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Show MORE NAMES. Ileporteil by the IWenibcrs of the JofiVrsoii Club. It 1 Decided to Separate and Oriinlzo into Ctulm for the Koii riti and I' il tli The Jefferson Democratic club met in the Central sclioolhou.-e last evening. President K. A. Wilson in the chair. After the reading of the minetes, .lames E. Snow, of the executive committee, com-mittee, reported tiiirty-thf-e new names. Several ot In rs present reported new members. A. D. Gash said he did not care to stir up strife among Ins nei.iib. i-'. If he did, he might be-in to call nanus, as some of his political opponents had l . 1 ..: .. ft,, l. I.. ureu uoi n" . ne iia-i noiniiez out. svm-pathy svm-pathy for a person who w..i:id pea'; of a party as numerous as eitl: r t!ie Democratic Dem-ocratic or Republican, and call them traitors, anarchists. ?. bdisfs, bummers, bum-mers, etc. It appears to be the deii-ght of Republicans to Iil;t !!:e civ. 1 war i over again. Th.it was a s-rtio-na! T affiir, irrespective of j-aity a'.'.'.iiation. For tiie first two years of tin- war, three-fifths of the Union soldier.-, were Democrats, and out of the seventy generals in the Northern army liftv-two were Democrats. all of whom, except two, remained true to that p-.rtv. There were u.. mr.ru against. Ami w hen Tiig.V:f.autrtwww- statement in congress there was not a Republican wh had the manhood to repudiate the statement. It was left tothe Democrats to do that. A man I recently offered twenty dollars if a Republican Re-publican confederate general could he named. General Longs tivet was im n-o.i n-o.i ns une but the twenty d dlars never came. A. L. Booth was called and spoke tor a short time. He said the principles of the Democratic party will not lead to anarchy, as has had been intimated by a certain Repubbcaii editor. It they will w hy did anarchy not come during the rule of Jefferson, of Jackson, or anv one of the other Democratic ad-i ad-i ministrations? The country was just as prosperous while these men were at the neau i the Nation, ail other thing; considered, consid-ered, as thev have been nmh r the rule of the Republicans. The first Kepu'..- liean standard-bearer, John C. 1 ree-mont, ree-mont, set up ;i government of his own in California, and had to give up h:s power through the fo.ee of the soldier-in soldier-in the Mexican war. . E. A. Wilson spoke of the unjust discrimination dis-crimination that the M- Kinl-y bill made between articles used l-y . t!v poor and those by the rich. The discrimination dis-crimination in almost every case is in favor of the rich and against the poor. Reference was made by -eeral ot the club to the contemptible fling made in last night's Eim rn: by alluding l- the Democratic party as sece.s. rs. an- archists, etc.. and a deep svmpa-'hv was expressed for the man w 1... had V resort to such vile measures. The question -f separa'ing th- members mem-bers of the fourth municipal ward int.; a new organization, was di-.-u-sed nn-i adopted. . . E. A. Wilson, being a r.-:di-nt "i t-Fourth t-Fourth ward, tendered h'w reMgmcioii as president of the .Uiter-ou ehib. The resignation was ;!..:. d. :nd :i vote of thanks tendered to the retiring president. Mr. Lund moved that a n-w pn si-dent si-dent be elected. Carf.ed. D. l. lloiitz was nominated i y .Mr. '; Maibcn. and elected by the ni-id-ers j of tlie Fifth ward. The meeting then adjourned. |