Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-01-11
TRAIN ON GRANT.
...Ihtmks the General 10 u al.
Ganllc Sell.

George Francis Train made . speech i ,
Boston one night last week, in which he
dissected the great ret cent after the fol-
lowing style
"The moment : man goes into Training
laughter for the White House, as Grant
has been since Shiloh, he courts criticism.
The oficehoders ere now sfssr him like the
pilot-tsh after . shark. Grant at the head
VI the army was safe, bat Grant for Prssi
dent 10 the most gigantic sell ever put of
on an intelligent people. Laughter, 80 r
aud dissent. Whenever | meet him, |
have the inclination to say, General, l have
only lire minutes time, tell us all you
know" Laughter The dress circle
may be fooled with this head shaking bus
mess, under tho proverb that young peo
pie should be seen and not heard !" but the
pit remembers the other provsrb, that
gravity is amysterious carriage of tie body
to cover up tie defects Of the mind" =
Laughter on applause. The man who
was generation planning a sidewalk from
his pigeon house ct Gslena 10 the railway
depot, will never be President Of the Unite
States. Loud l,ughter Bennett only
pra sss hun to kill him, as nc did Mcclellan,
and when he became Secretary Of War to
help johnson slide Stanton over his ba,k
into the dicth laughter the cork was out
Of the bottle. and out cams the politicians
Aiming at the White House. Judge San
chc Panza. at Barcelona, sagely remarked
that the higher the witness .climbs, the
more he shows his stdtesmanship. Loud
laughter Grants name is famous on &C
count OF his wonderful facility for macad
smizing the road FROM Washington to Rich
mond with skulls ol American citizens SEN
sation. and for his daily dispatches to
Stanton "Send down 10000 more men to
start another graveyardv' Sensation J.
Socially, like tine General, but cannot
vote for Washburnel
pat picked out the owl-being some
thing Of phrenologist-when selecting .
parrot, OH account Of the size Of his head "
"Will he talk = said Pat. Like book.
pu, him in a dark room and feed him on
meat " Some weeks after, the bird fancier
met the Irishman: docs he talk, Pat :"
"The dvi' . b, Of It; but Remembering
his large eyes and intelligent shake Of the
head) he keeps upa divil Of q thinking"
Loud laughter In . word, We Father
Matthew men, Good Templars and Sons Of
Temperance, can never vote for Cen. GRANT.
because We havs resolved 10 elect cold
water man for the next President"
Mr.. Train reci,td the following epigrsm,
which. be said. would expose the greatest
shaun Of our time. He said he dedicated il
to the solid and stolid men Of Cooper Insti-
tutc and Fanneuil Hall. daughter.
1.-THE Cops were caught in sixty -four, the Raas
By using Mcclellan and Gen. Gr.s. 70: Pr.si.
dental bais.-tOid Play.
II Coeper's sea of Continental dame.
Political hacks, aod military ehsms,
Broodlnnagian wealth and Lilliputisn brains,
Uiyses u ldsseAed By .tew great aames.
Laughter
Flsatiog into notice on The wars red WaveA
Froad Of his million new made gfsves.
A. hundred journals record his every nod,
A husdred Leaguers cheer him % God
n freeing the blacks have We enslavsd the
whites.
And lost forever our rnanhooa's riehtss
| Our Americas eagle surely cuts up rough.
| OF snesrs when Washburns tskes hio oauG.
Laughter
/ II or uationas Sndepence entirely dead,
| To Aurrah when Ulysses shakes his head,
In ksswisdge, the sdom Of IN OWL
| II politics, neither fish. nor fowl
| Laughter.
Wendell calls hin lhs great Amsrissn pidlls,
While the party use h'm a. Jeremy Diddle.
| THAT'S so.''1
Good at . race, says Chase, or ct herse-trs6s,
Let hin ssand in the balance, he hasu't Den.
Wade.
| When you meet the 0eser~l wherever roo 70,
Say, '.Ouy i've minutes. tell 40 AL Jon know. "
Hurrah for our volunteers, We cannot stals
less,
Our greatest General is our General Crest
| neos.''
loud asd continued applause