The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-10-29
GREAT CHEERING
OVER THE NEWS THAT BRYAN
WILL SWEEP THE COUNTRY.
W. A. Lynch Quoted As Saying That
New York wouId Go for Bryan
Backed Up by a silver RepubIi-
can From That City.

Backed Up by a Silver Repub1i-
can From That City.
The biggest silver meeting Of the nam-
paign, next to Mrs. Cougars Tabernacle
oration, was held last night at Culp's
rink. The meeting opened with cheers,
was punctuated with cheers and closed
with cheers for Bryan and Sherwood,
and the peoples cause.
After rousipg song by John II.
Dagger, candidate for commissioner on
the Bryan county ticket, singer of in
imitable campaign songs, the chairman
asked all to rise, when they were told
that W. A. Lynch had just returned from
New York and had been reported as say
ing that everything was for Bryan and
that betting OH Mckinley had stopped.
Cheers for Bryan from the thousands Of
voters present thundered through the
hall, and when order was restored, Mrs.
Ruth Ridges read a letter received by
A. d. Weaver, of Canton, from ex-Attor-
ney General William Leese, of Lincoln,
Nebraska, containing a warm personal
tribute to his fellow townsman and
neighbor, william Jennings Bryan,
whom he characterized as the friend Of
the oppressed, the prince Of patriots and
the champion Of our constitution.
The reading of it was followed with
more cheers and then John I. Hays was
introduced and in a powerful arugmenta-
tive speech, discussed all the great issues
Of the campaign In mastery manner,
fortified at every step by standard
authorities.
His comparative table between the Nc
Kinley tariff bill and the Wilson tariff
bill showed that in every instance, in
articles Of caring apparel, the Mckinley
bill had legislated against the poor in
favor of the rich, and that the Wilson
bill had scaled down the tariffs upon the
clothing fabrics Of the poor and put them
where they belong, upon those in de-
mand by the rich.
Mr.. Hays opened with logic and closed
with eloquenoe, and left the tottering
gold standard without prop of argument
or reason. More cheers, another ringing
campaign song by Mr.. Dagger and then
came the surprise of the evening.
A young silver Republican, J. p.
Badger, from New York. commercial
traveller, temporarily in the city, was
introduced and for half an hour poured
forth q volume of free silver oratory,
keen as chain lightning, eleotrifying his
audience to the highest pitch Of enthusi-
asm. He said he had travelled from Maine
to California, and that everywhere he
went the silver sentiment was sweeping
the country like a prairie fire. He pre-
dicted that Bryan would Barry New York
by an overwhelming majority and every
state North and South from the Ohio
river to the Pacific seas.
He reported Bryan club of $50 Re-
publicans in New Castle, which he
visited few days since, and said that he
belonged to a Commercial Travellers
Silver Club in New York city, which, on
election day, headed by band and wear
ing hats decorated with Bryan's picture,
would march to the polls and cast their
ballots for the Boy Orator of the
Platte" the Moses that should deliver
our prostrate country from the bondage
of the money power.
} Mrs. Ridges closed with an impressive
appeal in which she said that as the man
sent from God drove the oney-chagers
from the temple so would Bryan drive
the money power from our great temple
of American freedom, which they had
made "veritable den of thieves"