Show SENATOR ON THE S arut leuk biow last night was waa advertised as the time timo for senator logan nogan to give a public address in the institute in this city at about a quarter to eight the people began to arrive arnle very slowly giving no indication or of enthusiasm during the next half hour some four or five hundred had collected within the building and at twenty minutes past 8 the entrance of the gallant general accompanied by colonel and dr taggart was wag the signal for prolonged stamping with ahe abe he feet A tew few minutes after their arrival the national brass hand band and entered took their places beneath the stand and as soon as their arrangements were made they played laye d in excellent style the german W war ar bone sone 11 colonel then introduced senator logan to the audience audi aud fenee erice who proceeded to deliver an an address on the political situation he commenced by saying that he had not come to this part of the country to make speeches or to deliver lectures on any subject whatever ile he came to visit the country mingle with the people nd to learn what could be learned by mixing with strangers gers since he be had been in this valley he had been very much pleased at its beauty fertility cultivation and the evidences of civilization which on every side met his eye by the invitation of friends he had been induced to present be fore the citizens citi zons his views on political questions they were questions that in a country like this all ought to examine and understand because every man was interested not only in the prosperity and growth of the the tho country but also in the choice of those who should administer the laws the people of a ter term bad not the right to take part in the election of a president but they were part and parcel of the people of the united states and they aided in advancing the tho prosperity and civilization of the country the all wise creator had given us a barill land which sur surpassed passed all others in fertility of soil in beautiful rivers and in majestic trees and mountains while the bowels of the llie earth were filled with minerals of the choicest character and having given us all these there was but one ode thing necessary to make us happy and that was good government oar government unlike others was divided into three departments which acted as a check one upon the other and worked together for the advantage of all that all the people might have the same equality before the laws in the administration of the affairs of the government however we differed as we differed on every other sub jeet and hence bence it became the dut duty y in a government like this of each and every man to exan examine lino iino carefully and weigh well the manner in which aho the government was organized organize dand and ana how it was administered and to al aid ald in its administration so as to secure the greatest good god to the greatest number the people of the country were divided now as they had been for years into two classes organized so as to get the expression I 1 of 0 pinion opinion first ehst we had bad the demo cratic party and then the republican party it was true that the people of the territories said sald we have no politics ap he lle vil vii wished alfed to say bay to them that was not the kight right way in his judgment every man should have dhave politic polities sand and every man wan no matter where he be lived should be guided by his pol poi political opinions if people had no political lt it 21 opinions ions iong it made no difference to them who administered the government but if tiek tiley had bad political opinions it did make a difference for then they desired the gov erema dait dilt ht to be administered in accordance views and abd the authority they established how eow then were we to deci decide deas doas as to what kind ot of political opinions we should entertain the administration of government might be such as to give the greatest liberty and protection to the people or it might be oppress oppressive iv avi if f not to all to a portion of t the b a people and it was the duty ot of all even veu of the people of the territories ri tories e lasto to form opinions as to who best administered the affairs of government if the government was admi administered according to their were satisfied but if nottley bad a right to protest against the further ad ministration in that manner tho people of a territory although they had bad neither choice nor voice in the selection of the ehler chier magistrate had bad an influx encoyand ence once and that influence was felt people said why every person in a certain territory if they had bad a vote would vote a certain way 11 why was that because their minds were operated on en the same as the minda of the people in the states were operated on and melr meir influence was felt and had its weight in different com comment muni munt ties and for that reason we should judge as to whom we desired to administer the gov ern ment not what man but what party A man amounted to but little but he must be ba sustained and supported in tie tle the theory that thit ivas was calculated to govern the people best for the best givern government ment was that which was best administered the speaker then commenced to review the two great parties who have alternately administered tho affairs of our government ment the ahe democratic and the republican the contrast or of the course pursued and the results attained by the two parties the speaker said being the only means of judging as to which was best deserving 1 the peoples support f w 0 went back a few years we found the republican party organizing organising organ izing ising itself upon the principle that all men were entitled to their free freedom clorn and in a state of elv bivs had a right to participate in the affairs of a government which required them to aid in sustaining it upon the theory that no mans mind or limbs should be bound all men should be free to act so eo that they acted within the purview of the meaning of the laws of the land and they should be free to think for them selves and add when they had bad thought out their own conclusions they were formed from minds unshackled and unfettered this was the theory upon which the re publican party started the theory of free iree thought itself which in ages gone by had bad done wonders free thought to daywan doing changed the sickle to the mowing machine free thought had changed the old ox cart to the railway train and had drawn the lightning from the heavens enabling man to communicate with his bis fel lowman in the remotest parts of the earth with inconceivable rapidity the unfettered mind bad done thi this sAnd nd wherever it was operating it was giving to the people liberty peace happiness and prosperity the democracy in this country said the mind and limbs of people of many states should bo be chained and fettered this brought on a conflict of opinion I 1 war came and when it did come it was a bloody war causing both north and south to weep but thank god it was over and when it terminated what did we find we found the theory of the republican party maintained and the theory of the democratic party trampled in the dust every man woman and child from the lakes to the gulf and from the rock nock ribbed mountains of the east to the golden sands of the Pac rae pacific itic could stand in the rays of the sunlight of god and say 1 I am aun free unfettered in mind and limb this was one or of the results of the triumph of the republican publican le theory as opposed to the democratic theory today to day we were a free people yesterday wo we were not england whose institutions were not in accordance with the theory of our government had claimed for centuries that the man nun wh why who 3 set foot on english soll soil so extensive that the sun never dever set upon it became free so we could say today to day and with more pride than did he of old who