The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-09-20
POLITICAL MEETINGS.

POLITICAL MEETINGS.
Sam Jones Tells of one In His Native
Town
This is the day of crowds Of political
gatherings. have sat on my porch to-
day and seen the thousands gathered
in this town to hear the political orators
OF the day. MIR. Watson and John Tenn
ple Graves were the orators of the day.
The crowd was immense, the speeches
greatly enjoyed and frequently up
plauded. The enthusiasm was pretty |
lively. But it is not so much OF the |
speakers and speaking that l want TO |
write. 1t is the anxiety of all that gath |
cred to listen to the speakers that en-
cages my interest and thought. They |
came to-day from the regions round
about and from all directions. The !
well-to-do farmer and the poor fellow
who steers pillow, the landlord and
tenant were in the throng as they |
passed to and fro the masses seemed TO
be anxious to learn and anxious to know
more about something orsomebody. Gu
riosity, fellowship, kindred thoughts,
make them all akin at these great gath
erings.
While dictate this letter after sup
per of the day OF the greatsIeakingt they
have all retired to their homes. They
are sitting down at home talking to
wife and children about the speaking
and the speakers, They will have some
thing TO think about for several days TO
come. This was a populist gathering,
though there were many democrats and
n few republicans mixed up with the
crowd. 1t was largely n free silver
crowd. They chcered TO the echo every
utterance of the speakers bearing on
the free and unlimited coinage of silver.
They are looking to Bryan and Watson
as the Moses and Aaron to lead them out
of the land of Egypt where they have
made brick with but little straw. They
are thinking only of the land of Canaan
that flows with free silver and high
prices for their products. They are
not concerned about the wilderness
with its 40 years of soiourning, with its
snakes and with its grovelings. They
imagine that they will leap the Sd of
November with one bound into silver
up to their chins and that prosperity
will come TO the farmers, whatever may
happen to the mouopolists, million-
aires, bankers, merchants and manufac-
turcrs. They dream with their eyes
open and wide awake. Their reveres
are pleasant to them. 1t is not a mir
age to them. It is lake of clear water
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