Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-07-31
GRAND DEMOCRATIC RALLY
Held at Chuoktown Last Saturday
Night.

Chucltown I3lazes with Patriotic Demo-
cracy-The Free silver TicISet-severai
of the Local Candidates and other
things Enthusiastically Ratified.
Saturday last two mysterious
packages enveloped in horse blank
cts and carefully guarded were con
veyed to the residence of a we'll
known citizen of Dingman township
for reasons which will be made APP
parent as this veracious narrative
proceeds. These packages on ar
irving at their destination were ten
dsrly removed and placed on ice.
When the sun had yelled his face in
the western mists, the chickens gone
to roost, and tired nature was being
wrapped in sweet repose, numbers
of the sturdy yeomanry of classic
Chucktown were seen vending their
way to the home of iDory." Anxi-
Gus enquiry was made as to the
health and propinquity of the blank
ct enveloped bundles, and ample as
surance given that they were peace
fully reposing in the ice box, and
were only awaiting the arrival of
the orators before placing their con-
tents ON duty. 1t was suggested
that some of the party go in search
of the loved, but absent ones, but
this met with disapproval, no ad-
vantages could be taken at this
stage, and all proposed to keep an
eyes on their best friends. Soon,
emerging from the fast closing
gloom came a dignified and careful
official of that township, Mr.. Fisher,
the constable, making his rounds to
see that the law was carefully
obeyed and guide boards were all
up, attracted by the gathering he
paused, and was promptly called on
for a speech. Taking something to
clear his throat he began by explain
ing that he had heard waited on the
evening breezes a whisper of free
beer, that the siren voice accom-
panied by an overwhelming instinct
to perform his official duties strictly,
had impelled his footsteps thither,
and that the idea of having all one
could lay to, free beer in short, was
something for which any Democrat
would be willing to die for with
neatness and dispatch,
"Doryn now took the stump and
explained to the thirsty crowd that
the two silent friends were West
brook and Heller, and they were on
tap. Cheers for those worthless and
Democracy in general drowned for
sometime his husky voice, but he
resumed by saying, he had reluc-
family consented to permit these
gatherings in the interest of the
noble cause of free silver, and all he
asked the boys was that they would
be careful not TO trample his lawn,
break down his shrubbery, or kill
his COWS, otherwise everything was
Hospitality placed at their disposal,
and he suggested sampling W. This
done footsteps were heard and the
dignified "Piko" appeared. Satisfy
ing himself amply that the contents
of w. were not poisonous, he was
appealed to for speech. Rising with
dignity he said it was somewhere
stated that where the Gags were
there would the faithful be found
gathered together, and while this
was not the exact language of the
original yet the appropriateness of
the utterance was more than mani
tested by the fact. He then gave
his reasons for supporting the ticket
incidentally alluding to the obvious
situation that at certain stages many
things needed support, but he laid
particular stress on the fact that the
platform proposed to reform the
Courts and in order to show the
burning need for this it was only
necessary to read his able article in
the Gazette of April Sth. Cries of
"come to the pint, led him to enter
into an elaborate discussion of the
gold and silver question, and, mad
vertently mentioning the Republi-
cans as believing in the gold cure
only, a voluntary shudder passed
through the audience and spasmo-
die efforts were made to cling more
closely to the peeled hemlocks. The
subject was distastiful and he was
invited to get down. He got. and