The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-04-30
A Radical Defeat.

concerted movement TO keep still, If
one may 30 speak, on the part of tho
Democratic members. Under the des-
perate attempt Of Messrs. Hawley,
Robson, Keifer and Frye TO nag and
irTitate the hot-headed Kentuckians
into second chapter OF extra session
folly, Mr.. Hawiey led Off with a
speech full of fire and fury, doing all
i'll his power TO cxaspcrate the Demo
Gratis and goad them into some cx-
preston which might be perverted
into Republican war cry during the
canvass. 1t was grotesque failure.
All the ringing periods Of the illustri.
Gus Joseph were received with roars
Of laughter on the Democratic side.
When Grants eN-Secrctary Of the
Navy followed Joseph he fairly saw
ell the air and grew red in the fa"e
until the compassionate Democrats
grew apprchcnsive Of fit Of apo
pleXy. But they could not be move d
even by pity into giving the least
echo to his cheap thunder. At the
expiration Of his hour hcartess
Democrat even moved that his time
be indefinitely extended. Mr.. Robe
son was shrcwd enough to decline this
tempting offer, and sat down with the
air of man who had got more than
he bargaincd for. Mr.. Kcirer was
then put up with bottle Of vitroilc
in one hand and q bloody shirt in the
other, but met with the same deadly
and good-natured contempt, and soon
sat down in state Of ludricously
evident chagrin, giving place to Mr..
Frye, who beloved like q little bull,
but equally to as little purpose, in
fact TO less purpose, for when he
sank exhausted into his place, Mr..
Cox, Of New York, who had been
Standing for some time against desk
observing his heroic efforts with quiz
zical good nature, and to whom Frye,
imagining himself at last to have
landed y whale, Eagnanimously con-
cedcd the rest Of the hour, produced
q book. which he asked leave to send
to the Clerks desk that an extract
from it might be read to the House,
as embodying the full reply of the
Democracy to the tonado Of elo-
qucncc which had just swept ovor the
House. ProfoaEd silence cnsucd,
amid which the Clerk read out aloud
most thrilling description from
Longstrcets "Gcorgia Scenes" a
we'll known historical work in the
vain Of "IIu1ib, as" OF. grand sham
fight waged in the State many years
ago, in which the victor and the van
quishcd, the bottlc-holdcrs and the
bystanders were all represented by
country youth, who, solitary and
alone, pcrsonatcd all The characters
i'll an old field iislicuT fight, and
who, when interrupted in his diver
sion, dcclarnd he was "only sccin'
how he could have fought" The
conclusion of this extract was greeted
with uproarous laughter and applause
on the Democratic side and in the
galleries, the ladies' present scream
ing with delight and waving their
handkerchief, while the d;scomfittcd
Republicans sat in gloomy silence,
biting their lips and casting looks
like daggers at their antagonists.
MIR. Frye became more than usually
corrugated, Robeson's roses grew da-
mask, Congcr wriggled on his seat
beyond the eel whose name he has
made famous in American history,
and kcifcr's eyes swelled with unshed
tears. People looked on all sides for
Joseph llawlcy, but he had vanished.
The astute Garfield, like the brave
captain, had taken time Ivy The fore
lock and fallen back before the action
began. If ever proverb was justified
the story of yesterday shows that if
speech be sometimes silver, silence
may be sometimes golden. Its sim
pie lesson was, the Republicans re-
ceived complete notice to pull up
their stakes OH the old onoampment
and look out for now issues if they
mean to show fight in earnest on the
political field in 1880.
TUE Darlington Republicans are
Bible students. The Neavs, in giving
an account of the late Republican
Convention, says: "Whilc the Con-
mitten was out thp Row Iooo. Ico,,