The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-09-26
THE pHM0cRA0Y.
4 FIzzle .. Hartlein's on Saturday
Night.

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lag, and a JOURNAL reporter gather
ing together his literary artillery, VIZ:
a ream and hall Of paper and one
dozen Of Faber's No. 2 pencils whit
tied down 10 sharp point, procured
a guide aud rig" and started. There
seemed to be confusion of ideas
prevailing among the Democracy as
to the exact location of tho meeting,
some Of them locating it at Peter Dim
myers a few hundred yards from
HsrsIein's, and others saying that
Hartlein's was the orthodox thing.
In this dilemma the guide took both
places in range. steering frat for
Dinnineers where the party found
THE banquet hall deserted,p
and the residents thereof correspond
ingly indignant at the sell perpetrated
upon them By calling meeting aud
then backing cut, whereby a loss
must have accrued to Peter, as be
had no doubt, laid in large commits
sary store Of fluids for consumption
on that occasion. AaA
Giving BucephaIus the rein. with
slight infusion Of whip, the knight Of
the Quill and his guide soon reached
Hartlein's, where about twenty i've
people preceded him. among them two
very GOOD violin players and a venera-
BILE proprietor of double bass. from
which good music was produced.
Until nine o'clock the chief busi-
ness On hand was the absorption of
fluid extracts, with a short inteTmis-
sion for the reporter and bis friendsto
stow away an excellent supper fur
nished By Mr. HARLEM. 94 las
At last the meeting was called to
order by Mr.. John Rettig. who made
afew remarks and introduced LIE Roy
Williams. Esq, who bloviated on the
finance question. getting 5 20s, 1905,
and 10-40s, interest, coupons. gold,
aud greenbacks SO admirably mixed
that neither speaker nor hearers knew
what he was trying to get at. He
concluded by saying that there were
speakers who were better than he,
an assertion that very few win believe.
Isaac Keen, Esq, went loose at
en- next. The frst remarkable
thing he said was, that the Republi-
can party attributed Z great credit
to themselves for paying, the State
debt. but if they hadn't had the
money. they couldn't have paid It, and
it il hada't been paid the people
would have had that much more
money in their pockets, ~ was IN
just that New England should have
eight votes in Congress, while Ohio
had but one. lie told fish story,
and said en- Indiana hog was as good
and smellsd great deal sweeter than
a Yankee Goldfish. he expected to
be elected By white votes. (GiI-
Shanklin applauded. and one man fol-
lowed his example.) He thought
chat now the negroes had built
churches, there was little chance Of
them voting Democratic ticket, al
though some Democrats had contrib 1
uted to the building Of one Of them.
Mr.. Keen wandered agood deal in
his speech. JUMPING suddenly from
the old canal to the Newfoundland
fisheries, and after good deal Of
nervous Topping around, gave up
and was succeeded by the young man
who balances his mind By parting bis
hair in the middle. r---;f.-
Gil. opened by telling them in Ger
man that he was goirg to speak -
English. and was answered by a
voice calling out: "Spreck Deutsch,' I
to which he answered: Dqs gekt
nicst." Ho. didn't care much for
making a speech anyway, he pre-
fsrred music, but they were going to
have few words together, and then
have some music and . dance, but be
wouldn't make speech.
4, He had not intended to make 8
speech but be would tell them that
he had been 10 Germany. (He did not
say that his going there was to avoid
tbs draft or service in the army and
he liked music. but he wouldn' t make
a speech. he would only say a few
words and then they would have some
more lager. ~s--s -
The corruption Of the Republican
party was fearful, they speculated and
populated but he thought it was just
as bad as stealing. ia man stole Q
pair of boots OF a coat, or a qnantfy Of
stationery, he was as much = thief as .
man who stole q million. and corrup-
ton il ofice was stealing. bull he
wouldn'k make . speech. He told 3
story of an Irishman that two men
laughed at out Of courtesy to the re-
lator, and wound up BY saying that he
wouldn't make speech, $3.50
Judge Parrett was there, DR.. Muhl-
hansen was. there, Councilman Rich
ards and his brother were there with
their faces wreathed in good humored
smiles, and the whole company in
Guiding the fddlers. the candidates,
aud others from the city, including a
good ffer and q wretched drummer,
were just thirty.seven souls al told.
At the conclusion of the speaking,
the company resumed the absorption
Of fluids. until nearly eleven o'clock,
when the city party returned TO town
KNIGHT TowNsHIP.- An enthusias-
tic Democrat describes the meeting il
knight Township, on Friday, as haV-
ing been full with the greatest enthu.