The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-10-01
The Coming" Man on the Stump
Another ..FEARFuLy Effort

fOrth at 16TTy OCuOOi hOuSCs III
knight Township. The hour fixed
for speaking was z o'clock, but at that
time there were but half dozen men
in attendance. A large bonfire had
been built. which could be seen for
mile and after waiting for a cOnsld7
cradle time, during which the crowd
had been swelled to the number OF
two dozen, including the three canal
dates and one striker from the city,
and four boys, the meeting was called
to order, and Mr. Leroy Williams
a limb of the law, mounted the
staad.il and ala Democratic orator
style forthwith produced several pom
aa1ens documents, which he, laid on
the table byl his side. This young
Demosthenese promised the people
that If they would condescend to give
him their attention, he would things.
both new and old unfold. He then
at once dived into q solution of the
great financial problem, which is now
agitating the minds of great men of
the nation! On this subject he dis
played a depth of research and thought
THAT would have astonished even the
most eminent lfnanciers of the day.
That ne is a genius, is a matter no
longer of doubt; and that his vast
knowledge of the affairs of the Gov
eminent, the bond questio 1.-The re-
construction measures, and all that
has SO far been hid under a bushel, is
a matter much to be regretted, and q
matter that the Democratic party-is
| wholly responsible for. 1t is crafty
ing to know that the party proposes
to make the dnlealde hosorable. and
in future this young man niaafni'is to have a
fair show. So mote it be. When he
had concluded his remarks, Doctor
Morgan was called out, and said:s q.
aGEHTLEMEN: I suppose = that
mo sta of you recoliect that the
/ Northern Radicals, iand-and-the
South ernl 4 Radicals z1were about
equally = about equally = divided,
and that-the-l22od -i-cals of the
North, said let the Radf-c Gals of the
South GO, they thought it a--a-r
great deal better & to-to-to let
them 20 than i to. whip them
back. That is that is what
the Radicals of the North thought
they thought, yes--they thought It
would be better-be better 20 let them
go. T. Don't you all reeollect7-that is
what the .JoUR-adL said-let them
go. The Democratic pary-said No!
The Democrats came forward-and
said we viii pat down the rebellion
,Now--you all know, the rebellion was
put-put-do1e1s, and the Union was
saved-and-and all that territory
was saved That territory is worth
much to US. You are all h-e-r-e,. be-
cause-because you love the Con-
sti-tu ton. of the-United States.
Now we must 60 to, work, aud preserve
| our State governments. We don't
want great centralized govern
ment-=we don't Want--a--a central
lied gOyernment.3CITol prevent thisA
we must preserve the-the States in
In tact-this we must do.
Congress- ku0wledges no power
mo power but IN d themselves. In
the, Chicago PLATFORMS they only
only ac-knOwl-edgs ed the power of
Congress-and Congress has no power
mo power but their own-will. =
We have got many things to con-
| teRdwith Ne have a monied ar-is-
toe racy5 to, contend with. Z All Z the
mon-i-ed toe racy of the land.
The action of. the Con -eress has been
o. AL
of the-people-Out. ofny6ur pockets
h-7out of the pockets of theilpoor
men, and put ! l tizp2!ty put !. in
How about the bonds? You boy a
lbOnd of. Sl00, and pay for ie-in green
4 bucks $ll0, and out of this-out of
| this you get 374 pei, cent. This is a
7 good opera ton. The National Banks.
with the privileges they now have,
4 rd0H-ble then capital every - every
three years. Is not that tadrfal2 If
farmers could double their cap-i-Gal
once In ten-yes in ten years, they
would be satisfied Well, now-welf,
lnew-n0Io, will Democrats better this?
In the first place, | think it will not
Twill not cost the Government, If the
| Democrats get In power 100000 for
pen knives-for paper-for seas. sors,
aud things. Nowyadl think you
are insulted-that you are insulted
when. they tell you that you ray no
taxi There is no man with wife
and-and tl0O chill d-ren who does
not pay One--kuedred and ffty dol
lars of revenue tax each year. Is not
.that-zfearful? But / don't want to
talk Of taxes all night If do they
will think that we don't pay any taxes
at all. g4a GiuE9 1ssn
.lbuNow don't you see that-that you
| will save, at least $4,000 out of this
amount. If they get In power think
they will save-$50, 900 of this-of this
amount-oando they will save--they
Twill save-$20, 600 on the banks-and
4 we will dispose of them as soon as---
as soon as we can. That is all we
want-it is all we want of the banks.
We can save $120,0000O0 that goes
| down South now for the negro
bureau, and that is good deal. IS
- read IN the. J0ar-nal few days
ago that In a certain time IS zoe, 900
worth Of goods had been, imported
to this country The goods pay a duty
"a duty-they all go into the hands
| Of the wholesale deal ers.. The .a6hole-
sale dealers want to make-twentv-
yes tacentg per cent.-yoat pay the duty.
Eand--andG you pay--the twenty -per
cent. Toto the aph0le sale merchant.
He must have his-his- prof-it-and
don't gou pay any tax ?7l84asL3 80
In Tenpessee and in all the South
er-en States a Democrat can't get reg
I istered. II they are notgeg .isatered
they can't vote, A man to get reg
is tered In the South must promise 10
vote the--the h.Gd i-cal ticket. If
they vote-or if they get reg IS tered
they must take. meath to support