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James M Tuttle, of Iowa, who haa abaudoned tho party unequivocally, and told in vigorous language why he can no lon ger remain wun it. uen. luttle was a War Democrat and, as a, successful officer and strong man of great popu larity, he has been the .head of the Iowa Democracy for fifteen years, their candidate for Governor in 1863, and for Congres? in 18G0. He was always stronger than tho party, and has always maintained tho principles p - i i i i . mi ior wnicn ne lougnu ine recent sue cesses ol Lis party and the doings of tho House of Representatives and the St. Louis Convention have shown him what would bo tho result of Democrat ic victory in tho Presidcntal canvass. He therefore repudiates his party and their two-faced ticket, and announces himself a voter and worker for Hayes l -xxr I rrt i i . ana wneeier. in is ne did in response to a Bcrenaaa oy the Hayes and Wheeler club of Des Moines, recent! v tendered. We take the loading points of his speech from the Iowa State Reg ister. The speech was impromptu but is none the worse for that, as it breathes throughout wi th strong, clear . . i . -I n. . . i . cut sentences, ueu. iuuie spoke as follows: Mit. Chairman And Gentleman of hie Hayes and Wheeler Club: When I concluded to change my party I thought that I might get to do it quietly. It was a private act atid re quired no public announcement, and there wa3 no one to whom I was obli gated to account for such an action. I3ut a3 my course has been so assailed, and I have been called so severely to account, i may as wen embrace this opportunity to tell both my Demo cratic and my Republican friends why I have left the old Democracy and why I am here to night. The act of my change was a private oue, but my reasons for so doing wero public ones, and they may be told, and shall be. I am no speaker and mako no preten sions o beiog. But I can talk to you as neighbors. I have been considered doubtful by many Democrats for nearly two years. Indeed I never have been a Democrat if fhe issues on which they are fighting this year are the principles of the party. But nearly two years ago the course of duty was developed much more plainly than it ever had been before. What I had seen before that was wrong I had continued to hopa would be found to be mistakes that would be mend ed. REBEL DEMOCRATS. Nearly two years ago I was in St. Louis. Now there is nothing peculiar in simply having been at St. Louis. But I was there also in 1861. That was just after the first battle of Bull Run, and St. Louis was thoroughly, wildly, insanely rebel. It was worth a man's life then almost to bo seeu in the Union uniform. A Union officer about the" hotels, where congregated the noisiest secession elements, was hooted at and derided, and told, with sneers, "Yes, yoAi'll go South, and you will come back, as the Union soldiers hava just come back from Bull Run, with their t&ils tucked. But, as I remember it, none of our troops from Iowa ever came back in that shape. That was the feeling in St. Louis in 1861, and this feeling I found there again in the" same spirit and in the same places, re-expressed by the very same men, when I was there in 1874. it was then that I heard that the Dem ocrats had elected a Majority of the national House, and these same fel lows who swarmed about the hotel talking treason and deriding Union soldiers in 1861 were exultant and de lirious with joy this last time. I re marked to a gentleman who had been a comrade with me in the war, "This looks like the same set of fellows who were spouting treason here at tho be ginning of the war. What is it that is exciting them so, and what ails them?" We asked a squad of them what it was that made them feel so good? I heard one of them say, "We have got them this time. We can beat them this time." We asked who they ment by "them?" They replied, "Y e'll elect the next President, and then we've got them. Then we'll get pay for all our property destroyed in tho war, and then we'll get pay for our lost slaves. We have the House overwhelming now, and in 1876, the Centennial year, we can get the Senate and a Democratic President Then wo can appoint our committees to suit ourselves, and chooso our own Southern claim committee or South ern Claims Court, and make good our losses by the war." .They meant that thoy would get pay for all the proper ty destroyed by the Uuin Army, and pay for all their emancipated slaves. THE EX-REBEL PROGRAMME. Said one, "Give us possession of the Government, and the North, will be the rcbfcld next time." This was tho P AUGUST 30, 187G. talk and the talk in earnest as was the talk, of the 'same men in 1961. They melMj.it. They talked it over coolly and seriously. Said they had already a united South, which would be nearly enough, and that