The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1860-06-28

The Demockracy Of Old Cedar has
bin out. 1t has not only bin out but it
has likewise spread itself as it war aud
hollercd. The "Dogylus" banner is un.
folded and as its butiful culurs glissens
in the meller rays of the sitting sun
every true paytriot feels like exclaiming
in the language of the poick-
"the dimmycrat banner long may 1t wave
"oer the land Of the free and home Of the
slave"
And as humbel member of the great
unterri6ed i fell it to be my dooty te
give you authentic account of the great
ratifaAivu, as I have no dout sono Of
your black republicans will give a one
sided and predjood,shed statement of it
and want you to know the truth whcth.
or you dare to print it or not. Persuant
to call posted on the door of the defunct
beer saloon on the north side of the
skware the demockrasee made prepera.
tons for the ratify. No trubbel or ex.
pence was spared to make the meeting
worthy of the party and the occashun n.
About shutdown the exercises was open.
ed by some boys who made a most praise.
worthy but unfortoonately footile attempt
to burn salt barrel, But these WORTHY
sons of noble sires was not to be discour-
aged by one failure. They rallid again
in front of the grocery and getting half
of tar barrel and balls of candel wick
they soon had IN full blast of the mag.
nifcenest lamentations that was ever
witnessed in Upton. Meanwhile the
shiveralrous Kurnel who was marshil of
Of the day he'd procured barrel and
bunch of firecrackers settin the barrel on
eend in the middle of the street he tuch.
ed match to the string and dropping
the crackers into the barrel he stepped
backed phew passes and raising his cane
to warn all intruders to keep oph he
sternly exclaimed I" let 'em rip" and
SIGH another snappin and poppin never
heered sence the time the little darkey at
Cincinnatty put bunch into my coat
pocket. the caudel wik havin gin out by
this time and the bonfire bein' replenish-
ed with another barrel the Kurnel
walked up the steps Of the Court house
and with majestic waive of his hand
silenced the band that was diskoursing
sperit stirrin strains from . drums and
fife onto the platform, aud then made
some remark in Dutch or Inglish or some
other furrin tongue (not bein a klassick
skollard myself couldent say justly what
it was.) The immense krowd cum to
order Immediately and the kurnil pro-
posed cheers for Dooglas which was
give most enthusiastically and made
some noise. He then called on Mr. Plat
to spoke and the krowd specially the
rising jineration of which there was a
rite smart sprinkling, did the same, but
Mr. p kept his seat. Findin that they
could not git him they called for Bissei.
the Old War Hoss was thar and he re-
sponded to the call As he rose to his
feet and l cought site of his portly
form and noble face could not help re-
peating the words of the immortal Shake
Spear-"See how much grease is seated
on that brow, Hibernias curls-the front
of Job himself. An like mas to
threaten or command" He stood few
moments swaying & fro under the
Waite of the subject aud with perspira.
shun streaming down his face he seemed
to be sufferin much from the effects of
the hot wether. Some evil minded per-
son near me said he had too much frate
on-tho skorned the base insinuation
felt 1t my dooty to pass it by in dgni6ed
silence | cant even give abstrack of
the Judges speech suffice it to say it was
master effort and fully sustained his
reputation as oratur. But one passage
in it was trolley sublime and purity
'The Little Giant" says he "was born
and raised in an obscure corner of the
union and roared in his childhood amid
the rejuvenated prayries Of Illinois" l
did not justly sense the hull of the re.
mark but l new it was all rite cause the
Judge sed it and hollered as loud as the
rest OF EN-. After the Judge sot down
the band played Yankee Doodle and then
the hurnel was called on and perceded
to give US one of his best. Alludin to
| the hand hill hAfn-. .~r...-l ~ h. I'D
that they dident have the roast niger
for they hadent time to send to Spring
dale and get one. At this time some
owdashus cuss at the outsquirts of the
croud remarked "They might a took
you" The Kermit made some reply that
dldent understand but i expect it used
the Teller up awful After the Kernil
got done they tried to get some one else
to speak but the oraturs being all modest
men thought they couldent better the
thing any and dident try.
After bit a tall Teller in a tall hat
with black mustachars and whiskers got
onto the stand and steddying himself
agin 2 other fellers, made sum perlite
bows to the krowd and proposed 8 cheers
for Douglas and some other Teller in
front Of the steps proposed 3 for Brock
aud they chcered 'em both together
The marshal now ordered 'em to form a
procession and they done it. At the
word the band struck ur march and
the procession consistin of l3 boys in
ventilated clothing and men in linen
coats started around the skware in the
rain, and | won't home With the blessed
assurance that "lowa is all 0. X. fol-
Douglas" or Breck don't knew which.
Hoping that this true account Of the
meeting may change your opinion of the
Demockracee, remain
Yours respectively,