Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-01-13
|THE MASS MEETING,
Crowd at the Methodist Church
to Attend tho Services Sun
day Evening,
And All We're Highly Entertained
BY the Several Addresses
Made Thereat.
The Presidential Electors Meet at
the Capitol aud Cast Their
Several Votes.
Not Wishing to Hurt Anybody'a
Feelings, Each Presidential
Candidate Given a Vote.
Twenty-Six Ballots Cast For Mes.
senger, Williams Voting Each
Time For Himself.
The Y. Nj. q. A. Meeting.

The Y. Nj. g.. A. Meeting.
i The Methodist church proved by far too
/ small to accommodate the crowd which
\ was present Sunday evening to attend the
/ Y. NJ. q. A.. mass meeting. STANDING
room only might have been applicably
/ displayed a half hour before the time set
for the opening. and at s O'Clock there was
a noticeable lack Of even that. The speak
ers, who had been previously announced,
were we'll known and reputed for original
ity and eloquence, and they disappointed
not a person among the assembled thrOng.
Senator j. IL. Worst is always entertain
ing and he surpassed himself on this occa-
sion. The senator has already earned the
title of "the orator of the senate," and the
laurels which he has obtained were but
fastened with a firmer bond. Eloquently
and appropriately he spoke of the object of
the gathering, and he carried his hearers
with him in his discourse. From Begin
ming to end there was no lack of interest
and he was rOundly applauded at the
close.
Rev. S. b. Mahaney, the assistant secre-
tary of the senate, was another to edify the
audience. Mr.. Mahaney is a fluent and
earnest speaker, and the greatest compli-
ment which can be paid him is that his
address was all too short.
Senator Kinter, the La MOura county
statesman, also spoke briefly and interest
lngly.
The musical features of the evening had
also been well attended, and not a little did
the singing aud to the evenings pleasures.
The voice of Mrs. Tubbs long ago found its
way into Bismarck hearts, when, as Miss
Grace Wilson, the owner was often called
to assist at musicales and entertainments.
Mrs. Porter, also. delighted her hearers
with a solo OF touching sweetness.
The irrepressible Bud Reeve furnished
the audience with an amusement that was
not down on the program. and which was
probably all the better appreciated because
has given rein to his muse on the subject,
with a result something like the follow
ing:
A whispering low 'mong the elders. with smiles
and with uplifted eyebrows,
And still consultation and holdings, and finally
satisfied glances,
The concourse e4pectant and waiting the end of
this curious discourse.
Until twas ANNOUNCED from the pulpit that
Reeve. the one Bud just from. Buxton.
Would favor this multitude highly py giving con-
sent to address them.
And Bud, the skirt dancer, the author, arose in
his dignifed manner,
And brushed back the curls from his forehead,
around which they gathered and clustered,
And glanced with his soft, melting orbs around
DER the expectant faces.
Then gathered his .oga around him, in the mode
of the old Roman statesmen.
And tripped up the aisle like a fairy, all regal,
majestic, imposing.
Up to this period the heavy. Virgil like
meter of the above was in harmonious ac-
cord with the circumstances, but the min
ute BUD cOuntenance was turned to the
audience blank verse and his discourse
become absolutely Incompatible, and after
taking a firmer hold on his pencil and
Duckling up his waistband a notch tighter
the describing bard changed his tune and
ground out the following:
Like the smoothly running brooklet
hippling DER it's stony bed,
Murmuring softly in its flowing
As unto the sea it led,
Like the s,noth, unrutfled gliding
Of an And alusian dance,
Spoke the genial Bud from Buxton,
As he dreamed about his -
The above is supposed to be indicative