The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-10-30
ra,r JOLaIFlg.TIoE.

There Is not mucl - say in regard
to the joIIIfi ..tiJn hsI1 ia ta:s city By
the Democracy Fri i4S---'s're rnere
WAS n dzss-s1 or IEl present The
-.ne=works were fine, FwAst tlfrte was
Of them, but their ell 81 -. ~ hleI
by shooting a part Ia front of the
Court House, and the bAlai c. near
the German Cathsiec e inrel It was
like making two bites OF ci -rry.
The enthusiasm wls MT marx n ex-
cept Cor its cIlm, ssrsli q1iet1e ss.
There wer5 plenty 0fs2elke.s. al Of
home talent. Or n .ysr BIC lm an,
he talked our willin g-t ,-b--C Da gress-
man, w. P. Mob { he talked; our de-
tsrmined-to-be-C On gress man, w. Nv.
Armstrong he talked; our newly-sl-
ected-R Representative, J. a Noftpa, he
talked ouf nsYer-iy sB iarbeef n
T. Martin he tslked; our youpg-And-
enthusiastic, z. B. King he talked.
It was a brilliant line of speakers, and
their bugainZ woyls OF eloquence
bore The crowi as red-hot iron bores
pine board when an Ingenious boy
uses 1t as = substitute for an ,auger,
The general nature of the speeches
was very much alike. All the speakers
thought their victory big thing, and
variOusly stated that the Ike had not
occurred in this State for fifteen, eigh-
teen and twenty years.
Allen was repressnte az the EN- b 3D.
iment of the virtue of the party, and
TO him was accredited the honor Of
pulling the Dem Dcraey out of the
"SIough of Daspond.''-A number Of
them raised the shade Of Vallandig-
ham, Immediately after jbohiing up to
the eyes ofthe Govt the resurrected
corpse OF Alien, snd spoke in glowing
terms Of; the great martyc.9' Tnis
wss proper eaou 81 under the circum-
stances, but titislkn s@a that nearly all
the speakers, for. several years after
vallsndighAm run f5r Governor and
was buried, ha besn as ready to ego
back" on him ss they would have
heen TO refuse dish of stewed crow.
Il was years before any one OF them
could be prevailed ulon to aeknawI-'
edge chat they had. voted for him.
Hon. Norton said-"I ami my friend
Seney hal the honor Of casting the
only two votes that We're given for
Vsllandingbam in the 10lst regi-
mat" Weao not kaov the nature
OF J. I. Msrtin's spsech, but he ought
10 have told the crowd that ae was
the only reAl-sIwsys-to-be-sied-to-ol
B0urboa-Osmocrst among AL the
speakers T3at wh.n. they. al went
of with the new iepstsafe last fall,
he alone stood BY the original Demo
cratic colors, and that he was abused
and almost ostrAclsed for the virtue
that was ip him. That pow they had
all crswIed back Into the same boat
with him and were trying to take uu-
10 themselves not only the usual fat
ted calf, always slaughtered for the
returned prodigal. but claimed higher
honor than his modesty would slow,
him to claIm. q .nf3a
In due tins thsspeAking closed and
the bon-fire-which We forgot to men-
ton before-had diffIssd m Jst of Its
light -fae fresvOrks 81 gone IN :
to the iArkness. and Che people began
70 Withdraw. ff
At this point Ell. Shifts mounted
the speskers' stand &nd dismissed the
meeting in ths following words :
"Boys, this thing e Oyer--there will
De another in 1ittsen ysars ~ This
drew out the ioudest cheers Of the
evening, and relieved the iacsrated
spirits Of the crowd.