The Leavenworth weekly times., 1877-11-08
Laing's Fall Crowded TO its Utmost
Capacity With Eager List
ners to Distinguish
ed Speakers.
The Air Rent With Cheers for ihe
Peoples Candidate and the
Next Sheriff of leav-
enworth County.
The Young Mems Club and the COL
ored Club Make a Brilliant
Street Parade.

Yesterday evening, pursuant 10 call, the
Young Mems T.. q. Lowe Club and the coior,d
T.. q. Love Club, met at Laing's Hall, at SIX
O'Clock, and, after arranging the line OF
march, started fToIn the hall with hamb,auN
and banners, precs-ed by B!osS. excellent
band, and marched through the princiIaI
streets, making a procession nearly fye hun
dred strong. The side walks ON bOtn sides of
the streets were 20 densely eros dod that il
was almost impossible In some places for a
pasSer TO get by. Intense enthusiasm was AT
every corner made Inanlf :. by cheers for
"IIon. +. q. Low, the next sheriff OF LehVen-
worth comfy" The excitement Oh the streets
confined untH after the procession marched
into
LAING's HALL,
whe.e the multitude followed, cheering As
they went, each seeming intent only on max
ing the air re5ound with the name o: Mr..
Lowe. On arriving in the hal! the band re n
dered some excellent music TO au audience
which numbered fully
TWO THOUSAND VOTERS,
both white and colored. The Hall was so
denseIy crowded that there was scarcely
standing room At the proper hour Mr.. NJ.
&. Morris, President of the Young Mems z. q.
Lowe Club, called the assembiage To order
and Introduced
HON. THOMAS MOONLIGHT,
| as the first speaker. He was greeted with
| storms of applause, as he had come fOrwai II
| in consonance with the pledge he had made
| at the convention TO support Its nominee. His
remarks were addressed TO the Club, and were
received a. the best and nearest TO the point
of anything said during the evening He said
he wanted il distinctly understood that lie
was addressing the club, and not any party.
| He had been accused of working against
Mr.. Lowe, and fatty denied the
| with putting Morgan on another ticket, but
i all the refutation he had to make, was that
| il was at his and Mr.. B. B Moore's
| the contest. That he thought IL did not look
like fighting Mr.. Lowe. He had, he said,
| been charged with having arranged Tor a
/ deputy sheriff on the opposition tick
| ct This, too, he said was untrue.
l He spoke IN glowing terms of the work the
| young men had done for Mr.. Lowe and dur
ing iIs iaIer remarks referred 10 the fact that
| IL was himself VINO introduced the resolution
/ in the convention, asking the pledge OF every
| man in ii for the support of the nominee for
| sheriff He had told Mr.. Spalding once that
| Mr.. Lowe would beat him live hundrSd and
| since the young men had taken hold of II lac
| could safely count the majority at one thou
sand. His speech was loudly apP.audet
| when he left the stand and
HON. ]. W. TAYLOR,
! who succeeded him, was welcomed in a like
| manner. Mr.. Taylor spoke lii hand
| soIne terms of the work accomplished 10y
| the club, and said, in every school house IA
| the county where he had been, the name 81
| Hon. 4 q. Lowe was the fayoTite aS n candI
date for sheriff. He said there was little poll
| ties in the present election, and that people
J in s-lcctin. the by-st man, had wisely cilosei
| Mr.. Lowe. aud lie should be elected by "A tIg,
| majority. The only issue" he said, ''i> Il
| get men trust. MIR. Lowe il known
10 be an honest and capabl man. This h.,,
| been plain that IL has drawn out the youn-
! men oi LeavenwOrth 10 support him. His
| speech WAS TO the point and well Received.
| CAPT. W. d. MATTHEWS
| the next speaker, in his own peculiarly forci.
| Bile way, asserted the rights OF the color
| men to vote for whom they pleased, ithoul
| regard 10 political bondage, and sad ther,
| would be more "'Dlack horses break tneil
brides during the coming election than any
| body Ind an idea OFF, He in >cathlng terms
| mentioned the Editor of the Pr ~ "A musll-
| room Ofsudden growth, and Of but little fore,
| for saying there would not BE- twenty-five
| colored votes polled for NJ. Lowe. He said
| further, that II the men who had report ed
| wouli see three hundred ballots east by the
| colored men for p. q. Lowe. His remarks
| were frequently applauded.
| HON. THOMAS p. FENLoN
| next being called for made a short speech,
| but seeming TO forget the question in point,
\ dTifled away into national politics, which are
| not now in debate. He finally said. however
| that he had never known ticket headed
| more worthily than the one now before the
| people, and that Mr. Lowe had always BEEN
| known TO be an honest man, and worthy the
| support Of his people.
| At the conclusion of his remarks three rous-
| ing cheers Were given for Hon. Il. q. Lowe,
| the next sheriff of Leavenworlh county, ana
| the meeting wds adj djourned.