Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-09-26
The Liberal Rally at Plymouth
A Flat-Out
Hon. D. w. Voorhees, Failed to
Appear, and Wholly
Made Default.
Hon. IVm. M Springer and " B. Dens-
toac aoere "ODpOrtuaely' (intentionly)
PrtSoM to Htrangue the Multitude
IN Dnn's .AbSencc!

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last Friday, which was intended by the
managers to be the "Grand Rally of the
Season. y and designed to strike terror to
the hearts republicans, dit not come up
to the most sanguine expectations of the
Democracy.
The Democratic Liberal committee, in
order TO make tie occasion a ,'deadner''
on the hopes of the Republicans. caused
the name of Daniel w. Voorhees, to be
announced, in every Liberal journal in the
! North West, besides advertising him in
large posters, stuck up in conspicuous
! places all over the country, as the gleat
orator of the occasion that was to open the
eyes of the blind, cause the dumb to speak
and the lame to walk And as further
incentive TO the unterrilied and their chill
! dren TO come and swell the Numbers, and
add to the glory of the occasion, the com
mittee Offered costly premiums to the
town and township furnishing the largest
delegation.
About 10 o'clock the delegations came
pouring in, and after all were presentthat
were expected, procession was formed
4 under the direction of the MarShals,
which consisted Of just siXty-eight wag-
ons and thirty-seven horsemen; making
an aggregate of just seven hundred men
women and children. The special repor-
ter to the Chicago Trijuae to the contra
/ ry Notwithstanding
| At O'Clock, p. M, this vast assembled
multitude, with about three hundred of
our own town citizens, many Of whom
were republicans, desiring to see the tall
Sycamore" who had gained such an un-
enviable reputation, assembled at Semina-
ry Grove, to see and hear in be alf of lib
eral principles from the man who, on the
18th of May 1872, in the House Of Repre-
sentatives, said: Il shall not vote for any
man who speaks of me in the following
language =
I Point wherever you please to an cleo
tion district which you will pronounce
morally rotten-given up in great part to
uebauchery and vice-and that district will
be found at nearly or quite every election
givinga large majority for that which
styles itself the Democratic party And
who in a letter ofMay 18th, 1872, to Capt.
John G. Briggs, of Terre Haute, Ind
Said: NO homes and intelligent Demo-
crat can support either Grant or Greeley
without first abandoning his princi pies
| shall stand by my sincere and lile-l long
/ principles. If did otherwise | would be
a dishonest man, unworthyot my own re-
spect, or the respect of anybody else =
/ And in another letter Of the same date,
Mr.. Voorhees, said, II would not vote for
eilhe of them to save my life, if it depen-
ded on that and that alone
/ No wonder that IA number of Republi-
cans would be anxious enough to 90 and
see and hear man who three months ago
declared the above sentiments and now
could have the effrontery to stand up and
publicly advocate the cause Of a man to do
that which ,he declared 3 months ago wo'd
render him dishonest man, an unwor-
thyo his own respect, or that of anyone
else. But Daniel W. v did not put in an
appearance, and although we were told
that his absence was owing to the fault of
the Democratic State Central Committee,
we are inclined to the opinion that it was
a deliberately concocted plan to use his
name to draw a crowd, and then excuse
his absence on the ground of some error
IN the action of the committee If it were
not so, it was certainly very singular co
incidence, and accident, as well as ''oppor-
tune" that these two great liberal lights
OF Illinois should happen here just on this
occasion.
There is another reason why we do not
believe Mr.. VOORHEES, intended to be here
1t is well-known fact, that at the time
the Tall Sycamore made his speech of the
18th of May last, and wrote his letters OF
the 18th of the same month, there were a
host IT honest Democrats in Marshall
county, who took the same position, and
looked forward to Mr.. VOORHEES, as theiI
rising sun to fight them out of the yawn-
ing abyss into which they were being rap
idly engulphed, that Notwithstanding his
apostacy or rather recantation on the first
opportunity he had of becoming a martyr
this same host of Marshall county vet re-
main firm as the rock of ages, determined
never to yield their principles under any
circumstances whatever Dan did not
dare to face them.
The speech of Mr. Springer was not re
markable for anything new, notwithstan-
, ding he recently got into Grants pocket
: and pulled out his presidents confession
but consisted principally of the usual ro-
tine of charges of ''Imbecility," 'Nepot-
ism" 'sGitt Taking" and Corrupt Ap
/; pointment," worn out by oft repetition
r placing particular stress upon that part o.
his speech charging fraud and corruption