, 1898-10-22
M'NNLEY
DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL SPEAKER
GIVES FULL CREDIT TO THE
PRESIDENT.
A Colorado Democrat Makes q Harm
less Speech, in Which He Takes Oc-
cesion to Eulogize the Republican
Party-Webster Davis Receives a
Great Deal of Attention,

BY means Of extensive advertising,
personal solicitation on the part of the
leaders Of the party, music by a brass
band and the widely circulated an
nouncement that the Mandolin and
Glee clubs would render selections, the
democrats managed to fill Roots opera
house nearly two-thirds full last night.
the real object of the meeting being to
get the people to listen to a political
address by N. F. Taylor, a democratic
lawyer Of Denver.
Thatsthe great speech Of Hon. Web
ster Davis at Maennerchor hall Tues
democracy into a state Of consterna-
ton there al no longer be any doubt.
The columns of the Boomerang all this
week have been full of vain and ineffec-
tual attempts to throw cold water on
the enthusiasm provoked by the mas
terly address and incontrovertible ar
guments. the Wyoming Department of
the Rocky Mountain News is almost
wholly devoted to the same purpose.
and a large part Of the time last even
ing was given up to sneer and at
tempted ridicule OF the republican
speaker. No arguments have been
used, mind you, for the democrats are
we'll aware that they can produce nom
ing which will disprove the statements
OF Mr.. Davis.
When 1t became apparent to the man
agement that all the people who intend
ed to be present had arrived, Chairman
Corthell ros and mumbled a few
words. Nobody heard what he said,
and nobody seemed to care, and he sat
down again. After Al awkward pause
a glee club composed Of university boys
appeared On the stage and rendered a
very poor song in very poor time. OF
course the words were devoted to Web
ster Davis and the refrain was Didn't
1t make you tired?" Its effect on the
listeners was to make them very tired.
After the song a small boy with a big
hat rushed out on the stage and an
nounced that the hat was the property
OF Webster Davis. The audience failed
to see the Joke and the comedy (?) fell
fiat.
Mr.. Taylor is an entertaining speak
er and personally he made a good i'm
preston upon the people who heard
him. But as far as convincing any
body Of the Righteousness of the cause
Of democracy is concerned his effort
was a nat failure. During the entire
address Of an hour and a half he did
not advance one argument to sustain
his statements or to disprove the con-
tentlons Of the republican party.
He announced at the beginning that
he did not intend to abuse anybody, and
he stuck to this policy fairly well. As
If to rebuke the vaudeville exercises
with which the meeting was opened,
he said that politics was not a comedy,
nor yet melo-dramatic, but in fact de-
cidedly tragic.
Il am a democrat" he shouted. "A
Missouri democrat, and there is moss
on, my back a yard long, but l would
leave the. party today If 1t failed to
agree with me in every particular"
He then recited the glorious achieve
ments of the republican party, launch
ed into an eloquent panegyric on Abra-
ham Lincoln, and said that any man
who would not acknowledge the good
works of the party Of the martyred
president was not a good citizen.
He then took occasion to recite his
creed, Il believe in the free and n
limited coinage Of silver at the ratio Of
10 to l, without waiting for the consent
of any other nation on earth" As in
duty bound the ~silverites applauded this
old chestnut, but Nellis Corthell, who
occupied a seat on the stage, sat still
and looked silly.
He made the assertion that the dem
ocratic party wrote the constitution Of
the UoHed States, but this statement
was received with grains Of allowance.
He said that Cleveland was elected in
1894, an assertion which IL hardly sus-
ceptibN of proof. The democrats, he
said, were not going to mike any
changes in the tariff. and q few minutes
later he appealed to the woolsrowers
to vote for the democratic candidates
and thus patriotically secure the repeal
OF the tariff which he said was oppress-
ing the consumers Of wool.
He made The startling admission that
FREQ silver Xaa MT cnra-al for IT,