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F,Lcp C.tiseaS:, The contrast between The
.,.Is of the couuuy AS ii exists at this moment,
.03 a. il existed at the time of the last Whig
meeting held IN this place prior to our last bien-
vs., election in 1912, is SO great that must en-
,,..t your attention for few moments, while i
.ar,,srs the present with the past AT that time
II ,be Wings who could be assembled at our
hspnjaI meeting at this place, scarcely filled two
,oams IN Wonder hotel on the banks I'll the Della.
rare. Few IN number as they were, the mere
tmnant Of noble and patriotic party, but be-
,,,,ed. cisp;rited and d!shearlened, they met to
,,onro the misortupes OF ther country, resulting
fon the death of one and the trcachety OF another
whom they mad helped to elect to the highest ottl
rss If the nation. In July, 1912, when that
nesting assembled on thls spot, thousands OF Ia.
hotsrs were 10 be seen throughout the country
ysinly seeking employment; our commerce was
nslyzed, ard the ewspapers were, literally, I'll,
yiih notices % creditors from hundreds of the
mast Industrious and enterprising of our citizens
.,ekiug relief under The insolvent bankrupt laws
oflhe count-y. Public securities of every de-
sc-;D,ion were dlscredted the National Govern
m,Dt croaued under an enormous weight OF debt;
oar Treasury was exhausted; specie was con-
stsDtly passing from US To foreign countries; and
cur credit abread was utterly Frustrated. The ex-
changes of the nation were entirely deraDged;
Industry met with no adequate reward; and the
cry for Ieei from our distressed countrymen WAS
sent up from every section OF the Union to the
frs, Wing Congress that ever assembled In the
Capitol 4, The same tune, our political oPpo-
Denis, whose destructive doctrines about Free
Trace aid Hard Money mad reduced us TO this
state oi distress, had invented and propaga;ed
story. which could have originated only with
genuine Leo. Foco, That the Whigsn lo4O had
promised the .borer, in the event of their sue.
eess, t,1o d1ilrS day and roast beet ; and
they continued to propagate this petty falsehooo
Of then own dt wee, until many one among
ten, ncirr.lv pcieVed IT.