Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-11-08

high, the low, the gutteral and pa
thetic, as is his wont, when Mr.. Mich
oil and friends entered the hail. And
the twenty dollar a>night philan-
thropist was caught in his first steal.
After few words between the mod
orators, Mr.. Cary, the man appointed
by Brick Pomeroy to run for Vice
President, remarked as be would
have to leave at half-past four that he
would speak to that time and Mr.
Nichol could answer him in the eve
ming. To which Mr.. Nichol with a
courtesy and generosity unparalleled,
assented. But, beng reminded that
the hall was engaged for the evening
it was decided that the joint debate
should 90 on. Mr. Carey then had the
andacity TO propose that He would
speak halt an hour, then Nichol
should speak an hour and half, and
HE would close in an hour So un
fair a division of time was never
thought ofin joint discussion, which |
proposition was promptly refused.
Thus steal No. 2 was frustrated. 1t
was then decided that Nchol should |
divide the time and Cary should make |
| the choice. In this matter Cary |
showed the white feather by deciding
hat Mr.. Nichol should speak first,
thus putting himself on the defensive.
Preliminaries arranged, Mr. Nichol |
took the stand and for an hour and a |
quarter held his audience in wrapt at |
tention. His defense of the financial |
policy of the government was mas
terly effort, every thought came clear |
cut, driven home by irresistible logic |
and clinched by decision of the SUI
preme court. Every proposition was
so clearly stated, so conclusively pro-
ven by the acts of Congress, reports
of the treasury, decisions of the courts
that, like the cut gem, it only present
ed glittering facts or cutting points.
Having stated the financial policy |
of the Government, and the law on |
on which it was founded The Lit
tle-Big- Man grasped tho rag baby, |
plucked off the glittering robes OF
faIsehood and deceit in which it was
clothed, held the disgusting doform-
ity with its ne ther parts of repudia-
ton and its red hand of communism
up TO the abhorrent gaze of his aud
fence, till many thoughtful man
shudderingly sighed, lis this horror
the thing Of cur alteration? Is this
hybrid the panacea for national pros
tration ?"
The speakers utterances were so
rapid, his thought so far reaching,
his conclusions so inevitable, that
this mighty audience became one
with him, and even Cary looked as
If be would vote the hard money
ticket had he the chance.
it now became Cary's turn. lie
took the stand evidently stunned by
the vigorous, unexpected attack
Too wiley to attempt the impregna-
bic positions his opponent had pre-.
sented to him, be left the finance
question entirely, and spreading his
wings foated off into limitless and
underlined realms of theory and spec
ulatioD, flung to bis Gaping admir-
ers glitteIing generalities and alb
stract facts either too deep or too
misty for them to see through
meanwhile he stirred them with his
inimitable gutterals or tickled them
with coarse jokes, profanity and low
buffoonery.
While chosen band of stampers
and howlers, ably commanded, at
tempted to make up in bowls what
the orator lacked in argument.
Ouly once did he touch the point
at issue when be stated that the prin-
cipal OF the 5 90 bonds was intended,
at the time of their issue, to be paid
in greenbacks, and 1t was so adver-
tised by j. Cooke, the agent of the
government, and he defied anybody
and everybody to prove to the con-
trary.
Cary's time being up, then follow
ed the most disgraceiul scene ever
witnessed in a civilized community.
His trained howlers screeched and
yelled, called Gary, Cary, Cary"
while Nichol attempted to speak Mr..
Barrows, the Greenback moderator.
expostulated, and even Cary seemed
to be ashamed of the base passions
he had excited. After five minutes
OF pandemonium, order was restored.
As dumb brutes bow their heads at
the coming storm, so did these men
shrink from the tornado that awaited
them. 1t came, and with the first
flash down came their whole struct-
ure about their heads.
Nichol took pile of papers and
then read the official advertisement of
the 5 20 bonds IN WHICH 1T STATED
THAT THE PRINCIPAL AND IN
TEREST OF THESE BONDS Is
TO BE PAID IN GOLD Then he
read the law creating them, showing
how the coin was to be procured
The Greenbacker's defiant smile
faded, and the cloud that overspread
Cary's face could only be darkened
by the next stroke.
Nichol took from the table a vol.
ame of Webstcr's speeches and read
.herefrom towering flight of oratory
that Cary had stolen, distorted and
used in his peroration as his own, as
follows:
"THIS is THE MOST EFFECT
UAL OF INVENTIONS TO FER
TILIZE THE RICH MANS FIELD
BY THE SWEAT OF THE POOR
MANS BROW" etc, the finest pas
sage that ever passed his lips
A shout went up from the audience
which was subdued by a feeling of
pity for an old man, prominent man