The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-09-25
FOR M'KINLEY
AND SOUND MONEY
Great Demonstration and Turnout by
the Republicans Of ClatSop
County.
r. r. GEERs RINGING SPEECH
Told " the Fnllacirs ~ the silver
Hcrcsy and Demonstrated Them Be-
yund the Shadow of Doubt
Tor,hlight Procession.


Of all the political demonatrn lions
which ever took place IN As,orla that
~ the Mckinley club last nigh, was
thr greatest and most cnthupiastie.
Seaside aud Clatsop and other points
oa the Astoria and Columbia River
Railroad were represented by delcga-
tioH= which had come to the city on a
special train Many people from the
Nehalcm were also In the city.
About o'clock the demonstration
began by the flring of bombs and this
was kept up till S. when the torchiight
procession began TO move Altogether
there were In line $50 persons, exciud-
Ing boys. A drum corps preceded the
procession. and the Astoria Military
Band was also In the line. The Young
Mems Mckinley Club and the McKln-
ley and Hobart Clubs were the princi-
pal features OF the procession. After
marching through the principal streets
OF the city the Republicans repaired
10 the club room. .hlch was packed. II
Is estimated there were 1000 persons in
tho hall. while the street In front Of
the building was crowded. Many la
dies were there and mAnlfeBted quite
a. much enthusiasm as the voters,
Chairman c. ". Fulton called the
meeting 60 order and started to make
a statement but was interrupted by
loud calls for n speaker 10 address the
overflow meeting The Mckinley
Glee Club rendered campaign song
and responded TO a vocIferous encore.
Chairman Fulton made few opening
remarks. In the course OF which be
said Il was the duty Of all persons.
regardless OF former party aflliation, to
vote for Mir Mckinley. as he was the
champion ~ sound money and there
fore the peoples friend Mr.. Fulton
scored the Popocrat candidate for en-
deavoring TO array capital against la
Dor and his appeals to class preju-
dice. After few minutes talk, he
the speaker OF the evening.
Hon r T. Geer of Marion county,
who was given hearty ovation,
MIR Geer said that the demonstra-
tion was ny far the greatest that he
had seen IN the state this campaign.
He said he realized. OF course. that II
was not In his honor, but because the
people realized that the time had come
when they must put aside party for
their country's good He was not there
20 abuse anybody and as evidence OF
his good faith was willing to put his
arms around anyone-any voter, he cor
rected himself-in the house. Abuse
was not his argument. But when
Populist called him n gold bug he felt
justified In retaliating by calling the
Pop, a silver hug, which rather outdid
him In calling had names, as II was
sixteen times as bad n name as gold
bug, He termed the silveritcs Bryan
ties and not Popocrats, as some speak
ers did, because he was sure no honest
Democrat wanted TO have his party
name coupled with the peculiar genus
represented by Bryan, After reviewing
the disastrous reign cf the Democratic
party he told how man named
Rorke who, by the way, was In AS
toria, had come To Marion county in
1899, and bred discomfort amongst its
people, He told them they
were being imposed upon and, incredu-
Ious as It may seem. they believed It.
That was before the presidential cleo
ton Of 1892, The control the dema-
sogues of that year exercised over the
Of the people reminded him
NJ the man who was bled to death, al
though he never lost drop Of blood,
Two physicians got hold of a man one
time who was condemned to DEATH and
had TO die anyway and, by way Of
experiment. pretended to treat him for
\ disease as they used to do in days
gone by by beading the patient. They
and laid him on a cot.
Then they arranged tub OF water on
the floor beside the bed and suspended
A bucketful from the ceiling. One OF
the physicians made a slight scratch
Oh the patients arm. causing tinge
n pain, but not drawing blood. The
other pretended to upbraid the one who
lid the cutting for endangerlng the
mans life by cutting too deep, and pre-
reeded to let the water run from the
bucket into the tub. OF course the sick
man heard 1t and thought he was
to death, The doctors told
him to lie still and they would do
what they could to save his life, The
patients chances of recovery We're free
Iy commented upon and finally one said
that the other had murdered the man.
This so frightened the subject Of the
experiment that he died-"bled to
DEATH" said the speaker, although he
hadn't lost drop Of blood. And 1t was
by that kind of play upon the power
Of human Imagination that the Demo-
Gratis were enabled to return to power
In 1892"
Mr., Geer demonstrated that the Dem
ocratic administration was the sole