Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1882 — EEPUNLIUCANISM. [ARTICLE]

EEPUNLIUCANISM.

Rousing Speech by Congressman Julius C. Burrows at Detroit. ■■ *» * Why,the Republican Party Should Be Continued, in Power. ✓ % 'Danger* of Democratic Ascendency— The Record of a Great Wrong. Mb. Chaerman and Fellow Citizens of Detroit: In 1854 Kinsley a Bingham was elected Governor of this commonwealth. He was the first Bepublican Executive chosen to administer the civil affairs of this State. From that time till the present hour, a period of twenty-eight years, the Republican party is responsible tor the administration of the same organization. And if we but turn the page of history back we will be surprised at the marvelous development of the State under Republican rule. Then your population . numbered but 507,521 people; to-day, by the census of 1880, your population has grown to be 1,636,937; and it is estimated to-day that the population of this commonwealth is more than 1,800,000 of the bravest and freest - people in the States. The assessed valuation of your property, which then amounted to $125,000,000, has increased to more than SBIO,000,000, while the estimated value of your real and personal estate aggregates ipore than $1,200,000,000. Your 34,000 farms have increased to more than 154,000, embracing the fairest acreage under the sun. Your manufacturing establishment*, then numbering less than 2,000, have grown to be more than 20,000, giving employment to labor and investment of capita). The products of your farms and mines, forests and lakes, yield an annual revenue of more than $170,000, t 00, while Michigan shares with but one power on the face of the g obe the honor of being the greatest copper-producing country in the world. Your herds, then but few and scattering, have grown to be more than 4,500,000 head, grazin'-', upon your luxuriant fields. Your charitable and educational inst tut’ons are uns irpassed, the pride of the nation and the emulation of the States. Your public debt, wh ch then reached the sum of nearly $12,000,000, has been fully discharged, and to-day the Republican party present you a commonwealth ora t'cally out of debt. Its outstandi g obligations amount to only $901149.97, while vou have in the treasury to liquidate this inde tedness, now not due, $1,212,0 0, which is sufficient to di-charge the entire indebtedness of the Stat* and leave n your 'reasurymore than $300,000. Your taxes, whicn in 1881 amounted to ■ $1142,000, are 14 cents upon every SIOO oi taxable property. THE cost of the wak. But while we have thus met the obligations of the Si ate Government it must not be forgotten that, the Republican party was called upon to meet extraordinary demands upon the resources of that people. A civil war overtook the nation, and Mich’gan pur into the army more than 90,000 of as brave men as ever followed the stars of our flag into the night of battle. Thirteen thousand of these laud down their lives for the sovereignty of the nation and the honor of the State. In doing this work we paid out of the State treasury $2,784,408. There were paid by the counties of this commonweal* h $2,015,000, and there was paid by th ■ cities, towns and wards of this commonwe Ith for all war purposes $8,157,000, white there w s paid for the relief of soldiers’ families by the act of the people of th s State $3,591,000, which aggregate the enormous sum, in addition to the running expenses of the Government, of $10,584,000. What I have sa d of the State might appropriately be said of the nation under Republican rule. To recount the history of the Republican party and its administration of national affairs would be to recount the history of the republic ii self. And now at this juncture of public affairs, in the year of our Lord 1882, the proposition is made to turn the vast interests of this commonwealth and the interests of the nation over to a combination without a history and without a name. May Ibe pardoned the suggestion, without a future! ****** * * what is IT? My fellow-cit zen*, what reason is assigned for reversing thede isionof the people made two years ago. What has occurred since then to induce the good people of these United States to reverse their verdict? Then, after full debate, the Republican party was intrusted with power, and James A. Garfield elected President of the Uni ed States. What has the Rep ub lean party done since then to forfeit public regard?" Why, we are told, and is the only reason I have heard assigned that we should go out of power after one session of the national legislature, because we have hr Teased the ex-pend-tures of this peoj le by more than $70,000,000, that the Democracy appropriated for the last fiscal year only $195,000,000, I state it in round numbers, and that i his Congress has appropriated lor the present year for the support of the sam>* Government $265,000,000. an increase of several millions and because of this increase we should be deposed. Is such an opinion hasty? Does it not