It tu power, what 1s thore in te present composition of the Demo. erative put You ask any Detnocrat here in Chicago w lis you thut be expects National victory for bls party what ‘fs his reason, and hoe will frankly upawer you that they expect the BS votes of the Solid South, plus enough votes frou the North to. give thei tha control of the Gov erninent. ‘That, gentlemen, ta the victory of tho Solid South, under tho guise and natne of De- mocracy. Fut Itto your consclence,—put it to your bruin; you go into business, and contribute * $108 to any litte venture, and f putin 84, and If “thore beany profit in that business are vot you going to take 18 purts of the protit, and leave me to be content with ifty? - LApplaure.) ‘Dumocrucy of tho Suuth constitutes 1s votes, anid the North constitutes sity. At thoy get ‘power tho Solld South will take 138 parts of tho ipeitis. And you bave got to be cuntent with itty. {Applatse,) To use plaln Innguage, If y don't they are fouls. [Laughter] To use winer, if you let them you are bigger. Laughter and appa ht here « Democrat may fitirly ask mo. «Whut is your dread of the rule of tue sulld South?" It is a tale question, It fy one to which Aevatiienits should give varnest and thoughtful answer; for, if there be no danger in that rute, then it fs an unfair argiuent for ustumake, Let meattenpt in brict and simple words my answer to the question, I DREAD THY KOLID BOUTH, Hirst of all, because of tho part that Solid South hag always borne fu the bistory of my country. It was the Solld South which tore down the Mis+ suri Compromise that it might give that flr Western lund the curse of buman bondage. It qwas the Solid South which, whey beuten to the Proaldential election in 1860, plunged this Nation into war. Do you nsk me the meaning of the Solid South? “1 rend that mountuy in every gravo that ridges the land from Gettysburg to ‘the Guif. 1 rend its menning in every empty vout-sieeve planed up aguinst a soldier's breast. Trend tin every crutch tat makes musio or our pavement. 1 read it, not only In, tho joss and)=s thos horror oof) the | War here out the North, ut drew it fu the toss and horror that devastated that South all across ita flr, luxurious border. In tho memory of what that War cost, in the memory of “Southern boys shot down in mis~ gulded allegianes to the stars and burs, in the ineniory of brave Northorn boys who fell tight- ing for the tugs i the memory of ull its toss und all ita horror, | pledd with the thongbtrat, patriotic men of the North that you do not suzuln allow thut Solid South to rule and dom- inute this fur Republic. (Cheers. Why do [dread the solid south? TI dread it Decuuse ita rule in polittes fs a continual men- Ace to our savings, to our business, to our Lie dustry. Jt is not many months wl; bo distine guished a Southerner i Wade tuinpton sind in public speech Uf correctly reported) that tho South would give Its LS votes tu the nominees of the Democratic party, ho matter what thelr views on money, on tart, on tlnance, on indus try, AbL Hus lt come to this, thut a grout section, moved by traaitions of the put, pro- poses to clect a Prealdentiat candidate, noimatter what bis, views on (mince, on, money, or on Iubor? You wnt Denow this. What if tho He vublican Convention bud nominuted un initia. tlonist—if it id nominated a man who would not maintaly the National eredit-—if it had noinle muted 3 nay who would not be true to the intors eats of our minufuctures und our | aber, we Ho- pattteana would aye shiny bim with our own bullots (applause), beentao tho welfare of ollie Is tt ua ano hour that the Tepu sulmething higher than the) welfare oof section or tho power of a political purty, (Applause.] We belleve in honest dollars with waich to pay: honest wages, Wo bolivve inthe imuintenance ofthe Natiouul credit. Wo believe in the pay> meant of al boncat dottwhether It be tunica, county, Stug, or National, We betleve in the honor ef the Governuent. Wo believe in thke dng care of the worklogman, and tho tarmer, and the iudustriods laborer allover thistand. We hellove, i a word, that purtles wore made forthe State and not the State for parties. [Ap putea | ‘AIL tho euanmer lous the. clouds huye dropped Tatness, All the suutner long, by rure alchemy, the golden sunshine bas been turned Into tig answortug gold of your harvest telds, Labor js at work, Waxed ure good. Muncy with which to pus them 6 honest. | There ts leat. ta storehouse and in burn. Comfort sits bealde every hearthstone. American labor ja at work, is rewarded, is buppy. God beiplug Us, We propose, If wa yLt power, su to adininivter thls Gavernment tut tabor sliill be buppy, and be rewanled, and by contented jn the yours to vous. (Applunse.) We dare nat ce put In puwor any politicat party that will put cHoniilsiy and State Interest abayo Nutionul- Jum wid: the interest of the entire country. (Applause) YOU ASK ME AGAIN WHY 1 DREAD TH HOLID BOUTu? 1 droad it because {ta oxtstence 13 9 continued temptation to a great political party bere at Who: North to subordinate all principle to tbo hope of gotting power, Democrucy Urduy heads but Atty Northern votes, = Whott Ureonbdackivw triumphs in Muing candidaty of the Democratic purty tele- praphs congratulations ucross the continent, potay Demweriuy is for free trade du the Cote ton Siutes; fur protection in New Jersey: for paynient of Itebel warecluiins all over tho South, While Its cundidute writes that he will yelo them, {Appluuse.] ty friends, tho only gicasaue whieh Gen. Hancock willover baue, put inte plate words, 19 (hia: Sy dog is dangerous, and iff ever seo apy syuiploms of bia yrowing mad £ will put on ainuzele.” (Laughter) Intelligent business makes answers Your dug ty dunger- ous, and we will kill blin go that you shall not be culled on te muzzle bin." (Laughter) ‘Aguln, b dread that Solld Bouth because of tha mothods which imuke {twulid, Lot me give you a few tures. They shall be but few, ind they wre wore eluguent than any words of apeceh could be. Jo 1888 Gen. Grint received Htty-seven out of thea 18 Electoral voted of tha pouth, In 12 be received tify Hye. In toi, because thero lived a iat, who was Chairmun of tho Nationul Commitior, whobad the nluck to take the bulldozers hv \ cg tlon of our highest power. Memory gues back nerose tho sen. Dace ncain the Knights at Hut nymete; 1 see the steps by whieh En constitutional liberty wis wong I see them cross the ovenn: 1 see them found n Commonwealth on old New England's shore. ‘That Nttle ballot Is. either to bu the dayestar of or liberty, or, It fulse tous, it may be the dagger that shail de- Btroy our liberty, [Appluuse.} Again, I dread thut Solid South, because of 178 TERIIDLE KPFECT UPON ITSELF. A young nan grees to the polls for tho first tine tovotw, He reads the constitutional amends nents and that the black man hese right to the ballot. Te hus taken the freeman’s oath to enforce that right. And 5 may pte bis party In power, he consents that: that be stricken duinb. and Inaugerates friud in the control of his State. What is to be the future? Falschuml always begets false- hood. The red hand js ever tho father of new murder, You cannot strike down the liberty of the black without endangering tho Uberty of the white. ‘This a Government of free convent, For the aike of the South itself, in tho, ope that the day may eome when seheol-houses ehall stand upon every hiitside, In the hope that the day may come when we shail teach them what toleration, aud liberty, .und citizenship mean, 1 ptend that the men Wt tho Nurth beat that Solid South for the suke of the Solld South itself, {Appluuse.] You ask me If I hve hope that we ean do It. I believe that the South to-day is as hollow in its politics ts wus tho Cunicderacy when the strong orm of Grant closed around Wichmond and atrangied Itto Applouse.) Your thoughts and mine go buc! wt thine. You remember how Southern statesmen enh that {f beaten in the teld they would dle in the last dilteh, You remember fow Southern pocts sung it; how Southern orators enthused rent | musses; you remember that tbe entire South suid thoy would dle, but. they would never surrender; but that quict Jittle man knew better, und when Hiehmond | fell. the entire Confederacy took mules and horses and went home. [Laughter.