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 Its Cardinal Principles -RepuWicanism Its Perpetuating Bulwarks, 
 
 JULIUS SILVERSMITH, -M, A., 
 
 EDITOK CHICAGO OCCIDENT— AUTHOR OF PRACTICAL HANDBOOK FOR 
 
 MINERS, ETC., ETC. 
 
 CHICAGO. 
 1884. 
 
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 Its Cardinal Principles --RepuDlieaaisni Its Perpetuating Bulwarks, 
 
 AN ADDRESS BY 
 
 JULIUS SILVERSMITH, M, A, 
 
 EDITOR CHICAGO OCCIDENT— AUTHOR OF PRACTICAL HANDBOOK FOR 
 
 MINERS, ETC., ETC. 
 
 CHICAGO. 
 1884. 
 
 (all rights reserved.) 
 FELLOW CITIZENS: 
 
 Every good citizen of this great American country will concede 
 that a close scrutiny of the principles and policies to be pursued by 
 an administration for the progress and prosperity of our people 
 when they are to chose their standard-bearer is essential. The ap- 
 proaching contest is one of vital importance to every interest in our 
 Republic The two political parties best known to all Americans 
 have placed candidates before us and we, the people, are to chose 
 sufficient electors for proclaiming the choice of the people. It is in- 
 deed essential that we should investigate and closely examine the 
 several platforms and principles of both these parties, to decide 
 which of these are for the benefit of our whole country. 
 
 THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM. 
 
 Undoubtedly, the great Statesmen which composed the recent Re- 
 publican Convention held in Chicago, have fitfully enunciated the 
 principles and best means for the executive and legislative bodies 
 of our country. It has been scanned and critically dissected by the 
 wisest of men, and has truly been accepted as the only plan by 
 which our every interests from north to south and east to west will 
 be well subserved, and that will secure to all citizens the greatest 
 benefits and emoluments. 
 
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 A WORD TO MY FELLOW FOREIGN BORN AMERICAN CTTIZ NS. 
 
 In glancing over the several periods during which the Republi- 
 can party has ministered over the nation's affairs, we find the en- 
 franchisement of over 4,000,000 bondmen, and that it has placed 
 every citizen equally before the law ! It is the only and first civil- 
 ized nation on this mundane sphere, wherein a foreign-born citizen 
 may attain high renown and honored positions, if he proves himself 
 honest, capable and faithful to our country. It has granted and giv- 
 en the best of our public domain to any and all who are willing to 
 go upon our public lands to found homes for themselves. It has en- 
 acted laws that will encourage the laborer and protect them in their 
 earnings and gains. The greatest boons are the large expenditures 
 devoted to the system of public schools and the education of our 
 children. You, my fellow-citizens, Germans. Frenchmen, Scandina- 
 vians, Slavonians, Italians and Spaniards, if you will but recognize 
 these and many other cardinal benefits enacted for your welfare, all 
 of you would surely gratefully tender your whole aud individual 
 support to that great Republican party ! Nay more, in Hon. James 
 G. Blaine's letter of acceptance, we are promised still greater deeds. 
 He is outspoken when he says : " The name of American which be- 
 longs to us in our national capacity must always exalt the just pride 
 of patriotism. Citizenship of the republic must be the panoply and 
 safeguard of him who wears it. The American citizen, rich or 
 poor, native or naturalized, white or colored, must everywhere walk 
 secure in his personal and civil rights. The republic should never 
 accept a lesser duty, it can never assume a nobler one than the pro- 
 tection of the humblest man who owes it loyalty — protection at home 
 and protection which shall follow him abroad into whatever lau<i 
 he may go upon a lawful errand." No doubt nfany of you may 
 some time desire to' return to your old homes, yet you fear the petty 
 tyrants under whose tyrannical sway you were born, and who are 
 always ready to ruthlessly lay hands upon you, through their paid 
 minions, and to press you into the ranks of their standing armies 
 as soon as you venture within reach, and thus set aside all the rights 
 we may have secured under the free institutions of this country and 
 the privileges of naturalization. No better advo3ate for American 
 rights has spoken so well on that question as Mr. Blaine, and I 
 feel more than assured that my foreign-born brethren will cast their 
 franchise for him, who is our best friend. It were time that the 
 American people placed in the executive chair a Statesman like Mr. 
 Biaine, who will maintain the safety and honor of every American,, 
 be he a native or a naturalized citizen, when he seeks social or com- 
 mercial interests in foreign lands. 
 
