The Indianapolis journal., 1898-11-06
THE DEMOCRATIC wIND-UP.
The Two BniIeys Entertained
Crowd of One Thousand.

Crowd of One Thousand.
Last evening two bands played down town
-one was in front of Englishs Opera
House and the other was at Tominson Hall.
The crowds which they drew were of equal
size. The curtain at the minstrel show was
drawn up at o'clock; at Tomlinson Hall
the performance-in celebration of the wind
up of the Democratic campaign-was held
for the audience to arrive. The principal
comedians-Leon o. Bailey, a stellar at
| traction travelling out of New York, Demo-
cratic candidate for congressman, and
joe Bailey, of Texas-sat on the platform
for half an hour waiting for the crowd to
gather, the band in the gallery played to
kill time and, when it was seen that no
more than were present were coming Man
ager Joe" Bell rang up the curtain Leon
o. Bailey sat nervously waiting for his
cue. On the stage with him were a few
''vice presidents'7 of the meeting; before
him on the lower floor was crowd which
| extended half way back into the body of
| the hall; above him the balcony was thinly
| fringed half way around-altogether there
were about one thousand men present to
| hear the Democratic campaign closed.
| Those in front were the old guards of the
party, who Torshipfully kept their eyes
| fastened the picture of William Jennings
| Bryan, which was pinned to the front of
the platform.
| B. +. Shively, of South Bend, was intro
| duced as the chairman of the meeting. In
voice which, as he said, was desperately
| broken by much speaking" he introduced
Leon Bailey. Bailey stepped forward and
| impressively said, Ladies and Gentlemen
am your candidate tonight and your con-
gressman on Nov 81 Bailey began his
speech with the old appeal to the masses
| against the classes" This brought no APP
plause. He then tried on "the holy spot
| where next Tuesday you will deposit, with
out coercion, your ballots" and this was
successful in bringing out some hand
| capping. The next statement was that the
| Democrats had formed the school system
| of which the people are so proud. and that
| the same party was responsible Tor all the
| good laws. Again there was slight APP
| plause. The speaker then lunged into
| bitter denunciation of Congressman Over
street and the "Overstreet BILL" He had
no word Of censure or criticism, he said
| against Overstreet a citizen, because
proper courtesy was die every man. 1t was
y his duty ot as oa1 a candidate to discuss freely
| The speaker stated that Captain English
| had received applause from the Republican
state convention because there was no Re-
| publican present who had been at Santiago.
When the Twenty-seventh Indiana Battery
| returned the applause which the whole peo-
| pie of Indianapolis gave it, was for Demo-
cratic Captain james 3. Curtis and his gal
matter Bailey openly charged that the Over
street bill for sound money had been sup
pressed so that the Republicans could not
read it. Bailey was distressed, not to say
Mortified, when he first heard of this. He
| sent men who applied to him for copies of
the bill to 'Hannas palatial office in the
Majestic. and they returned saying that
they had, been told at said palatial offices
1 that the persons there had never heard of
the bill. Thousands of extra copies of the
| Sentinel were purchased when that paper
printed the bill, because the, people were
curious to read it. NO wonder they want
| to suppress the bill; 1t is so monstrous and
iniquftous" shouted Bailey He thought
! three thousand Republicans will vote
| against Overstreet because of the bill. At
the climax of the denunciation of Overstreet
| and the bill of the monetary commission
| the speaker declared that "silver is good
enough to pay off the boys in blue. but
bondholders" After that the speaker
dropped down into a statement that the
| passage of the bill means the formation of
a colossal trust of trusts which will take
the making of money out of the hands of
the government At no time during the
| speech was there anything said in favor of
the free-siver proposition; there was moth
| ing but denunciation Of the monetary COM
missions bill introduced by Mr. Overstreet
wilted. One of the vice presidents had
| the honor of putting on the speakers over
YORK Shook % hands s With With Baey of fi TexsS
Mr. Shively hoarsely declaimed something
in general, to which the audience paid little
attention. and then he introduced Mr..
| Bailey of Texas. who was received with
applause. He said that after hearing "that
great speech he decided that there were
| two reasons why the people should vote
against Representative Overstreet-one that
| Overstreet should be defeated. and the
other that Bailey should be elected. That
expression was the only one Bailey made
during his address which had any bearing
on the campaign or on the tissues Of the
| day" He talked monotonously for half I'm
| hour about a bill, which, he said, will be
introduced at the next session of Congress,
providing for a standing army of 100000.
| noise DpOnlp 1a1
the air. When Bailey had finished some
| one cried out: Three cheers for Bailey of
| Texas" Just three cheers were given-one
by the man who proposed them and one
| each by two other men,