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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY,: APRIL 9, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES. 12 B N e » ? o N o 2 - ed, who reccived sud deposited the sams in { potratad bt thers b » = ing, fading, and swelling again, until the lips | it being on the sidewslk, it turned ont that the | pearedin which 500 leading citizens expressed | paid the police. Who pald the taxes? Not the | above named, A iace for the | P re had been no pup . [ H ANG TH Efl 2 era exbasstad and palld, and it died away in'a | blace for fhat meating of 125,000 peopl was their dissstiafaction with tho Hoxats. - Mr, Bill- | geutlemen who came from the slleys and Sorequiss paiklor, used st d votloas moted odt for the offengss, Tho p.m,,"{’:‘;: L1 wailof rage and disappointment. They were AT TOE MOUTH OF TUAT DOOR, ings wns one of them. The article was this: :vngkv—:ho 8. '1‘;591 (‘hfium“?nl:i.tll%v: Pre- | ™ Subscribed and awora to before mo on this —— n’fff;im‘:?u;;g; 'E':,l:“&z ,‘:’“ strosta gy ki 11 these citizens as- = omin; octio 8 and were . , A 2 3 uture o tios svotnd an e e B e o B e i %%s | Tfo had to say th tho votors prasont, that they | 127 °f AP 16 jtary publie. | be men amora to protact tho ballo hesa, il Note—It vote was Jeast at No. 204 Ladalle street, | will do 80, ‘T'he late elestion mighs, striko out the word ** nssistant ” befors the word | dency to throw tho coming afilln'.fi'.‘;,,‘h Moderator. If ballot was duposited in what {4 €om; | game hands, 3Ir. Clouzh made quite s | B e o g soesch, ia the conrao of which L auid fey’] egulsr " be g & ommon Council must be el 3 At this point, tho audienco began to mavifest | gioot g Mayor in place of the }?ci::fim;%:' b indications of restlessness, it haviog Dbeon 85- | (o who was trying to mswrp power ¥ certained that neither Robert Collyer nor | yonrandshalf. Unless, howsyer, (s for y- Thomss Hoyne, both of which gentlemen had | ot extraordinary vigilance, the docens a4 been expected to speak, wera in the house. It | yould not eloct fiftoen of tha Aldarmas oM was, therefore, decided to adjourn the moeting, | 1gih jnat. Thers was danger, areat mn:flflu hich order was taken attor the singin Of 2 | tho frand which hud chosted thom oeg oyl natuarally quiet men, bred to honest pursuits. ‘I'bey were patient, long-suffering mon, but they | eembled around the door, so that as soon 2s the | made by the Republicans and the Democrats. We do had been abused, and they proposed what | door was opened they could go nptn‘;he m:m. ;x:t ;-l;!‘izkle‘.ifie‘:al;le in v.rzxux :w{:g &Mredcéo;- eg_e schouldxelac; ({;nodh}nhumbu?dor lth:a :}cixfll;l:: 3 ici gavization, k you with twenty men to m etho - | Couneil, w would selec : Grand Mass-Meeting at Far- | Suacse tiim s oustle e of pulting e | oo B 'S aciots, as 1 am Iaformed, | 1 sermoon S caraas s wiole sabiect S5 | 11 shsy akontosloot Mayor. g wousd asars As stillness was rostored, @ glanca at the eyes | for I did not arrive uatll the'middle of the bat- [ J3ko 24t 3 eket froay the ighest ofce to the Towest | him that ho would be duly inducted into office Wen Ha.].]- still turned toward the stage revealed tle, sbout 100 of the men known &3 bummers | il vote for thom " Ol LeIDg ¥ i by a force which conld not be resisted. Though DANGER. rou all know what that means, came down aud Théy met & di afl rds. Thore | it Would bo s moral force, it would be one The riot was postponed. If any man there had | took violent, tio{ous&u;d }orcihla_afiue!uion 41:1 ia ,’;;mme E:V“"fwg’_“ e é”;;m;“d the | Which wgnld have its intluence, and would be serionsty contemplated & disturbancs, he gave it | the piace, driving off by force, pitching people A 3 certain of success. = The People Meet to Denounce the | ap. Ira siogte consiitasnt of tbo bummer sle- | ato tho dilch, aud otherwise ebfiog pas.es‘g:’;n Fosln mtoch enc memsatad w kAt (Obevoted z. Dester s listanod to aentively, Lis ro- it erpetuatiog his fams | of the place for the or; ion of the meeting, | ; ; . marks evidently mesting wil 18 gon - e e ot iy H s in that city by the name of Gould. Some tWO | 1 ,cy| of the nasemblage. He was loudly ap- Swett roused them twice again to their demand | Nothing epecially, if soything, is to be done by | gure anonal it did b ? the tickets thres law. but if there ia to be a iittlo cheating going | 44 gne, \%‘hy wag u?n }::: 'vt: bec:ns“«; thers was Following bim came the Rev. Arthur Mitchell, for sction. e s s 9 Zn‘fi‘il‘,“é’én‘;&;’ °x%‘:§§3“1ézhhfu?l?§bonae. ffifiaff:: ?fuamiwfiag: :Ir "v’ofi'&??fc:&ic?} ail ;g:rm;{“n;grumd of union between all good | who stepped forward amid a great tumalt of ap- the stage, who looked down upon | men might haye voted. But, to facilitate iz, by G i plause. 'g:ossolix&;, ngi:t'g crowd, or up tothe mad- | there were subordinate places estabhshed in mé;":tfi’]“g:fi;th‘%’:“::’:&';“flfi: ;:;)mwms}e;tn: He said he understood that this meeting was 1 called, smong other reasons, on account of the dened, surging tbrong in the gallery, shuddered | %ations parts of the town. Now at the main [ o b PAHE iheref 1 sccomphish 0 83 the reply came again : town meeting thore could be no organiza- [ 7 IO Hat therefore wa wil D18% | shameful fact thas the people of the town were ot-] by the establishment of his carcas upou that | and immediately in the most riotous manner s i) 5 Ballot Bex Smrs' ¥ azl.ge, l:yielxgod his ambition to & aae\?nd con- | he of the House of David was elected Modera- ":E‘%fi:':f;'m ufl'-“ in M; ol fmmg’:;:d?; planded. trioti b; ti f Lumbard’s Glee 5 | sideration of his chances. tor of tho town meeting. Now, oLt it you making wuck & fusa sbout 7] —_—— gaitiotic soog by.s partion of L Iato election would be repeated in thy et Cautions as be was afier that ontbreak, Mr. WHAT I8 THERE I% A NODERATOR? D koo o Ar outhatgrean £ T8 ticked ARTHUR MITCHELL. a8 s a B A s A % ANT, 5 icussior =hs codaenwurieg OTHER SOUTH SIDE MEETINGS. | soally. on metioa.of 3. AGs ammatsd od consisting of Messrs. Ira W. Buell, Clark, THIRD WARD. Carrington, wes 3opointed o organize s DISCUSSING THE EITUATION. bolxt guard :g do %‘:t{i lt‘ th; ?gming election. i i i was then voted to hold a special i A meeting of the Third Ward Republican Club of the Club at the stme_ placs Mgn 5 :’ esting was held last night at their hoadquarters, No. 960 (40 ¢ove'vurther mezsures in rogad ‘evening < : 10 both 18! ‘Wabash avenue. 3Ir. C. M. Culberteon occupied | past and comung elactions, slta!F;hich :::':.:“; A Plain Statement of the Facts by Leonard Swett. His References to. San Francisco = i “Hang them!!! Hang them!!!!" 3 ion except at the call of the clerk, bat at . = r 0 Meet with a Wild Response. 1t seemed an hour, thongh only for & fow min- | the other places of voting any ~ citizens |y, i,‘:fif.{,'mj‘,’tfi'fi:’;fiffl'fi} :lxgiertv- hlsz‘:‘l'neadg s;ml:?