The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-10-05
TuE CAMPAIGN.

HE MEEI1NG IN O9B1IOMNs
About a hundred and City voters tf
Perry Township assembled at Koch's
Hall in Babytown to bear from ii cir
candidates. Col. John Remainder
was called to the chair.
D. B. Kumler. Esq. was the first
speaker. Mr.. <. explained Captain
Gooiing's absence BY saying that lie
was i'll to venture away from home,
being scarcely able to be about the
city, and quite too i'll to up ak.
Dir. Kumler forcibly illustrated the
falsehood of the charge of extrava-
gance against the Republican party,
By showing that under Buchanan's
administration it cost 81 .438 SO per
year to support each soldier, while
under Grant it cost but $685. %. at a
greater rate of pay, and while the cost
of the necessaries of life was very
much higher.
He also quoted from Post Master
General Hollis report, to show how
money had been wasted in the mail
service, where it cost $4,000 under
Buchanan, in 1858, to convey two let
ters and twenty six newspapers over
the Kansas & Stockton Mail Line.
Regarding the proposition to pay the
national debt in greenbacks. he said !:
There is surely nothing more anus
ing than to sit down and Inquire into
the diverse schemes which have
sprung from the brains of Demo
cratic fioanciers. Every theory pre-
sents a riddle, either of which would
have done credit TO the Theban
Sphynx in his palmiest days. The
first does not stand up long enough to
be knocked down by the second; the
second collides with the third, the
third is choked out by the fourth, the
fourth is short lived, and the fifth
dies a bornin' the sixth gets fairly
established, when along comes the
seventh, which strikes it between
wind and water, and away they all go
together.
At this, old Bill Mungen grows
jolly, gathers up his fiddle and his
Jug, and shouts 'repudiationr" while
off in the back ground, we see Jacob
Simonpure GOladay, throwing up
his sWeaty night cap" and. with a
will, saying, "AmenI" This sight
makes Dan. Voorhees, furious. He
drives out his blind horse, and, at
some obscure railway station, puts
him in a tread mill, gets astride
Of the shutf1ing nag, goes to Cincin-
natl, steals George Ii. Pendleton's
greenback thunder, comes back cry
ing like an angry boy at fish market,
and exclaims, men and brethren,
what shall we do to be savedY Never
since the time that Hecate summoned
the midnight bags to meet him
at the pit Of Aeheran, in
the morning" has the world
seen such an iucomprehensible mass
of uuintelligibls theories as may be
found in the Democratic cauldron to
night"
MIR. Kumler concluded by general
reference TO the absurdity aud in.
oongruity of the opposition.
Speeches were made by Messrs.
Decker, Fair, Heilman, and Will
Warren, the latter speaking in both
German and Euglish.
The meeting was very enthusiastic,
and everything indicated that Perry
Township is safe and improving.
THE MEETING ON NINTH STREET.
By some error. the meeting which
should have been announced to take
place at Brizius', corner Of Ninth
and Cherry. was advertised at Heber-
ers, on the corner of Ninth and Ca
nal. for which reason the number il
attendance, although larger than the
Democratic meeting, called to hear
Hendricks, was still less than it would
have been but for the error.
q" Heilman's Band" was present
with the "ear piercing fife, and made
music in the ali"
Mr.. Heilman was the first speaker
He raked up the ridiculous Democ
raey, ratified their bones and was
loudly applauded.
Mr.. I'D. Fair made characteristic
speech, eliciting the heartiest applause
and was succeeded by Captain Har-
grave, who said the Republicans bad
not come to take the census. for the
politics of the assembly was plain
He referred to the cowardly attack OF
the Courier upon him, as contrasted
with the course Of Democrats who
went about saying that he wanted
Richardson elected.
! Col. Butterfeld made a short
speech, and was succeeded by Rob
ert P. Hooker. Esq, who, in speech
of considerable length, exposed the
falsehoods of the Courier and the OPP
position against him. He repeated
that he was not temperance fanatic (;
that while he was temperate in bis
habits, he was opposed to prohibitory
laws and prescription, in al its forms.
F. w. Cock, in response to cal 5.
said that he believed he was a god
Republican; and to show that he was
no temperance fanatic, invited all to
partake Of the National beverage.