Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-10-10
FIRST RALLY A SUCCESS.
Jammed House Greets Senator
Spooner-The Political Questions
Ably Discussed.

town and vicinity at Turner Opera
house Saturday evening. It was the
first Republican rally here and also
the first appearance of the senator in
the present campaign. The meeting
was under the auspices of the McKin-
ley and Roosevelt club and was pre-
sided over by Hon. Jesse Stone.
Senator Spooner has long been a
favorite in Watertown, and even be-
fore he had risen to the high place he
now occupies in national affairs, he
always proved to be a great attraction
as a public speaker. The meeting
which he addressed Saturday evening
was no exception in point of size and
complexion to those held in former
years. An audience which com pletely
filled the large auditorium and crowd
ed onto the stage-numbering perhaps
l. 500 people-followed him closely in
his resume of the principal issues now
agitating the American people and
listened intently to what proved to be
remarkable speech. For nearly
three and one-half hours the speaker
held the platform and talked earnestly
for the cause of Republicanism The
address was made without hardly any
reference to notes--it was simply an
off-hand dissertation on subjects Of
vital Importance to the voter and with
which Senator Spooner is so thorough
ly conversant. Perhaps no man in
public life today is so fully equipped
to deliver such an address and his
large fund Of knowledge on all the
leading questions was brought into
service and generously impaired to
the interested listeners. Once or
twice the speaker was interrupted by
parties in the rear of the hall who
piled him with irrelevant questions,
but this did not disconcert him; it
only served to warm him up more to
his task.
Included in the large audience were
delegations from neigh boring towns,
Oconomowoc as usual being much in
evidence. Among those who occu-
pied seats on the stage were: F. E.
Woodard, Nicholas Thauer, DR.. F. C.
Moulding, II. T. Eberle, j. T. Moak,
Robert Jones, H. j. Strauss, j. F.
Prentiss, DR.. w. F. Whyte, Harlow
Pease, Jacob Jossi, w. G. Stone, G.
w. Webb, General A. Solliday, DR.. A.
F. Solliday, W. H. Woodland, S. M.
Eaton, F. M. Eaton, j. H. Smelzer
James Roy. G. j. Nichols. A. B.
Lieberman. Ed. Kehoe. Ed. May. W.
F. Gruetzmacher, John Beynon, John
Robinson. E. F. Wieman. DR.. A. H.
Hartwig, DR.. w. c. Spaulding. M. G.
Pritzlaff. DR.. Eugene Goeldner,
Charles Heimsehr, G. H. Stanchfield,
John Evans, Owen Hughes. 6. P
Traeumer, c. Dippel, Paul Volkman,
Ed. Specht. DR.. o. Wolfrum, j.
Ditschler, F. w. Oelschlaeger. VIM.
Nichols. S. Melzer. G. B. Lewis, A.
A. Hardie, T. H. Buffmire, Thomas
Martin, James Forncrook. L G..
Fischer, w. Wieman; Hon. Ed ward
Sauerhering, Mayville; DR.. j. 4. Cla-
son. Neosho; M. j. Gosa. Palmyra; j.
M. Cannon, George Copeland, George
Hanover, Captain R. G. Burchard,
Jefferson; T. j. Foljahn, j. A. Friedel,
Rome; W. F. Weber, Concord; James
Mccall, Ixonia; A. E. Greenwood,
Richard Scholl, Frank Shepherd,
johnson Creek; }. A. Peacock, DR..
w. A. Jones, DIR. J. j. Pink, Judge
Ed wards, Judge Rogan, Oconomowoc
Senator Spooner in opening his ad-
dress eulogized President Mckinley
in glowing terms, alluding to his
valiant service in the rebellion, to his
| splerdid congressional record and to
his achievements in the executive
chair. He believed the president of
| the United States should be chosen on
account OF his wisdom, his statesman
ship and his conservatism, and such a
man we have in William Mckinley,
whose record is altogether defensible
and who is in every way deserving of
the full confidence of the people.
The speaker then treated exhaus-
lively in rotation, the tariff and
money questions. militarism, i'm
| perialism and trusts, concluding his
long address by a mplimentary ref
erence to the Republican state and
congressional candidates, and advis-
ing everybody to vote the straight
Republican ticket from Robert NJ
La Toilette down. He said in part:
1--WE enacted a Tariff law upon the
principle, as far as we could accomp-
lish it, to impose upon competitive
products manufactured In other lands,
a tariff which should cover the differ
ence in wages paid here and in foreign
countries. During the last three
years we have had larger excess OF
exports to the imports than for 1Os
years in the history of the country.
We told you in 1896 that with the
protective tariff and honest money
prosperity would come. Did it come?
The silver bullion in the trea-
sury," he said, '.had been coined at a
ratio of 16 to 1, the Republican party
believing now as it always has in
coming first as much silver as could
be done and maintain its parity with
gold. Ben Harrison told the truth
wi en- he said the first dirty mission
| of the debauched dollar was to cheat