THE BRA ON REPUBLICANISM

Auckland Star, Volume III, Issue 683, 20 March 1872, Page 3

THE BRA ON REPUBLICANISM

These internal squabbles among the rapid Reds; the3e riots by the Republicans: these stupid, vulgar, pot-house quarrels between your Odgers and ©sbornes ; these howls from

the " Hole-in-the-Wall," are eminently reThe reporter deserves a gold who preserved the me-norable between Odger and Osborne. jZe has done his country a great service, for now any Englishman can judge for himself the style of men who have the presumption to lift their voices and to be heard beyond the slums and stews of Hatton-garden. These bo your Judges, O Israel! These men aie to be the leaders of thought—the masters of tho new school. We are to down with monarchy, royality, aristocracy, refinement, bloodculture, and common-sense, and to up with Odger and his Democratic Club ! We are to Bweep away the constitution and all its massive power, and to supply its place by the tap-room orators of the Hole»in-the-Wal]. Why, even the democrats cannot agrae among theniselve&, The instability of their constitution is evident when they coarsely slang one another over their Hatton-g.-u'ileu grog. Listen to the mighty Odger, tho model working man, the candidate of the people, screaming like a passionate womtn at hia erst friend Osborne, who is beginning to see therottenness of the democratic Denmark. See i

him foaming with rnge and gesticulating at the impertubable Osborne, vowing that he (tha King Odger) will eject his old friend from every democratic club in London. Hero is tyranny for you, here is autocracy and bullying with a vengeance. Charles the First. was a joke to King Odgsr. He will have no one but, himself. No more cruel exposition of the sham an .1 fallacy of the Republican movement has ever been shown than the graphic report of the violent scene at the Hole-in«the-Wail. The very name of Odger and the very association of the Hole-in-tho" Wall were sufficient to clothe Republicanism with ridicule ; but now ths violent passion of Odger, the contempt in which he is held by the only men with influence and brains in hi 3 party, the violent and silly splutter, the weak innendoes, tho old washerwoman repartee, the nasty similie?, the bankrupt condition of the Odgerifars, prove the truth of Osborne's crushing and bitterly truo words to his infuriitnd chief, "Why! if you ■were in earnest, you would >..o what 1 should do if I meant anything, you would sharpen your s-words, and learn jour drill ; bub you don:t mean anything but talk, and you are not tho men that will ever get a Republic! " This is a grand expose of what tho speaker subsequently declared, with emphasis, was " Republican humbug!" We repeat", that the reporter of this scene ought to have a statue !—Dec. 10.