The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1898-01-13
THE BIG MASS MEETING.
1t WINS n Whizzer With Enthusiasm
and Intense Indignation.

1t WINS Whfzzer With Enthusiasm
and Intense Indignation.
Columbus, o., Jan. 1O.-The mass re-
publican convention at the Auditorium
in this city this afternoon was the larg-
est assemblage ever known in the his
tory of the city. The capacity of the
auditorium is 5000. All the standing
room was taken and many thousands
were unable to gain admittance.
The meeting lasted from to 6 o'clock
with unbroken enthusiasm and intense
Indignation throughout its proceedings.
There were repeated scenes of kissing
VIXEN the names of Governor Bushnell,
Mr.. kurtz and others were mentioned.
The terms TRAITORS" ''Judas" and the
like were frequently used in responses
from the audience. Several of the speak
ers referred to Senator Foraker in con-
nection with the revolution in the party.
The audience was in close and deep SYM
pathy with the intense and bitter ut
sarances of most of the speakers.
AS Chairman Nash and Congressman
Weaver came upon the platform the
T;ppecanoe club of Cleveland and the
business Mems League of that city en-
itered the hall and there was wild scene
for some minutes. AS soon as order
could he restored, Judge Nash addressed
the audience as follows:
"Rehublicans of Ohio, for the first
time SIN the history of the republican
, party in the state you have been called
by your executive committee to meet in
mass convention. This was an eXtraOr-
binary action of the committee and can
be justified only by the existence of
grave danger, such peril, not only TO you,
\ but even to popular government by the
! people. your committee conceived was
| lurking in the legislative halls in Uolum-
bus. AS your sentinels, placed On duty
| by you, we determined to lay the stu.
| alton before you and ask you to take
! such action as you might deem wise
Last spring and summer the republican
county and district conventions in Ohio
| instructed their nominees for representa-.
tives and senators, if elected, to cast
| their votes in the election for United
| States senator for the superb leader and
general who planned and organized vic
| tory-for the republicans of the nation
! in the vital campaign of 1896 Marcus
| A. Hanna. This was the exercise OF
right and privilege guaranteed to the
people by our constitution, which says
1.-the people have right to assem-
| bic together in Il peaceable manner to
| conduct for their common good and tC
| Instruct their representatives.
SIN June the republican party, by its
duly authorized agents, assembled in
state convention ut Toledo, made a
| covenant with the people that if success
full her representatives would return Mr..
Hanna to the senate. During the cam
paign which followed at every meeting
held in Ohio, all our speakers, from
Governor Bushnell down to the most
humble orator in the log school house,
pledged themselves that this covenant
of the party sheuld be Kept, and upon
this issue, among others, the campaign
was conducted, and the people returned
an ample majority of republicans to the
general assembly. An during the cam
paign certain men, claiming to be repub-
Iicans fought our candidates for the
legislature from under cover and from
the bushes.
"They did not make an open, manly
tight in the light of day and where the
people could see what they were about.
This charge is amply proven from the
election returns on file in the office of the
secretary Of state. However much we
must despise the methods of these men,
and doubt their party loyalty and love
of republican principles, we must con-
cede that as American citizens they had
the right to vote against our legislative
candidates. Here the contest should
have ended, but it did not.
The last returns from the election
had not been received before these men
disclosed the existence of conspiracy
with our open and avowed enemies to
bring shame upon the republican party
and to lead her trusted and hOnored rep
resentatives into paths of dishonor. Be-
hind barred and locked doors, through