The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-10-10
REPUBLICAN RALLY.
A 9ousins Reception at the Opera
House Last Night to Colonel
ST. John.
The Parade of the Republican Clubs
Previous to the Speaking.
The Opera House Crowded With
the Thinking and Intelligent
Portion Of the Com
muniy.
REPUBLICAN RALLY.
THE REPUBLICAN RALLY.

THE REPUBLIciy RALLY.
The -.epublicau rally at ;he Opera Hou,
last night was a success, tie house bein
crowded to III fullest opacity with ,h
thinking, intelligent pc. tion Of the con
muuil, At O'Clock, the Colored keput
!ican club. headed by .he Benevolent ban,
u arched iron their headquarters, at ~
G. or Il Fifth and Shawn-e streets, 10 IN
headquarters Of the Youug Mems Reprbli
cPn Cub, at the "orner Of Fourth an
Shawnee streets frr,u. where the procession
mov-i. The YcdEg Mems Club head,
the procession, pr. -ded by the Mefropoli
tar band, af er whIch came the coloret
club tegtld by the BENEVOLENT band. Tn,
route taken by the processicn WAS dowI
sha vnee to Main, on Main 10 Delaware
w,st on Delaware to Fifth, up Fifth Il
: S.awnee, down : a.-ner 10 FoL-th anC
down Fourth L, the Opera House, ere
sfGer three ch,g:s given for Col. ST. John
lie two cub. catered the hall where the
meeting was held.
THE CROWD.
At eight o'clock the time appointed fol
! the speaking 10 commence, the hall wa
crowded TO It's utmost capacity, but not.
Sith-tanding the large assemblage upon
the inside of the Opera House, the crowd
outside was five times as large, numbering
several hundred. Many could not get into
the hall on account Of the crowd.
THE SPEAKING.
Hon. II. NJ. Aller, Chairman Of the
County Central Committee, opened the
meeting by reading the list Of Vice Presi-
dents and Secretaries, which are as follows:
VICE PRESIDENTS Hon. A Caldwell,
Col. J. II. Gilpa,rick, Hon. Geo. 7. An
thony, Jas. F. Legate, Geo. A. Eddy, Robt
Samuels, Col ID. X. Anthony, Col. J. L.
Abernsthy, r. n. Hershfeld, Lucien Ba-
ker, VIM. Dill, ii. ID. Rush, Judge Robt.
Crozier, Chas ii. Miller, Judge Newton
Mann, W. III. Bond, Judge J. c. Vaughan,
NJ. Przy ylowicz, H. C. Hackbusch, Henry
Kreziorn, ID. NJ. Swan, Rev. W. \.
Page, Maj. II. Hopkins, Ed. Russell, Ar
thur Simmons, Col. J. c. Carpenter, Dr. J.
W. Brock, Samuel Dodsworth, Robt. J.
Brown, ii. ID. MacKay.
SBcRETAF Benjamin, J. /.
Jones, j. L. Maxwell, M;Cown Hunt, T.
NJ OBrien, and the reporters and members
Of the press.
The Chairman then introduced Mr.. Phil
lips, of Oiathe, who sang that old time and
popular song, a Thousand Years My
Own Columbia" which was encored to the
echo
The Hon. A. B. Jetmore, of Topeka, was
then introduced, who spoke at some length.
In fact Mr.. Jetmore spoke too long, as the
audience was impatient to hear Col. ST. |
John. The State Central Committee could |
have done better than to se.ect Mr.. Jet
more to accompany Col. St. John.
COL. ST. JOHN.
Col. ST. John was then introduced and /
vas loudly cheered as he stepped forward.
lie spoke at length, and was frequently
by loud and vociferous d,mon.
trstions. In referring TO the display made
" Kansas al the Centennial, where Kansas
bowed corn stalk nil etecn feet in height,
is as-,rtipn that such curn could never
row on Democratic soil was greeted
nth deafering cheers lie paid glowing
ribute TO the Stale, in ianguag. chosen
nd Chsste, Icing iuplauded again and ag sin.
Tie / lnces he said the GIebG OF
ne country in 1871 was So 100000 From
nat time until lS6l, the Democratic party
eing in power all that tine, the debt In
7eased TO S9l, 600 900. The Republican
arty came into power at the latter date,
nd what ensued during the following iour
ears everyone knows. The debt lose 10
,, 2,1CO,O00,O0O, in consequence of the wsr.
hat has the Republican part, done with |
Iat debt ? 1t has paid over 500 100000 OF
lai d -bi, and counting the floating debt,
OF ocun.ed In the aggregate, ihe debt has
ten deC-ea-od over 81 100000 900. The
iierest bearing Gebt has teen decreased
YER 100000 100, and now the debt is {
80 than S20JO000, 600, and no. onlv {
lat but have Ies-en,d the interest upon {
" debt also. Instead OF paying $3.50, Co.,
70 Of Interest yearly now, We pay but
u 090, coo interest yesTi,, and but SIS ,
1900 TO foreign b0uiholders. The ,
,iance 4 trade h4s beer rDed in our ,
vor 10 ti.- amount of $4,000 900, and -.
1t, too, in cash Tn.re L. but $3.50 ,0OO.- =,
% Of cur d bi nOw held abroad, ard in !,
re yea 80 all of ,dr debt will be held !
home, and the interest uron it will also :
paid 4 home. This vii. lessen the brr- :
4. sc Nv Ge r, and make them easier to /;
rry.
In this age and da- every man who is !
Hing 10 work an! hss ordinary health.
ed i,rer suffer. W. are in "a good con-
ion a. We eSsr ", :, and our prosperity .
becoming more apparent every day. In
gard TO himself, C.. 81. John said that {
had his own convictions and would ex-
ess them, ,snd believed that every many had Il
e same right 40 to do. Four years ago the q
prayed and p -sded for votes c
ainst Tom Osborn because he got drunk q
", they pleaded and prayed for votes /
ainst him because he didn't get drunk,
d they denounced him as bypocrite be- /
use he did what little he could to secure v
borne's election. Four years ago the
mocracy was the party of temperance and
day it is just the opposite is a +
cd example of Democratic consistency. |,
!. St John spoke at snme length being n
quentlv interrupted with cheers and ap- !,
,use. The most perfect order was main h
ned throughout, the strictest attention 4,
ing paid to everything said. The vast ii
dienoe sat as under spell while Col ST. =
hn was speaking. When he retired the I
plause was tremendous. q,
JUDGE HANBACK,, h
Topeka, was next introduced by the h
airman. and spoke for a short time.
dge Hanback, is good speaker, clear fo
d logical, and received merited applause 81
GLORY, GLORY HALLELuJAH." &c
Mr.. Phillips then came forward and sang ie
II rousing sorg GLORY, Glory Halleluiah,n Is
, tune being that of John Browne Body.n =, 4!
e audience Joined in the chorus, and The l
lis Of the Opera House fairly rang with - :,
melody. CT
Mr. J. L. WALLER,
Secretary of the Colored Republican
10, was then introduced and spoke for q
; moments, after which the meeting was ce
ourped