Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-11
THE WIGWAM,
Its Conservation to DeGoIyer--Speeches by
Atlce, Weaver, Wilson and Am
wake-A Genuine Circus.

wake-A Genuine Circus.
Last night the wigwam of the Sixth
ward Republicans was formally consecrated
Ito the cause of DeGolyer Garfield and
Custom House Arthur. The wigwam is a
rotten, dirty, leaky old tent, to all ap-
pearance formerly used as a side-show tent
to travelling circus. The lot on which it
stands corner of Walnut street and Cherry
alley, is surrounded by a tumble-dOwn
fence, fit emblem Of the rottenness Of the
Republican barricades which the Demo-
cratic army will so easily demolish next
| November.
The meeting last night drew together
quite crowd Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
haps three hundred, Democrats, Grecn-
hackers and Republicans, men women and
children.
Candidatc-for-JudgcW VIM. A. Atlec, esq.,,
president of the Sixth ward club, called
the meeting to order, and made brief
speech, in which he prOphesied Gariieid's
election with as much positiveness as hc
prophesicd, not many years ago, that the
Gcyclin pump and wheel ut our water
works would supply the city with abund-
| ancc Of water for fifty years t" come. As
prophet, William has always been very
| unfortunate.
! The x-mayor WAS followed by Candi-
datc-for- -District-Attorney William ID.
| Weaver esq, who delivered the same
| speech that he has heretofore delivered
two or three times during tho campaign,
merely emitting Judge Blacks endorse
mcnt of Garfield, and, instead, placing us
under obligations for a ilattcring notice Of
the IHTEIirGESCEI, which he said he read
''evcrycvcniny' and intimated that all other
good Republicans should do the same, if
| they wished to keep themselves abreast the
political news of the day, rs the Hog Ring
and Bull Ring organs have become 50 ter
ribly mixed that it is impossible to tell
"'tOther from which, Mr.. Weaver'S
mind is 4 little c!ouded as yet, rs to
whether Tom Davi; Or Adam Eberly is the
Simon pure Republican candidate for dis
trict attorney, this ear, but he is certain
that w. ID. Weaver should bc the candi-
| date in 1888.
Mr.. Weaver closed his Grafton, and the
Il
| occasion struck mp the favorite air,
| In lsS. for balls, for balls.
In 1851, tor balls!
| In I>>;, Bill Weaver our candidate shall he,
| And well all drink stone blind.
l Johnny fill up the bowl!
Ex-Candidate VIM. A. Wilson, esq,
| was the next speaker. He looked sad and
remarked that doubtful things are very
uncertain. (Arplausc.) He would not for
the world say anything to discourage Mr..
Weaver but experience had proved that
the battle is not always with tho strong.
| Npplausc.) lie had himself been y cand-
| date for district attorney and had
been squelchcd. (Crics Of good,
goodD IIc thought he would never
be candidate again (Yelis of
approbation.) Garfield is good
candidate, Judge Poland's committee to
tho contrary notwithstanding. Arthur
is 4 good candidate, though II. b. Hayes
and John Sherman turned him out of
Office on the ground of dishonesty. Tom
Davis is good candidate and deserves
the support of every true Republican who
does not prefer Adam EbcrIy. In tho Ian
s,,a@c of Shakespeare
lie is IN honorable man:
So are they all honorable men.
| Who stuffed the primary ballnt-bOX.
| -(Applau-c.)
The great feature Of tic Wigwam
was the speech Of Candidate for Anything
Jake Amwakc. He assembled the stand
and after splitting tobacco juice all over it,
he commenced liarangue in Pennsylvania
Dutch. Jakc's dialect, like his politics, is
4 little difficult 10 comprehend. He was
understood to say that hc had roved all
things and held fast to nothing. lie had
been Democrat, and finding they would
not give him an office, he did all lie could
to disors:nizc the party by remaining in
it. When he was finally kicked out he
joined the Know Nothings and for time
| sllonc in that dark-!antern organization
| ''lil;c rotten mackcrel by moonlight
| When that party went to the dcmnition bow
vows he for 4 time connected himself with
tho Prohibitions.s but their principles,
like their beverages. were too thin to suit
his masculine brain and bowels. lie was
determined not to make Doctor Tanner of
himself and so lie joined the local whisky
| ring, mere miniaturc of the ring Of which
the great General Grant was the head and
Macdonald the tail. He was SD delighted
will, the change Of diet that he has stuck
to il ever since. Grant is the true type of
Rcpublicansm. lie takes all he can get
and asks for more. He don't bother
himself about principle when interest is at
stake. This thing Of sticking about tariffs
and finances and civil service reform is all
humbug. have tried them all-bcen on
all sides Of every 4uestiOn-walked al
aroulld them and viewed them from every
stand point, and declare on the honor of
an original Grccnback man there's nothing
in 'cm. "Bc all things to all men," rs
one of the blessed apostles said. "Be
everything by turns and nothing long"
Mutation is the law Of nature, and we
must continue to n,utatc if We don't want
to be left behind. Then let us give three
cheers for the tariff and the Golden club.
Three cheers for the national banks, green
backs and the specie currency, three cheers
for prohibition and the whisky ring and
three rousing ones for Hancock and Gar
field. Crhundcrs Of applause, during
which Jake wiped the tobacco juice from
his chin and sat down exhausted).
The band played ''Ovcr the fence is
out" and the meeting adjourned. 1t WIS
i famous victory.