The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-10-08
The HappE Family.

The Happy Family.
The "Eehaw" Democracy, after Wig
orously securing the city. gathered a
moderate sized assembly st the Gen.
trail Market, last night, to hear their
orators and DIR. Morgan.
The Shaukliu Boy spoke mis- piece
as usual. aud mourned over the wick
edness of the Republican party.
Whittlesey mourned, stormed and
raved. fully maintaining the repufa-
ton he claims for himself-that of
being the greatest orator 1ndepend
ence ever heard; but neither ofthem
referred to stationery. The Cornet
Band was there and played with their
accustomed skill. but perhaps, out OF
respect to the reported dislike of the
two orators aforesaid, they omitted to
play, Put NE in my Little Bed" for
it is said that any reference TO either
beds or stationery puts those gentle.
men in passion at once.
DR.. Morgan spoke. but much TO our
regret. the reporter detailed to attend
to that meeting. misunderstood his in
structions. and failed to get there in
time TO report any Of his beauties !;
hence his eloquent coughs, his indict-
ment of the sewers, and the assertion
that the whole Legislature, of which
he was a Senator, was bought for
5000, which form the staple of his
speeches. are lost to an admiring pub
lie, unless their memories are good
enough to recall those scintillatiDg
gems of oratory, of which he has
been so frequently and so happily de-
livered in times past.
Richardson, too, was there. and
spoke, a JOURNAL reporter, returning
from the large Republican meeting at
Paradise Garden, arriving just in
time to hear him announce. in a
tOuchingly eloquent strain. that he
was poor, and to punish. severely a
poor man who stole a pair of shoes
for his child was unjust. He was a
married man. he said. and a perma-
nent resident, but if elected.he would
be more permanent.
Richardson had about concluded
his pathetic appeal when a Islander
peddler connected with a Democratic
newspaper whispered in bis ear that
Captain Hargrave had said, at Para
disc Garden, that he would shake
hands with a niger first and Dutch
man afterwards" although the crea-
ture who repeated the Islander knew
that it was untrue. Hefeupon the
little pop gun orator again opened bis
behaving" and announced that he
had been informed, &C., and enlarg.
ing on the statementanplified and re-
peated at great length his horror al
such expressions, told the crowd thai
he had some German blood 10 hi
veins, 'swept a wild wierd wofu
wall ever the moral turpitude of {
man who could give utterance to such
a sentiment, and subsidized.
Menifee wss called for. aud came
He didn't want TO make a speech
said he'd be id, if he kno~ ~vH-4 :,
say, and went on to say a number o
things that proved cOnclusively tina
his assertion was correct regardinI
his want of knowledge of prophetic
of speech.
While the speaking was going OF
Sheriff Miller. surrounded by lot Q
the toughest of Lamasco hummer;
was in Mike F1erbach's grocery, an
to judge from the demoniac noii
that issued therefrom. they must hav
| been enjoying an Interesting foi
speech. Il is believed that Their
were some Republicans who intende
to have voted for little Richardson
who lent himselfto the Disseminate
of the above vile SANDER on Capital
Hargraye, but when it is taken int
consideration that Captain Hargray
has always spoken kindly of Mr. r
and refused to descend to the mea
and utterly unjusti6able system
falsehood that Richardson SO eagerl
adopted, they cannot hesitate a mc
ment to vote against man who vii
on the bare word of a well know
falsifer, take up and repeat such
charge, without seeking to ascerta
whether it is true or false. III
wretch who peddles out such lie
as base as the scamp that original
it, and as the rumOr was brought
Captain Hargrave's notice and co
tradicted beforeathe miserable wret'
: left Paradise Garden, the carrier
the Islander is Just one degree low
than the pettifogger who repeated
!, on his authority.
u Unpaid Letters.