The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-09-16
COMMUNICATION.
he "GINeER.Pop'' MASS MEETING.

MIR. Freeman-On Thursday night Of last
week the ''Ginger Pop" party held their
first campaign mass meeting in the Court
House. The meeting was organized by call
ing the stately Redde to the chair and select
ing two heavy men of the woods as Vice
Pr sidents, with the usual number Of Scribes.
or Secretaries. The meeting being thus fix
ed for business, the President arose and said:
Fellow Citizens, we have met tonight to in
augnrate the campaign, and beSeech you.
few as we are here tonight, to sleep not on
your oars until the enemy is vanquished.
We must raise the war cry and send 1T to the
neighboring counties. If we flag IN our Ell
forts now the State will be lost. and our
noble and valiant hero, Gen. Gearv. who
never lost or won battle, will be beaten.
Let us not be disheartened by this demon
stration, but let us persevere under the
bloodless ginger pop banner of Geary and
the Registry Law. The night is passing
away, and | will not detain you any longer.
Allow me to introduce to you Mr.. haIbfus.
who says he is from Mauch Chunk. Great
cheering by the ginger pops.
Mr.. Kalbfus. in great pomp and majesty,
arose, and after looking around for the crowd,
said, Il did not leave home because stole
anything l could not carry away, Dor be-
cause done anything that l was afraid
L
night to talk to the people of Cambria
county on some of the dead issues of the
past. Fellow citizens. as l said before l
came into the Court House, | could not be
eontIadicted by any one for any statement
would make here. | will begin by saying
Democracy is dead. The elections in Vir-
ginia, Kentucky, California and Tennessee
are proofs Of that fact, because you will OBJ
serve some members of the Freedman's Bu-
reau voted for the successful candidates, who
are all friends of our gallant statesman, Gen.
Grant The Democrat who would not vote
the Republican ticket this fall is an migrate,
because we, the great and immaculate Re>
public IN party, built the great railroad from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, and we cleared
out rivers, and built harbors. and fitted out
ships and cannon in one of the most splen-
did wars for the liberation of our African
friends the world or any other nation ever
saw or heard Of. We also created Freed
mans Bureaus to protect and feed the negro
and give him dominion over the white man.
This, of course, has created a debt, nd
cursed be he who would not pay his tax
willingly to pay off every cent of it in golc
to the bondholder. This should be sufficient
to convince any democrat who is not an in
CRATE to vote for the gallant Geary, who was
and is the friend of the naturalization system
especially while he livel in this county"
Here he was interrupted by the Chaplain
who cried out Washington township knows
better."]
After harmony was again restored, the
speaker resumed sGentlemen, | presume
that man is crazy. Now let me say some
thing that is not as yet understood or known.
You have all heard of Judge Packer" [Cries
of s.Yes !" Eyes !''l "His friends say he is
worth twenty millions of dollars. We don't
think so, but we believe he is worth seven
millions. And he don't pay one cent Of
tax. He left his home and rented house
in Philadelphia, which he furnished for fifty
dollars, but don't live in it. He won't pay
the bond-holders in gold. If you elect him
Governor he will be controlled by Jerry
Black and Frank Hughes, and the poor
woman who has her government bond in her
little box will not be paid in gold, and she
may die in want. Why. felowcitizons, in
our town he could not be elected Burgess,
while l could be elected to any office in that
municipality. But have detained you too
long. There will be some awful develop
ments in the Pittsburgh papers, all sworn
to by men As good as I am, that will show
up Mr.. Packer in his true colors. He must
be beaten"
Here the chair declared the mass meeting
adjourned, when the officers, with Hon.
Double A. B., d. o. E., and two other
members of the ginger pop party, together
with the Mauch Chunk orator, quietly passed
out into the silence and the darkness of the
night, and the rest of the "ginger pops, as
well as the greater numbtr who were not
"ginger pops," took up their line of march
for their respective homes. OBSERVER.