The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-11-08
GOv,SHAWA DEN|SON
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The Best Speech Ever Delivered From the
Opera House Stage.-Holds the
Audience Some Two Hours.
AS chairman Judge Conner remarked
on opening the shaw meeting, There
are times when the Germania Hall isn't
near large enough = when Gov Shaw
speaks.' There was an outpouring
on Monday evening to hear Gov. Shaw
such as is seldom witnessed in Denison.
Every available space was filled with
enthusiastic admirers. The Governor
made the best speech ever listened to
in Germania Hall. Hundreds will
testify to this fact. At this late hour
it is not possible to give a complete re-
sumo of this mastery address, but we
want every reader to read it, and we
will therefore publish it, part this issue
and continue it in our next issue. The
Governor said as follows:
Ladies and Gentleman, Friends and
Fellow Citizens:-I assure you that it
is with great pleasure that stand be-
fore you. 1t is no small thing to return
to ones home at any time, but to re-
turn under these circumstances and to |
be greeted by such an audience, and to
be received as friendly as l have been
received in other places in the county.
is a source of great pleasure. The bust
ness men of Charter Oak today, dis
agreeing, very many of them, with me
in politics, out of courtesy, not
to me as L.. M. Shaw, but to
the Governor of their state, closed
their places of business. l say these
things are pleasant always, and I
desire to thank you first of all that you
have thus gathered in such numbers.
fancy that you do not come out to
criticise, that you do not come to be
convinced of the error of your political
ways. 1t is now too late in the cam
paign to think of changing any votes,
but it is customary among men to speak
the last night of the campaign in their
own town, and to me it seems very
pleasant custom. l cannot expect to
control in any manner your votes, so l
come not as a campaign speaker, but to
visit my friends, my neighbors, those
whom know are interested in me as a
citizen, and those who are interested in
the governor of their state.
have learned to think we'll of this
class of meetings. If it pays us to build
schoolhouses, and to spend the large
amount for our school purposes which
we annually appropriate, that our child
rem may be instructed in the ordinary
things of life, it certainly behooves us
aself- governing people-that we take
occasion to educate ourselves in matters
of state-craft. You demand of your
representatives in the general assembly
that they be statesmen. | fancy that
there are no democrats present, nor no
republicans, no members of the Peoples |
party. who would approve of a repre-
sentative of their own political faith
voting for bill which they thought
would prove improbable to their con-
stituents simply because it had been
proposed by a member of their own
party. You expect your representa-
tives in Congress and in the general as
sembly to rise above the plane of par
tisanship to the plane of craftsmanship,
and l stand here tonight to demand
that the voter at the polls shall also
rise above the plane of partisanship to
tho rlono nf etatocma nshin
/ have NO unkind words for those
who differ with me politically, those
who are here out of courtesy to me. l
have the advantage Of them tonight,
for can misrepresent the issue, if 1
please; / can misrepresent your at
tidude toward the issue, if please; 1
can malign you. ridicule you, make
sport of you, if please, and yet it
would i'll become me thus to DO.
Ny friends, is it not a fact that we
are all honest in these matters? If so,
can we not differ and still be friends?
Is it necessary that we should be
enemies because you believe in one
school of political science and believe
in another? There were two lawyers
once in the eastern part of this state,
and they were each in the habit of
getting in a condition unfit to try their
cases, SO arrangements were made be-
tween them that when one could not,
the other was to continue the case or
have it postponed. Both promised to
take no advantage of the other. BUTT
became necessary for the judge to
postpone the cases very frequently, so
one morning he said to one of the two
men, 'You will have to try that case
this morning OF dismiss it," but my
friend is indisposed." IF you will try
the case, we will teach him to be dis
posed" So the lawyer tried the case,
examined the jury for himself and his
friend, examined the witnesses for both