The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-10-31
Ma@smeeting at Kalamazoo.

IL was our fortune and our misfortune
To be i'm attendance at the republican
massmeeting held at Kalamazoo last
Saturday. SO far rs the speaking was
concerned, the meeting was "A grand
success. congressman Finerty, who
spoke i'm the afternoon, is forcible and
eloquent speaker; the privilege of listen
ing to his address was, alone, ample
compensation for much longer and
more expensive trip than from Paw
Paw to Kalamazoo. He began his adj
dress out of doors in the park but was
interrupted by rain and had to adjourn
TO the Academy of Music. An immense
crowd had assembled To hear him, only
IA fraction of which could find room in
the capacious building where the adj
dress was finished.
In the evening, the same structure
was packed from pit to dome-thous-
ands being unable to gain entrance-to
listen To Senator Stockbridge and Con-
gresham Burrows, whose addresses, as
a matter of course, were extremely in
teresting and convincing The senator
showed the shallowness and hollowness
of the claim that the present admins
tration is friendly to the old soldier, and
Mr.. Burrows made one of his finest adj
dresses, devoting his attention exclus-
lively to the tariff question.
The afternoon parade was hardly
worthy of being dignified by that name,
considering that it took place in a city
of the size of Kalamazoo The only
feature of the procession furnished by
the city was band, with the single ex-
ception of company of old soldiers
who had associated themselves together
for the purpose of marching in the col
umn each of them wearing an appro-
pirate badge. Had it not been for the
delegation from Paw Paw, which con-
sisted of the flambeau and young ladies'
republican clubs, the members of which
were continually applauded as they
marched along the streets, and for
other delegations from surrounding
towns the parade would have been a
| tizzle. As it was, the procession was
not more than quarter as large as the
one In this town on Wednesday last.
A city like Kalamazoo ought to be
ashamed of its lack of enterprise on
any such public occasion.
The street demonstration in the even
ing consisted exclusively of an exhibit
ton drill by the two Paw Paw clubs
and parade of the Kalamazoo band
There were no fireworks, no torch light
procession, no demonstration whatever
other than the above and even that was
cut short by the interference of mob
of young hoodlums who filled the streets
yelling and hooting, blowing horns and
| throwing stones and other missiles nj
those engaged in the drill, and not q
single policeman interfered to protect
the visitors to the city or to preserve
order. We are pleased to be able &c
state that at least one of the mob was
| knocked down by Paw Paw boy and
that others will be handsomer than
they now are when they shall have
grown new crop of hair to replace
that burned off their heads as the re
suit of a flambeau charge made by oul
boys upon the bowling hoodlums
When the Paw Paw ladies left Their
hotel to attend the evening meeting al
the Academy of Music they were i'm
mediately surrounded by the same vel
ling mob of hoodlums which followed
them to the very entrance of the hall
and were only prevented from being
similarly insulted on their return from
the hall by a special escort of police
men, detailed by Mayor Ihling fol
their protection by special request
Such outrageous, scandalous, insulting
treatment of parties who were there n,
invited guests was Il disgrace to the
city, still greater disgrace to those
engaged in the dirty business, and {
burning shame and disgrace to the
democrats who instigated and encour
aged the ruffainly demonstration
While the members of the two clubs
are well pleased with the manner il
which they were treated by the com
mittee that invited them to participate
in the proceedings of the day, they re
sent the insults to which they were sub
iected by the democrat mob and it viii
be a cold day when they attend another
massmeeting at Kalamazoo.