The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-10-04

whisky and lumber, up. You are
benefittIng the Jays and the Blanton
Duncans- You ought to have left
Grant home at Galena, where nc
drank Illinois whisky and voted for
Buchanan, while Horace and were
freeing this State. All of these
Democratic thieves, such as Grant.
and Dix, and Logan, and Butler,
when they found they could steal
no longer in their own party went
over to the Republican party and
preach morality. They say the Re-
publican party put down the rebel
lion. It is q libel. 1 commanded
600 men, not 10 of whom were Re-
publicans. (The speaker did not
say on which side they fought.)
Greeley may have erred when he
went to Canada to see if he could
not get the southern commission
ersto run the Alabama up Mag
ara Falls. 1 don't endorse all
that Horace Greeley has done
by ID sight. He was not my
choice, but, gentlemen, anything to
beat Grant. (Here the audience
again cheered enthusiastically
They brag about Grants paying off
three hundred millions in three
years; why, gentlemen, he has rails
ed by taxation, from Kansas alone,
every year, one billion six hundred
millions of dollars. No wonder we
are reduced to the verge of bank
ruptcy. Why, he don't pay 5 cents
on the dollar from what he raises
out of this State alone Alabama
owes S52,O00,OOO and she has not
even got pine side walks to show
for it. Your streets and sidewalks
are the admiration of the whole
country. Ihave heard them spoken
of often as 1 passed through here
in the cars.
Cobb, who is running for Con-
gress-this Wyandotte Cobb, the
same Cobb that was used by the
Legislature all last winter why
even Eskridge used him; and Stot-
Ter used him, this Cobb with no corn
on-spoke at Cottonwood Falls last
week, in which speech he pitched
into Sumner and Trumbull and
Schurz and me and all the rest of
the purest men in the country, who
refuse to drink rot gut whisky with
Grant.
Now who else is this party rum
ning2 Why, Phillips. All there is
to-day of Phillips is what Greeley
made him. They are organizing a
Tammany party, q Blanton Duncan
party, woman party, which even
Eskridge goes for. They offered
Dix the Governorship of New York
and it decided him. Now we Lib
eral Republicans do not require
anything like that. Good will on
earth and peace towards all men is
our motto. Why even Eskridge is
with us, that is, his head and shout.
ders are, while his hinder parts goes
for Grant. Its true he, Eskridge
staid at home during the war, and
in company with Stotler called
meetings at the school house to pass
resolutions when they heard the
enemy was coming this way. Give
Jay all the side walks he can build
and he will go for any party. Ire.
menduous cheering, stamping, whis
tleing, shrieking and clapping Of
hands followed these happy hits
during which lawyer L. tainted
stone dead. Editor II. Jr., dislocat
ed his jaws. DIR. Hibben being
present as locker on restored ont
with some liquid that had peculiar
bourbonish smell and bathed tht
jaws of the other with the same
preparation, which brought then
too with q snap. The speaker see
ing the wonderful effects of this lift
restorer poured about pint of i
on his handkerchief and proceeded
with his remarks with renewed yig
or. And now, Mr.. Editor, while
have only given you short sEe tel
from my notes of the speakers re
marks, / must forbear of firing
your readers and bring it to close
Suffice it to say that for three NOR
tai hours he went on in this dis
connected rambling discourse, hold
ing his audience together, with tn
exception of Ex-Governor O., who
with look of disgust on his coun
tenance, retired before the speake
was half through. am told tina
the club has made arrangement
with George Francis Train, Theo
dore Tilton, Hon. VIM. NJ. Tweed
Gen. fitzpatrick, Mrs. Woodruff
2 Hon. John Morrisey and other re
formers for q succession of meet
ings. If so they will find ga chic
among them takin' notes."
Yours, VERBATIM.