The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-08-08

l. outside the Town Hall fence, anC
i. telling speeches were made by Hon
John W. Paine, OF Thompson; Gen
W. H. Gibson, Hon. w. P. Noble, L
= : A. Hall, Esq, and r. G. Pennington
'' Esq, Of Tifin.
- The stern facts and sound logic o.
! the speakers, coming from men in
whom all had confidence, encouraged
? the friends OF the enterprise, VIII lie
: the opposition began to lose conf
dence in themselves and their style OF
{ reasoning, and the No'' tickets were
in scores Of cases exchanged for ayesD
a before the voter approached the bal
lot box, and many who had already
I voted No" would have been glad to
recall their little bit Of paper from its
resting place in the box.
In addition TO the speakers mem
toned, Messrs. John T. Huss, S. 3.
Sheath, Edward Childs, O. c. ZeIIer,
, and c. n. Locke, Of Tifiin; Hon. Chas.
Foster, Of FOstoria, and Rev. L. S.
Johnson, Of Huron county, were pres
z ent, and gave their entire influence in
favor OF the project.
The crowd and excitement continu-
ed around the place of the election
till near noon, when it subsided a lit
tie, but again increased in the after
noon. The current Of opinion was so
manifest that many of the strongest
opponents left for home long before
night in utter diseouragement, or,
perhaps, having been convinced of
their error, secretly rejoicing at their
own defeat.
When the final result was an
nOGneed at a quarter before seven in /
Intervening, cheer after cheer rent the
air, while the bang of the homemade
artillery and the ringing of church
and school bells told the news to the |
inhabitants for miles around. For
over an hour the noise continued and |
the streets were lined with people.
Soon after o'clock the torch was
applied to three fierce bon fires, and |
a goods box which the boys had failed |
to eonsign 70 the flames was found /
and placed near the location of tn e
old depot; a crowd Of several hundre d
were soon assembled, and speech
making was again in order.
John L. Cole, Esq, was first called
out and in an earnest speech con-
graduated the people upon the sue
cess Of this step towards the pros
porous future of our town, and urged
all now to give their support to the
further progress of the railroad enter
prise.
John S. Smith, Esq, whom of
course everybody has heard OF, was
introduced by Mr.. BOlinger, aud re-
viewed the past history and alluded
in glowing terms to the future pros
poets of Republic and Seipio town
ship.
Hon. ]. w. Paine gave the people
of the town some wholesome advice.
Prof Richard spoke hopefully of the
future Of the town commercially and
edueationalIy. DIR. Spooner did his
level best. Gen. E. T. Stickney, for
a rarity, made speech; and all ex-
eelled their former selves in elo-
quence and wit.
Thomas Smith made his first ap-
pearance as public speaker, but did
no discredit to his patron saint, the
venerable Ex P. NJ, of Confederate
X Roads.
To the best of our recollection, the !
following is a verbatim report of Mr.. ]
Smiths speech:
FELLOW CTTIzENs:-Inever made a
public speech in my life, but 1 am T.
going 10 try it this time. They have
voted tax on US and its all wrong.
they are going to build a railroad,
that's all wrong, and they will build r.
machine shops and factories here,
that's all wrong; shoemakers will a
come here and get up competition in
my business, that's all wrong too
and business men will come here and d
10 business and get rich, we don't
want that it's all wrong; they will .
build churches and school houses,
hats all wrong, wedon't want them
don't want my children TO be edu-
,ated, want to be able to teach them
myself, it's all wrong. S
They have been trying to build up 4
Normal School here, I am opposed to
t, that's all wrong. The cars will
llOw their whistles and the church Y
Dells will ring, that's all wrong. There e.
s man over at Lodi that wants to p
'ome here and build a grist mill if we 81
get railroad, that's all wrong. If
We have railroad they will build
that's all wrong. This G
abroad tax will be so hard on poor
people who have nothing to pay it B..
with. No, gentlemen, we don't want p
my railroad it's all wrong, tell you
it is all ,Oropg.
Mr.. Smith subsidized amid prolonged .
applause like the noise of exploding 'S
sun powder.
Paul BOlinger and DIR. Eastman B
when the crowd dispersed. b
Except in one instance, the speak
RS expressed the most charitable
ceiling for those who had opposed the 81
ak. 1t is hoped that if any i'll feeling s. s.
las been engendered in the excite -
nent of the cast, it will be allowed to a
lie out as soon as possible. The slum- d
'ers of the people were disturbed by
he noise of the anvil and the ringing Ia
fthe church bells till la.e in the night.
thus ended the most exciting cleo
ion Republic ever saw. es
Those who have the best Opportuni-
y for judging consider this result
ecisive as to the building of the road. V
,he men of ScipIo township have @
hOwn a spirit of. enterprise which
ught to be an incentive to the peo- 80
ls of the remaining portion of the
me TO exhibit their public spirit in a
imilar manner. The one fact that
be value of the railroad and all the of
goes upon the tax du- hi
lieate TO be taxed as other property,
hereby reducing the proportion of
ne taxes to be paid by the citizens of b
ne township and county for all time st,
} come, is sufficient reason for vot- G.
lg Railroad, Yes" when the amount &c
, be eraisedis no more than the mere
ittance required by the B. & o. R. R.