 Not only the Republican party, bat Mr. Blaine himself, is deter- 
 mined, and, so to speak, wedded to the subjects of subsidizing our 
 
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 merchant and government navy, in order to promote our enlarged 
 commercial intercourse with foreign nations, and to protect tho 
 rights of American citizens in foreign lauds. 
 
 Our Democrat'c friends who have had the majority in Congress 
 eight of ten years past, have talked much, but have literally done 
 nothing to resuscitate our merchant and government marine, 
 notwithstanding that our Treasury has had over a one hundred mil- 
 lion dollar fund accumulated, which might readily have been appro- 
 priated for that essential need. 
 
 OUR FELLOW LABORING MEN. 
 
 One of the most auspicious planks in the Republican platform is 
 the timely remedy pointed out ior augmenting the benefits of our 
 laboring classes. 
 
 This can only be accomplished by the wisest legislation, and it 
 can not be doubted that the valiant standard bearers of Republican- 
 ism, the illustrious gentlemen, the Hon. Jas. G. Blaine and Gen. Jno. 
 A. Logan, each re-echo the deep seDtiment of protecting our laboring 
 masses. For twenty-five years the Republican party has accom- 
 plished the greatest improvements in our industrial pursuits and has 
 multiplied the encouragement for honest labor. It has caused 
 the erection of thousands of factories for all kinds of manufactories, 
 so that our country is no longer dependent on foreign importations. 
 Prior to the war we were entirely at the mercy of our English 
 cousins. Those of you who know something of the antecedents of 
 the once powerful Democratic party, will remember that they were 
 ever devoted freetraders. King cotton was their demigod, and 4,- 
 000.000 bondmen furnished the article bv this slave labor! 
 
 "A tarifl for revenue only was their "shibboleth " four years ago. 
 They have changed it to read, "a tariff for public purposes exclu- 
 sively, which is a difference of words, but not of idea. But the 
 wisest of them in Congress have failed to see the practicability of 
 such a fool-hardy measure. They have discovered that the earn- 
 ings of millions of laborers, artisans and workmen of this country, 
 could not be reduced by the competition of the pauper labor of the 
 old country. To the great Republican party belongs the credit of 
 having elevated the laboring man, artisan and mechanic of this great 
 republic, as well as having secured to him the greatest boons which 
 a civilized nat on can bestow ! 
 
 We have the best evidence in the letter of acceptance of Mr. Blaine 
 that as an American, he fosters the broadest sentiment which should 
 exist between the North and South ; when he says " the South needs 
 capital and occupation — not controversy," and that she has entered 
 upon a career of industry," which exhibits his wise Statesmanship, 
 and if placed in the e^ ecutive chair, as we hope he will be, would, by 
 his policy, annihilate he last vestige of acrimony that lingers from 
 the war, and place the interests of the South on an equal commer- 
 cial status with other States, and which they enjoyed prior to the 
 
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 war. The every day reader will long have pondered what the Dem- 
 ocratic party designs, or what should entitle thern to govern this 
 great republic. Its greatest aims were only for slavery — free-trade 
 and the spoils of office. But these issues have long since been ad- 
 judicated by the humane and intellectual Republican party ! Would 
 it be policy for the people of this great nation to revert to the old 
 beaten ruts of this superanuated political junta f Our country is too 
 far advanced in the peaceful pursuits of our industries, productions, 
 finances and general prosperity. The Democratic howl of reform, 
 change of administration, and other false crys, could only bring 
 chaos, ruin, and possibly anarchy ! Would you have such a change ? 
 No ! a thousand times No ! ! Even to-day we read from rampant 
 Democratic organs that the sovereignity ot States is y?t sacred to 
 them ; intimidation and bull-dozing at the polls are tacitly acquiesced 
 in by some of the misled Southern States, where the shot-gun and 
 bloodhounds effectually debar honest Republican voters from the 
 polling places ! Ml this is yet indulged in under the soubriquet of a 
 ""Solid South." Certain demagogues among our Eastern Democrat- 
 ic friends have broadly cast out the idea, because the illustrious 
 candidate, Mr. Blaine, for President, being of Main<^, that our 
 foreign.-born citizen would be circumscribed in their priviledges by 
 reason of the Maine laws, touching intoxicating drinks. I doubt 
 not that every Democrat entertains this fear — good judgment and 
 sobriety are not among their natural attributes. But, after search- 
 ing the Records of Congress, and the public documents of Mr. 
 Blaine, I cannot nod a single sentence or speech of his official career 
 in which he is committed to that famous interdiction, and I chal- 
 lenge any Democrat, distiller, compounder or brewer to adduce such 
 an allusion that will exhibit Mr Blaine adverse to the legitimate 
 manufacture ef spirituous, vinus or malt beverages, or, their mod- 
 erate use. He is too broad a Statesman and such an exemplary po- 
 litical economist as to even think of such a question, much less ad- 
 vocate prohibition < r ',ee-to-talism, and yet who is there that would 
 charge on him inebriety ? 
 