their Democratic allies in the North dure not deny them the little more, the few more votes, that they would need. This 19 their idea to-day to gain by legislation, by means" of diplomacy and trickery, what tbey failed to gain by means of force. I believe it; 1 know it. All their expressions sug gest it, and all their actions prove it. i ir i . i . . . wnat else do tncy mean? Why ts it that the State of Missouri has issued to every former owner of slaves in that State a certificate for $1,000 for every slave, payable when the General Gov ernment will pay it ? This very thine. the total amount of the value of thw emancipated slaves, is now sLimated as a part of the State debt of Missouri. I used to think that this was a Repub lican falsehood the certificate mat ter. But it is an actual fact, and these certificates, and all certificntes or showings of losses sustained through out the State, are being saved up . as carefully as money against the day when the Democracy, . and the rebel element ruliug it in the National Government, shall have attained to power. If Missouri will do this thing, and hold out this promise to pay for all emancipated slaves, why will not all the Southern, all worse rebel states do it, and will not they do it? THE CONFEDERATE HOUSE. When these things came to my knowledge I could do uo less than halt for further developments, watch ing suspiciously every movement made thereafter which I could 60e had a tendency toward drawing tho Democ racy North and South nearer together, a uuion which 1 could see would inev itably put tho old rebel element at t!ie head of and virtually in control of tho party. Events have culminated rap idly since then, and I had not long to wait to see the whole programme. The Democratic House soon gave me light. r or some time 1 have been ready to answer the question, "Have" you left the Democratic party ? I have. And I am often asked now, "is it so. "Will you vote for Hayes and Wheeler?" It is so; aua i win worn, ior mem as well as Vote for them. My Dem ocratic friends ask nie for my reasons. They are plenty of them, and all of them cannot be told in these few re marks. It is not necessary to tell all. First, let me say that my abandon ment of Democracy was not caused, as has been charged by tho press of that party, because of the currency or tariff questions. I have no objection to those planks in the St. Louis plat form. But my reasons arp, as I nave already indicated, and will now state further, lhe Democrats who press me for my reasons may know them. On the road the other day I met an old democratic friend one of the Van Buren county Democrats, whom Dave Sheward, in his screed in the paper tho other day, said never had any faith in my Democracy after I went into tho war. Quito excitedly he wanted to know if it was true the re port that I had left the Democratic party. "It is a fact." He asked the reasons for it. I told him they were quite plenty and sufficient, and as we had plenty of time I would tell him some of them, bomethinar of what I have already stated here was first said, and then I said that the first thing I didu't like in the Democratic House was the appointment of Fitzhugh, the Sergeant at-Arms of the Confederate Congress, as doorkeeper of the House, and tho displacement of Union sol diers many of them crippled in th war with tho ex-members of the rebel army. He wanted to know if they didn't have a right to do this. I answered that they had, but that I also had the light to disapprove and denounce it. Another thing I didn't liko was Ben Hill's rebel speech and its bold utteranco of treason, and I didn't like the rebel yell in response to it all over the South, for I had heard that yell before, and I knew what it meant. They tell me tho Democrats that I am "scared of Ben Hill." I don't think lam; I don't think I was "scared of" any of the Hills when I met them in the South ; I do not remember that I was. Then I told my friend how worso than all of the many bad and unblushing acts of the Democratic House, I es teemed as infamous the act of appoint ing to the clerkship of the lcadiug committee of the House the man Hambletou, who name! his son John Wilkes Booth, after the assassin of President Lincoln. This outrageous act, in truckling to the rebel element, the northern Democrats daro not dis own, and for all I know this man is still clerk of that committee. The little child, so dishonored by tho name and tho significance of it had the good sense, thank God, to die. BEN IHLlS SPEECH. That speech of Ben Hill's, and tho W V w $2 PER ANNUM. record that the Democratic party has made in regard to it. would have been enough of itself to send auy man who r. t . . . . . carea ior nis country out ol all fellow ship with it and the party in whose name and by one of whoso leading raeniDcrs r, was made. Uill, in that speech defended Anderson ville and the atrocious treatment of Union prisoners in me eoutnem prison hells. Gould I endorse that and still remember my own comranes wno snUered in them more than death and hell ? Can any . 