Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-10-10

there appeared q disposition to f. boost
him up into higher position than that
which b now occupied. Some glittsFina
generalteies on the cost of good govern.
ment were hdulged in, and the Inde-
pendents were compared 70 Nero who fid.
died while Rome was burning. He did
not wish to speak diHespectfully Of the
Independents, b1t he at the same time
characterized the movement as the most
cowardly in the history of the politics OF
this country. If there are abuses in the
party why do they not stay in and help us
to reform next year. He said that the time
for argument was past, that the bat
tie was already won, and that vic
tory would as heretofore perch on the
banners of right, to wit: the Republican
party. Tho fight now going On in the
ranks of the Republican organization waa
NO new thing. The same warfare existed
ten years ago. and if our vote is p0lled
this year, the 81, 1000 majority Of 1872 will
be repeated. 1t is no time for argument
or Justification. Win the skimish limo In
1882, and the battle Of 1854 is already
won. He told the audience that he was
not around begging for votes and that he
had never asked any man for Office. He
fiatteringly alluded to the Independents
as cringing hypOcrites without drop of
manly blood in their cowardly carcasses, :"
which vituperatiOn appeared eminently
agreeable to his audience. He said that
if the interest of our pockets is to be re-
garded we could not afford to defeat
BrOsius. At this juncture some enthusias-
tic partisan proposed three cheers for
Beaver and Brosus which were cheer
fully given. He declaimed on the neces.
sity of guarding carefully our next Legis-
lature, lest the Democrats may follow
Republican precedent and get the lions
share of tho congressman. He then
ieebly endeav0red to apply the Brosius
line Of argument to himself, and the audi
euce by little kindly app ause allowed
him to lay that fiatteripg unctiOn to his
soul. He terminated his rambling dis
course by expressing the belief that Lam
caster county was OF. the right side in this
fight.
Immediately OH the conclusion of
Beavers remarks, cries for Greer and
Darlington tent the air. Tie band drowned
the tumult, however, by q stirring piece,
after which Hon. John n. Greer, of Butler
county, proceeded to address the now worn-
out audience. His treatment of the issues
involved in the campaign consisted of the
telling of q few egg stories in which the
Independents were alluded to in no tlatter.
ing style. He criticized tho Noyes admin
istration of the state treasury, and eulogi-
zed Farmer Butler in the most extrava.
giant style. .'s ~ 49,. -..-.-
At the termination Of his remarks, the
people expressed desire to hear Darling
ton, but the latter could not be found.
Calls for Brown, Brosius, Risk and Wicker.
sham were made, and order was only
brought out of confusion by the timely
playing Of the band. John A. Croft, ESQ.,,
of West Chester, was then hunted up, and
his remarks had tho effect of thinning out
the audience with commendable rapidly.
An importunate Chester countian then
insisted on forcing William Shields, a
plasterer, from his native town, on the
platform, much to the disgust of President
Smith, and Chief Clerk Of the Senate
Cochran. The old man, notwithstanding
the latencss of the hour, waxed eloquent
in defense Of the Republican party and
wound up his speech and the meeting
with the concluding verse of Longfellow's
Ship of State" The crowd had been
thinning out rapidly, and but few remain.
ed when Chairman Smith in a scarcely au.
6ihle tonc 6ccI,rod tho meet inO odiourneI