Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 31, 1875, Page 4

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Spiritualistic manifestations. To-xonnow. NEW CHICAGO THEATRE—Clark street, between Bandolph and Lake. Engagoment of Charlotts Thomp- wn. *Jene Ere.” ADELPEY THEATRE—Dearborn strest, 0Orer Monroe, * Licpet.” MCVICEER'S THEATRE—Madison strest, between Dearborn and State. Lagagement of James Lewid, “The Big Bananz=.” HOOLEY’S THEATRE—Randolph street, between Clarkand LaSalle, Engagoment of the California Stinerrels, W0OD'S MUSEGA—3onroe etreet, born and Btate. Afternoon, *The Marble Evaning, “ Uncle Tow’s Cabin. ‘between Dear- Heart.” — SOCIETY MEETINGS. JIASONTC.—There will be 3 Tegular assembly of A Mur Grand Lodge of Periection s: Capsitto- rial Hall on Thursdsy eveaiog nest. - Work on the 101 Ty order ST Dee n.‘?. P. HALL, T."P,".G. "ML~ D GOODALE, Gr. Bec. NOI8 ENCAMPMENT XO. & PN of this Encampment will meet at thelr ball, sorner Wi 5 and Clark-ts., at 10 o'clock Bun: Loy moraing, to sfead the funeril of Fatr, C. W.R. Wi ler immarstedt. By e il ATTENTION, STR KNIGHTS!—Stated conclave of Chicgo Gamynandery No. 19 K. T, Monday evening, Nov. 1, 197, for business and work on R. C. Order. Tiaifag Sir Enlghs courteonsly invited. ~ By order of the Em. Com. G. A. WILLIAMS, Recorder. 1. 0. 0. F.—To the Offcers and Mebers of Ghicago TLodge, No. 55, L. 0. O. F.: Youere hereby no Lo Mo hill on; Monday 8t 9:30 o'clock, o attend foneral of our lzte Brother, James Grubb. & JOEN GILDER, V. G, ST. GEORGE'S BENEVOLENT ASSOCTATION.— Thoe regular monthly meeting will be held at their 2311, 167 Weebington-at.. on Monday evening, Nov. 1, 1575, at 7:30 o'clock. THOS. BUTTON, Bec. Sec’y- Zhe Chivags Tribune, Bundsy Morning, October 31, 1875. At the New York Gold Exchange on Satur- dsy groenbacks ranged from 857 to 864, clos- ing at 86. A million dollars is a good deal of money, but the tax-payers of Cook County msy esve ‘more than this by breaking up the Ring. Every vote against Hrstso, CrawrorD, and Coxrx will help to fracture that Ring. 1s the action of the police at Farwell Hall fair indication of the attitude they will take on election doy? Wefearit is; and, if so, then the Ballot-Box Guards will do well to go 10 the polls with their revolvers in hand and protect their own rights. They have noth- ing to hope from the police of Chicago. —_——ee The merchants, when they were inter- rupted by the mob of plug-uglies on Friday evening, gave vent to their indignation by ghouts of * Down with the roughs and bul- lies.” 'This the BStaats-Zeitung translates “ Pown with the foreigners.” The Staats- Zeitung and Mr. Hesve both kmow this is an infamons £alsehood. e—————— A newbook is announced. It contains the famous sayings of eminent men, revised to ruit the times. We make room for two ex- traots from the apothegms of Jacxson and Drx: The purily of the ballot-box must and shall be yre- served. Ifanybody sttemptstostuff the ballot-box, shoot 1im om the spot. SeTT———— Is it necessary, at this late day, to expound for the benefit of Mr. Hesing and his ignor- ant followers the difference between liberty of speech and licentionsness of speech ? Do they not know that 8 word spoken out of season is mot fitly spoken, and that every word spoken at a public meeting without the consent of the presiding officer is disorderly conduct ? The bank-officers, the Board of Trads, and tho principal merchants of Chicago have de- cided to suspend business on Tuesdsy, and devots the day to securing an honest election. This determination is the most reassuring xign of the times. Mr. Hesmio and his triends will see what the honest people of Chicago can do when they “get their mad up.” “ Toujours Taudacs! ™ is tho motto of the ‘Hesingites. JoEN ROUNTELEE, Hzsmva's Coun- ty Attorney, sends out a circular appesling to the negroes for aid *in this struggle against s corrupt and dishonest government,” and Hrssg's Police-Sergeant O'Coxxor reports that be drove back the merchants in Farwell Hall “who attempted to mob Mr. Heae.” Toujours Pavdace I Mr. Hesmxe, the champion of Coxty and Criwporp, and with Mmz McDoNirp on e side and Mmxx CoroozaN on the other, ylaimed the right to take possession of & meeting called for the purpose of expressing public opinion against ballot-box stuffing and roffianism. It only remsins now for Jm¢ McHarz and Nzp Bumxs to invade the ’ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1875 —SIXTEEN PAGES. tee, or any of their speakers, or suy of their active supporters. Both Logax and Ocresey—the two United States Senators from this State—were in the city, but they were not invited to take part. It wasin- tended to be strictly a mercantile meeting. By what rule of decency, then, did Mr. Hes- 136, the leading candidate of the Opposition, put in an eppearance, backed by his bullics, roughs, and plug-uglies? For what purpose were they thero except to break up the meet- ing and champion ballot-box stuffing. The Staats-Zeitung whines that the Far- well Hall meeting was & meeting to * put down free speech,” because Hesive was not allowed to harangue and run the meeting. There was no attempt to put down free speech except on the part of HesmNG and his gong from Clark street, who had no more right in Farwell Hall than they would haveto bresk up a church-meeting because the min- ister preaches doctrines not acceptable to the slums where these cutthroats live. Tet every merchant and employer of labor in the City of Chicago eslculate how much he may possibly lose on the profits of sales by closing his establishment half of the day next Tuesdny. Whatever this sum may be (and there will probably be no actual loss, as the same sales will be made before and after), he may bo sure that he will save more than an equal amount in taxation