Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1884 — The Meding Saturday Evening. [ARTICLE]

The Meding Saturday Evening.

A large, intelligent and appreciative audience assembled, last Saturday evening, at the Court House, to hear the first speech of the campaign delivered by Hon. William C. Wilson, Republican candidate tor Attorney General. Every one was interested, and no one disappointed with the speech, which was nearly two hours in length. The speaker has been long and favorably known in tins community, and this was referred to by William B. Austin, in a few, well chosen remarks, in introducing him. Mr. Wilson is a good thinker, very fluent and has a forcible delivery. HA dwelt with especial stress upon the location of party srength at the beginning of the late war, the effect of the war upon the politics of that day, aud spoke in words of the highest eulogium of the Douglas Democrats, who swung loose from the doctrine of Supremacy, and fought nobly for Atheir country, and who came out of the,' war staunch Republicans; he reviewed the Democratic cry of fraud in public places, arid, very truthfully, said that it ill became the adherents of that party to charge fraud, when its very name is synonymous with shot gnus and tissue ballots. The best pant of the speaker’s efforts were directed to the tariff question, and, although this subject is inexhaustible, he handled it in such a commendable manner “that the wayfaring man though a fool might not err therein.” The support of the laboring classes, the benefit of home markets, and the building up of the manufacturing and commercial interests in general were brought out in such bold relief as to carry conviction to the rpinds of his hearers. A few deserved and complimentary remarks in regard to Hou. James G. Blame, closed tue speech.

The speech, the audience, the enthusiasm and ‘-Old Shady,” as sung by Col. B C. Shaw, of bafayeite, at, the close of Col. Wilson, 9 remarks, allseemed to awaken tile people from tteir political lethargy. Neyet before were the prospects of the Republican party in Jasper county more flattering, and that there will be a greater than the old time majority, U a fyrt-goae ooftelusion..