depend largely upon what this increased expenditure has been for? Does it follow that because the expenses ot your business were greater this year than iast. that, therefore, you are a bad businessman? Does it not depend something upon the question whether you have enlarged your business? Let us inquire what the $70,000,000 of increase was ; or. First, $24,000,000 of it was made necessary to square the books and pay up the indebtedness ot the Democratic p r ty. It is proper, when it appears that sl9 000,000 was not sufficient to support the Government for the year into $24,000,100, that we should add toe $24,' 00,000 to the sl9s,ooo.ooo—then by ascertaning exactlv what it did cost to run the Government ia*t year. Adding that to the actual expenses and we have $219,000,000. Deduct that from $265,000,000 and it leaves an increase of $40,000,000, but what is that for? millions of t was appropriated lopay the pensions of th>- soldiers and widows and o - ph-ns of this republic. What person objects to that? We appropriated it out of the public, treasury, and now it is one of the legacies of the Democratic party, this very year $lO ,000,000 to pay ihe defenders of tile republic. What more of th sin crease? The c aims of soldiers have been lying in the department at Washington, not one year, nor five' ears, nor ten years, bu fifteen years, unadjusted because the help of these departments has been cut down. The Republican party was brave enough to appropriate $1,742,430 to emp oy 1,200 efficient men to put in the department and hurry up the settlement of these clams. Who objects to that? Then we appropriat d $1,493,116, made necessary for the increased Sostal serv ce of the country. To that add le increase in the River and Harbor bill of $7,802,575, and you have the aggregate of $45,500,000 i< counted for. Every single dollar of thi* increase. Who objects to these items? The only criticism I have heard ad-

duped upon any port’on of this increase is the enlargement of the appropriation for the diver and Harbor bi 1, and our opponents in some places have had the ill-grace to denounce it as a steal Last year there were appropriated sll,451,000, this year $18,738,0 0, an increase of over $7,000,t)00 What is it for? Running through the very center of the mighty West is a greatmatural highway, which, if it can be controlled and kept within its banks, will make for itself a channel deep enough and broad enough to float the commerce of the world A few years since a commission was employed for ‘the purpose of considering some plan for the Improvement of the Mississippi river. That commission reported that $5,101,000 could be used at- the beginning of the work upon this great stream. Congress in this bill, and I am now specifying the items of this increase of $7,0<X),00 >— Congress in this bill appropriated $5,368,500 for the improvement of the Mississippi river and its tributaries. Is that to be denounced as a steal? As a matter of economy, it is wise, for out of the public treasury this very year we appropriated $400,000 to save the lives of men, women and children whose farms were swept away by the floods of the Mississippi. Another item of increase is $400,000 for filling up the Potomac flats. Right under the shadow of the White House lay these flats, exposed to the sun twice in twentyfour hours by the operation of the tides, and so offensive have they become that the doors and windows of the White House are compelled to be closed, and it is necessary to remove your dying Pres dent that his life might be prolonged, if not saved. Who objects to the appropriation of $400,000 for filling up these flats and making the dwellingplace of the President of this great republic inhabitable? Then we have appropriated $247,510 for future survey, which three items aggregate more than $6,000,000, leaving but $1,000,000 to be accounted for. which was appropriated for objects of a national character. One word about this bill, and I leave it How was it framed? Fifteen of as good honest men as I see before me to-night sat in committee, not one day or one week or one month, but six long months, examining every item of appropriation. And let me state three facts: First, there is not an item in this River and Harbqf bill that was not recommended by Government engineers; secondly, there is ho item of appropriation in that bill in excess of what wa- declared to be necessary for the work; and, thirdly, the sum total of the bill is mfa one-half the amount recommended by Government eng neers as necessary to carry on the work during the present year. Michigan, of all States, should be the last to comp ainof a River and Harbor bill; Michigan has taken out of the public treasury for the improvement of her narbors and 'rivers $6,000,0C0 of money. These appropriations are necessary. France expended in one year $19,000,000 for the same purpose,' and England, with bat l 300 miles of coastline, less by 300 tnan the S ate of Michigan, alone expenned in 1874 $15,000,000. The good peop e of