 It is a happy coincidence that two such types of men as Mr. Blaine 
 and General Logan should have been chosed by the Republicans, 
 since both are fully committed and staunch friends to all that which 
 pertains to the welfare of our country. With such Statesmen at the 
 helm of the ship of State, it must safely sail until the greatest aims 
 ol our country and people are gained, and the serene harbor of the 
 fullest peace, freedom, prosperity and the highest State of civilization 
 is reached ! 
 
 I hurl back with indignation the false imputation of some harang- 
 uing Democrats thatwe Germans came to this country only to drink 
 free beer or that Irish patriots desire to indulge in free whiskey and 
 Lave no higher principle. It is the most dastardly demogoguery. 
 
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 The imputation is base and unfounded ! You will bear mo wit- 
 ness my foreign-born friends that wo have come with tar (tablet and 
 better designs — we are not a nation of bibblers and drunkards, we 
 came to seek freedom, honest labor, in fact, to become a potent factor 
 for creating this country a happy, powerful and an honored nation ! 
 We cams to be the bone and sinew of America. We are fulfilling 
 this mission to the best of our understanding, and can exist without 
 the still or mash-tub if need be. 
 
 In the matter of Civil Service, our Democratic friends have here- 
 tofore promised much, but in reality accomplished little. It is not 
 in the nature of things that it could. The Democracy counts among 
 its dogmas the trite saying: "To the victors belong the spoils," 
 hence the most abject bully, shoulder-hitter, bull-dozer and ballot-box 
 stuffer may attainapostmastershipora revenue office,and if he be even 
 devoid of the first Jules of grammar, or even incapable of adding 
 a column of figures. But, my friends, it is the fact that under the 
 Republican administrations this anomalous status has been happily 
 averted, Civil Service has become a test matter for every public of- 
 ficial, and our public affairs are far more systematically transacted 
 and less blunders and contusions occur. It were indeed a grea f 
 pity, if not an outrage, were we to again reinstate the defunct Demo- 
 cratic idea of "spoils." You, my fellow foreign born citizens, will not 
 lend yourself to such a plot — you are 'oo intelligent; you pay 
 enough tithes, taxes and revenues to have the public monies seques- 
 tered or wrongfully expended, if not pilfered, by an illiterate rabble 
 of hungry ward bummers and politicians of the lowest type. Hon. 
 Jas. G. Blaine and John A. Logan, are both firm advocates for u con- 
 sistent Civil Service Reform, and the Republican platform clearly 
 and distinctly sets that up, as one of its most important planks. 
 
 I should not be doirfg justice to myself or to you, were I to omit 
 the most important topic at this juncture of American annals in the 
 brief time allowed me for addressing you, when I assert that the 
 Democracy and par example, the " Solid South," foster and nurse a 
 most gigantic scheme for fleecing our public Treasury, and if they 
 should ever be successful in placing themselves in power again, 
 would plunge our nation into a far greater indebtedness than we ever 
 had before. Mark you, my friends, I am not an alarmist ; but a 
 timely precaution against such an anomally should govern every man, 
 woman and child in this great Union. But to the facts : Some time 
 during March last I received a quarto pamphlet of forty pages 
 from England, written by J. Barr Robertson, of London, in which 
 he treats of the claims of the late Southern Confederacy, its bond 
 and paper issues, constantly harping upon the individual State 
 rights, positively asserting the legality of the claims of those South- 
 ern rebels who would hold the government of the United States 
 
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 liable for the payment of every bond issued and private Southern 
 debt soinccurred during our internecine war. From his standpoint 
 the case is most pertinaciously argued. This eminent jurist is even 
 not slow in obtaining six of the most erudite international jurists in 
 Europe to endorse and pass judgment on his opinion and statements, 
 to-wit: That the <hird parties, (British, French and Dutch capital- 
 ists) were entitled to the principal and interest of said bonds. 
 
