The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-10-31
FOUR GOOD SPEECHES.
MWgantown Enjoys a Rare Treat
The Audience Very Attentive aud Enthu
siastic.

The-first demonstration held here
by the Democrats ON last Wednes-
das was not attended by as large
crowd as lis promoters hoped for.
This was due to the bod weather i'm
mediately preceding the meeting
and to the miserable condition of
the roads However, considering ev-
erything there was very fair crowd
in town and those that were here
were very much more attentive than
the crowds at such d meeting usual
Ily are. The students elub turned
out about hundred members and
had short parade, cheering and
I yelling enthusiastically The speak
ing began at | o'clock ON the Court
/ House square and about 500 people
/ gathered there 10 hear il. Press.
Reay presided and introduced the
speakers The first gentleman, Hon.
John Marion. of Pittsburg, held the
attention Of his audience from the
start and his able address called
forth frequent cheers He discussed
the questions involved in dispas-
sionate, logical way and his words
carried conviction TO the minds of
| his hearers HIS arguments were
impregnable and the conclusions
drawn were admitted by all fair
minded men present He closed with
an eloquent appeal to the voters to
study the question and vote their
sentiments. He was followed by Hon
/ G Wood Daley, one of West Virgin
las most eloquent sons. Mr.. Daley
began his speech which more nearly
fesembled q polished grafton than
an ordinary stump speech. by quot
| ing the eloquent words OF Sergeant
Prentiss about the words Fellow
citizens and aroused the enthusi-
asm of his audience at the very out
set He proved that Democracy had
always been friend to silver and
that the G.. O. p. had turned its
back upon its record. He was in
terrupted while reading the Demo
cratic platform OF 90 by request to
read it all. He did so but before he
finished his remarks his questionef
fled when he read from the Republi
can handbook OF 90 its attitude ON
the question he was not interrupted
and had he not said what he was
reading from the sentiments would
have been deemed anarchy by the
very men who supported them -four
/ years ago The speaker dared the
gold bug element TO read single
silver document and said that care
full study of the question would only
result in making Bryan votes. His
arraignment of the Republican par.
ty for forsaking its former position
was Il severe and well deserved one
He held his audience for two hours
and when he closed there were loud
!, cries to continue.
The interruptions by coterie oi
Morgantown' s SO called best citizens
were contemplate in their meannoss
When gentleman does not like te
hear the opposite side discussed il
; is his privilege and duty to absent
| himself but If present he should ney.
CT so far forget himself as to depori
himself otherwise than as gentle
man. The conduct Of the Democrats
when the opposition has held il
meetings here has been in very strik
ing contrast with the actions of &
! few men here last "Wednesday.
The meeting at night was held il
the Opera House and IA good crowd
gathered to hear the speakers Om
next Congressman, Hon w. G.
Brown delivered very able address
replete with unanswerable facts and
figures. He made very good im-
preston and showed that the future
of the Second District will be SAT,
in his hands. He is intensely IA
earnest and his very appearance car
ries conviction with it. He will be-
elected by a safe majority He was
followed by Hon John T. McGrav
and then Morgantown heard The
, finest political discussion ever de
livered here. He held his audience
spellbound for two hours and his ell
w uCllAt lilOlI vi iItii itGi
He demonstrated to certainty that
free coinage was the only remedy fol
onr ills, that it was no new expert
ment and that the arguments useC
against it were insincere and fala
cious. Anyone who missed this ad
: dress missed literary treat thai
will not be obtainable here for veals
to come Anyone who gave his TN
biased attention to it could not fai
to be convinced, His arguments
were driven home to every heart and
l his conclusions were so clearly drawn
$ that all had to admit the justice O
them. We are extremely sorry thai
q we cannot give the speech in full fol
it would have immense weight as /
campaign document.
? Taking the speeches as a whole
and contrasting them with the mis-
cradle little fizzlesthat have been per
6 petrated on the public here by th,
5 opposition the voter can readily SEE
where the weight of argument is il
this campaign. No fairminded mar
: will contend for an instant that ther,
} has been a discussion here yet thai
} can touch them. Their arguments
consist not in calling names anC
singing mud but in patriotic, man
+ ly discussion of the issues, Til,
. contrast is striking and convincing
A cause that cannot appeal to tht
reason must be one that few Ameri
can citizens can endorse and on,
that invites the fullest investigation
5 more nearly meets the American
idea of fair play than the course us
: ually pursued Of yelling anarchist.
simbecile," fool '.lunaticr anc
other choice expressions. Which Dc
you think has more truth about it
the one that calls names and slings
mud or the one that invites the full
, est, freest, most painstaking inyesti
cation?