‘:d D:; :n‘d: ::ry 'm’:"“i‘:: the chair. He said that many who would | ing adjonrned. uge hall. 0 o ; % X A 2 7 . devourer. The tax-eater and tax-dovourer is Yuak thate wha no such thizg /a8 jmmoderation. large meeting at Farwoll Hall. Still be thonght = SHLA that those present could find enough to talk | . < 4 sbont, if they could get over their mad long | _ A meeting ;‘7 :*G_P@L‘lms Was Beld in ghy enongh to talk calmly. Ho proposed that the | Fourth Ward last nigit at the corner of iy gathering be resolved into a ‘class-meeting,” | G40 svenue and M"g“; sireet. The atieng. aud that those present discuss the duty of the | 21CO was very large, and there were noticsaply next ten days. among the numbers Messrs. Frank Drake, D, 8 R G KT Covert, William H. Harper, J. L. Woodard, was firat called on to expreas bis views. He | W-Porking J. L. High H. & Whesler, 1 said his fizat impulie m view of the events of | Wiiame, feorge Anderson, ;0;:1’1;:;:, D, | the pust day or two was to make one of a Mr. P. P, Mathews, Prosicedt of the iy over the excited heads below. Thousands of | scribed, the balloting commencod at 204 LaSalle [ . 260 Al el voices rolied up the cry, till it was taken upby | street. Thomas Hosne was by grace permitted u:l‘s :nbfl:z,acgtvh:? mf::pfi?,:: 1;]0 ’;‘:egn(g:;umlys No terms could express the impudence and ras- the crowd below, and swelled xnu'lln‘l;g’a\x: to be present and see the manner of tho ballot- theory is that there is B0 m‘; in this city 5o | cality perpetrated under their eyes Tuesday ~Hapgthem!!! Hangthom!lil: ,, | ing- The manner was to rogister each voter 88 | omacipato ourselvos but to call to our sid in night. 1t was a swindle all throngh the day,— *But befors wa do anythiog, let usreflect,” | ho came to vote, snd theu receive his vote. Al | yhie™ cir il honest men, whatever be their | certainly at the Second Ward, whera he was esid the apeaker. 1ed to his foet. His hai ;iny L h“no"mgl Janron h Lh“h ] ““‘]f color or race. [4pplause.] Make it a war simply | present,—eod it was a donble swindie at the Ao old man_strugg] et b foat. AP T ““l‘)’ fi“"‘ e A W hilo the bailofios | of honesty against dishonesty. Now that may | mecting in she Fifst Ward. In stating the-pro- HES b fnd white: sce was palo and bis | tho ballots in tho frst place. Whilo te ballolivg | bo eaid easily enough, but how are yon to b | coeding of that dsy, it wonld bo_impossible to “.‘?fi“‘.’.”};" i, The Foliny boxos bad baon sont.o Thods othee | that? Thera are tio questions : One of the pest, | oxsggerste their infamy, and, while he did not ‘30, ho exoaumn = 14 bs Bubordioate. to the mars tlamy | what ara we to do with tho past elestion? The { wonder ot the applause of the sudience in hear- HANO THRM FIBCT, AND -REVLECT ASFERWAUDS. * ) places would ba suborcioata;, 2 remin plce, | other, what are we to do with the futuro eleo- | ing appeals to arms, bo did not_believe they had And again the wave broke over the audieccs, | 204 LoSalle streot. At the close of the vote it tion,—whether this i3 to be ropeated ? como within sight of the day when it was nacas- Wirt Dexter Points Out the Perils of the Present Hour, ——e The Business Men of the Third Ward Talk Over the Situation. and angry were the glances shot at him who cau- | became tho duty of the Moderator, at these dif- Aol e 3 { tioned **reflection ™ when “action " was dcemed | ferent places, with the clerk, to carry the ballot- | ;o 40 can that mi’“‘.“ FIRST THING 5 sary to resor! 3 H vigilance committea to haog half a dozen of the " 3 : 8 i8 not to be dops over eeain. WHAT WAS DONE TUESDAY ? ceod i called the meeting to order, snd calleg : baxes o No. 204 LaSalle stroct, and thero com- ( 1y,are iy anothor olection the 18th of this month, | A largo crond of citizens assembled and flled | bummers. Dut he recollected that ho lived in & eomebody to iR Ghjact, Tpea: Statement of the Wrongs of the Dis- franchised Citizens of the law-abiding country, and tried to be calm. He bad s proposition to make in order to got at the | . George Williams, Chairman of the Fxse: NECessary. i s » 5 A man near the door, who had refused to'join- | mit them to the head of the House of David. I |01t the citizens of this town, violsnce o no | eleven ballot-boxes with pallots. What did they tive Committes of the ward organization, pg, in the cry, undertook to push bis way oul. | have been informed this afterncon, from & | vislonce, will permit themselves to bo ran over | do. then? They took them down to 20% Somebody recognized him as one of tho bum- | source that I believe to be true, 66 - the. - next . elestio i ' A : P e n, _ they deserve | LaSalle street, and asked the keeper | £ f the late election. It hat affidavita ¥ o free must themselves strike the blow. If you them, What did they Go then? They went who cast their ballots for Gallowsy and Gray. | ® Mass-Deeting was to be held last night in Ryr. bundled down eiairs, with msny & waraiog | befor midnignt at No. 201 La Balle stroet. But | onot pregorve the purity of the ballob-bos at | ome and went to bed. fApplause.] Was it well Il It scemed. proper to tlie Commitey sgainst his reappearance. in one of the ballot-boxes that came in from one our owa doors you ou i ini inst: ¥ " i i ino X 0 ght to lose it. Are thore | possible for a little dominie to instruct keen: Eyas I ool ik O e g pnOre than 1000 | mo men ia this wity who marched with Sherman | witted business-men, nd say that it would not A, Siats o0 d D aetisty o) ohie xabie b ahEE being o | 10 tho sea? [Cries of «Many of thom.”] Aro fdo to trust s gamblor? [Lnughmr.;l On that *“Tho sentencs was cnongh. Tt suggestedsome- | register of all the votes cast, and there | L\¢FO 1O men who at Chattanoogs fouzht above | night he was present at 204 LaSallo street, thing. Fora moment thore was s eilence, un- | must be an agreement between tho votes cast fl;a elo“,dsfi There sre thousands. ‘Lhoro are | rdaching there about 7:30 o'clock, and man- broken by a whisper, Then it came again. San | and the votes connted. Haviug stuffed m more | PI20%Y of them. § agod tinafly to got insido the roum, finding there : ALL WE NEED I8 ORGANIZATION. Alr, Gleason, Mr. Thornton, and the other Mod- Those gentlemen received more votes in the P Third Ward alone than have boen counted | that the Club should give some expression for them in ell. There must bpe a | it8 fealiogs at the outrageous manner in w) revolution, or they would be at the mercy of | they had been treated. bummerism. And yet they left the doors open Mr. William Harper then offered the folloging for thesa frands. The people had been too kind | regolation : to the bummers, too tender of them. Aopd the |y, The recent town election held on the 4 a What South Side Merchants Think of Another Assesstent by Ed Phillips. The Iniquity Consummated==-Con= | Francisco had .cstablished the procedent. Chi- | than 1000 voles, it was necossary o tako 0Bt | yyis. thers ia power anougl in » dozon mon of | erators. Tho door was 50on, after opened, sad beli e ‘uEREAS, E i xing - | Wby, | e . } ak ed that what had b Soenitos q cagoatose again, and demanded thay example | the same zumber. Dut in taking ont by hand- | niq"city 1o sweap it as With the very besom of | about fitty people were let fn, and Mr. Hoyne Tthias to ek wu:mwh:pphnundnnlaeu;; sod‘::&h"ng i AT e P b A was done. The . moloriots rufians are striving to deprive the p.,,z' find an illustration in her streets. Cries for | fuls. votea being small things, more wera taken A S x ¥ ) Vigilanca Committees and ropes and executions | ont than they supposed, aod consequently thero gfi‘g‘;;";“'mfif"‘h‘;"r:‘su’e“’“:&';‘ei;g ‘g? ‘:;?‘: :;f:?m:efin:ufi?