this State, without distinett ;n, of party, should support a policy whichbas tor its object the opening of our great national highways, which give the people the cheapest means for transporting the surplus to the se board This is the only reason I have heard assigned why the lienublican party should go out of power May Ibe pardoned ior assigning some reasons why the Forty-* igdth Concress should be Republican aqd the Republican par y rema n in power? It should be continued in power ? first, for the purpose of settling the question of polygamy in this country. The Democratic party and the Republican party cannot agree upon that question During the war and immediately after the war this great crime was suffered td take root in Utah,’and has grown and flourished until it has not only cursed the soil of its territory, but is spreading i s baleful influence over the adjac' nt country. The Forty-fourth Congress, the Forty-fifth an.l the Forty-sixth were under the control of the Democracy. During those years but one measure was introduced upon the question of * polygamy, and. that in the House of Representatives. It was immediately referred to a committee, where it slept the sleep of death. During all this time Geor.ce Q. Cannon, a confessed polygamist, trampling upon the laws o. the United States, Insulting the intelligence and the civilization of th s people, held a seat in the hish councils of this nation. When the Republican party resumed control of the lower house this same representative of this enormous crime demanded his seat, backed by 18,600 majority of the people of Utah. Tne Republican party put to him the quest ion whether he was guilty of that crime, and he answered over his oWn s signature that he was the husband or four women with whom he lived as his wives, and d nied that we had the right to inquire into h s religious prino pies under the constitution. Our Democratic friends agreed with him that ui*der the constitution a man had a richt to worship God according to his own judgment, and if that was a method of woisbip it was for him to decide. The Republican party, striking a blow at this crime, said to thus representative of this abomination, “you shall n t cross over the threshold of the House ot liepre-entatives, and disgrace the American peop e hv vour presence there. ” The Edmunds bill passed the Senate. It came to the H -use. To ay it upon the table or to refer it to a committee was to kill it To take it rom the table and pass it was to make it a iaw. We mov d, as Republicans, to take the bi 1 trom the 8p alter s table and put it on its passage, and instantly Mr. Conver e, of Ohio a Democrat, moved to ref* r it to the Comm t ee on the Judiciary, where it would die, and every s ngle Democrat n the H.use of iieprt s’ntatives but one voted lo s i filer it. I mvor, therefore, the continuation of the R pub.ican party m pow*r, and assure you that it will not "sleu until this abomliiab e blotch upon the face of our Terr tor es is wiped out forever. There is another reason why we should continue in power, and that is with reference to the question of taxation. During the war, you will remember, the Republican party taxed everything They taxed a man’s income and his" outgo; what he had and what he had not. You could not make a note without stamping it You eould not sell a piece of ground without stamping the deed, nor mortgage a piece without stamping the mortgage The lawyer was taxed upon his practice, and so we taxed everything to raise money to save the nation, .-and nobody complained. But, when the war was over, we began relieving the people of the burden oi taxation. One by one these burd ns, were lifted until at the opening of the present session of Congress the only taxes remaining were the tax upon banks, the tax upon checks, tax upon matches and proprietary medicines tax upon w hisky and tax upon tobacco. Tne Ret übllcan party declared that they would lift a portion of these taxes from the people, and so Ve introduced In the House of Representatives, and passed, a bill relieving the people from $16,000,000 to S2O,U(X),(XX> of taxation; but we passed it in oppositonto our friends upon the other side. B cause by the rules of our House we may bring members to a vote upon the question. It w< nt to the Senate. It did not become a iaw. These additional burdens are still upon the people, and they are there because onrfrl- uds resisted the passage of the bIL They entered in a proceeding in the Senate which is familiarly known as “talking abi 1 to detfah,” tor a Senator has the glorious privilege of talking if he desires for pix y> ars, the length or his term. So thev entered upon a process of talking a bill to

death, and talked os into the middle of August, and atiemoted in that bt Ito interfere with the tariff! For the purpose of *doing it, anu bv so doing,they did d reat action upon it, and left an unjust burden upon this p ople of from $16,000,000 to $20,000,000. ft is necessary to continue the Republican party that this measure of justice may be enacted into law. There is another reason, and a great reason, why ihe Republican party should be kept in power. The tariff question s again agitating the public mind and becom.ng a distinctive party issue. The proper steps toward a revision of the tariff nave already been taken, but the end has not yet been reached. For several years the no.ion has been gaining ground that by reason of certain incongruities and inconsistencies which have crept into our tariff code during twenty years of its operation, a general revision is demanded by considerations of public policy. The sentiment becoming so wellnigh universal, at the last session of Congress all p rties were in substantial accord in demanding a readjustment of duties «on imports. The only question about which there seemed to be any serious contrariety of opin on was as to the manner ot revision. Our Democratic friends Insisted that the work should be entered upon then and there, without deliberation or and striking at random, slaughtering this industry and crippling that, prosecuting an irregular warfare upon our unsuspecting and hitherto fostered ndustgies, until partisan zeai should be satin, ed or appalled by the desblatii n, and the work should be abandoned! The Republican party insisted that a matter involving so many and such diversified interests demanded the fullest investigation and the most considerate judgment, and that before the work was undertaken Congress should take occasion to possess itself of all needed data to make the revision bo h comprehensive and i omplete. We hel*t that our tariff laws were so interwoven with an the Indus lies of this peoi le that to touch one would be like touching a single thread of a spider’s web, the whole fabric would tremble. The antagonism between the p arties resulted in the appointment of a commi -sion charged wi h the duty of Investigating our national industries, so far as they might be affected by our revenue law, and presenting the results of such investigation to Congress as a help and guide to an intelligent revision. The discu sion of the bill for the creation of this commission s rved to bring out the views of the Democratic party on tHe tariff question generally, und toe nfirm the beliei that ihe Democratic party Was fully and unreservedly committed i o the doctrine of tree trade or its counterpart, a tai iff for revenue only. In my j udgment the .pproachlny se sion of Congress will be too brief to enable us to complete the work ot revision, and that work will go over to the Forty-eighth Congress, to be performed by it > If the -Forty-eighth Congiess be Democratic, the revision of the tariff will be on the has s and the theory ot free trade; if Republican upon the theory of protection, which of these two theories do you desire to adopt as a nation 1 policy? The issue is upon us and it mart and will be met * * * * * . * . * gV One thing more and lam done. The Republican party must be kept in power to save the Government Unless there is a change in the practices of a portion of the people the day is not far distant when the r public falls. You, and I may riot live to see it, but I mis ake the signs of the times if our children do not live to witness the dawning of that sad day. Abraham L ncoln never uttered a truer sentiment than when he said, “This is a Government of the people, by the people and for the people." We have no King and no sovereigns under our flag, except the Kings and sovereigns I see about me to-night Every man in the United States is a King. This Government belonas to you, and if it fails it is because of vodr iack of Interest or your lack o# watchf nine s over its administration. There is but one way provided under our constitution t or the p ople of this country to make their will known, and that is through the ballotbox. Destroy it and the will of this people cannot be made effective. When the t.me comes in this country that the ballots you deposit in the ballot-box at sundown are made to read something else at sunrise, when the wdl of the people, as expressed ui the ballot-box to-day fa perverted to-morrow and the Government you intended to flow therefrom does not result. I sav, when that hour comes, if the abomination cannot be corrected, not only are the days of the republic numbered, but it is your duty and my duty to overthrow such a government* It ceases to be a government of the people and becomes a government of thievea To-day, in one-half of this republic there fa not a government of the people. Every member of Congress at the opening of the session presents to that body nis certificate of election. If it fa in due form and fair upon its iace it entities h m prima facie to a seat in that body. But the constitution has clothed both houses of Congress with the right to inquire into the qualifications and election of their own members. At the opening of the Forty-seventh Congress twenty-two men took their seats in the national House of Representatives of whom it was said that they were no