Daily Republican., 1884-10-30
THE VETERAN MEETING.
EUi.ING ADDREss NJ COI.ONBI.
GhIMsHAw-KNOW.NOrH.
ISGISM, ETC.

ters, In the Seeds building, EoarAl .nd
French streets, was packed last even
ing, and many were obliged TO st md.
A business meeting was held, at wlfch
s. Redmond Smith, Esq, presided, and
the regular business OF the club was
transacted. 49,
1t was decided that the club sh mld
meet 1t the headquarters ct 7.30 O'Clock
Friday evening, and proceed in body
to the Opera House to hear Colonel
Matthews. Of Maryland. Ii was an
nounced that the First Regiment band
had been engaged, and an iuvitatioH
will be extended to- all veterans,
whether they are members of the club
or not, to participate with them.
President Smith then introduced
Colonel Grimshaw as tho mau whose
devotion to the old flag WAS ., great
that he had raised . regiment during
the war at his own expense, aud with
1t rendered good service 10 the cause.
The Colonel was crested with loud sp-
plause, and wnsn quiet had been re-
stored, he said that he wou ID com ne :co
his review of the Democratic party
thirty years before the war, when the
people of the South offered reward
for Horace Greeley.
He spoke OF the course of tho party in
those years, and said that IL WIS through
their Vaccinations that this country
was plunged in fratricidal war. After
they were conquered, they took up
Horace Greeley, the man they had
denounced, and run him for tho
Presidency, with the view that North
ern men would vote for him aud that
they would obtain control OF the gov
ernment. FL
Greeley was nominated a. matter Of
political policy, and 1t was the Same
with Grover Cleveland. The Democrats
boast Of 163 electoral votes from tho
solid South, and by the nomination Of
Cleveland, they expect to carry New
York.
He then spoke Of the abuse tha- is
being showered upon Mr.. Rigxins by
the Democrats for his actions In tho
Neal case, and said H. did not do . sin.
gle thing more than any lawyer was
bound to do under the Same circum-
stances. He was assigned by the Court
to defend Neal. and it was his sworn
duty to exhaust all means in his power
in that defense, and he defied Mr.. Bay
ART, Mr.. Lore or Mr.. Gray to truthfully
say that he did any more than they
would have been bound to do, had
either of them been placed in the same
position but yet they curse and abuse
him for performing his duty.
He said Mr.. Higgins would never
have been censured, had Neal been a
white man, and cited mum Der of casa
J where notorious white criminals bad
been acquitted through the efforts of
Democratic lawyers, and not word Of
condemnation was ever heard. Instead
Of censure, he thought Mr.. Higgins was
eutitled to great praise, AZ by the mau-
ner he had conducted that case, he prov
| nd himself one Of the best lawyers in the
| United States.
After speaking of the taking Of tho
school fund of Delaware, during tho
war, for the purpose of fnrn ishing sutA-'
stitutes for Democrats who were draft
cd, and which money has never been
repaid, he directed his remarks to the
tariff, which he considered the main
issue in this campaign. The Democrats
party showed their perfidity thirty
years ago, when under the banner Of
" Polk, Dallas and the tariff Of 1872"
they succeeded in electing their Presi-
dent. but as soon as the measure was
before the Senate, and the vote resulted
in tie, Vice President Dallas
gave the casting vote, which defeated
| 1t.
| Not long ago the Every Evening
compared the integrity of Blaine and
the Bayards, and while he did not wish
to say much about the integrity of the
latter, one fact remained, and that las,
that James A. Bayard, when President
of the Farmers Bank, endorsed Hsury
Bayard's note for $40, 900, and had It
discounted. When 1t matured ig was
not paid, and went to protest, and
Judgment was entered against James
A. Bayard, and he could not hold any
property. Matters remained this way
for over twenty years, and then the
principal was paid, but the simple
Interest of over ga, ,0Otl has not been
paid, and never will be.
i While James G.. Blaine was doing
his duty in Congress, James A. Bayard
was hobnobbing with the rebels ut
Montgomery, Alabama. Considerable
has been said in this campaign about
Know -Nothingism, and as he had be.
longed to the order himself, he claimed
to know something about it.
!. The majority of those In this city who
belonged to that order, are now Demo-
Gratis, and among its members were
i illism Bright, Sewell @. BiRRs, Al
bert Thatcher, Lewis Paynter, j. Nor
| lou ooios Oavlu W w AsOA, nuu Otuok9
lequally well-known. He handled
l"Professor' DAY, the Democratic orator
who spoke at tho Opera House last
Monday night, without gloves, and
sty led him "a man ma med Day, q
little boy in Gray" The Colonel was
frequently applauded, and when he
closed cheers were given for the whole
Republican ticket.
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Presented with . Esrsrait. =.
At the regular weekly meeting of the
/ Young Mems Democratic CluC, held