Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-09-28
'SALEM'S BIG BUSTER
A Club That Will Burst Ma
jOritieS at
THE REPUBLICAN, Fortress
Hold a Rally Saturday Night
That Proves a Corker.

] The Salem Bryan club gave the
goldbugs an eye-opener Saturday
! night.
The armory had three times the
seating capacity it ever held before,
and it would have taken two amor
les to hold the crowd.
The crowd that got in was intelli-
gent, orderly and respectable in high
degree, in spite OF sneers and ridicule
at Popocrats, Anarchists and Silver
ties. The best brains and society Of
the Capital City were present.
1t required no brass bands, drum
corps, or other musical aggregation to
attract a crowd to the armory Satur-
day night. At T:45, just fifteen min
utes preceding the time for opening
the meeting, every seat was filled,
while desirable standing room was at
a premium.
Promptly at o'clock Chairman for
the evening Hon. II. L. Davidson, ac-
companied by Chas. p. Strain and
Judge Ben. Hayden, and the inimita-
BILE Mott Bros, mounted the platform
and were seated. Chairman David
son announced the meeting to be a
rally of the Salem Bryan club, and
held in his hand the membership roll,
which contained the names of 751
friends of the white metal. "We will
make the list number 1000 before No
vember 3d." remarked the judge,
which was followed by deafening ap-
plause. Mr.. Davidson then intro
duced Chas. P. Strain of Abiqua pre-
cinct, who spoke for an hour on the
issues of the day. The tariff and
money questions we're ably dissected,
the speaker presenting several clear
and irrefutahle statements in favor
of the white metal. Mr.. Strain was
deputy assessor under Assessor D. D.
Coffey, and is an intelligent, and well
posted speaker He presented a good
substantial discussion and left the
matter in the hands of the voters for
their consideration and appreciation.
STRAINS ELOQUENT ADDRESS.
Chas. Strain made one Of the most
eloquent addresses ever heard In Sa-
lem. He successfully showed up the
mistakes made by goldbug orators,
and the unreasonableneSS of their
arguments by facts and statistics.
He held the fixed attention of the
largest audience assembled in Salem
In this campaign for over an hour and
he won as much applause as any
speaker who has been here. Without
resorting to any of the tricks of the
old stump speakers, he got cheer after
cheer for his unanswerable logic and
scientific impalation of fallacies. He
did not even wait for applause from
his admirers who were ready to bestow
it even more freely than they did, and
are warm in praise of his splendid
effort at Salem.
The Mott Bros. followed with one
of their comical songs, which gave an
exact status of the situation of Nc
Kinley, Hanna, Mitchell and Geer,
which received round Of applause
that nearly raised the roof. They
| kindly responded to an encore, and
the appreciation of the audience was
manifest from the warm reception
again rendered them. The peform-
ances Of the Mott Bros. added much
to the success of the meeting, and
their services on such occasions can
hereafter hardly be dispensed with.
Judge Ben Hayden was then intro
duced by Chairman Davidson and
made one of the most substantial
speeches in favor of the free coinage
of silver independent of any foreign
power that we have yet heard. He
severely arraigned Cleveland for
the stand he had taken
and associated him with Ar
mold and Judas Iscariot, giving the
latter the preference. His speech of 40
minutes sduratlon'was full of good food
for silver men and his many humorous
and highly sarcastic remarks were
greeted with bursts of applause from
the large audience.
BEN HAYDEN's CLIMAX.
AT the conclusion of his speech Ben
Hayden said he would do what he had
never asked of public audience-take
rising vote on the issue in this cam
paign.
"All who are in favor of our coun-
try acting independently of other
nations, please stand up"
At least nine-tenths of all the voters
arose with bound and a cheer.
He then asked those who favored
waiting for the consent of other
nations TO secure a bimetallic finan-
cial policy 10 arise.
One man got up, but he was met
with laughter and jeers, and cries of
'sit down." "sit down. "It was a