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Show Reed tiie "lUrarllon." Philadelphia, Sept. 23. In a miss meeting of the AcaJemy of Music tonight under the ausplcea of the State League of Itepublican Clubs, Speaker Reed was thealtrao tlan. Speeches were ulj delivereu by Hon. Jolin M. Thurston of Nebraska, president of the National League of itepublican Club, Congressman Con-gressman Dolliverof Iowa and others. oth-ers. In closing his address need said: "We fuuirht a rcat struggle for the. llburtyot maubood and yet there ha been, and is sitting today in Mississippi, a conveuliou where every orator proclaims his di termination, termi-nation, and the determination of every other white man belonging to his party, to Invent sme method of disfranchising the negro, to destroy the franchise of alarge portion of the voting po;i!ation of this country who are entitled to vote. There 1 a peetacleforyou. Appkiuse. Dj i ou mean, my frien r, to allow the Southern white man. because he votes in the South, to count more than you d j in the government of IhistMuntr? Dj you mean that he shall have increased representation in thU government so that he shall carry mora weight than you? A -plaue. |