} It js preeisely eo to-day. Bourbons huve been dying; brave youn men have been born; cotton hus been prosperous; tobacco le plenty; the agriculturni interests of the South are happy to- de Jnto the heart and brun of thelr moro thoughtful men there je steallug a dread of tho methods and the means by which the South Is held sold, To-day there are men all over that land who dare not spenk thelr trust, who duro not volce thoir prayer; but to-night, under the stirs or it the storm, their hearts fre reaching Northward, and pleading with n silent cloguence that 1 dure not disregard, that we shatt stand by a free bullot and wm hone est count, aud in freeing ourselves that we shullstrikey the shackles frum their souls and muke them free, [Loud upplause.) | We ns- snimed a large responsibility when, for thelr good and for the sood of the Nation, we told thom that thoy should not wangeroff In succe ful sevosaion. When we bold therm in the Gov ¢roment by the strong rm of power we as- suined tho responsibility to make this Govern ment a blessing to thems we nseumed the responsibility of iliting them up to tho level of our citizenship; we assumed the responsibility: af making the restored Calon a blessing to them us well as to ourselves. sike of tho poor, stricken South, that bas suf- fered these lang yeurs under the curse of Blav- try,—that his puffered those tong years under tho more terrible curse of a repression that sitenced tha conseicnee und padlocked the lips of {ts beat white men,—for the sake of thut South itself 1 plead! with the conscience, 1 plead, with the — Intelligence, I plead with =the —sputrietian: of the may honors of Joshua lt. Giddings, fiw. t soticitas tlon they sent Garfleld toCongress. Ho wasning times rebiected. Then when the Piumed Knightot ‘Malue {ehecrs} bad ween called to tha Senate, by cominon consent Garfield became aur lender on the floor of the House. Then, by tho tin solicited voice of Ohio, be was elected Senator of the United States, Thon, when xreat nmbitions Bail lobk es. toate Horak i the great Convention ruthie In Chiengu, some stran ebance or Providence of od, if in NE BECAME OUI CHOSEN LEADER. My heart, I frankly say, was saddened by that remilt, Thad come to that Convention follow- ing tho star of another and loving the services of another ns Thad never fotlowed or loved po- Htlenl tender before. (Applause.] Yet, when the Republican party pronounced the deerco, tlie friend of every candidate fell into Hine, It was no longer the leader; It was tho cause, And because that !dea menna liberty for the South, meuns prosperity for the” North, means progress for tho Nution, 12 you, Republicans, — independent = Derno= cratt—all | who ue citizenship — above purtisanship: I plead with you now. Keep tha old tug in tho hands that wero true to tho Nn, nud in the control of. the party that suved the Republle. (Appiause,) Teyond tho dust and glninor of the hour Took to that sure-coming future when all the results that grew on bloody fields shall be harvested by hands of wige states~ manship; when the mnyalte reaching over every buttle-th tlon, eball Be touched, ns surely thoy will be tho ‘better angels Of our comiion nature. 1 louk forward to tho time when all over tho South there shall t opened mines, factories, progre when one people, North and + smons the geaves of our dend, verenuy thunk the god of buttes that Ie gave to us uton—shill reverently thank the sons of tha soldiers that thi ured the vietory of bnttle by wi atatesmansbtp 10 timo of plead with brave, 10; {Chee JUDGE TOURGER. TUE AUTHOR OF “A FOor’s ERRAND.” The Chairman: then Introduced Judge Albion W. ‘Tourgee, of North Carolina, the author of “A. Fool's Errand.” He was warmly greeted, and spoke as follows: Ma. CHAIMAN AND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN or Cintcago: A yrent audience and a great elty ulways overwhelm me atlke, especinily when that city Is the twiee-builded wonder of tha world, and that nudignee the suns and daughters: wthwest. [Applause] It i not cause marvelous elty has risen twice with, fn tho yeurs which F might count my own, and It’ tg not’ beeausy you ure tho bullders, that 1am thus Impressed, but becatise Chienyo itsolf bs nothing