The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-10-30
SPOKE OVER TWO HOURS,
And Held the Great Audience Until
She Closed.
ARRANGEMENT OF MKiNLEY.
Picture In Her Home"- Eioquence
and Logic, Tempered With q
Ready wit-Bryan as u
Christian Gentleman.

Christian Gentle man.
The Democracy of Canton, Saturday
night, showed Canton a demonstration
that was a demonstration. The crowd
that packed the tabernacle was larger
than the audience which greeted Roose-
welt, and as large as the one chat heard
Spooner talk three weeks ago. 1t would
have been larger except for the fact that
the tabernacle yill only hold 2,4o0 peo-
pie, approximately, when jammed,
Tweny-four hundred people got
withing the doors, and those on
the outside couldn't force their
way into the building. The crowd was
more enthusiastic than Roosevelt's au-
dience and made fully as much noise as
the audience that greeted Senator
Spooner at the magnificent meeting ten.
dered the Wisconsin senator by the Re
puglicans at the opening of the cam
paign. Saturday nights crowd would
have made more noise. too, than did the
other crowds, except for the fact that
1t was impossible to be any more demon
strative or any noiser without tearing a
log or two out of building or letting a
balcony tumble, as they did at the tab
ernacle four years ago, when Mrs. Gou-
gar was here before.
But there was this difference: The
audience stayed to the close of the great
meeting. Old men stood in the aisles
throughout the speech of two hours and
35 minutes, and there was no scoffing or
ridicule to be heard in the crowd that
adjourned about 1890, when Mrs. Gou-
gar had finished.
At Spooner's meeting at the tabernacle
there were 500 vacant seats in the hail
five minutes before Spooner entered.
At Roosevelts meeting the house was
only half filled 15 minutes before the
meeting opened. Saturday night, at the
tabernacle, every chair was filed. and
people were standing in the galleries
and up the aisles, half an hour before
the meeting was advertised to open
In fact, Chairman Sterling called the
meeting to order 10 minutes before the
appointed time because the hall was al
that hour packed to its utmost capacity.
People arrived as early as Z o'clock to
secure seats to hear the eloquent womd..
orator from Indiana
THE PARADE.
The Grand Army band headed the pa
rade, which moved from city hall at 1920,
over the route announced In Saturdays
News Democrat. The men in line We're
enthusiastic, as were the crowds that
lined the treet. The Bryan and Steven
son club came first, followed by repre-
sentatives from the ward clubs of the
city. Col. Holloway, as chief marshal,
headed the line, and there We're noisy
demonstrations all along the route.
Particularly along East Tuscarawas
street. the spectators plainly showed
which way their sympath!es We're.
There was cheer after cheer for Bryan.
When the parade turned into South
Cherry street, fireworks lighted up the
sky, and the throng shouted Itself
hoarse.
When the tabernacle was reached,
fully half the marchers were unable 20
crowd into the hall. Inside the building
the people were already cheering, aal
when Mrs. Helen Cougar, the orator os
the evening stepped on the platform,
the house went wild. Mrs. Cougar has
changed but little since her last visit
here. One-half the audience recognized
her instantly and sent up a cheer, and
the other half caught the infection and
echoed the first shout. The old building
has seldom seen such a demonstration
as was there witnessed.
The stage was decorated with Ameri-
can flags and profusion of potted
plants On the stage sat the vice presi-
dents of the meeting-some thirty or
forty ladies, who are just as good Demo-
Gratis as their husbands or fathers.
which Is saying good deal. Tickets
were issued for seats on the stage to the
vice presidents representing the various
wards, and it Is well there were, for
seats were in demand. Many women
applied for seats after all had been
taken.
The list Of the lady vice presidents
was as follows -
Mesdames-James A. Rice, r. l.
Gregory, Harry McIlwaine, Fred Will
helm, Paul Gschwend, Charles Schauer,
Martin Schott, Charles Slagle, Louisa
Meyer, John C. Welty, W. F. Gouchat,
A. II. Eckhardt, Ed. Bell, Charles
Gresser, Michael Maloney, Joseph
Sohott, George Wolf. William Holl,
Oliver Holl, Eph Dice, James ID. Barry,
Lillian Shanebrook, Samuel Burgert,
Gus Bernower, Emanuel Peffer,
John Hall, James Potter, II.
Clark Thayer. Frank Kessler, James
Finn, David Sommer, John Mack. Clara
Garaux, Louis Feichtner, Milton Shaf-
fer, Allen Cook, Jesse Goodyear, Ed
Myers, Roth Logan, James Sterling
Misses-Laura Shaffer, Carrie Kintner
es, STERLING PRESIDES.
Attorney James Sterling presided at
the meeting. He opened at 7:4O, ana
received respectful attention the min
ute he began speaking. He first refer
red to Saturday night being the last
chance to register. He said
III any voter who believes In the