more entitled to legislate for the people of Michigan and the people of other States, no more entitled to a seat in that body, than they had to a place in the British Commons or the Assembly of France. Their cases were referred to the Committee on Elections. They were investigated and reported upon and then came the tug of war. Every time the committee reported that a sitting Democrat was entitled to remain in his seat every Democrat in the national House of Representatives voted aye. But whenever the report came that a sitting Democrat was not entitled to his seat, that he was not elected, every Democrat remained silent and declined o vote. It had been given out from the Southern States that unless the Democrat ic party of the North stood by the men sent from the South, and forced upon this people Representatives who were not elected, right or wrong, so far as the Southern Democracy wou d be concerned, they, would abandon all effort to carry those 8 ales by fraud or trickery. So the Northern Democracy planted itself upon this ground, as I sha 1 how you, that the majority o the House of Rep esentativ » should not exercise Its con-t tut onal prerogative; ih it the right of the House to ludge ot the election of its-members should be nnuied and denied, and that without debate, w thout discussion, without parley, they should prevent us from exercising that high constitutional privilege. I remembe when the e se of M icke.v against O’Connor, the record of wh ch I hold n my hand, was presented, and Mr. Celsius, of Indiana, *ai*l: “ Mr. Speaker, I am prepay d to take up for consideration the contested-election case of Mackey vs. O’Connor’—or Mackey against Dibble as it had become by the death of O’Connor. Mr. Samuel J. Randall, the exSpeaker of the House of Representatives and an aspirant for the Democratic nomination to the Presidency, lashed into the posii lon by the hand of "the South, rose in his place and said: “Mr. Speaker. I raise the question of consideration.” This compelled the Speaker ot the House to put the ques tion, “Will the House consider this case?” And having put the question the yeas and nays were demanded by Mr. Randall. The roll fa called, and whenever the name of a Republican is reached he voteß aye. Whenever the name of a Democrat is reached he keeps still. We said to them, “Are you going to vote?” They said “No, sir.” “But,” we say, /‘the rules, provide that yori shall vote.” Their answer was, “You may lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink.” So they declined to vote. When the roll call was completed it

disclosed 130 present, and we bad to judge by the roll call who was present, and although the Democrats sat there silent and were present, they were to all appearances absent, and Mr. Randall rose in his place and said “No quorum. ” Being without a quorum we could not proceed with Hie consideration of this case. So the Demoor ilic party, violating the rules of the Houserules of their own making—sat dumb as the marble that shadowed them, day after day, and night after night, anti compel ed the minority to send for their absentees, taking them from their business and from their sickbeds to bring them to the House thut we might discharge our high constitutional obligations. When the roll eall disclosed 137 present, Republican members, making a quorum and the consideration of the case whs about to be entered upon, Mr. Samuel J. Randail rose in hfa place and said: “1 move that this House do now adjourn, and on that I call the ayes and noes." Then Mr. Springer, of Illinois, another Democrat, moved “that when thlsHouse adjourn, it adjourn to meet day after to-morrow. ” Then Mr. Blackburn, of Kentuckv interposed a motion “that this House do now take a recess.” Upon each of these motions the ayes and noes were called; and when the three hours necessary to consummate this work have passed ‘ Mr. Randall again rises and moves a that this House do now adjourn;’’ and Mr. Bprlnger repeats his motion and Mr. Blackburn hfa. And these gentlemen announced that thev proposed to go through with this farce until ihe end of Congress, to prevent the majority from proceeding, to prevent the people of this country from determining the question whether they are represented by men who are elected or men who are not We were driven at this juncture to say, “We must amend the rules of the House of Representatives in order to try this question." So we proposed this rule, that when the right of a member to a seat fa under consideration a dilatory motion ike a motion to adjourn or take a recess shall not be in order. The Chairman of the Committee on Rules reported that as an amendment, and insthntly Mr. Randall arose and moved “that this House do now adjourn. ” And Mr. Blackburn moved “that when thfa House adjourn It adjourn to meet day after to-mor-row." And Mr. Springer moved “that thfa House do now take a recess. ” We asked them it they proposed to try the same tactics on the rules that they h id on the case, and they said that they did