compared with that spirit whlet under Hes its ereation, and you are but the indicet of tho freedoi which hus made the Northwest whit itis, LAppluuse.] Itls because not, only of whut you tre, and of what Chledgo Is, but of whut andthor section uf our country Is not that Tam this fmpressed; and 1 feel ealled upon te ask you hero to-night tu consider two questions: Why are you what you ure? And why {s the South what itis? Tn so, doing It becomes mie te remember thit the Youny Men's Auxillary Club of Chicago has already become the synonym for earnest, manly, — inde- pendent — politienl thought throughout the Nation, that Its sturdy ruggedness of ex- pression, that Hs unttinching courage of opinion, an auxittary, of principle beyond and under! greater complinent could be ¢! publican party of tho United St tnet that this Club works In this campaiga In hearty evdperation with it. tt is your verdict upon tho truth of Republicanian, | (Anpinuse.] T eannot but put in contrast with this those two grvat voluntary bodies auxiliary of the Demo- cratic party.” Irving Hall and Tamman: Hall, meeting: together to decide by the tHup ol a penny the spoils of New York City. Thera cannot be any finer Index of the comparative value of those bodies to the country than of thes auxiliaries who fight upon tho wings of cach, It may be that before an audience Ike this it will be considered impertinent almost for me to conalder those syigationags which seem to nie tho pr ssing ones of the hour, from the standpoint which itseemsto me a young mun sbout ta cust his first ballot ought to regard that uct. If jt brs, Fen only say that you hive entitled me to do so vy the stand which you have taken, and that you have enrouraged ‘ine to do so by the independance which you have displa Itseems to me that ev nat, expel ally” ny ‘ung min, befure casting w ballot, shauld us Iniself this one question: Which of the cons tending parties of this country will most cere talnly, most readily, MOST THOROCGULY AND COMPLETELY, SUDSEIVE «MY INTEREST AB A CITIZEN? for T would put {t low upon the very basis of our individual interest, Not that interest which is a kratiticntion of greed, nor that interest which 1s tho gutiefaction = of ntti tion, but that interest which tends to the development of tho. highest mumhood for the good and glory of the country, aud [in the more fnelined to do thid from the tice that in old and honored cltizen of your own State fina recently formulated the reneons whieh have tn- dueed him ut the ffty-ninth minute of tho eleventh hour of bia lito t ye the remainier to the Democratic party. words and his rent North ta confront n Solid South by a Sold North, beat that South, and from ite ruins shall rise a.solld Nation, crowned forever nore. {Loud applause.) ONE FURTHER THOCONT and Tamdone, 1 came not here ty fing one are row at my Ohl comrade of tho Ariny of the Poe tomne, who heads the Demoeratle teket; but T bave come with loving benrt to testify my deep appreciation of that ather great soldior and trun mun who heads the Republican column, {Loud applause.) Let young men bear with me while iny broken voice, broken from long and earnest service in this canvass, tells the wondrous story: of that wondrous life. He was left an orphan by the death of his father before he was 1 nionths of age. The lttle mather,—so little that, when 1 visited her at Mentor tho othor uy, #bo could walk under tho outstretched arm of her gitnt boy.—that Htde mother, so left in tha clearing of Northern Ohio, her only pos- session fifty oneres of half-eleared hind, her true New England heart, her We New Enulaud brain, ber two-labor-seatned bands, and the eight litte hands of her four balrns, tho oldest of them not 10 yenrs, within a fortitight from tho time tho father was buried that brave Tittle mother, with tho help of her oldest and that cultd a pirl, was splitting the chestout logs the dead futher bad cut, that she might mute rails to fenee in the few acres of wheit be had planted, ‘Then, with a women's diving Ins stinet,—nay, with amother’s diviner instinet, she gave the little tot at the edge of thee na that they migut pl tho villuge school-house there