Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-05-30
Fun and Music
At Old Armory Hall Saturday
Night
Appreciative Audience Entertained by
A am Bede, Young Humorist From
Duluth, Minnesota.

Eliot, but the other Adam, Adam ri
Duluth, the town made famous b.
Proctor Knott's humorous speech in
congress years ago. Since then the
mention Of Duluth usually brings a
smile, and sOme Of the amusement
hovers around Adam. Adam is a re
formed printer as we'll as a straw
berry blonde. He's a dapper little
fellow; as sleek as a peeled onion aud
apparently only a few years Older
than Baby McCourt.
People who gave I'D good money TO
20 to the opera house SATURDAY nigh
made a mistake, they cOuldlhave had
Just as much fun at the armOry; but
many Of them didn't fnd IL out until
1t was too late.
The entertainment was primIrily
intended, to be a Republican lily.
but Adam didn't see il that way, an
at no time did he let small tliIG
like political points or accuracy o.
statement, spoil good joke.
When it was first arranged to bri 2
Adam TO Salem, the discovery wa
made that it would cost money, be-
cause good things like Ada come
high.
The different Republican Commit
tees we're appealed to, but they de-
clined to dig up Tie money, Chair
man Boo thought, could be used more
advantagously in paying of some OF
the employees back wages, for compo
sition on the "Organ," a committee
Of Jealous party workers headed by
Hon. Claud Catch started out, ala
Salvation Army, and commenced to
solicit funds for Expenses" They
took cold victuals, old clothes, any
old thing, and after while procured
enough 70 justify them in wiring
Adam TO come on. Adam came, and
was escorted from the Willamette
hotel to the Armory by the FL. A. c..
band which played its best tunes.
which had been kept bottled up a week
more for the occasion, and hundred
citizens, more or less.
At the Armory several Chinese fire
crackers were exploded, more music
ground out and Hon. Claud Catch,
lined out in Grannis Style, what he
called Republican hymn, America,
which the entire audience, which at
first consisted of nearly 500 people,
Joined 10 singing.
Adam, who sometimes pretixes 81"
to his name for the sake Of euphony
and ballast, admitted when introduced
that he had halluclnatlons and that
at lucid intervals he had been a Dem
ocrat. With this brief prologue,
touching on politics he began to tell
Jokes. He told them well, and he
continued TO tell them for two hours
During this time lots OF the Republi-
cans left the hall; they appreciated
the humorous side Of the situation but
they we're looking for politics. Mayor
Richardson and Judge Terrell who
we're among the reformers on the
stage, put there no doubt to inspire
the confidence of the Taxpayers IN the
proceedings, remained through 1t all.
Adam told the best girl joke, the
motherinlaw joke, the billy goat joke,
and most all the other time honored
and battle Scared jokes the audience
had ever heard; but he made a bad
break when he jumped ON the A. PA,
because MIR. Geer was away out on the
rim, In the cow counties and could
not defend himself.
Adam spoke Of the war, and had a
little scheme, Adam did, OF placing
all the cOons in the front ranks. He
said it would solve the race problem
in the south.
He made many excuses for Spain
and the Spaniards and vindicated the
dilitary war policy of the gold bugs.
Gold he said, was the poor mans
money, but, the corporations owned
all the silver mines, the railroads, the
steamboats,, the docks, the smelteTs
and in fact everything but the gold
mines eyes and the government too"
said a voice in the crOwd.l
Adam came TO preach the gospel OF
peace. There was too much trouble
he thought between the classes. The
were very unhappy.
therefore they ought TO be pitied, but
the poor people we're all happy
Money was bad thing to give TO
most people, therefore he was OPP
posed TO them haYing IL. Poverty
was best not only for the individual
but for the nation at large. Great
people wasn't happy after all, be-
cause they we're all dead. Cleopatra
died suicide; Napolian expired on
st Helena's isle; Garfield was shot,
aud even Adam himself wasn't feel
Ing very well. He said IL was great
TO send Mark Hanna 10 the
senate. although Marx was the
candidate, kind of
granger anyway, Adam became ser
ous for little while, forgot
that he had left the Democratic
party and began To advocate the es.
adjustment OF postal saying bank
old few more jokes and closed with
IS eloquent peroration as any school
BOY need desire for defamation. IL
Was real pretty. Four gentlemen,
who styled themselves the Mckinley
luartette sang two or three campaign
songs. Thisis the same aggregation