Evening journal., 1890-10-24
REPUBLICAN sPEEchEs.
They Sang the Old song 90 an Nm pity
House Last Night.

The dullest, smallest and least enthusi
astic political meeting of the whole cam
paign, was that held in the Academy Of
Music last night in the interest Of t1e
Republican candidates and addressed BY
| Colonel Nields and g. Bradford. Rain
destroys Republican enthusiasm.
A long list of vice presidents and sec
retari. was read after which f. Eden
Bach moved that Washington Hastings
take the chair. II must have taken Mr.
Hastings by surprise, for he had no
| speech prepared and he at once intro
ducsd Colonel Benjamin Nields
BrilliantlBen had the speech Of the
night before at his fingers ends, but he
thought it well to preface II with word
about the all absorbing question of the
tariff In dull, lfaless mannar he went
on to enumerate the blessings OF protec-
tion to the workingman picked up Levi
Birds assertion Of the night before that
no wages are paid in Ireland !" that the
mechanics OF this city had not only the
necessaries, but also the Injuries of life;
tried TO show how protection had reduced
the prices of plate glass and ingram car
pet; defended the Federal Election bill,
and praised the Mckinley bill.
Then he stumbled among stone walls
and bridges; charged the Levy Court
| with corruption; repeated the assertions
of the previous night against Nessrs
Hickman and Jordan; lamented about
the willful waste Of morey caused by the
building of the almshouse; compared the
price Of the silver plated spoons and
china ware purchased for It to that Of
the cedars of lebanon used Ia the build
ing of King Solomon's temple. In fact
he repeated verbRtum the speech OF the
previous night, and dull silence which
was only relieved by an unaccountable
noise and rumbling caused by the wind
playing havoc among the sesnerles over
head
Edward g. Bradford was next intro.
duced. He began by saying that this
was a momentous question which should
be fought on state and local issues alone.
He then went on to charge the Levy
Court with fraud and wilful waste Of ths
peoples money; tried to show by figures
how the Levy Court had mismanageS the
peoples money; advocated the appoint
ment Of three commissioners, told how
tbs bill for the appointment of three
commissioners had been defeated through
the opposition Of Senator Donahoe; and
finished that topic by saying that had II
been passed it woald have saved the
county $50, 600 per aunum
He next spoke of the Democratic mem
bers of the House of Congress as a howl
ing mob. Then he turned his attention
to the Australian ballot law, and made
the astounding declaration that he would
never roget having favored the death oi
that bill, because the Democrats sup
ported 10, because that party had beer
conspicuous In every attempt to dsbauch
the ballot In this state and every other
He characterized the bill as a snare K
entangle the ignorant. and said
it had beon defeated By soliG
Republican vote, except that George w
Gray had voted with them and one Re.
publican had voted fer the bill He theI
went on TO describe how the ballot sys
tenn would work, and finished by sayinl
that the bill was calculated to do SOM
good, but far greater amount Of mis-
chief
During the speech careful count o
those present showed l47 In the parque
and orchestra circle. twenty ak ia til
, balcony and none In the lllery.