 Mr. Robertson quotes Lord Cairns, and the present Lord Justice, 
 Cotton, of England, who are committed on the cotton loan in their 
 decision of Feb. 23, 1863, and the eminent foreign iurists, who were 
 influenced to side with the bondholders, are Dr. J. M. C. Asser, of 
 Amsterdam, Dr. Thomas Goudsmit, of Rotterdam, Dr. Achilles Re- 
 naud, Privy Counselor of the Grand Duchy of Baden, Dr, Jules 
 Levita, of Paris, also Monsieur M. Lente, of the Court of Appeals 
 of Paris, and Monsieur Henri Barboux, Battonier of the Roll of 
 Advocates of the same court. Mr. Robertson then goes on with a 
 number of cases analogous in favor of such claim holders. He now 
 urges an arbitration between the interested confederate bondholders 
 of Great Britain, France and Holland and our government. In 
 winding up his argument he says: "This is a perfectly valid inter- 
 national claim in behalf of Europeans, which the British, French 
 and Dutch governments, whose citizens are chiefly interested, can 
 without hesitation present to the government of the United States- 
 and which that government after satisfying by arbitration or other, 
 wise as to the amount, may confidently be expected to pay. The 
 claim on behalf of loyal Southern citizens, to repayment for prop- 
 erty represented also in the Dollar Bonds, is one of validity of which 
 the United States cannot in justice refuse to recognize." 
 
 It will be observed, my friends, that these foreign gamblers hope,, 
 through a centralized "Solid South" to obtain possession of our 
 United States Treasury. It is impossible at this time to estimate the 
 exact amount they claim, but that it reaches high among the thou- 
 sands of millions is an assured fact. 
 
 And all this is flung into our face despite the amendments 
 and resolutions passed by Congress, and the principles laid down by 
 it, that no State of the Confederacy has ever possessed such rights 
 or priviledges. 
 
 Believe me, my friends, this is no idle threat. Every move, every 
 plan projected to place the Democracy once more in power, would 
 assuredly aid and encourage the Democratic party to demand the 
 payment of all rebel bonds and rebel claims. They would not stop- 
 short of even presenting their personal bills for losses occasioned by 
 the war, and insist on the payment of the per capita value of every 
 slave 'freed by the immortal Lincoln. It is the only hope which 
 the Southern Democrats cherish, and this is the reason why they 
 style themselves the " Solid South." I can only account for "the ac- 
 
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 cumulation under a Democratic Congress of the $101,0C0,000 now 
 in the United States Treasury as being a precursory measure of pro- 
 viding for the payment of the claims, which they may award by 
 some act, over-riding the Congressional amendments and resolutions 
 touching all rebel claims. You nor I can doubt that the " Solid 
 South " would if it could nullify and destroy these amendments and 
 resolutions. 
 
 My rieuds, I shudder and tremble at the thought of the crushing 
 burden of another quarter of a century's debt, that would rest on 
 the shoulders of our nation ! 
 
 You, my fellow countrymen, should ponder seriously ere you 
 would help to place such a party into power, which would surely de- 
 spoil our National Treasury ; to make you toil harder for raising 
 taxes and revenues, and foist upon your sons and daughters an addi- 
 tional obligation to our present debt — not a debt of your own crea- 
 tion, but that of a people who ruthlessly sought to disentegrate this 
 glorious Union, and keep in bondage 4,000,000 human beings ! You 
 will also observe how solicitous the English press and the British 
 " money bags," who invested in the illegal Confederate bonds, have of 
 late exhibited a proclivity for encouraging and advocating the 
 claims and superiority of the Denocracy and their preferences for 
 the Presidential candidates of that party. It is obviously for the 
 purpose of speedily realizing the ready cash on the Confederate 
 bonds, which they still hope to collect. Nor would the Democracy 
 stop short in their reckless manner of legislation to vote themselves 
 monies for the'' Solid South " for every barn, house, horse, pig, cow de- 
 stroyed during the war. Indeed there would be no end to our in- 
 debtedness. I do not believe with these facts before us that my 
 foreign-born citizens would be a means of reinstating the " Solid 
 South with the dough faced Democracy of the north, who want only 
 spoils and government positions, to be taxed and burdened for a 
 wicked rebellion, and in wh'ch they had no interest. I cannot be- 
 lieve that the German, French, Scandinavian, or other foreign-born 
 citizens would lend themselves for such a destructive policy. 
 
