Evening star., 1865-03-02
Affairs In GEORGETOWN.

sofEECH OF MAYOR ADDIsON.-At the close
OF the polls in Georgetown on Monday last
Mayor Addison was called on by an immense
assemblage in front o Lang's Hotel for a
speech, when ne addressed them as follows:
more room, stop your cheering and be quiet,
will talk to you awhile, but / would mueh
rather, at this hour, be in bed.
1t 80 happens that stand now in the identi-
cal spot which l occupied just twenty years
ago to receive the kind congratulations Of NV
friends on my first election to the Mayoralty
OF this town: With an intermission of two
years, only, have been regularly reelected
TO that Office up to this day, and have beat
en- every candidate that has been arrayed
against me. Very few men. anywhere, can be
proud over such an almost unbroken series of
triumphs and successes.
And, what is somewhat remarkable, these
victories have almost always been achieved
when my political party was in hopeless mi
nority. At times, too, when it was the fashion
OF my present opponents to sneer at and vilify
Abraham Lincoln, and to denounce me as
reckless Black Republican, and to draw down
upon me the fury and power Of popular pre,u.
dice and deep.toned political animosity.
But the present effort to awe and intmi date
me has hardly parallel in the annals of party
audacity, and about which / have q few words
to say.
At the outset Of this contest, club Of TWEEN.
ty three people, as obscure as insolent, calling
themselves ga Union League ordered me not
again to be a candidate fer the Office of Mayor,
as they wanted man to be elected of their o wn
standing and claims upon the people. OF course
l treated that order with all the contempt it
deserved, and became candidate at the re-
quest OF number OF well known and decided
ly decent people, men OF property and men of
character.
But it was soon found that the club had a
good deal OF trouble On hand, as they had no
fit person among themselves to run, and could
hnd no tit man, outside Of the club, who
would consent to receive their nomination.
Now, what disgusting spectacle is here
exhibited-twenty-thr three obscure and irrespon-
sible ignoramuses assuming to dictate to four
teen thousand people how and by whom their
municipal government shall be conducted. AS
well might twenty. three of the smallest kind OF
mice assemble in a tin cup to make rules and
regulations for the management OF frst-class
menagerie.
In their desperation they went, as the las
resort, to DR.. Cragin, a well known spirituaIst,
who, after rapping and tipping the tables, told
them that the wisest of the spirits were deci.
only available man. In consideration of the
value of this disclosure from the spirit world,
the ''tin cup club" directed the Corporation Of
Georgetown to bless the said medium with
salary OF six hundred dollars per annum for
spiritual services to the club aforesaid, and
thereupen George Hill, jr., was nominated
with due degree OF enthusiasm.
from the other world the probable success Of
their candidate. On this occasion the tables
were tearfully agitated with the revelauon
that the medium must call Immediately on
President Lincoln and have Addison with
drawn from the contest early on the day Of
election, when the course would be clear and
success certain. The medium told nv good
friend, Joseph f. Brown, OF Washington city,
that this was the scheme, and that it could not
fail. But that order did not come, and you
now, my fellow citizens. inform me, with all
this noise and confusion, that Addison is again
elected by something OF a rail splitting ma
joritv. The good Doctor has just informed his
deluded friends of the tin cup that he had re-
ceived another despatch from q very familiar
old spirit that all Of the brethren had been
overtaken with q sudden contempt for the tin
cup convention, and had lost all confidence In
the loyalty Of Hill, as II was his fashion to spell
loyal "lieI;" further, that he had been lying
about his attending soldiers hospitals, and that
Addison had the proof. in black and white,
that both Hill and the medium had refused to
give dollar for the families Of the soldiers In
1862; while he (Addison) had given his mite of
$10O. The medium, too, made the start
ling disclosure that all the spirits had voted
the Lincoln ticket, Ia November last, and that
they were very mad with Hill and the tin cup
convention because they refused to subscribe
dollar to pay the expenses Of Father Abra-
hams election, while sold Addison" had free.
ly given one hundred dollars, and that he had
the proof OF this from esheadquarsers." The
medium, too, was much exercised at the
further message that DR.. Charles III. Cragin
was humbug of the tin cup stamp. -
In conclusion, I will not say sswoe unto you
scribes and pharisees. hypocrites," but M 81
pray the Lord to have mercy apon those lattel
day saints, and sslieI" Candidates for the
Mayoralty of Georgetown. aFEasx
Ny friends, my strength is exhapSted,7 car
only bio you good night. ss