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Saline Ratifies

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
November
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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I cannot forbear to mention some of the features of the ratification (?) meeting, held by the truly loyal at Saline Saturday night, which was a stupendous efFort on the part of a few, who were desirous of doing something for their country in a manner befitting to the occasion. First and foremost in the parade, came the leader of all leaders, O. E. Hawkins, the political editor of the Saline Observer, beanng a bnner, "What I Know about Politics." Next came the redoubtable hustler and orator, H. T. Nichols, bearing aloft a Chinese lantern, symbolic of their great leader, headed by the Saline cornet band playing, "This is the Way I Long Have Soughi," and passed the reviewing stand on which was R. H. Marsh, holding' alott the ican flag and his petition for the postoffice, and as the winsome throng of thirty torches passed along, their pathway was lighted by two ten cent roman candles and a Chinese lantern. But the dessert was yet to come, and, ye gods! it was dished with no sparing rund. At the hall, L. S. Pierce opened the meeting with prayer and was greeted with cheers as hc reierred to our Maker, the crowd thinking he meant Harrison. H. T. Nichols followed with an address on the future of the republican party, which was received in sorrow and greeted with tears, as one republican said ts he carne out of the hall, "joy was one thing, but he was sorry to see one man make a Fooi of the w hole republican party." So ended the most glorious Jïasco that was planned by careful hands :wo weeks in advance.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News