 I am more than convinced of the fact, that if in some five or six 
 Southern States the enfranchised colored people were allowed to 
 have the priviledge of casting their honest ballots, we could readily 
 count them as Republican States. But with all the olive branches, am- 
 nesties and magnanimities, which our executive,legislative and judi- 
 ciary governments granted to the murderous wielders of the shot gun 
 and employers of bloodhounds and other intimidating weapons, the 
 the would-be heroes of the " Solid South " frequently, and, in opea 
 defiance, seek to destroy our most sacred bulwark of American citi- 
 zenship, the free and sacred rights of the elective franchise, and an honest 
 ballot! 
 
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 A smouldering fire seems yet to linger within the hearts of the 
 irreconcilable fire-eaters. Their presses keep harping on the falla- 
 cious principles of the sovereignty of each individual State, indem- 
 nity for war losses, and a hundred other ante-bellum notions, which 
 are adverse to the progress, enlightenment and prosperity of our 
 American nation so auspiciously inaugurated by the Republican 
 party. Nor do I believe that these misguided Southrens will mend 
 their way until every one of their States is Republican! zed, and if 
 the younger generations of the South do not come within the bounds 
 of reason, the general government should assert its authority. 
 
 It is a sore perplexity to me to learn that some defection has arisen 
 among my German feliow-citizens, on account of a widespread mis- 
 apprehension, touching the prohibition question, and some minor 
 issues My erring compatriots should not forget that they formed 
 the so-called left wing of the Republican party, which was insti- 
 tuted in 1854. Among the most notable coadjutors in the past, was 
 the Hon. Carl Shurz, and it seems somewhat singular that he should 
 be arrayed against that party, which had elevated him next to the 
 highest position in the land. I call this perfidious, and the veriest 
 inconsistency." Some shortsighted Germans who do not read the his- 
 tory of the several State policies, with reference to the prohibition 
 movement, especially the one passed in Iowa and Kansas, are led 
 to believe that the Republicans were to blame for this enactment, 
 "when in reality prohibition owes its invention to the Democratic 
 party. The fiist prohibition law ever enacted in this country and 
 the one on which all the others have been modelled, was the Teeto- 
 talism Act of the Democratic Legislature of 
 
 Maine, passed in 1851-2 — two or three years before the Republi- 
 can party was organized. When the Democratic party was in 
 power in Maine in 1879-80-81 it refused to repeal the prohibitory 
 law The prohibitory law of Iowa was enacted by the Democratic 
 Legislature of 1853-4, and was modified by the Republicans in 
 1857, permitting the sale of beer and wine, which liberal amend- 
 ment continued in force 26 years; but bzing angry and excised at 
 the saloon keepers selling whiskey in violation of the law, and 
 the terms of their license, the temperance element in a fit of passion 
 have repealed the wine and beer exceptions and restored the original 
 Democratic prohibition law, forbidding also the manufacturing 
 of liquor in the State, and now,/ that State has a prohibition 
 act, of which they will soon tire — it is impracticable — it is not, and 
 never was a Republican measure, and our most intelligent Germans 
 understand this, otherwise the Prohibitionists and fanatics would 
 tot have set up their own platform, and a Mr. St. John for President. 
 On the^other hand communities where Democratic whiskey was do- 
 ing its most mischief, as in Nebraska and Illinois, both the Demo- 
 crats and Republicans joined hands in enacting a high license law 
 
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 — it works well both here and there — it does wonders in Illinois, 
 drunkeness, and crime is materially lessened. The whiskey business 
 will become more decent. It helps our public treasuries, and dimin- 
 ishes our personal and property taxes. In fact it is the only practi- 
 cal policy — it is ju<t what every good citizen desires. I have the 
 satisfaction of knowing that all my foreign-born friends and citizens 
 (who are not saloon keepers), believe as I do, that the Republican 
 party cannot be held responsible for either the Prohibition acts or 
 the high license law, as now enforced in some States. 
 
 Space prevents me from describing th e Democratic prohibition 
 law recently enacted in Georgia, and the very high License Act 
 passe .1 last year by the Democrats of .Missouri, combine 1 with a lo- 
 cal option prohibitory law. I might also speak of tin Prolrb : tion 
 Bill, passed by the Djimcrats of N >rth Cirolini two years ago, and 
 when submitted for popular approval, voted down by the solid Re 
 publican vote, aide! by a few Liberal Democrats. I might also refer 
 to the rapid spread of prohibition sentiments in ali th; Southern 
 Democratic St >tes, where the Republicans are excluded from parti- 
 cipation in public affairs. 
 
