The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-04-03
RepubIican Grand RaIIy Last Night
GOOD MUSIC AND A BIG CROWD.
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Excellent Speeches.

thousand to one thousand two hun
+ dred, assembled last night at the
I Upper Market House to hear The af-
fairs Of the city and the claims Of The
various candidates discussed The
Crescent City Silver Band filed the
city with their tTanscendent music,
such as no other baud can initiate.
while the cannon, that has. 50 greatly
exercised our Democratic brethren,
belched forth its deep drapason, call
ing the frienls.aofa Mayor Baker, Of
progress, of good government and our
inimitable system of public schools, to
council
Joseph P. Elliott, Esq, was called
to the Chair. The open portion of
the Market House was dengely packed,
and huge bonfire in the open market
space lighted up the scene.
Loud calls were made for Mayor
Baker, but he was not present. Mr..
John Beadle, young lawyer, who
had fought through the war for the
maintenance of the Union, was called
out, and proceeded to make an elo-
quent, logical andT forcibe speech in
support Of the Republican city ticket.
He made an earnest appeal to his
fellow soldiers to stand for the men
who had stood by them during the
rebellion, and to fight at the ballot
box for the same principles they had
risked their lives for on the bloody
battlefield, & for,7 says he ( tell
you plainly, fellow soldiers, if you
once vote that party into power, as
sure as the nignt succeeds the day,
you may hunt your holes at once.
Yes, and YOU may pull the ,holes.in
after you, and expect to stay there,
T for never again will you hear of favors
for Union heroes. And you, my one
armed friends wheAeft the other at
Chicamauga, good-b bye to your pen
sion when Bright, Voorhees,, Sey-
mour & Co., get into power; when we
have twenty Senators and hundred
Representative fresh from rebel
DOM" --. ..-.-..
He continued at some length to
show that the true interests of the SOL
diers lie with 1.-THE Republican party,
and that no true soldier could vote to
place-in power themen who had sym
pathized with their enemies during
the rebellion.
Major Robinson next took the
stand, and made one Of. the best
,peeches.of the .campaignEexcepting
Mayor Bakers Turner Hall speech.
He likened the city government to "a
greatmachine, with a master engineer
Mayor Baker-running it, Is chief
engineer. He had run it safely,
economically and honestly; had
wasted nothing, stolen nothing, and
injured nothing, and had made the
owners of the machine rich and com
Portable at home and respected
abroad, But another wanted the sit
uation, and, when asked as to his quail
ifcations, could only say he thought
he could run the machine, but had
never tried it; was only able to show
that the only thing he had ever run
twas his. hands into the County Treas
ury, abstracting 800, and had tried
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but had failed. He thought the own
ers of the machine did not desire to
exchange a safe, prudent and ex
perienced engineer for one With5no
experience. and who knew nothing
about the business. = titI d-t.i-1.
He reviewed VIM. H. Walkers
school house policy, in which that
gentleman recommends cheap school
houses as good enough for the child
rem of the laboring men and the
mechanics in the outskirts of the
city, and made a most manifest i'm
preston on his audience. He said
the public schools and school build
ings were the greatest ornaments and
| lust pride Of our eitga and said that
poor men who would not vote to take
money from the pockets Of the rich
to educate their own children, when
the men Of wealth we're perfectly
willing they should dosO, were as big
fools as the Justice of the Peace al
North, who was 50 great 2 fool thai