Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-10-01
OVATION 70 SPOONER.
Thousands Go to Schlitz Park to
Hear His Eloquent Plea for
Sound Money.
MADE A STIRRING ADDRESS.
The Declarations of the Chicago
Convention Are Menace to
the Country.
MADE A STIRRING ADDRESS.

The meeting at Schlitz park Saturday
evening was an unqualified success and
ex-senator John G. Spooner was given
an ovation such as few men have ever
received from Milwaukee people. An
audience that filled every corner of the
big pavilion sat for more than two hours
listening with close attention to his
speech. notwithstanding that the air was
chilly enough to make the theater un-
comfortab BILE. Hundreds who could not
get seats crowded around the doors in an
endeavor to hear the speaker, and nei-
Their cold nor fatigue dampened their en-
thusiasm. The arrangements for the
meeting were excellently managed by
Gel. Fuller.
The audience began to gather very ear
ly, and long before the hour for the
speaking arrived, every part of the thea
was reserved for the marching clubs.
Finally part OF the gallery was opened
to the public. The marching clubs were
~te II NSpming and some of them left
ing a great deal of confusion.
sukee Glee club opened the
nging eve Want You, Nc
was recalled four times.
al a great deal of enthu-
audience would not let
ting until the noise of
Aie coming into the hall
. &of the singers. 8
Secl's had seated them
ke introduced Mr..
1,toccupied a seat beside
Ter in the middle of the
hen Mr.. Spooner arose
d great demonstration. Men
/, their hats in the air and ladies
ed their handkerchiefs. When the
roar finally ceased Mr.. Spooner re-
narked, You people must have heard
break. The big audience listened to the
ong speech with the closest attention
nd the frequent bursts Of applause
lowed that It appreciated the points the
speaker made. Two or three different
times Mr. Spooner attempted to cut his
speech short, but he was urged to go
on. Once the Populists tried to inter-
rupt the proceedings, but they got such
sitting down upon that they did not
repeat the attempt.
The Speech.
Mr.. Spooner said:
'You people must have heard from
Maine. (Great applause and laughter.1
It is one of the curious incidents of this
campaign that the wonderful victory in
Maine has rejoiced thousands of us who
are of Republican and of the sound money
faith, and mas also, If we may believe
Mr.. Jones, chairman of the Democratic
National committee, and Senator Allen
chairman of the Populist convention. If
it is good thing they can't have too much
Of it-and we Will give them free and
unlimited quantity of it on election day in
Wisconsin. [Applause.l
Ladies and gentlemen, for this gracious
and very generous welcome l thank you.
grateful recollection of it will abide with
me always. disclaim at the outset that
am here tonight to make formal open
ing of the campaign in Wisconsin. The
campaign has been opened for the United
States and for this state by distinguished
srators better able than I to discharge
~tunction, and / think never in the
" of this country has there been so
accurate and profound a discus
@ the issues involved as has chara6-
the newspaper press from the .aDe-
& of the campaign to this hour 1t
#4ly true, almost, that nothing Few
ztA said upon them; nothing new ut
NSe0&apon them, and I am here Tonight
i to speak 20 you as my fellow citizens
little while in plain way upon issues in
listed.
"Twenty years from now men will won
der that in 1896 there could by any pos
sibility have been such contest involving
such issues as there is to-day. We wonder
now, recalling the past, that there ever
could have been some Of the campaigns
not seem to me political campaign at
ALL do not feel tonight as if were to
address you in political speech
Recalls Days of the Rebellion.
"This campaign carries me back to 1861
as IL does you, when our flag was fired
upon from the South, when the union of
states was In danger, when 1t was an open
question whether the government had the
constitutional right and the physical force
%oin i%cnl 70 got it's
and to enforce it's laws. / remember, as
do many of you, how in that trial time Of
s~the nations destiny, with many, many
of our fellow citizens party was forgotten
and country only was remembered. Zap
plause ] had been taught in my boy
hood to look upon Stephen A. Douglas,
and to speak of him in language Of criti-
cism and as more or less of a demagogue.
remember and have only remembered of
him since 1861, this splendid fact: That
he. with a voice that thrilled this country
from center to center, proclaimed that the
time has come when there can be but two
parties in this country, those who are for
the government and those who are against
it, IGreat applause.1 and straightway
took his place with hundreds Of thousands
of his devoted adherents by the side Of
Abraham Lincoln, the martyred president.
lGreat applause.] Forever and forever Mr..
Lincoln shall be remembered as wearing
the crown Of the martyr, Douglas will be
E6Iu0muolO0 - WCoAtAS SAO C4VW4 u Tic
patriot.
"Anothe. thing. am carried back by
this campaign to 1864 when the question
was-think Of 1t, ladies and gentlemen, IL
1t not almost impossible even to imagine?
for the American people to determine by
their suffrages whether Abraham Lincoln
should be endorsed by q reelection to the
presidency Of the United States, and
whether our army with Lincoln. with
Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, and long
line Of heroes who served with them and
by their side should be halted, should
stack arms around the graves Of dead
comrades, should pull down the nag. and
should wait pending an armistice for q
barter as to the manner in which the war
should be ended. No sweeter blessing save
one, and that was the gift OF His Son for
tha salvation of the human race, ever
dropped from heaven upon men than the
determination Of the American people in
1854. carried out by its army. in 1854, to
sstablish this union and 70 make II forever