Evening star., 1870-03-09
Sixth Ward Republican Club.

A Lively Openiag-C -CkaracteristicS Speech from Hat
ton-His OpiRion Of Mayor Boren, Irisa Repuost-
cans. and Matters and Things generally.
This club held a raeeting ,ast evening at Mis-
sion Chapel, on 10th street east-Mr. Charles
Champion in the chair. Upon the reading of
the minutes of the previous meeting. Mr.. Thos.
hurphy jumped up and moved that the portion
Inviting Messrs George Hatton and WIN. a.
Brown TO address the club" be erased from the
minutes; which caused a terrible hubbub for
while. all hands speaking at once, and crowdlng
upon the platform. Cries were heard, OF " Let
him speak, Yes, let's hear HIM, " No, SIR.
won Yes, bst you will, thought The men
here;"" Why, of course they are here, be-
Cause they were invited In the midst of this
tbel the Chair was heard rappng violently to
or Ter, while the stentoran voice OF Mike Sinner
was constantly heard above the din, saving.
ION, hush, niggers, hush"
Order was finally restored, Mr.. Murphy say
1ns, " Let's have vote; we don't want u hear
any talk from Hatton"
Mr.. j. l.. Venable finally got the floor. and APP
pealed to the meeting to preserve order. Thsy
hS.i invited Mr.. Hatton to speak, AMI il n was
a friend OF REFORM lCres of " He j. ref0r
min;'" Yes. We want REFORM - No more CITY
Hal ring; and tremendous yells for" Hatton.'
a. Hattoni''1
The lungs of the noisy crowd becoming srme-
what collapsed. finally the Chair put Mr.. Mnr-
Phvs motion, which was rejected
Mr.. Hatton then mounted the Platform, and.
after alluding to the political chang.S in sau-
nicipal affans since the last campaign, re-
ferred to the scene which had Just been enacted
In that hall by men opposedtO TO his speaking there
Or the ground that he was irving to split the
Republican party. That party could not ne
spiIt, and he wished those present were a. goot
IL publicans aS he was. lApplauSe.l lie would
aaSknowledge he was an inveterate enems o.
Mayor Bowen; but it was not his (the speaker
faut. Mayor Bowen had killed himself. Cries
OF hats so; ''loure right now. nv covey.'
But he tlatton) was a Republican still, and
"Bu!ly.' "Bully!''l No man had a right 10
judge of the motives of his brother. Here
was Mr.. Murphy, the man who was
most violent against his speaking there.
Now who was Mr.. Murphy? An IRISH Demo
crat, who when it was no use any longer to say
'thc dam naguIs, came right over to the
"nagurs," and row wanted to appear as if he
had been Republican for forty years. Laugh
ter and cries of ''liow are you, Murphy ?'l tie
would advise Mr.. Murphy to get "A banner IN
scribed "while the lamp holds out To burn the
yilest sinner may RETURN" and walk all around
the city with it. lLaughterl Who are these
Irish Republicans? [CrieS of They're Mar
Phys."l Look at them, clubs in every ward, aud
on but year or two since, ana iii some cases
hardly month since ii was the ''d1m ma gurs."
who can now walk into their houses. take
Whit ofthe pipe or drink of whisky in welcomr.
Tremendous laughter The Irish Republicans
ought to all get banners like he recommended
to Mr.. Murphy, for now they were the political
prisoners of the colored voters in this city. He
wondered why the Irish were so prejudiced also
when the Roman Catholic Church. of which
they were all members, from its earliest history
down was the only church which never
pdoh iiSEtT anu let the
white man come up first TCries of That's
so;" ''thats SOL If he hurt any mans feel
lngs, it was unintentonal; but if his being a re-
form man was Objectionable, why they would
have to stand it. mir. Murphy.-''Oh! YOU are
going South.'l Mr.. Hatton-"Thank God, we
can 90 South now; not in chains, but with the
ballot" Tremendous laughter and applause.
and cries of CHOW are you. Nurphy?''l The
speaker concluded by advising his hearers to
put good, reliable men on the ticket at the
coming municipal election.
Professor A. NJ. Green then addressed the
club, defending the colored race in the District
from the many aspersons cast upon them, and
was followed by VIM. III. Brown, who congratu-
lated the meeting on their harmony and the
success which awaited the Republican party
next June.
After vote of thanks to the speakers, the
meeting adjourned.