by keeping out of office the men who are elected by ballot- ‘box stuffing, and who are in the hands of the vicious and corrupt classes. Sergeant 0'Coxxon tells the whole story of the conspiracy to capture the Farwell Hall meeting when he reports that * Deputy Sheriff Sarrn informed me that Mr. HesNe was in the room and wanted to address the meeting.” I told him if Mr. Hesmo wanted to get on the platform I would protect him.” Then Sergeant O'Coxxyor was there to “ protect” Hesmvg in his attempt to dis- turb a meeting of merchants, to protect him in his effort to speak at the meeting against the will of those who had called the meeting, rented the hall, and were conducting the proceedings. Sergeant 0'Coxson tells what he was at the meeting for. The County Clerk’s office has enlarged its capacityas an asylum for political paupers, and has employed, it is ssid, 8 large number of extra clerks at the public expense to do some slow copying, while the regular employes are engaged in blowing and striking outside for Hesmve, In this way, not only have some new voters for the County Ring been created, but the tax-payers have been blackmailed to contribute to their campsign fund,—for every one of these new clerks has been as- sessed. The worst feature of itis that for evary $10 which the Ring campaign fund re- ceives, the tax-psyers have to pay $100 in salaries for clerks who are not needed. e —— The Opposition party held mass-meetings snd rallies in McCormick Hall, in the North and West Side Turner Halls, and in Burling- ton Hall. They hsve also held numerous ward saloon-meetings, and have been inter- rupted in none of them. They have said what they pleased, have resolved what thoy pleased, and no Republican has felt himsolf suthorized to interrupt these meetings. They have done what they wished to do without hindrance from Republicans, becauss Repub- licans know they have no right to break up a Democratic meeting. By what right does Hesing lead in his mob to break up meetings of merchants? — THE HMERCHANTS VS. THE ROUGHS, The invasion of the Farwell Hall meéting on Fridsy evening was the most high-handed and infamous proceeding that has ever been attempted in a political way in this city. Mr. Hesmve might have been freed from & per- sonal responsibility for the outrage if his ‘paper, the Staats-Zeitung, had not yesterday boldly justified it, and denounced the mer- chants who had gathered there as guilty of a «ghameless betrayal of the right of free speech.” This is the most reckless device of demsgogism that was ever invented. The call, both in the newspapers and in the eirca- lars, was headed ¢ Meeting of Merchants,” and read as follows: Omxcago, Oct. 27, 1875.—Dear Sir : The undersigned, sppointed st s meeting of merchsnts, held at the Palmer Houss Oct. 26, a8 & committes, call a meeting of Chicago's merchants, in order to express indigna~ tion st the refusalof the ity Commissioners to give each of the political parties at the coming elec- tion a proper Tepresentation in the judges of election, and to take such action as may be desmed advissble for maintsining the purity of the ballot-box and se- curing & fair and fall expression of the will of the com- munity at the polls, respectfclly inyits and urge you to attend & mass-mecting of merchants at Farwell Hsll onthe evening of Fridsy, Oct. 29, 5t 8 o'clock, The sacredness of the ballot is the only hope of popu- lar self-government, and we are satisfied that in this city it is in fmminent perilat the present time. Let s, a8 good citizens and tax-payers, demand ourrights and save the ballot-bax from capture by reckiess men and desperate combinstions. Jesgx SPALDING, Cranrrs P. KzLroag, Jomm M. Wrienr, WILLIAM ALDRICH, BAMUEL Briss, Merchants’ Committee, The meeting was called for a special pur- pose, and & certain class of citizens were in- vited to participate. In answer to this call, between 2,500 and 3,000 merchants and business-men went to Farwell Holl. Also some 200 or 300 men not merchants, but mostly ward-bummers, gamblers, roughs, and thieves, went there uninvited. They bad no rights there except those which the merchants who hired ond paid for Farwell Hall chose to accord them. Is Mr. Hesrve 8 merchant? Is Jick Rouw- gar= a merchant ? Is JAck GARRIOK a mer- chant? Is Moxx MoDoXNitp amerchant? Is Mrxe Corcorax 8 merchant? Is Tox Forey amerchant? Is It MoHArE a merchant ? Is Nzp Bonys 8 merchant? Are any of the ram-hole habitues, the Clark street gamblers, the roughs of the Sheriff's office, the shoulder- hitters and the thieves who accompanied Mr. thurches to-day, and demsnd to be heard ‘hen and there in defense of their peculiar nllings. There is no the fact that Mr. Hzaxa is responsible for the refusal of the County Board to give the Republicans a minority representation on the Election Boards. It is a notorious fact that he can sontrol the County Commissioners whenever e chooses, as he has demonstrated. Yet he has declined to interfere in favor of an hon- st election at a time when he thinksan bomest election may defeat him for County Cregsurer. Thera is one point about the Farwell Hall neeting which must not be ignored. It was 1 nop-portisan gathering of merchants, in the interest of s pure eleotion, and not one of the candidates on the Republican tickst was vresent. Hrox was not there, Nzxsox was not shere, HrAvY was not there, Joxzs was not thera. Not only did the Republican candi- iates have the doosncy o remsin sway, but they were not tepresentod by soy tumaber “of fhatr— Cainpaign Octimits Hesmie Fridsy night, merchants? If not, what rights had they in Farwell Hall except by courtesy ? They are the very men whom the large assemblage of merchants proposed to criticise and antagonize. Was the mer- chants' right to freedom of speech to be hooted down by