The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-10-22

80 MONGREL" MEETING At STOCKTON
The Dcmocratic-Liberal meeting held at
Stockton ON Wednesday evening, Oct. 10th,
passed OF very quietly. The crowd was not
as large as was desired, but the lack in num-
bers was fully made up in the intelligence of
those present. 1T was heavy burden upon
the hearts Of the leaders present to know how
to proceed to an organization--not having a
minister with them upon this occasion, they
were in trouble. The darkest hour is always
just before the break of day $50 just at this
point the gallant Col. Mathews, of Lambert
vile, came to their relief, and proposed to them,
as it was about time to commence the meet
ing, and as the air was chilly, to walk up and
take "suthin " to warm up little. After
doing Justice to the Colonel's kind invitation,
they began to look around for chairman.
The old war " Hoss" Of Democracy In Stock
ton was on hand, dressed up in his Sunday
suit and satin vest He had been honored
with this position upon all past occasions and
therefore had prepared himself in his most at
tractive style for the present one, but some
doubted in their minds the propriety of his
appointment, taking into consideration the
circumstances of the past They had not for
gotten the blunder he made when introducing
about year ago, but this they could over
look as he was getting old and somewhat
clumsy; but there were other objections. He
had not been very successful in some local
electioneering, and other public matters Of
local character, and the feeling seemed to be
among the masses that-like Samson of old
his locks had been shorn from him. Taking
these matters into serious consideration, it
was decided to call young man to the chair
from neighboring State. As his grief had
been very great over the sad calamity that had
recently befallen his native State, it was the
opinion of the leaders that to elevate him to
this honored position would have tendency
to cheer up his spirits. The young man seemed
to appreciate their kind regards, and returned
his thanks to the audience several times
through the course of the meeting for the
honor conferred upon him.
. The first speaker introduced to the me citing
was one of those individuals that we have
heard SO much about this campaign, but have
not had the pleasure of looking upon in Stock
ton before. No doubt it was the desire of the
honorable member of the Liberal State Com
mittee residing in this county, to exhibit this
ingenious piece of workmanship for the pur.
pose of satisfying the curiosity of the citizens
of Stockton, in looking upon the face of at
least one Liberal Republican =" in this ex-
citing campaign. The speaker evidently had
not been informed of the true situation of po-
litical affairs in this locality, and supposng
that he had been called here to address Liberal
Republicans, he spoke about one hour in the
warmest terms of President Lincoln and his
administration.
AT the conclusion of his speech, the "Big
Gun" of Pennington made his appearance and
rected his piece that he has committed to
memory for the campaign, with a few slight
notifications and alterations since the late
elections. There has been great sadness in
the hearts Of the "Greeley Democrats y here
since the Pennsylvania elections, and the
speaker knowing this, came to them with
words of cheer, and explained in very salts
factory manner to their minds the reason of
their defeat, viz that the Radicals ~ there
had procured the necessary garments and had
all of the feminine gender of the African race
dressed up in male attire and marched them
up to the polls to vote the Republican ticket.
This explanation seemed to cheer up the fallen
hopes of the disconsolate ones, and they are
now determined to go to work not to stop
this infamous rascality), but to excel the
Radicals by making important improvements
upon this new element of strength. Donations
of old cast-off clothing will be kindly received
to help them in this last desperate resort
Please ship by railroad to Stockton, N. j.,
care of Greeley Club.
EYE WITNESS.