The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-19
Hon. Odin Guitar Says His Little
Ode is Git Thar.
Gen. John B. Henderson Makes a
Stirring Appeal to the
Loyal.
Yesterday a Red Letter Day for
the Patient and Persever-
ing Partisans
Smiths Hall Packed to Overflow
ing to Hear the Orations.

hall yesterday afternoon was largely
attended. 1t was promiscuous gath
ering, and General Guitar poured hot
shot, grape and canister into tie
democrats in such a way that seemed
to delight his friends He was vigor.
ously applauded as he came down the
aisle of the ha |, aud when he was in
PRODUCED by Milo Blair, the building
fairly shook with the prolonged APP
plause. The meeting was noticeable
for the amount of enthusiasm mani.
tested. General Guitar seemed to
have awakened all the lethargy of the
party in this part of the district, and
some of the most skeptical now be
ieve that there is not only possibili.
ty of his election, but great proba.
bility.
He commenced his speech by saying
that it was only the infinite eye that
could see the end from the beginning,
but he would put the two great par
ties before the bar of public judgment
and let the people look and judge for
themselves.
He then reviewed the history of the
republican party for the past twenty
six years. He showed the deplorable
condition of the country when the re-
publican party came into over in
1860; how they found all the arms of
the government distributed through
out the southern and western states;
how they found depleted treasury,
with the government having no credit
at home or abroad; how they found
nine states in rebellion, and how
Mr.. Lincoln had TO proceed to Wash
ington threatened with danger. The
speaker then showed that the republi-
can party had restored the govern
ment, and brought peace and pros
perity. During his talk on this part
of the subject, he stated that the
first blood that watered the American
soil was that of a German. He
charged the democratic party with
the Inauguration of the war, and then
reviewed republican history during
the years of reconstruction, stating
that they had restored the manufact- {
uring industries, and established
credit at home and abroad. He asked !
if there was any democrat or ex-con- a
federate present who would be willing a
to have the Inc 1edrawn where it had Q
been drawn by their swords. He CT
ted the fact that England and France Il
had been opposed to the North, G
and expected to see our form of b
government prove a failure, and q
told of the attempt of Macmillan to e
an empire in Mexico.
He said the nearer the parties were IL
in numerical strength the better it 81
would be for the county. He then d
TOOK up Senator Vests Higginsville e.
speech and riddled it from stem to W
stern. He said that he would rather d
discuss Vests speech than the demo- 81
;ratic platform. He first exploded u
Vests theory of the rebellion in which 81
lie claimed that slavery was a legacy
landed down to us by the trainers of a
he constitution. After this he hand ga
ed the state supremacy question and OF
MIR. Vest or any one else, XII
o put his finger on ngle state right III
hat had been infringed by the repub- ne
lean party during its twenty-four u
ears rule. DE
General Guitar then took up the tn
uestion ofprotection and owned that en-
e was firm whig. He used nearly gu
II the usual arguments of high pro- nj
ection tariff men and illustrated with
be effect of the tariff on steel rails
nd wool. He also read extracts from bo
cleveland, Clay, Hamilton, Franklin. tn,
Webster, Peter Cooper, James he,
[aidson and Thomas Jefferson show oh,
lg that they were all in favor of pro- ga!
,ction. He ridiculed Vests idea sto
lat while you feed the laborer with wa
ne hand you rob him with the other !