a gang of bummers who in- vaded their hall? This is the real issue of 4 freedom of speech,” and Mr. Hrsixe's minjons were the only persons who threat- ened it and sought to violate it. . Let us take some parallel case, Thereis a famous and useful organization of the Catho- lics known as the Father Mathew Temper- ance Society. They are constant ard efficient opponents of whisky-drinking and rum-holes, and frequently hold meetings to advance their ideas, Now, Mr. Hesive is on the otherside. Does be claim the right on that sccount to collect the doggery-keepers and Clark-strest gamblers and thiVes, and inveds a Father Mathew temperance meeting, demand the right to speak for whisky, and drive theright. ful ocoupanits #rom their hall? The Metho- diit Chwrshi,-to9, 19 gensrally oppoesd to drinking, gombling, thieving, and ‘ballot-box stuffing, and its ministers and members fre- quently express themselves very plainly on these matters. Has Mr. Hesixa the right to get together his Forzxs, AGNEWS, GARRICES, McDoxarps, Corconsxs, HoLpeys, and Mo- Haves, enter n Methodist church of a Sunday, give the preacher a black eya,'r.leun out the congregation, set up & doggery in the pulpit, and a faro-game in the chancel? If Mr, Hesmvo has not the right to do thess things, what more right has he to interefers with 6 meeting of merchants to which he +was not invited and where he did not belong? Had he, end the gamblers, thieves, and ballot-box stuffers who accompanied him, re- mained a8 quiet spectators, nobody would have objected to their presence; but when they sought by terrorism to defeat tho object of the meeting and dislodge the men who had engaged the hall and paid for its use, they wera guilty of an act of ruffianism only equaled on that ocension when Hesmva led a gang of roughs to the Council Chamber in the interost of incendiarism, and sought to bully the Council into an sbolition of the fire-limits. The Staats-Zeitung is right when it says that tho constitutional right of fres speech was involved in the Farwell Hall meeting. but not exactly in the way it putsit. The right of men like JorN V. FARwELL, GEORGE Arvoug, Geonge M. How, T. W. Hasver, R. P. DraicksoN, MarTIN ANDREWS, FRANELIN MacVeacw, and the 3,000 other decent citizens, to speak their own sentiments, in a meeting of their own, in o hall hired by themselves— this was the issue of free speech. If Jomx V. Fanwers had undertaken to spoak against Mr. Hesmie in a Hestse meeting, he would soarcely have escaped with hislife. And if the merchants who went to Farwell Hall had known that their right to freo speech was to be disputed by & gang of ruffians, they, 00, would have been prepared to spill blood in defenso of it. They probably thought that the $1,000,000 a year of taxes paid for the support of the police force ought to in- sure them protection against the intrusion of the vicious classes. Instead of this, the Sheriff of the County, with some of his un- derlings,~was on the ground to sssist Mr. Hreme in his proposed assault on the free- dom of speech and the rights of the merchants, and the police who were present wero more inclined to wuse their clubs against the merchants than ogainst the thieves and roughs. Appeals were made in vain at police headquarters for a sufficient force to keep order. Fortunately, the men who had gathered thers knew their rights, and knowing, dared maintain them. They had the judgment and resolution to op- pose the invasion at its incipiency, and fight it step by step, and thus saved the riot and bloodshed that had been preconcerted by the villains who sought to drive them from their own hall and take possession of it. THE FARWELL HALL RESOLUTIORS. . The merchants of Chicago, who hold in their hands the business interests of this city, hawe presented a fearful indictment against the crowd which Hesmve hoads, and it de- rives additional strength and force from the character of the men who have drawn it up. The Farwell Hall meeting was made up of three thousand business men, who have great interests at stake ; the men who beliove in peace, law, and order, and are bound to pre- serve it; the menwho believe in honesty in politics as well os in trade, and who are de- termined to break up the stealing, swindling jobbery and bogus-contract business which have so long disgraced Cook County; the men who believe in purity of elections, and are determined that the ballot-boxes shall not be tampered with and stuffed. The assem- bled thousands of merchants of Chicago met in Farwell Hall because they were determined to have & fair election. There were Demo- cratic merchants and Republican merchants, and there were many merchants who had in- tended to vote the Opposition ticket, who now intend to support the Republican ticket, because they now see that Hesve and his crowd have struck at their dearest liberties. The merchants, therefors, met and con- demned the Opposition, and their condemna- tionis sharp and explicit. They condemn the majority of the Board of County Commis- sioners for packing the election precincts with partisans of the Opposition ticket. They charge that the purpose of this act is to promote the commission of frauds by stuffing the ballot-boxes; that the present County Board was nominated by a corrupt clique of desperate men who have robbed the people of their revenues;” that the construction of the proposed new Court-Houso will place at the disposal of this corrupt Board immense sums of money; that the success of the Op- position ticket involves *‘the loss of many millions of dollars to the honest tax-paying community.” In view of these charges, the truth of which has not been and cannot be denied by the Hesmve gang, the merchants denounced this corrupt action of tire County Board as an infringement of the rights of American