Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-08-22
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"RECEIVE" aI
Page,
AND GIVE HIM
A CHANCE TO ANSWER
THEIR PETITION.
A HIGH OLD TIME,
AND GIVE Hin

At about seven o'clock last Saturday
vening, parties began vending their way
0 Jones' Hall, to attend the meeting to
nswer to the 1900 petitioners for Pages |
The gathering people were
of both factions, the ants F"
arge,y predominating, Of course, pro-
,ably in the proportion Of three to one.
BY halfpast seven, good audience
vas IN the hall, and any one who had
'ver seen an excited crowd. could tell
rom the terrible tenseness from suppress
ID excitement, that "the dell had bust
ness on his hand" and that very slight
poking of the embers by that presiding
genius Of evil, would give vent to the
pent-up feelings Of the angry masses, and
hen We would have had-no ono knows
what.
BY ten minutes to eight, Page arrived,
and amid disturbance of cheers and
Kisses, advanced to the stage.
At this point, Capt. Stanley moved that
IRA JONES
be made chairman. 1t was seconded,
and passed unanimously. Stanley then
moved that
JIM. WEISER
be made secretary. Unanimously carried.
Both gentlemen took seats upon the
stage, where were also Pages stenograph'
er and THEY'VE cannot speak the word
the "Old-yes, the "White Swan"
And it was noticeable fact thut Pages
friends were largely made up of harves-
ters, brought in by his few farmer friends.
Not half dozen OF Austin men Of worth
or standing who were friends to Page.
Even the few men Of standing, Shaw,
Richardson, H. w. Page, the Wheelers-
none of these best men of his party, were
present. They all deserted him, and
those who arrived with him, were sort Of
:'shuck up like'' at the unexpected COM
plexion of the meeting. And it was q
soul-cheerlng sight to see the difference
In responsibility between the Page and
anti Page factions.
The chairman asked the audience to
preserve order, and have q little regard
for their own safety, aud not kick the
door through. He called upon them "as
u citizen of Mower county to act like
men, and to have a little regard for his
feelings as owner Of the hail." and really
took up too much time In telling them to
keep still.
A motion then prevailed to request
Page to address US for one hour. Page
spoke about ten minutes, and insultingly
told the audience that lit was
NATTER OF INDIFFERENCE
to him whether he spoke ut all. If they
wished to hear anything, they must heal
him to the end"
Page seemed to have an idea that the
meeting belonged to his friends, whereas
the fact was that 1t vas for the express
purpose of answering the 1900, was got
ten up professedly for them, and fol
the sole purpose of answering them, and
consequently belonged to them and to NJ
ono else.
After some discussion of various
amendments, it was finally amended al
lowing him full time, he claiming thai
two hours would be ample. During hi
discussion, there was some fun had will
acknowledging sort of connecting
link between Vermont and Mower coun
try. He was 50 low.browed that ever!
time he scowled, his hair climbed int
his mouth. HE wanted to hear Page
speak," and he kept up such racke
about it that Lafayette French said "Nov
see here, you're having altogether to<
much to say. You don't belong to thi
county, and this is none of your bust
ness, and you keep STILL" The modest
young man from Vermont swallowed
twothirds of his convictcrerped scalp
and never smiled again."
One b. Langworthy, a patriarchal an
apostolic old gentleman, also was very
ofRcious and earnest, and said that he ha'
"come to hear Page" But Dan B. John
SOD, with woiul disregard for the visiting
statesman, reminded him that he lived II
La Crosse, and suggested the immense an
over.sbadowing propriety of allowing u
TO attend to our own business. This 8
wounded Mr.. Langworthy's feelings tina
his tongue clave to the roof Of his moutl
the remainder Of the performance.
At halfpast eight, Page
BEGUN HIS SPEECH
and read from a prepared address. H
starred out with a dissertation On thu
wonderful ability of man to read natur
and her laws and mysteries, and his in
ability ~ understand the volcanic an
electric tumults of his own mind. He1
he branched onto madness, and told no,
in the past, prosecutions were the resu1
of mania in the prosecutors, but now al
this insane clamor was caused by part
sanship. He went on at great aud tire
some length in this strain, until We reall
Thought We were listening to the valedi'
tory address Of some verbose and flori
sophomore. Hesurprlsed us by a chile
ish msgnifying Of himself and exagge
ating of his importance. Told how me
covered before him as did Macbeth b'
fore Banquo's ghost, asking danger I
take any form but Pages, aud we mu
derers would know NO fear. For abo.
half:hour he INDUCED in very rosy:hue
accounts ofhis greatness, and our fawnin
fear Of him. We were surprised at ma
of his age treating himselfin such chill,
ishly and absurdly conceited manner,
30 much fulsoms praise. He licked hin
self ali over, and obi how great an
swe-insplring and dreadful he was
Much rs the Olympic Jove did prai.
himself for the affrightment Of his reb,
gods, did this our Cesar feed himself ri
ON the meat Of self:fiatterT. AssuredlJ
I{% ~aa In ~rofchAd faatA. and ahnyned III,