The record-union., 1896-09-30

Il. u. Atkinson, e. ii. Holmes, G y.
Jennings, w. H. Govan and Jud. G.
Brusie
A recess Of q few minutes was taken,
after which the committee reported as
follows:
Your committee to whom was re-
ferred the duty Of recommending the Or
ganization and name to be given the
club hereby organized beg leave to re-
port as follows:
I'VE recommend the name of the club
to be the Capitol Mckinley Club We
recommend that it's officers consist Of a
President, two Vice-Presidents, a Sec
retary, Treasurer, Sergeant-at-Arms,
and an Executive Committee of five, the
President and Secretary acting as ex-
officio, the committee to be appointed
b. the chair
The report Of the committee was
adopted by reclamation, whereupon the
following officers for the club were
elected: President, w. w. Douglass;
First Vice-President, G. c. Jennings;
Second Vice-President, Joseph Mann;
Treasurer, E. G. Atkinson; Sergeant-at-
Arms, A. G. Remick; Executive Com
mittee-W. H. Govan, Charles Bump,
William Wicks, w. Long and John Bar
rett.
1t being the intention of the club to
turn out in paradeS at all times when
occasion demanded, the following pa
rade officers were selected: Captain,
Presley B. Johnson; First Lieutenant,
M. p. Stone; Second Lieutenant, G. A.
Barnes.
Then w. H. Govan arose and said as
there was a candidate for State Senator
present (Jud G. Brusie), and also can
didate for Superior Judge &C. n. PosD,
he moved that they whoop her up
some" Mr.. Govan's motion was re-
ceived with cheers, and Mr.. Brusie re-
sponded in his usual happy manner.
A few weeks ago, he said, the Re
publicanS had been told that on the
banks of Nebraska's placid Platte a
flood was raging which would sweep
the country from end to end, on the
high tide of which the frail boat of a
Nebraska boy would be waited to the
White House. The Republicans had
been told that no power on earth could
stem that flood, and that the Grand Old
Party, from Jerseys shore to San
Francisco and from Canada's border to
the Mexican line, was ION the rum"
and that soon the standard of Altgeld,
Tilman and Bryan would float from the
dome of the Nations Capitol.
The Republicans were troubled and
believed they had fallen upon perilous
times They trernbled, as we'll they
might at the shouting done and the
noise made by the Popocrats, but when
the signal guns came from far-aWay
Maine and rock-girt Vermont, their
trembling was turned to smiles, and
it was the men who had done the
shouting who trembled in their boots"
The Republicans had judged their ad-
versaries by the noise they made,
which reminded the speaker of a story.
A DOWN. East farmer one day entered
a restaurant and laid away luscious
dinner Of frogs legs, but had his kick
when the bill was presented:
We'll, but" said the proprietor,
these birds come high I pay Sc a
dozen for frogs legs"
You do, eh?" returned the farmer.
well, can furnish you all the pesSy
things you want at the rate Of 600 for
a dollar
'I'n take all you can bring at that
figure" returned the proprietor, 'and
I'll bet you 800 you can't get 600 frogs
in six weeksi"
The bet was made, and at the end of
the six weeks the farmer returned,
threw down three measly, dried-up
frogs and said
You win, I judged the things by
the noise they made but when T. looked
for them / found it was all there was to
them!"
The speaker next produced letters
from prominent business men in New
Jersey, Ohio Wisconsin, Michigan, New
York, Chicago, Kentucky and Connec-
ticut-all predicting victory for McKin-
ley. The Republicans of California, he
said, could take fresh courage from
these cheering words from the East,
for as surely as the sun will set in No
vember It will be found that the Bryan
wave had been swallowed up by the
and prosperity.
Judge Post came forward, but de-
clined to make speech, partly, he said,
because it was not customary for a
candidate for Superior Judge to do so,
and partly because in a family meet
ing such as the present one was there
was no need for 1t. He, however, had
been a Republican ever since he cast
his first vote because he thought the
principles indorsed by that party were
right There should be but one ques-
ton in the present campaign-the
tariff. The question Of tariff is the