The Van Buren press., 1870-07-26

, ing for Col. Mcconnell. he mounted an i'm
provised stand and proceeded to explain the
cause Of his friends action. The meeting
had been called to elect Delegates and its OBJ
ject had been frustrated by the peripatetic
plunderers who had attempted to nulify the
popular will by the importation OF Held
hands from other townships. Some difficulty
| had been experienced even in getting them
all right and they had been taken to Nj
/ Searle's room where buckets of whisky and
an Indefinite number of MELONS had pur-
/ suatled these deludcd people that there was
/ no God but the ku kluX and J.. j. Searle was
| its prophet .cheersl Ii was because the meet
| ing had been been packed that Col. Chur-
| chill had dissolved 1t and any action that
| these enemies of the people might take was
null and void. The speaker then went for y
Judge Searle, who he said had proven his un-
fitness for his judicial place by the declart-
| ton that negrus might be returned to slave
ry, who had shown his ignorance of history
in the three statements that Arkansas had
only been "a years in the Union. that the Re
publican party had been founded 1858 and
that the war had commenced in 1860. That
any man SO ignorant rs 10 make such decla-
| rations should aspire TO Congress was as
founding and only to he explained on the
ground that as all classes should be represent
ed, this aspirant might hope to act as the eX-
ponent of the weak minded and the ignorant
[cheersl Life was too short to justify reply
to all of the ahSurdities of Searle who had
charged Judge Boles with bribery and asked
to be believed tho lie failed 10 substantiate
anything he said. There were many persons
who thought all others were governed by the
same motives that actuated themselves and
Searle's charge of Boles being bought up re-
minded him of the story OF the statesman
Burke, who once having been told by a lady
that she didn't care for him three skips of II
louse." sent her card on which were writ
ten the lines
The other day. n lady said to me in her house,
Mr.. Burke, don care for you three skips of louse,
But didn't mind what the dear creature said
For know that some people talk OF what runs in
their head.
Col. Mcconnell then replied to the efforts
made by Judge Searle to embitter the blacks
against the Whites This was on u par with
his repeated alluSions 10 the ku kluX who 1t
would seem had an existence only to harass
and terrify the redoubtahie Scarle That per-
son had declared his life was in danger. but
the speaker doubted il any capitalist would
deem Searle's lite proper equivalent for an
Investment in hemp. The fact that such
fellow Travelled unmolestcd from point to
point slandering and abusing the people
whose earnings contributed to his salary,
which he expended in houses in lllinoise. was
the best proof that the ku kluy was a myth.
Ii il did exist, Searl's life must undoubtedly
be under the protection of the Society for the
prevention of cruelty to animals cheers
The speaker declared that Seare's vulgar APP
peals to prejudice and his bigotry, proved
that he was opposed not only to the Repub-
lican platform, and to the policy Of General
Grant as evinced in the appointm ents of
Longstreet and Ackerman, but to the Octo-
ber speech of Gov. Clayton. Searlc had said
nothing about the currency. the Tariff, For
e9n policy or the Indians nor had he said
word about the useless offices and enor-
nous taXatiUns, the first of which the Repub-
lican party must promise To abolish and the
last must be reduced cheers. He then elu-
cidatrd the true policy of Republicans AZ be-
ing the correction Of both of financial and
political evils and declared that no such dis
organizer as Searle, no such malignant tra-
ducer OF the people as he had shown himself
to be, should ever receive the support of a
people among whom he had sought to array
one race against the other.
The speaker concluded in an eloquent pcro-
ration, which was loudly cheered.
The following named gentlemen were Sc
lected as Delegates to the County Convention
ii. c. llayman, A. NJ. Callahan, j. G.. Pritch-
ard, f. ". Noble, VIM lIudspeth. John Shan
non, Col. iiollcman, Arnold O'Bryon.
The following resolutions were unanimous
ly adopted:
WHEREAS, The Republican voters of Van
Buren, Tow Wn,hip were called to meet in Van
Buren this day, to select delegates to the
County Convention, and
WHEREAS, Certain parties claiming to be
Republicans did introduce into said meeting
persons who did not live in said township.
thereby attempting to control said meeting
for one Il. j, Searle, and
WHEREAS, In consequence Of such illegal
action by ID. H. Diyelbiss. Alvus Smith. j.
Z. Grady and 4. a. Lockhart, it became i'm
l,
voters to be represented, for which reason
Col }, o, Churchill as chairman ofsaid meet
ing. did declare the same dissolved; and
WnEREAs Rcprobating such interference
with public meetings, by the importation rs
aforesaid, as gross outrage and in violation
Of the principles of RepuDlcanism;
IheryOre De It ReSoired, by the Republicans
Of Van Buren, Township. in Convention as
sembled, that we do hereby denOunce f. j
Scarle as unworthy of the support of Repub
licans by reason Of his speech made in Van
Buren this day, wherein he did advise the
course which resulted in his creatures, ID. II.
Divilbss, Alvus smith, }. +, Grady and j. A.
Iockhart packing a meeting as aforesaid. and
BE it yurther Resotred, That we do hereby
instruct our Delegates to the County Conven-
tion to vote for only such Delegates to the
first and all the time. the Hon, Thomas Boles,
as our Congressional nominee.
sEARIE AN ESCAPED LUNATIC,
hon. W. A. BRITToN,
In response to loud calls. then came forward
and denounced the impudence of Searle for
daring to stigmatizc as rebels all those Re
publcans who We're friendly to Boes. Were
Hay man, O Bryon, Anderson, Turman, A. j.
toomer, Col. Mcconnell, Col. Churchill, Judge
Harrcll rebelsy 1t was an outrage that such
tried Union men should be insultcd by II wan
derng ollice-seekcr like Searles, whose idea
of Republicanism consisted in his permanent
occupancy ofotlce (Cheers.) The speaker
for one desired that the nominee of the party
should be gentleman, and not ole who
when he had last come To Van Buren had
boarded at II Public House, where virtue was
more honored in the breach than in its OBJ
cheers He said Scarle had spok-
en much about Judge Boes being brbed, but
Elhanan had omitted any allusion to the fact.
thathe Searles, whilst Provost Marshal of Fl