it and take no part in it." [Cheers.] Search the patriotic records of the world, and you will find no nobler, no grander saying than that declaration of Rutherford B. Hayes. During the war Rutherford B. Hayes received many wounds in his flesh, but

NOT ONE SCRATCH UPON HIS HONOR.

[Applause.] Samuel J. Tilden received many wounds in his honor, but not one scratch on his flesh. [Laughtor.] Rutherford B. Hayes is a firm man; not an obstinate man, but a firm man; and I draw this distinction: A firm man will do what he believes to be right, because he wants to do right. He will stand firm because he believes it to be right; but an obstinate man wants his own way, whether it is right or whether it is wrong. Rutherford B. Hayes is firm in the right, and obstinate only when he knows he is in the right. [Applause.] If you want to vote for a man who fought for you, vote for Rutherford B. Hayes. If you want to vote for a man that carried our flag during the storm of shot and shell, vote for Rutherford B. Hayes. [A voice, "We are going to."] If you believe patriotism to be a virtue, vote for Rutherford B. Hayes. If you believe this country wants heroes, vote for Rutherford B. Hayes. If you are for a man who turned against his country in time of war, vote for Samuel J. Tilden. If you believe the war waged for the salvation of your North is an outrage, vote for Samuel J. Tilden. If you believe that it is better to stay at home and curse the brave men in the field, fighting for the sacred rights of man, vote for Samuel J. Tilden. If you want to pay a premium upon treason, if you want to pay a premium upon hypocrisy, if you want to pay a

premium upon sympathizing with the enemies of your country, vote for Samuel J. Tilden. If you believe that patriotism is right, if you believe a brave defender of liberty is better than an assassin of freedom, vote for Rutherford B. Hayes: [Cheers.

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

I am proud that I belong to the Republican party. [Applause. I want no grander title to nobility than that I belong to the Republican party, and helped to make

this country a free land. [Applause.] I say here tonight that the Republican party is the only decent party that ever existed on this earth. [Applause.] It is the only party not founded on a compromise with the devil. [Applause.] It is the only party that has not begged pardon for doing right. It is the only party that has said, "There shall be no distinction on account of race, on account of color, on account of previous condition." It is the only party that ever had a platform to stand upon. [Applause.]

BROAD ENOUGH FOR ALL HUMANITY.

It is the first decent party that ever lived. The Republican party made the first free government that was ever made. The Republican party made the first decent constitution that any Nation ever had. The Republican party gave to the sky the first pure flag that was ever kissed by the waves of air. The Republican party said, "Every man is entitled to liberty," not because he is white, not because he is poor, but because he is a [Cheers and cries of "Good!" "Good!"] The Republican party is the first party that knew enough to know that humanity is more than skin deep. [Applause.] It is the first party that said:

man.

"GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE FOR ALL,"

as the light, as the air is for all. And it is the first party that had the sense to say, "What air is to the lungs, what light is to the eyes, what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul." [Applause and cries of "Good!" "Good!"] The Republican party is the first party that ever was in favor of absolute free labor, the first party in favor of giving to every man, without distinction of race or color, the fruit of the labor of his own hands. The Republican party said, "Free labor will give us wealth; free thought will give us truth." The Republican is the first party that said to every man, "Think for yourself, and express that thought." [Applanse.]

I am a free man. I belong to the Republican party. This is a free country. I will think my thought, I will speak my thought or die. [Cheers.] In the Republican air there is room for every wing, as on the Republican. sea there is room for every sail. The Republican party

says to every soul, "Fly out into the great intellectual dome of thought, question the stars for yourself." But the Democratic party says:

"BE A BLIND OWL;

Sit on the dry limb of a dead tree and hoot only when that party says, hoot." [Laughter.] I say that the Republican party is for free labor. Free labor will bring us wealth; and why? Whenever a man works for himself, works for his wife, works for his children, he endeavors then to do the most work in the shortest space of time. The problem of slavery is to do the least work in the longest space of time. Slavery never invented but one machine, and that was a threshing machine in the

shape of a whip. [Loud laughter and applause.] Free labor has invented all the machines that ever added to the power, added to the wealth, added to the leisure, added to the civilization of mankind. Every conveni

ence, everything of use, everything of beauty in the world, we owe to free labor and free thought. Free labor, free thought-science took the thunderbolt away from the gods, and in the electric spark, freedom, with thought, with intelligence and with love, sweeps under all the waves of the sea; science, free thought, took a tear from

the cheek of unpaid labor, converted it into steam, and created the giant that turns, with tireless arms, the countless wheels of toil. The Republican party, I say, believes in free labor. Every solitary thing, every solitary improvement made in the United States has been made by the Republican party. Every reform accomplished was inaugurated, and was accomplished by the