The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1894-01-15

felt somewhat frustrated and embarrassed,
but all of sudden the Goddess of Liberty
seemed TO giyeus kick OF encouragement,
and we started Off to Guido Patrick Henry.
There were occasions when we melted that
vast audience to tears, and there were other
occasions when the roar of applause would
have made Niagara falls look sick In our
overpowering enthusiasm we gradually re
moved collar, tie, coat and vest, and we
finally stood before the audience like
Roman senator crying out for the rights
and liberties of down troddcn people In
our interest we lost all trace Of our own
identity, and we were but dimly conscious
that we We're making tho grandest intel.
lcctual effort of our life.
One of the occasions when we brought
tears, rs mentioned above, was when we
painted q mental picture OF an old man
standing on the peak of Bill Williams
mountain and gazing sadly down into the
valleys below lie sees the grizzly bear
skating for the wilder west the cowboy
combing his hair and putting on a cellu-
loid collar, the Indian packing his buds for
n trip to New Mexico, the rartle4nake and
coyote fleeing before the presence Of "a good
looking sohoolmarm. lie sees towns
springing up, saloons rs thick as prickIy
points on cactus, horse races and dog
fights, happy school children, busy light
ming rod men aud the smiling scwing ma
chine agent. He sees the dreamy past aud
the busy present He hears the hum OF
progress and sees the wheel turn round,
and the proud American eagle soaring above
him screams out, "Sce what the old gal
could do If she was given fair show"
And the old man bows his head and weeps.
Congress won't give us n show-that Ia,
she hasn't up 10 this time-but Hhe's got to
dose pretty soon, ordown comes her shanty,
We spoke for over an hour Knowing
that our contemporary would have one OF
his parasites present, even II kept out HIM
self, we had our agricultural editor take
notes We ilnd by reference TO those notes
that we knocked out old CiCero's best effort
before the end of the second round, and our
remarks were received with thunderOus APP
plause exactly 81 times, with many other
occasions when they were not exactly
thupderous. On Il different occasions We
stopped speaking to mop our brow and
wipe our ears, but the patriotic audience,
fearing VIC were going 70 quit business,
arose rs one man and yelled, Go on, old
man. go onp Not an egg potato, gourd,
dead rabbit ar other evidence OF dissati@
AhNNlnll WIS lulatAA tAl US hlAA ~ PtAhN ~
those familiar and dishcartening shouts Of
Come or" and Write us the rest" We
were spurred TO renewed efforts by waving
hats and cries of "EIc's q daisy" and
Lets run him for congessn
We closed with pcroraton into which
we carelcssly tossed about dozen Latin
words and Greek maXims NJ venture, and
the audience arose and smashed benches
and howled with delight, We were picked
up by half dozen men and carried around
the hall on their shoulders and il was hali
an hour before the enthusiasm had quoted
down 20 that point where the meeting
could 20 on As to the feelings Of our con
temporary, we leave the reader to judge.
IL does not prove fatal blow 70 his pub
lie aspirations, he cannot be human. GU
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