éic‘m:: 1“['5“ T%%né:o:e 0 drowped even the yells of those who couldn’t | was the deficiency betwesn the number of votes city put forth somo domonstration of their | tired, and Mr. —Gleason was & sail stop for words. Tho augience nad bgg“ w""‘"[‘l °l‘l‘ “’": ’“‘“‘h“a‘“’g‘" ‘a‘;‘g e necedm;mf—y. Ié power. We are to go to tho election peacesbly | thers would be opportuvity to consult 108 passionate polnt thas forhoded dauger, 1t | the o Caingly, tha diserapangy would haas | 80d go bome peaceably if pormitted, but we are | logal gentlemen shout _sllowing certain was impossible 10 quicy them thon, 204 only | counted eingly. 4i00 cuscropancy would have | o fight to the dosth if hindered. '[Applause.] | ballot-botes to be counied. It downed upon the when thoir lunga were tired did thoy ceass their L ‘“oth e v D4 Q. "Bt th :’n Iam ready to join this meeting,—and & grexter | Republicans present ther that thers should be 3 e L B A B T O 0D ration, a0 | Loy o that thero was 8 frand. s CPIkthe | moeting will bo held next Tuesdsy evening, | guard left over the ballot-boxos. Daring the 3zt Dexier coungaled e bozen P e thoms ad mixed them wt; | Fiva thousnad men have gone away from Liere | disputo, tho good men were leeving until thers Eyicarefal manipulation he toned ¢ ““d’ Iy, jauaeh, hB! 'E:? e 4 &";‘t‘h L i ":’u“t' to-night who could not get in. Iam ready to | wersouly four Republicans left, while there was down, step D5 step, o celmness and so- | up togather. Dofors thal bovever, tho ballots | join this meeting, and, if to fake s musket, I | a wholo room full of bummars and snotber rious reflection upon the eitustion. The other | wereallputina vault. The fist PoROsiton | am roady to-morrow morning. In earlylifs I | room full wichin call. The fanlt with the Ro- speakers followed his example, and gradually | was Lo conot them that pight. But David was | roucny with Gen. Scott at Vors Craz, and saw publicans was that they consented to leave the quiet determination was ‘substifnted Tor tho | tired, and conldn' st up all night ta do1t, ana, | {pU8GE St Gen. Scott at Vora Graz. and aw | publicans was that they canseated o louva he rage that had so long beld sway. But they who | after connting & duz‘an or 8o, the meeting ad- my bones are tiffened ‘;m' l"'e T eon | stodbitb Do, A 1Evas. RUseRMITTo. pMGDXdB T were at Farwell Hall last night will never forget | journed uutil the 'next day. Finally, every- do something yot. fApplause, ]., P Bl night, t0 preserve them from belug fame the firstrbonrl%lthztmee_lmg_. :&wn;jotmmé hoayllnlz sxcsgt om.:hmn wuoh represented | )oip g Gag,” white' Tifo Tasts, I will pesed itk g posed of = rabble wnose instinct is velliog, and | one element aud Another man who ropresent- | ¢%0q wi o . whose expression of appreciation is & shriek or | ed auother eloment on the opposite eide, the bnufl_b;;‘htggggl"_‘m:hl‘:d&?:“.:aa‘:‘; ?gf“‘l{c‘;{ wu%tl’;llaéu E!’:::‘:;‘:’ :‘g d!‘;‘.fiffu':o‘{xl &n;idflifi 8 shout. From those etations in life where bon- | Moderator and Clerk and everybody else going | ginnaq applaase.] % hobepsid dE‘E Waten o esty is respected and integrity is inherent, they | away. Inalittle while somo of the partics in Sow, :entleméu.htu this evenicg deliberate. J i O, e camo. The meeting had its object, ana_whether | the interest of lawand ordorcame back again, Every man who speaks bas & plas. have got and not let them go ont of Aém T HON. HENRY CRAWFORD of their rights and cat out their substauce, and it 1 thought that talk didn’t amount to much. Some | deemed proper that thers should be an expresiog action must bo taken. Tho present condition of | 7o €his Club i regard to the samo; a dus regurd up the city sliows that we had not been doing much | o feores'a o 20 axder. deceney ad protectint in the These men had found out in the | the case. o clusion of the So-Called E : § hey could do in the wav of carrying | Onsbesth day of ApHl, 187, occurred the azau g 5 g g Official Count. Dave Thornton Admits There Was Fraud, but Protests His Innocence, tions, and thoy bad kept on doing it. The | town meeting, only remedy Iay in earnestnesa of purpose, not | It had been rumored that Mike Evans sod his erey ivaoti of bummer thieves proposed to take posaession & mere spasmodic effort in the direction of re- lia: and If neccasary to count i ihe oftbs form. Wnen the people got so they wounld not bear it sny longer thoré would Te 'a chengo. o e en. the poopls. ‘The sy & Baut let s be cool. Thero has been a good deal | It was corruborzted by mysterions movements onthe of ralk within a d27 or t¥o about hangicg to & | part of those who have Leretofore perpetratad crims lnmp-gost. Well, it may come to that perhaps, { in oar community. The scenes that wore cnactad at' but the spesker doubted it. Thoso men are | the principal polling-piace, on LaSalle street, wery k8200 cowacd - | disgrace to civilized society, and would have been a- sneaks and cowards at heart, and when the peo- | & anfem B th blo go iuto the matter with the right kind of | {hi0% JEO%, ommnmem n fhe womt form. Bt purposo they will most likely sliok out of eight. | 15 which tho votes of the Fousth Ward have Ho belioved in wise and determined action. [ treated. % The period has arrived in our history At tee November election of 1875 the cntire vots when every man must be willing to do his | one of our precincts was thrown out, and %06 votets' FARWELL HALL, THE GREAT OUTPOURING. BALLOT-BOX STUFFERS DENOUNCED It was esid there would be a riot. All day long, wherever men met, the probability of & disturbance was discussed. There wera hints and rumors that & gaog of bummers and gam- blere Jould taprssiot o0t {iey. Tad there . ‘that object mplished, the ex- | and thore ascertainad that the Moderator aud arganization perfacted ; that the meeting wonld | Or not onject wag accompli = and tagre ascel u A MY PLAN. ° until all the ballots wera counted. Where were | duty, not for a i disfranchised by such mien as E Phillipe, James Glss' culminato i & deadly struggle. Ton thousaud | PEo6sion was thero, and those who wre'preseat | somebody else had como back and nad W have a very 200d organization. [A voice— | ull the cavalcy men tha were with Phil Share | bat fomsarorcl o, So oction, OF for & voar, | @ and Otto Dyuhm. - On It Tacdar iy masois Rentlomen marched to Farwell Hall to see tho [ win, fon; T150 A0 NOPS BHOR thes POR | \nd were tinkering ot thess ballots. What | 4 Lu0 Virst Regineut.”] "Thero ia in tais ward s | idan? Could therenot befound oneto rido | Lring about what iy necossarr. Out o eon | the Fourth Wasd sssembled ot the prover tims ememrinc ol el kit prossion reslly vac. he aid I dow't know, but T understand | Republican Club—an organization of 300 us good | besido the ballot-boses from tho polla to the | thougt snd s united parpose will come the | Bace,and.orgsnized by tho eloction of the proper, i nd ragamt d = o ™ 5 men-as thoto are in chis ward. _They have s [ place where the votes were to becounted? If [ action that will bring about the desired ond. e s o handeed ¥nd forty.(hires voles wara o, Etolen an election. A meeting was called to dis- ORGANIZING- that the ballots, having beon locked uD | committor who are to work, and T have heard | fuoh procautions had boon taken at the towa e il ot Tt T aTaet to the princiyal. poling pum < i £h3 propithe o8 ORiNE TR Gt Thks, i, onmny, e g ey o] hould To. | thoir plang, sud thev are swmply sufcisnt. | eloctions, Mike Lvaos would mot have even | had no specch b mabe. Bat e euld say & word | noduny gistion s perlected. 