1 J 1 ... J j'ttnj' oueceeu wnicn even tacitly en dorses such sentiments as these ? Hill also said in that speech, "We went out ot the Union hugging the Constitution and we came back into the Union litiff- Kmg n. vnai a nug j mat was what they went out for ; not to be reb els, but to "huff tho Constitution" of h Union they were trying so hard to destroy, i have Been them when they wore doing this "hugging." I remem-1 ber one morning in April, 1862, the first day of tho battlo of Shilob, as the rebel troops came bearing down upon us, that I ascended an elevation to watch them through a field-glass as they came. It was a grand sight as they came in three columns, with their muskets at "right Ehoulder shift" that form iu which an army lioks the grandest, and by which it always ap pears to have three times its actual strength. There was a blaze and shine of glory on those advancing columns that I took to be the lustre and shine of bayonets in the sun. But I judge now, since Hill's speech, that it was uot bayonets they were bearing, but Constitutions which they wero carry ing along and huggiug. I saw them doing a good deal of hugging, these rebels who wero not rebels, but simply "Constitution bug gers," The boys who are hero before me, who wero with me at Donelson, saw some of it there. What patriots they were, doing so much for "the Constitution of our common country 1" Uen. luttle then referred to tho fact that since he had announced his deter mination to leave the Democratic par ty, he had received hundreds of anon ymous letters abusing him in the foul est language, which were written by copperheads throughout the States of Iowa and Missouri, and then proceeded to speak of TnE ST. LOUI3 CONVENTION. That convention did not look as though treason was an odious thin?. nor that rebels were any the less to be honored than patriots, lhat gather ing proved again what tho Democratic House had already proved, that the old rebel clement is running the Dem ocratic party, aud that its whole hope of successor is staked on their solid sup port. They were all thero at St. Louis. aud were the lions of the day, especial ly honored aud cheered by the con vention, and especially honored and lionized by the same gang of rebels who wero spouting treason and abusing soldiers there in 1861, as wo were going-to the front, and who wero talking the same , treason when I was thero two years ago. Why is it that the nomi nation of Tilden has so revived and reinspired tho old rebel element. Why so much more so than tho can didacy uf Greeley four years ago, when thero was some hope for a new party and the death for good of the old De mocracy ? You can answer a3 well as I can. It looks like they knew their man. The alarming demonstrations daily developing in tho South would look like it. I seo that the Leader in terviewed my old friend Peter Myers, now living iu Missouri, to-day, and that Pttter says that the stories of rais ing the rebel flag in Missouri, are un true. I hope they are. ' But tho re ports stem to be well authenticated, aud I fear some of them are too true. For the people to do these things would be bad, but not so bad, we must remember, as was the rebel speecli of Ben Hill in Congress, so heartily cheered by his Democratic colleagues, and so wildly applauded in the South. lhat speech let me refer to again a moment. The Democrats and Demo cratic press now eay they do not in dorse this speech. But they cheered it when it was made in the House, and the South cheered it, and their denun ciation of it now is not so much de nunciation of the spirit of it as of his imprudenco in making it. GOOD BYE DEMOCRACY. And now, in conclusion, as to the reason why I have not left the Demo cratic party sooner. They say I want office, anlhat I have wanted oflico. If I had, gentlemen, I would have left the Democratic party years ago, for it is a matter of record that I have said for years that there was never any hope of the Democrats carrying Iowa. If I had been an oflico seeker I should have left tho old party long ago. I am not a candidate for oflice, and nev er will bo. I have no aspiratiom for prominenco in politics, and I do not see why, when us a private citizen I have tried to change my party quietly, all this abuso should bo heaped upon mo. I can stand it all, though, and it Rates of Advertising. One H'pinre (1 Inch,) ono Inertion fl B0 - 8 00 n oo 10 06 15 Oo 30 00 60 00 ion no v.lt!o.UHr(j one month - One Square " three months One Square " one year - . Two Squares, one year . . Quarter Col. . . . . Half j.. . On . . Lopnl hot icon at