The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-10-14
Another Convert to Democracy,

Remarks of General Joseph Geiger,
of Columbus, Ohio, at Sandusky, in
that State, State, September 18th, 1868:
My FELLOW CITIzENs-I do not
feel quite as much at nome among
Democratic audience as my friend
Judge Thurman. He has always
been with the party; wintered and
summered with it. When I get into
a large Democratic audience feel a
good deal ike a man. in Western
Pennsylvania, who inquired of boy
whether he knew where Jake Klein
felter lived. The boy said he did,
Says hi, "Can you tell me-" "Yes
sir" says the boy. "Do you see our
barn down there ?" "Yes," says he.
$50 10 that About three hundred
yards beyond the barn you will find
a lane. Take that lane and follow
along for about mile and a half
Then you will come to branch. Go
up the branch about a quarter of q
mile and then you will come to a
| slippery-elm low. You be mighty
keerful, stranger, about going on that
log you may get into the branch /;
and then you go on up until you get
to the brow of hill, and there the
roads prevaricate, and you take the
left hand road and keep that until
you get into big plump thicket, and
when you get there, why then-then
then" "What then" ''Then,
stranger, I'll be damned if you amt
lost" Loud laughter.
So scarcely know how to navigate
when get into a Democratic audi
ence, because 1 was raised an old line
Whig, and have stuck to the party
faithfully, believe, ever since, and ]
don't profess, even in talking to you
tonight, to be a Democrat, / have
never asked anything from the party
} and 1 never expect TO solicit any
: thing from the party. stand by the
| Democratic party this time, simply
3 because believe it is right, [cheers,
3 and whenever believe it is wrong,
| will turn from it just as rapidly as tn,
| Irishman wheeled, and he wheeled
D so fast, Judge Thurman, that he Ief
4 the seat of his breeches in front
e Laughter. am not ashamed to b
r called a 'turncoat." will turn m,
l coat every day,if believe it is right
Q All I want to do, at every election,
to feel like man, to speak life mar
. to think like a man, to vote like
man, to be a man in the presence {
!, my fellows and my God, and let m
. fellows and my God.and let my heal
- tell me have done my duty, and
:, do not ask your Democratic party nc
:, your Republican cabals to speak fC
LIE. LApplause.l
o I want no body of men to draw I'll
e bIind-bridle over my eyes and put tt
q breeching over my back, hitch tt
n traces to whatever load they chooi
/ to put on the wagon, and halloo. "g
J. up" and make me pull. But kno
le and feel that the Democratic party,
N the present time, is drawing the rigl
at kind Of load, and, therefore, I a
h willing to go III the lead, or act as
ID wheeI-horse, or perform any 9th
is duty for the success of the caus
ut Loud cheers.l
IS Now L know that man is elaine
ne to be disloyal because he belongs
to thes party, but I am not afraid
er terms. They can just call me VIII
is they please. What 1 want to do is
hs do my duty, If it is disloyalty to stal
lis by the Constitution of the Unit
d, States, when it is now to be owe
in thrown by this Radical party, c.
me disloyal. (Cheers,l L have be
Of taught to resyect the old instrumeI
nd have read that Washington al
on Madison and Jefferson and Frank
is and the old men that came up fro
nd the battle fields of the Revolution, "a
It; welded the country together in
an companionship of suffering, met
he gether as friends, and made that {
nd instrument. am fool enough to
an lieve that George Washington was
m good man as Ben. Wade. (Cheer
,as 1 am silly enough to think that Jan