The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-09-23

Who is Gov. Woodford.
Flaming handbills are posted about
town announcing that Gov. Woodf ford
will addressja a Republican neeting at
the Opera House this "wednesday
evening and there is much curiosity
to know who this great Radicaloratbr
is who has been imported to teach the
benightcd Buckeyes their duty in this
great crisis. In a recent speech de-
livered in Germantown, Mr.. Buell., of
Missouri, shed .some4 light upon the
subject. He said:
<r,s And now, my friends, detecting in
your faces and feeling from the inspir-
alton of your presence that. you are
deeply, solemniy and grimly in ear
nest i'll your determination to secure
and maintain, your rights as against
mcnopolists and aristocrats, let me
tell you of something 1 heard last
night in the Interest of the Money
Power. 1 was in Dayto and L went
to hear Mr.. Stewart l.. ,Woodford de-
may have heard Of Mr.. Stewart L..
Woodford. He is from Brooklyn,
that city of emotional godiiness and
paroxysmal piety. The Money Pow
er has sent him ont here to Ohio to
try the effect Of emotional elocutien
and paroxysmal political Oratory in
this canvass. Weodfordis a nice little
man. So nice that he could not speak
his sweet little piece from the Court
house steps nor in the market square,
where the Democratic orators hold
forth To- the people, but he must be
tenderly handed into Music Hall,
where. his, gentle audience could. find
cushioned seats. He is very nice
little man. He is pretty /; in fact, the
girls all say he is teo sweet for any
thing. A dapper little form 'enwrap-
ped in the most recherche Of swallow
tail coats; dear little feet incased IN
the glossiest' of patent feathers, and
s'w eef, dirDpled' ba by face, with lovely
g niture aOf blonde side. whiskers :;
this . is- ,Woodford-s, A kid -slippered.
silk k-stockinged, velvet handed scion OF
the class whose falling cause he comes
to plead! SAndo what did he say
Why, he told his auditors that che
sunset was very beautiful; that the
sunrise, was very soft and lovely that
the rainbow was Gods own ornament
of fhe universe; that NTagara was the
proudest of cataractsi; that when the
bl0od-red fires of rebellion bursk forth
over this, unhappy land, and whep, the
hydra-headed monster OF treason, &c.
- We have all heard that sort Of thing,
1t is partly the gush OF the immature
school girl and, partly the rant of the
unfledged sophomore with the Byron
ic scowl upon his callow brow. Well,
sat there and laughed. Here was
this gentle little sunflower, this curled
and dimpled darling of the. East, skip
ping about the platform, with all the
airy grace of a dancing master, or q
waiter in a French restaurant. and
gliding the stalest of stale platitudes
with the weakest of .Wordy gush. But
through all his defamation, now OBJ
scured by the tinsel of gorgeousness
of his cheap rhetoric and again
drowned in the lachrymosity of his
thin gush cruel was thread of "specie
payments! immediate, specie pay
ments!" What said / to myself, have
these aristocrats of the Money Power
sent this animated molasses-cup out
here to pour sirup over the pill they
propose to force down our throats
Do they imagine that the people of
Ohio, are going to be lulled to sleep
by his, siren song OF jingling platitudes
while they, his masters, wind their
meshes about our Hmbsp Ii so, how
fatally do they mistake the temper, and
how utterly do they m:sinterpret the
sentiment of the people they are deal
ing with. Gentlemen who WELD the
Money Power OF this country, you
may as we'll lace the facts. Y our ad
ver sary is in too deep, yea, it you will
it, in too deadly earnest, for any
You are dealing with
men who go on foot while you ride,
and with people who think they haye
toiled to stuff your pockets and bloat
your Golfers without any gain to them
selves long enough. You are face to
face with men who do not mean to
take any steps backward, and you can
neither force them back with your
like Grosvenor, nor
beguile them into retreat with your
perfume bottles, like Woodford. You
are on the threshold of another irre-
pressible conflict; you stand now
where the Stuart dynasty stood two |
hundred years ago, when the old |
began their fierce mutter-
Ings of doom; you stand where the |
tax-levying Briton stood one hundred
years ago when the "embat;led farm
ers" gathered on the dew w-damped |
'ward OF Lexington Green yon stand |
where the man-owners stood fifteen |
years ago when the people. of: the |
Union sent up the cry Nv e are coming |
Father Abraham That cry, gentle
men who WELD the Money Power, is
in Ohio now, only it. is
varied TO the echo "We are, coming,
Allen ]" .....,,,t. ......
Take away your blonde and scented
WoOdford with his siIken speech and |
his sOit velvet sentinentalityyr for the |
people of Ohio, in grim -earnest with
fou, can still relax. their frown to
augh in good natured derision of him
md all his kind. Understand the ma
.ure of the hght1tha is in your hands
Ini do not send yonr tassele led aud tin
'eled and bedizened drum major out
o meet these stern soldiers Of the
people who are rallying here in the
mighty West. You are the men on
while we fmust fight on
DOT; but remember what the grizzled
I'D. Yon Moltke said of the infantry:
They are good for nothing but to
vim battlcs" .flE-iii :. i3