Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-10

How are y ou, ..Tanners.P''
The Affair Too Ridiculous to
Make Fun Of. ga6sFs

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ITS over. The long drawn agony is
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The Grant Tanners did turn out, and they
ttook theirtorehes with them.sF Il q SEQ
Ee And their children. s''u ' .eFil = ..aj ,.af
There were about eighty Tanners in
procession, scf whom perhaps fifty were
| And they all had torches.
| The long drawn agony is over.
70 70 Partarfuat nio,stes, ridicul,ls mus. -s. ~
And ridiculous muss they made of it
| AFTER O. week of toll and sweat; after
bleeding every member OF their party as
long as he would standit; after taking So
each from the prison guards, to have such
afizzle, that, Jas they marched through the
streets ssthe1 dogs barked as they IRalted by
them!''' Twas shameful p Twas smost
tolerable and not toAbe endured" Twas
enough to MAKE man weep.w ,sn6mgloo
lss.Aeaboute O'Clock last Saturday evening
Voglesang' Brass Band marched up High
street, at the head of an immense Process
sion, 5IS7 O0T
In round numbers, the procession con-
sisted of four boys.'T 40
Quite large crowd had cengEegated at
the corner Of State and High streets,
awaiting the advent of the Tanners They
came!
nF Atquarter past 8 o'ciock--we like to be
particular -; eighty-ntne persons. about
fifty, Of whom were voters and about
twenty of whom had been soldiers-and
good ones-silently filed down the steps
leading from the Union Club Rooms and
solemnly proceeded to the east front OF, the
State House, where they were supplied
with torches and transparencies. eaai
- Here were two vehicles On one were
rugged two bells, having long strings to
the clappers, and the. strings, were held by
an ex-policeman and another fellow. This
wagon had these inscriptions cOn the
right hand side, "This is the bell that tolls
the knell of poor Horatio Seymour On
the left hand side the Inscription, was the
same, substituting Frank P. Blair's name.
On the rear of the wagon, aThese bells
tell horrible tale" 509s4isHsy yOi} 49,. u
On the other wagon was rigged up cur
rierss block and a table at which two tan
ners were at work. From the rear Of this
wagon was hung a dressed hide on which
was painted aThe Hide OF F. P. Blair.
Strangers take Warming on one side, and
81. Seymour. His hide tanned by the de-
liberate judgmentof the American people,"
onothe other. ssS ~ Gsuia iiisiGGo A-'F
Behind these wagons came a niger
beating, 4 gong, and a party of boys of ten
to thirteen years old bearing Chinese Jan
terms and a large transparency. on which
was painted the words aU. s. Grant, Tam
ner," and sTrain up child in the way he
should ,go,"ns and sa.We uphold the flag"
Immedistely following cana a party of
boysbearing an American flag. @T2ut7
After these came the lusty tam ers.. And
81 heroic,o enthusiastic looking, lot they
were. The whole affair was under the i'm
mediate supervision cot Tom @. Donald-s
.zrEt, 10 srsb 5s1d nj 10 oidRga4 -1s919JqI ~
ed1 nj SOTO s'gne1moo edj is yln bgs q
sTheb procession was formed after q good
deal Of oboeheraana sDr. Loving, the High
Old, Black and 9i9fanne er,,o gave the, word
'GoS S'andI they started. Some of the Docs
military terms were, funny. The Tanners
were marching foul. abreast, and, as they
were to turn down State street from Third
be- blprted . outs II eft Wheel7ite. EGuide
right ~ They Knew, however, which way
to gog' And that was all that was wanted: 6
JUST as they got on to State street, a
wind squall struck the procession and put
theNtorches out SA Then the nag Hoped Into,
the,faoes of heIh0rses drawing the tanning
msehfne and they Started upsetting the
eurrier's bench. OF block, into the street. 4
Their WOES 5begoneo tappearancel7 evoked
the gtoans and merriment Of the people
along the dine sofI emareh,o ? and as they
reached the corner of State and High
streets DR. Williams -belted from the
party Hehsd had enough of It. Then
Tom Donaldson backed-ou saying as he
did SO Z Il II Il II 7 III . a
eff be not ashamed Of my soldiers. Pm
asoused gumut.. III mot march down High
street WITH them, that's fiat" A''7'''
Taken all together, It was the deadest
thing we ever saw.5a Not q cheer crested
them anywhere. Il AS they, moved through
the street ringing the bell on the wagon, a
WaSgfsh Irchfn created considerable mirth
by going ahead and crying out 'sAuction! !!
Auationih at the top of his voice. odt a19ed
Their effort on Saturday night.has given
the Tanners another hide to work on-hide
your heals.
In trying to be funny they became ridic-
ulous. gi0EHq Las s.qu1s 10 CeTf1s .ss 1qsroo Il
A more complete fizzle never happened.
The State mule stuck to them to the
last.
! gB Hemmersbach's Band will play at
the 7th ward meeting tonight, al bIar Il i
F. ATTEMPTED LARCENY AND STREET Row
Mr. Shoope, of the Buckeye Hotel, en-
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