Then it was that the Republican party, a ways bravo, always heroic, said to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, it cannot be possible that a motion to adjourn or to take a' recess or any dilatory 'motion • is in order when a proposition is beiore tlio body to amend the rul* s to enable it to do business. Then it was that the Speaker so decided, and the ru e was adopted Then it was lor the first time, when t hey had exhausted all the tactics known to parliamentary law, that we were ai le to proceed with the consideration of this case. In no single Instance was a Democrat from a Southern State un eated by Northern Democratic votes, but in every instance every member of the Democratic party remained silent and shie ded and defended the men who had stolen the seats. Now what kind of a case was this first one that was called up? Let us see what the Democratic party propose* to defend in this country. I will not weary you with a recital of the case at length, hut I will give you an account of what transpired at one polling place only. At Hope Engine polling-house, in the city of Charleston, the poll fist—and they keep lists of voters there as we dokept by the Democratic managers of the elections, tbe list kept by tbe Democratic United States Supervisor and the list kept by the Republican United Suites Supervisor substantially agreed. One of them said that 1.218 men had voted. The other two said that 1,214 had voted. This was the only difference between them. Taking the name of every vote* - as he * eposlted his ballot, the list only differed four namea Either 1,214 or 1,218 men had voted. Now, after every vote had been cret you w u;d tind n that box either 1.214 or 1,218 ballot*. But at sundown, when trip proclamation was made tnat the poll was closed, the box was opened, the ballots put upon the table and counted, and there were found t > be just 2,289 votes. It was not much of a day for'voting either. Just 1,071 more votes in the box than there were vote' s a l told The Democratic party of thfa nation declared, “You shall not exercise your right to inquire into that practice." Another peculiar thing about the count or about the ballots waH th s: That of the 2,289 votes In the box 1,658 were straight Democratic ballots. Thfa was 465 more Democratic votes in the ballot box than there were voters at the polling place. Yet the Democratic party said: “tyou snail not inquire into this matter.” How was this accomplished? The process is the simplest in the world Here are the ballots they cast (hold ing up specimens of the ballots used). I show you the Democratic ticket and the Republican ticket. Each fa plainly to be seen and plainly to be distinguished. You will notice however one peculiarity about the Democratic ballots, that one fa wider than the other and they always travel in pairs in that country. The process was simp.yto fold up the wide ticket until there was a single fold and then fold a narrow ticket or a dozen of them, If you please, inside of the first one, and drop i hose into the ballot box There you have your elective franchise fully satisfied By that process they put into the box these fraudulent votes. “But,” you sny to me, “d d they count the whom 2.289?" O, no. Tnat wood be too bald They said: “We will not do that, we w.ll do the fair thing and we will draw out the excess to show the people that we take no unfair adv/mtages. ” So they blindfolded a Democrat and told him todr.iw. That was not fair. Whatou .htto have been done in ihe case was to paralyze tire Democrat so he could not feeL But to make a show of honesty they blindfolded him and then allowed him to draw out the balots. Was it any wonder that he drew the Republican ballots? When put on the stand he tes filed that he drew out every Republican ballot except two. They asked him why he did not drew t-iose out, and fie sa dhe could "not find them. Yet for the first time in the history of thfa country the national Democratic party do lare •: “ You shall not Inquire into such a case, yon shall not consider it. ” At anoth -r polling p'aee thfa tr;ck was played: There were put Into the t'ox just forty-six Democratic vot s —for it was a black district—and 1.037 Republican vote*. Tne poll-list tallied with the votes in the box There was no mistake about that. The po Is were closed and the box shat. It was tied up and seared with sealiiig-wiix Then It was alven into ihe chart eof a-Democrat to take to the count v seat to a Democratic Canvassing Board When tuore Oalrets were c.iu.asse. on tile day for the Canvassing Board to discharge its dutv, to the surprise of everybody there were found to be just forty-six Republican vores and 1,037 Democratic. Tfiu pecuJiaidiy about the Democratic vote* was ifiat they were all clean and fresh, and had never been voted. Examination disclosed the fact that the box had been twice sealed, once with red wax and once with green So the fraud was dfa overed. When the will of the ireople had been made known at that polling place and hud been declared in favor of tbe Republican party, in the darkness of night it was ruthlessly assassinated. And the Democratic party of this country stands by that outrage, i will not enlarge upon these cases. Let me say In regard to "thfa case that, there were "cast 6,289 fraudulent votes. How long would the people of Detroit, how long would the people of thfa district Submit to have their will stolen at night; to have a man foisted upon them whom they never elected? Suppose, when you cast your bal-

