Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-18

OUT 20 nOuOr Tue man VINO le1C tue
field to run for Congress-. Company
A. of the Young Mems club marched and
drilled handsomely and made the rest Of
the parade look rather straggly. The
members of these four companies num-
bered about $50 and they were followed by
the ward clubs, the colored troops being put
at the tail Of the procession some o! the
mohes being furnished torches and others
caps and capes, no man getting more than
half uniform to himself. Besides these
there were about a score of fhorsemen cover
ing the retreat aud altogether there were in
line, uniformed and nOn-uniformed Just
93S men. They marched pretty we'll over
the town and hallooed themselves hoarse
over the signal defeat of Blaine in Maine.
When the parade was finished greatly to
the disgust OF the footsore troops they
| were marshaled in Centre square and
forced to listen to a bloody shirt speech by
Maj. "A. Wilson Norris.
The procession as 4 whole made 4 very
| creditable appearance and good order was
observed all along the line. Numerically
| it fell far short of the expectations Of the
managers, and several of the ward clubs
presented a painfully weak array Of voters.
! The Third ward seemed to carry off the
laurels, as their uniform most closely re-
sembied that adopted by the Democratic
clubs of the city.
Republican Outburst ut Mechanicsburs.
| About so OF 60 men, women, boys and
hostlcrs met ut Mcchanicsburg ON Thurs
day evening to hear the old, old story of
alleged Republican greatness. The as
sembly was really too weak to have stall
wart president-in fact officers would have
exhausted the meeting-sO the speakers
were introduced promiscuously and with
out ceremony.
The first orator was Chas. Il. Kline. esq,
the heavy weight elocutionist of Barbary
Coast-given to music, fine arts and strong
cigars. He spoke seven minutes by the
watch, and he informs us he spoke in very
general terms. His speech had seven
heads, and each head seven lines his
Grafton therefore pleased his audience,
who have 4 superstitiOus veneratiOn for
the scriptural number seven. Charles cX-
hibited his mental strength in ASSERTING.
that the Republican defeat in Maine was
not SO much of 4 deluge after all, and his
physical powers in making his resonant
voice heard five feet ten inches by exact
measurement.
The next speaker was J. W. Z. Baus-
man, esq, formerly Of Manor township,
now sojourner from Europe. lie in
formed his audience that he had travelled
this universe as far as steam and sail would
carry him, and had just returned with his
baggage from Asia i'll three ships he had
kissed the Blarney stone and looked at
the Irish lard question from a London
coach lie had stood in Westminster hall
dcrstand had slipped '''alf an 'ali'' with
| lS I,
French communists discussed, "Is life
worth livinga" with German socialists, and
the possibilities of Italian poetical thought,
with q Florence court-and al these con-
vinced him that the inherent tendencies of
Republicanism to 4 real or imaginary aris-
tocracy, founded upon European traditions
would be the salvation Of America. Mr..
Ba,,sman considered himself in his speech
so much traveller, that he looked at
American politics through cosmopolitan
eycs-and came to the conclusion that
Democrats being socialists, nihilists and
communists, had no rights which Repub-
lican aristocracy should cOuntenance for q
moment. AS travellers impressions,
"JOe's" speech was 4 humorous success.
| Next came George Il. Lane, familiarly
known as Judge" who made the same
speech he delivered at the Gap. 1t seems
these different speakers had agreed to
make short speeches. Kline kept the
agreement. Bausman exhausted European
politics in 20 minutes, SO Lane, not to be
OutdOne, spoke rs long as Bausman. But
when Lane is wound up he must speak 90
minutes; his speech is just SO long /; lie
starts OF like Il stone from 4 catapult and
| can't stop whether he has an audience
or not. Like the man blown up in Il
steamboat having q, through ticket, he is
bound to so up, whether there is anything
to see or not. Lane made the Rcpubli-
cans of Mcchanicsburg tremble like aspen
leaves-fOr said they, if this be logic and
clOqucncc, wo unto us, oh! Lancaster
county.
William +. Buyer was so dis@ustcd with
the heavy weight eloquencc of Kline, the
cgOtism of European 'JOe, and the logic
OF Lane, that he would not speak-sO four
noble orators came sEecpishiy to town in
the wee sma' hours.'
\ Hancock Flag.
The Shirk Bros, of Providence town
ship, on receipt of the news from Maine
flung to the breeze a sixteen-foot flag with
placard inscribed ''Ilave you heard
from Maine >" These are the same parties
who four years ago, when Tilden was
elected, strung out two large flags and
kept them there until the electoral fraud
was consummated. With such 3: spirit
| animating the Democracy VIC may expect
muc!, of Providence in November.
FOIJND DEAD