Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-25
UNIFORMED CLUBS TURN OUT
Flambeau and Umbrella Brigades Make
Their Initial Parade at Home.
PRESENT AN ATTRACTIVE APPEARANCE
Large Crowd Gathers Mt Knrbnch
Hall to Listen to John l.. Webster
ana J. T.. Kennedy ENpOund
Republican Doctrine.

Republican Doctrine.
One Of the most enthusiastic republican
demonstration that has taken place in
Omaha so far during the present campaign
WAS that Of last evening, under the auspices
Of the John J.. Webster Republican club.
The attendance at the meeting was not so
large as has been seen at a few other sim
liar affairs, but its enthusiasm was bound
loss. Preceding the meeting there was a
street parade by the Webster Flambelu ana
Umbrella clubs, headed by a handsome
American flag. The parade consisted Of the
Seventh Ward band, the Flam5cAu club ana
the Umbrella brigade. The musicians made
a fine showing in their respondent uniforms,
but the members of the Fllmbcau club, in
their natty suits of white duck, with caps
to match, appeared most attractive. There
were seventy-ive men in line. under the
m of the following officers: Captain,
w. B. Ten Eyck; lieutanants, +. b. Millar
and G. w. Sues. The .orcha OF he Flam-
beau club added to the attraCttveness OF toe
procession. The Umbrella brigade had fifty
men in line, all Of whom carried rcd, white
and blue umbrellas, adorned with pictures
Of Mckinley and Hobitt. This division vas
Differed by Captain W. q. Webs'er aud
Lieutenants Bacon and Gruninger. The
procession started from the armory of the
Omaha Guards at 1870 O'CLOCK and marched
for a half hour through the principli bust
ness streets of the city and finally ar'nSfhg
up at Karbach hall, Fifteenth and Howard
streets.
SONG PLEASED THE CROWD.
The crowd was at the hall before the ar
rival of the parade, and when the meeting
was called to order there were but lew
vacant salts in the hall. and a large number
we're undoubtedly kept away by the rain
which fell just before the opening of the
meeting. Judge Slabaugh called the meet
ing to order, and at once introduced the
Webster campaign quartet. These singers,
under the leadership of w. j. Stevens, rem
dered Poor Billy Bryan in such an anus
ing manner that they were recalled for an
encore. The chairman said that there were
present two distinguished gentlemen who
believed in the opening up of mills rather
than of minis, and he took pleasure in pre-
senting as the first speaker of the evening
John L. Kennedy, who delivered a vigorous
address and clearly defined his reasons for
supporting the republican ticket.
After another selection by the band anG
two more political choruses by the quartet,
Judge Slabaugh introduced John L. Web
ster. who received a rousing reception as
he stepped to the front of the platform.
He said that he had been talking for the
nominees of the republican party for six
anu Ia lN'llAS ~ tINA " w
braska, without the aid or consent of any
other nation on earth. He presumed this
was because he had been talking for a party
that existed without the aid or consent OF
any other nation on earth.
After saying that it was impossible to har-
monte the different financial beliefs of to-
day he took up the countries of the earth
that were under the silver standard and COM
mented on their lack of prosperity and pro-
gressiveness. There was not a country on
~ rth lo,.ip tbn fran and unlimited pninnpn
of silver where gold was in circulation, or
that has anywhere near as much money as
has the United States, or that pays its work
ingmen as good wages as does the united
States. He spoke of the half-civilized peO-
pie and the modiaeval institutions of China,
Japan and Mexico. Then he compared these
silver nations With Italy, Switzerland, Aus
tria. Germany, Belgium, Holland, France,
Great Britain and, foremost of all, the United
States.
AFTER THE CHICAGO PLATFORM.
He would not discuss the fictitious crime
of '73, but dwelt upon the crime of a few
months ago, at Chicago. He tore
to pieces in most thorough fashion the APP
parently plausible propositions of Bryan and
his followers addressed to the farmers, show
ing them where they might have 81 for
every one. Mr.. Webster asserted that in the
west Bryan had told the poor farmer all
about the cheap dollar with which to pay his
debts, but when he went down into the en-
emy's country and reached New York he
told a different story and related how the
dollar would rise in value and silver would
be on a parity with gold, Would you, if you
could, pay off your debts in the manner
Bryan suggests? Could you, if you would?
were two questions that he considered care
fully, and answered negatively.
After showing the fallacy of the Bryanic
proposition TO build more mints and coin
all the silver that should come along, Mr..
Webster turned his attention to the corn
crop and showed that there had been an
0yerproduction annually from 1892 to the
present time.
In conclusion, Mr.. Webster denounced in
strong language the tendancy of the free
silverites to threaten to resort to force, and
stated that a speaker at the Omaha free
silver school, near the postofice, had re-
Gently held up a bullet and suggested that
that would be used if free silver could
not be peaceably obtained. He quoted the
following from Bryan's recent speech in
Brooklyn as follows: Il repeat, my friends,
that this government by the few, this gov
eminent by asserted wealth, this government
eminent that any people ever suffered
UNDER Then, in contrast, the speaker rea
he folio wing patriotic utterances of Major
Mckinley at Canton; Let us settle once
for all that this government is one of honor
and of law, and that neither the seeds OF
rebellion nor of lawlessness can ind root
in our soil or live beneath our nag In
a most eloquent peroration Mr.. Webster
commented on the significance of each of
these declarations, and pronounced himself
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