The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-09-28
THE STATE CANVASS.
Rival Meetings Of Regulars and Inde-
pendents In Butler.

pendents In Butler.
TOM MARSHALL ON THE sTUMP-H1s
REASONS FOR OPPOSING BEAVER.
Butler, Sept. 2O.-The strength and
spirit of the Republican party of
Butler county was made manifest to-
night. in one Of the longest and most
| enthusiastic meetings ever held i'm
Butler. The independents, as If to
measure strength with the Republi-
| cans, called a meeting for tonight,
and secured Colonel McMichael and
Colonel Duff hs speakers Both ad
vertised meetings for the courthouse,
and for several days there has been a
contest to see which would get it.
This contest awoke the best spirit of
| both contestants. The County Com
missioners let the court house to the
| Regulars, but Judge McJunkin. who
| is an Independent. said he would hold
! court; but the two associate Judges
overruled him and the Regulars won
Then the Independents advertised
Tom Marshall. This is his native
| county and he is very popular. 1t
was to be his opening speech. and
every energy was put forth to make
the meeting a success. Such contest
naturally spurred both parties to their
| best.
General Beaver and party spent the
| day along the ShenangO Railroad and
a special train which stopped at several
points along the line. At each many
| people had congregated to see him.
but at Pine Grove and Harrisvilie and
| at one or two other places, the crowd
was very large, and both he and Mr.
| Brosius made short speeches. After
| visiting all points of importance along
| the road. General Beaver and party
took carriages and drove over the road
| to this place, arriving about o'clock.
They drove at once to the hotel and
| took supper shortly after at the resi-
dence of Senator Greer, candidate for
| Secretary of Internal Affairs. The
Independents being obliged to hold
their meetings ont of doors, erected a
stand on the Damond opposite the
court house wherein General Beaver
and all the speakers were in sound of
| each others voice. The two brass
bands representing the different fac
tons paraded the streets in advance of
| the meetings. and before O'Clock the
| court house was crowded almost to
| suffocation, and a fair crowd had
| gathered around the stand where the
independents were to hold their meet
| ing. Every iuch of standing room in
the court house was filled, and the
| aisles were filled.
Tom Marshall was for time lis
tener in the court house meeting
VIII lie Mr.. BrOsius was speaking, and
before he was to be called to speak at
the outdoor meeting When General
Beaver entered the court house he was
greeted with an ovation, nearly the
nj oh ~
and swinging bats, etc. General John
S. Purviance was chosen chairman. and
long list of vice-presidents and secre.
taries from the best men of Butler
county to selected. Mr.. Brosius spoke
first las usual, and made short ring
ing speech of an hour. He never allud-
ed to the Independent movement.
When General Beaver was introduced
the great crowd alint g. cheered them
selves hOarse Indeed. from first to
last the audience gave evidence that
the contest now going on between the
factions here has filed the Republicans
full of fight. General Beaver made a
ringing speech, Notwithstanding he
was very tired and did not intend to
say much. He made no illusion to
the independent movement, and closed
amidst cheers for Beaver.
Congressman Samuel H. Miller, of
this district, followed General Beaver
in short speech that was well Ie-
ceived.
1t was nearly II O'Clock when the
meet n at which General Beaver
spoke, broke up, and the hall was
crowded to the last, and when he quit
speaking there were cries of 500 on.
go on" The Regulars are jubilant
tonight and proclaim that this has
been "red-letter day" for them.
The Independents of Butler county
held an opposition meeting here this
evening in the open air to measure
strength with the Regulars. who held
their meeting in the court house.
where they had crowd. Even the
most ardent of their number were
disappointed at the size and spirit of
the Independent meeting OF course
the threatening W Gather and being out
of doors had something to do with the
crowd and its temper. They complain
that they didn't have fair chance at
the Regulars. Colonel Duff was the
first speaker, but he did not speak
long, and Colonel McMichael followed
him in q speech that brought some
applause. Tom Marshall was the last
speaker here. He said that he had
come up to open the Republican cam.
paign in Butler county, because it was
the home of his bOyhood, the county
into which his father had brought his
wife and eleven children and his
household goods in an old broadwheel
wagon away back i'm 1920. Something
the people here knew, he had always
been a Republican,. He was a Repub-
lican before General Beaver was born.
and nobody knew it better than the
people of Butler county. Sixty years
ago when he knelt with his ten older
brothers and sisters while his pi0us
father prayer, he had morning and
evening heard a petition offered up
that the shackles might be strickei,
| from the slave and all men made
equal before the law. Upon that plat
form he was here to speak tonight,
because there are more white slaves
in this country to-day than there ever
were negroes in America. For re-
cent instance he detailed his expert
ence at the Harrisburg convention,
where he went as a delegate for Major
Brown, another Butler county boy.
He found that Brown had an honest
majority of the convention, but the
first day in Harrisburg he met long,
tall man with red hair, one J. ID.
Cameron. This red-haired man said
to him:
II can tell you who will be Supreme
Judge"
"Who?'
"Rawle. I promised it to him last
winter, and he will get it,"
Look into your hearts," thundered