The daily gazette., 1880-06-03
THURSDAY. JUNE =. 1850.
ENTIRELY FALsE.-Col. McIntire

ENTIRELY FALsE.-Col. McIntire
called at the GAZETTE Office yesterday
afternoon to express his pleasure and
thanks for the contradiction the
GAZETTE had made of the language
attributed to him by the Republican
as Chairman of the Democratic County
Meeting at New Castle, on Saturday,
and remarked that he 'never used such
language" We had inquired of re-
porters present who sat near him, and
felt confident we were right when we
contradicted the Republicans report
yesterday. The Republican is party
paper and ought to feel more in
terest in keeping up the respect that
party meetings should command and
we therefore, hope it will correct the
misstatement it has sent abroad as to
the language used by the President of
the Democratic County Meeting. 1t
should remember that these meetings
are the incipient stages of the govern
ment of one of the States of a great
Republic and that with these incipi-
ent stages begin the laws and customs
of our great and wonderfully progress
sive country-a country which the
London Telegraph says has multi.
piled by twenty its population of 1915,
and were it likely that the same ratio
of increase could be maintained for
another century, the mind of man
would sink before the effort of
imagining what it is possible for the
monster Republic to be in $780,"
Now, if the results of these meet
ings, the work of the Fathers, com.
mand such language from the former
enemies of our institutions why should
the press of our own country seek to
call disrespect upon popular efforts
of the people to continue their popular
government that has produced such
wonderful change in the history OF
this Continent, and made it the asylum
of the oppressed of all nations.
The Republican has seen that par
ties are abused and how it has been
sought 10 ridicule the efforts of par
tisans, until the mass of the better
class of people hesitate to unite in
political efforts, thus leaving the gov
ernment of the people to the manage
ment of roughs and yet it joins the
vulgar herd to heap scandal upon the
most popular patriotic efforts. The
worst that can be said of the Demo-
cratic meeting is that few men, con-
trolled by suspicion, were impatient
and noisy. And it will be remem-
bered that it is not long since that
journals reports of the meetings of
the Preachers created very bad i'm
preston, and even led to the discon-
tinuance of these meetings.
To be sure every good Democrat and
every gentleman at the County Meet
ing, felt disgust for the noisy man
ner IN which some of those present
conducted themselves, and some of
those very young men who talked SO
loud now feel disguised at the manner
in which they attempted to address
the Chair and may not do so again. As
to the two drunken men who were
there and disgraced themselves and
their companions, the meeting could
no more help that than could the mana
gers of church or camp meeting.
They brought scandal and disgrace
upon themselves and not upon the
meeting because it had no power to
prevent their attendance. The gentle
men upon whom the conduct of the
Democratic meeting fell by the popu-
lar voice of those assembled, were as
dignifed, calm and manly in all tha,
they did, as are the conductors of one
of our church conventions, and are il
nowise responsible for any of the nois,
and confusion that occurred.