The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-10-01
THE DEMOCRATIC RALLY.
A Large Gathering Of the Old Moss
Racks from she sarren.diaE

A Large 9stherisS Of the Old Nos
Racks from the sarreuadiaE
Country.
: Monday was a big day for I'll
Democrats in this county. W. !,
Stone, the Democratic candidate 70
Governor, spoke at jackson in tn
Afternoon and in this city at nigh
The gathering st jackson was tn
} largest political meeting ever held
the county seat. People were ther
from all parts Of the county and man
from adjoining counties. Mr.. Ston
spoke for about two hours. Iii
speech was a re-hash of his st. Loui
speech which was furnished PRINTED
in supplement TO every little Demo
cratic country paper in the Stale.
The torch-light procession in thi
city was fairly good. II wa made NJ
Of some two hundred old Bourbon
fron Carter. WAYNE. lBollinger ant
Scott counties. twenty pretty lii,l'
girls on a float, brigade of little boy.
numbering about forty, who mad,
the finest appearance of al; then fol
lowing the Normal contingent
marshaled under Mc(ihce's white hat
The paraders were strung out so as to
make the procession a long as pos.
.ihlr.
The transparacics were real Demo.
crntic-one of them assured us that
Texas would give Cleveland lOO,OOC
majority. one SAID that protective tariff
was robbery, aud others were equally
ridiculous.
The buggy CARRYING the picture OF
Cleveland brnke down while in the
procession and had to be switched off
f,r repairs. This is the way Hills
friends will switch the "Stu:led
Prophet" on in November.
The torclI-light procession was, rs
we have said. fairly good, but
that was all that was good about the
whole blowout.
We did not hear Stone speak at
jackson, but here we heard him and
were as sadly disappointed rs were
the hundreds of Democrats and Re-
pullicans who listened TO him. The
Democratic papers have BEEN prais-
ing Stone As one of the greatest states
men and orators in the State, but he
is neither a statesman uor an orator.
Stone, compared with Maj. Warner or
Governor Francis is q figure of the
smallest type. and we now know who
Major J. Is. Dennis alluded TO in a re-
cent speech at the court house in this
city when he said: There is a
maj prcambulating over the State
making speeches chose tongue is
longer than his legs"
Stone promised 10 say nothing
about the war, hut he devoted three
fourths of his time to waving of the
bloody shirt and the other %onc-fourth
TO malirinus abuse of Maj. Warner.
lie told all about the Drake COnstitu-
ton and lis evils and mistakes but
forgct 10 tell us that the Republicans.
under the lead of u. Gratz Brown,
siumpcd the State and restored the
ballot TO the DISTINGUISHED.
Maj. Warner was charged with
voting against admitting a territory
iuto the Union because the population
of that territory vas largely Catholic.
but the speaker said not u word about
the fight he aud his friends made ON
Dalton in the Democratic convention
because of the fact that Dalton was
born and raised u Catholic. lie did
not tell his hearers that the Methodist
and Presbyterian influence beat Dali
ton out of the nomination because lie
WAS raised by Catholic parents. lie
said not a word about that thirty-twO
thousand dollars that holland is now
being punished for stealing. Ia fact
his whole speech was malicious vitup
Grafton OF his opponent, and he proved
himself to he the smallest kind OF a
small man.
So disguised were the people that
hundreds of men left the grounds
and loaicd about the streets and in
the saloons. They found mOre ell
thusiasm in the saloons and not so
much abuse.