Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-10-04

The Democracy held a meeting in
Webb's Hall, in this city, on Tuesday
" n ing of last week. The speakers
were Hon. Samuel f. Hunt, and militia
general Samuel Carey, he of the "horney
hand" MI. Hunt spoke his piece first,
and as an easy, fluent declaimer, com-
pares favorsbly with the better class of
speakers at high school exhibitions. Mr..
Hunt is a genial, clever young gentle
man, subject to overfows Of rosy rheto-
ric and gushes of sympathy for the much
abused Ku-Klux Democrats Of the
South. The audience, with remarkable
patience, heard MI. Hunt through, ex-
pecting, no doubt to hear something
more lively from Mr.. Carey. The latter
named parsonage made a dramatic rush
toward the footlights, at the same time
indulging in his accustomed luxury of
scratching his head with both hands.
He then opened by saying that he was
not one of that kind of speakers who
went back a half century or more in his
speeches, to talk about wha. had
been done by Jackson. He said there
were men who couldn't make a speech
without digging up dead questions, etc.
This was q mean drive ct Mr.. Hunt,
whose speech had been largely made up
of references to the situation prior to
the war of the rebellion, with the usual
oo--1s-o.Nor- an1 nafrinfio a1lucfonc
to the venerable fathers of the Repub-
lie" Carey then INDUCED in a high
sounding encomium of the Republican
party and its course up to the end of the
war, to which time he said he had acted
with the party. He eulogized President
Lincoln as one of the best and purest
men that had ever lived. Fully one-half
of the audience being Republican, this
hearty cheers. Carey hen tackled about
and commenced to throw mud by the
handful at the Republicans. whose
course since the war he did not sympa-
thize with. He was for paying the
bonds in greenbacks, or else he would
repudiate the whole national debt. Was
opposed to National Banks, opposed to
the Ubiquitous revenue tax on the poor
mans whiskey and tobacco; was in
favor OF free trade. Having previously
announced that he had been bred an
old Henry Clay Wing, of the strictest
variety, his declaration that he hated
tariffs and protection indicated that he
occupied a very precdriouS political
position. But such things do not trouble
this prince of political quacks and brassy
demagogues. 1t is such supreme buff
foonery for Carey, who has probably
not performed a days hard manual labor
for forty years, to pirate Of his great love
for and sympathy with the toiling, hard
working classes, that we are surprised
he is not Missed in scorn from every
platform he speaks from. He is a free
and easy, reckless, inscriptions talker
on the stump; can tell several good
stories; keeps the crowd amused
and slashes away right and left as
though terribly in earnest, while he
really does not believe half what he
himself says. Before Carey had con-
cluded his harrangue, about half Of the
audience had left the Hall, and he wound
up with the stereotyped appeal to be at
the polls early and late and often, on
Tuesday next. His speech, as q whole,
received the fervent curses of the gener
ally disguised hard-headed Democrats.
No more Carey in theirs.
The Massachusetts, Republican State
Convention met on Thursday last and
settled the contest for the gubernatorial
candidacy, which had been raging in
that State at white heat, for several
weeks. Gen. Butler started out to win
the nomination, with apparently a most
formidable odds against him ; but he is
an indefatigable worker, and so power
fully and persistently did he push him
self, that at the convention he polled a
vote that must have astonished his oppo-
nents. The vote stood at 643 for Wash
burne to 464 for Butler. Notwithstand-