The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-21
Rally Last Evening.
Silver Advocates Hold
Forth at the Village
Opera House.
Brsn rrevisus Messi.gs Is Nssiss1-
aaar>un msps asa Hsshaps-
xesrspsaisan a.aeo.ics.

The alvsrisss iollowed up their rally o
last week with another at the Opera
house last evening, which was very mm
ilar TO the two previous rallies. The
speahers resembled Messrs. Sigh and
Whiting In their oratarical abilities, for
Mr.. seymour. the candidate for congress
from this distrirt, wasno much Of an
orator. but spoke rather a. a business
man, while Mr.. G. s Gideon, the priuei.
pal speaker, 10 anorstor DINO mean abil-
ity. although he IL suffering from a &C.
we're cold and sore throat. The att nd
ance was not quite up to the previous
silver meetings.
Attorney + r. LeGendre opened the
meeting with short address, in which
he mentioned the sllabsorbing issue OF
the campaign and spoke Of the speakers
OF the evening. He introduced Attorney
w. j. Mcdonald as the chairman OF the
meeting, az a republican who had acted
as clerk for Congressman McCleary, when
be was preparing his address in reply to
Charles Towne. OF Duluth, and Who had.
because OF his knowledge thus o. tanned,
come ont for Bryan and free silver. Mr.
Mcdonald made a short address, dis
claiming any credit for his action. as he
considered it every mans duty to come
out Tor the principles he believed in. He
spoke derisively OF the republican argu.
ment. Wig: OF railing every man an anar-
chi<t who believed In free silver and said
II they were anarchists there must be a
great many anarchists among the repub-
licans, that Is. judging from their utter
ances before the formation of the St.
Louis platform, which appeared to have
changed the ideas OF many OF them.
Mr.. Mcdonald then introduced Hon.
II. W. Seymour, Of Sault Ste. Marie, as
the candidate for congress, and a former
member Of that august body, who had,
during his short term OF service, done
more for the people Of this district than
any other member who has been sent
from IL. Mr.. Seymour was formerly a re-
publican, but gave his reasons for the
nop and made quite a lengthy argument
In favor Of free silver coinage at ratio
OF 10 to 1. he made several promises
as to what he would do and what he
would not do u he we're elected to repre-
cent the people Of this district.
The speaker Of the evening. Hon. q. L.
Glidden, was next introduced. His ad-
dress was . masterly. oratorical Effort
and was really enjoyed by most Of the
audience. he quoted prominent republI.
can leaders and scored Mckinley az free
silyerite until he was given a gold plat
lorm to stand on at st. Louis. He
that not even protection could
restore good times and nothing but free
and unlimited silver coinage would
bring about the desired results. He
made the usual remark about the copper
country being the only prosperous place
In these United States.
There vas plenty OF enthusiasm and
The speakers were frequently interrupted
by applause. Bryan, Lincoln aud
Blaine's name were greeted with cheers.
The chairman announced another meet
ing in the same hall on tomorrow even
ing when Rey. Flavius Brobst, OF Chica-
20. silver republican, will speak.