citizens. They declared that they would resist every ‘“ attempt to desecrate the ballot-box through illegal voting, repeating, and fraudulent counting, by every lawful measure” within their power. They boldly brought home the atlack by declaring “that the public money should not be placed in the hands of any man who boldly declares that he seeks office for purposes of personal gain,” and they pressed the charge still further home with the declaration that, *‘ allying himself with mem- bers of the Board of County Commissioners known to be corrupt, and seeking to promote their re-election to seats they have disgraced, Mr. A. C. Hestxe has forfeited the respect and confidence of the better classes of our citizens, whether native or foreign-born.” The merchants not only made declarations of principle, But adopted other resolutions put- ting these principles into practice. The firat of thess resolutions pledges the merchants present to close their places of business on Tuesday, ‘‘to the end, first, that the entire legal vote of the county shall be cast; and, second, that the purity of the ballot-box shall bs inviolably maintained at every hazard.” Every merchant in the city should observe this resolution. Thers are thousands of young men in the employ of wholesale houses, and thou. sands of workingmen in the manufactories, who can vote with great difficulty, if atall, if they are confined all day in their places of business. Every manin this city who has another man in his employment should see to it that that man has an opportunity not only to vote, but also to work at the polls. The tex-payers need them. The ballot-box needs them. The honest, upright, and law- abiding citizens want their work and their votes. It is almost s matter of life and death that the infamous gang which is con- spiring sgainst the peaceable citizens of Cook Oounty should be voted down. The merchants still furthe put their prin- the money in the County Trensury shall be counted by an honest man elected by the people, and not by a man nominated by the present incumbent, and by raising funds to detect and prosecute every illegal voter. That meeting of merchants was & crush- ing blow to the Hesxa crowd, even if the gang of plug-uglies from the blackleg dens of Clark and Wells streets had not sought to bresk it up. It showed that the hon- est, respectable, peaceful, and law-abiding citizens of Chicago have ot last waked up to & reslizing sense of tho dangers that surround them, and the infamous assgult upon them by Hrsmvg's cutthroats and bullies shows thet Hesme feared this meeting would be the desth blow to him. It was the last effort of the Dévil-Fish; but the people have griped the monster. Now let them slash off his heed. THE LAW OF PUBLIC MEETINGS. The law governing the holding of public meetings is as well known and as well de- fined as is any other law for the preservation of the penco and of private and public rights. That law is, that those who’call a public meeting and orgeanize it by the appointment of officers, and who are Inwful tenants of the room, havoe the same absolute right to control and direct its proceedings that the clergyman and other officers have to control and direct the services in a church. This is the absolute law, and the only one consistent with the preservetion of the public poace. Otherwise there could be no public meeting which might not be disturbed and broken up by an invasion of the opposing party. AMr. Hrsmie is o condidate at thehead of the ticket of one party, snd Mr. Hucxis at the head of the ticket of the other party. To haveMr. Huck invade overy Hesma mecting and insist npon defending himself wonld be a denial of the Hesivg party to hold a meeting at all, and we do mnot exaggerate when we suggest that such an attempt by Alr. Hucn's friends would result in violence, and probably in the killing of somebody. The case is in no wise differentwhen Mr. Hes1ng in person, sttended by o brigade of armed gamblers, thieves, ruffians, county officers, and other notorious scoundrels, entsred & mass-meeting of mer- chants and demanded that he be heard in advocecy of hislown election; he committed a crime against public morals, against public right, against the freedom of citizens to con- vene in public meeting,—a crime of a pecu- liarly anti-American character, and especially indicativeof the propensities that subordinate reason, decency, law, and intelligence to the force of rufiianism. It is time that Mr. Hesxo should know that this is an Ameriean city ; that, except as an American citizen, he has no political righta whatever ; that, while his birth-place is no disfranchisement, ho derives all his political privileges exclusively from his letters cloth- ing him with the character of an American citizen. Mr. Hrarsa had the same right to enter that meeting at Farwell Hall that he had to enter Clark Street Methodist Church and in- sist npon addressing the congregation in reply to the sermon of the pastor. The right in both cases to be a disturber of the public peace is the same,—no-more and no less. CRUSH OR BE CRUSHED. The extraordinary proceedings by the friends of Hestva and the bummer ticket at the Farwell Hall meeting on Friday night leave no doubt ns to the purposesof the ¢ QOpposition.” The Staats-Zeitung yesterday was filled with incendiary appeals to the Germans, Irish, Scandinavians, Bohemians, and all others of foreign birth, to array them- selves in personal and political hostility to the Americans. It proclaims a contest for the absolute mastery of thiscity. Shall Hes- e crush the community, or shall the com- munity now crush the bold and defiant crim- inal class which at Farwell Hall on Friday night sought to take possession of the mer- chants’ meeting ? Shall the gamblers rule Chicago? Shall the bunko-men, the