lots for member of Congress in this district, that he h.s a majority —as he wiji, or 2,UOj, Suppose it should be counted so? the other ra-tn and you knew it, would that be your government? Would that be a government of your creation? Yet that is what fa done throughout the South to-day, and men are making laws for you who have no business to exercise that high prerogative Now, my feliow-oitizens, here lies the danger *to this republic. I want to say to you that if yon pttt the Democratic' party in the Forty-eighth Congress the men who are clothed with certificates of election will hold their seats and Jeg*slat e for you and me, I care not by what method it fa done. I remember a case before the last Democratic Congress, that of Bisbee against Hail, a case examined bv a Democratic committee; they declared that rheir mnn was not elected: that the Democrat had no business to be there, yet they refused to report upon the ease until the exptring hours of Congress, keeping h m in hfa place to vote upon measures for you and tor me, and then finally declared unanimously that he was not entitled to blsplaoe. My fellow-citizens, I repeat that here lias the danger to thfa republic. The Republican party is determined to fight this contest as it fought for the liberty ojf a race until every man in this republio, rich or poor, black or white, shall have oast one honest ballot and that ballot honestly counted. Until that fa done the foundations of this republio aro not secure. Yori may assassinate the head of the nation, but the country Will endure. Twice our Executive has fallen at the hands of the assassin. Abraham Lincoln fell before the war of the Rebellion was source over, when chaos was upon every hand, and as we mot in the streets, taking eaoh other by the hand, we thought the Government would certainly go to pieces; bat so wisely hpd the machinery been adjusted that it moved grandly on Garfield was stricken down in the capital of the nation, and yet the great republio moved steadily forward But when you assosss nate the power that makes Presidents you kill the republio Gulteau met the Just reward of his crime; but that man who steals up to the ballot-box where reposes the freshest-born offspring of a nation’s will ancj takes its life is an assassin whose crime cannot be expiated. And the party that approves or defends the practieo fa particcp* crimini*. Then let me appeal to the Republicans of this city, let me appeal to the Republioauß of Miohigan, without distinction of party, to rally again around the standard of Republicanism; If there is a -young man here tonight who fa to oast hfa first vote let me pleaij with you to ponder well whioh of these parties 'snail receive your Bupport As a young man votes in the beginning he is apt to vdte all his life un cus there be some ra'ghty upheaval of party or he is disappointed in his aspirations for office, Those two things will unsettle him. So, it fa well to ponaer carefully with whioh you will be identified Whichever party you adhere to you must take upon yourself the history of that) party, and as you' look at the history of these two great organizations which commends self to your judgment, and to your heart? As we stand to-night upon the no ght, after twenty years of Republican rule, lpt uHlookbockward for a moment over he long line Or our march, described by bivouac, battle field and camp lire’s glean 1. See how grand iiave been the aehlevemerits of this great Rephl>liean party. I remember when it broke camp In 1856 that it was in the interest of free soli; and the .first march it made and the first victory it won, it gave to tho republic a domain forever consecrated to free speech, free homes and fi ee men. It saw the bond of national unity broken in piecea It resolemnized the nuptials of nutionui unity, lighted by the torch of war, and made the effi >rt of anv State to be divorei d therefrom as impossible as it is niunitons. It lifted un ihe fallen and insulted banner of the repub ic, and. carrying it into the very van of marching empire, c mpe led Its enemies, foreign and domestic, to uncover in the majesty of it* presence. Tt laid its hand upon the fa taring, waverinr public credit, and to-day it stands erect in tne c< nsciousness of its strength, peerless among the nations of ihe world Then let us rally again and let the command be “ Forwurtl,” and let there be no wavering or faltering iu the line until we plant our standards on the enemies’ breastworks and unfurl our bunners in the sunlight of victory.