The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-08-10
TIE DEMOCRACY AT GENERAL
MARKET.
A Moderate Crowd All 4 Weak
has Hs58d Effort.

ances of s~ky-rockets, tonfres, and the
Democratic Silver Band failed to
draw largely, and the number of per-
sons actually listening to the speech
did not, probably. exceed $50 to 200.
The speaker, j. B.. Jeup, of CT Gin
natl, was introduced TO the audience
by DIR. Lauenstein, editor of the
Demokrot. The personal appearance
Of the speaker is by no means pre-
possessing, his face having more the
appearance OF 2 well-to-de barber, or
jolly we'll fed saloon keeper than that
of an intelligent speaker and writer.
He. however. pitched into the sew
eral political questions now agitating
the public mind, and made desper-
ate but signally abortive effort to con
trovert the mastery speeches of Gen.
Carl Schurz, delivered at Turner
Hall, on Tuesday and Wednesday
nights last. Our German reporter
has furnished a lengthy synopsis of
the speech. which, for want of space,
we are obliged to condense, giving
only a few specimen bricks from the
Babel" of words employed:
Not alone, said he, when 1 was at
the New York Convention, did [ have
intercourse with the most intelligent
Germans of the highest standing.
but I mixed also with the
people of the Five Points,
and they particularly do not under
stand that the people in the West are
yet so stupid as to cooperate with,
and belong to, that Republican Radi-
cal party"
He glorifcd the recent Democratic
victory in Kentucky, and reminded
the sons of Indiana of that battle
field of the Tippecanoe, where they
once had fought together side by side
with their brethren of Kentucky. He
hoped, therefore, to see them joining
them in fighting and defeating the
Republican ticket. All this could,
however, not illicit the least applause.
The audience was as cool as a cucum
Der; only when Mr.. Jeup, in a very
silly manner, tried to ridicule some
actions of our lamented President,
Abraham Lincoln, and then In a most
hypocritical manner used the words,
May God lie: him rest in peacel"
the whole audience burst out
in the first and most cnthusi-
astic applause. The question of ne
gro suffrage he declared simple, clear,
pure nonsense, whatever Genera
Schurz might have to say in favor of
it In rebel States. Even viewed In q
mere human light, it was perfect non
sense, as on the same principle we
could with the same justice allow
the babies to vote, because babies
were also human beinss. One of the
great characteristics of the Radical
party was to make blunders, and such
a blunder had been also the impeach-
ment of President johnson, the
greatest farce ever produced on the
American stage. 1t seemed those
Radicals would deprive Johnson of
the right exercised even by every
good citizen and house keeper, viz:
90 give the seek to such servants and
solutions who do not suit him, and
such a servant had been Stanton, the
Secretary of War. But who was at
the bottom of this farce? OF course
no others but the leaders of the Rad
ical party. In the first place, hat silly,
mischievous old man, Thad. Stevens
who had sold his soul to old Nick.
Secondly. Benjamin F. Butler, the
knight of the Silver Spoon; Mr.. Lo-
gan, the dirtiest of the d~irties; Mr..
Ashley, once q very respectable
apotht cary in Ohio, but now a very
corrupt and rotten member of Con-
gress, and also Mr.. Bingham, famous
in the prosecution of such an inno-
cent as Mrs. Surratt.
In reviewing the financial question,
he said he could not see that an in
crease of our greenbacks would ma
terially effect the value of our cur
rency. McCulloch, by contracting
the circulation to the amount of two
hundred and twenty-five millions,
and investing them 10 interest-paying
bonds, (Which, by the way, has never
been done), gold instead of declining,
had risen to A or 10 per cent, at
which premium it stood to day.
However, he continued, the Demo-
cratic party is not at all in favor of
an imitation of the circulation to pay
off the public debt or part of it at
least. The Democratic Platform in
tends it to be paid by direct taxation.
This seemed, however, not at all to
be desirable to his attentive listeners.
In speaking of the two candidates for
the Presidency, Mir. Jeup remarked
that Grant was in no way a statesman,
but a great admirer of the whisky
bottle, as the Radical newspapers said.
but ne ' believed in Radical
slang, although it had been repeatedly
stated in the Revolution. that famous
paper edited by ladies. On the other
side, Mr.. Seymour was a statesman,
whose morals were unimpeachable.
As to the reputation of Grant, being
a great General, he did not believe
them, when he compared him with
alexander the Great, Charles
AL, OF Sweden, Gustav Adoiph,
Frederick the Great and Mcclellan.
who with small armies achieved the