The Southern herald., 1892-09-16

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sketch Of the meeting Of the Demo
cratic club Of Gillsburg held on Sat
urday, 9th Of August, 1892. The
club met in the College hall 5 p. NJ,
with that true blue democrat Hamp-
ton Wall in the chair. After some
telling remarks from that stauneh
old democrat Seaborn Reynolds,
the club proceeded 10 regular bnsi-
ness. By previous invitation, c.
/ Fl. Firth. and Frank Tuli from
Magnolia, were present to speak.
They both came, ladened with fig
ures and facts, which they dished
out to Republicans and Third par
ties in a most charming and hospi-
table manner. Ifyou don't know,
Mr. Editor, | can tell you, c. H..
Firth doesn't handle anything with
kid gloves. His remarks on the
Force bill and the fact that it was
an issue and not a mere dodge or
subterfnge as the one-third party
claim it, was sufficient TO convince
any candid, unPrejudieed mind
He then showed the financial con-
ditiOn Of several States, during the
Republican administration and fhe
subsequent condition under Demo
cratic administration. Mr.. Firth
spoke an hour or more and had on
ly got half through, but as there
we're other speakers, and growing
late in the evening, gave way with
out finishing his speech, as he said
with word Of God in his mouth
and the devil in his breeches. 4"
The committee on program had ar
ranged that Mr.. Firth should open
and any speaker of Third party
proelivities, who desired to speak,
would be allowed 10 do so. After
Frith's speech, Mr.. Balus Tull, Of
IGillsburg, took the floor, and gave
US a short but pointed sermon; text
"Christ and him cruciied," giving
US a history Of the man "whose raj
ment was camel's hair and who did
eat locusts and wild honey " Ibe-
lieve Mr.. Editor, that Mr.. Tull is a
conscientious man and that is not
all l believe; ! believe he is consci-
entiously wrong. He drew like
ness Of Christ to that of the Third
party; he spoke of the similarity Of
the life and career Of our Savior,
with the declaration of purpose set
forth l presume, in the Ocala and
Omaha platform, for said he, when
Christ was upon the earth, He was
mocked and scoffed at as our party
is today. Mr.. Tull spoke Of being
an adopted son of Mississippi, and
if be knew himself he was Demo-
crat from tip to toe; that he was
born a Democrat. Then in the Ian
guage of ST. Paul to the Corinthians
| would say, "come out from them
and be ye separate, saith the Lord ,
and touch not the unclean thing" "
He spoke Of the great blessing he
then enjoyed; living in a land OF
} liberty living in a land that the
constitution granted the exercise Of
thought, the freedom of speech, the
freedom Of the press and where he
could worship God under his own
vine and fig tree. And indeed Mr..
Editor, there are blessings; bless
ings which of late days, however,
seem not to be appreciated, especi.
} ally by our people. Then if bless.
ings, l would ask in the name oi
one Of old, "come over and help
US" to perpetuate these blessings by
placing the grandest and noblest o.
men in the nation, Grover Cleve.
land, in the chief executive chair
l can't tell why Mr.. Hughes die
not speak as he is such a great talk.
er, unless it was that he saw the
"Vulcan" of Magnolia there, who
had hammered him at his forge sc
recently. After Balus Tull spoke
Mr.. Frank Tull, his brother, from
, Magnolia, was introduced. He il
a Democrat, call wool and yart
, wide" While am sorry l cam
! say anything about the good looks
: Of my friend Frank, yet, l can say
! of truth that he has got head or
his shoulders, and it's chock full o.
information. He is the biggest lit.
tie budget of information you ever
saw. He did not deem it necessary
to start at the river Jordan with bis
speech, but took a more modern