El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-04
Was One Of the Best Address
ses Ever Heard In
This City.
DEMoPoPs GOT 1T
Hot and Heavy, and With VIII
and Logic, and Sound Bus
ines Sense, He Held
His Point.

| One of the best campaign speeches
ever heard in this city was delivered
last evening at Chopin hall by Hon.
w. III. Atwell. of Dallas, u. S. district
attorney for the northern district of
Texas.
MIR. Atwell spoke under the auspices
of the Mckinley and Roosefelt club,
the officers and some members of
which occupied seats on the platform.
The audience was not so large as it
would have been had more notice been
given to the public, but it was in ev-
cry sense enthusiastic. There was a
| fair sprinkling of ladies present.
President A. G. Foster, of the Nc
Kinley club, opened the proceedings
with a brief address, introducing j. S
Steely. a local orator recently immi-
grated from the mountains of kentuc-
ky, who spoke for half an hour. He
| was followed by j. S. Dodge, also a
newcomer. who delivered a sensible
and brief address.
After that President Foster intro
duced the finished orator whom the
people had gathered to hear, Mr.. At
we'll. who spoke for more mat an
hour. during which time tumultuous
applause was frequent.
That there were a number of demo-
Gratis in the audience was evident, for
the speaker was interrupted frequently
| by questions anr remarks and once
man on the outside shouted Justify
for Bryan.
Mr.. Atwell said in part: Il sha n t
worry you long. l hope. l myself have
| been to political meetings after prom
| ising that 1 would be home by p.
m. and sometimes | didn't get home
at that time and sometimes / didn t
go to political meetings at all.
The speaLer paid Il br;ct :.,;'te to
| Ell Paso. describing his rrI, ac' oss the
desert and his surprise at Gndins I
populous western city at the end Of it.
III l was not anchored in Dallas. I
said he, Il would pull up stakes and
remove to this town, for Ell Paso has
| more churches and gamblers than any
| city in Texas. | am told that some
men play poker all night and go to
crooked streets than any city in Tex
as; more brick houses than any city
in Texas and as curiosities you have
n river that never runs and a Bryan
and Stevenson club that promises to
discuss the real issues of the day
/ l,,,,
that the democrats had new issues ev-
| cry four years.
"As fast" he said. ''as the republi-
can party extinguishes one fire they
start another in another quarter"
He likened the democratic party to
the insane man who was seen in the
asylum grounds pushing his wheel
barrow along with the bottom up and
advised the members of the Mckinley
club in their joint debate with the
Bryanites simply to read Bryan's
book. THE First Battle to them of
1896 and let them see how Bryan had
failed as prophet. Then he told an
other good story on a dude judge of
east Texas who winked at a young lady
on the train and who because the
young lady's big brother came in the
next moment. had to keep winking
during a ride of thirty miles. SO that
the girl and her protector would
think he was affected with some dis
ease of the eye. That, said the speak
er. was the trouble with prophets like
Bryan. they had to keep on prophesy
ing. Bryan was likened to a certain
young man of Dallas, recently mar
ried who drifted home one night at
3 a. IN. and when his wife asked him
the time replied that ii was about -.
Just then the big cuckoo clock went
off and struck three times and the be-
lated husband had to stand there on
one foot and cockoo the other nine
times so as TO deceive his wife. CAP
plause.)
The great republican party" said
he. took the country when millions