Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1884 — The Democratic Rally. [ARTICLE]

The Democratic Rally.

Ths Jasper county Demoerac held their “Rally” last Tuesday. General Durbin Ward, of Ohio, and Attorney General Hord were the speakers. Ward spoke in the alternoon, at the Opera House, and Hord at the Court House, in the evening, and aL-o made a few remarks at the afternoon meeting. Tfurbin Ward is the same man whom the Democracy of Ohio defeated for the gubernatorial nomi nation two years ago for the same reasons that General Manson was defeated by the same party in Indiana this yeur: He was a brave and faithful Union soldier, and stood in the way of too many lebel bullets to suit the tastes of his party. Watd is, probably, as fair minded and concientious an orator as his party possesses, but he is bigoted, inconsistent, and incapable of forming an unbiased opin ■ ion The audience ih the afternoon did not occupy more than half the seating capacity of the Opera House, and illustrated, in a remarkable degree, the fact.that Republicans, in general, unlike the Democrats, are always willing to hear both side’s of every question. Not less, probably, than half the audience were Republicans. As proof of' this fact, we give the names of all the voters we o sat in the middle and eastern sectiins of the front Half of the hall, with the exception of three men, whose faces we did not recognize, and two of whom left before the close of the speaking. Tee names are as follows: M. F< Chilcote, J. W. McEwen, Johrt Roberts, C C. Warner, S. P ; Thompson. John Makeever, G. E. Marshall, Geo. Daughert.y, J, M. Hopkins, L. L. Daugherty, ( F. W. Babcock, John Zimmerman, A. Kowen, Alt. Collins C. D. Nowels, *T. C. Webster, E. P. Honan, Rev. Havens, Dr. Bitters, H. B. Smith, N. V. Cleaver, M. D. Rhoades, S. A. Henry, Rev. Mcßeynolds. Twenty-four voters and only nine of them Democrats. We took the names in only the two sections because they were the only ones that could be plainly seen from where we sat, and although the proportion of Democrats may have been somewhat greater in the rear seats, we still adhere to out- statement that half the audience were Republicans. As fair a sample of his utterances, take the statement that, with the exception of the Tribune all the papers of New York, secular, religious and illustrated, were supporting Grover Cleveland! This in face of the facts that the New York Sun, the most widely circu-; ! lated political paper in the country, ■ land which has been uncompromisingly : I Democratic for years, is now earnestly i ' opposing Cleveland, and not a single , ■ Protestant religious paper in the country is for Cleveland, and most of them i are zealous for Blaine; and of the Catholic papers the Boston Pilot is the dnly one of prominence that supports Cleve- i land. The Irish World, the leading Irish paper ot the country, also pub-i lished in New York City, is enthusias- 1 tic for Blaine; and “The Judge” one of \ the best illustrated papers of New York is doing glorious work for the Republican candidates. Other points made by Gen. Ward, are noticed elsewhere, in detail. Mr. Hord spoke at the Court House 1 in the evening. He is a clamorous, spouting, ignorant and malignant demagogue of the rankest Hind. As an orator, a mete execrable speaker never tortured an audience. His coarse, jangling voice was more unpleasant than the din of a boiler factory. The unmitigated and rancorous gall of the creature is well illustrated by his statement that Mr. Blaine responsible for the murder of the “Sainted GarI Held, ” as he called him. And the de- ’ mand made of his auditors if tney wanted a red-handed murderer to be their President. His gross ignorance i wds shown by sui h statemerts as, that David A. Wells, the notorious crank writer on finance and free trade, was Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln, when it was Gideon Wells who was the Secretary, a man not related to David A. Wells, and as utterly Unlike him as Hord is unlike any man tip to be Attorney General of a great State; and the kindred statement,- that the Tallapoosa was the last vessel of the American Navy, when, in point of .’act two of the most powerful and etl’eytive steel war i vessels afloat have been launched at I Chester, Penn., during the present i year, and six more would have been ■ far on the road to con'tT'elion had not that dishonest and? unpatriotic Confedero Democratic Copgress, of list winter, refused to autuor*re the expendidurt of the >3<’,O f iO.WO sperial naval fund uoiv lyin<>'*idle in the Treasury, and v?hich constitutes a portion of the four hundred or so. mid of dollars which tbos 1 ' demagogues, \ oorhees and Isaac are vying to . makUhe people believe will Ixj.dividvidea thertL per jnijiita. If the democrat" 'raffy Hie election.