pickpockets, the brothel pimps and runners, the foot-pads, and the traffickers in stolen goods, assume possession of all branches of the Government in this city? Shall Mr. Hesixg, the recogaized chief of the mob, be henceforth during his natural life Dictator in Chieago, and, armed with the brute power of the criminal class, regulate the incomings and outgoings of our people? Shall he prescribe who shall be merchants and who shall be laborers; who shall vote, speak, or express an opinion, and who shall be permitted to live or do business in Chicago? The purpose of this mob is avowed. It is the subjugation of all classes of society to the government of the bum- mers, of which government Mr. A. C. Hesva is to be the chief. Does it require that any citizen interested in the peace, prosperity, and character of the city, or in safety for person or property, shall bes actually knocked down, maltreated, turned out of his own store, or out of his church, to make him renalize the necessity for meet- ing this gang at the polls on Tuesday next, and there determine whether this city is to boe the prey of a moeb, or governed by law ? Shall we abandon everything to the undis- puted control of the men who swarm on South Clark sireet every day to rob and plun- Qer the stranger and the unwary? Shall we sbandon everything like an attempt at self- government, and, without an effort at self- defense, accept the political and personal domination of their chief and the gangs of criminals enlisted in his service ? If-we do this do not we deserve the contempt inwhich this mob holds the general public? If we will not meet this insolent combination now at the polls, do we not invite the rale of the mob, and the howling demands of -the Com- munists, when a month or two hence they seck the division of property ? Shall we crush this conspiracy now by our votes, or shall we be crushea by it ? The Chicago produce markets were general- Iy steady on Baturday. Mess pork was quiet and 10@25c¢ per brl higher, closing at $19.25 seller November and $18.75 seller the year. Lard was quiet and firm, closing at $12.70 per 100 Ibs (new) cash and $12.07}@12.10 seller the year. Meats were quiet and firmer, at 8jc for part ealted shoulders (boxed), 11jc for short ribs do, und 1ije for shert clear do. Highwines wers quiet and steady, at $1.13 per gallon. Lake freights were active and strong, at 6c for wheat to Baffalo. Flour wos dull and unchanged. ‘Whent was more active and firmer, closing at $1.124 oash and $1.084 for November. Corn was active and §@le lower, closing at 51jc cash and 50jc for November. Oats were active and weak, closing at 81jc for Novem- ber and 81ic seller the year. RBye was active and steadier, at 684@G9%. Barloy was more active, but 1@4c lower, closing at 82c cash and 80c for December, Hogs were in active demana and were firmer, with the balk of the trading ot $7.10@7.85. Catils were un- ghinged,-closing itesdy-ab $2509583 fur poor to extra, re was a fair demand for sheep at $3.00@5.00. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $115.57} in greenbacks at the close. THE DARGEROUS PRECINCTS. ‘We call the especial attention of the Re- publican Committees to the imperative neces- sity for providing the means for a thorough and rigid scrutiny of the ballot-boxes, of the poll-lists, and of the counting of the votes. Especially is this provision necessary in those precincts where tho Committees know that frauds are possible and that frauds sre intended. The men selected for the im-’ portant duties at these precincts should have all the support they may need in order not only to guard against, but to detect and ex- pose, frauds. There are many precincts where there is a reasonable assurance of fair play, but there are others, and they are well Inown, where there is a certainty that frand is intended and will be practiced. It isat these precincts whers a strong force of reso- lute, cool-headed men ghould be provided, with the means of enforcing a compliance with the law and an honest record and an honest count. That is all that should be asked, and that should be insisted on and secured. FALSEHOODS EXPOSED. The Staats-Zeitung, owned principally by Mr. Hesivg, and edited entirely in his inter- est, has become so desperate in the struggle for the guardianship of the county funds as to dealin positive misrepresentations, when it knows that its falsities will be exposed. Not content with the effort to make it appear that tho failure of the bullies and roughs to captare the Farwell Hall meeting was an in- vasion of theirright to free speech, it has also told its German readers that tho meeting was a * Know-Nothing gathering,” where the common expression was, *‘Damn the Dutch,” and “Damn the foreigners.” It putson the finishing touch in the following appeal, printed ia its largest and blackest type: Every Germab, every Irishman, every Scandinavian every Polo snd Bobemian, etc., who s faithfal and loyal to his country, snd Lelieves in the rights guar- snteed by tho Constitution, ehould be present at the meeting to-night at Kingsbury Hall to proteat agrinst the cry, ralsed again yosterdsy, of “Lown with the Joreigners ™ It is almost needless to deny that there was any such expression used at the Farwell Hall meeting, or that this was the sentiment of tho gathering. There was no expression in the resolutions or the speeches that would furnish even a pretext for such an assertion. There was nothing in the purpose of the ‘meeting which would cell out or admit of any issue between American-born and foreign- born citizens. The object of the mesting was to protest against the packing of judges of election and the stuffing of the ballot-box, and all good citizens, whether native or for- eign-born, are equally interested in prevent- ing this villainy. 