Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-10-15
Big REPUBLICAN RALLY !!
BLACKFOOT GIVES SWEET AND McCOH-
NELL A MAGNIFICENT RECEPTION.
THE COURT HOUSE CROWDED TO
OVERLOOKING.
No Town Has Given Them a More Cordial
Welcome. They Journey on
Delighted with Blackfoot.

The Republicans Of Blackfoot and
vicinity are proud of their rally OF
Friday evening last 1t was some
thing TO be proud Of II was one Of
the grandest welcomes given the
speakers on their campaign tour. MIR.
Sweet and Mr.. Mcdonnell will carry
with them pleasant recollections of il
long after Mr.. Cleveland is installed
in the White House and Mr.. Burke
has been made governor of Idaho.
A committee of ladies put the
Court House IN splendid order and
made It beautiful and fragrant with
choice flowers.
Al Z o'clock the trans from Poca.
tello and Idaho Fails with their dele
cations and bands ran 10 to the sta
tion at the same time and we're wei
coined with booming anvils and Joy
Gus citizens. Following this, the
streets were made brilliant and gay
with torchlight professions, trans
parencies, caricatures, music by the
hands, etc
At 8 o'clock the Court room was
crowded 10 Overlooking and onethird
of the assemhlage was Oh the outside.
/ The meeting was called To order hy
Mr.. Dietrich, chairman elect. VIII"
announced the presence OF Senator
! Dnhois and gracefully welded the
chair ,o him, adding Nothing hal
senatorial dignity can meet the de.
mands 81 the occasion"
1 Senator Dubois thanked the chair
man aud audience for the honor con
ferred upon bin, and then turned bis
battery on the Democrats for endors
ing the Weaver electors and concluded
by appealing TO his hearers not Il
vote the Weaver ticket
Mr.. Sweet was the first speaker ia
troduced. He is always a welcome
speaker TO a Blackfoot audience anC
his advance TO the front of the plat
form was greeted with generous az
plause. HIS theme was silver, an,
for one hour and fifteen minutes. saw
for brief reference to the Ceur d
Acne troubles, he discussed that issu
so forcibly and clearly as to carry hi
audience along with him and to hol
them all interested to his close. MI
, Sweet is a fair and honest speaker
aud his good name suffered nothin
by his speech on Friday evening, a
though il was due to his strong wi
? power that be met his audience for b
5 was too uGwell to speak, and wa
5 under the influence of strong med
cines.
= Ex-senator Mcconnell was the mex
a speaker. II was unfortunate for I'll
senator that he had TO follow NJ
r Sweet. II is unfortunate for an
a speaker when he cannot hold his a
+ dience on the plain to which it ha
been lifted by the previous speake
O Mr. Mcdonnell was not equal to Il
y occasion, and while he labored for b
u cause it must have been plain to bi
: as to his hearers that his effort was n
I equal to Mr.. Sweets, nor to his gre
onslaught on the Union Pacific wh'
. he was member Of the United Stat
senate. No, this effort was not
, keeping with his great Mob II
speech. 1t is no unfair statement I
!" the part OF TnE News to say tn
: Mr.. Mcconnell did not come up
public expectations-that he {,
below the water mark carved in 4
" rock for him Ivy his friends,
Altogether the rally was a succc
: and TnE News congntuIales I
Republicans on the political glo
az they take unto themselves for it.
rs The Democrats of Blackfoot
lu ioice ut it because of its success a
because of the local pride which til
$50 feel in all enterprises and und,
takings planned and so successful
carried out IN the town. About |