The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08
WELCOMED NORRIS.
Princeton put on Her Best Dress
to Greet the Next Con-
gresham, Morris.
His Speech Was a Ringing One
and Made a large Number
of Republican Votes.

of Republican Votes.
Hon. Page Morris the next congress
man from the Sixth district, has come
and gone and as result of his visit
the Populists are discovering gaps in
their line. Mr.. Morris arrived in
Princeton Saturday morning and was
met at the train by a large delegation
OF our representative citizens. He
spent the day in getting acquainted
with the people of Princeton and
vicinity and there was a goodly num-
Der in town to meet him too. His COM
ing had been well advertised and dur
ing the day delegations from the sur
rounding town kept pouring into the
village, until at night there was the
largest crowd within the limits of
Princeton that has ever been gathered
by political attraction.
Promptly at Z o'clock the Mckinley
and Morris club reinforced by stall
warts from outside towns took ND the
line of march laid out for the torch
light parade. All along the route the
private residences as well as business
houses were decorated and illuminated.
And besides this there were numerous
anspareneies displayed which silently
but forelbly gave pledges Of allegiance
to the cause of Mckinley, Morris and
sound money. Such was the reception
of Morris in Princeton and the genu-
inc enthusiasm told him as plainly as
words could that another of ToWne7s
strongholds had been taken before he
had opened fire.
By the time the parade reached the
opera house, every chair contained an
expectant occupant and Page Morris
appearance was the signal for enthusi-
astic and prolonged applause. Such a
reception showed him at once that he
had the comic ence of the mass of voters
and he found the enthusiasm contag-
ious and put his best efforts into his
work
"a Mr.. Morris makes no claims to ora
tory but the quiet and positive manner
in which he laid the facts before his
audience was more effective than the
rounded periods and wordy flights OF
the candidate who opposes him. For
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audience, which taxed the limit of the
opera house, sat in rapt attention and
save now and then an interruption
from some over-confdent silyerite or
an outburst of applause not a sound in
terfered with the speaker.
He told the people how he had be-
come candidate and in a few words
stated his exact position. He said he
did not Want to have anyone believe
he was anything but rockribbed Re
publican, supporting to the best of his
ability the policy of that party which
so conducted the affairs of the nation
that prosperity had come to the coun-
try when ever the success of that party
at an election had been assured. He
then discussed the money question,
giving less time to the dry statistics
which Mr.. Towne SO delights in using
than to the practical illustrations
which are SO easily understood by all.
1t was during one of these illustrations,
when he was accounting for the lower
prices of farm produce by the intro
duction of improved machinery that
the Populists made their first disas-
trous interruption. He told how
twenty years ago a farmer was obliged
to pay 1876 for a harvester while at
present his machine costs him 1925.
"A Voice. 1--WE didn't have self
binders then.'' You are just the man
[ have been waiting to hear from, .
said Mr.. Morris. mo we didn't have
selfbinders then. I didn't say we did.
I said harvesters and now you get q
much improved machine for one-third
the price you formerly paid for an old
self rake. . The cheers of the audience
we're deafening. The point was made
SO much stronger by the interruption
that the man who attempted to call
the speaker down saw his mistake and
shortly left the meeting.
The speaker did not abuse Mr.. Towne
but the manner IN which he tore the
arguments OF the young fnancier to
tatters created sympathy for the mis-
guided man of ambition. His explain
5ations Of the financial condition of the
country at different intervals was So
clear and clothed in such simple Lam
guage that no one could fail to under
stand them and every argument was
clinched by practical illustration. So
telling we're the blows struck that
many of those who had entered the
building as rabid free coinage men had
eschewed their erroneous belief before
they left the hall. There was no part