San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-10-20
THE REPUBLICAN RALLY.

DR.. Cochran on Deck, on Time, and on
Top All the Time-A Telling Speech.
Shortly after o'clock last evening.
Chairman Bolton, Of the republican
county committee, called the audience
assembled in the courthouse to order
and introduced Hon. A. NJ. Cochran, re-
publican candidate for governor Of
Texas, to the people present. The body
OF the courthouse was reasonably well
nlled when the DR.. commenced speak
ing, but before his speech was fairly I'M
der way the seats down stairs were all
taken, the gallery was we'll represented
and scores were standing around the
entrance and in the courthouse hall.
The speaker was suffering from hOarse-
ness contracted during his opening ad-
dress OF Saturday at Austin, but he WAS
still in sufficient voice to make every
syllable distinctly heard in the remOtest
corner OF the court room, and eleotrify
his hearers with his occasional bursts of
genuine feeling and soul stirring eO-
quence. The DR.. is a forcible and efieo-
tive speaker. Aiming at no special
gracefulness ofmanner or persuasiveness
OF oratory, his clear cut incisiveness, the
memorable logic Of his facts, and the in.
his audience with him. and conviction
follows hearing as cause follows effect,
A synopsis OF the speech OF last evening
is all that lie here attempted. The
inimitable manner, the telling force of
many OF his Olimaxes, his arrangement of
the democracy OF Texas, his side split
ting illustrations, the pathOs of his tones
at times and then his ringing denuncia-
tions, the thunders of applause and the
responses to his mood on the part OF his
vast audience-oan not be told. The az
surances were many and repeated that
the speaker had put himself thoroughly
at one with his audience and that as he
spoke so they believed.
THE SPEECH.
The speech opened with an allusion to
Texas and that the campaign was being
conducted on purely Texan issues. That
ne nad been reared In the lap of true
Jeffersonisn democracy; his fathers and
brothers having been distinguished
members Of the Texas democracy and
honored as such by the suffrages OF their
fellow democrats. That notwithstand-
ing this he was himself a republican. and
deemed his nomination at the hands Of
the republican party In the late conyen-
tion at Waco fully as much OF an honor
as General Sui Ross could esteem the
nomination he had received at Calves
ton shortly before. Paying General Ross
very fine compliment as man and a
citizen, ss one who would, IL elected.
administer the affairs OF the State as well
as any one elected on such a platform as
that OF the democrats could, he asserted
his right to raise the banners Of republi-
csnism, and his belief that the issue was
not rs certain as the democrats would
have the people believe; that while he had
been laughed at for his apparent temeri.
ty In stamping the State for governor in
the face Of the 100, 900 democratic maiori.
ty, he was not without hopes that, &c
great was the disaffectIon prevailing
among the people Of the State, thai
10000 majority would be wiped out and
the State given into the hands of the
republican party, who were the only
political party in Texas or the country
that proclaimed, Equal rights TO ali
exclusive privileges TO none"
This sentiment, as thus expressed
was the climax Of many Of DR.. Cochran,
most telling sentences and was AGAR
and again received with rounds Of ap
plause. Ii was the determination, h,
said, to secure their equal rights befor,
the law, denied them by the Democrat,
administration OF the State, that haC