The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-10-24
REPUBLICAN RALLY
The Meeting a. LaiEs's Hall List
Night - Tire rorcaIisat
Procession.
Judge Thatcher, of Lawrence, Makes
an Address Filled With the
Old Time Fire.
Gov. Anthony's Great Sp:ech Upon
the Financial Issue.
THE MEETING.

last night was largely attended, the hall
being completely filled. Previous To the
opening of the meeting torchlighl pro-
cession paraded the streets. The Repdbii-.
can Colored Club, headed by the Benevo-
| lent Band, headed the procession, following
which came the Young Mems Republican
Club. headed by the Metropolitan Band.
| The procession made quite handsome Sp-
IL arar ce. about three hundred torches be-
| ing in line. Col. J. L. Abernathy was
chosen az chairman, with the following list
of yice-presidents, the secretaries OF the
| various Republican clubs and 'he members
of the press acting as secretaries:
II Rush. ID K Anthony, Alex Caldwell,
r \ Hershfeld, ii Hopkins, q NJ Bit
man. Geo A Eddy, Arthur Simmons, VIM
Booth. Z = Wilson, Zones, Theo Egers-
6ortf, Chas \ Stevens, Il Z Clark, o Il Tsy-
lor, NJ II Insley, W c Lobensrein.
Tie chairman introduced the Grst speaker
JUICE THACHER,
of Lawrence, who stepped forward and WAS
received with applause. lie said that it
had been twenty years since he had had
the pleasure Of addressing the citizens Of
Leavenworth He paid a compliment To-
the growth and progress OF the beautiful
metropolis since that time, and said he Wa.
pleased to address snch an audience as he
saw before him. At the time he spoke be-
fore it was Just after the adjournment OF
what was known as the Leavenworth Con-
stitutional Convention, and after the labors
of that body were over the delegates, at the
request of the citizens of Leavenworth, held
a mass meeting. Among those who took
part were Gen. J. III. Lane, the gallant sol
dier, Col. ii, =. johnson, and the hrst Free
State Mayor of Leavenworth, Hon. II. j.
Adams. At that time the great Republican
party was in its infancy, that party which
had for its foundation those grand princi-
ples of human equality and liberty which
still exist We were at that time Just en-
tering upon a struggle with which you are
all familiar. The cloud, at that time no
bigger than a mans hand, soon spread over
the country. Kansas led the van IN IN
great struggle. How great and momen'ous
the event Of those four years! No other
county ever passed through such vicissi-
tudes and lived. But when the cloud at
last burst, the Republican party found 1t
self confronting greater lssue than II was
founded to confront. Under the lead OF
Lincoln the Republican party wrenched
from the hands Of slaveocracy the millions
of slaves to whom the South refused TO give
freedom. The Democratic party, under
the southern oligarchy, opposed the Union,
and it is this same oligarchy which rul's
the Democratic party to-day. 1t denied
upon the part of the Union the
power 10 coerce a seeding State. 1t was
struggle as to whether the nation should or
should not live. The nation responded 10
the appeal. You know the terrible and
dark days of the first period OF the war,
when the patriotism OF the nation was 40
severely tried, when the Union army was
everyday meeting with fresh reverses then
was the time when the people rose in their
might and determined to preserve the In
| ion or die in the attempt. 1t was then
! that the Democratic party, or at least that
I which was left of it. assembled in national
convention in Chicago and solemnly de-
creed that the war was failure. Then
came the emancipation proclamation OF
Abraham Lincoln, when the shackles were
stricken from the hands of 5000 900 slaves.
AT last the war was ended, and then came
reconstruction. The magnanimity OF the
North toward their conquered foe has nev
er been eIualled in the history OF the
| world The speaker then referred to the
| nresept condition of the "sOlid south"
where the shotgun policy ruled, and where
states legitimately Republican were terror
ized into being Democratic If the policy
| a the Democracy of the South we're turned
| around and the Republicans OF the North
should use the same policy toward the
| Democrats of the North, there would soon
be a change. and a most wholesome one, ~
the Democratic policy of the S,uth. He
then referred 10 the condition OF tn
national debt, and characterized "a treason
the attempt at repudiation. The debt was
| honestly contracted and as honestly should
he paid. He argued for the increase OF the
| mary, which had been cut down through
the influence Of the ID mocr t. IN Congress,
| many of whom we're Confederate brigsdiers,
| who hated the army which had beaten
them in fair battle The eating down OF
| the army has it, evil results, one Of which
| is the leaving OF the frontiers entirely At
| the mercy Of the Inerciless savage. We
| have had a mos. vivid example of this dur
| ing the past few weeks. The speaker was
v,ry sarcastic whCa referring TO the cipher
telegram eTpose. and when he spoke Of Mr..
| TIlden. as the great "reformer," the house
fairly rang with laughter. He closed with
an eloquent appeal to the Republicans to
stand by the old flag and remain true to
their colors and that victory would surely
follow.
| GOVERNOR ANTHONY.
Gov. Anthony began his speech by say
ing that he had stated at a meeting a short
time ago that at some future time he would
show up the fallacy and Inconsistencies oi
the addIe-brained idiots who were bowling
40 loudly for greenbacks, and that he
would also show that greenbacks were NOT
moeny, that they Sere never inteuded to be
money, but that, merely as an expediency
during time of war, they were a sort ol
bridge or plank to serve as crossings over
difficult and dangerous places. He said
that the issuing Of greenbacks was never
authorized by the constitution OF the
United States, and that their Issue was in
direct violation to that provision OF the
constitution which authorized Congress te
coin money. He said that no ma
ton on earth had ever issued paper curren'
CIV except as war expediency, and that
eyerynation which hadhad suffered CONNER
ci.l disaster and been brought to the very