Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1884 — EDWARD EVERETT HALE. [ARTICLE]

EDWARD EVERETT HALE.

He Is Opposed to Southern Rule, and, Therefore, Cannot Vote for Cleveland. [Boston special.] The Rev. Edward Everett Hale made his first speech in the present campaign at a RcpiiblTcan ratification meeting to-night in the Dudley Street Opera-House. His_ speech was largely devoted to an exposition of the importance of keeping the rule of the nation out of the hands of the South. In opening he said: "I am not going to make a speech about personal preferences. I like Jim Blaine. [Applause.] Ihonor and respect him. but it is not because I like him, because I honor him, or because I respect him—it is not because of that alone, nor because of that chiefiy, that I ask you, every man, to vote tor him when the 4th ot Aovemb'er comes, •but. because lie believes in a.Government of the people, for the people, and by the people. I don’t want you to vote the Democratic ticket. Now that word ‘ Democratic ’ is a shocking misnomer, for I, mj’self, am a democrat of the democrats; I believe in a Government of the people, for the people, and by the people. 1 believe ifi nothing less. It is because- I believe in that that I don't believe that I had better honor the Southern party, the party which has nominated Grover Cleveland, and which does not believe in a Government of the people, for the people, by the people. My first proposition is this: I will try to prove it from history, then I will go, on to what I think of the aspect of the present and of the future. This country from 1801 to 1860 was largely governed by the Southern party. They did not know how to govern the country then, and they don’t know how to govern it now. [Applause,] You constantly hear the statement made that the Democratic party always makes a blunder when it gets a chance. Why is this? Are not these men educated in the same schools? Don't they read the same books we do? May be yes, and may be no. But I will tell you the reason why in America, wliyin“a~fepublic“a party which is an oligarchical party, an aristocratic party, always goes wfong. This party, led by such trimmers as Mr. Cleveland, led by such bad men as Jefferson Davis, always was the party of the few who didn’t believe in the workingmen; they were the Southern party. It was their business not to beliete in the workingmen. They didn’t believeiinthe black man, they didn't believe in the poor white; they don’t believe in the biack man, they don t believe in the poor white. They believe a set of educated men—above the rest — should govern the country. The believed that once, and they believe it to-day. This is the reason why, if you. happen to belong to the governing cla s s of Mississippi, your vote is worth three times as much, anil more, than your vote ij, you happen to be a voter in Roxbury."