Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-11-03
Ros.ell and Begun at auasaueton

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We have received long communication
giving a synopsis of the speeches of thu
above Democratic champions at Quas
queton, on Tuesday evening. Owing tC
the late hour at which it was received and
the crowded state of our columns, We
cannot give it entire, but will notice few
salient points as given by our correspond
ent Ainsworth was advertised to speak
on the occasion, but seems to have weak
ened in work that promises such unsat.
isfactory results and did not appear;
so the crowd was fain to endure q couple
of dreary harangues from the speakers
named above. Begun was the first to
mount the stand and soon struck his gait,
which was the very original topic of 're-
form" Ed treated it in very original
and characteristic way, which was tc
crowd al the stale falsehoods and sour
rility against the Republican party, with
which constant reading of that rare ex-
emplar OF reform, the Dubuque Herald,
has possessed him. He protested that the
Republicans were fighting dead issues,
constantly harping on the war. "This,"
he said, "docs not interest us. Not one
of US wants to review the war record"
The audience seemed to see the force of
this, and appreciated at glance that the
Democratic party would naturally want
to hide its war record. Eds remarks on
this head were accepted as delicately re-
gardful of the feelings of his colleague on
the platform, whose war record is not
among his most agreeable "reminiscences
Then the speaker launched out on the
congenial theme of the corruption of the
Republican party. In this field he was at
home, as it gave him unlimited range for
sloshing round unhampered by fact or
the necessity for exact statements. AS to
the matter of this portion of Eds har-
angue, it may be found. as before init
mated, in the columns of the Dubuque
Herald, the conductors of which have
graduated with all the honors in the high
est, or rather the lowest school of unver.
acity. Ed was an apt pupil, and made
the most astounding statements regarding
the operations of the government, just as
though he did not know they were shame
less misrepresentation. Perhaps he did not
know it; though gifted with expansive
cheek, his information is understood to
run in narrower channels. He then went
off On the well worn argument that Hayes
could not rid himself of the men that
nominated him, whom he designated
somewhat vaguely as "that same old cor
rupt ring, &C." But he forgot to explain
on the same principle how Tilden was to
get rid of Morrissey and Tammany and
the "solid South" who nominated him.
And so our Ed wended drealily on
through the old threadbare argument of
hard times. the greenback delusion, sc i, and
finally appealed to his audience to confde
in the Democratic party bee ause it is not
the same party as of old. at is COM
posed of younger men," said Ed, land is
therefore not what 1t was" The ingen.
ious plea did not have much effect. The
people seemed to think, judging from the
evidence before them, that party might
have an infusion of young blood without
much Improvement.
Mr.. Roszell followed in pretty much
the same strain of stereotyped denuncia-
ton of the Republicans without parti
Gle of proof or demonstration of his vim
dictive accusations. He charged the Re-
publican party with favoring capital
against labor, saying that all bankers and
capitalists are Republicans, and that no
just legislation could be expected from
snch men. The speaker expected his au-
dience to forget Griffith with his $400, 900
and Tilden with his six or seven millions
The balance of the speech was made up
of the usual and nauseating, hypocrtical
pretense of reform, and eulogy of the
reformer who countenanced Tweed in
stuffing the ballot box, and who is now
trying to buy his way into the Presidency.
The people of Quasqueton were neither
edited not convinced by the efforts of
the pair of Bourbons; the only men in
town who seemed to feel good over the
demonstration being the saloon keepers,
who found the crowd particularly
drouthy