People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-10-22

had been borrowed from Wichita and
it was supposed there would be
enough, but "the best laid schemes Of
mice and men gang aft a glee." Over
300 men applied for torches and could
not get them. Being disappointed
they returned to the payementS aud
viewed the procession without part!c-
ipiiinE. IL spite of efforts 10 keep
boys f.om getting torches some got
them and appeared in line, hut not a
great many. If there had been a suff3
Glen. number 1000 men would have
been putinlinc, As it was there were
about 100 more than the Republicans
could muster on FOraker's night.
There were sixty-fOur horseback
rider' bearing torches.
There Was also Il float, richly deco
r!ted, bearing sixteen little girls With
silver costumes and one with a gold
costume. In the center was a glass
enclosure from which man was con-
tinuously sending up paper balloons
red, white and blue. The driver
was clothed in a bunting suit. As
the procession moved down Washing
ton avenue, roman candles were shoot
ing from every direction. The scene
was picturesque and grand. Nearly
everybody had little flag. The COM
mittee distributed several hundred.
The exercises at the wigwam con-
sisted of music by the Rome glee club
and Bryan Jubilee singers (WelliDg-
tom and very able speech by Rev. J.
D. Botkin. The wigwam was packed
to the doors and many were unable to
get in.
The Jubilee singers made great bit
with song containing local hits. The
Rome club was loudly applauded, and
is composed Of excellent musicians.
The Jubilee Singers rank at the very
front in Wellington as musicians.
Mrs. l, l. Scott played the accompan-
iment, The song that brought the
house down was as follows:
Free silver is the song we sing
Hear those silver bells
viii sing it until we make it ring
CHORUS
Its Bryan in the east and its Bryan in the
west
Hear those silver bells
The solid South will do the rest
CHORUS
Protection is a bug-a-bOO
Hear those silver bells
Mckinley's train can't pull them through
CHORUS
Bryan's got them on the hop
Hear those silver bells
Mark Hanna and his Dig gold pot
CHORUS
His front door speech is mighty lame
Hear those silver bells
But go bugs hear it just the same
CHORUS
What andy richards says you know
Hear those silver bells
He didn't say year ago
CHORUS
J. D BOtbin is our man
Hear those silver bells
Beat him, Dick Blue never can.
Chairman Sleeper presided and at
S:45 introduced Rev. Botkin, who be.
gan with A On the silver question and
quit with lizard. He spoke for three
solid hours, closing with these few
remarks" at 11:52. He tried to quit
several times but his audience yelled
go on" and he went and went. The
VOICE man started to take notes to
summarize the speech but having in
mind the small size of our paper we
gave it up in despair. People sat
there and listened till midnight who
expected to drive twenty-five miles to
their homes after the meeting. It
was a remarkable audience and a re-
markable speech, He covered nearly
every point on the question and did
it forcibly. We heard Republican
say this morning that he made more
points and made them more distinct,
than any man he ever heard.
When he did close there was great
storm of applause ald a rush for the
platform to shake his hand. This
was kept up till after midnight.
There is every reason to believe that
many conversions were made to the
silver cause.