The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-10-27
WAS BOURKE'S.
VOCAL ORGAN
CRACKED?
Or Was He Disinclinea toS Face %
Music in Town Where, ne
Had Talked the
REAL DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE
Four Yeas AeaP-A Minnesta Lee
turer Comes in the few
Workers. Stead.

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VISA Bourke Cockran's v&e really
cracked, thus " bp,.Gng hin from NIL
ms his Wheeling engagement last
night, or was the cracked vice story
myth to cover up the quahs OF con-
science that must have bed the elo-
quent and Eighty BourkeI when he
thought of his plight In. hatng to ex-
plain away his really conJncing con-
viction of Bryan and Birhism four
years ago, as we'll rs his statement so
recently as last February khat Bryan
and free silver are mon dangerous
than the alleged imperialism?
The Intelligenccr will nott,o so far as
to share in the openly expressed opinion
OF many Republicans and s,und money
Democrats that the cracked voice was
really cracked conscience Let the
veil of charity be drawn-let everybody
agree that the cracked volc. story is
something more than convenient and
harmless piece Of campaign fiction,
built expressly to relieve the Hon.
Bourke Cochran, Of New York. from
predicament out of which e@h his al
most matchless eloquence colld barely
extricute him.
Cochran Flickers.
As related below, there was no intl-,
nation that Mr.. Cochran would not app
pear before the audience that comfort
ably filed the Grand Opera House, IN
til Chairman Handlan appeared uJon
the stage and read three kilograms, the
last Of which was received in the after
noon, stating that Mr.. Cochran would
not I'LL his Wheeling engagement In
this connection, 1t Is germaia to In
quire why the Democratic chairman
and his associates resorted = the indie
feasible eSpedient Of working on
,Cockran's name and fame 20 get big
meeting. while knowing that he would
not be here? Through ac afternoon.
paper this could have ben announced
to the public, or ut least by n bulletin
on the Register win
,dow-but nary bulletin appeared, and
every man, woman md child that
came to the theatre expected to see and
hear Cochran. Such campaign meth
DDS Will not win the Democratic ticket
cal managers may yest assured. What
would the Register have said II at the
last moment something had prevented
the coming Of Colonel Roosevelt and
the Republican Committee had failed to
inform the public at the very earliest
opportunity? The question carries Its
own answer.
1 Lecturer.
In the ppce Of the eloquent and
Eighty Cock.an. Mr.. S. W. Sample, of
Minnesota. was introduced as the
speaker ofthe evening. AS rhetorical
performance. the gentleman's address
was n SUCCESS, and he brought In much
of the ddvery stuff that he peddles
around tie country in towns large and
small dIrirg the lecturing season, Mt
50 muci per admisslon--for Mr.. Sample
is Lecturer by profession Whether
his Appearance on the Democratic
stump is the carrying out Of n contract
at 20 much per night,"llke his lectures,
the 1ntelligencer Is not able to state at
this time.
The Meeting Opens.
The theatre quickly filled after the
street demonstration, and there were
frequent cries for "Pendleton" and
John o." which, however, the cx-con-
sressman fain would not recognize. A
few minutes f3ter the parade wound up,
but the speaker advertised to appear
was not in evidence. Chairman Hand
Ian then came to the front and read tel
eBram5 In explanation OF the absence Of
Mr.. Cochran. The first was from Chair
man Miller. Of the West Virginia Demo-
cratic committee, stating that Cochran
would speak here on the goth; the Sec
ond from tho national committee con-
ilrming the announcement, and the
third received Friday afternoon from
the national committee, stating that
owing to Mr.. Cockran's voice having
broken. he would leave for the east from
Cleveland. These announcements were
received in dead silence by the audience,
which showed signs OF dissatisfaction
Concluding, Mr.. Handlan said the ma
tiOnal committee had sent In Mr.. Cock
rams stead. Hon. S. w. Sample, of Min
Ecsota, who, he assured his audience. Is
fully as eloquent speaker as Cochran
Colonel Robert White was then intro
.uced as chairman Of the meeting.
Colonel White
4 Colonel White said this was his first
political appearance since 1892 and that
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