Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1868-09-16

the City Hall, on " ednesday evening,
ostensibly for the purpose of listen
ing to Mr.. PAssMoRE, their candidate
for Congress, which occasion was i'm
proved by jim EARNEST, PHLo ORION
and NJ. NJ. STRONG, in the blowing of
a little steam with which they APP
peared to be overcharged. Mr. PASS
MORE was first introduced. and made
very pretty speech, made up mostly
Of REPETITION of the political articles
published in the New York World
and Chicago Times The principal
feature Of his remarks was the mig
ger, and one would suppose from tue
tenor of his speech that he entertain
ed fears that he and his party friends
were in danger Of marrying negroes
unless Congress pass a law prohibit
ing negroes from uniting themselves
with Democrats in the bonds of mat
F!mony. Taxation was, of course.
made theme IN his speech, for the
party TO which he belongs Is so en-
phatlcalIv the party of taxation that
no speaker can pass over that sub
ject when on the Democratic stump.
Mr.. P. having expended his polite
al ammunition, Mr.. EARNEST was call
ed out, and spent about fifteen minutes
In numbering the Kings English.
slandering Col. COBB, and exhibiting
his ignorance in making wilful mis-
presentations in relation 10 the col
lection OF Government taxes. &C.
Among other things he informed the
people that every dollar collected by
Government officers went INTO the
pockets Of assessors and collectors,
and not a cent reached the Treasury
Department. Wonder if the ten cent
tar upon each member Of the Demo
cratic party, now being collected by
Mr.. EARNEST, Will ever go farther
than his own pocket? To Judge 9th
ers by ones self is said to be honest.
and we presume in this matter JIM
may be said TO be an honest Judge.
MI. EARNEST beng somewhat tired
on the start was brief IN his remarks,
and gave way for Mr.. STRONG, who
was particularly venimous in threats
at Republicans generally, and Colonel
COBB in particular. He stated that
the Republican Convention which
nominated Col. COBB was made up of
Government Office holders who lived
upon treasury pay, and not upon
honest earnings Of the sweat of their
brows. He referred his hearers to
the columns Of the TRIBUNE for the list
OF delegates to prove his assertion
We trust they Will not fail to follow
his suggestions, for a perusal Of the
TRIBUNE may do them good. And
when they have looked over the list.
and found, as they would do, that
nearly ali the delegates were laboring
men, let themturn toMr STRoNG's rec
ord and learn how much sweat has been
"rung from his hoary brow by honest
labor; and how much of his time has
been spent N vain efforts to secure
Offices, which The people fail to trust
in his hands. Mr. STRONG failed on
this occasion to advance those con.
vincing arguments in support Of Dem
ocratic principles. to which he allud-
ed in the afternoon, though, a large
portion of the audience were Repub-
licans
p. A. ORroS, Esq, of Darlington.
followed Mr.. STRONG. and closed the
exercises with his oft-repeated piece
about taxation, national banks. &c,
interrupted with an occasional hard
thrust at Col. COBB, similar to those
thrown by those who preceded him
PHILo was evidently a little embar-
rassed, but on the whole performed
his part creditably We have not
the least doubt, however, but his
cheek burned little when he poured
out the walls of his wrath upon Col.
COBB, for we do not believe he hon.
estly endorsed word of his own re-
marks This last speech closed the
performance for the evening. and the
crowd dispersed, as in the afternoon
without cheer for the candidates or
any body else. Their enthusiasm had
reached nearly to freezing point.
WISCONSIN NJ f CONFERENCE
The Wisconsin Conference of the NJ.
+. Church meets in Racine. Octo6er
lst. There viii be about two hun
dred ministers and lar delegates pres.
emit Bishop Edward r. Ames. D. D.. 1
will preside. The session viii con
tinue about five days.
THE Peudleton Escort. accordinr