Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-09-18
COL. COMMANDING AT FLORIDA.

Having been informed by telegraphic
grapevine from Florida that E. A. Pal
mer, generalissimo of the Mulligan
Guards aud Colonel Commanding" the
shot gun brigade and tombstone mutila-
tors, would crate at that place on Satur-
day last, we incurred the enormous ex-
pense of two shillings and six-pence in
sending a short hand reporter to secure
the orators greatest effort of his life"
Here It is;
MR.. PALMER'S SPEECH.
My FELLOW CITIZENS AND LADIEs:-I
Here am in Proprju Persona, in full ac-
cordance with the Published programme
and small bills, to prove by arguments
which defy contradiction that 1 am the
original big Ingin Me-" rugged out in
COl.Mann's epaulets, Capt. .Randsll's sash,
and Lieut.. Shasteen's sword-and though
"You scarce can expect one of my age
To appear in public on the stage"
intend TO conclvsively establish the fact
that can, in style which the Greek
orator, Demosthenes, might have envied,
declaim-
"When Freedom, from her mountain height,
Unfurled her banner to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night
And set the stars of glory there.
She mingled with its gorgeous dyes
The milky baldric of the skies,
And striped It's pure, celestial white
With streakings of the morning light;
Then from his mansion in the sun,
She called her eagle-bearer down,
And gave into his mighty hand
The symbol of her chosen land ="
This, my dear friends, is the true history
of the American flag, as found in the
original archives of the Pilgrim fathers
the same of which am one of the decend-
ents-who first landed on Plymouth rock.
lido not deem it at all necessary to say
anything about the time when our grand
old party of great moral ideas, carried it
about the country with only sixteen of the
stars which had been taken from the
milky baldric of the SKIES"
The fact is the balance had been pawned
to pay the star route contractors.
But, my fellow citizens, the Democrats
are after us with d sharp stick, to use a
vulgar expression, and these Mulligan
letters written by Mr.. Blaine simply to
show how useful he could make himself,
and that our plumed Knight might not
prove dead-head, are ugly things, and
by abuse ofDemocrats we must keep pub
lie attention from these letters. We must
as Shakespear says:
Disguise fair nature with hard favored rage:
Then lend the eye terrible aspect
Let it pry through the portage OF the head
Like the brass cannon ~
The Democratic party is terrible ami
NAL. 1t is as Pope-I mean the poet, not
the pontiff-so beautifully says:
"a monster of such horrid mien
That to be hated needs but to be seen."
Why, my dear friends, especially the
ladies', the Democratic party even accuses
our beloved plumed Knight with having
used his official position to make fortune
of 81 900, 900 OH salery OF $1,000 per year,
and now the Indiana Sentinel, without the
fear of Blaine's bluster before its eyes,
proposes to prove in open court that our
magnetic candidate was compelled by the
fear of a shot gun to marry the girl he had
seduced. To quote Homer-because /
must draw on both Greek and Latin to
do the subject justice, although translate
so that you will understand melt is
$50, pressed with hunger, from the mountain brow,
Descends the lion on the focks below;
So, stalks the Lordly savage o'er the plain
In sullen majesty and stern disdain;
In vain we mastifs bay him from afar,
And plumed Knights gall him with an iron bar;
Regardless, furious, he pursues his way
He foams, he roars, he rends his painting prey"
Something, my friends, must be did, or
our grand old party, as has been pathetic.
ally observed by some great jurist, will be
eiUiliter mortuus, functus o6icio. So
/ -"Once again,
Hear me, We walls -