The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-07-30
Liberal Mass Meeting atChicagoi


CHICAGO, July 20.-The Liberal mass
meeting in this city tonight was large
and enthusiastic! Two stands for the
speaders were erected on Market street,
between Washington and Madison, around
which crowd, Varlously estimated at
from five to eight thousand persons,
gathered. ps..-.
Hon. Gustavus Koerner, Liberal candi.
date for Governor, was the first speaker.
Alter alluding briefly to his early &C.
quaintance with Chicago in 1886, and ex.
pressing the interest he felt for her prog.
ress, he said he wished before entering
upon the discussion Of the political issues
Of the canvass, to have certain things dis.
tinctly understood, viz. that neither he
nor those for whom he spoke wished to
depreoiate the great services of General
Grant as military leader, or in criticlsing
his course as q civil administrator, to re.
fleet upon him as q general. Nor do
they, as had been impudently claimed
by some means to cast o stigma upon the
noble army which maintained the Union
In the late war and preserved the life of
the nation. He read from the Cincinnati
and Springfield liberal platforms in proof
OF the esteem in which the soldiers were
held by the liberal party. He deprecated
the appeals which were being made to
the soldiers in a canvass which was essen.
TALLY civil one. He next referred to the
history of the Republican party and re-
counted the measures 1t had originated
and carried out, and said that he would be
the last man TO dispute any Of the claims
Of the Republican party. He had belong.
ed to the party almost from its inception,
and worked for its success. Ifthat party
was to be eulogized for its work up TO the
termination Of the civil war and Tor sew.
eral years thereafter, he might humbly
claim some share in the eulogy, but parties
could not live upon their laurels ialone.
New issues spring up, divisions naturally
arise among honest people, and old par
ties dissolve 10 make room for
new ones on the leading questions OF the
day. This was precisely what was pass.
ing to-day, and only the blind or those
who use parties for plunder merely can.
not or will not sec it.
He then proceeded to review the meas.
ures Of the present administration, which
he regarded as Objectionable, the meas.
ufes adopted to force the South to love
the Union were illy.devised and OF doubt.
ful constitutionalty, and had been, so far,
unsuccessful. General amnesty had been
delayed until the administration party be.
came alarmed by the extent Of the move.
ment apparent at the Cincinnati Conven.
tlon. The financial policy of the present
administration was unsatisfactory-the
boarding Of gold and currency in the ma,
Lional treasury under the plea of main.
tanning the national credit was condemned
by the ablest fnanciers in the country
the adjustment of the tariff, fostering
monOpolies and the land grants to cor.
poratlons, were already welding a dan.
gerous power. The disposal Of patronage
for personal ends had caused great dis.
satisfaction. He criticised the persons
with whom the President had surrounded
himself as corrupt, political tricksters
and inexperienced and reckless military
pets. 1t was to remedy these evils that
the Liberal movement was inaugurated;
it was not movement of politicians, but
founded upon the wishes and aspirations
ola large portion of the American peo.
pie. Referring TO the claims which were
made in behalf Of the Administrations
having reduced the national debt and tax
alton, peace at home and abroad, settling
dangerous foreign difficulties and given
the country prosperity, he said there was
not a word of trnth in any of these asser-
tions but much of exageration; the debt
had been paid by the people through
heavy taxation which had been largely
reduced as natural consequence OF the
cessation Of the war and no one ought to
take credit for removing taxes which if
continued after the occasionfnr them had
ceased, would have ruined the country,
and our taxes were too,high yet. Our cur
rency instead oil being one OF the best in
the world was one ofthe very worst. Our
prosperity was due to our own labors. Our
own energy. The Washington Treaty
was the result Of remarkable good luck
and the ability Of our Commissioners;
yet by presenting absurd and untenable
claims, we came very near losing the
benefits of that treaty. He then proceed.
ed to give his estimate Of the weak points
Of General Grant as the Chief Executive
Of the nation, repeating the charges of
nepotism and corruption in his appoint.
ments, his gift taking, &C. He gave
briefly his views of what reforms were
necessary in the civil service, and con.
cluded with an eulogy of Greeley, who,
he said, was not at first the choice OF the
Democrats or Liberal Republicans, but
who was honest and incorruptible, and
whose popularity was daily increasing, so
that his election was now a foregone con.
clusion.
At the second stand short speeches
were madeby ex.Gov. Blaine, Of Michi.
gan, whose remarks were mainly devoted
to a review OF the alleged frauds and cor.
ruptlonS in the various departments OF
the government, especially those in the
navy department, and by John Went.
worth, Thomas Hayne and other local
speakers. Gov. Koerncr was followed by
Senator Trumbull in o speech which was
mainly repetition Of the former speeches
made by him during the campaign, and
which has already been published.
The Barnard impeachment.
SARATOGA, lJuly 29.-C. s. Bushnell
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