The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-07-17
SPEECH oF nIR- CLICK

SPEECH OF DIR. CLICK.
Mr.. GEo. CLICK Dsmocratisg poll
tician of Kansas, being in FremOnt on
visit to his relatives and friends, Was ID.
vited by the Democracy to address them
last Monday evening. Handbills were
issued, calling upon the masses to as
semble aud ratify the N. Y. homiua-
tions, stating that there "would be
cheers and enthusiasm" and a good
Democratic time generally. The band
was to indicate the place of meeting.
Knowing. the sickish feeling of the
masses of the Democracy over the nom
nations, We expected their leaders
would make extraordinary efforts to
drum up a crowd for appearance sake; ;
but candor compels US to say they we're
unsuccessful. The band played in
front of thu Cooper House for an hour
and a half after supper and the excel
lent music was enjoyed by the usual
number of people who gather OF. the
corners in the evening; a squad of boys
''touched of" an old anvil, to make the
artillery but still the crowd did not
assemble. An itineraut Peddler Of
patent-knife sharpners, up the street,
held a tolerably large audience during
the evening, and made several good hits
on the Democracy III .z,s'sw
At late hour Mr.. CLICK was intro
duced to an assembly of perhaps a
hundred men, half of whom were Re-
publicans, and made. his speech. He is
not an unpleasant speaker in voice and
manner; avoids all personalities and
slang; but is away behind the times in
political history, and supremely indif-
ferent to facts. His logic and his figures
may be considered all right by the
Cherokee tribe, of Kansas history of
which be gave-but up here we have
newspapers and telegrsphs and manage
to keep informed on current questions.
Some of the Democracy ought to have
informed the speaker that Horatio Sey-
mour. the Democratic nominee for
President isn't a greenback man, pre-
cisely; that in fact, he is the other way
that he is the head and front Of the
''bloated bondholders. Mr.. CLICK
seemed to be hslluciuated with the idea
that Pendleton was running the party.
1t is an infatuation that some Democrats
will labor under for while yet, but
they'll get over it. a.w uet
Mr.. GLloK's objection tothe Repub-
lican party lies in the fact that it has
been guilty of the offence ofnot putting
the Union people of the South, white
and black, under the heels Of the late
rebels. Hence all his talk of the. denial
of Jury trials, writ of habess corpus, ar.
bitrary arrests, etc. His denunciation
Of military rule and blatant outcry
against the freedmen's bureau we're not
very forcible, as his hearers all know
those things are at an end or in process
of ending in all but three of tue South
-ern States. His allusion to the impos-
sibility of collecting the whisky tax was
unSortunate for the Democracy, for the
responsibility rests with the President
who is the head of the whisky ring and
the Democratic party. .a id.
The fact is, Mr.. GIIok's speech was
prepared before the flood, and is out Of
date now, Democratic. speakists will
be compelled to get up new barraDgues,
or abandon the field. The rush ,,of
events has swept away all the foHhda-
ton to their old style of arguments and
appeals. They can't denounce the mig
ger, for he was admitted to full fellow
ship in their great convention. They
can't come down on the bonds, for their
chief Sachem and all his counsellors are
the bloatedest kind of bondholders.
They can't re-estabIish Slavery nor adj |
vocate secession, for their platform ac-
knowledges that both are dead dogs.
They can't howl at the Radicals for
keeping "ten States out of this Union
for nearly all the wayWard sisters have
come back, ,snd the others viii be receiy-
ed as soon as they do come. And they
can't cry Pendleton, for Pendleton was
slaughtered in the house of his friends.
But there is one thing they can do
they can hurrah for Blair ~..I "A
During the delivery of Mr.. Clicks
speech there was not a single cheer
given or the faintest tinge of enthusiasm
visible. The few Democrats present
looked weary and worn, and heaved a
sigh of relief when the affair ended. . 4
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