Show tern s grill speech april 27 at the eighth abonal anonal banquet of tha american re publican club lafa evening ex reed was given a areat w his baj impromptu and part as follows abo at time T had the fortune to address clui this couer in ip dat of acae and work BB alenty capital waa in it productive strength and lab r wai enjoying the r 0 o pell its services Ber vices at prices chih happiness and comfort tn al our hows jhc thirty years shirli biad preceded had witnessed the gradual and steady rise of corolen bation for service of both brain and until emoiy davs work was worth in results twice what it had bean worth since the last domination of this union by southern statesmen and their principals so firmly rooted seemed our prosperity erity that nil our citizens thought it beyond alie reach of heat and cold and all changes of sun and deaths and most jsn elt it was beyond the touch of even human folly it seemed to da beyond lawa and belond politics some thine inherent in the ains itu ion or things soun to be upon with unerring certainty like the ariee and set of the eun and the regular motion of the planets and the stars it is not the disorganized crowds which seem to be coining but in an aimless way howarda the capital of the Lia tion it is not that mills are run on half and and no time at all nor capital piled up unused at the centers of trade nor even ln borun employed for nearly a pait which completes the sad procession of the pic tuio to me the sight mist odious of all it the utter inability of the people to reach their own and ta compel the fulfillment of their own will Herein alani where law bv the people was fondly hoped to have lound its truest ani latest expression the leopla seem powerless to control their own legislature and to correct by sober reflection ane mistakes stakes ui of the moet thoughtless in american history the day when the present congress and the day when the present executive were chosen to over the unhappy cit 1 iz ins of the united states whatever the majority may do whatever the es arcise of the light of voting could do baj u V aada makh mJ KH measure why is this and what aie the causes wore it left to the tender mercies 0 he northern democrats I 1 to say euch a condition could not exist for a hour it ia be caude we are under the domination I 1 will not say of the south but 0 southern men elected to office those safeguards which surround round the election of the northern democrat Damo crat for the sake of the bouth itself I 1 hope to see the aest election bring us to an end af this unseemly domination all ane election laws have bean repealed and the south having absen set free from a fear which never had sound foundation will he left at liberty to deci ie her destiny according to her in dustral needs which aro the same as of the north instead of a seto men who represent obsolete politics and principles of a dead generation their successors let us hope will represent what the th longa to see aa industrial prosperous full of tha life of a new country |