twas fit eced-corn tor thaber that his ripe tor the Fresidenuy, (Loud applaure ALI yeura be was plying the trade of 1 carp ter, tint, with bis older brotner, ue mit, build a frame house to take the place of the log cabin, At fi, acoklng larger wages, be had gone upon the camel; and hero fT tan - tht sine Aristouratie Pemocrat [augbter|,with perfumed handkerebiet nostrild = (Iuughter}, with hostrils in the al, and with | relations@ possibly liviisg nt Sndianapalia Lluugnter,) suys; “What! Are you Hepublicans: going to make a President out of a nuile-driver 2?" Welt, ow, my deur brother Dernocrat, for your cote fort be It told, he learned to drive mules wigbty Soule are and uppliuuse]—so well tit, when Noverber cow be may have Barnum and ify geyen Indian mutes all corrated tu the mutstics at the beadquurter of the | Was Tush, (Laughter and loud applause.) Three months on tho tow-path, | thon to tho Ville ucadomythe, 2 to old Willtuns College in Mussechusatis, where ho yriduated with the first Lonorot his cluss, thon buek to Hiram, then Professor of hungunyes, When Proaident of the College, thon a member of the Ohiostrta Sonate, and then, like an alarm bell in the night, that (rst gun nt Sumter broke the atlinugs ot our Nurth» 2 to eroain. DPbear its echoes vibrating through all the years that aro gone; [seo nyzuin tho turine boy ‘lenve the plows. 1 seo nuit the artisan throw down the Bammer; 1 see again tho stu. dent leave the office; I sen agity thatold tlug that wont down in serrow and in shame on Suinter, find loving aud loyal resurrection as it streams out trom every eliirely splre and every loyal homestead throughout the and. [Loin np- platens) Into the army, frat Colonel, then hero ‘of Bhg Sandy, then Chiof of Stat to Rusue erans, thon, on that terrible day when Critten- den bad been forced buck upon our right, guing to the frome and Saguating with Thomus through all those wo hours, when sho *fock of Chickamnuuga” “dashed buck the Robelllun in broken ound iu bloody spray. [ie- newed applause.) Hero | Domocrats, you a ay cheer for Hus on the er Held of Gottsburg; my beart gives loving echo to every cheer you rdixe, God diews every mal regular or volunteer, Demoert or Republic white or black, every taan who bured bis breast to shot and shell that the old thai might live fu heaven, nel (hut liberty might dweil beneath it a on the earth. (Ap )] God bless the sans of Weat Polnt who were true to that thar when many (ot their comrades turned | ayul the Nation's heart the the Ni ton bad xiven thom. God bless tha vol~ unteers; sume Lure tho musket, some only wore the ebetron of Corporal or Surgeant, some by grand daring and bright brain ruse to bo Major-Goneral, God bless the white Uuloulets of Tennessee, buted by tho Lloudbuuud, and living in the cave, for no deeper fault thun that theyfoved tha banner of thulr futbors. God Divas thy poor Llack men whe guided our boys when thoy were tleelng from: Audersonyillo toward liberty and the north wtar, [Loud ap. plac.) God bless all the Union soldiers. Gna loss tho wives: who Joved thom and) were true to thew, Uod bless the old motbers who cured for then, God bless the old fathers who prayed for thom! ‘And nay God, with His iotinit pity, forgive the Democratic party that stabbed thom with tral- torous bullote when thoy were at the fron ‘Applauss.} Then, when the old Ashtabula ict sougbt ouy who abould wosthily bear the Fensons are worthy of — consideration, both from what he was and what ho » He was nm charter sinember of tho Republient y. ftv is your Democratic eanditate for Governor, Lyman Troapull, £ guy thut whatever this nnn inay give ay bis rea~ sons for leaving the Kepublicun party arg warthy of consideration, and they ure worthy of it if we determine the motive to be that of sine cerity, nud that we must judge frum tho rea sons #iven. THE FINST REASON WIICIE WE GIVES why ho hes abandoned the Republican party Is, thitt ita chitm tu bave saved the Nation, 10 have 3 put down the Rebellion, to hays Creed th slave, and to bave restored peace, ts wlic, Tis a strange elalin to come from those I itis a strange Une to mike It, Tho heart and core of bis Wife bas been