The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-04-03
II WILL Be A ROUSER.:
Young Mems Republican Club
Rally at Infantry Hall.
ELOQUENT GOV. GREENAALGE.
Massachusetts Honored Executive Will
Deliver an Address, Followed BY
Governor Brown, Colonel John {.
Wyman, Hon. X. G.. Horr and
Others.

The Young Mems Republican Club will
hold rousing demonstration in Infantry
Hall this evening as the cul-
minatiDg event in the campaign.
This organization is composed OF the
most active and influential elements
in the body polite from all sections
of the State, and whenever the club
decides to assemble in mass meeting
they succeed in securing the presence of
gentlemen OF national distinction whose
eloquence and thorough equipment as
educational and inspiretional factors
on the eve of the battle az the polls have
contributed materially 10 its successful
outcome. Governor Frederick L. Green
halge of Massachusetts Is to
be the principal speaker, and
his address will doubtless prove an able
and instructive exposition of the ma
tional Issues and the principles which
dominate the party. Colonel John e.
Wyman is amply qualified to discuss the
protective tariff and his speech will be
embelished by flashes of wit and humor
which will prove most entertaining.
Congressman Horr, who has been per-
forming valuable service in the suburban
districts, will also contribute to the ora
torical feast, and Is assured OF
cordial reception. The Ameri-
can Band Will give one OF ITS
popular concerts Nnt SuDpST, hAlO
the success of former gatherings is an
assurance that the closing rally OF the
campaign n Will prove both influential and
instructive. The hall viii be thrown open
the public at $50 o'clock.
Gov. Greenhalge of Massachusetts.
His Excellency Frederic Taylor Green
halge OF Lowell, who is TO speak at
Infantry Hall tonight, was born in
Clitheroe, England, July 10, 1872. He
came with his parents 10 Massachusetts
when a child. Entering h public schools
Lowell, he was graduated from
me High School taking the highest
honors. Entering Harvard in 1859, he
was awarded detur there, also was
chosen an editor of the old Harvard Maga-
zine. In 1862 his father died and
Frederic was the only son of the seven
children that survived him. He was then
obliged TO leave college and taught
school, worked in an iron foundry and
studied law. In October, 1868,
he attempted TO enlist but
could not pass the medical exami-
nation. In spite of this ne went to Now
Bern, y. c., hoping TO get a commission in
a colored regiment. he was assigned TO
the commissary department, and when
the place was invested by he rebels in 1864
was put in charge of the stores. In April,
1864, he was attacked with malarial fever
and was sent home. He studied law with
Brown * Alger, Lowell and was admitted
TO the bar in 1865; member of Common
Council, 1859; school committee, 1918; F;
special justice of police court, 1S7i-oi;
pres ident of Hayes and Wheeler club,
1876; Mayor, 1SS0-i; National Republican
convention, 1891; member of House of
Representative, 1886; House chairman of
committee on mercantile affairs and on
committee on election laws, city solicitor
1888; member OF fifty-first Congress from
Seventh District, on committees on cleo
tions, reform in civil service, and revision
of the laws, president OF city institution
for savings, 1899; commissioner Of insol-
vency for MiddleaeX county, 1892; presi-
dent OF Peoples Club, 1SS5-g3. lie was
elected Governor OF Massachusetts by a
vote of 192,6lS over 156,9l6 for Rus sell, the
Democratic candidate.