Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-10-04
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

| OF speech were 1ound III MaFhet stieoS
on Friday evening last. Those who were
in the Town Hall can judge to whom they
belonged our opinion is that they were
the property of Gas the Clinton Democrat
and Lewistown Democrat call him)
general bob fleming.
FELLER- CITIZENS Il don't mean to be be-
hind the speakers as has spoken afore. am
here tonight in order that you may hear to-
night what / have to say to night. This is
truly great and decidedly tremenjus occa-
sion. Voice in the crowd-'Big thing |
stand before you " oice, Bet high on that the
representative of the biggest the most patri
otio and slambanganest party that ever had
an existence in this country or any other.
Would you eat Goldfish because you was
| thirsty? would you drink sugar ee because you
was hunger-ee? No, stree! daughter
Then don't vote for the man that's agin me.
| don't want to be personal but who is he
He amt nobody nor nothin'. He says that
his ancestors fit in the Revolution, but he
doesn't say on which side they fit. They fit
for King George and for a shilin' a day, and
they was the fust to run away from our brave
soldiers.
| don't wish to be personal, but nut say
that the man who is agin me is so tarnal mean
/ that he would punch a cent for the sake of
getting the copper, and so eternal dishonest
that he would steal the punch to do it with
| scorn to bring up matters which occurred
in private life, else | would tell you that his
great grandfather, on his mothers side, wore
green spectacles Yes, feller citizens, green
spectacles (Cries of Shame !"1-And now
this man asks for your votes Where will YOU
find one who is so unworthy of your support?
Where will you find greater mixture of vii
lainy and deceit, hypocracy and impudence
than in this same man?
Feler-citizens, | have too good an opinion
of you to think for minute this knave this
trickster, will git more than one vote, and
| that will be the one that he puts in himself.
His name is Hale and how it will hale when
the election is over! (Laughter) Disgraced
he will fly the country, and seeking oblivion,
take refuge among the savages Of New Jer
sey-(Applause.)
If you would have the American Eagle
soar so high that it would make your ewes
sore to look at tiff you would have the
British Lion put his tail atween his legs, 'lect
me. Perhaps some of you goes in for high tar
tiff you does, vote for me: perhaps some
of you goes in for low tariff you does vote
for me; perhaps some of you don't 60 in for
no tariff at all-then vote for me. If Won
and the sanctity Of you hen-roosts from in
trusiOn. send me to Congress, for if | cit up
to make speech, III bet my coat agin a dram
| can make the bobolitionists clear out the
capital, just as | used to empty the benches
when was IN the Legislature. Perhaps some
OF you go in for niggers-if you does, vote
for me; perhaps some of you 60 agin niggers
If you does vote for me.
Nota Bena-Pd like to introduce nv
bleeding Kansas annegoat at this pint, but
my congressional conferee SAYS there mougbt
be some moral man at the meeting, so that
III have to omit livery sorry, indeed-for
| think it so rich
Feller citizens, who is Hale? Why nobody
at all he cant make a speech and never did.
Now, send me to Congress and I'll tell you
what I'll do. III vote for the South all
through. right or wrong. Ifthey say niggers
are better than white men, I'll say so too if
they say niggers ought to be everywhere in
slavery, III go and buy one and take him to
WIlllamsport; IT they say white mechanics
are the mud sills of society, I'll say so too if
they say this country was fit for, bled for, and
died for that slavery might take the place of
free white men, I'll say so too-and then
you see they'll come and say " YOUR a clev- /
er fellow-we'n give you tariff on cabbage |
and buckwheat, and wcoIn As for iron. I
that be --. say we ought to buy where I
we can buy cheapest, and if they can t make /
iron cheap here they have no business to |
make it at all.
Who is Hale, who's agin me, a General.
with white epauette, and drill sargent to
democracy? Yes, who is her Well, III tell
you-Dldn't he vote for Blake's resolution
which proposed to appoint committee to in
quire into the expediency of giving freedom
to every human being where Congress had
the power? Well he did-and amt every
man who votes for freedom an abolitionist?
Well he Is. Besides it amt Democratic to vote
for freedom no how, whether Congress has
the power or not. Our Southern brethren
don't like the word, and I've been thinking
whether it wouldn't be good move for the
democracy TO strike it out of the dictionary
altogether. 1t don't sound WELL and think
when | get to Congress I'll have it done in
the House, and Bigler will attend to it in the
Senate. Bill is great man down to Wash
ington, and just put me in position and I'll
be shot for a tailor if / don't be a CRATER.
Then didn't Hale vote for Sherman for
Speaker, and didn't our man Clark from Mis-
souri, put them TO trouble by introducing the
Helper Book? | rather guess he did. Did.
MT our folks talk big, and didn't this man
Hale and all the others set there doing moth.
ing, only sometimes laughing at US Just
think of itl member of Congress laughing
at real live democrats who own power Of
its a shame. Feller. citizens,
send me to Congress, and Tll do nothing to
aggravate our Southern brethren or their mig.
gers either-indeed l won't
Feller-citizens, you have nice town here,
and I'm glad to see that the whiskey is all
democratic, except that sold at one house. |
say I'm glad to see this, for, gentlemen, in
our region of pine slabs and stumps democ.
racy and whiskey are one and inseparable.
don't know how it is here, but the omen's
good | would like to say something about
lager for my dutch friends, but like my friend
Bill Bigler in his knees, its too weak for nv [