The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-10-25
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METROPOLIS. ILL.,, Oct. 20. Is

ing 10 large Republican audience, but
they were badly disappointed, a. were
the small crowd at their ignorant har-
rangues. After about one hundred per-
sons had assembled 10 the court house
the Metropolis Republican "glee club"
sang "Hurrah for Honest Hayes" This
song was played and sang torcibly
enough to remind us OF the charge
against Hayes of taking the poor soldiers
bounty money, fourteen hundred dol
lars, and appropriating 1t to his own
use-which charge still stands against
him uncontradicted. Meantime the
crowd had swslled to near two hundred
persons, and Capt. j. {. Willis
was called 10 the chair, and
after few preliminary re-
marks, introduced j. X. Edsall to the
audience. The speaker first took up the
whisky ring charges against the Repub-
lican party. and argued at length to show
that all the dishonest officials and peni-
cratic party. Everybody knows this to
be false and more, that the president has
pardoned those scoundrels. instigatcd to
do so by petitions from Republican Office
holders and corrupt rings.ers. The
speaker also stated that our bonded debt
was growing beautifully less, and that
the interest has been promptly paid.
We suppose he meant that the money
in the treasury was growing beautifully
less by Republican crib takers. lie
spoke cloluently of the enormou, libcr-
ality OF the Republican party towards
railroads and other laudabie enterprises.
For a fact the Republican party has been
liberal enough 10 give nearly all oi our
public lands away to railroads and other
private enterprises. but this glorious
giving.and-taking Republican party has
failed TO carry out their promises to poor
soldiers and ignorant Philippians. Where
il the mule and forty acres of land
promised these poor sons OF toll who
fought the battles OF their country and
made monarchs; of the Oflicc-holders:
This Republican party instead Of settling
the colOred men upon their forty acres OF
land and giving them their mules, they
are to-day settl2d down in our school
houses side by side with the poor and UNI
fortunate white people. The speaker
dwelt at length on the free school sys-
TEN, asserting the free school system to be
the bulwark OF our nation. This is n
burning lie, and has been eyer since
Republican congress changed the white
school system into a cOlored or mike d
school system, and this very act, in our
opinion. will. in short period of time,
b. the death OF the Republican party and
free schools. 1t is saying too much
to say that the poor man
shall pay school tax and educate his
children with ignorant and lawles Afri-
cans-a bad state OF affairs for the colored
children, but worse one tor white
children to meet them at school as their
equals. In consequence OF this fact free
schools have partially gone down in Pu
laski, johnson county and many
Quiet CUuHtItSs utiltiCu TUT I'm
question thus!y: You that buy whisky
and tobacco and smoke cigars, know how
much tax you pay-and the rich that
buy fine imported goods know how
much tax they pay; but the poor work
ing people do not pay taxes, they raise
and make all they use. This was
elincher, and took well lover the left.
He also said our revenues certainly could
not have been squandered. and that the
people were certainly unwilling that our
credit shall 60 down by change of ad-
ministration. The speaker says the Dem
cratic party is negative party, and apMty
of opposition. From the late elections
it does not look much like negative
party. Eight states have voted recently
and five of them have gone Democratic.
Then drunken Manufacturing individ-
ual staggered upon the stand and accused
Edsall Of stealing his speech and went
on to say that he would talk at night.
At night he made speech, and 10 what
speech. The speaker announced his
Ildluc W tuC uuuiShCo Us Sapt' biCaiiy,
from Utah, and took for his text that the
late war was for the freedom of the
slaye. aud said the armies never would
have sheathed the sword until
that end had been attained lie
declared that the Democrats and rebels
were one and the same in spirit of oppo-
sition to the government, and tried TO
convict the party before the audience by
arraisning Hon. j. c. Willis, and plac
ing him upon the stand charged with
larceny, and really did convict INN of
that crime, but did not iniure the Demo-
cratic party very much. Al this Willis
grew indignant, and after this gentleman
had finished, Mr.. Willis took the stand
aud in substance used the following
caustic language lie did not know
the speakcrs-had never seen him until
Yesterday; did not know whether he was
a Jew, or a Gentle, or ReiOrmty, BIT
was lead to believe he was the latter.
But of one thing he was satisfied, that il
his friends had come in and saw him on
the stand charged with larceny, they
would certainly have remarked, yuu
have got the wron. man charged with
larceny, etc.