4w Tndignant men bad made up thetr minds to ont | President of the First Ward Republican Clab, in thero, Apd for what DHIPLYJ«'“ pwom they in I wish I could aonoance sl the plans | counted himself into office. It was evideot that | ip the sewe lino with Mr. Crawford. This thing rnished by the County Clerk hsd beeg down the {rands, sad, f necessars, emancipato | catled tho mesting Lo order, sad spoko ia ub- | tiore” but to perpeirate. fraud? [ADDIENND) | Moso brmnkrore e Bt (e [FbepelL | the Deople of thouitien ware thoso who rulsd | of a government by the Loaplo. csnno. be en: | isied a7ayand tho ofcarsof dlection wrs ol the awindlers from the cares of existence. | sunco zs follows, giving the object of the meet- | What businoss hs any Lonest man & 12 o'clock | Tyay are at work on this subjsse nr[xd‘l:fis !f:a{ toba ol saled i eatoey ;'fl?:mgod"fiefl:fi joyed witbout ccsting something i labor and | iy and fn violatian of the rights of ‘the Dbt un. ¢ When it becamo known that the cni-turosts | jug : As'cltizens whoee' interests wero identical | & oight unlocking the vafo 1 gam the ballots of | ;hing the mocting can do 18 to remit the duty to | government. Tha people had all talked of ;:fi::"bg éf,rflfé flg':; l;?d m;;?dg Frh‘: A bulph, Ametse dpl:mu Bau!chmld . Jeed & ould come ont of the sewers and try force, & | witn the intorests of tho cits, it afforded bim [ tho peovle sce? [4 vaico—No onel’] Wht | 1o Committoo sud lei thom work it one, thoy | oid Jobn Adsms and men of his stamp, | emjern terkes, f0f sod paid for. ine Torea, which hecontissed to o BRrs o e o & force of numbers was organized, sud 10,000 | great pleasure to preside over 80 VmSt | Coro'rrthac ho is there, and that ho ia there | PIOWIEIDR this: that wheo they need us they | but the people of Jobn Adaws' State | of tneir rights; they don't yotes they | hereturned his box to the princ 'wn&m H 2 Aelon o pleszn o | very fact that ho is d_that ho is will notify us, and wa wil come. Therofore, I | were watching the citizens of Chicago. | bonst that tomy dont meamn t it itD0Y | Mhereitwis received by obe Tl Mmicsg P £ men of every political faith and every condition | and intelligent An audience. The | violating his promise surreptitionsly, is evidence b 7 b \ . il oast that thay don't meddle with politics; n, £ life a 1 & Farwell ; called a b %s Holy Writ that he i8 there for | D27e drasm thia resolution embodyinz my views, | The ruling of cities was the key to the raling of | thay don's assotiate with the common berd of | Caimed to be Chief Aoderator, The Modehim, of life propared to welcome the attack. Farw meeting was X under the | strong as Holy Wri 0 i8 there for | aud from avarybods's views wo will doubtless | tho country. Being & clergyman he would liticians. They aro too high-toned for that, | 2icf Baving poseession of tha ballot-box ans nighty Hall was jammed. From tho stage the rows of | management of the Fist Ward Ropublican | the purpose of trand Well, one ballot- } gissover eome wise course. Lt tho resolation | quote a toxt from Scupture. It was, “Fear God | b p"0s: | ALe¥ aro too Bigh-toned for that. | procesded th dump tho contents of al the boses ta & faces were banked solidly to tho back part of the | Giub, snd thereforo ho bad » rigut to sk tuat | BOS boiug stuffed with o thoussud moro | ot bopassed, but bo thoght over by Jou. It | and honor tho Kivg.» Tho King waa the balor: | bomsrreas g feoys i hat tho esloons sod Chading the one ebasd By BN B T s [ Ball. In the rear of the eats men were packed | the utmost order be preserved. He understood | foreenaving ballow extracted from them, it | 1 248 © Ho should be honored, snd not ba left at204 | roformation. Peoplamust not be too prond to | electod Assistant Moderator, The ballots were cogziy Witenzas, The recent eloction was carried by fraud | LaSalle street with Alessrs. Gleason and Thorn- | vote, There should bhave been mon sppointed | ed from the Phillips box, and those from the legal at t] i box were rejected. In this box were 943 he election the other day to look aftor the which wera for A. 3. Galloway fox m“"fl. election and guard the hallot-boxes. He was ward been afraid there hnd boon a want of vigilanco. Ho | Hrewn ent by vistinse aad Lin s e o Swtely was afraid they could not gat sufficient evidenco | thereby disfranchised.. of the fraud to upset the election, though he Such proceedings demand something more than hoped thoy might. Tho courts wonld require | Protest. ~ If the law throngh the ordained g that & riotous demonstration was intendod to be | became necessary, to avoid detection, thatall | 5 e 0 . s violence, and the candidaten actuslly defested | ton 28 gusrds of the bed-chamber. I made by some of those present by ciyiog out | thesovetesbe By he voes o ‘u:snpemgm"unce veen. Geciared | fimes dvery Christian man ought to bo a p%'xf? i TRED S ON ON lect lo} X i and by th tract iap,— itician, ~ inpi; ek ap th. masting. Althoagh the. mesting | LEProeinct 5080 40 bad hocn broggi i full of | o bl sy et s - L0 SO | gian, -0 wand politcins, —ana begiasing at s bresk up the meeting. Althongh the meeting ¥ 3 bummer votes, everybody would know that !h:‘r;‘f?ri‘s' Another election s soon to take place, obtained throughout. What was wantod was & until the movement of a muscle was im- possible. In the balls, bhalf-way down, were massed half a thomsand® men. Around the sidee, pressed against the walls, were £ a thousand more. The staircases to the gal- [ was called by the gentlemen of the First 8 loies creaed wnd. sromned. At the doorwase, | Ward Ginb o call was extanded £ | boves e i he o128 5 R LhemetideoF | e S0t e metng ecehy commi h proc central powar,aone word wus I, and whoso call | hopedt ; proten. P Tale of bumanty proteciod thoso widin In | olllsw-sbidiog aod order-lovig ctizens to do- | others, uod o men could all, Peotent wora | £33 1o\ i Ve GobsohastdClo | T Faver o Hion ProPgoed oF o b oun | 1S58 oyidenca, oven thongh convincod giher. | Biclay of | pvemnent” s’ o made agaiost mixing them 9 WaY. bt tha | and we heroby authiorize that Club to protoct tha bal- | duct of the campaig in the hauds of the First | of e fans ace | ana 20cisl ghts, thers 3vs other modes anibarizmd ‘whis ple will a themselves of, en law fine the rights of citizenship =s lsid down by A k : excellent David msn determnned that he was | lot at that cloction at any cost and atall Lazarda, C i our laws and form of government, and 1o gi¥e | Noderator, pud that be would mix thom. Aud | that we will support snd protact it = | Wact xxecative Comuition, sul hored. that sll expresgion to und unite in maintainiog the | ho did it. “The couuting waa had, snd the caudi- | Now, pentlomen, T havo thonght this subject | aey sismostiong thet s machs: hoake lCItY purity of the ballot-box, and so maintsin it | dates who were defeated by n large majority | over, and thisis the conclusion I have come to they would if they were in Phil Sheridan’s sray, throughout election-day. Soon after the First | wero fouud to be elected by a Iarge majority.