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Show "THE IhNOCENTS".; IN EL-IVliRA. EL-IVliRA. MARE TTVAIS C03DCCTS A LAEGI KE-PCBUCAS KE-PCBUCAS MEEIT5G. Elmira, N. Y., Oct. 18. Tbe iargest political meeting of the cam paigo was held in this city by tbe re ; publicans last evening. The Opera House was densely packed to bear Gen. ' Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut. Gen. Hawley was introduced by Mark 1 Twain, (Samuel L. Clemens,) who 1 eaid : "I see 1 am advertised to in 1 traduce the speaker of the evening. Gen. Hawley, of Connecticut, and I see it is tbe report tbat I am to make a political speech. Now, I must say this is an error. I wasn't constructed to make stump speeches, and on tbat bead (politics) I have only tbis to say: First, see that you vote Second, ste that your neighbor votes. LasU.-, see that yoorself or neighbor dnn'i scratch the ticket. Gen. Hawiey was president presi-dent of the Ceutennial commission, tie was a gallaDt soldier in the war. He has been governor ol Connecticut, member of congress, and was presi dent ol the convention that nominate Abraham Lincoln." Geo. Hawley That nominated Grant. Twain He says it was Grant, but I know better. He is a member ol my church at Hartford and the author of "Beautiful Snow." May be he will deny that. But I am only here to give bim a character for his last place. As a pure citizen, I reBpect bim; as a personal friend of years, I have the warmest regard ior him; as a neighbor whose vegetable garden adjoioa mine, why wny, I watch him. Tuat's nothing; we all do that with any neighbor. General Hawley teeps bis promises not only in private but in public He is an editor who believes what he writes in his own paper. A? tbe author of "Beautiful Snow" ho has added a new pang to winter. He is broad-souled, geoerous, noble, liberal, lib-eral, alive to bU moral and relicious responsibilities. Whenever the contribution con-tribution box was passed I never knew him to take out a cent. He is a square, true, honest man io politics and I must say he occupies a mighty lonesome position. He has never shirked a duty or backed dowu from any position taken in public lile. He baa been right every time, and stood there. As governor, as congressman, congress-man, as a soldier, a the head of the Centennial commission, wbicb increased our trade in every port and pushed American pro duclion into all tbe known world, he has conferred honor and credit upon the United States. He is an American ol Americans. Would we had more such menl So broad, so bountiful is bis character, tbat he never turned a tramp empty-banded away from hia door, but always gave him a letter of introduction to me. His public trusts have been many, aod never in the slightest did he prove unfaithful. Pure, honest, incorruptible, tbat is Toe Hawley. Such a man in politics is like a bottle of perfumery in a glue lactory it may modify the BteDch if it doesn't destroy it. And now, in speaking thus highly of the speaker ol the evening, I haven't said any more of him than I would say of myself." my-self." Ladies and gentlemen, this .is Geo. Hawley." |