The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-10-31
RADICAL POW-WOW.
bigger spreRhs Himself and WIthaII
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~ M bGser ret
At o'clock last evening, tho clans
assembled at the Court House to
witness their RhOderck- Dhu tilt with
an absent Fltz-James, The latter not
being present In the tlesh, Rhoderlck
threw down his bralen studded target
gin this instance an overcoaO and
boldly slashed away at his shadowy
foe, His Wt2.James being purely u
tgment, he was enabled to place him
where he pleased, and he did
place him In positions which, had the
real Fitz been on hand, would have
probably induced him TO give Mr..
Dhu lits sure enough, especially M the
latter welded his claymore In such II
manner as 20 expose many vital points
about his persou. The parallel may
he carried TO the end The benches |
were well filled with the faithful, |
most Of them seemingly under the de !
rcctlou of riug.master, Melvin Wade,
who from time to time cooled their
propensity to chat aud laugh, by rap
ping on the railing with piece of
T barrel hoop, and to his and their cred
il, be il said, he succeeded, for we
never attended more orderly politi-
cal meeting.
AS to the speech, the reporter did
not yet in until Mr. Bigger had begun,
hut he had evidently been on the floor
but u few minutes. Its range was
3 only limited by the bounds of the po-
d ltcal history Of the country.
u The effort rs whole was
- "A singular needy OF concilla'
r ton and bitter denunciation
of the course, both past and future OF
,r the Democratic party aud ia policy.
# He denounced the newspapers for mis-
10 representing him In accusing him of
~ "warriug the bloody shirt in his
4. last speech her. He proceeded to eX'
A. plain that he had claimed, and still
"a claimed that nurtherners aud Republic
NJ cans were ostracised, that he had cited
a. various bitter remarks heard by him
- on the streets OF Dallas made by south
p. ern Democrats, and had denounced
NJ these and other manifestations Of hos
+. tlity 10 people from the North, both
. because it tended to delay that era OF
re good fellowship which he hoped to
NJ see; and because, being repeated
NJ North with exaggeratlona, II tended Il
a. keep away immigration from tina
section, by reason of its people dread
ing to make their homes among hos
4" tile neighhors. Then he pulled Off hi
coat and shoes, and plunged headloni
into the great ocean OF Amerlcnn poll
ties ard padded around promiscuousl
for two hours, now diving for the ReVC
luton, now ueading water in I'll
Mexican war, now turning bac
somersault through the war of i
~, then taking n long breath as the echo
.... of Sumpter died away, he swan stea
n,I, lily to shore through cur last wa
through the amendments to the 60
'.'a stitution, through the past few years
r,,I Throckmorton'5 term IN congress IA
,,,,, to shore and gave u grand war-who'
=, = for Hayes and Wheeler. During th
- remarkable performance he hohnabb'
with Webster snubbed JoiiersC
n,a while he poked Colhoun in the ri|
and scratched Clay's back. lle toe
,aI oil his hat to Lee and Morgan and to
tho skin clear or JEFF Davis and Fo
, rest with double back-actlon puter
49,, lever rusping machine, He quot
from WallaceB United States Supren
ho, court report to prove the Coniederacl
reasonable affair, and from men u
-, - newspapers to prove the people of Il
-, Confederacy didn't believe word
Ar il. But If in all his diving and splal
.o,io ing he got shell of political truth
must have kept 1t hid between his Il
as too precious for exhibition bef
that assemblage. We cannot follow
,hol- line of the whole speech for want
D en-. space, but on the whole IL was moo
son ate enough.
acct Mr.. Bigger gave the negroes so
& his sensible advice, and closed with q
n, in tation from Webster.
him, DIR. Cochran then spoke piece,
heels the hour was late, and thereporter
| his compelled to retire to other busin
and
. AMY Ono yellow Fever IntcrmCn