— { in my own mind. I believe n exhaustiog all | gnd were acting under the orders of PhilSheric ard was consolidated with the Second the | by violence in the morning in creating the or- | peaceable mesns to ges if we can not have s dan himself, ark the gallery, the faces rose wn solid backs, twenty~ one iu number. Behind those eifting were & thousend more, who stood pataiently waiting and listening. Tive thousand men bad quietly worked their way info the hall, and 5,000 more MR, WILLIAN ALDRICT form of government have fudlad i 2 said a man who bad been mad all day wasin a mmpfl.hzrhur objoct, 22 men Bave) g;: :gfn: poar condition to make s speech. o felt that | their own remedies, scoundrels, rufians, thisves, tomething must be doae, but dids't know ex- | ballot-box stuffers have found the reward they actly what. He thought the -business turned | 1y merity “"-“,‘“a,%b";';{‘ "fl: AN ubialt 2 4 traged they longer consent that s out yomarksbly well the other day. Still thoy | 730 umbiers and nger e Esp T waited outside. There wasno noige. Not a sin- X ALk o L Club was organized. and they adopted a plat- | ganization of the meeting, and by fraud 2t mid- | peaceable ballot, and if all poss:bl = gle wave duched over the great sea of buman | g Wob BN, BN ChGE MO b R e Bave tow fastenad.on you s off- Fehnstod, andl 6 caunbt have :p%flgifisbflf = Jrere beateu. Ho balieved there was a rotted | away their rights and trample apon thels b countenances, that were all espectation and | of the purity of {be ballotbox. Ho | cem to colloct and stexl your taxes mon | lob, I believe in Hghting It oot to Lo iter cng. BROSS Lead to the City Government that must be got | Believing fhere is a remedy 1a the Low, Aod, faiiog 4 eilence. Five thoussnd men, for whom the | resd s portion of it. and eaid that it conld be | whom you have ropudiated by vour | Having espresacd this ssutiment, I yield the e AEEYE WORDE. .| ridof before they could have mach sctual re- | that, that there is a remedy in the hsids of an indie meeting was called, waited for the appearance of | seen therefrom that from the first the object of | ballots. ~Therefore, I "say, tho question | floor toothers. [Applause.] William Bross was the nex: speaker. Heeaid [ form. He belicved the proceedgs at | nantand abused people; thercfore, t the thiovea from the slums: waited for the | tbe Club was to secare the purity of the ballol~ is inot whetber wa are in dauger, ANl A e was satisfied Chicago was about to doits | e LaSanlle street voting-place were all l-emlnigl.‘i‘hsk this Club pledge itself to use every : h ; B0 | pos, and they asked the aid of all law-abidiog | but" the question is, whether, havivg been WIRT DEXTER. duty. e iad beea bere thirty Sears, and koew | C0f 80d dried befornand. The po- [ Jeans In ita power-pescesbly it it can, forcibly if it promised riot. Outsids, 5,000 more men waited | ang'order-loving, citizens in camying out this | triomphiod over by violance and fraad, thero ia JInT DEXTER. o . lico were no better then the mob; they [ HoPiui PF' ory mesmver af fois Chonnd bosrtait complacently for the first intimaion. Had the [ platform. He denounced the doings of tho | ANY MAXNER IN WHICH WE CAN EWANCIPATE " AL FE DO - that when action was pecoseary they would bo [ wero instructed to assist the mob, and drive tho | sent memper of ‘sostary 1o conteivry o mi T intimation come, Farwell Hall wonld have paesed Enna gang at the polls Tueaday. He aaid the OORSELVES, During the latter partion of Mr. Swott's ad- | depended on. He asked them to look at the [ respectsble voters away. The docent men didn't money. and energy to bring to justice every vlnm: ruflians came to the polls one day in the guise | [Applause snd cries of *‘Hang them!"] O1d | dress he was frequontly interrapted by long-con- | fearfal condition of the city, brought on it by I"::'- ‘g g';.'ht; ihe'yr fi“'mfi figmrl w)ith th?dpo- of L\w::;lof fl“«.‘n ?: 301; ie.. Tweed, stealing his millions and roliine | tinued applanse, showing how liv i ice and the mo o speaker 8aid he conldn't | Kesolved, That ub will co-operato with Boss Tweed, g @ | tinued app! iz how lively an interest | the bummer eloment. The city saw the spec- keep cool. He thonght that measures ahould be | 2880ciation or mmmiheewhmob]mnhtnprm quietly into history. Thers wonld have heen bat little noise. The job wonM have been done in that silent, off-hand manner characteristic of good bresding, and it is doubtfalif the speakers would have been snnoyed. Itis not often that 1men wake up so thoroughly upon a matter gen- ly considered as purely political. When they do wake up witn such unanimity, and with such little demonstration as marked the early part of last night's meeting, there is danger to those who threaten to assault them. Until the meeting opened, thers was scarcely a word spoken in all thot vast assemtisge. The staircase and pavement echoed the tread of thou- sands of feet, until from away up in the shadows of the gallery down to the curb thers was ono mass of men, as eilent a8 if the occasion were a of Democrats sand voted for Evans, and next day were at the Republican primaries as Re- | in his ill-gotten gnins, said defiantly to the peo- | was taken in the subject by the entire audience, | taclo of its financial agent going to Boston and rabl peo] polls, to the end that A : Frank oy : e . £ 4 takes ry i the ple at the to the end that every voter, of publicans voting for Frank Wasren. Plo of Now York, -« Wuat are vou going o do | 1y oy come minutes aftar he had resumed his | New York and unable o borrow a dollar. Con- | foes 'fied.f;;:o&; of tho plan o Ko o e Iy, e Pave & co, tims 20 apls The maeting was called to have united action, | abontit? ™ [Criesof **Hang them!"]" It was 5 5 A 4 % 80 that they nfilxht Testore the rights of citizen- | said on the Eidewllk at 204 LaSalie g“m on | Seat before the Chairman could make himself | fidence was gone in the city aud its Gavernment, | get affidavits from all those who voted for Gray | Reg!red, That this Clob demand thst the recemt henrd; owing to the confusion of cries sad | 32d the bummers could be thauked for it. | and Galloway. There was but one ward in the | election bs contested, that tho gang which now hang like vampires around tho public Treasurpbe drives ship and the purity of the ballot-box, which they | clection day, **Woll, if you beat us we will 3 Proport; il i had not had in this city for some timo pust. | count you out, and what are you going to do | stamping of feot. Cries of “Hoyne” sng | ETOporty was depreciated by millions for the | South Town but that guve s majority for them. | like vampir 5 Zhe Club calcalatod o continne the Sght. and if | shoat it 7+ Now, gentlemen, before you elart | vStozcs™ wers henrd. At length the Chsiman | Faoemiva 1o meunt iy o Lonost bt Al fid‘fi'fi’ Dbl e oo | O maas, O the 18ih of Aell wil oscar the s oia ontias the ‘;i‘;;&“:;d Abisn s reiy ‘(’Sfim"o{‘i-nlfig“&fiflf"héc and Tolect after. | menazed o lift his voice above tho tumuit and | auid about going o the polls, staying thero | were stolon by thisves, scalawags, ' and | PUSLELY election; terefore, ot ocotnying fuihes Sime, be. | e ? introduco the Hon, Wirt Dester. Io said that | and watching “the votes counted. Tho | murderors, they must stand right ub to tho Fack. | ue vy oo o ciechon Committas of this Cluy would say that they had put_two candidates' for e R A R GOV Brother Swett hod givon them a good deal of | ballobbox, a8 had .bess well eaid, | Tho Asscotor who waa counted in (Phillips) s | petomt, suitebier sha. ot mis e o the office of Aldermauin the field who were | for the last ten or twelve yeas past; let | law, but thers were o grest many Gospal truths :;m&n‘cfig_“fi:f:mfitw‘:’fifl “‘:g“‘;ju 33:,2;“ Loy ém g"““{“‘“ &cntfl X6 was 3 23”“}::,’ Lo stand st the palls and to procect "”::3 Boopte s the objast of "t Gl then thg | 18, éco what Lss been goluz “on. Lot uS |inik Ho paid a compliment to tho Tov. Archur | Sioetioe: ang sontidonse monli be romivcd. "1 | Gor pelemed to themsoles, thewr frionds, aod | {rom, viclence, 8ad see that uo tread o this wird Eiar candidates. These were the Ligtost enc | €2 e D goeat 0 S Supinely OD | Mitcholl, and said ke did good [ the city conld say to Sol Amith that thare wonld | only quesHoD was what. | e belovel tot G | . Lesolted, That the Bxocative Committes of this CIu) cominma that conld bo puid them. 