The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-05-31
A COOL RECEPTION.
There Was Something Dead in the
Academy Last Evening, and
Buttermilk and Brandy
Couldn't Warm It
Into Life.
THE CORPSE OF CORRUPTION.

TOM BROWN, PINK FIsHBACK AND OTHERS
ASSISTED AT THE ORTIZ WAKE, AND WILL
ACT AS PAIL BEAREBs ON THE OCCASION
OF THE FUNERAL.
Notwithstanding there was very fair
audience assembled at the Academy OF
Music last evening, there was conspicu-
Gus absence OF enthusiasm, and it took
long time to collect the crowd with the aid
of artillery practice and a brass band. As
a gentleman remarked on appealing to the
small boys on the stairway ID De
good, "there was something dead up
stairs" The assembly was composed
largely of the curious, for there is large
element in every
COMMUNITY CURIOUS TO SEE A NOTORIOUS
It isn't every day that a congressional
claim agent, a widows friend and great
Know Nothing, ali combined in one, is ae-
cessible to allwho would behold such a spec
tacle. Besides it was the first general
campaign meeting of the presidential year
The occasion was one that should have
crowded the house from pit to dome.
However, there was crowd enough to have
enthused the ring-mssters on the stage
had it not been for the fact that
there was a corpse among them.
II was generally understood that tele-
grams had been received by those in
authority from certain sections of the
state demanding the withdrawal OF Ortiz
from the ticket because of his connection
with the Venezuela villsiny. This demand,
added to the able article from the Evans
vile Journal, circulated in the city through
the News, threw
A DAMPER UPON THE CAMPAIGN
srdor of the old warehouses that soon
spread among the rank and file OF the
party of power and plumber. Whatever
the cause, 1t will hardly be denied that
there were no demonstrations of delight.
Even the fiery, unframed Pink Fishback,
the old wheel-horse of the periy, could
excite no enthusiasm, nor could buster
ing John Hanna, the carpet-bsg indignant
from the bluegrass region of old Putnam.
The sole proprietor was nowhere to be
seen. Governor Baker, of the commit
tee of safety, excited the sympathy of
the audience for his misplaced confidence
in Orth. 1t came from boyhood Rssocii-
tions and failure to read the kilograms q
the times. There was a fearful lack OF
widows in the front seats, much 10 The dis
appointment OF the more credulous of the
party, who thought they would rally as
one woman with buttermilk by the bowl.
GOVERNOR BAKER TRoTs OUT THE ADMIRAL.
About eight O'Clock the gas was turned
mains broke loose on the stage and the
wind work began. Governor Baker took
the stand, and said ne had made the &C
quaintance of a young man forty years ago
in an obscure village In the East and Il en-
formed an attach ment for him which has
continued ever since, and his name was
Godlove s. 0rth. He said they were
friends then and had been ever
since, and if he is unworthy Of public con-
hdence he was very much mistaken in the
man. Having vouched for his friend even
so giDeerly, Governor Baker beckoned
him forward aud staggered to seat, ex-
hausted by the effort. Then
OILY CANNON ORTIZ STOOD UP
and exhibited his fair proportions to the
sssemblsge. He said:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-When a person
has been from home, whether for a long or a
short time, there is nothing more grateful to
his heart when he meets old friends than to
have from them, as have from you here to-
night, hearty welcome to his old hUme.
shall detain you but very short time, in
from abroad In fact, to use
a common expression, and one which will be
appreciated by those who cross the briny
deep. ~ have hardly yet got my sea legs off
me-" But when heard was to be invited
here to meet my fellow citizens at the capital
mind to come. L come before you tonight
more for the purpose OF seeing you and
making some little exhibit or my
self than 4or anything else. Thirty years
ago 1 was better acquainted with 1ndi-
annapolis than L am to-day. Then my bust
ness relations brought me here frequently in
the time the Peters case was reversed, Tor in
stance.l The older citizens of indianapolis
OF my own neighbors at Lsfayette.
But one-third of century has
traverse the streets OF your beautiful, great
and prosperous city, see SOL e one / saw and
greeted In Tsf days gone by Many Of tn
ing people. Thirty years have made
Y 1&I were Scattered village ON the banks Of
White river, To-day. by the energy and enter
prize OF your business men you, have built up
a city which is acknowledged 70 be
THE MOST PROSPEROUS OF ANY INLAND CITY
in the United State. AS an humble
your progress and your prosperity
Across the ocean every Englishman is proud
of London; every Frenchman is proud of the
beautiful city of Paris, and every Austrian is
Ma why should not every cit
zen of Of Indiana be proud Of the
making my arrangements 10 spe nd the next
four years OF my lite here. [Cheers and cat
calls cal % the IND Of February last, am told
that there was assembled in this
hall convention which, for Intelligence and
patriotism has not been equal ed, even in this
city of conventions. That convention saw at
10 place my name before the peop for the
high and resp Jnsible position of governor OF
me through the medium Of that sell
1tary wire that spans the wide
and stormy Atlantic, OF the action Of this con-
vention. adding that IL was with great
unanimity that they had chosen me and that
was the real choice of the
party. 1 answered that the nomination
thus given 10 me was. thankfully ac-
eepted, and In obedience 70 the call am here
tonight, as expect TO be, If God gives me
health and strength, In every county in the
state between now and the second Tuesday In
October; tilithe close OF the polls shall teach
modern Democracy that this republic does
not intend to- surrender itself into
the hands Of ''confederate' power.
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