The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-07-21

anu dbIeuudnCe dL MS funeral.
May God reward them for their
many acts of kindness to me and
the children. Respectfully,
MRS. GEO. B. THOMPSON.
Clayton smelter will start up
next month.
The Anchor Medical Co. are
billed to give a show in Challis
tonight.
Custer is quite lively since the
starting up of the Lucky Boy
mine and mill.
Yellow Jacket is running very
smoothly since the strike has
been adjusted.
Ex-Governor Russell of Mass
achussetts was found dead in bed
yesterday morning. It is sup
posed he died from heart troub-
lie. He was an active delegate
at the late Democratic conven-
vention at Chicago.
Ketchum Temple of Silver
Knights, at their regular meet
ing Wednesday evening, on
motion, unanimously indorsed
the nominations of Bryan and
Sewall, and the secretary was In
structed to notify the chairman
of the Idaho delegation to the
National Populist convention
and also the chairman of Bime-
tallic delegation. Keystone.
Henry George in speaking of
w. j. Bryan's great speech at
the Chicago convention says
But at length to close the de-
bate, Bryan of Nebraska took
the stand, and with his first
words there began a scene which
l think, must be without parallel,
not merely in the history of
American conventions, but in the
history of the world-a display
of the power of well-chosen
speech to move great masses of
men that can hardly before have
had its equal. All the imagina-
ton pictures of Demosthenes and
Cicero, all that we have heard of
the great orators of the English
tongue, was realized today in
vaster audience than any orator
of bygone times could possibly
have addressed. / listened to
Bryan, then known as 1.-The boy
orator of the Platte,n when he
first went to congress. His ora
tory then was high of its kind,
but had something of sophom-
orical flavor.
'As he stood on the platform
today could see that the years
had matured him in appearance,
but did not realize how it had
matured his power. Graceful in
figure and fine of feature, he
faced the applause which greet
ed him. When he began to speak
his clear, penetrating. exquisite
ly modulated tones soon compel
led an attention that .deepened as
proceeded to put, in well chosen
words, the thoughts which were
in the breasts of the majority
their earnest demand, their def
ant purpose. The man had come
for whom such hall and such an
audience seemed the most fitting
place garniture. When he end
ed with the climax of a thrilling
peroration the feeling of the rapt
sea broke into a cyclone of en-
thusiasm expressed in every pos
sible way.
'tAt length above the surges
in which individual could not be
cerned the standard of Texas
began to move. creeping as
though it were the ensign of q
storm tossed ship toward the
standard of Nebraska. Then an
other and another followed it.
until the standards of all the sill
yer states were grouped around
the standard of Nebraska, Camid
such wild applause that the two
bands which struggled against
each other to add to the din could
hardly be heard. And when
Bryan. raised over the head of
his surrounders, began to ask by
gesture that the demonstration
should cease the standards be
gan to move again, not back to
where they belonged. but follow
ing one another, as though in
time to some wild strain of Joy
and triumph, around and around
egain the standard that had stood
fast. 1t was scene that was
felt better than il can be dos
cribed." !"