Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-10-23
That Meeting.


 The morning luminsry, on Saturday morning announced with great "sane fraud that there would be "a republi. can circus" held at the thester on that evening, and suggested with great en- phesis. that its orators should discuss the many frauds a. minor places in the country. But it appears 10 have got a full and overilowing surfeit on that sub- ject; and when one of the speakers brough. again to public light those cipher dispatches which emanated from the office oi Samuel Ti!den's nephew, at C. 'ameTcy park, after the election of 1876. which sho Eel the attempt on the part of that honest statesman to buy with gold, one single electoral vote, 70 matter how, nor where. to make himself president; Gai shc sei the attempt by him BEd tIJ friends % corrupt the electoral vote Of South Carolina, FiOrla. snd lastly Of Oregon, and by unanswerRbls facts and logic hurled 1@SR WAAL RAAhAc anl HhA lt7 the oit-asserted falsehOod, that the re- publican party had been guilty of the great crimes of cheating the nation out of it's duly elected president, the Star wRxes warm and m its gree; worry Es- serts that, as the speaker alluded to, and traced the history and the crimes of the democratic party and m terms an nounced that ID its arrogance and power II would tolerate DO opposition 'hs. when the two old heroes Uf many
 hard fought field-Gen. Harrison iD lS40 and Gen. Taylor in lSiS. were elected by the old whig party, 1t was galling to tue democracy, and that these representatives of the opposing forces " re not permitted to live but for brief periods-one for a single monlh-the other for little more-a year and day. The gslled jdie, so to speak-she Star perpetrator-wInced and says ID his issue of Sunday morning, that the speaker talked ss though he thought some of kls audience would believe him
 And now, NIT. Star. whatever your be- lief may be ID talking over the great crimes Of your party let us begin where that speaker left of, and further refresh your memory.
 Do not you know that Abraham Lin- coin was tbe next president elected in to demCcrati. sway?
 Do you not well remember that your party declared that he should never be inaugurated president?
 Do you not know thst n conspiracy was formed to ussassinate Llm before he couid reach Washington?
 Is it not in your recollection that Mir. Lincoln had 10 go in di- guiss through the walled democratic forces while on his way through Baltimore to keep from being Eayiaid and murdered? Have you forgotten that four yea's later MT. Lincoln Was a.ain elected against dem ocratIc hate and democratic opposition?
 And has l. escaped your memory that then & more successful conspiracy was formed against him, aud that be fell, 6f- ter short reign, by the assassin's bull let?
 IT en came the undyiDg hero, Grant. who ruled in peace for eight esrs. His life was spared, perhaps, because they had tried that thing on him too often before. Then came Garfield, and do you remember that he WAS not permit ted to live out the brief period of hIs ad- 
 And can you ans yer. Mir. Star. and say what secret influence was at work wbich brought about his deathy
 And now you are seriously asked f these are not, to say tine least, strange atri~g O cnincideu ces, to follow, one af CT s.4t a'1-r, add sll upon the sIde op- posed 10 democratic sway?
 And now, will you press your little memory again aud tell us If you can think ofODe time. or piece Iu the history of our country, vhen It was ever thought, or said. or contemplated, to sssassins,e a man holding office under democratic rule: And when you have sufficiently studied these matters and given your views to the public, we will submit some further questions on the great crimes and frauds of the party you profess to think so pure. X.