Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-09-16
REPUBLICAN MASS MEETING.


particular. he largest audlence ever
convened at the court house on, politi-
cal occasion was in attendance. "A num-
Der Of ladies were present and seemed to
enter heartily into the spirit of the meet
ing. ,.r;,rm III. tlusi. vll.;.,4a-s ..,..,
The meeting was calledi to order by
Geo. w. Bell, ESQ.,, and upon motion
Ward B. Macarthur was elected Chair
man. A campaign song was then sung
by an improvlsed glee club. for the oc
casion, after which, the Hon. E. G. d.
Holden spoke for over two hours. He
commenced by referring to misrepresent-
alton in regard to the meeting ut PetOs-
KEY, and as to what he should have said
in his speech at Mackinaw, it having
been circulated on the street by the De-
mocracy that he shonld have sail on
that occasion that the only difference be-
tween an IrishInan and Il donkey was
that the latter could not vote. Mr..
Holden denied making any such state
meiit, aid stated just What he did say,
and called'upoh those present. who at
tended the lneetidg at Mackin;rw to cor
rect him if hot tlile. He then proceed
ed TO presentiin array OF facts and fig
ures 'substanliatiiig the claims OF the
Repnb.icau administrations to an
ecOli0nicsil and honest care of the ifter-
ests of The country, and compared the
claims Of the two great pol ticai parties,
to the support of the iltclligent and
honest voters Of the country ut
tile election next November. lie
claimed that he WAS not making Il canvas
tor his own personal interests; and said
if the grand old Republican party Was
defeated he wished to SO down with the
party, but he did not think there was
much fear of any such calamity happcn-
ing IN Michigan, and that which elected
he would continue as he had done since
ia Office, 10 conduct Lis department. hon
estly and for the interests of the whole
state. He referred to the ''hard tines
argument of THE Democracy. ard denied
that times were as hard as they lave
been in the past, and showed by facts
that they are not confined alOneto this ma
ton that it was not just or fair to charge
their production to the Republican party
His speech was iiIltersperscd with nhmer-
Gus anecdotes, which created cOnsideia-
Bile laughter OH the part Of the audience.
Numerous points ma1e against the DEM
ocracy were loudly appl;luded. The au-
diencepaid the greatest attention through
out the entire speech.
Attic close,Of Mr.. Holden's speech
1.-THE glee club sang a campaign song to
1.-THE tune of Hold the Fort, after which
our fellow townsman, WIS. Humphrey,
Esq, made short speech. Mr.. Hum
phrey had a severe cold, which rendered
speaking very difficult matter with him.
and he asked the Indulgence OF hfs
hearers during tile brief time he would
detain them. He stated that, although
he had spoken before a Cheboygail audi
ence quite frequently, it heretofore had
been i'm behalf of a client and his remarks
were chiefly directed to the jurors, and
always had all opposing cousel to correct
him in any misstatemenI Of facts or law,
end he mu"h preferred that manner of
discussing any question, and thought
that political discussions should be held
as they were dong in Indiana, where the
Hon. John Sherman, OF Ohio, and Dan
VorhiesLthe' tall sycamore of the Wa
bash yalley-the Stephen A. Douglass OF
the Democratic party of to-day, had
been holding discussions, and where the
tall sycamore had to come down.
In the present case he would put i'm his
plea I'M behalf of his clients. Rutherford
b. Hayes and VIM. A.WheeIer. the plsin-
tiffs, with Samuel j. Tilden and Thomas
A. Hendricks as the defendants, and his
audience as the jury. He referred first
to the characters Of Hayes and Wheeler.
who were admitted by the leaders of the
Democratic party to be good, pure and
honest men, whose integrity had never
been questioned and whose record was
perfectly clean. He compared the plat
forms Of the two parties and showed from
Democratic authority that the main fea-
lures OF the two platforms were indertical
and consequently the great Importance
of serutizing the characters of the cail-
didates, and seeing which were the most
worthy of the confidence Of the Ameri- |
can people. He referred to the Opposite
tendency OF the two, Democratic candi-
dates OH the financial questions, Tildeh
being the representative Of ''hard money"
and Hendricks being emphaticallv soft |
money" or greenback man. He took up |
Mr.. Tilden's record and briefly referred |
to his many connections with matters
that should cause all to stop and con-
slider whether or not he was a man en-
titled to the confidence Of the people. He
spoke of the repeal of the date clause of the
resumption act, and asked the audience
which they would prefer in the transac-
tion of business: to'take a mans note
payable at certain date, or one payable
in the ''sweet by and by,r whenever they
got good ready. 1t was a parallel case;
the Republican party Ind set a date at
which time the UnitedStates would pay
its debts; the Democracy .demand the
repeal of the clause and that the honest |
payment of our debts should be deferred
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