Kepublican, The fame which he bis avhioved, ail that will endure, la Repubtic~ ant and now he cones with tho urnuxnment, ls it trac? Nineteen yeurs after the fact, utter the Republican party hag fn overy convention, by the mouths of the Presidents It kns chosen, and by tho mouth of ev Congressman it has elected, upon every stump and fi every sehool- house throughout the IMnd, declared that the pute tug down of the Bebollion waa ita policy, and hus accepted ull responsibility thorefor, now for tha Orst Une comes tho celal in the mouth > main Trumbull, in the muuth of Benjae min F. Butler, and in. tho ot other men by scores aud thousands, thut tho Republican party {3 not entitied to this credit, Nay, my” fellow-citizens, thoy yo farther, und with the cheek of a Government mule thoy de+ el that the merit for these beneticent ucts, bless God! reste with the Demooritle party. {Laughter.] They tell us as the reason therefor that Democratic Gensral: our hosts to vio a that Democrats touebed vltows with Mee Mi nick atuod with ae in the forefront of tu put they forget to tell ud that woen they that when they took the oath of service ook ween Jenve of absence from the Yume years, or duriiur We War. jCrlesor “Hear, hear! and upplause.)] Tyey wore so far estranged from the Demoerioy iat we were conipelled to nvent & new mine fo dise tingulst them, and we called thom " War Deuo- erate,” Just uu wpenk of a tighting Quaker, o Free- Wilt Baptist, or a white crow,—(inushter and Al eet the distinctive feuture of the Demovrat was nor found in them, From that moment tbey fought the Republican fight, kept the Kepubiicun tuith, and voted the Repubs Henn ticket. (aantahter and loud applause.) 1t matters not how many of then there were,” Mr, Vrumbull tells us that Lincoln received but 1,800,000 votes in 1800, and he tells sthat there ven hundred thousand, more the Let- ter, The Deuwerscy: Kepublicanisia of that Lime were not to be Judged by the mon that left thom, butt by the men that staid with thom, (Applause) The fact that Demoerats cuught the rythm of that grand inaren with which Join Brown went on to victory no mere certities the patriotism or inarit of thnsy wha staid bubind thin does the Ulaht of rightcoud Lut fron Sodom establish tho churactor of that ely us on good place to raisu a family. (Luugbter and applause.) it mutters hot it there was not but one lepublean iu ull that war; tho iden which underiny ft was Ko» publican; thy spirit whieh prompted our resiet~ ated they oeratio cuinp for thre ance was Republican; and we needed no wane to tell who went to battle, (Loud applause.) THANK GOD, THERE WERE NO WAR MEPUDLICANS, [Laughter and cheers.) ‘To bo a Republican atall was to be ready and willing “Po ybt 16 out on that line if ft takes wil summer.” {Ape ruusa)} We peed no enll the roster of our ruves, Every man's thought, aud prayer, and hope in the Republican purty was wpon the suce cess of that wreat cause. [Applause] Ever: mun ithroughout the length of this land thus prnyed for Uberty, and tnion, and right, and righteousness, whether bo wad Unioulat that abut cloae bia door und hung out tho red string: from tho window before he uttered bls prayer in whlapor;, whether ft was thu colored man thut ‘bowed beneuth the shadow. of tho cunebrake at widnight; whether 16 was you, peopla of Chleago, iu your magaillcont temples,—vvory ony of thoge men Brive forthe Kepublican party, LApplause.) And overy foroy, and power, aud thought tha whihed well to Confederate success, every beure whose bopy was under the stars and burs, and every bounty-Juuper and deverter, overy mun who, fearing a deutt, joked on the Canada wide of the Fully and sont back tearful iprazee for Democratio victory. {Applau Why, you remuwber that when Leo cutuo ov the’ hountain wall, “came down horse and foot upon Fredericktown,” ho sald’ the reavuu that be cane was that ho mlgit belp to olect George U, McClellan, [Luyghter.) No Uebel over planned bla movements to ald Republican sucuvay, thank Gud, [Applausa} No nocd of tho Golden Circle, plotting for our victory, No imsy dsomued of olvouing Uby agueducta OF

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