The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-10-03
JUDGE TENNY SPEAKS.
A Good Crowd Hears the Man
from Brooklyn.
ASpeech Full Of Assertions without
Proofs,
Marked improvement Oyer the First
Rally.

The second Republican rally, held
Monday night was in some respects
quite ereditable affair The wealth
er was more pleasant than when
Judge Lansing was here. The coun-
try people were more in evidence
and a better crowd listened to the
speech. Messrs Fitch, Grant, Protz-
man and Glasscock occupied the
stage with the speaker. Mr.. Glasscock
introduced the New Yorker in neat
little speech and the festivities began.
The Judge was an elderly man of
rather pleasing appearance and had
the composure of seasoned cam
paigner. He at times referred to
notes and at one place mentioned
the fact that the speech was stereo-
typed one. He began with the stock
phrases of anarchist, communism
and other well-known favorites of
Republican stump speakers. Going
a little further the ''bloody shirt
was given few shakes. The high
grade of Intelligence that is found in
the average Morgantown audience
was complimented by the assertions
that "three months ago not ten men
in this audience knew what 16 to |
meant This Is fair sample of the
assertions that the Judge made. At
one time he said that Bryan merely
asserted and proved nothing. What
proof did the Judge offer to back up
any of his assertions? What author
ity did he quote? None whatever.
One of his assertions was that Vir-
ginia would go for Mckinley. The
gamblers are willing to give the
Judge 2 to | that it don't. What
did he offer to prove it? The Judge
said that he was away from New
York because that state was safe.
He also said that he had been in
West Virginia in '92 and '94. Was
New York safe then?
The fifty three cent dollar buga-
boo was worked for all that was in it.
"We don't want double standard
like saw in Europe, woman and a
dog hitched together to cart" 1t
might be well to remind the Judge
that where that happened the gold
standard and the policy of protection
are supreme. "We don't want to pay
our carpenters $1.20 per day." There
the gold standard has accomplished
what it has begun here "What we
want is more confidence not more
money" Will confidence be engen-
dered by a continuation of the pres
ent conditions. Grover Cleveland
was praised, lauded to the skies. Is
it not somewhat suggestive to have
Republican speaker praise the
Democracy of so prominent a mem
Der of the opposition? And so on
hundred weak places were left in the
speech and only a superficial inves-
tigation is necessary to find them.
A noticeable feature was the cut
and dry nature Of the applause.
When one OF the gentlemen on the
stage clapped his hands the audi
ence went wild. On the other hand
when the gentleman was not paying
close attention the Judge made some
of his best points and paused for APP
plause but none was forthcoming.
Taking the whole thing however the
affair was more creditable than
the first rally. The speaker was not
so rank demagogue and was much
more of gentleman. He told fewer
stories and tried more earnestly to
argue the questions involved.
How badly he succeeded must be
blamed to the difficulty of finding
anything to defend on his side of the
question and not to the ability OF
the Judge. We hope that the i'm
provement in the speakers that are
to be brought here will continue to
be as marked. Perhaps we may hear
one real argument for the single
standard in that event.