'Ke tio | murdured. e bato uad Board of Aldermen | dut7 i0 o Church, He winted to copvipeo | bo i bonest Goveroment, tho city could gor | loway was ‘aleciod by tmoro than 2,000 majorisy. | 35 BoEected o wate i wn st (it that o it . Taor R 2 : rom him and afl other bankors al 6 credit ey ha n 1o ; that w A 4 3 called upon the Hon. Leonard Swett. i this ety for many years; thoy have served | those who were going to scsre them by the that wes mecessary. He earnostly hoped this | shoold they cesent 105 A Leams ‘lflu:”wusii?:; r'-’:c,_:m ;flhflgl\:r;x_xgwjmaupemumtym D e staitonh 2 To s of thos o s bo city without {Lauchter aud loud f fire, that it wonld tak th g p the stairway 3 e 6% ——re—— the city without pay. [Lauchter aud loud ap- | .cry of fire, that it would take more than that to i 5 P A ea 'k e = formed two hincs. . Between them marched tho LEONARD SWETT. plause) Verly poiriotic mea, oy hisode- | do it. 1t Sas o puro matter of busiaess to con- | fon words fus Goveras sut s o oo | R ek ot 7 12 the midst of | | Retteet That e b sttt fnto 1 Goumls’ < THE LAV OF THE CASE. bursed for tho last ten years aboat 5,000,000a | giger g remedy for the evil which beset them. | Mr. Gharles Cooper, in bahalf of the Fourth R CARRINGTON mass.meating Now in proziess at Furell Haiang long-drawn live of® gentlemen. eyeing them that theso resolations b presented and resd at suck - Jakanon,a0d epeculating upon howlong those po- | - r. et thon epoko as follows : Toocia Tof from e S 000000 o ke, rons | 1t was easy to call hurd names and denonoeo, | Ward Club, prescatod serise of ‘resolutions | concurred in the rémarks of Sis. Aldrich. The e fanctions as they sometimes 100k upon them s | | GENTLEMIN AND Frtow-CirizeNs: We meet | Uhichyrcoq* may have s peculiar mesniog, | but he hoped that their proceedings would be g"“g“d ;‘h" “‘”"x"“."“‘ evening of tho Ward | Club must take some decisive action. He moved | ™7, "6 Tati : . the pol Z this eveniog onno ordinary occasion. Thoneces- | [Laughter.] I usa tho word disburscd, | freo from these, but that thoy wouldBo stern | Canviy: moe,tosorutions are publisbed with tho | that 3 committen bo appointed toinvitaall the e utions met with hearty ap -, A$7:80 not snother human being conld get in- | sity which has called us fogether ia & grave one, | —thoy bave had tbe moneyand it is gono. | apd thus demand respect. There wera special | oo pes T““’czw ings of the Clab in another part %lherh%lubfl of the Soath Town, Democratic and | Sbons sies] né’fl‘;‘;“fl objected to the to the anditorium, At 8 the o door was | and is vital to tho interest of liberty and of | Laat January thero were over o4.%).000 uncol- | cunyq wiich dapened the gloom in tho ity of Y e . o BT il ok e 0mmitteds | sucly words a8 thisves T A opened and the stage rapidiy filled. Prominent | povernment. The guestion 1s not whetber we {le:cg u:::?n;nlfis -,BSCZ‘,':D%O.‘(;BE' e .l"é’?-i ;\\'sg,rg Chicago during those hard timss, It wes not PROF. SWING. present circumstances, He spproved of the He thonght the Club. or the mover of thereso - o A SATURDAT EVENTNG SERMON. method of getting afidavitsof all those who L‘fi::.j’_‘ might get into a difficalty, if they wer among those for whom seats had been reserved ) TPON THE PLATFORM were Robert T. Liocoln, Prof. Swing, J. C. W.JBaily, 8. D. Haskell, Enoch Wood, J. H. 0. Sands, A. D, Titaworth, the Bev. Ar- thur Nitchell, J. F. White, G. B. Bmith, Judge Otis, Charies Casselman, T. 8. Kent, Samnel G. Field, W. 8. Carver, D. W. Nickerson, James O. Cleveland, D. D. Dutton, James George, J. K. Murphy, H. H. Thomas, R. 8. Tuthill, John H. Boberts, Hugh Alexander, James Smith. Wash- ‘ington Libby, Leonard Swett, William Broes, J. “W. Bennett, Thomas A. Hill, Wirt Dexter, 8. D. +Pbelps, and Thomas Hoyoe. . Thers was po effort at docoration. A few mottoes had Leen provided, hard-headed mot- aro to drift to #haxchy, and b ruled by & mob, | i) 600 Tor 1871, 75, and '13, And why i that? | the question as to which party should control bot whether, being under the mob,we can eman- | Tg it because the people of this ey nm{mwiuiug this Government, but g Prof. David Swing was then introduced by the [*V0ted for Galloway and Gray. If they could not e ot P B % cipate ourselves. [Applause.] to pay unreagonable taxes ? No. It is because | WAETHER THEY BHOTLD EAVE A GOVERNMENT AT | Chairman, in answer to loud cells for the gen- %“ ;fid'm“ gnough to convidce s Court of the ing was na: :os; : nt&ha purpeiaof theimest The greatest evils to Governments stealon | the taxes were run to fabulons fignres and ALL. tleman, He came forward and said : raud, they could get enough to make a case to o Bk it sousiy tha mure phrasealogy, bl gaad in which this | T8te8, which amouned substantislly to contiscs- | Ho saw the names of candidates for efiice on < R Justify them in runving the robbers out of town, OBt B set of resolntions which would sa Siems ually. The great war in which this | B o Yy L A why is it 7 Docauso so | both partiss' tickels which cughe not to be tuese. | 1 80 88T you it is now 10 o'clock, and T am | and resorting to tar and feathors if need be. forth tho_general sentiments of the Clab, anf country was engaged for four years, although [ yrye o Tund is necessary for confiscation ot the | The bailot-box waa the idol for Which we fought | BOt OB the list of speakors, sud have nothing to | M. Crawford thongbt n plan would be adopt- then to adjoura to Farwall Hall i talked about and threatened for vears, was ac- | hands of bummers and thieves. [Applause.] beneath our flag. American liverty conld bo | 2dd. Indeed, after the addresses to which we | 83 8¢ Farwell Hall, therefore 1t might not be o Ricaby fally concurred with the first gen tually upon us befora the majority of the people | Now. geatlemen, I say what I kuow and,what ben.r. e_xpre?rdcd ina he; ba“md'sf: ssked wheth- | havo listened, I shonld be discouraged from any :';::efi';[h;g;‘e’ d‘x% gauempt to inaugurate any “myn w’ofifg"ffi?fi? ?t:e‘:zlwt‘t?;&%mz:mt&fi“ O B e Ty qodshisd for the fag | effort to awaken sour feelings sgam. 1t ia | * Bir. Calbertson seid it had been suggested | mOderation than by too harsh terma . s believed that there was any dsbger of its | yon know, friends, every one of vou, aud what I 8d _fo : t t : : A B e comination of e P | o s oros bo conqonn oy, &€ Miko Eving. | ooig thet after tho great Greele orator, De. | thet attho coming sty sloomon o Eemtd | o podard s Toe o ‘they condemned coming. The citizens of this city have been e A e 1 i n wammed against the dangers of violence to the ;Li“,:°“g&fl'}{;"é,?}&:??f&‘f“fln‘fi‘u?x';elf’ Ni }lga::?z:fis nno'i ;%x;fi?vegl?a:: é’,flzme’,”:{‘ fi::‘:,’:fi: mosthenes, had traveled over a aubject, no other | requested to answer the question whother he | ¥et® 8 good deal worse than language could ballot-box nnd of fraud, and have hoard | was fold from source which I believe to bo | foundod or mof, but ho thought it was well- fi‘;‘;"’f;r Tood Sacg dlacg the theme the samo | %oted for Gallowsy aad Gray at tho late oleo. | fhamcterizo (hem, Those words met’ with ¢ s0 much of it that we were dis- | true b?l,:_ond %Zu):t,tgy‘l";nm gh; tl;v.us\\' whn‘?; founded. t’{hn {fict.L\\'nsr, the p:-(‘z;;lg did not | o o s on, yswu.u Tt e ;’(’w:e:fie o;“;;: mu’{g‘i‘“é‘:;}:_‘;%%g?