The Weekly Herald

THE STATE OF MAHONE Nominates a Mixed Ticket.

When order had been restored, Gen. Mahone spoke in effect as follows: I greet you, my friends and fellow citizens, with my most earnest compliments and I beg to assure you of the supreme gratification which I have at this assemblage of my fellow citizens. It fills the measure of my loyal ambition to this people and to this State. It testifies to me in words of warmth which I will never forget, your approval of my public conduct; it doubly assures me that there exists yet in the bosoms of this people, true devotion to Jeffersonian principles of government; it assures me that the people of this State, in their might and sovereign power, are here to say to the States of this Union, that the State is to be put in cordial relations with the Government; it assures me that in the future her fate and that of her people are to be identical and that her march is to be for freedom and progress in this land; it assures me that freedom of opinion is to be the rule in all matters which relate to men. You sent me to the national capitol as your representative, chosen without solicitation on my part, except personal responsibility of earnest devotion to serve this people wherever they saw fit to put me. No sooner was I called to the capitol to answer for you than a policy of terrorism was put in practice to silence your representative. I would be recreant to manhood did not maintain I was there to voice the manhood of this people; there to oppose Democratic Bourbonism which attempted to dictate to the readjuster party of this State and not there to do the bidding of men claiming to be the Democratic party, but who would throttle free opinion and a free ballot. I want no more of that Democracy. You are here to give effect to equal rights, a free ballot and an honest count, maintain economy in the State government and support the present system of public education. You are here to say to your representatives in Congress that they must represent the true interests of the people of the State and not represent a Democratic Bourbon caucus. You are here to free those people from Bourbon domination and to lift the blight of Bourbon Democracy which has set in upon us. You are here to restore the old State and her people to most cordial relations with all people of our common country and to put an end to sectional contests and obliterate race distinction.

Gen. Mahone concluded by advising harmony and that to whomsoever they gave their banner they should stand by him to a man in the great fight which is to be made for the freedom of their posterity. During the delivery of his speech the General was frequently interrupted by applause, which at times was so great that he was forced to suspend entirely, and at its close he was again the recipient of another great outburst of enthusiasm. This was followed by the introduction of a resolution endorsing Gen. Mahone's course in the United States Senate, which was adopted unanimously.