1t the Staats-Zeitung means that the meet- ing was a Know-Nothing meeting because it refused to give way to the brutes and bullies who went there in the interest of Mr. Hrs- 1ING, it i8 & reflection upon the foreign-born citizens of Chicago for which the Staats-Zei- tung ought to be held sccountable. It was not the Germans, or the Irish, or the Seandi~ noviaos, or the Poles, or the Bohemians, that tried to break up the Farwell Hall meeting. 1t was n gang of Clark street gamblers, North Side roughs, and the most noted thieves and villaing in Chicago, who made this attempt. Some of them msay have been of Irish birth, and some of American, but there were mnot half a dozen Germans who followed Hesmvg into that hall, and none of these were representative citi- zens of the Germans, Irish, Americans, or Scandinavians. They were representatives only of the slums of the city. Nobody is disposed to hold the Germans or the Irish responsible for the outrage. Nobody is re- sponsible but Mr. Hesmve and the mob of bruisers and roughs whom he led. Every good citizen and tax-payer, whatever his birth, is interested in the defeat of the Ring with which Mr. Hesrve has associated him- self, and in putting down the aggressiveness of the thieves and gamblers, scalawags and roughs, who are sustaining him. . THE FRENCH CERTENNIAL PLAY. Some amiable French admirer of America offered a prize last April for the best drama based on the American Revolution. Sixty- seven plays have been handed in to the un- happy man who is to award the prize. Some of them are doubtless good, though a play written to order, like poetry written to order, is usually of dubious merit, and, in fact, the majority of these competitive dramas are pretty certainly very bad. The sublime ignorance of the average Frenchman about American history, customs, and scenery is probably displayed to advantage in a good- ly number of them. If the rejected ones were published, literature would be enlivened by some of the finest flights of imegination. It isnot difficult to guess at some of the plota. We shall have ‘ Oncle Sam” as the hero of one play, dumping the tea into Bos- ton Harbor, and then retiring, singing psalms at the head of his army, to Philedelphis, whero he is appointed General-in-Chief of the army. The curtain rises at the begin- ning of the second act wupon the legendary hero engaged in & hand- to-hand fight with Gen. Brappocs, whom he is ensbled to kill by the timely aid of the Marquis pe rA Faverre. The victors are suddenly attacked by ome of the mon- strous lions which, as is well known, then infested the forests of North America. Hap- pily preserved from this terrible peril,—it is needless to say that the preserver is a Frenchman,—they journey on to glory. When they have attained it, the performance closes with a grand tableau. The Marquis pe RocIAMBDEAU is sitting on the head of the British lion, which wags its tail—by clock work—under the pecks of the American engle’s beak. The Goddess of Liberty crowns Oncle Sam. The United States and France embrace in the background. France cries, ¢ Hessian mercenaries fought against you.” O. S. replies: “ True! Let us make com- mon cause ageinst them. Alsace-Lorraine must be reconquered]” Tableaw. Blue fire. Curtain falls. The ushers wake up the snoring sudience. Another drama will introduce s to the celebrated M. VasmmveroN. We shall have him cutting down his favorite “apple-tree rather than have its shade and fruit rejoice the British army. He will appear at Mon- mouth, paralyzing retreating Hanay Lxe by uttering the fearful oath, ‘‘Sacr-rre” A thread of love-story will be farnished by his passion for *‘Moess Colombis,” whom he marries just before fighting the decisive bat- tle of the Revolution,—Bunker Hill,—whers he utters his famous phrase: ‘‘ Delay the discharge of your chassepots until you see the whitos of the enemy's eyes I” The battle is a bloody one, but the Americans are made conguerors by the chargs of D2 14 FaxerTs 8t the bead of the legions of France, whils i calaliratad froiclnd, Uus JAokdeul, I8 bombarding the rear of Lord ComNwarris’ | this county, but not ons of them was o, army and putting the regiment commanded by *Gen. Mzranuc” to ignominious flight. Such absurdities, carefully elaborated, will make delicious reading. The worst of these competing plays may ‘be mors interesting’ than the best. Mr. Sergeant 0'Coxnor has reported just as he bas been instructed to report on the Farwell Hall outrage. There was a gathering of citizens and tax-payers in their own hall for a special purpose, in which they were en- titled to the full protection of the police from the interference of outsiders. Mr. Sergeant O'Coxnor was the chief officer there, and, as he admits himself, refused to put out or silence the mob of roughs whom Mr. Hestve had led there to disturb the proceedings. He admits even more: he says in his report to the Superintendent that he told Deputy-Sheriff Sarra that *if Mr. Hrsmxo wishes to get on the platform, I will protect him in doing it"! That is to say, M. Sergeant O'Coxnos admits that he was prepared to use, and he probably did use, the policemen he had, to assist the mob which in- vaded the meeting. This is suflicient causo for this man O’CoNNOR's summary removal; but neither Hickex nor Convrs will dere to oppose Dictator Hestvg or do their duty— until after next Tuesday. ot A If Mr. Hesivo had entered the meeting at Farwell Hall alons, or, as most of the gen- tlemen present did, accompanied only by a Jow friends, he +would probably have been permisted, at the proper time, to speak in his own defense. Under no circumstances could he have claimed the right to spesk ; but he might have asked the privilege of doing so, and it is unlikely that the courtesy would have been denied him. His