Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-09-21
THE DEMOCRATIC MASS MEET1N,

THE DEMOCRATIC MASS MEETING,
On Monday last, so far as numbers
and apparent enthusiasm are concerned,
was decided success. We had been
absent for more than a week, and re-
turned as the procession passed through
the town. The display was certainly
equal to, if it did not exceed, the expec-
tations of our Democratic friends. We
could not attend the speaking, and can
not, therefore, give any report of what
was said, or its probable effect upon the
crowd. We have heard the number at
the stand estimated, by fair men of both
parties, as being from one-half to two
thirds as large as the monster mass meet
ing which turned out on the occasion of
the visit of Mr.. Hassaurek to this place,
a short time before It is said that at
least one third of the audience were re-
publicans. We are glad that such was
the fact. Let the people hear both sides
and then judge for themselves.
From what we have heard, our friend
Charley Martin came up, perhaps, to the
full expectation of his friends, while
Judge Warden disappointed and dis
gusted all parties. The Judge must
have felt his position to be a very awk-
ward one, and this, perhaps, caused his
failure, for he is unquestionably man
of talent. When here three years ago,
stumping for, the Republicans, he GER
tainly made one of the ablest and most
effective speeches it has been our fortune
to hear. He had then just left the Dem
-ocratic party, and his erpose of the un-
,soundness of their principles, and the
-duplicity and demagogueism of their
leaders, was terrible in the extreme
His denunciations of the Dred Scott de-
cision, and of the party for sustaining it,
surpassed anything we ever heard. Our
Democrats then denounced the Judgeas a
mere ofice-seeking demagogue They
said he left the Democratic party because
they would not make him Judge, and
that he would leave the Republicans in
two years if they did not nominate him.
We thought then that these charges
were the result of prejudice, and that
the Judge was an honest man, and was
following the convictions of his judg-
ment. We cannot see his heart, and
have no disposition to sit in Judgment
upon his motives. Suffice it to say that
the Republicans did not nominate him
for Judge, and he has left them as our
Democratic friends predicted, and they
are quite welcome to his services. We
hno,o of at least three Republican votes
he made for us by his speech on Monday,
and have heard Of others. We hope,
therefore, that he will be kept in the
field.
If we had time we would review the
positions assumed by Mr.. Martin as they
have been reported to us, but we have
not, and scarcely deem it necessary. We
heard him ON Saturday night at Athens,
and if he made the same speech here we
could very safely trust Meigs County
audience to detect his fallacies, and cor
rect his mistakes-if they we're mere mis-
fakes-without our pointing them out
We made speech in Somerset a week
ago, in which we discussed the princi-
piles of the parties without a personal
reference to the candidates at all. Mr..
Martins special organ published at that
place, not choosing to discuss the issues,
devoted, in his next paper, seren separate
and distinct articles to the personal abuse
of our humble self. We pitied the man,
and the condition Of the people who
make up his readers, but could not con-
descend to the same arena. even to retail
late for the indecent attack. Those who
read the Telegraph understand the issues
between the parties, and the character of
MIR. Horton is quite beyond the reach
of damage in this community. We
therefore leave the voters to select be-