The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-05-27

confidence either in his own strength
and ability or in their appreciation and
support.
Waiting only until the enthusiasm
had subsidized sufficiently for him to
make his voice heard, North began
with a graceful acknowledgment
of the reception that had been accorded
him; weaving into his remarks with
consulnmate tact the most delicate flat
terry of the audience, which was in
gennously indorsed by hearty cheering.
Then he mentioned Col. Clippers name.
and, amid Che applause that this refer
ence elected, he proceeded briefly 70
eulogize that gentlemans devoted pub
lie services, giving due credit to Warner
and others who, as faithful coadiutors
had stood shoulder to shoulder witt
the valiant colonel in many a hari-wor
fight.
Finally, having struck fire from the
audience by these sl1illful and y7eil-slf-
rected blows until the glow could be
seen and felt in al parts of the house.
North glidcd neatly and effectively II
to the elaborate theme that had beer
announced for him
1t has been sometimes advanced as
an axiom in oratory. founded on the ey- /
perlence OF rnany famous public SPEAK
ers, that there can be no signal success
promised to any orator who does noi |
approach his audience witt, a feeling O.
dlffidence amounting even TO stage
fright. Granting this to be correct
there was brilliant promise Of success
IN the frame of mind with which Allan
North entered upon his address Dur
ing al the time he was speaking with
such ease and fluency he was watching
the audience with a keenness that
would have detected the slightest evil
dence of an untavorapIe impression;
and it was no doubt due in part to this
intense interest and concentration of his
own thought upon the audience that he
held them in such close sympathy and
attention. The very novelty of his sit
uation, instead of embarrassing him.
seemed to afford him peculiar inspira-
ton, and as by degrees he gained con- s
1dence from the hearty applause that I
he received he gave himself up to the !
Influences and illusions of the moment. :
md threw himself, heart and soul, into /;
What he was saying. ,
So'completely was he swept along by s
he force of his own imagination that t
lie quite forgot he was not the man
whom everyone IN that large audience G
lrmly believed him to be; and instead n
+ comedy played of necessity for his s
wn convenience, the whole affair be-
anne to him, for the time, an important Y
nd dignifed reality. He grew earnestly h
nterested in his theme, and after h
ketching with vivid oratory all the pos n
Utilities that lay in the future, when "
he commercial and manufacturing in n
srests, now in their infancy, the edu- Il
ltional facilities, the natural advan- s,
lges OF X were fully developed, he d,
osed with strong and eloquent plea r.
IT justice, liberty and morality, with fr
1t which no enduring prosperity could b
, attained i
The assembly were held in state Of fa
most breathless attention from the o,
ginning to the close OF the address; 81
I'd when finally with brilliant pero- "
ton that led by rapid degrees TO an af
oquent climax, the speal.er bowed his w
revolt to the &udience, they broke m
nth into n storm Of applause that II.
med down from the galleries and ia
ex