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Show TU DEN TO THE WORKMEN. Governor Tilden being heruiindi d m Albany on tho L".)lh nil. by lhe Jaekisonia i guardn, Huh responded. I recogni.e many repn henliven ol lli-i working men nf Alhuny, mid when 1 1 nay working men 1 do nol forget ihrtt in our country thn numher w ho live upon Iho income, of what they hive accumulated or inherit d if cxlr nieiy Htiiall, and that nearly eviry cio.eu of our vaet ronublic lives on ihe product pro-duct of bin daily L i I In America wo are nearly all wnrkiiigmen. ! Thrrtd'on: tho intercut and prosperity! tho intercut mid prosperity of the' country. iNocounliy which the utin evt;r shnno on ban had so many Uim-ingu Uim-ingu us our own. Stretching from tho Allanlie, lo the I'aeilic, and horn the great lakes ol Hm mirth lo lhe Gulf ol Mexico, w ith a genial clim ite, with fertile ho'iI, with every naliinil it ud urlilbdal facility for travel and tnui'Mifjrtiition, with all the urU and iinlunlricH ol old civilization planltd ami HourUhiog amid Urn lu.ui.dlesf nalural wealth of the virgin nuili nent, wnniighl to be to-day lhe n.o-t prortperotH, lhe inont hap, v and contented pni)ln in th' woild. Mul What ih our iwltial coiahlion? AH biwinnm in ilfpn-a-ed, eveiy indii-try Irmrniwhing, labor willmut iinploy-mei'it, iinploy-mei'it, and the wolf at lhe cUir ol nearly every honin in lhe land, g.uinl anil huiigrv. What ia Ihn mutter'.' Wo knf.w"that for lhe lad eli ven yearH, nine1) lh" peace lhe earnings ol 'labor and the ricor A capital have been coiiiitmi'jpNsfi w,iiUd in goverii' neut expenditures. The taxes drawn rom the people of tho United States I lave been larger than the entire bhv ngs of the whole -14,000,01)0. These Tj axes have increased within a short'! period four-fold, and the influence U lelt upon every business and every industry, and in everv home through-, out our broad land. ' What next do. we find in the public administration? Everywhere abuses, peculations, frauds, and corruption, until we are ulmofit becoming usbamed of the institutions in-stitutions of our country, and instead ot holding them up as examples for ' the imitation of oppressed people of other countries, we are confessing them as a scandal in the eyes of mankind. What else do we find? We find that the office-holding class have become so numerous, powerml, and unscrupulous that Ihey assume to control elections, and if the people are in different or at all equally divided, they are able to exert a corrupt in-lluence in-lluence sufficient to prepetuate their own power. At last "we are reaching 1 Lhe condition o( the countries of the old world. The government no longer exists for the people, the people peo-ple exist only for tbo government. Our Centennial product is the evils, license, and wrongs to escape which I our ancestors abandoned their homes in the old world and planted themselves them-selves in u wilderness. Now I nsk what is the remedy for these public evils, for this private distress, for this disorder in business which carries guttering into every housohold? A voice in the crowd "The idec-1 idec-1 lion ofTildcn." It is comprised in one word reform. re-form. Reform of the public adminis-3 adminis-3 tralion. Upon this subject there is a r diflerence of opinion. One class say , elect the'nomineen of the party under f which these evils have grown up, by , means of the office-holding clasa e which is interested in perpetuating theso abuses and wrongs. That is one opinion. There is another opinion and that opinion demands a ; change a change of men, for the I" sake of reform in tho administration. " Fellow citizens, I do not intend to ;j argue the question. I intend to a simply Ptate it, and leave it to your il judgment and the judgment of the r people. 1 am heartily with you in e sympathy and action. I am happy n I to meet you to-night. |