&l:: :?re?dy'-!:mmu?r oarty ** Toal SHOD I;o::fl:; audienca, g inchned to believe, and never have beliaved it, was talking about, i ere hac een !PBDI recognize the authorily o 0“\" mal-administra- bave traveled ove'r the éfo“fld i anall not o h le. de ™ . N. i q at- | thonght a good deal of one of the Assistant Aldormeu dariog tao preaent term of thelr ofice | tion. He stased our tianucial distrogs, and gava | (RT3 IRRIEG 70, 008 Sround, X ahall mot ot | thonght » goad deal o Litimecanil :;g:fl;l:y‘ll B it s ,2‘,3‘;‘“;‘;*: hoied :gm and Ko ptey.” * Honest men © front-" | ;1n4j} the elections bofore our eyes have actaaily g *\War sgainst the ballot-box stuffers, thieve: 3 5 > FOR THE FURPOSE OF BUYING VOTES the reason therefor. Hp then stated thaf hehad F A o] Tamere® *Daws Tah w;;s‘pfiom u‘;‘, been carried by violence snd by fraud, and the | yot Jess than $100,000. Now, gentlemen, the | helped to prosecuts the man named {,‘25“' ‘;';‘ :‘;fly ‘3:10"“ SYecy word that hag JUDGE CaRY - run_the “clection were worse than thisyes s {with Teform.* “Only good men for office.” | question is now not where wo are drifting to, of [ trutis is that you don't yet know or realize the | . A JAMES GLEASON- nkiot of Bomt thec orutors. oL indorso tho | was called an, and snid he came nothere to talk ; | Cutthroats. Tho papers called them daily worss deptb aud penl of o ihieviug that a going on | io tho Criminal Court for not making elecuon | Bsket of Swait, m"@.“f}f"‘f{‘;’:fi&fgg‘:& ;;v‘;ng;g;"g;g;;gegggdor Sor wmongs. We | Satmed, and tero waa no need of their baing 3 can ws do? ey woul danger, for wa are in the graatest snarchy and of mak returns, but, thongh he admitted his guilt, the & . Shall we meet the thieves at'the polls? We did | they Wera expressing the sentiments of UM “Awsy with the prnmary system.” Bosides L U distress in fact now, but whether we ate 8o lost d;y and m];.;léi with )'Oflrul'mne“hfitlmflgs- [‘\PJ n Fof Just snoh plause.] ause. lon't mean to eny that all connected | jury was composed of just such m h -l planesl f iz I o0 a8 hind — that Inst week, and are besten out of thg o | Farwell-Hall mesting and of the whots city. these, the only decorations were 10,000 eyes, esgerly watching the stage, that by spirited action we cannot emancipate | pls 5 3r. L. L. Coburn called the meeting to order, | ourselves in some way and redesm the city frem | With this Government are not honest men. [ | controlled the baliots of citizens last Tueaday. IN CONCLUSIO 1 o8 snd the assemblago was all attention. As yet, | ruffanism and violence. am not denouncing men generally. I know | Courta wero inadequate. The Rebellion could N, iu ts. Shall we meet them in tho conrts? Ve thought 3. 8. COOPER 4 but little cuthusiasm was manifested. Mr.Co- | Now, gentlemen, let us look at mony men in the Board af Aldermen. Iam | not have beon put down by the Circait Courtof | MR, EWETT 1"}01‘1' too well how slow and fruitless that is. m‘“‘g that the resolutions should denomnes burn was listeed to gravely, but the watchfal- THE ACTUAL STATE OF FAGTS, _ simply discussing things in general. ‘Idonot | Cock County. Tho rebola did the same as tho | 8id they had not ot arrived at a definito con- | SLal wo g0 ontsido the law, as they do? Neces. | the man Glesson with & epocial se; of resole - nesa for the riot had not beet overcoma, Tstil mthia & recont fiio we hava béen liviog | wish to bo understood, in reviewwny this City | rutiany of Chicago Lod done, snd what was | elasion 83 to what they onght to do. Ho knay | T, CI0A%8 the law. The apeaker did not wish Gons “E‘;r‘:"é;hfl man who was at the bottom . 2 THE HON. LEONARD SWETT | under acity charter. It had ita parsicalar modes { Goverament, as roflecting on any and all men | done with them? . what the plan of the Firat Ward Clab was, and | tucoe® lgfil!t:ncs to the Iaw, snd here came | 0%/ e That man shonld receive = .was introduced. In s fow minutes tha gnghenng of preventing frauds at elections. The city was | connected with that Government. Happils for THEY SHOT THEL- that wad to get the name of ev Jhn 4 ?_‘l onzht that when tho indigoation o live 10 ¢ uristian treatment, Hewas not ‘waa & howling. seething mass. As he pictared [ divided into wards,-and regular judges, clerks of [ us it is not all gone yet. [Applause.] {Applause.] He bLeleved, bowevor, that that | & €Iy Voter residing | rose to righteous resentment, a remedy would ve in decent soctaty. He was the worst of 1F THE CITIZENS OF TIIS TOWN WILL RALLY would not be necessery, fof they could put down | 12 87ery ward, aod to organize in every wara a :::rky‘f:’“ °g"k‘fl:° “‘:“’ ‘;flghfi"’ come when :,h; 't',im'“ !"‘: "‘l ‘:’:"“l;""‘ stffers. Ph"l‘; an who kept out of politics would by 0 braing of the bummers, Gleason ! election, and canvassers were appointed. But the frauds thathad been perpetrated, they yelled o 25.TICE CITIZENS O ¥II5 ToWs 1 i Bl ot th & change in th nic | and do their daty, they will find many men in b; 1 for ‘Tuey aud of citizens who should b recently there bas been go in the organi 5 the wost by moral force. They could uot wait 2 ready for action | paneral consent bo rogardsd ab . shirk o iy, | BEX6 o execute their criminet Qesigns. and uhou;ad tiuhum éx’gms quiv;:ted. and a cloud e A el . of dust from the thousands of feet wentup to | character of the city, and we have | the Board of lermen and other branches of | one or two years longer, for the counts 1d | if necessary. He would prese r— Al the prillisnt centro-light, and hung in adull, [ cherter ~which set. in motion new | the Government that will co-0perato with them | be ruined by them. Liat then, it the mesarene | & Wi ihe mntdnUo?:n:E:flisu;m{l:fi& B oeape avenuo o political proferment Would [ i Py ioin the -murky riog srousd it As " ko delinest: | machinery, and under which electiona havo oc- | in thia movement, and will aid them iu overy | theso men. who wera now 80 potant, WoBA soon | 854 olcoie, Al the. Conhemer e cakriod Y £raud | bo reapectabilty. Siicua ber d1d not mant ta chop logio n 118 ied (their condition. ~fhey arose and | curred in & new munner. - Recently w have had | effort to produce n botter City Government. | bo & myth.. The man who bel tasoker oaleoh | the veios of the paopie adates sctually defeat TR s St i | oy eo g anoiublond.. They. sece Ll nflammatory speech, 8 Farw meeting. i Now, tlemen, we have the fact of t) - ithi elected by ballot-stuss v our first election, In theory of law, as we ap- | Now, gen! f the grow- | within the past ten days were those who were Ballots a c!{ully u::; m"’ig and by the abstraction of but he had reallv gotten over some of bis lats | Deed D0t be afraid that they could use too severd prosched this last election. there was one tawn | ing evil graduslly growing worse, culminating | tryin to deprive of their d . e moeting. Thot was called by the Clerk of the | in this recent election, which everbody knowsts | rights the mmet before pim gt thenfoazA® Another election i3 soon totake place; | CONservatism. We have been dragooned, ecoo e ovas not the right of franchies, he $hid Town, Mr. Gleason. bave beea brought about by violence and | thought that each ward ehowd. take Resolved, That this meeting hereby commit the pro- ;«;1‘. f{:”.