Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-09-11

The PEEDLEToN ATEETING.-The great
Democratic agony is over and the world
continues its diurnaI revolutions as us
ual. Excepting few eervical shots we
believe the general report is ''nobody
hurt.'' The greatest damage done is
suffered by the Democracy, who in their
palpable failure of Wednesday have
simply foreshadowed the final and COM
plete disaster which awaits them in Oc-
tober and November.
I Fully two thousand dollars, we are
informed, have been spent in preparing
for this meeting. It was given out as
the great Democratic gathering of the
campaign, not for this county only, but
of the entire sth District and the rest of
mankind generally. Emmissaries were
sent in every direction pledging the
faithful to come out, rain or shine.
I Workingmen who could not well spare
the time, were promised pay for it if
they would only come. Professions
were prepared, banners, music and ev-
cry conceivable device that might at
tract or arouse. Franklin county was
drawn upen for its pop-gun squad, and
| from Marion, Union, Richland and
/ Morrow the promise was that the hosts
of the unterrified should sweep down
upon Delaware even as the proud As
| syrian came with the banners of Senna-
cherib. And as a crowning attraction
PendIeton, the most popular Democrat
ic speaker in the West, whom men OF
all parties would at least feel curious to
hear, was proclaimed as the orator OF
the day.
The result OF all this was that at abou
IL a. N. of the great day for which Il
others in the Democratic calendar were
made, a cavalcade OF about $50 horse
men preceded by the Delaware band
commenced moving up Main street
and paraded the town. This was all
there was of the procession. In the af-
ternoon the q Young Eagle' took his
eyry in MilIer's Hall and said many
things in favor Of the currency which
the Republican party has given the
country and which but few years ago
he denounced as Unconstitutional, .
worthless trash" and "rags,"
After the ''Young Eagle" the ''favo-
rite son, . J. r. took the platform and
proceeded to empty the hall with as
tonisbing rapidity. The ''favorite" did
not seem to be so much of a favorite af-
ter all, and the words that fell from the
champion of the people, seemed only
to strike them with dismay. With one
accord the audience seemed to want to
go home, and they went.
The crowd was by no means immense
and was largely made up from distant
counties. Possibly there were 1,50C
strangers in the city during the day
who came to attend the meeting.
We regret that the weather was moi
more favorable and condole the Democ
racy on the adverse temper of the ele
ments. The news from Vermont and a
rain storm at once were truly distres
sing. With more favorable went her W,
presume more of the non-voting De
moeracy would have been out but no
many more voters for they were pledg-
ed to come any how. The parade nigh
have been finer, but when will our Dem
: Ocrattc friends learn that intelligent peo
n pie are not to be convinced by mere
2 hurrahing and show? The time has gon,
2 by when a monster mass meeting viii
D carry political canvass as if by storm
r It might have been so in early time.
e when the country was sparsely settled
o and local meetings were not PRACTICABLE
e but now it is the agency of the press
, the local meetings and organization
that tell upon the result. The monste
mass meetings are to the local ones verl
n much as the big guns to the musket
Il ry in battle-they make great deal o
noise with very little effect.