The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-11
"BILL SMARTY."
He Attends the Democratic Meeting
at FriendSviIIe,

approachin am trayelin through
the 6 congressional dcstrict looken
up the intrusts Of our CRATE party, a
kind Of maken strate the paths Of
our leader, Mr.. Williams. who is to .
be elected to Congress this fall.
1t wuz on the 2 day Of October,
1894, when l arove to Friendsville,
Md. | at onct proceeded to pro-
cure a place for our leader to speak
at night. At first it wuz thought I
to hire the band to play some mu-
sick for the meetin, but upon secret |
consultation it wuz decided we
could not afford it inasmuch as so
much of the campane funds had to
be spent to pay bounty to some
wool buyers we are sender out over
the country to purchase wool at
advance of to 6 cents on the ID.
above the market price, so our
speakers can tell the people that
wool is goin up under the present
tariff system.
When the hour of 7:30 Past
Meriden, arove, (Which is in the
afternoon) our speaker wuz prompt
ly on hand. We succeeded in get
tin together five of the faithful
dimicrats, and got 'em up IN the
amen corner and elected cheer
man to preside over the meetln, and
Just as he wuz ready to introduce
the speaker a hui possession OF Re
publicans cum marchin IN until the
hall wuz full Of Republicans and
backslid dimicrats. 1t looked offul
discouragin to see so many onct
dimicrats backslid and got into the
skepticlsm Of unbelief.
But that is the way it always
goes-when a Teller backslides he
gets into skepticism. Well, our
orator got up to speak with us five
faithful dlmicrats seated round him
to cheer and say "amen" at the
proper times which WIZ twice durin
the speech. He commenct by quail
ifien hisself with oath that he WIZ
there to tell the truth, the hui
truth, and nuthin but the truth,
and then diYiden his subject into
two parts: l, The benefits Of the
present tariff system. 2, The polit-
ical situation of this congressional
district. With powerful eloquence
and CRATE logical reason he showed
how the people are prosperin since
Congress passed the tariff bill which
Cleveland did not sign.
He made it offul plane that wool
had gone up and sugar gone down
and that the laborin man wuz well
pade. (Cheered by the five faithfully
He strongly denounced the McKin-
ley bill as prohibitory law, that
under it no foreign ships could
cum to our port. After discussin
to some length along this line he
took up the 2 part of his subject,
and showed that he wuz the only
representative of the people, that
Mr.. Wellington wuz not nominated
by the Republicans, but by ring,
a money ring. He SAID that the
Republicans of Garrett county did
not vote in the convention for Mr..
Wellington and qualified hisself to
that effect by sain 81 speak the
truth, the hul truth, and nuthin
but the truth" A Republican who
sot near me, and had been at that
convention, almost spoke out in
meetln and said. "that is lie |
heard him say it. I did not say
nuthin about it, for if our leader
can get the people to think that
Mr.. Wellington wuz nominated by
a ring maybe we can get some Of
the backslid dimicrats back into the
fold. But a lot of 'em have
vowed they have voted their last
dimicrat ticket. One fcllar said to
me the other day IN private con-
vcrsation, "this administration has
took all the dimocrisy out of me-
that he had always voted the diml-
CIdU tlCheU, UuG ulu lOU huOW why
he did it, unless it wuz because his
father wuz a dimicrat, but says he,
"Tm done now" | couldn't say
no more, for | see he meant it.
Well, our orator went on to some
length on this part of his subject
and concluded by exhorin the faith
full few to do some missionary work,
and with tears in his eyes besought
us to proselyte all we could from
the other side and get 'em to vote
for him. lie said if we would elect
him to Congress he would recognize
that he wuz the representative of
the people, and stand by the prin-
ciples of the dimlcratic party and
see that the sugar producers of
Garrett county did not get bounty
on sugar. And the Republicans
fairly sneered at HIM while we FIVE
cheered.
| learned that the Republicans
had a meetin week before and Mr..
Wellington spoke and they sue
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