The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-10-09
A Fizzle by Moonlight.

For more than a week the local Demo
cratic politicians had been busy, work
ing up grand torchlight demonstration,
for last Saturday night. Men from all
the surrounding country had been So
licited to be in town and bear torches
on that night, and four hundred torches
were borrowed from the Portsmouth
Free Traders, both Bands were gotten
out, and the people stood back and
awaited the gorgeous spectacle.
The torches began pouring out of the
old City Hall, at dark, and long line
was formed. The Bands struck up, and
then the fun began. 1t is subject of
remark that Democratic procession
never understands how to march. There
was an aimless shuffling and struggling
along, as though the carers were sick of
their job. After the procession had
moved a distance away from the hall,
about twenty boys were induced to got to
the hall and get some more of the torches,
and fall in behind the others. In the
full procession there were 233 torches,
and about Sc of these were carried by
boys marching twenty yards behind the |
main body, some one suggessed that that |
squad constituted the pall-bearers of the |
Democratic funeral
The procession stopped in front of the
Court House, where man named Eylar,
from Waverly was introduced. The
young mans head seemed tied on with
string, and he continually jerked his
head like whip-snapper. He recited an
old Democratic speech which he had
committed to memory. and for perhaps
two hours, he raved and howled, until
completely exhausted, and so hoarse that
he was compelled to stop. We would not
have been his washerwoman next day for
hundred dollars an hour.
Eylar was the circus; the clown-a
man named Douglass-was next intro
duced. Nothing that Ben. Maginley, or
Dan. Rice ever got off could touch him.
He started out by saying that Blaine's
record is so black that that eminent
scholar, George William Curtis, and that
pure and eminent Divine, Henry Ward
Beecher," had deserted him. This
speaker also made school-boy declama-
tion. They both had sense enough to
know that every man before them knew ,
that the Democracy are Free Traders,
and they scarcely knew what to say on |
that side.
Considering the preparations, the ,
whole affair was pitiable failure. Ar :
raagements were made for a company of f
horsemen-there were six or seven. Ar r
rangements had been made to march the y
miners from the Springfield mine in the 3
precession-but the turnout was small. p
The miners do not propose to be led or +
driven around by the Free Traders, and r
the latter are beginning to find it out. :
One Democrat said to us: "We would +
have had fine parade if our torches +
hadn't give out" There were then forty 7
to fifty torches lying in the old City Hall. o
This meeting opened the eyes of the +
Free Traders to the fact that they are
routed at every point, and now they are O
the assistance of Dalrym r
pie, the Mine Inspector-in distributing :.
through the mines documents setting q
forth that Blaine is an enemy to coal g
miners. But Dalrymple does not call c
the attention of the miners to the fact f.
that their friends in the Hooking are
guarded and watched under the bayonets
of his master Hoadly. T