The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1884-09-18
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A Alollly Republloan Attempt 10 Taify the
Gormans Tuesday Evening
After a great effort, including un,
limited tafy 10 the Germans Formerly
the Dnlch,) tho opening OF the new
Tabernacle, u tO,chlight procession, the
jubilee singers, muslc by the band aud
drum corps, tho Republicans hnally sue
ceeded In drumming together enough 10
lll the new curiosity with cltlzsna OF
all natlOnalltiea, Tho president, Mr..
yogea being absent, (prObably g0ae 10
JOIN hiegenmeier aud Ehmen) sumo un-
known quantity stepped forward aud
eald Mr.. Hollis would speak.
Mr.. Hollis commenced reading from
ucript, In the German Language;
aud as al ieAst twenty four out OF TWEEN
~ five Of the Germaua present at the
great German meplilg were born In
Am rlch, Africa and elsewhere, the
atanpedH commenced. Amid lhp G0nfu-
Sion the speaker Waa heard 20 AK. Gan
any man say that IL was unwise TO elect
Lincoln and GrantY Can any man
whose father voted for Lincoln aud
Grant, eay that II was detrimental TO
the cOnntryw Here tho speaker
breathed heavily, no doubt due 10
the unansweTable queatiOns submitted.
lie soon recovered, however, and waa
foolish enough 10 say he couldn't ree
how any man who had voted for Lincoln
and Giant could vote the Democratic
ticket; that the solid South was still the
life of the ID mOcratic parly, &c. rhe
speaker then lauded the National Bank
Ing system. saying that IL WAS not "A mo-
n0pOly, but that You aud could start
one provided we had tho funds He
next told his hearers that the present
atagnaIiOn and embarrassment OF buyi.
ness WAS due 10 tho awful fear Of the
Democratic (nO doubt bflghO prospect
or success, That there was no telling
what might become Of the country II
thOSe terrible Democrats got In power,
and had command Of hundreds Of mil
lions Of dollars every year. He
quoted from SrhuI2's spefcn made
~ indianapolis four years ago, which,
owing 10 the noise prevailing, could not
be caught Az any rate, no conc I'd
that the Democrats hadn't done any.
thing since 1880 that ought TO have cOn
verled SohuI2. He attempted ~ ridicule
SchnTz by calling MIN the high prlesl
OF tho independents; That no had become
inf, l,ble. IN fact bet0 no pope; that
when Schurz hears BlaluU's naue men
TONED no becomes red, falls into hy5
terlce, and also that Schurz IN blind 10
Blaine's good qualities. But II fell II u,
and during tho whole epr ech but one
faint sound OF applause was heard.
rhn AH ~ .fganha llF
more iluent talker, who spoke longer,
After listening TO Que German, The
audience got restless, In lact were No
from the start, 30 no commenced hla
speech In English-fOr the German
tOrch'light beafers-spOke u few mln
ute5 I'LL they got quiet, and then no be-
gan In German. He said the Germans
are not Any way certain In politics, for
they always lU0k 10 the interest OF the
cOun ry. II lakes Schurz, he said, two
hours and u half 10 airalgu Blame,
when any speaker eau explain tho mat
ters charged 10 him IN llileen minutes
Schllz charges Blaine with Gishunesty
IL this IN true, no ought not 10 be elect.
ed. But II not true, then such base
Misrepresentation should DO punished
by the overwhelming defeat Of the
Democratic party. Proceeding, The
speaker reviewed tho Mulllgan letters.
He said that Blaine paid for his stock IN
the Little Rock ~ Fort Smith Railroad
the same as all other persons. Tho stock
was bought when ape tulati0n ran hlgn,
AMI ministers aud lawyers invested,
Blaine had perfect right 10 buy. He
never made ruling ~ Speaker In favor
OF the company, bpeanse Congress was
not In session ut tho time.
The speaker tried To make the au.
dience believe that Blaine was not guilty
Ot anything wrong IN connection with
the Lutte Rock " Fort Smith Railroad,
aud spoke quite u while on thia subj +ct,
lie said that MullIgan stole the lUt,ers
and expected Blaine 10 buy hin off
This Blaine WOul not do, hence tho OK
posure. Tho speaker warned his
hearers about paying any alien
ti0n TO certain more Mulligan
letters that would be published IN few
days, He alSo lamenied what no cale
Schurz's unfairness 10 Blaine. Ho do.
nounced Schurz IN severe terms, saying
among other things that he (5churz)
never spoke againsL temperance before,
and no now brought IL up In order to
catch German votes, The speaker dlshed
up a lot Of similar slu3h, aud after abus-
Ing Gov. Cleveland Ia the prevailing Re-
put tllcan fashion, no subsided, aud the
great Republican meeting came to an
end.