Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-07-19
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Webster Davis Grafton.
One of the most remarkable oratorical
performances ever witnessed was the
speech of Hon. Webster Davis of Mis-
souri, and South Africa before the CON
vention at Kansas City. 1t was just aft
er the reading of the platform, the Boer
| plank of which reminded some of the
great fight Davis had been making for
the Afrikanders, that delegates and
spectators began tocry for Davis. Chair
man Richardson turned to where Davis
sat just back Of the speakers stand,
urging him to come to the platform. Al
most bodily he was lifted on to the dais
| and stood for several moments before
he could make his voice heard above
the myriad voices of approval and en-
thusiasm greeting him. Each clear
sentence of his wonderful voice, reach
ing the uttermost corners of the vast
hall, called forth cheer upon cheer, and
when he reached particularly thrill
ing line the tumult became uneontrolla-
bic. For five minutes the shouting rose
and swelled. Finally he resumed and
concluded, only to be borne to a seat
among the Missouri delegates, clasped
in the arms of dozen party leaders
and escorted by a banner waving
throng 1t was scene to be remem-
bered. Davis. magnificent, honest,
splendid in his manhood and his deyo-
tion to the principles of liberty. had
been the one clean thing left in the Re
publican party in Missouri. Now he is
gone from the corrupt organization for
ever and has turned his great talents,
backed by the energy of youth and the
fire of conviction, to the work of bring
ing the country back to the principles
of the Declaration of Independence.
Forlorn indeed are the Missouri Re
publicans in his loss, which is not
merely the loss of one vote and one
voice, for there are thousands of young
men in the rank and file of the old par
ty who viii follow where Davis leads.
Davis to Stump For Bryan.
1t is already known that Davis will
stump the republic this fall from ocean
to ocean, as he did in 1898 at McKin-
ley's behest, for the purpose, as stated
TO him by the president, of electing
Republican congress. The election over,
Mckinley congratulated him on the
fact that every congressional district in
which he had spoken had returned a
Republican member to the lower house.
Truly a wonderful and unmatched per-
formaneet BY that deed he balanced
the account with the party of fraud
and corruption and then, like a patriot,
closed it forever. When he told the
president that he was going to resign
his high office, four separate times did
Mckinley plead with him to remain
and stife his convictions four times
sent for him and offered him the best
of the pie as his piece without effect.
This say from knowledge of the facts.
welcome to Patriot.
For four years he had been regarded
as the orator laureate of the Repub-
lican party. Now the vials of their
wrath and the food of their SANDER
will be poured upon his head without
stint. All that his friends Will have to
do in order to answer their lies about
him in this campaign will be to repro
duce in parallel columns all they have
said about him in the past four years.
They affect to sneer at him now, but
they win hardly continue to do SO after
the election.
Wherever there are patriotic hearts
to stir Davis VIII stir them 10 their
deDths. In districts inhabited by large
numbers Of Beers and Germans he viii
be particularly strong in the cause of
human liberty For years be has been
my personal friend | have always re-
garded him as foo good a man to be In
the Republican party. On my own be-