The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-17
THE BOOSTERS LAST NIGHT.
STIRRING ADDRESSES FROM HON, r. f. AL
BRIGHT AND d. T. LINEGAR, ESQ.,


STIRRING ADDRESSES FROM HON. r. f. AL.
BRIGHT AND d. T, LINEGAR, ESQ.
The Hancock and English Boosters"
had their regular meeting at their club
room last night. The crowd was good,
many strangers beng present. Much en-
thusiasm was manifested during the meet
ing and the business transacted was both
interesting and important The minutes of
the previous meeting were read and then
the general business was taken up.
A resolution instructing or ask
ing the delegates to the Democratic
congressional convention to vote for Hart
zell was, after some discussion, tabled.
Several reports. of committees were read,
among which was that of the committee on
uniforms. The reports were all accepted,
and the committee mentioned was in
structed to proceed with the purchase of
the uniforms they had agreed upon,
sample of which was exhibited to the club.
After other business of minor i'm
portance was transacted the speak
ers were called for, and Mr..
Albright responded TO the loud calls of his
name He took the stand a. 9:15 o'clock
and spoke eloquently and powerfully for
abou. an hour.
He regretted that he had not been given
time for preparation, but would do the best
he could under the circumstances. He was
glad to see so many of his old friends pres
ent. He had known many of them years
ago when they were boys, but they had
now grown up to take part in the great
periodical struggle the country was gong
through. He had reason to remember
with pleasure his former residence in this
city, for he and always been kindly treated
here and repeatedly promoted to positions
of public trust.
He thought that organization amounted to
a great deal. Some persons were inclined
to believe that show was unnecessary, but he
had reason TO believe that show had a great
influence. 1t would catch the sense. and in
huence the understanding OF persons who
could be reached in no other way
We had, in 1868, seen an organization
here Of one thousand democrats, but he was
as proud Of this as he ever was of any organ
ization of similar character He saw
many old Transformer Republcans-who
seemed to have learned that Republicanism
was not the ism for them.
The cause of the Democracy was a noble
one and deserved the respect and cooper
alton Of everybody. The Democrats had
acted wisely in the Cincinnati convention.
They had met and satisfactorily answered,
in the nomination of Gen. Hancock every,
charge that the Republicans, actuated by
malice, could invent, and that Democratic
success was certainty. He had never
voted for candidate for president who
had been elected but one, and He had been
swindled out of it, but he would vote for
one now who would not only be elected, but
who would who take his seat He drew a
contrast between the Chicago and Cincin-
natl conventions. The one was ruled by
peace and good will the other by factions
and violent passion; the one had been guild
cd by principles, the other by a de-
sire for spoils. He would not say that the
Republican party was entirely devoid Of
all principle. That would be doing it an
injustice. 1t certainly was a party Of
principles. II had seven principles; five
loaves and two fishes. 1t was party OF
plumber, which had robbed the country and
appropriated its substance until nothing
but bones were left, and they are not yet
willing to relinquish their grasp, thinking
that even the bones were worth picking.
The Republican cry had been that strong
man and q strong government was Eeces-
sary for the coun,ry's welfare; that the sue
Cess of the Democratic party meant ma
tiona ruin; that the negro would again be
enslaved, and that all the glorious results
OF the war would be annihilated.
And in the face of this sense
less cry came the expressions OF
General Grant himself, who said ia effect,
when in this city, on his way home, after
having travelled through the entire south,
that the Union flag waved proudly every.
where in southern states and that peace
and prosperity rcigned supreme Logan's
idea Of the needs OF the country in this
respect, and his scheme to nominate Grant,
had been repudiatcd b. his own party.
The dissenters showed themsciye in ST.
Louis Chicago, and New York and had
Grant been nominated, another Republican
candidate would have been placed in the
field Tho discussions in the party were
far from beng healed and its