The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-08-21
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MosToIsLER FIAsco-A Four STORY
SPEECH PROCLAIM vt PROM THE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS UEANIMoUsLY
NOMINATED.
The eyeniiul seventeenth has come and
gone and yet The world still moves, aud
Coiiroth has a hard road % travel. Mos
toller has been nominated and offers him
sell a humble but willing sacrifice on the
Congressional altar. Ills platform has
been published. and reminds US of the
IRISH communist and tie Quaker. Said the
irishman, "All property should lie divided
equally among the people" But thee
would spend thy share and what would
thee do then. said the Quaker. divide
again, be thunder" said the freshman.
lie wants g~reenbacks, bread, blood, sla-
very, temperance, protection, and the enc
my only knows what During all Satur.
day morning 1t was rumored about the
streets that Acstoller. the immortal, was
TO make 4 speech from the veranda of tie
Glade House at l O'Clock. Accord
inety afier dinner a knot of curious spec
tatoIs, numbering perhaps forty, gather
cd IN and about the hotel. Oar ioccse
Trend the Baron, acted as chairman of the
meeting, n in a few humorous sentences
introduced the great. the illustrious Dan
lei. After a profound low 10 his audience.
The would be Congressman delivered an
lncohezent address in which he managed
70 mix up in utter confusion the silly twa.
Ole o. the New York AScoc0te with wild.
crude iancies from his own wayward
brain. Among other things be said: 81
want the government TO issue a great
amount Of greenbacks and let the County
commissioner distribute them. | want
no bonds. Let the borrowers give their
notes with good.secuiitv." Here he was in
terrupied by some ore in the crowd who
wanted 10 know j! > note with good secu.
riiy would not be = bend. No, said the
unabashed aspir~Rb at would be a legal
tender. Then the chzding commenced.
Iae eminent Statesman who represents the
Free1DIcAcrs of S)uhsn Ohio wanted
10 know II The candidate was in favor of
protecting Ig aad moving ma
chimes. Another GisiTed information
Is d how he was On the goose" \. third
ADVISED him to ''Outon - LIS lip, while a /
iouih evidently desired U De enlightened
or Gully, bow 5 your Amid the
Ec,se and c. fusion On D oomerset's
portly gentlemcl a1a. %:
Mn. PREsIDENI:-l move sou, sir, /
thai Daniel Mostoller be declared the
choice OF this meeting as the National La
Dor Reform Greenback candidate for Con
gress in the Seventeenth District OF Penn
sYlvaniA."
The motion was put by the President
and as many as could restrain from laugh
ing, voted aye.
Mr.. Mostoller said:
Gentlemen OF this Convention, accept
my thanks Tor he honor expected me.
The candidate was then led from the
stand only 10 appear a minute later on the
veraDdi In front of the second story. Here
the sIIne speeches we're made and the
same scene re enacted. The President
bow cd, kissed his hand TO the crowd, took
his man of, and reappeared a moment
later on the veranda in front of the third
story. The crowd set up one prolonged
howl; the candidate looked gratiiied, and a
third time the speech was repeated. Mean
while the burly Sergeant alarms ofthe
Democratic Convention was writing reso-
lutins which he hoped to offer to the meet
ing. After the third speech, the crowd.
thinking it was all over. commenced to
disperse; but the President was a young
man of energy, and insisting to his candi-
udtC Auat AItlc NdS Always IOoil ~ luS
top, next appeared, accompanied by
"Holdy, on the roof of the GLADE
Mounted upon an elevated sec
ton OF the c~ornice. with one arm en-
twined around the flag staff and the other
gesticulating wildly, Daniels lips were
seen to move But he had made too many
before, and had become SO hoarse
that his words were inaudible. This was
too much for human nature TO bear; the
crowd yelled in derision, and a flight of
rotten eggs assembled in such a direct line
for the orator that he was tain to beat a
hasly retreat. Thus ended the Greenback
meeting; it was a story in four chapters;
more chapters. perhaps, than Mostoller
will have votes. Now the conference
be held, the child named, and then
bury il under the roses. :