laid his hand band upon his bis breast and said 1 I am a roman citi 91 zen take then the organization known a as the democratic party and the audience might go back as far as they pleased and if they could point to one solitary act of that party elther either in legislative assemblies or in conventions vent ions that had been in the interest or of liberty towards one single human being on the face of gods earth or in favor of pro gress gross the advance of civilization or the interest of the people of this country he be would like to know it but no man c could ld point to such sueh an act they had been in the habit the last few years of endorsing the acts of the republican party but it was wah after they had been accomplished that reminded him of a man who all at once discovered a beautiful mountain the rays of the sun in all their glory beauty and gyan grandeur deur shining upon it there upon the pinnacle of said mountain stood the republican party while at its foot was the democracy saying baying it is beautiful but we can not ascend it the democracy advanced the theory of secession I 1 they produced war and aud brought upon the people the enormous debt incurred in waging it they denied being the tho cause of this war but they could not find in the united states a man who was a re publican then who was in favor of secos sion iou hence herice the democrats did cause the war and they did produce our tour great debt thoy were in favor of blay slay slavery Mry nry and continued to be so until they could not help themselves there was neither farmer merchant nor mechanic in that assembly who lived in the states during the twenty years prior to 1861 when the democrats controlled the country who bad had the prosperity they had today to day they could not dot name the time under democratic rule when they had as good money were as wealthy or received as much for their labor as they received today to day and there was nothing pertaining to the interests in teresta of the people of this country be cared not what it wa either in education civilization prices ol of products sale of goods penetrating the wilderness with railroads opening this vast country tu to speculation and the investment of me mets mens is mems moms me ins nothing that made the people prosperous today to day that the democrats had ever hat had a finger in at any time he remembered well under when working men generally thought they did well if they got twenty five or thirty cents a day and when if a man sold his horse it would not bring enough to keep his bis small family four weeks and if he bad a large family it would not keep them at all referring to the financial system or of the country the speaker said that where he was raised in southern illinois they would shout burra aurra for the glorious union aad the democratic party and at the same time made change with coon skins ho he kind of currency they had under democratic rule sometimes they would get got little banks established at some places in the country and they called them wild cat banks and they were wild cat banks for if a farmer went into one of those towns and sold a load of wheat you could never catch wm him taking the money home with him hov hev would invest it in ia something no matter what because it was doubtful whether he be could gat uel home before the bank broke and if it 4 did the money was gone and that vas was the end of it and it was always so under democratic rule when the banks broke whether na national tignal or state the people were the losers their money was wag gone the tho speaker contrasted that with the theory of finance adopted by the republicans public ans under which though the banks might bieak the peoples money was safe anti antl an rt they were preserved from loss this contrast so favorable to the financial system of thi the party might be extended to everything else there was merit in all the acts of the republican party but none iq in those of the democrats it was true that when Whon the latter got into a 4 war they could fight night and acquire territory as well as ati ali anybody else and that was the only thing g in their record that gave them an existence in the minds mind sor of the people today if these things thing were wore true and he hadjid had no design to say anything untrue about these two partly par tiro tibo was there any man present who if asked which of them had brought the greatest prosperity to the country would not except through figh pre prejudice judice iudice X answer the republican party varty and an I 1 f it had administered the government better than its opponents what other evidence tild elid the people here need to prove that it was their duty aud gud to their interest to sido with the organization which had bad shown itself wor ahr of the confidence of the people these two parties had candidates for the presidency now before the people and he would give his bis views tt of the theory on which each had nominated its candidate the I 1 ito ilo publicAn party nominated its can on the same line of policy in reference to the general welfare of the country as that thit on which it had bad administered the government he the same financial policy the salue same policy to open up and develop thel the country everywhere to develop the mineral and agricultural resources and develop the mind and everything that would promote civilization the irack frack and policy they bad had pursued heretofore they expected to pursue hereafter and upon this they had nominated a president and vice president and asked for the suf frages of the american people erom prom this the people knew what to expect if they bad had good government in the past they might expect it in the future upon what theory had the democrats nominated their candidates on what kind of a platform what were their views aoud any auy anaman man presen leil Uell what a democratic prini principle Mple was if there was he be would like to learn it what did the democrats say they said first we endorse the thirteenth amendment to the constitution that was waa the amendment which made all men fre free in this land who adopted that the republicans the democrats opposed it solidly when proposed in the congress of the united states and so they did in every state legislature but now that it bad become an unalterable fact they said we endorse the thirteenth amendment why because they could not help heip lie p it they aid said ald next we endorse the fourteenth amendment 1 but they oppose opposed dit it just as they did t the a thirteenth that amendment made every man iuan woman and child black or white who had bad been bond or free a citizen of the united states next they say we endorse the fifteenth amendment truen vuen it was adopted in congress every republican was for and every democrat against it that Amend amends ment declared that no person should be excluded from the polls because of bs bis col eol coli or said the speaker 1 I felt a good deal dea of interest in that amendment myself 11 laughter the democracy now say oh we endorse the fifteenth F amendment buttrey but they did it as he said orthe of the other two because there wa wan no use kicking against the pricks it was a fixed fact endorsed by the country and the democratic party came to the foot of the mountain gazed on the re republican party oil on its summit and said we endorse the spot yo stand on but we were not there in time on the tariff question the democrats expressed no opinion they just referred that 10 I 1 0 the people and ho he thought as that ques tion bad been referred to them for the last seventy five years it was about the best thing the democracy could do to leave it there what they were in evor of on the question of tariff he could not tell he know aney had cursed grealey for thirty years but they had at last swallowed everything from the head bead of the platform to the candi date t they he V lad had been opposed to all their lives ilves he did not know what |