The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-09-08
POLITICAL.

TuE great Republican mass meeting in In
dianapolis, Wednesday, was, beyond doubt,
OF this campaign, and perhaps Of any cam.
paign, in the West. The number OF strangers
In the city was between thirty and forty thou
and infantry, Grant Tanners, and Fighting
Boys In Blue, with their uniforms, banners,
and emblems, poured In from all quarters OF
ernor Oglesby, General Hurlburt, General Gib.
son, General Which, General T. J. Wood,
Hon. Samuel Galloway, Hon. Henry s. Lane,
and General Lew. Wallace. General George
II. Thomas, Governor Fletcher, and many
others who were invited, but could not be pres.
emit responded by letters. The procession In
the evening was two miles long, and numbered
at least ten thousand voters, where there
were over atty thousand Interested spectators,
FRANK BLAIR predicts an earthquake In
November, in the event OF his election, as will
speech So ss in DaeotSh Territory. THE Democratic
platform adopted BY the party has already
frightened thousAIds from the cUwardly ranks
Of the Radicals, and thousands more will nee.
The great masses OF this mighty republic have
no affinity with the negro. The right Of cleo
tive franchise Is for the white man alone. and
the ruinous system introduced into the Radi:
cal party and platform 10 opening the eyes OF
the people to such an extent that oyerwhelm.
ing majorities will crown our bright proud
banners with such glorious victory that the
huzzas will shake the very earth to Its founda-
lions"
AT RECENT Second advent meeting at
Janesville, Wisconsin, the preacher was very
much annoyed by a Republican and Democrat
to who would be the next President. The
preacher approached them and said I" My
dear friends, you are exciting yourselves un-
sP ,sS w S,aP on The 'Rf S
ted States, for before an earthly election takes
place, our blessed Lord will be President
everywhere" I'm bet you twenty-five dol
lars" said the Democrat, "he can't carry
Kentucky"
Ex-Gov. SHARKEY, of Mississippi, sees
great comfort IN the Democratic platform, as
will be seen from the following extract from
one of his recent speeches: at declares the
whole Congressional system OF reeonstruction
void, and, as consequence, everything which
has been done under 1t void also. On this
platform we OF the South can stand; II will
restore us to our rights, to our position OF
1906 and blots out all that has been done un-
der the arbitrary and unwarranted demands
OF CCagTess.'
TINS is what George L. Pugh, of Ohio, says
of the fourteenth amendment 81 would not
give them three cent postage stamp for their
fourteenth anne ndmeDt. 1t Is not part of the
Constitution, and never will be. 1t 10 base
fraud, and l say, as Frank Blair said, these
carpet. bag governments must be oyerthrown."
THE World understands that Mr.. Colfax de.
MES that he was ever Know Nothing. Perrin
don't. Nor does Blair, nor does the latter deny
that he told the Fenians to get along without
him. An lrishman must have lost the power
Of righteous resentment, who meekly submits
, to the insult
JUDGE JERRY BLACK lately said that II Pres,
ident Buchanan had known, before his death
that Frank Blair was to be the Democratic
candidate for Vice President, the old mans
heart would have broken with indig nation.
The Buffalo Courier, Democratic, gives Il
up. In its issue OF the 9th instant Is the fol
/ lowing: flames Russell Lowell, the poet, 4,
about as great smoker as Grant, the next
President
/ Is VIEW Of Horatio Seymour's damaging
speeches. both during and since the war, hi
( friends think 1t would have been better II hi,
name had been Horatio Say-less.
A DISTRICT in Newport, VT, has been can
3 yassed, and the result shows eighty.nine met
! who have promised to vote for Grant and COL
fax and one for Seymour.
the editor OF the Lebanon (Ohio) Patriot, a
] Democratic pAper,says he cannot, consistently
! with his record as a war Democrat, support
Mr.. Nsllandigham for Congress.
A FRENCH CANADIAN Grant and Colfax clut
has been formed at Troy, N. Y.
MINNESOTA promises ten thousand majority
for Grant in November.