established rate. Marriage and death notices, gratis. All bills for yearly advertisements Pol looted quarterly. Temporally advertiste numtfl must be paid for in advaqco. Job work, Canh on Delivery. si:..1 . "' i in nowise changes my' conviction as to my duty, only to intensify and con firm it. I feel in earnest now, as I did during the war. I have no retreat' to make. The reason I havo left the Democratic party is, I have no faith in it, and no faith i a the old rebel element 'vbich I have long feared would cTme to the front, and which I now know and see has come, and whose coming has mada my way clear and my course - of duty. Elain. Seeing these men again at the" ead of the nartv. and aeeincr tha AoR. ance of the men who last held office in the. National Government under tho Democratic party makes things -plain enoogh. , Among the last Democ.4ic officers of any note wero Floyd and Jake Tho mpson, the Democratic Sec retary of War and tho Interior. Thev sfble from the Government they were sworn, to servo to help the rebellion raised to destroy it, and beside their crimes and their corruptions all that u charged against the Republican offi cials, admit it all to be trueevcn,sink9 into insignificance. Y hy. old Jake Thompson, encour aged by tho defiance of Ben Hill's speech, went down to Washington a fow months agoaud like a braggart demanded invaallrvAtinn waot. A,.r.1 .v, U,,,UU) IJUUipUUBI Y sayurg that bo would wave tho legal Eoint of time. He went down there lowing, and got suedfor the money he had stolen for the rebels.' If old Floyd were alive, he, too, probably would go down therer under the pro tection of the rebel shadow of Ben Hill, and demand investigation. But like the child covered with the curse of crime against Abraham Lincoln, ho also had the good sense to die. He was with the other "Constitution hu. ger3, at fort Donelson, but skipped out early so as to be safe. If ho had stood his ground like a brave man, he would probably had the good fortune to die earlier. But ho lit1 ont. " Ho could steal for the Confederacy, but ho " couldn't die for it. It is h's fault, gentlemen, and not mine, that his memory is not to be spoken of with more respect. This Thompson and Floyd were the last of the Democratic rulers, and they rep resented the domination of the South in Democracy then. And Thompson and his friends, and the friends of Floyd are again pressing to the front to assume party control. As they have come as leaders, I have asked and ta ken the privilege of leaving the Dem ocratic ranks. This, fellow citizens, is why I am here to-night. Finally, gentlemen, I would say keep a solid front and we will beat them. I hope and think wo will. I am with you iu earnest. Close up to the fight. They meau business, and we must. It is something of the old fight, only it is to bo fought at the bal lot box instead of on the battle field. I thank you gentlemen, for having heard me so patiently. I have not tried to make a speech ; I am not a speaker. I have tried simply to tell you, my neighbors, why I have chang ed parties, and at the same time to make brief answer.to a few of the many mad and venomous charges which have been made again3t me because of my act. " A'young man in the rural districts had parted his hair in the most impar tial manner ; if there was a hair more on one side of his head than on the other the difference could not bo ob served. He had a tolerable good ten or void, and he had mastered a new song. Ine moonlight 6hone bnglith down on the greensward in front of the residence which held the maiden of hia heart. The youth crept softly up the, sidewalk, and let out his soul in melo dy, "Darling, I'm waiting for thee, waiting for thee." He had hardly completed tho second chorus when a window blind was cautiously opened, something whito was seen by the light of the moon, and au oldish voico, not in harmony with tho music, said : "It a all right, youcg man, but you needn't wait any longer; Mariar has gone to bed." "Suppose, Belle," said a poor but honest Chicago youth "to a l'rairio avenue girl one day this week, '.'sup pose that a yoing man loved you dearly very dearlyi-but was afraid to ask you to marry him maybe be cause he was very timid, or felt too poor, or something what would you think of such a caso?" "Think?" answered the girl imme diately. "Why, if ho was poor, I should think that he was doing v.U right in keeeping still about it." The question was dropped right there. Mrs. Astor, when she wants to led dressed, wears a million dollars' woiih of diamonds at a time, and wl cn ,- hotel clerk or a minstrel end inr.n passes near her his usually ma;.uiu cent cluster just bhrink. and 11 UU itself up until it looks as if he l ad only spilled a drop of molasses on his shirt frout.
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