The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-09-03

! GRANO REPUBLICAN, FIZZLE.
For the past three weeks nothing has
heard throughout the county but the din
of preparation for the great rally of the
campaign to take place here on the 29th
August. The faithful were appealed to in
the most earnest manner to turn out in
such numbers as would strike terror to the
hearts of the wicked copperheads. The
usual "truly loil" dodge was tried, by ad-
vsrtising. in big letters on mammoth post
ers, as the speakers. General Carl Schurz,
Billy Williams, and in more modest type.
General Jasper Packard. Committees
were sent to the several townships to urge
out the Fighting Boys in Blue. and such
other steps taken as would make the Doth
of August a memorable day for the re-
pablicans Of Marshall county. The day
came at last. Early in the forenoon the
Baarshals were seen mounted on their war
horses; the Silver Band paraded the
streets. discOursing their sweetest notes ];
and all eyes were gazing in the the direc-
ton from which the hosts of Grant aud
Coifax were expected to put in their ap-
pearance. But what a fall was there,
my countrymen!" The grand procession
al told. conta ined forty-seven wagons, in
Guiding band wagons, sixty-two horssmen,
including marshals, three hundred and
one voters, and the borrowed cannon |.
The most of the crowd was from Bourbon
and of all the soldiers that went into the
army from Marshall county, there were
less than 100 in the ranks of the Eight
ing Boys in Blue" and some who wore
the uniform had to our certain knowledge
never been soldiers.
But our "loil' friends were doomed to
another disappointment. Carl Schurz, as
usual, did not come. Billy Williams was
sick( y and they were obliged to listen for
two mortal hours to Jap. Packard, who
entertained them in the old worn out style
of four years ago. He takes to lying as
naturally as Senator Yates takes to whis-
Ky, or Ben. Butler to spoons; but in get
ting off some Of those he related in his
piece, he really presumed upon the intelli-
gence ofhis audience. For example, he
stated that the New York soldiers did not
vote in 1864, because Governor Seymour
vetoed the bill passed by the republican
legislature allowing them to vote. He has
forgotten, doubtless, that Col. North was
arrested at Washington in the fall Of 1864
on trumped up charge of forging soldiers
votes for the New York election; that he
was confined in dungeon for more than
year, and then released without trial
We remember distinctly of farmer in
northern New York telling us that a vote
was sent to his town at the elections of
1864, purporting to be the vote of his
son who was in the army, and that at the
time his son had been dead over eighteen
months. The soldiers of New York did
vote in 1864, dead az we'll as living ones,
as Jasper Packard we'll knew, when he
made the statement. His audience was
more noted for women and children than
voters. lie stopped over" entirely when
he addressed the ladies. He said he could
not close without paying them = tribute
for their loyalty. He then rehearsed lines
Of poetry as old as the hills. for nearly thir.
ty minutes, when he closed with the beau
tiful thought, o! woman thou art love
ly!" The foregoing is a sample of his
whole harapgue, and if republicans are
satisfied with it the democrats certainly
are. On the whole, Jasper Packard is 8
fit candidate for the Jacobin, God and
morality party. His long hair, fragran
with the aroma Of bears oil his gushing
oratOry, of the most approved blood-and
thunder type; and number of lies lie is ca
pable o, Rowling into two hour speech
makes him not only an available candidate
but the fit associate for such statesmen a
John A. Logan, Ben. Butler, Washburne
Donnelly Il Co. He is the representative
of class Of hypocrites who will be burie,
. so low in October that special resurrec
ton sill not raise them.
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WHICH IS 1T!