appear- ance in the hall at the head of a company of roughs was a virtual declaration of war upon the purpose of the meeting. His rude inter- ruption of the spenkers and his defiance of the Chairman were acts of open hostility. He stood there as the champion of confusion, not 8s one who demanded, or wanted, free speech, or any other kind of speech. To have given him the floor would have been to hand the meeting over into the keeping of him and his friends, and to confess that the Chairman and officers elected to direct the proceedings were incompetent for their posi- tions. MERCHANTS' COMMITTEE OF ACTION, In accordance with the last resolution of the seriea adopted by the meeting at Farwell Hall, last evening, to-wit : Resolved, That & committes of seven bs appointed Dy the Chair, whose duty it shall bo to raise tiie neces- sary funds and to mako te DecessaTy aIrangements to detect ma prosecuto overy. person, guilty of jllegal voting on eloction day, and every officer of election who shall be guilty of a violation of the law,— I hersby appoint as ihe Committee contem- plated by that resolution, the following gentle- men, viz.: Cmanres P. Kerroge, WiLLiax Ar- pric, Ricmaep T CRANE, ABwAx Keirm, Jessz BparpNo, Grorak M. How, Samuer Briss, W. M. Eoax. GEOBGE ARMOUE, Chairmaga of Meeting. —_—— The people of Baltimore have just passod through a very exciting election. The Demo- cratic party has enjoyed full control of the City and County Governmenta fora dozen years. Ass consequence corruptions and abuses of the most alarmiog description have grown up. The party organization has fallen completely into the hands of thebummers and scalawags, and the wotst elements of the Democracy have dono as they pleased. The Republicans have long been in & hopeless minority—rarely polling more than one-third of the votes cast. At the late municipal election the respectable class of Democrats struck hands with the Re- publican minority and nominated & Union Re- form ticket, and, while they have not elected their Mayor, they have carriod half the members ot the Common Council. Two years ago the vote for Mayor was: Democratio majority. At the Iast election the vote cast was, for— Latrobe (Dem.) ... b Warfleld (Reform) Democratic majority, 0nly.....o.- There are twenty wards in the ci Republicans and Reformers carried ten of them. The Reformers think they would bave carried the city if the elestion had been honestly con- ducted ; but there was no Registry 1aw, and in. some of the strong Ring wards no challenging was allowed, and ballot-box stuffiog was carried on to a trightful extent. The Reform party feel sangmine that they will carry the State election next Tuesday. — ———— One of Hesixa's vapers, both daily, says : Foreigners must not control a meeting of merchants, roared Brother JOHX V., FABWELL last night, e who thought before that tho “merchanta” were al native Americans, and g0 much_better than Irishmen, Dutchmen, Scandipaviens, ete. 7 The remark agcribed to Ar. Jomy V. FARWELL is an abominable faltehood,—a lie out of whole cloth,—and known to be such by the chap who wrote it. —_— One man is responeible for tho packing of the judges of election. 'He was closeted with the Committee which made ous the packed list of judges. He is the dictator of his crowd. A word from him would right this foul wrong. He will not speak that word, and the voice of the people should thunder a rebuke to him from the polls of next Tuesdsy. ——— Cook County, in order to ssve itsolf from Ring rule, must lop off not only the head but the tentacles of the Devil-Fish. Hesixa, CBAW- FoED, and CoNLy, must all be cut off from any hold on the county funds. The Ring was ready to break up the Farwell Hall meeting with bullets, if the resolute stand of onr busipesa-men had not prevented. The ‘honest voters of Cook County mesan to hreak up the Ring with ballots. HesNe says his honor was assailed at Farwell Hall. It was. The assaalt was perfectly suc- cessful. That “honor™ was destroyed forever. The assasgin was Ar. A. C. HzsiNG bimaelf. The tax-payers of Cook County are taking an intecest in this campaign, because they know 1hey will lose the interest on their money if they don't. Their loss will be Mr. Eestxa's gain. The members of the Chicago Rifle-Club will find some good short-range targets at the polls next Tuesday, if the Devil-Fish mob undertake 1o try to stafl the ballot-boxes. Twexp rode into power in New York City on ths ghoulders of just the same sort of mob as that led by the Devil-Fish candidate into Far- well Hall Friday night. The * sallot-Box Guards " might a3 well take 2 fow revolvers to the pollawith them next Tues- day. They may be needed when the ballot-box stuffing begins. Hearxa elaims to bave got through with per- Toitting Americans to be elected to offica tn Chi- <ago, sod henceforth proposes to elect nona but doreigners. —ee Hzsrxa, in his paper, denonoces}** American™ free spech because he and his armed bulliea ‘wers not allowed to run the Farwell Hall mest- ing. Thars are ten thousand young men of Ameri- can birth in Chicago, of from 21 to 25 years of age, sdacated and experienced, snd every way oompatead b be Tlark of slihee 62 ko souris of l fit by Mr. Hesoea, who selected an am“' " foreign-born ticket. He would have foreign born in office with him, e by —_— ‘The most dangerous combination thiy ever known is Hxar¥e's attempt to forma, pean Know-Nothing party for the p o o’trmaing. persecating, and robbing "'fi"-h: citizens —_— The Farwell Hall meeting was ng for Mixz McDoNALD, nor the hun.h)mm?;,:.Itu insisted on having their leader make 5 .p..:‘ American birth i hld by Hrama 1o y,, Rambiyy, crime more detestable than running s honse or a den of prostitution. —_— Mr. Hesrsa calls upon all foreigners 1y” toput down the Americans who vote