The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-09-09
A HARANGUE

HAkANGUE
By Allen 0. Meyers at City Hall Last
Night.
ing-Mr. Meyers and His Retiring
Modesty.
Allen o. Meyers Of Ohio spoke to a
Popocratic gathering in City hall at eve
ming. Joseph H. MoGowan presided and
made brief dignified and appropriate
address which beside the low harangue
which subsequently, followed from the
orator of the evening WAS like costly
jewel beside lump of mud.
The speaker OF the night was Allen Q.
Meyers of Ohio. He announced that be
was lunatio, an agitator and an
anarchist and his bitterest enemies
would ever be inclined TO doubt either
Of the statements for moment.
He was also the most egotistioal spool
men that has yet come into Maine In the
immigration of the miscellaneous combi-
nation Of statesmen ana orators wise and
o therwise.
In the fervid vocal setting forth OF his
many personal virtues (?) by himself ne
neglectedfto tell the audience that in nd
dition to the attainments he mentioned
he was also buffoon, pure and simple.
He yelled, he screeched, he cat called, he
whistled. he stuck out his tongue, and
made grim faces, he sung and hummed.
he stalked aoross the stage and raved and
snorted, be yelled one moment at the top
OF his lungs and the next leaned over the
edge Of the platform and Kissed his words
in the stage whisper that the william In
the show uses when he tells his confeder-
ates to 'seours the girl while he sets fire
to the house."
When he didn't have anything else to
say he called somebody some names
Chairman MCGOWAN looked tired and
uneasy az the orator proceeded and go did
several Of the mon on tho platform. The
conservative element got out Of the hall
carly but the remainder who stayed were
heartily in sympathy with the TRADE of
free silver and reputation. The hall
was about one-third filed with people.
As has been the case with the previous
meetings Of the adherents of the Chicago
Democracy the old time leaders, men
whose hairs have silvered in the service
OF the Democracy Of history were absent.
There were no men upon the stage
whose names have been ones to conjure
with in the Dirigo Democracy.
Here are some of Mr.. Meyers gems in
So bstanoe. am q lunatic. / am an
anarchist. came to Maine and brought
a few bombs with me.
There are 400, 300 other lunatios in Ohio
besides myself who are going to vote for
William J. Bryan in Novem Der.
: DR.. Frye, DR.. Hale and DR.. Thomas B.
Reed say we are sick and need confidence.
DR.. Sherman and Dr. Cleveland and
Others of the allopathio school agree with
them. They all say we have a fever,
don't know what ne are talking about,
that we are lunatios.
And then after consulting the doctor
decide to give US the gold oure-but we
will not take 1t. We will dismiss the
doctors and get we'll.
don't know much about Maine. I was
sent here once by newspaper to write
up prohib ition but met Dan McGuin-
ness in Providence and he told me all
about it and wrote it up there and
didn't bother to come to Maine at all.
(This fact was probably mentioned to
show how careful Mr.. Meyers is in regard
to his opinons.)
Mr.. Meyers then went on to declare
that the Wilson bill nor any other bill
had brought about this distress of the
country, but that it was all the result of
the fearful crime of '78. The orator then
went on to tell the audience in effect that
he was not q politician, that he was too
good and too true and too pure to be q
politician. He said he was patriot. He
said he was an agitator. (This statement
was entirely unnecessary. 1t was entirely
apparently He said he was entirely dis
interested except ~ a patriot. He was
not after anything but the good of his
country. Mr.. Meyers with conspicuous
modesty continued for sometime in I'M
pressing his audience with the fact that
he was about as near an absolutely pure
and perfect man as is roaming
at large in this country today. Mr.
Meyers seemed to have an idea that 1T
was necessary to be emphatic in his
declaration of how real good he was for
he kept 1t up for nearly quarter of an
hour. Then when the Ohio haranguer
satisfied himself he had hypnotized his
hearers to state Of entire agreement In
their estimate Of Mr.. Meyers with that
of Mr.. Meyers about Mr.. Meyers he let
loose from the depths Of his excessive
modesty another gem about himself. He
declared that he was about to tell his
hearers more truth, oratory and sense in
one speech then they had ever heard be-
fore In their lives.
e There were men in the audience who
had heard nanio1 Wab,to, Nh,rIoa Gum,