 By way of comparison, permit me to draw some characteristic 
 distinctions of the candidates of both parties. I can do no better 
 than to quote the language of the venerable Senator George F. 
 'Hoar, of Massachusetts, who says : 
 
 "Nsxt to the great generals of the war Mr. Blaine had for twenty 
 years been the most conspicuous personal presenc3 in the country 
 and the most brilliant public speaker the country ever saw, except- 
 ing, possibly, Henry Clay. His great pow r ers of debate have always 
 been exerted to keep the American people in the right path. His 
 enemies even now do not accuse him of a corrupt act. Senator 
 Hoar explained the noted Fisher letter. All his letters were con- 
 sistent with perfect political integrity and honorable motives. Tlie 
 Massachusetts Senator points out since the charges were made in 
 1876, Mr. Blaine has been indorsed by the people who knew him 
 best. He was elected to Congress, and to the United States Senate, 
 and appointed Secretary of State by President Garfield, with the 
 hearty approval and concurrence of the United States Senate. In 
 conclusion, Senator Hoar says Mr. Blaine stands before the people 
 as a representative American, from the crown of his head to the sole 
 of his feet — an American of the John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jef- 
 ferson and George Washington type." 
 
 So much for the Republican candidate for President. The name 
 of Gen. John A. Logan shines out with equally bright luster. He 
 was not only a bold, fearless and gallant soldier on the field of battle, 
 but his every act in public life exhibits him as a consistent and, 
 practical Statesman, and an honor to the State that gave him birth. 
 
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 Both of these gentlemen immediately after the Republican Conven-. 
 tion met, came promptly before the public with the most Statesman- 
 like acceptances, and their adhesion to the principles laid down in 
 the Republican platform, which enunciates the most essential needs 
 of our country. Both of their letters exhibit in round words and 
 frankest terms what they will advocate for the glory and ad- 
 vancement of our countn\ Their tirnety missives are not studied 
 epistles, no mere empty phrases, but they take up every important 
 object and interest that should be inaugurated and fostered for the 
 success and grandeur of our American republic. 
 
 Our friends, the Democrats, have also set up a platform, and it 
 contains much — if volubility counts fur anything. It is full of glit- 
 tering platitudes. It is vague and indefinite. It lacks the fire and 
 animation of the once powerful Democratic heroes, because the great 
 questions — the very cornerstones of slavery, and the free tariff no- 
 ions, are irretrievably lost to them. The party stands to-day, as 
 Shakespeare expresses it, like " Othello with his occupation gone." 
 
 It cannot be my design to belittle any man from the rostrum, it 
 would be beneath the dignity of a gentleman, under any and all cir- 
 cumstances, to drag in the personal amenities of either Mr. Grover 
 Cleveland or Mr. Thomas A. Hendricks, and yet we would point out 
 to the intelligent masses of our country the vast difference between 
 the candidates of different parties as to their social, intellectual, or 
 Statesman like abilities. Would the working masses of America 
 devote their franchise to a man who is simply the tool of the great 
 railroad cormorants? Has he not vetoed the enactment of his own 
 State, which would have given the laboring men, artisans and me- 
 chanics a cheaper rate of fare? Is he not in league with the most 
 desperate monopolists, the Vanderbilts, Goulds, and other Wall 
 street stock jobbing manipulators ? 
 
 If we now compare the document called his letter of acceptance 
 which was as brief as it was long coming, we find that it is wanting 
 in all the essential points touching our nation's great interests. It, 
 like the Democratic platform, is vague, indefinite and wanting in 
 purpose. Unlike the letters of Mr. Blaine and that of Gen. Logan, 
 (which documents breathe in every line and sentence fixed and de- 
 termined promises that speak volumes to the American heart,) 
 those of Messrs. Cleveland and Hendricks literally hold out no in- 
 ducement or encouragement to the American people. Mr. Hen- 
 dricks' letter is indeed so exceedingly brief, that it can scarcely be 
 recognized as a State paper. He is as sullen to day as he was when 
 Gen. Logan was fighting his rebel confreres on the battle field in 
 1861-65. 
 
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 n view of the many reasons which I assign to the real situation 
 our country, and the more philosophical policies we should follow 
 for the progress and advancement of our nation, I earnestly hope 
 and pray that my fellow foreign-horn citizens will seriously ponder 
 before they swerve from the Republican party, which has vouch- 
 safed us so many blessings and aggrandizements, and which un- 
 doubtedly offers us greater advantages under the illustrious States- 
 men whose wise judgment and exemplary personal merit, the people 
 of this^country and the nation at large will rise to the dignity and 
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