Daily Republican., 1880-08-02
FIRE EATER IHARRIs.
He MAX o. Part or speech st New
Castle with Bricks Flying all
Around Him.

Castle with Bricks Flying aII
Around Him.
Painting like steam engine and
sweating like q cotton picker, John H
Harris. the colored Democratic Dema
gogue raced after the eve ming train fol
New Castle, Saturday night, for he had
reached the ?. W. & B. depot about
minute and a half too late. He soor
showed the laughing spectators that he
was not as good pedestrian as he was
a platherskite and gave up at Market
street in disgust. Harris, however
hired a team from Laurence Ksrnan and
drove to New Castle.
Here he spent half an hour looking
for the Court House janitor, but could
not fad him, and was unable TO enter
the Court House. After quafing two
or three tumbler fulls Of the "rosy,'
at the Delaware House, Harris mounted
the carriage and proceeded to speak.
First, he introduced himself. lie
had GENE from the sunny land where
the June bug descendeth upon the
potato vine. In him the South with
Its softly signing cypress trees aud it's
playful allegators sent greeting to the
gentle Delaware African. He had come
with message. The message was the
purity Of the Democratic party and Its
love for the negro. The Democracy
was bubbling over in Its desire to Sc
cure negro votes. Its efervescsnt love
of the toiler in the cotton fields and
mellon patches passed all understand.
lug. 1t had always been the negro's
friend, and the negro should hear him
while he told them all about.
A yoice-you'd better shat up.
"No | won't shut up neither" re-
torted Harris. II am a free born
Ameri can citizen and am going to tell
the poor benighted colored man the
truth. am going to let the light OIL
Int llectual sunshine radiate his cloud
ed mind and teach MIN how 70 educate
himself"
The speaker spoke of the Republican
party. 1t had prscipitated the rebel
lion and made political capital for it.
self. 1t had freed the colored man and
left him in a worse condition Than be.
fore. (hisses) 1t had made him q mere
tool for base ends. This reminded him
of the man who went to hell and found
none but Republicans there and every
darn one Of them held niger be-
tween him and the fire. The Republi-
can party has kept in power by means
Of the poor negro, and has never recog-
nized him as worthy of their help.
And so the orator went on. The
crowd had been demonstrative all the
while and as he became fercer and
fieroer in his assault 1t became appar-
ent that q riot was coming on. Still
the dusky fire eater, with his long
arms waving like wind mill and his
shrill tones sounding like oonsump-
tive bellows, continued and might have
concluded his speech, but he derisively
made fun Of the negroes, for being de-
luded in their ignorance.
II was then that brick bat hummed
through the ar and grazed the large
capacious ear Of the orator. The brick
struck a white man who stood on the
other side Of the wagon and cut his
head badly. A volley ofstones followed
and Harris with his kinky hair on end
and his eloquent harangue frozen on
his tongue leaped down and ran to the
Sheriff for protection. :.
The Sheriff took care of Harris all
night and on Sunday morning brought
him over to Wilmington. The disap-
pointed fellow says he will speak in
New Castle to night at any cost.