Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-08-21
Hon. Moses NJ. Strong at Music Hall.

ou hcuHeSudy evening laSt, non. Moses
/ M. Strong was announced for a Greeley
| speech at Music Hall in this city. As a mat
to hear what an old line Democrat such as
the veteran Noses could possibly say in be-
| half of the venerable Horace We found a
! small and cherries crowd in attendance, the
i Wizard Oil Troupe on the corner of Main
and Second Streets having by far the larger
audience, undoubtedly on account of the su-
periority Of their entertainment Right
here we may as we'll put at rest a calumny
started by some ev! Greeley genius that the
| Wizard Oil men were brought here by the
Republicans for the purpose of break ing up
| Mr.. Strong's meeting. Whoever says this
is "a thief, ii liar and a villain" if we may
be allowed to use the expressive, yet inele-
CANT, language of H. G. applied to falsif ers
of the truth. There was no wish on the
| part of Republicans to keep people from
Music Hail. though the Greeley men were
apprehensive, probably, that as they made
studied attempts to prevent the attendance
of persons at Senator Carpenters meeting
two weeks since. the Republicans might
perhaps retaliate. Not so, however. On
the contrary, they are ready to be assessed
at any time to defray the expense of keep
ing Mr.. Strong upon the stump from now I'M
til the election, provided he will deliver the
same speech he made here on Wednesday
evening Senator Carpenters efforts IRE
able and convincing, and gave great salts
faction to his Republican friends; but 1t is
I q mooted question whether Mr. Strong's
speech did not help the Grant cause far
more than did that of our distinguished
Senator Certain it is that Mr.. Strong is
doing good work for our side and we hope
by all means that he will not be withdrawn
from the canvass.
We cannot undertake to follow him
| through the tortuous wndings of his speech.
We do not wish to do him any injustice,
| for he is a gentleman far advanced in years
and therefore entitled to respect and fair
play He will pardon US, however, for say
ing that he presumed altogether too much
upon the ignorance and stupidity of his
dience when he let fly his fanfaronade of
abuse and lying about Gen. Grant and the
| fruits OF his administration Mr.. Strong
evidently thinks that people here do not
read newspapers, and are dependent entire
| ly upon what they can pick up from the
| rostrum in the way of information We
can assure him that he is mistaken il ,his
and further that men of fy-blown po-
ltioal regulations should not assail the
character of better and honester persons
than they areithemselves. The history ofthe
Land Grant corruptions in this state in 1856
and the conspicuous part played therein by
/ Mr.. Strong, have not been forgotten. The
proDriety therefore, of his setting himself
no IN public as the champion of official vir-
tue and integrity may well be questioned
His endorsement of Greeley was entire
ly lacking in warmth, and fell like wet
| blanket upon his few auditors. He said
that he never liked Greeley and was both
! chagrined and disappointed at his nomina-
ton. Next to Grant, he regarded Greeley
as the most unfit man in the country for
| President and the very last one he would
| choose for that high office, yet as the con-
test is between Grant and Greeley, he thinks
it his duty to support Greeley on the prn-
ciple of "any thing to beat Grant" He pro-
nounced Greeley IAN anomaly" whose
administration might be Republican or
any opinion about it, but he hoped and
thought it would be an improvement upon
Grants. He appealed frantically to Demo-
Gratis to wheel into line for Greeley, it evil
IDENTIFY having been intimated to him that
there is something of a disaffection here
towards the Chappaqua philosopher and
wood chopper among the rank and file who
are looking after principles to vote for rath-
er than the loaves and fishes. 1--WE will
use the Liberal Republicans said he ''to
beat the Grant party and four years hence
We will be strong enough to elect q man OF
our own-a good, old fashioned Democrat
but if we find we are not strong enough
| then, we will use them again, and in that
way get back into power > which was
specimen brick of candor and frankness.
Mr.. Strong let the cat out of the bag and
boldly proclaimed the intentions of the
Democracy. Liberal Republicans who
were present looked at each other with
blank astonishment One was heard to
exclaim: