, 1896-10-13
TRUTHFUL J|M'S EFFORT.
HE READS A MOVING ESSAY AT
THE BRYAN CLUB MEET
ING.
DR.. johnson Tells How Bryan Will
Sweep the Voters of the East
Right on Their Feet or Election
Day-Dr. Swigart Tells Of a Mort,
gage Which Done Him Up.

Bdke WHICH, DOuc Till w..
The meeting OF the Bryan club last
evening was very poorly attended prob
ably for the reason that President Ing
ersoll and DR.. johnson had been adver-
tised to speak. The JeffersonIan SIM
plicGty benches had been removed and
only about half Of the chairs were filled.
Mr.. Ingersoll being one OF the main
performers of the evening. Mr.. w. H.
Holiday called the meeting to order,
saying hat it was the intention of the
club to hold public meetings at fire.
quent intervals till after the campaign.
The first speaker which he trotted out
was DR.. A. A. johnson, who was so re-
Gently carrying Mckinley pictures and
buttons about the city. The doctor said
that when he left for the EAST three
weeks ago he was firmly convinced
thai Mckinley would be elected; now
he was of a different frame OF mind.
Chose who heard him say at Roots
opera house shortly before he went east
that Bryan would sweep the country
wondered which time the doctor was
sincere in his statements.i A short
three weeks in Pullman cars has con
WINGED the gentleman that Bryan will
sweep Indiana. Michigan, Illinois, Wis
consin and Iowa. He said he gained
this knowledge from contact with the
masses. The doctor is a regular mixer
with the masses, you know; always
rubbing up against o~vera'ls. There is
where he gets his great political
strength. He enlarged upon his patriot
ism and loyalty, but a they are not
issues in this campaign 1t would have
been more becoming in the ex- to
have permitted some friend to bring
out those points first. The people OF
Albany county would do we'll to keep
the predictions of the doctor in mind
for about three weeks, just for the
purpose of seeing how close he can
come to the truth.
DR.. SWIGART.
DR.. Sw'igart was the next speaker.
He said it "a the first time he had
ever appeared before an audience to
make an address, and his statement
was fully verified. His talk was main,
ly reminiscent and related to a piece
OF mortgaged property which he bought
some 10 years ago at Reioit, Kan,
when the boom times were on in the
Sunflower state. His illustration was
Ut value to show how crazy people will
sometimes grow over imitation. Real
estate vas SO inflated in Kansas that it
was really 25 or 30 cent real estate
which was being disposed OF for 81. OF
course the time came for settlement.
But the doctor was fortunate at the
end Of five years in getting the mort
gage renewed. HIS first valuation 10
years ago was 5000. Second valuation
five years ago $4,000. 1t Will be noted
that the property had gone down In
value during a portion of Cleveland's
first administration and q portion Of
General Harrison's administration,
just when values were rising every
where else throughout the country. But
Kansas had made such a fool Of her.
self that those of the east who had
money to lend concluded that they
would not extend loans, and DR.. Swigart
found at the end OF the 10 years that
they wanted their money, and so he will
be compelled to lose his property. This
misfortune he attributes tc the fact
that silver was denied free admission
to the mints OF the United States in
1873.
INGERSOLL NEXT.
Mr.. ] NJ. Ingersoll was then intro
duced by Mr.. Holiday, and he proceed
ed to annihilate the audience. He
pulled from his pocket a bundle OF
manuscript as thick as a mans arm
and all commenced to guess whether It
was typewriter or ordinary manu-
script. 1t was G. wonderful production,
containing all the misstatenents made
by the reader during the Fast month.
1t was conceived in ignorance and de-
livered in the most painful manner to
the small audience, which continued
to grow smaller as the labor Of reading
proceeded. His voice rose to a certain
height and then fell to a certain depth,
like the undulating a OF the grass
of the prairie. For an hour and three.