The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-09-11
Ward Booming.
Big Silver Club Organized in Murray
City with much Enthusiasm.

~ CSPO' 'tt iOUV' AIoo'
night in the X. of p. Hall there
gathered the silver knights of our
little village. AT seven o'clock the
"Grand silver cornet Band" ol
Murray under the leadership OF
one of our staunchist friends David
Love began to play some of their
soul stirring peices, and when its
sweet strains began to echo and
reecho you could see men women
and children coming and coming
until there was almost three hun
dred at our first silver meeting.
And here amid the applause of
three hundred of our fellow
citizens our Poet and "silver
tongued orator" Chas. Alber Chat
field was introduced who for almost
one hour held the audience spell
bound. From his lips fell words of
wisdom, and none who listened to
his speech can help but say that he
has studied the question very care
fully. After the speech was over
we proceeded TO call for signers for
the club and 81 recorded their
names and as these people wrote
their names you could see depicted
in their eye resolution determina-
tion to fight against the, "Grover
Sherman-John Cleveland, goldite
party under the leadership of VIM.
Mckinley "The Modern Napoleon"
If all our silver people manifest
such zeal and enthusiasm in the
battle to free our people from the
reign Of John Bull, "and we are as
sured they WILL" Napoleon will
meet his Waterloo Nov. 3rd in the
year of the "Gold standard" 90.
You can hear them inquiring all
over our town about the silver club.
| suppose there has been several
signed since our meeting. On next
Nov. you will see our village giving
a majority to w. j. Bryan a man
OF, for and by the people. The
report that has been going the
rounds of the press in regard to the
silver sentiment dying out in the
Hooking Valley is absurd and il
me of story once heard
on an Iowa farmer: "Out in that
country the wind blows very hard
and blows their fences away. So
there was an old farmer who had
happened to the sad misfortune Of
having his fence blown down every
time, it was built. So one day he
took some large rock and cement
and was out building himself a
solid stone fence #. wide and IT.
high and presently his neighbor
was passing and when he saw the
curious constructed fence he i'm
inquired what his object
was in building fence in this
shape. He replied that if the wind
blew his fence over it would be one
foot higher than before."' So IL is
with the silver sentiment in the
every time these goldbugs
say il is dying out you can be as
sured that ii is growing and is one
foot higher, and this is what causes
these people to kick. They know
The silver feeling il growing and it
alarms them. The following
)ilicers were elected: For Pres.
A. j. Bennett, first Vice Pres. G.
Wenn, second Vice Pres. l.. Nj. Red
'ern, third Vice Pres. Wm. Skid
more, Secy. w. III. Kaskins, Treas.
Robt. O'Hare. Committee on
Rules aud Regulations; Chas.
IaskIns, G. Il. Starr, George Frazee,
IOhn Hawkins and VIM. Bradbury.
Committee on Finance; Ralph |
Mason, Newton Frazee, VIM.
)onaho. Com. on arrangements,
'errah Ferguson, Jas. Murphy,
Frank Blghouse. We have got the
of education started and
will take an enormous amount
4 work to stop il II il indeed can
u stopped at all. The silver man