The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-11-03
The Noted HumOrlSt Makes
Friends in Redwood
Falls.
Manu- Fine Points Taken and
Polished With Rich
HumOr.

u. Adam Bede lectured in the inter-
ests of the Republican ticket at the
opera house last Monday evening.
For two hours the little man, who has
acquired National reputation as a
stump speaker, held the big audience
in rapt attention. and kept them
bursting out in frequent peals Of
laughter. There was no abuse all
fun, mingled with whole lot of ex-
cellent political horse sense that caught
the crowd as it has never before been
caught in Redwood Falls. From the
outset, when Chairman Schmahl in,
troduced him as an old legislative re-
porter, and he replied that he remem-
bered having been sent down to re-
port all things connected with the leg
islature fit to publish, he had the
crowd and be held it.
On the stand, beside the speaker,
were DR.. F. W. Penhall of Morton,
Attorney Young of Gibbon, who is
the rustling candidate for attorney of
Sibley county, D. L. Bigham, j. H..
Bowers, II. A. Baldwin, A. G. Dolliff
and George L. Evans, while seated in
the hall, among others, we're Hon. G..
D. Gilfillan of Gilfllan Siding, Attor-
ney Dunnell of Minneapolis, who was
to have spoken in Morton that night,
Col. George Welsh and VIM. Keefe of
Morton, and Andrew jackson Bliss of
Renville county,
81 sometimes tell my audience" be
said, "that am an Abe Lincoln Dem
ocrat, and if I am clown I learned
it of Abe. At any rate 1 feel safe in
addressing you as my friends. I re-
member the Irish priest who, when he
spoke at Dublin, addressed his audi
ence as MY dear Dublin souls;' at
Limerick it was MY dear Limerick
souls;' and at Cork he wondered why
his audience laughed when he ad-
dressed them as My dear Cork souls
II am advertised" said Mr.. Bede,
as the homeliest man in the campaign
work. That reminds me of lady I
once knew; she was slim and homely,
but she knew it. One day she sought
spiritual advice from her pastor and
was urged to 'renounce the world, the
flesh and the devil After moments
reflection she told the pastor that she
was willing to renounce the world and
the devil. but rather than lose any
more flesh she would join side show" ="
Il talked to the prisoners at Still
water Washington's birthday and the
late Maj. Wilkinson was with me. 1
like to talk with prisoners for then my
audience cannot get away. l told
them 1 could not give them oratory
without long sentences, and they de-
cided they did not want any as their
sentences we're long enough already.
"We have in the State of Minnesota
some of the biggest men in the coun-
try, and Cushman X. Davis is one of
these big men. He was at the head
of the ship of State during the war; he
is now as Paris continuing the good
work. In regard to this war" the
|speaker urged, withhold your judg-
ment until you know all the facts; un-
til you know just what is the right
thing to do in regard to the PHILIPPINE
matter, and other questions involved.
We do not know as much about the
PHILIPPINES to-dsv as we knew about
Cuba six months ago, and that is but
very little. We thought that all we
had to do was to have the president de-
clare war and the Cubans would dc the
rest. We chafed at McKinley's delay,
and called some hard names; now we
see that he was right and honor him
| for the stand he took,
"On May l, God Almighty, ably as
sisted by Admiral Dewey and his crew,
won q remarkable victory over the
j spanish feet. One would think from