Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18

notices, expressions, etc.
"Who declared union soldiers Lin
coins hirelings ?"-Thos A. Hen
bricks. A picture of Justice on the
opposite side with Cleveland pictured
and labeled as 'sbeef' and Blaine as
"brains," the scales being weighed
down On the side of brains.
"Blaine and Logan bound for the
White House" "Honsst men, honest
money and an honest government.
Keep the rascals out. You bet we
will" "Boys, have you heard from
Maine, 10000" Bee hive picture
'sNo free trade in ours" "Our in
dustries must be protected Maine
pine tree ulligan Guards
"Who declared the war a failure?"
Thos. A. Hendricks. "With Blaine
the Statesman and Logan the Soldier,
we defy the world" A likeness of
Blaine and Logan and other express
ions too numerous to mention, also a
number of Flambeau torches.
When the head of the procession
reached the post Office they stopped
and gave three cheers for Blaine and
Logan and then continued their march
down main street and across the bridge
into Centralia. At this point the
democratic crowd which was in the
west yard Of the court house grounds
began cheering and firing off their
cannon and on discovering that the
Republican boys had a much superior
parade to their own and about as large,
the mass of their audience followed
down street to see the parade, leaving
Mr.. Carey, their speaker only eorpo-
rails guard. The line of march was
continued over into Centralia, and on
returning in front of the Witter House
paraded in circle, forward and back,
the bands playing and the boys cheer
ing for Blaine, Logan and Price. Mr..
J. d. Witter introduced Mr.. Price
from the balcony of the Central House
as Writer'S Hall was too small to
accommodate one fifth of the vast
assemblage. Mr.. Price made an ex-
cellent and telling speech from a
republican stand point, scoring the few
kickers some hard blows and making
the rank elements of the democratic
party squirm under his fire. Nearing
the close of his remarks the democrat
ic meeting closed and came down
apparently determined to break up the
republican meeting. They were &C
corded a fair share of the street so
that they could get by and were greet
ed with music and applause from the
republicans. Instead of going on
about their business as decent orderly
citizens, they managed to get on both
sides Of the Blainites and circled
round and round, hootiug, yelling,
swearing and making veritable asses
of themselves
AS soon as their villiany was dis
covered and it was observed they were
determined to beak up the meeting,
our boys were ordered into line and as
soon as this was accomplished the
hoodlumns and drunken rowdys were
crowded off the street and forced TO
leave. Their action was most dis
gushing to the people who witnessed
the affair and has done the democratic
party great injury. The local leaders
seemed to delight in their dirty work
but their object was defeated. Mr..
Price soon afterwards resumed his
remarks and dealt the hoodlums
more powerful blows and thanked the
people for their attention and kindness
toward him and closed by calling for
three cheers for tie gentlemanly Re-
publicans and groans for the disturb
ing hummer democrats, which were
vociferously given. That the demo
cratic masses are ignorant and foolish,
was most beautifully illustrated last
Wednesday evening. They average
about the same throughout the conn
try. What they are here they are
elsewhere. Many democrats in their
lines we're too drunk to walk alone
and were bolstered up by their COM
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