Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-09-11
The Democratic Meeting.


The Hon. T. E. Tarsney held forth at
the town hall last night according to an
nOuncement. The speaker was intro
dured bv James j. Brown, with few re-
MARKS, in which he claimed that as
many Democrats as Republicans enter
ed the army, but did not say which army
and as it is not disputed that the rebels
were all Democrats, his statement was
about the truth, as putting the rebel
force to that of the number of patriotic
men of that party who entered the Union
army it would probably equal the num-
ber of Republicans in the latter. He al
so stated that Grant entered the army as
a Democrat, was promoted until.he was
general as a Democrat, and had never
voted a Republican ticket in his life,
which is all true, but he forgot to state
that Grant was now heartily supporting
Garfield and Arthur, and although he
had never voted Republican ticket, had
pledged himself to travel hundreds of
miles, If necessary. in order to reach Ga
lena, to vote the Republican ticket in
November.
Mr.. Tarsney did not in his effort equal
what we had been led to expect, however
be claimed that he had been speaking
every night night for some twenty
nights, and not in a condition to do JUS
tice tO.himself as speaker! In his speech
he advanced nothing new, rehaShlng
the old and stale Democratic arguments
that have been so often exposed, and
showed that he was possessed OF the
usual Democratic characteriSticO max
ing assertions regardless of the facts,
among others, claiming that the Demo-
cratic Congress had been the means of
saving annually $3S, ,C0O,C }, for five years
by reducing expenditures. He claimed
that the Republican party was not
party of progress, but their platforms al
ways consisted of references to the past
to their record as party-but he fail
ed to give the reason why the Democrat
ic party, which he would leave his hear
ers to infer was party of progress, was
always four years behind the Republican
party, their platforms showing that they
adopted as planks, the principles ennun-
ciated in the Republican platforms of
the campaigns previous. He went for
the electoral commission, claiming that
the eight republicans acted solely from
partisan motives, but that the lmmacu-
late seven Democrats were moved solely
ny pdtIlOtlC uOtlNCo, uObWltHooduulHS
they, upon all questions, voted
solidIy in favor of the claims
of their side of the question, and
which, to an impartial observer, would
indicate as strong partisanship as was
manifested by the Republican members.
He was not at all modest in his claims
as to the electoral votes Handbook would
receive. He did not seem to have heard
from Vermont, He started in with the
1873 votes from the solid South. To this
he added the votes of New York, COnnec-
ticut, New Jersey, Indiana, Pennsylva-
mia and Ohio, and thought the chances
were good for several other states. He
only put New York down for 50,OC0 ma
jority for Hancock. So insensely absorb
ing was his speech that soon after he com
menced, the large audience began gradu-
ally to thin out, so that when he finished
there was greatly reduced number of
the faithful to give him parting salute.