for Hucx or Eeerey. —_— Hesrxu proposes to maks his significant from the entire uclnaionua cans from his ticket. —— “Tree speech,” according to Mr. nm to break up a meeting of his opponenz, ' —_—— to upy The Devil-Fish party will havas “a A0y and fish-like smell ” after next l‘nudm,,. —_— Mr. Hesva calls upon the foreign to put down the *‘pious Americazs.” —_— Hzsrxo calls the Americans who vote foy g German Hocx Enow-Nothings ! The man who stuffs the ballot-baz dasaryes, be stuffed with bullets himself. A PERSONAL, Kato Field is grazy—about the stags, struck, in fact. fup Von Bulow had an informal reception s Athenian Clab in Boston. it Mra. Braddon is still thinking of coming o thy country on 2 reading tour. £ Politics absorb everybody but the women the babies—God bless them ! sl “ A paradise for Globe-Democrat, * is ieno-sha.” Arthur Suilivan’s nes opera for Madsms ¥z, soa will be about Mary Queen of Scata, “How can tho Yale studsnts expect ty even with Odd-Feltows?” inquiresths Bc,: Post. Mr. Onion is running for Aldorman mPys. ' more. The eyes of the voters walar whey by appears before them. For obvious reasons, corporal punithmey bas been abolished at Vasear College sines thy pin-back dress came into fashion. Oscar Lennox Misch leaves to-night for ¥, ico and South America to spend the wineris search of health and amusement. The Balle Boyd whom many persons hars xid is not Belle Boyd continnes to lecturs i South. A South Carolina paper says her s.amg is * defiant and attractive.” The Italian Minister to Washingtao, Blue by name, is on the high seas, traveling from Liven pool to New York. Hs will be s conspiroms Blanc in Washingtoa society. It is a bit of current gossip that young Xor. doch, who is acting in *Our Boya™ at Disic, does not merely pretend to make love to Lilia Conway. Tho Conway is exasperacingly preity, A protty speech by a poe: tothe Soverds tined for his lady-love : Be not triumphaxt, Hittle fowsr, When on ier hanghty hesrt you ls, But modestly enjoy 50ar hour She’ll weary of you by and by, A royal decree has been prommuiguisd i “Munich making *¢ civil marriages " compulaey, “«Bat how,” excleims Martha Jane, icgeuncanly, * are you going to compel them to be exvil st marriage? ™ L Proposs g iers,” esys tho Sk Loy . Mr. Abernethy, Superinterdent of tie T Poblic Schools, has been solicitad by Dz. B roughs to accept s nmomination for Presidec: o the Chicago Univermty. He is s Baplist U man, and graduated at the University aboat thiv teen years sgo. . Jobn Russall Lowell had nothiog to my, sd he would have been wise if he bad saidnothdg when he was tempted to deliver the now besi tode attribated to him: who bave nothing to say, and who eamnot persuaded to say it."” ' * Blessed sro tiom Young Mr. Gladstone bas had sowe fozf = weddmg presents—an old silver ket:ls fna his brother, an old brass inkstaod fron bis - ters, old spoons from his servast, acd an od brass candlestick from soms ladies. Ne7 thizp gecm to be thonght vulgar nowadsys. Congressman Jobn G. Schumsker, o v to Earope after teatifving in the Pacid: Mail i~ vestigation, quietly returned home s we.s az2~ New York Tribune. How else could ths (- grossman come homs bat quietly 7 AsaPud character, of courss he made no row adutil The Rev. Dr. Francis L. Patton, of Chias contributes to the Presbylerian Resizo od Princeton Quarterly for October 1o artide @ the right of s prosecutor in the Presytait Church to appeal, and the Bev. Goorge C. Noreh of Evanston, another article on the noes Jject. The Times designates Ar. Hesing opa tize s ++3 Pomeranian bully,” snd agaio 8 a2 At an butcher,” and again as *an Alsstian o and again 28 *a Heasian hireling.” Ho exsth conveniently be all of thase things st coct. 4 s matter of fact, he ia & native of the Dachy of Oldenburg. Carpesuz, the artist who diod recsmily bt Paris, had an intenee admiration for Angelo. A short time before his desth b mE% aged by a convulsive effart to support on cratches for a fow moments st the oot o} bust of Angelo, and then falling dovp exbiz hosaid: T, too, have kept his centenasy. Over 400 persona asked to be prared l‘fl: the Moody and Sanzey meeting i Droo: i Thursday. and it is said seven men vere ried oat fainting. The occaslon wunnfi; blo ono to many souls. It ssems Huf Moody expounds a sort of muscalat Chratiodih and the getting of it 18 in part & muscw cess. A 8¢, Louis newspaper sconts Tas TU"’: proposition of a school for supes. It E)“fl traditions of the stago forbid the public 597 ] ance of Romans who have not knock thin extremities, and it appeals fo the ¥ i managsrs of the United States not wovicd e tradition of their profession by showiof of any other dercription. The critic of the Provid rapturous over Von Bulow, ax following effusion: ** He tow and it began to sing,—sang 58 if & shallow and noullmlihb; l:lb.fl . o8 s of melody and heights Kot B Mvonla send out teudrils ot emce Pressbs®? d prodused &4 MF‘" it ropenisd @ ifif e 87 realms of sound, and seize 0o I8! e it bad not known befora. ¥ as - hear thia familisr instrument thus takiog : paw and lofty ambition.” h % Miss Faooy Dnunparé was hmfi" ‘newspaper reporser in o a3 she asys, taflolmmoamznneflflfi‘a, social lie. She has since msdepublice®T of several statements attributed to m‘ds:’l jtively denies that she said nflhflfll": - to the married life of Miss Mozris 0 she haviog merely arguedins marmages in ‘her profesaion ‘;u‘;. happy if one party wis on an -upg. Sne denied als0 mtwnflm:: Deth was *depraved,” or that ner romssi? gard to the press of Now York 'l!";‘" 10" reported. ‘What ahe did ssy Was to e that the New York cnitics pever 8¢ nm':m icised performances, POInting oub 5 ebortcomings, a8 to give the ?“MM of & chanos to correct ar mmw critiques wero gonerally sisbar = o scme caste ,pre] peales Abdks