“.’,fl“fi‘n‘c’fi'fl'}x’. wnn: :::! u'éfifi'&fi.fi'i'?”fi',’ lfieu:&z:!m:? b':i;![:'m:aw:fi‘?ylfiwy’zf mn:da;"- ‘ ‘ehricked for the men who had swindled them, and then threatened to take their meetng from thom. They were no longer guiet. The nppnrenlt 8] -fl&y wag, dx:‘fp'zd“ n&fl they ox A 2 besa b A cume ont at last, and announc ey are usy as all men generally are in their busi- | fraud, and the question is - care of its own ballot-box, under control of ¢} tection of the ballot at th Y s readv now for anything. The gallery wavedand | ess, I took mo care about it, snd heard ' WHAT ARE WE GOTG TO DO ABODT IT 2" First Ward Club. Thero was 1o use in flnan%e- the 15th tnst., 10 t0s fi‘%fl‘gfi'fixffif&:fi :':p"‘ tgfi“;z”:‘:. :n;hmv;:l;z:u;e ‘%;a“l‘:”j"}! Ay fi:;,b:’u'fl‘l ::,:‘;;‘nl“ Aaren ""‘,P’&':“ any 9 ol 3] len Ving oat o paasage pothing of it until the night of | Shall we lis supinely under it when wo feel it ? | ing primaries, when their ballot-boxes w and we hereby authorizethst Clubto W 5 5 the organization of the meetiog, wheo | Shall we, in this mext election. allow similar be Eroida a4 tampered with, Ko wanteq fg | Clént Orgubization i every ward of e cie, snqy | 1060 tho bands of the enemy. They have taken | tho eeaclation. Tho “proambie was what 18 an old clieat of mine came to mo snd asked me | ecenes to be repeated ? [Applaure, and cries of | know how long it would take to, conot Evans "m",_'m‘:‘:d",fi.“: 3¢ that election at any cost and at all forcible possession of the election. It was ,R‘“ aud they could not ge it too StrooR. toget up at 6 o'olock in the morning aud go to | *No!”] No, you say, but have 5o sny plana | nnd Thornton out st this rate. Ho thought they ! that we will support and protect it, planoed, cut, and dried beforeband, What will e men they denounced were thieves, far they The Chsirman etated that, =5 ons of the | P the result of petting affidavits as suggested 7 | 154 Btolen away their franchise, which Wss 88 0 go ! : b y No. 204 LaSalle street, and be there whi to save you? [Cries, * Vigilance Committee.”) | might escare violence, but if ¥ i ;- i 5 thors whes the ¥ '} | mig L u it SRSy didib must | 1o anres adopted by the Fires v d Club, | They cannot be used in court; they will only | B3cred as their property. Theyehould nams the head, A8 creaked, and the floor of the anditorium groaned and resonnded. Farwoll Hall has before been the thestrs of wild scenes, but its walls never before looked down upon such an expression of hate and honest indignation. Mr. Swett bad portrayed the state of affairs. | meeting was organized. Vi I said, * 6 | Any mao mway go to the polls and stay there, and | be because the machinations of thes 9 . Fhoy « The question now is,” said he, ** What shall | o'clockis 8 litte too vivacions for my patroit- | if the operation is repeated, they will be over- | cease first. Fle wanted sufiicient !O:Itgfi “ihe | Printed circulars Lad been gotten up containing’ | SaTEy Moral conviction, and that 'we have now. [hacals fearlesaly, hitting them on the we do to emancipate ourselves from the rule of | 1sm.” I did not go, but I gotthere by 8. It | come by force and driven away. Go snd cast | ballo-boxes to protect them., bl eautd hfignmAm SR Efigfid‘%fl‘sgflflxggml :2: do uxgd goog. ‘Tgp i A":‘f; :':g_ time. N .l f aworn all per- y remedy. but he chan 0 phrazsology which aotion Wera consented to by the mover of the seems that the.town meeung of the Town of | your vote honestly, and at night ballots ALL THEY ASEED OF THE POLICE inted : South Chicago, instead of being called in alarge | Will be substituted, and the result chinged | was not to attack them. Mr. Galloway did pot | 5902 Who bad voted at the town elsction of | Pointed out some very practical metnods for the x ball whera thousanda of people could assemble, | by frsud, Taxes will be beaped upon | use violence at the polls. There was a- disturb- | SOUth Cbicago. 1t is as follows: coming election. ion, they wars adopted and the mestmng and where there might be some debbera- fyou i u sull grester degree. Btealing | ance created there, but the police did ot put it ET“S'"“-mm.}._ said th ML JOHN H. CLOTGE : E:ul?fld and procesdsd m s body to Farsal tion. was sctually called on the eidewalk | Will go oo in still greater provortions. Now [ down. Thomost theycould sy of the polics | OO0 Gooste e town clection waa over. 80 far as voting of 204 LaSalle street. Respectable citizens like | then, what is to be done? Iwasin San Fran- | waa thas they took no sides, They were in 8¥10- | tho 4(h day of'A) m'xld;_;lym oD oath says that, on | WB8 concerned. Still, a consideration of the e Tobey, Wentworth, and Abner Taylor, and fifty | cisco in 1863. [Cheers and spplause.] It was patby with those who robbed his Hewrers of their | voise in, the Town of Soatn o Ctizen of and legal | Teasons for the prosent situation might not be IN GENERAL, moreliko them, stembled shere st 8 otlock, | not duriog he wiolenca of the Vigilaics Con- | lega ignts, snd thelr Cblat Maratal” Goodel | 1o bisi of ks, e b Spio COUBAY Of Gk, | entiraly uslese, Wby azo we dhsate ot of the pins which was the hoar of calling the meeting t | mittee, but while its shadow was still left. | weano 3 result? Notfor want of men,—there svero plea- PUBLIC FEELING tho swindlers 7 " i It wasin no ordinary tone of condemnation that the answer came : *‘Hang them ! Hang them!!" And from month to mouth the sentence flsw. ill every man was on his feet, and the speaker stood aghast as he contemplated the itorm he bad rmised. tter. He wanted to know That on said ds; o ) what he did r on el between the of 8o'clockin | ¢y of them. But we wera wanting in organiza- “ Hang them!! Haog them!!!” o The cry came sgein and again, and the great | order. "By the law it was necessary thas the | [Laughter.] Iwaea stranger in the city. The | for the protection of the respectable citizen. the 7 o'clock aftern 2 3 . oa of facoa “was starmy then. “The | Town Clorkhonld be thore and call’ the mees. | Repoblioans Dol & moctioe: 1a trs cléy anf | wanted to knaw What b wia tof Atape s DO | o2 TN M00, T Dok tn the anian Chitage; | tion and vigilance. Nothing was done towards Voutaiar i L0070 FALY. ;e ing 1o oder. Consequently wothiog conid be | made nomipations, and the Democrats held a | A Voice—To sak for and spend 700,000 of our | AZA2E voted o Wllam 3. Gray for Amemor, snd loakiog after the ballor-boxes il che day e- | _ by '{b ‘Tg:!mnpnrtarm detisled &8 . . Gallo: lsctor’ Town of D. @ evemy gof control of them, 00g the South Side business mes, din was fearful. There was no ehriek- fng or gyelling then. It was a wild, pas- - pecmate ery. From every side it came up, swell- done until 8 o'clock and Gleason came. Coming | meesing and made nomipations. A stranger, I | monsy. $otho plsce where the meating was to be held, | thooght nothing. The nextdsy an articlo ap- | Tho speaker then continuod, and a sked who | sor e oin s ha ADENE delivered his ballot to | a0d won tho day. He referred to the fack that, | thas 5o gat their views i : perton acting as Assistant Moderator st the pisce | &t the 1ast 7l elbction, £r03 frands. wees AT (L i Eapird o th oubatt v #%- | parpetrated by the bummers, Gleason azd D3W - * i

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