The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-03-31
MUM ON SILVER NOW.
Only Three Of the Advertised DEM
ocratic Speakers Came.
THEY SAID SOME FUNNY THINGS.
Man In tho Audience Wanted
Campbell to Tell How He Was Licked
In Ohio-A Big Crowd In Infantry Hall
Coarse Words.

"The Country Circus" has been In town,
given its one consecutive performance.
hacked up it's traps and gone on the next
stand. It was a glorious farce, a fitting
and of q windy advertising scheme, and a
~nositiys announcement to the public at
large and to the whole country hat
Rhode Island Democrats cannot be enter
tanned by free-silver coinage oratory
unless they tell stories more or less funny,
more or less blasphemous.
The circus was minus almost all its
great stars. There were to have been hf-
Teen members i'm the company. AS il was
there were but three stars with two assist
ants picked up on the route, Messrs Nc
Kinney of New Hampshire, and Carruth
of Kentucky.
infantry Hall was packed to overflow
ing. The members OF the Democratic
clubs participating In tie parade were
unable TO get into the hall, and so far as
attendance goes the meeting was a sue
cess as a failure, oratorically speaking,
it was also q success. A good many Re-
publians were there TO hear what the
gentlemen from abroad might have TO pre-
sent in the way OF arguments why the
Democratic State ticket should be elected.
They came away from the rally without
being enlightened.
Some went there to hear what tie
speakers might have to say on the silver
question. Not n word VAS said on that
subject. The Rhode Island Democrats
in convention had declared against free
coinage. The ministering angels being
frec-coinage advocates, they lodged that
issue altogether and told funny stories.
Not one of them presented an argument
worthy of consideration as such. Con-
gresham Bryan alone received unstinted
applause. The others produced laughter
and seemed content with that.
Congressman Lapham presided n IN
troduced as the first speaker ex-Gov.
Campbell, or Ohio, who began by making
n misstatement Of facts. He said nat this
was his first visit to this State, and that
he was panied to see, AS he was driven
across Market square, that there were
bulletin boards containing the. lists of
voters for each ward, and that there was
q large placard and a small placard for
each ward, the smaller one representing
the Or operty voters who controlled affairs
here. He hoped to see the time when this
system would be abolished. What Gov.
Campbell saw on each board were two
placards. one for the first, and b second
Tor the second district.
Gov. Campbell spoke in a desultory
manner Of wooden shrouds, fish and oat-
meal, and of his inability to find in any
part Of this country q w~orkinyman,
woman or child whose wages lad been
raised one dollar a year by the operations
of the Mckinley tariff bill.
As he was concluding his remarks a
Young man who sat in the front row
shouted out
TELL us how they licked you in Ohio"
Gov. Campbell was bothered to make n
fitting reply, but did so by asserting that
he would inform the gentleman when
one informed him how much money
<h>. fxkn DaVv,nnp IrrpNhf into fhn
State. Not one word did he offer in ex-
PLANTATION of his defeat. Not "A syllable of
Information did he vouchsafe about the
triumph of protection over free trade.
Congressman Tucker Of Virginia, burst
his collar button and that gave him the
text OF his speech, which was that he
wore no mans collar. Other than this he
said he was a believer in equal rights for
all and special privileges TO none:
Tom Cosgrove, q member OF the night
committee, who n few months ago
volunteered to fill the position of a night
school principal, acted as one OF the sec
r~etaries and was called upon to read dis
who knew better than to come to Rhode
Island and speak to anti-free coinage
men. Mr.. Cosgrove's efforts to d%ecipher
writing, aud his non-spesking a%cquaint-
ance with periods and commas, will long
linger In the memories Of those who wit
ucSSeQ Tug WRESTLING IDHtCn.
Congressman Carruth, of Kentucky,
told soma more stories, in one of which ne
rather Familiarity, as some might have
thought, simulated the gyrations and
thickened speech Of a drunken man. In
one he blasphemously used the name Of
the Saviour, and In such a way that il
produced a bad impression after the audi
ence had realized what they had been
laughing at. The burden of Mr.. Carruth's
complaint was that he didn't want taxes
imposed or increased on tombstones and
shrouds.
Congressman Bryan, from Nebraska, a
solidly solid silver State, trusted that no
Democrat would sell his vote and that the
Democrats of this State would bear In
mind hat as they won or lost on Wednes-
day next, SO would the party in the other
States be influenced. The eyes of the
nation were on Rhode Island. She must
call up a great Democratic vote, she must
report a Democratic victory.
The following letter aud the answer
thereto was then read
Hon. Grorer Cleveland:
Sr-The Democrats Of the State OF Rhode Island
are engaged In n contest for the princil pes which
you have done 50 much TO emphasize and vitallze:
a contest for lower taxation. economy In public ex-
penditurc and honest money.
It's a contest In which we have arrayed against
Us the power OF capital and he political power Of
the dominant party In our Strife
Our people look upon you rs the best and 1ttest
representative. ne well as the boldest and most
feifhful advocate OF these Just and right princl-
PIES. and are unanimous in desiring from you the
cheering influence OF your presence among them as
the battle l. clio ing.
We speak not only OF our own desires. not only tho
desires OF the Democratic State central committee,
whose Representatives we are, but the earnest and
unanimous desire OF all our people. when we urge
you. IT whatever personal sacrifice, to give Us the
euc~nragerent Of your presence and a few words
q counsel at abs time.
JON ". DAVIS,
FRANK A. RHODES.
And others OF the committee.
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