The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1860-10-18
Douglas i'm KenOSha.

The travelling candidate for the Presidency
being expected on the nine o'clock evening trair
from Milwaukee, on Saturday night last quite
crowd of people of all classes congregated at the
Lake Shore r. r. depot, to see the show. The
KenOsha Wide Awakes went up to the Depot
with their blazing torches to shed light on tbs
occasion, and afford the multitude an opportuni
iy of having fair view of the exhibition. They
also had a small cannon on the ground to herald
the approach and signal the presence of Mr..
Douga s. In due time the train came on it wa;
naturally expected Mr. Douglas would exhibit
himself from some central position. opposite the
Depot platform The Wide Awakes had taken
the in position accordingly. ii So happened how
ever, that Mr.. Douglas emerged from the hind
end Of the rear car, and soon commenced speak
lug a leading Democrat requested the Wide
Awakes to move opposite the speaker: the or.
der was given to march-the music struck up
until the Wide Awakes gained the position'desi
ed. Inasmuch as Mr.. Douglas had already COM
menced speaking, he seemed to construe this in.
terruption as designed insult Holding on to
the iron railing of the car he turned his attention
to the Wide wakes giving them piece Of his
mind be said it was the first time he had been
.rsul;cd while travelling in the different States
Of tho Union, and was sorry such an insult shod
have happened in the State of Wisconsin
This ebu!;tiom OF feeling on the part of Mr.. Dou-
gas, was entirely uncalled for, as the Wide
Awakes b I'D not fire most distantidea of offering
him any indignty leading Douglas men admit
no wrong vas intended by the Wide Awakes.-
N.Y. Douglas extraordinary sensitiveness on the
ccasion, has been accounted for on the hypoth
esis, that the late election news-coupled with
tho probability Of his having imbibed little too
freely, bad impaired his amiabiiIty. The train
.omaned barely long enough to allow Ar Doug
Douglas to make some non-sensical remarks,
about the present imminent peril of the Union,
and danger Of sectional candidates. pretty
man to talk alb out sectional candidates Who
ever will take the pains to look over the proceed
ings of the two convent;ons-the Ba ltimore con-
vention which nominated Mr.. Douglas, and the
Chicago Convention at which Mr.. Lincoln was
nominated, will perceive that a larger area of
country was represented, and more votes from
the.slave states cast in the Republican conv en-
tionf than in the Douglas convention.
Mr.. Douglas of course had no time to venti.
late ing greet principle, the engine whistle ad-
monished him to brevity. AS We said before the
crowd was quite large the bright torch lights of
he Wide Awakes, as they reflected against the
rubicund face Of The Little Giant, enabled all the
congregated men, women and children, to see
him quite TO advantage. The show was neces-
sarily short-the train departed, the cannon thun.
dered good bye to you" after which several in |
discreet persons in the crowd were heard to ex-
claim-"what hard looking case Douglas is I"
Mr.. Douglas has now gone South; we see by |
the list of his appointments, he does not stop in
Illinois, but goes directly down into the negro |
States where he will doubtless labor to convince
the people that his 'Great Principle is just the
thing for the peculiar institution" His last
appointment is at Mobile on the 5th of Noven-
ber