The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-10
Greeley Club Meeting Saturday Night


ley and the meeting dispersed
Greeley Club Meeting Saturday Night,
By dozen or two of handbills posted
around the city late on Saturday last 1t was
announced that meeting OF the Greeley Club
would be held at tie Court Hsuse IN the even
ing, and that speeches would be made by some
of our prominent Democratic and Liberal Re
publican orators 1t IS due to say that the
names OF the speakers on the bill were placed
there without previous consultation with them,
and SIMPLY on the assumption that they would
not refuse such an invitation if they were so
cIrcumstanced as to be able to accept it. 1t
turned ont in the evening, however, that two
of the four were out of town and third sick,
SO, to ill out the programme, other speakers
had to take the place Of the absentees. For.
tunately Ottawa has Greeley men of inte!li-
gence enough to supply any local meeting on
the spur of the moment with good speakers.
and II was so on this OCCASION
Notwithstanding the firing of the cannon on
the river bank Lad attracted a crowd in that
direction the Court House, by S o'clock, was
full, and the meeting having been called to or.
der by placing Dr.. Stout IN the chair, the first
speaker called to the stand was the
HON. WASHINGTON BUSHNELL.
He spoke perhaps so minutes-gave
sketch of the origin OF the republican party
with the antiNebraska movement in 1854 and
the part he bore in II, and traced the ,esem
blance OF that movement 70 the anti.Grant
movement OF to-day; then bore down some
what heavily on Mr. Cullen, of the Ottawa Re
publican who rails IN response, in Thursdays
Republican, like a fish woman y and in con.
clusion gave an account of Fred Grants and
Nellie Grants pleasure trip abroad, at a daily
expense to the people Of over $4,000, an out
rage as unlawful as it was unexampled in our
history.
The next speaker was
II. X. BOYLE.
Called upon Unexpectedly, he spoke OF
course without preparation, but made very
fine speech. He alluded to the victory in
North Carolina, the 'three hundred thousand
dollars" mot "three hundred Millions" as the
Republican falsely and rldiculously charges him
with saying) and the other vast efforts the adj.
mlnistratlon had expended to carry that state,
and regarded their defeat as decisive of the
campaign. He then sketched the origin and
animus of the liberal movement. and showed
the necessity for supporting it; alluded to
Grants pleasure seeking, his incompetency
and indifference to the public service; ex-
planned how the old political issues were
dead aed the necessity OF dealing with live
issues and, in conclusion, told who Henry
Wilson was.
AS these speeches have already been some.
what lengthily published, and the speakers
are men whom our prople have often heard
more lengthy sketch is deemed unnecessary.
Of the next two speakers, however, who made
their first appearance in an anti-Grant meeting
IN Ottawa, we give somewhat fuller report
Arthur Cation, son Of Hon. ]. D. Cation. is
youth but safely out OF his teens, yet he spoke
cloquently and, as this report shows, ably and
10 the point. c. F. Butler, Esq, is one of our
ablest young attorneys, and up to but lately
had been counted by the Grant men among
their most reliable co.workors
ARTHUR CATION
Being called. he followed, saying: When I
look around this audience and see 90 many who
are SO much older and greater in capahility than
myself l appreciate the compliment ycu have
paid me Ia calling upon IN. TO spesk. address
you, not as partiSans, hut US men. The time
has passed when any political leaders or dcma.
gogues can WELD the votes Of the people to their
selfish interests. The time has come for you not
to aim TO be the best democrat or republican.
but the best citizen that you can be. lApplause.]
Old parties are forgotten and new ones formed
on new Issues. The old federal party has long
since ceased TO be; the old whie has become n
thing Of the past. The republoun party was
organized to FREQ the negroes, and, that having
been accomplished, IL will sosn pass into obliv.
ion. We have now new issues. We are to de.
niSa hat 0,,e;t~ eud aov~s, rksn.