The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-29
BRICK POMEROY.
His Speech Before the Democracy In Mass
Meeting Assembled at Dunkirk.

His speech Before the Democracy in Mass
Meeting Assembled at Dunlkirk.
On Tuesday. the 22d inst, the democracy OF Chau-
tauque county assembled In full force at Dunkrk to
attend grand rally at which Brick Pomeroy and
other leading lights Of the democratic party were to
be present and speak. Chautauque county has the
credit Of being the very hotbed Of radical republi.
canism in this State, and 1t was, therefore, emin.
emily proper that the red hot champion Of the demo-
cracy should take the stump there. About two
O'Clock in the afternoon the meeting was called to
ORDER and after the election of chairman the orator
Of the day was introduced. Brick Pomeroy Oil COM
ing forward said:-
FELLOW CITIZENS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-I
nrst ask OF you personal favor, that you will re-
without any demonstration Of applause while am
speaking NV purpose Is to do good not to create
sensation. My flrst idea is to speak for the benefit
Of the wOrkingmen, the class to whose interests my
best energies are devoted. expected to be here to
address you at an earlier hour. but the train on
nellsville we were An hour and forty minutes late
but Conductor Cobb promised me that he would
know that there are a great many republicans
present who have come here from curiosity. l can
OF
that my speech has been curtailed forty minutes.
Let's see il we have any reason to defend the prIn
ctples Of our fathers and the interests Of chll
dren. II we have, then let press on this war Let
to return to democratic principles till we have won
the victory. Permit me to relate little incident
that happened but yesterday in New York. It is a
simple little story, but true One Like some great
men, I've the habit OF sometimes telling story. "a
voice-"Where's Butterfly
Butler Is In the spoon business
BRICK AS A STORY TELLER.
One day while passing through the streets met a
Cold Harbor. asked him how he got along now;
he said not very well. lie had hand organ that he
was carrying. he was procuring the means Of sub,
along with him to the front OF my O!ilce, and asked
him to give me tune. He hal been a soldier; he
man, and thought he was friend of music. He
dropped the hand-organ OH its stick, and saw on
s top Of mas aa p1Ge of
ten dollars for the privilege OF grinding this organ
ono year from the 10th Of last May daughter and
I asked MIN If he had paid that license and h. re-
piled that he had.
" q AZ you " lgght to save your country"
. .. you ~ lose your arm in battles"
''Dld you say you we're republican when you
went into the armys"
Are You q republican nowr'
"NO. SIR" >
And he swore. presume he learned it in the
..Give US tune and III pay You for it.u
He commenced grinding out OF that poor and very
South in Dixie.' like that tune / stood and lis
tened to 1t and dropped into his organ what few
pennies had said "Play 1t again" He played
. "po you say you were sOldierr'
'Haye you paid licenses"
81 have.n
"what will you take to stand in front of my office
every day this week from one O'Clock till foura'
"a win play 1t for two dollars per day.n
81 said, that Is all right You are a soldier. like
still better because You were republican and are
honest enough to see that you were wrong. / will
give you the two dollars. He seated himself upon
the curbstone in front Of my 0fice and for a half
hour, while | stood in the Office door laughing
he was grinding Away Down South in Dixie"
1t was a very nice little tune. An old gen
tleman came along and says "when are you
going to change THAR" He said, 81 don't
know; that gentleman has hired me to play this
one tune.n In the same building that am the gen
tleman OF whom hire the premises has an o.flce.
In short time, looking out OF the window, he saw
crowd there. He came down stairs and told this
fellow to "move on or you will attract u crowd; you
are getting up nuisance" lie said, al cannot
your" "This fellow that runs tins newspaper here.n
~ don't want you to play here. You are nuisance.
MSSe on" nns VIII lose Wages %
that play this one tune" And he kept playing
away. The gentleman went up stairs and in u
one OF my clerks and said, 81 wish you would get
an order for this man to leave" Tie clerk replied,
~ can't do It. If order him away / lose my
roy has hired this fellow to play that tune all
dayf' ,.Yes, sir and every day for week. laugh
sancef" al don't know anything about that but
II Mr.. Pomeroy has told the soldier he VIII MAINTAIN
tom dollar he VIII do It," Q.aughter.) TIE third time
he came down and said, ~ want you to move away
and said to him, 'old on rent half this budinsr'
YES SIR PAY ten thousand dollars a year for
in Of my ha man s IKE t pa u 'ns 'q8 es
HIM play some other tune" "No want that one
tune played. IL suit. me- Mr.. Lincoln said t
n ~
Great laughter) That soldier" said he, "can-
not stay there" Said lie can stay there. Ihat
into the army and fought. lie went there to
save the country He lost an arm fighting at Cold
Harbor. lie has returned TO his home lie finds his
Wife and children in want. lie pays ten dollars q
year license for the privilege or grinding this rckcty
revenue, which goes into the pockets OF your bond
holders. (Applause That soldier fought for his
liberty. lie Is having IL now. want him TO stand
right here and play this tune every day this week.
am going into the country to talk to the working
men, the democracy. and want him to stay right
here and play every day ana tins same tune "w
remind the worklngmen OF New York who pass by
here every day that Away Down South in Dixie are
carpetbaggers, lazy niRgerS and Freedmens Bu-
reals a great big standing army-that the working
men Of the North laborng day after day to sup
tle North. a. they are at war upon the husbandry
OF the South. I want him to play that same
tune in order that the people OF the North may
know where their money has gone TO. He IL going
to play here, aud II YOU modest him will mash
yonr head for you" Great laughter.) / left the
Office at five minutes before four yesterday and he
stood there grinding away Down South In Dixie.n
am going to hire him to grind ali next week. still
1t Is not pleasant music for the bondhoder. l
know 1t Is not NICE but they have given US n little
trouble, and this IL one OF the ways In which pro-
pose 10 have my share Of revenge out OF them. I
have no doubt the New York sun, the paper i'm
which this gentleman Is Interested came out this
morning and said was traitor. Well like as not.
There are good many traitors this year. tAp-
plausel Traitors to the republican party, traitors
to those who have robbed them OF their interests
there are many Of these traitors coming from the
ranks Of the enemy and joining our ranks.
BRICK ON THE REL uBi.ICAs FATTY.
| war upon the republican party because 1t is
wrong, because 1t IL rotten, because " ~ corrupt
use H. cares not for the nte. ess OF the people,
because IL has divided the Jniou because II mas
sought tn make the poor man and The workingman
poorer. I care not whether you are republicans or
democrats II has sought 10 make tile wUrkngman
the slave OF an arstocracy that never existed in
America till the republican patty came ingo power,
and which would ana could not exist II that party