Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-09-06

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Lec.mpton. How would be persuade
your "Won't you take little wee-
vilr'
Tao roar of laughter among my enc,
mie' were indescribablc for noiso and
extmt. So / was told. | did not
heal him but once, and then but a
shon time That was after he had
spolcn at the Capital.
When he went to Newark to speak
10 lilo Fuir Grounds, l was so audaci.
GUS as TO 60 out to hear. hitched
the horse and buggy in the woods,
crcpt quietly under q slouchcd hat,
and With hickory tree ns barra-
cadc, | sat on the grass in hearing
distance. When l reached the
grounds there were FIVE thousand ex
citd Republicans already assembled.
PhorG 10 unusual commotion in the
thrcng. The Governor is driven up
in barouche with six white horses
On each horse, above the ear, is flag
---"DoUn with the WeepH candidate I"
Banners are borne into the masses,
amid shouts, bearing mottos: "For
Congress, Lucius Case, the Farmers
Friend, and the opponent of Weevilw
The stand, too, ornamcntcd with flags.
On them various emblems and devices:
'Bread is the Staff of Life Cox
would poison it with Weevil p "Sun.
set has Conc Down behind Wheat
Pieldw "Free Kansas and Fair
Harvest !" Quite tumult arises on
the stand as the Republican magnates
Of that country rise to receive Cover.
nor Corwin. The band strikes up
"Sec, the Conquoring Hero comes"
A chairman was appointed. Iknew
him well. He was from Granville,
Republican township, which always
gave over two hundred against me,
although there were several churches
and a college there, and but one tavern,
where no liquor was sold except on
the sly. l may mention that | got
some support there from water.c cure.
But that man, as ! said, was my bete
nor. lie had put questions TO me
about taxation and ratio Of repre-
sentation, though learned he never
paid any taxes, and only represented
bankruptcy. Still he was class of
politicians of the pietistic sort.
| peep around my tree to hear his
opening. He says: "Feellcow.citi-
zons: Before Governor Corwine be.
gins his addres, desire to propeound
an interreogetry. Is there any one
here in the crowd who has any Of the
weevil wheat sent ont by our member
of Congress-
rat this point a dozed sacks were
pitched on to the stand. ! trembled
for my rcputation-] "a committee
{acccnt on ;aac COM Is sitting on the
hind ecnd Of the stand examinin the
gcnooincss of this tangled wheat.
(Cheers). We will unmask this dem.
agogue who sends it out. He pre-
tehds TO be the farmers friend. He
is tho enemy of their hcomcs and
hcarths. He would crawl, like the
animalcs of holy writ, into the very
kneading trougbs of honest people he
has betrayed on the Lecompton bill.
(Cheers). Is tho committee ready TO
report y
Atthispoint tho committee approach
the front of the stand. They are led
by what Corwin use TO call, afterward,
a Blue. Belly. He is long, gangling,
Ichabod- Crane sort of person, with u
highly nasal twang and the sing-song
of exhorlation. Before hc begins, the
string band, consisting ofthrcc fddles,
a fife and a tenor drum, strikes up
"Thc Girl | Left Behind. Me-" /
sympathize with the tune, but the
music does not soften the features Of
that Chairman. He advises the peo-
pie thus :-"Mr. Cheerman and fellow
citizens: The committee appointed
to examine this wheat have concluded
their labors, and are unanimously Of
the opinion there's wcevil in it,
(Cheers) After which a stray Demo.
crat from Newton township, little
lively on the subject of grain and its
juices, proposed to whip the crowd
He was fur "WeeviI, Cox and the Con-
stitution, and could lam any "abolsh"
in the meeting"
II Is needless to say how the meet
ing treated my friend and Governor
Corwin in that report The joke was
too classical He pictures the con