Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-09-15
rHE wIDE AwAKEs At MIDDLETOwNl
rHEIR RETuRNl

That the clap4rap Of the Wide Awake
movement is becoming tiresome was very
plainly eyinced by the turnout last evening
When the crowd turned out from the Nig wan
there we're, on actual count" lG in process
sion, aud when they passed into the Depot ae
cessions to he ranks swelled the number up 10
l26-all told How many outsiders went
down to Middleiown we do not know certain
w. We do know, however, that there were
nine cars in the train; of these FIVE had no
body in them; Of the four that contained the
crowd, only three Of them were crowded, the
fourth being only about two-thirds full There
was platform cnr attached to the train upon
which was band of music and cannon
convenience not afforded the Democrats who
went down to the Burg the other night
How many were in procession in Middle
town last night we have no reliable means of
knowing The Journal says there we're over
900, but we think that cannot be so, for there
are not that number of Republican torches in
the Third District That's so If anything
was wanting to create disbelief of this It
would be the Journals claim; that would set
tie the falsity Of the matter at once But let
this suffice; we have something else to say,
something of more significance than mere
clap trap
1t seems that nothing was said to the Wide
Awakes, generally, abou' returning home, i'm
mediately after getting to Middletown. The
Band was marched to town and back again,
with all the crowd who followed them, mo-
giving them time to get even glass of waterl
A large number of the wde-Awakes, who de-
sired TO hear Mr. Craighead, and supposing
that the train would not leave until the speak
ing was through, remained to hear him. In the
mean time the train went off, and the men
and boys-thirty or forty in number-were
left behind After the meeting was over, the
boys ascertained that the train had gone and
left them, and that they could ut get home that
night; and as they had no money they could
not get a place to lay their heads in hotel OF
private house, and they roasted around
under sheds in the chilling night air, and in
haymows about the alleys
In the morning early the disconsolate crowd
struggled over TO the Depot, to try to get home
on the train. The Republican candidate fol
Congress was present on the platform, anc
must have heard the men and boys who were
complaining about the train leaving them, o
sleeping about the streets, of their hunger anC
of their not having any money to pay theii
passage hbme The complaints were made
in his ears they were made on purpose fol
him to hear them but he turned dea
ear, and hid himself awayl--Sowe are assured
by several indignant men who notedthese mat
ters narrowly, gentlemen who will make oatl
to the statement made to us.
At the platform the Conductor put Off abou
a dozen men who asked to "go up to Dayton
and pay when they got homer A Republi
can standing by-a Wide Awake who had go
left,-then in the hearing of the Republican
candidate told the Conductor to "hold onl
he would pay for the boys as far as his meani
would go; and actually paid out Sl2, every
cent he had, to assist the boys home
At Post Town, the next Station above, the
rest of the Wide Awake boys were put off the
train, and although the very man they went t.
honor was sitting by and never said a word
when that word would have taken them home
They were thrust from the train IS miles from
home, chilled, hungry and dispirited, (and
many of them were boys,) to foot their way
home and satisfy the cravings of hunger as
best they may We could give the details o.
this matter, which would leave no possible
room for covering over, or patching up While
we are writing this, the boys are on theii
weary way on foot for home
OF course they will vote for Craighead--
those who have votes Won't they
This Wide Awake business is "payed ont.
The big wet blanket was put on it last night
Indignant men are at this moment of writing
hurting maledictions upon the institution
We will refer to this matter again. In tn,
mean time we will see how the mistake of las
night will be corrected
The following dispatches were received from
the Wakes this A. NJ.
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